The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1870, Page 4

| | | | ; NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, i JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d Bre Van Winkie. NIBLO'S GARDE! ‘Tue BLACK CKooK. WALLACKE'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13ta street.— ‘Tux Here at Law. LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—LiTTLE JAOK SUEPTARD. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Les BRIGANDS. between th and 6th avs,— SPECTACLE OF orner of 8th av, and 23d st.— OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue PANTOMIME OF Wee Wrn.ie WINKIE. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadwa: ‘ances every afternoon and evel corner 30th at.—Perform- nk. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vauiety ENTER. TAINMENT, &O. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— SARATOGA. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe LABS—ROUBERS OF THE Hes TN, —New Yorw Bura- 0. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THRATRE, Brooklya.— Tux Love CHate—Loan or 4 Loven. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.-LaA GRANDE Ducuxsss. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIfTY ENTERTAINMENT. 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PaGE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertis nis. 3—Skating: The Season Opened in Full Blast—Zeb Vauce: Interview with the New Senator Elect from North Carolina—Political Intelligence— Romance of the Graveyard—Indian Kaids in Texas—Grant and Lee—Journalistic Notes— Court Calendars—Murder in Illinois. 4—Editortals: Leading Ai e, “The Confasion in Europe—Prim, the ( liscnief Maker— Amusement Annow ents. 5S—France: Paris Sull Deflant; Bishops and Priests Hunted Down by tne Prussians; The Battle or the Villages; Magnificent Bayonet Charge by the French Troops; The Expulsion of the In- vaders from French Sof! Resolved On; Night Ride with Gambetta--News from Italy, Spain aud Engiand—The Richmead Calamity—The Disaster to the Steamship Aries—Business Notices, G@—Aunexation: Agitation on the Subject in West- chester County; Proposed Scheme for a New Otty—Voice of the leople—The HeRALp War Maps—General News Items—The Lapine Family Murder—Perils of tute Sea—How a Cireus Beat a Telegraphic Despatch. 7—Jndaism: Its Origin, History and Fundamental Doctrin The Fasts, Festivals and Worship of the Jews; Progressive Judaism and the Changes {t Contemplates; Principal Syna- rogues of New York—Obituaries—Financial Report—Marriages and Deaths. S—Christmas: The Second Way of the Great Festi- val—Rowdy Koosters: Unruly Bird Fights in Jers The Republican Split: A Bogus De- spatch Exposed—New York City News—A “smart Young Woman—Newark’s Garret Mystery—Shipping —_Lutelligence—Advertise- ments. A Rare Stenr—The Christmas markets, with their tons of juicy, uncooked meat. Generat Frank Bram, Je.—The Mobile Register says no better man could be chosen as successor to Judge Drake, late Senator from Missouri, than General Frank Blair, Jr. Seve- ral other journals are of the same way of thinking. The KixeG ELect oF Sparx was to have taken his departure from Florence for Madrid on Christmas morning. He had not set out in the evening. Enjoying his festival dinner at home? A good idea, particularly for a foreign Prince when about to make his resi- dence in Madrid. ‘‘Ne place like home.” Tue Senaroriay Fienr iw Itiors.—It is reported that General Grant has written a let- ter releasing the federal officers of restraint, andallowing them to express their opinions and preferences for S+natorial candidates in Mlinois. He washes his hands of any direct action in behalf of any candidate; but it can- not well be concealed that he prefers either Dubois or Governor Palmer to General Logan. Tne BoMBARDMENT OF Paris, our special table telegram from London informs us, will begin on the Ist day of January. Every- thing has been prepared for the work of shelling the city, which, once begun, will not cease until the French capitulate. Of course the ferta surrounding Paris will make it warm work for the German batteries, but the missiles hurled into the beleagured capital will render New Year's Day of 1671 the most memorable, and, we fear, one of the sad- dest of days to the Parisians. Meantime our London correspondent telegraphe that the Prussians are opening a new diplomatic ques- tion with Great Britain by scuttling six Eng- lish ships in the Seine and maltreating their crews. Hoprrcun ror Exe.ann av New YEAR.