The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1871, Page 6

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SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 586 Broaiway.— NrGxo MINSTRELSY, Fanos, BURLRSQUES, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- Rirty EXTeRTainMENt. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Co mio Vocar- IMs, NFGRO ACTS, &c. BRYANT": OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., between 6th snd 7th avs.—Neouo MinsTaztey, EoorntRioitiEe, £0. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoorrr’s AND KELLY & Leon's MINSTRELS. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—SozNES IN THE RING, AcRoBaTS, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— NOR AND ART, DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BOLENCE AND ax’ TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, March 9, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PGE. t—Advertisements. 2—Aavertisements. 3—News from Washington—The Coal Strike—Lec- ture by James W. Gerard, Jr.—The State Capi- tal: Rumpus Over the Holiday Bill—The Erie Classification Act—Amusements, 4—Ku Klux Kian: Curious Developments at the Holden Impeachment; Reformatry Powers of the Organization; Their Movements in South Carolina and Tennessee—Proceedings in tie Courts—Crime in Albany—Crushing Out State Rights— Educational Atfairs—The Ban- non Scalding Case. 5—Crime Agamst the Government: Secret Service of the Treasury Department—The Nathan Murderer—Board of Health: The Manure Dump- ers Routed—A West Virginia Financier—Al- leged Malpractice Case—A German Bigamist— Canght in His Own Trap—Financial and Com- Mercia! Reports—Keal Estate Matters. G—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘The President and Congress on Southern Outrages and tne Ku Kiux Klan”’—Personal — Intelligence—New ae City News—Amusement Announce- en ‘7—Paris: Herald Special Reports from the Frencn Capital—France: The National Assembly Ex- pee at Versailles—The French Assembly— eturn of the Victors—Engiand’s Diplomacy— The Joint High Commission—News from Cuba and Jamaica—Bavaria: Important Result of the Election—Miscellaneous Telegraph—Views of the Past—Business Notices, S—Bedford and the Shysters—Sensible Negroes— Marriages and Deaths—Aadvertisements, 9— Advertisements, 10 -The Union Pacific Ratiroada—Fisk in the Totls— Custom House Affairs—Internal Revenue Af- fairs—Shipping Inteiligence—Advertisments. 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, Rocves IN GRaIx.—A Western paper states that a Chicago grain dealer has got himself into trouble for obtaining a false grain certifi- cate. ‘Rogues in grain” have rarely been a scarce article in that latitude, Senator SuMNER, it seems, is actually to be displaced from the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Senator Morton or Cameron put in his place. In view of the pressure of foreign negotiations upon us at the present time no action could be more anforiunate and ill-timed. Jamaica.—By special telegram to the Hxratp we learn that the cable expedition is still actively engaged in operations to recover the lost Porto Rico cable, and they will not return to St. Thomas until successful. By ‘way of Kingston we learn of the death of the Governor of the Danish West India Islands, from enlargement of the heart, A Brick Boatmen’s Srrixg is the newest thing in strikes that we have at present. The men who freight the bricks from Haverstraw ‘to New York demand higher wages, or extra pay for piling the brick when they unload them. As real estate is almost at a standstill just now we may put down the brick strike as something less serious at least than the coal strike, Turee SEMEN are undergoing trial in the United States Circuit Court for arson on the high seas, in having set fire to and burned the ship Robert Edwards when eight hundred miles at sea last May. The offence is pun- Isbable with death, and each one of the prison- ers confesses to a participation in the dread- ful deed. Governor Avusrix, of Minnesota, has been knocking some of the State land-grabbers on the head by vetoing a Land Division bill, which passed the Legislature through the influ- ence of corrupt combinations. The Governors of other Western States would be doing a good thing if they would follow the example of Governor Austin, and act on the principle practised at Donnybrook fairs—wherever they gee a land-grabber’s head hit it. Exit Victor Hvco.—The French National Assembly knows Victor Hugo no longer. Yesterday he tendered his resignation and abruptly quitted the Chamber, because be was hissed for advocating the legality of Gari- baldi’s election. It is a peculiarity of Victor Hugo and the other French radicals that they advocate in all seriousness what seems very absard to everybody else. Garibaldi is an unnaturalized foreigner, and one would have supposed that the invalidity of his election to the Assembly would have been recognized and admitted even by the men who voted for him. Not so Victor Hugo and the Universal Republi- cans of France. They hold that Garibaldi, being a republican, is a citizen of the world, and is, cousequently, eligible to legislate for France. The absurd idealism characteristic of Victor Hugo has caused him to collapse temporarily. NEW YURK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, I87L-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | Beem sn Sunsreay’ ou: onnery Outrages and the Ku Klux Klans, We publish to-day from our special corre- spondent at Raleigh, N. C., a report of certain proceedings in the impeachment trial of Gov- ernor Holden, which throws some light on the character, materials, organization and savage atrocities of that mysterious Southern organi- zation of assassins, the Ku Klux Klan, To his