— England is ‘heartily tired of the Alabama claims controversy, and ready to pay any im- partial money award,” and so forth. This cheering declaration is made by a London newspaper which professes to speak a good deal by authority. ‘‘Confess your sins at least once every year” was a church command in the English catechism long previous to the days of Henry the Eighth. The present symp- tom of a return to the ancient and honest rule of discipline is very hopeful. The bill is ready. Tax War Srtvation.--The reports from France are quite meagre this morning, and the situation is not materially changed. The official reports of the battle at Noyon show that General Faidberbe, after a severe fight, withdrew toward Amiens, and that the Prussians somewhat leisurely followed in gursuit. A heavy force of Germans that have been confronting General Chauzy in the neigh- ‘borhood of Le Mans have been withdrawn to Paris. A number of outrages were perpetrated ugon the people and the priests by the Germans at Orleans. It is stated, evidently on French anthority, that the Prussian forces at Paris amount to only abont three hundred thousand mon, and that there ere only about the same number free to operate against the French armigs iv the provinces. The Confusion in Europe—Prim, the Gene- ral Mischief Maker. If the millennium had passed wo should be disposed to think St. John had General Prim in his prophetic vision when he said in the Apscalypse the Devil should be let leose for a while to deceive the nations, ‘Gog and Ma- gog,” to gather them together in battle. While the world beholds with horror the fright- ful war that this man’s king-making intrigues in the case of the Prince of Hohenzollern and the Spanish throne brought about, similar king-making intrigues in another quarter threaten revolution in Spain again and mere trouble fer Europe. He aspires to be more than the Warwick of the nineteenth century. ‘The news we are receiving from Spain shows that Prim's scheme to make the Duke ef Aosta King is bitterly opposed by powerful factions and alarge portion of the Spanish peeple. The Peninsula is in a revolutionary ferment again in consequence ef this attempt to erect another monarchy in Spain. No doubt the amiable young Italian prince is. as unobjec- tionable as any other monarchical puppet would be, though he isa foreigner; but the Spaniards do not waat him for their master. Both the republican sentiment and Spanish pride are aroused at the attempt te foist a foreign youth upon them as their ruler. The popular demonstrations in Spain, at which the people stuck maccareni in their hats, were significant, and showed how the proud Spanish blood became inflamed at the thought of this alien and Italian being forced upon the throne that had been oscupied by a long line of illustrious native princes. There is more trouble ahead, evidently, frem this new king- making scheme of Prim. Not only are the revolutionary elements of Spain thrown into a state of fermentation again by this monarchical intrigue, but Italy may be brought into trouble as well. The question of the Papacy begias to take an em- barrassing shape, and the vast mumbers of devoted Catholics and the Catholic priestheod, both in Spain and throughout the world, will look with no favor upon the som of Victor Emmanuel occupying the throne of the mest Catholic country in Europe. Then, again, what does the rumored incipient hestility of Prussia to Italy mean? Bismarck begins to growl at Italy and the House ef Savoy. Does this ambitious statesman loek upon the strides of the House of Savey to extended dominion over the Latin race with disfavor? Does he aspire to rule Continental Europe and to regu- late the Papacy and the dynasties himself? There are some indications that the new Ger- man empire may assume protection over the Papacy, and it would not be sur- prising if Bismarck should wish to keep the Spanish throne question open a little longer so as to give another chance to the Hohenzollerns. A member of the Prussian royal family on the throne of Spain would prove a counterpoise to the asabition of the house of Savoy and tend to keep the Latin race of Southern Europe under Germanic restraint. There is evidently some significance in Bismarck’s growl at Italy, and Victor Emmanuel and Prim may be laying the founda- tion of another war in this Aosta affair. But with regard to our remark that Prim appears to be Satan let loose for the purpose of throwing the nations into war, it may be well to glance at the career of this mischief maker. One of his first movements as a revolutionist or agitater was during the Christina and Car- list war. He was then on the side of Christina, the Regent Queen-mother. He was then about twenty-two years of age and had attained the rank of colonel. After the revolution which resulted in her flight and the elevation of Espartero to the dicta- torship he joined the opposition or pro- gressista party. Being accused of complicity with the insurrection of Saragossa, in 1842, he took refuge in France. He took the lead in another insurrection at Rens against Espartero, after he returned to Spain. When Espartere fell and the Queen-mother was restored he came iato favor und was created a general anda eount. Undertaking te suppress a re- volt in Barcelona he used his force to keep Catalonia in iasurrection for a year. He was disgraced for this and tried for high trea- son as an accomplice in the attempt to assassinate Narvaez. In 1853 he joined the Ottoman army in the Russo-Turkish war. Afterwards he became a Deputy in the Spanish Cortes. Then he commanded a division in the Spanish-Morocco war in 1859-60. In 1861 he was appointed to the chief command of the Spanish expedition against Mexico, which was intended to co-operate with the French and British forces. From some dis- agreement he withdrew the Spanish force to Cuba. Both he and the British left the Em- peror Napoleon to carry out the scheme of squelching an American republic and erecting a monarchy on our border. All were in- fluenced by the same motive, and Prim among the rest. It was a war against republicanism on the American Continent, and a blow aimed indirectly at this republic while it was in the agony of civil war. In 1866 Prim—the rest- less agitator and revolutionist—put himself at the head of another insurrectionary move- ment in Spain. This was soon suppressed. He made another similar abortive attempt in 1867. In 1868 he joined the revolutionists that deposed Isabella, Siace that time he has taken the most prominent part in Spanish affairs, It has always been a mystery what the prolonged conference between Prim and that other arch intriguer, Napoleon, at Biar- ritz, was about. Looking at Prim’s ante- cedents and character, as well as at those of Napoleon, there is little doubt that some scheme to disturb the world was discnased. Then we come down to the Hohenzollern business, which Prim concocted, and the ter- rible consequences the world has witnessed. Last, we have the intrigue to put an Italian prince on the Spanish throne against the will of the people, and, as a consequence, the prospect, of more revolution and bloodshed, and possibly of a more general war in Europe. May it not be said, then, that this arch agitator and monarchieal revolutionist is Satan let loose to deceive the nations and to plunge them into war? A Sap Homesreap av Curistmas.—Mr. John Walter, Jr., son of the editor-in-chief of the London 7imes, was drowned yesterday by The Second Day of Christmas. It is not often that Christmas is stretched out to so long a term as it has been this year. One day usually suffices for a full religious and secular celebration of the great festival event of Christendom, and the devout religious services of the clergy, the jollier merry-mak- ing of the laymen, the Ze Deum of the cathe- dral organ and the dreadful clatter of the fan- tastica’ horns are usually commingled together within brimful limits of one happy day. But this year we have bad a more generous libation of the festive season. We have had two days and a half of Christmas—for we must count Christmas Eve asa part of the grand occa- sion—just as they have three days of election in Georgia. We have had a Lenten and a carnival Christmas; only the Lent and carni- val have changed places in this instance, and Lent has come first. One day of the festival has been devoted to the worship of the Deity whose birth gave it to us, the other to the creature rejoicings that the glad event always calls forth. We have had our religion and our rollicking separate, and the general verdict of dred humanity is that we would rather take them in the usual way hereafter. The occasion ts so inlaid with a Mosaic work of religioa and rejoicing together that it seeme like dissecting Christmas to set aside a day foreach. Charity and Christianity and good cheer, all mixed together, make a good Christ- mas, and to take one on Sunday and the others on Monday is like the whiskey and sugar and lemon that only require mixing to make a good punch, The day yesterday was devoted to the mad merriment ef the fantasticals, the matinées, the balls and the pleasure-taking world gene- rally. The indispensable Christmas tree was set out with its wondrous fruits, the jolly Santa Claus was dashing from house to house all day with his marvellous cargo for good children, and the graceful skaters were gliding in their many-colored garbs over the frozen mirrors in the Park. Charity, that glory of New York, was busy in her noiseless way among the poor—at the overflowing dinner tables of her institutions, at the humble hearths of the tenement houses, among the shivering Arabs on the quiet streets—wherever want could be found there Goversor Holdew’s Impeachment—A Poor Bid for a General Amnesty. The Heuse of Commons of North Carolina has impeached Governor Holden, and he is to be tried before the State Senate on charges and specifications of certain “thigh crimes and misdemeanors,” in the usurpation and exer- cise of despotic powers dangerous to the liber- ties of the people. Governor Holden is a rad- ical; the Legislature impeaching him is demo- cratic. Last summer certain murders and ether outrages committed upon citizens in the back counties of North Carolina obnoxious te the Ku Klux Klan resulted in such excitements and disorders that Governor Holden proclaimed the disturbed counties in a State of insurrec- Charity came with her open hand. Church services, merry making, rejoicing, dancing, fashion and jollity are always ‘‘great” in New York on Christmas Day, but the greatest of these is charity. And so the second day of Christmas is ended, and the tired world of New York awaits with some apprehension the approach of that other festival, dear especi- ally to New York, of the New Year. Bencdetti’s Explanations. The Herawp of yesterday contained the explanations of Count Benedetti, the late Ambassador of France at the Court of King William. The explanations are full of inte- rest. Some of the explanations are not reve- lations. It was well known that Franee was instrumental in putting an end te the war of 1866. Benedetti lays the blame of the war entirely en the French people. He denied that there was any insult either given or expe- rienced at Ems. When the report got abroad to the effect that there was bad feeling between himself and Kinz William no one was more surprised than the King himself. More than that, his mission to Ems was a complete suc- cess. The father of the Prince Hohenzollern wrote to the Cabinet at Madrid intimating that his son was no longer a candidate for the Spanish crown, and King William was spe- cially desirous that it should be known that he acquiesced in the renunciation. But the demagogues of the Corps Legislatif must hum- ble Prussia by exacting a promise that no prince of the house of Hehenzollern should for the future consent to mount the throne of Spain. King William would not yield; and Napoleon yielded tothe mob. The result— beheld it! As we have always said, France deserved punishment. Now that she has received it let us hope for an early peace. French Mrmirary Honor as VinpicarEp AGatyst Bism4 Rrok.—Count Bismarck’s charges against the military honor of France, as set forth im his recent circular to the representa- tives of the North German Confederation serv- ing at the seats of foreign governments, have touched the French nation to the very quick and in the keenest manner. The Prussian Pre- mier, as was specially reported by cable tele- gram in the HeRAxp, alleged that French offi- cers of rank—naming General Ducrot and others as of the number—had broken their parole of honor, passed into the French lines, taken out new cemmissions and fought against the Germans who had paroled them. tion, and called out the militia to restore law and order. He also appealed directly to Presi- dent Grant for assistance, and the President's sympathies and convictions being on the side of the Governer, certain United States troops, if we are not mistaken, were go placed in North Carolina as to be called into requisition, in the event of the failure of all other means to re-establish law and order in the alleged insur- rectionary counties. The troubles in question, however, were, with much wrangling, reduced te a sort of armistice, and then being merged with other local and general issues into the State election, the result was a cemplete defeat of the Governor and his party, especially in the ultra Southern character and materials of the Legislature elected. This Legislature strongly represents the sympathies and souvenirs, the elements and ideas of the “‘lost cause.” Governor Holden, in bis remorseless pursuit of the mysterious assassins of the Ku Klux Klan, and all parties declared or supposed to be affiliated with them, has brought upon himself these impeach- ment proceedings. The impeachers, as a beginning, have suspended him from the ex- ercise of his official powers during his trial, which is decidedly worse than the treatment of President Johnson in his impeachment ; and the general presumption is that for calling out the militia to suppress a constructive in- surrection, and upon other charges of this sort, Governer Helden will be expelled from his office. Here the question is suggested, what have these North Carolina democrats to gain by this extreme measure of party retaliation against Governor Holden? This very Legis- lature has just elected ex-Governor Vance to the United States Senate, a body which is invested with full power to judge and decide upon ‘“‘the election and qualifications of its members,” This body represents the party of Governor Holden. The Senator elected by the anti-Holden Legislature belongs to a class concerned in the late rebellion whose disa- bilities under the fourteenth amendment can be removed only by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress. Is the violent Southern party spirit betrayed in this impeachment of Holden ‘‘a goed move” in behalf of Senator Vance for this two-thirds vote in Congress? No; it is by no means a good move in this direction. Again, there isa general amnesty bill pending in Congress. Is this extreme measure of party revenge in North Carolina calculated to encourage either House of Con- gress in the passage of this Amnesty bill? No. On the other hand, we fear that by the eleetion of Vance and the impeachment of Holden a general amnesty in Congress has been knocked in the head. We find, too, that General Grant, a man of very generous inclinations, thinks that it is too soon yet for general amnesty; and in his late annual message he broadly hints at various Southern elections carried by means of violence and in- timidation. This North Carolina impeachment case, however, is a most discouraging illustration of the unrelenting partisan bitterness of the Southern ctements concerned in the late rebel- lion. It appears that while asking every. con- cession they have nene to give; that while scolding and whining over every disabilivy as a great wrong, they have no sooner the power to punish obnoxious radicals, ‘‘scala- wags” and ‘‘carpet baggers,” than they ex- ercise their power to the fullest extent. All such manifestations of wrath and vengeance on the part of the Southern democracy are bad and fall of mischief. They !ead to the conclusion that the Southern people do not accept, but only submit for the time being to the laws of reconstruction, and that they are working and waitiug for the opportunity to upset all these laws, and to wipe out the national debt, as the debt of an unconstitu- tional war upon the sovereign rights of the States. This is the political road pointed out by various Southern manifestations during the year, and especially by Governor Holden's impeachment, with Vance’s election to the Count Bismarck asked in conclusion, as will be remembered, ‘‘Can or will a nation which encourages and rewards such conduct observe the faith of a treaty?” To all thisa French newspaper republican organ replies in the arti- cle which we republish after translation, The explanation is of a very spirited character there is no mincing of the words used in refu- tation, and the case of General Ducrot is indi- vidually teuched and explained as being in strict accordance with the ‘‘gode’” both at and after Sedan. A Goop PLac! » Lev just at this cold season, when we are suffering from a more than ordimary sharp ‘‘snap,” is Sau Francisco. A despatch from there says that numbers of invalids are seeking its salubrious climate for the restoration of their health, and that straw- berries, tomatoes, potatoes, grapes, oranges and garden vegetables of all kinds are abundant in the market. Imagine straw- berries and cream for a Christmas dinner! The climate of Southerm California is so deli- cious that people of delicate constitutions are constantly repairing in that directioa in pre- ference to Florida, Cuba or the Bahamas, which used te be the popular resorts, Huro- peans will soon @iscover that there is vo place in Southern Europe superior in climate for invalids to this portion of our Pacific coast in the winter season, and we should not wonder ifin a few years the wine-bearing valleys of California were more frequented by this class than the present haunts inthe south of France. new Tue Mount Cents TunNeL work is so near to completion that the men, who are working from opposite directions towards each other, can exchange grectings through the slight barrier of obstruction which still separates the breaking of the ice on which he was skating. A very sad accident, indeed ; a most mournful visitation. them. A De Profundis Clamavi of modern progres “ Senate. This policy of demanding everything and yielding nothing means anything but peace and harmony. It was, moreover, this Southern democratic policy that swamped Seymour in 1868, but what it may do in 1870 we cannot tell Tur Crry on Skates.—The ponds in and avound the city are now in fine skating order. In the phraseology of the rink, ‘‘the ball is up.” Many of the ponds were kaleidoscoped with gayly dressed performers on Sunday, youthful adventurers upon the virgin ice being of course most numerous. The severe cold snap of Sunday night, however, put the rinks in order for the opening of the carnival yesterday. We thus have a fair start for a good Christmas skaing season. It is to be hoped that every one will be in fine spirits to enjoy this splendid hygienic amusement, A good season on the ice is better than an army of doctors, and worth more than fifty miles long of drug stores, STEAM CoMMUNICATION writ MosILe.—The Mobile Register strongly advocates the perma- | nent establishment of a regular steam line be- tween that eity and New York. Steam communi- cation between the two ports is at present very irregular, and a regularly established line, start- ing on advertised days, isa great desideratum, It is to be hoped that some of our enterprising shipping merchaats will take the matter in hand--if they have not already done so—and supply our friends in Mobile with all the steam communication they desire. We understand that the subject is under advisement in re- sponsible quarter. Too Muoa Curiitmas DINNER was eaten by a poor fellow in Philadelphia on Sunday. lis last mouthful of beef cheked him to death, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1870. A Nico Point on the Alabama Clalivs. A correspondent, writing to us on Reverdy Johnson's letter to Mr. John A. Parker rela~ tive to the Alabama claims, suggests that the ex-Minister does not go far enough in his statement of the facts. For example, where Mr. Johnson says the underwriters have paid all the claims of the owners of vessels for losses sustained by the Alabama, amounting to the sum of $12,649,000, our correspondent argues that this does not cover the entire loss. The extra insurance charged by the insurance companies upon all vessels in consequence of the terror inspired by the Alabama is not covered by the amount named above. This is a loss that fell generally upon insurers and the country, and is not estimated. Now suppose the insurance companies get back the twelve millions and upwards they have paid for losses by the Ala- bama, they will then be gainers to the amount of the extra insurance they charged on all vessels. In short, the destruction by the Ala- bama will prove to them a most profitable thing. The point our correspondent makes, then, is ‘that if the insurance companies get back the money they have paid on the loss of vessels the insurers generally who paid an extra premiam or rate of insurance ought to get back also the extra amount they paid to the companies. This isa nice point, and as Mr. Reverdy Johnson is an eminent lawyer and statesman perhaps he will throw some light upen it. “A Cold Snap.” We have had, for eight or ten days, ‘‘a cold snap,” covering, we calculate, more than four-fifths of the area of the United States, leaving Alaska out to itself in the cold. From our observations and recollections of years past, however, ‘‘a cold snap” at Christmas is no extraordinary thing, but is a visitation to be expected, as is, too, ‘‘a warm spell,” with snow and rain and slush, about New Year. But why so? Briefly it is because the Earth, in its daily revolutions on its axis, and in its yearly circuit around the glorious Sun, comes about the 21st of December, to what we may call a careen from the northward, like that of a ship tacking on a high wave. Hence these rough, cold winds from the North Pole about Christmas, Within eight or ten days, the Earth having settled upon her keel again, we have the reactionary winds from the South, and hence the warm spell about New Year, with its snow, sleet, thaw, rain and slush. The rule, we think, is established, and a fail- ure is only an exception to the rule. RTL RE RE ES The Women at Loggerhends. Miss Catharine Beecher and Mrs. Livermore, both women of strong minds, had a little tussle in Boston on the question of woman suffrage. They were both eloquent. They had each their strenuous supporters, but the genius of the Beechers was on the right side of the ques- tion. Her arguments were clearly to the point, Whata woman can do to advance her position by obtaining the privilege of voting she can do as well now, by exercising her irresis- tible influence upon the men who have votes. Miss Beecher contended that women can get all they require by keeping in their proper sphere and using their power over men— voters and law-makers—almighty Joves as they are. The answering argument of the enthusiastic Mrs. Livermore was but the old, vague, wearisome story of woman's ‘‘wrongs” in the abstract, half of which are imaginary, and the other half of which are probably brought on by the restless and discontented of their sex, who can never be happy unless they are the heroines of some little domestic trouble, which they delight to bring before the public in some shape, sometimes in the lecture room and sometimes in the court room. The common sense view of this question of woman's right to suffrage is pretty fairly embodied in Miss beecher’s views—namely, that a woman to-day, in our community can obtain all the rights and privileges necessary fer her comfort and the maintenance of her proper position in society without the exercise of the suffrage. Rely upon the chivalry of the men, who are invested with the power to make woman a queen among gods, aud there will be no disappointment. They have crowned her already and they are loyal to their professions, This is the philosophy of Miss Beecher’s argument. Itis a new and a strong point in this much-vexed question of woman suffrage, and we commend it to the consideration of the dissatisfied males and females who are worrying the public with the incessant cry of woman’s rights and woman’s wrongs. Nusson IN CHicaco—A SpLeNprp Ova- TION 10 Her.—The Chicago people do every- thing on a grand scale. Successful as Nils- son has been, and much as she has been hon- ored in other parts of the country, the ovation to her at Chicago last Thursday eclipsed everything of the kind to her since she has been in the United States. There are a good many Swedes in Chicago, and they resolved to give their charming and popular country- woman a grand reception, and to crown her with a beautiful gold wreath. The whole scene was exciting and enthusiastic. Both in the conception of it and carrying it out there was a vein of poetry and classic beauty that carries the mind back to the classic times of Greece when Sappho and other famons women were honored and crowned ina similer man- ner. Nilsson wins all hearts wherev: goes. She has learned to love Ameri al- ready, and it is not surprising that she has when such heartfelt honors are spontaneously accorded to her, Tne Pore ano His Kixp the days of bis sore trouble, when his tempo- ralities have been wrenched from him, and when sorrows unknown seem impending, the Hoiy Father is not wanting for friends, King William abounds with promises and generous offers. Francis Joseph is not forgetting him. Even the Queen and Prime Minister of Pro- testant England are sympathizing and gene- rows. Fulda, or Malta, or Nice, or Elba, or Sicily, or Madeira might do very well for a Pa- pal residence; but if the Holy Father is wise he will remain where he is. Let the friends of the Pope provide for his comfort in Reme. eNDS.—In Tux Missovet Seiit.—We publish to-day a very interesting exposition from Washiagton of the Missouri split in the republican party, showing how the Gratz Brown and Curl Schurz bolters killed the goose which laid their golden egzs. Ontentatious Liberality. The recent contribution of fifly thousand | dollars by William M. Tweed to the poor of the Seventh ward might have been all very well if there had not been so much parade and ostentation about it. The Scriptural adjura- tion, “Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth,’” has been signally disregarded in this case, and exposes the donor of the con- tribution to the imputation of having some hid- den and selfish motive in making it. There are, no doubt, hundreds of private citizens of New York who have made as munificent dona. nations to the poor and the world has never known a word of it. Inthe present instance the contribution, it appears, is to be placed in the hands of a committee, with Mr. Tweed himself as the honorary head thereof. Who is to know how, when and where the money is expended, or whether it is expended at all, or whether the bulk of it does not find its way among the fleeces of Mr. Tweed’s myriads of ‘pet lambs?” Taken in a political point of view, the notoriety given to this affair will have the effect of causing the people to think that the charges of corruption against the Tammany ring are correct, and’ that this Tweed fifty thousand dollar gift en- terprise is simply a salve to cover numerous jobs and contracts and schemes for public plunder, for which Tammany has been re- peatedly arraigned before the bar of public opinion. Instead of having a beneficial, it ia more likely to have a damaging effect upon the political plans of Tammany, Will not people say, ‘Well, what of this fifty thousand dollar donation? Is it not only restoring to the people an atom, small asa single sand upon the seashore, of what is theirown? Has not the donor given as much fora private stable as he has appropriated in this pompous way for the relief of the poor of the Seventh ward? Why, the price of one of his horse blankets would keep a whole family in the ward in pro- visions for a month.” But, whatever its political effect may be, it would have been much wiser for Mr. Tweed to have made his contribution quietly and unos- tentatiously, than to have had it emblazoned to the world in the glaring manner it has been. Shopkeepers as Detectives. Our local columns have recently contained accounts of the arrest of several respectable ladies on charges of shoplifting. In each case the charge has been dismissed by the sitting magistrate, and the respectability of the ac- cused fully established. These arrests were made under a system now in vogue in some of our large stores of feeing clerks for detecting shoplifters. It is a poor system at best, for none but the most expert in the detective busi- ness should be employed in “this delicate service. In the cases under consideration the regular detectives should have been sufficiently well acquainted with human nature to have discovered at once whether they had or had not innocent persons under arrest. It is no excuse to say that it is next to impossible to discern a respectable lady from an accom- plished thief. In London and Paris the police are expected to know enough about their business not to make arrests upon frivolous charges when the evidence of crimi- nality is manifestly wanting. Is it not some- what singular that with allthe vigilance exer- cised by these shopkeeping clerk-detectives not a single case. of actual shoplifting was made out as having occurred upon the same premises during the days these respectable ladies were arrested and placed in humiliating confinement? Tue ‘‘Crry or Disasters.”—The late ter- rible catastrophe in Richmond calls to mind the burning of the theatre on the 26th of De- cember, 1811, when seventy victims, includ- ing the Governor of Virginia, perished in the flames ; the conflagration which laid waste so large a portion of the town in 1865, just before the end ef the war ; the fall of a chain bridge in 1869; the less of fifty-six lives at the fall of a part of the Capitol, and the immense destruction of property by the floods during the present year. The heroic endu- rance of the people of Richmond under all their afflictions merits no less sympathy than admiration. Taat unfortunate city is but too well entitled to the appellation of the “City of Disasters.” New Yerk is aptly called the ‘City of Charities.” It is true the sufferers in the present case may not be among the poorer classes; but there are, no doubt, many who have lost their all, and several families must have been deprived of tha sources of thelr maintenance by the destruc- tion of the Spottswood. Why cannot a fund be raised amoung the Richmond residents in this city in aid of those who may need aasist- ance ? Tre ANNEXATION oF WESTOHESTER.—The full report of a Committee of Property Owners in Fordham against the proposed annexation of Westchester to New York is published elsewhere. Evidently New York must expand in some direction, and it will soon overflow Westchester county, whether there is annexa- tion or not. AMERICAN jroRS FOR 1872.—The Fenian convicts who weve held in Portland prison, England, have been discharged. Portland prison is really a tomb for the living, and the Irish ‘‘martycs” have borne its dungeon rigors with great heroism for years. They will enjoy their reward about the time of the next Presi- nin the United Siates. ‘A good the day of J dential ele time coming ; BUAGLARY IW MONTCLAIR, He J. On Christmas night the residence of Mr. D, T. Ware ren, at Monteiaiy, N. J., was entered by burgiars aud a lot of valuadie personal property carried of, in- | cluding some costly laves, a black iace shawl, a haudsome colored suk dress, some choicely marked underciothing, &c., in all worth avout $600. An en- tra effected through a basement window. Mr. Wa lad juss arvived in the country with nis famiiy it to Europe, but had nut yet reached his hoa: vd been leit in clurge of @ man, } The lat as aWay all day on Swaday unttl ten o'clock at vight, and, as the house 13 weil provided with bu Arms, It is belleved that the burglary prior to that time, A brace of New- avk detectives visited the scene yesterday, but whether t received ay tufocmation that will 1e- suitiy the capture ef the cracksmen Is yet to be was perp sons best known t THE WEATHER AT GTON, Dec, 25, 1870. Ovse . M. are as follows:-- Baromete egress be ow Acro; reli tn 1, nov; veiock:y ob wind, $4 miles au lout.