bold repressive measures against this secret organization Governor Holden is in- debted for the position in which he stands to-day as a criminal offender against the rights and liberties of the people of the State. He pushed his measures ef repression so far as to create a widespread reign of terror and confu- sion, especially among the poor negroes, from which the unterrified democracy, by rousing majorities, carried the last elections for the State Legislature; and hence this impeach- ment of the Governor and this suggestive testi- mony in his defence concerning the Ku Klux Klan. At the same time it is understood that Mr. Morton’s Ku Klux investigating committee of the United States Senate have been sifting the outrages o! these moss troopers to the bottom, and have been so much occupied with them in North Carolina and South Carolina, that they have only as yet barely touched upon the labors before them in Georgia, Ala- bama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ar- Kansas, Louisiana and Texas. It has been broadly hinted, however, from the committee that upon these Ku Klux Klans, in all the States concerned south and west of Virginia, sufficient evidence has been collected to show that the Southern blacks and North- ern settlers and adventurers in the South known as ‘‘carpet baggers” are at the mercy of these Ku-Klux regulators of Southern society, law and politics, and that unless Congress shall provide some remedy against the desperadoes of these white vagabondizing vigilance committees the Southern blacks, more than ever heretofore, will be frightened or driven away from the polls, and that the Southern elections will thus be completely under the terrorism of the Ku Klux and their democratic allics. Our daily news despatches from the South, meantime, indicate anything but peace and harmony or security to life and property in the cottoa States, and anything but submission to reconstruction by the still unreconstructed State of Kentucky. Only the other day a band of four or five hundred armed white men broke into a jail in South Carolina and took out and carried eff into the woods a dozen or more of negro prisoners, and there promptly disposed of them by shooting them. On Tuesday last, at Meridian, Miss., a black desperado shoots the Judge in open court, whereupon there is, naturally enougn, a terrible row, which culminates in the shooting of half a dozen negroes, and ends only in the expulsion of the Mayor from the town, and with the understanding that he is never to return. But why this expul- sion and this understanding? For the unpardonable crime to the party expelled, as it appears, of being, as a Northern white man, elected by negro voters Mayor of a Southern town. We have reports of such Southern scenes of violence and bloodshed almost every day, and if they did net occur in such a variety of shapes and forms they would, from their frequent repetition, become as monotonous as the drunken orgies and brawls of Saturday night and Sunday morning in the slums of this city. setae Bienes But what does all this signify? After such a four years’ war as that of our late Southern rebellion can it be expected that the people subdued can quietly adapt themselves in five - bal apes: Sherr! sale 3 years, ten years or twenty years to a revolu- tion which has torn up their political and social system by the roote? Can it be ex- pected that the Southern whites, accustomed to rule under the constitution as masters, and to look upon their blacks as an inferior race and as slaves by divine authority—can it be supposed that because these whites have been subdued in war they will surrender their con- victions, prejudices and principles as condi- tions of peace? No. Inspite of your eman- cipation decrees and civil rights bills, and constitutional amendments establishiug negro civil and political equality, the Southern whites do not believe in this equality, and they submit to it as the French submit to the loss of their Rhine territories—from necessity, aud with the hope of satisfaction hereafter. How is this difficulty to be reached by acts of Congress, especially when all these Southern States have been restored as completely to We expect, however, that he will recover himself in a few days and astonish the world by publishing on address to the French people, abounding in ernletives and inflated rhetoric. their local rights in the Union as New York and New Jersey? What more can Congress do with the Ku Klux cutthroats of North Carolina than with the roughs of New York city, now that Southern reconstruction is finished ? Let us see. The first section of the four- teenth amendment or article of the constitu- tion ordains that ‘‘all persons born or natural- ized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside ;” that ‘‘no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immuni- ties of citizens of the United States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Very good. But suppose this State, that State and other States pay no attention to this first section of this fourteenth article, what then? Why, then the fifth section provides that ‘the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Here we begin to see the scope of this amend- ment. Senator Morton is a good lawyer; General Butler is a sort of General Von Moltke among lawyers, in all the principles, strategy and tactics of the profession, and while Senator Morton is, with the advice and co-operation of General Grant, pursuing his Ku Klux investigation, General Butler, for the House, has a bill cocked and primed to meet these Ku Klux and other Southern out- rages directed against the civil and political rights of the blacks. To meet these Southern outrages? But how is this to be done? Take the State of Ken- tucky, for example. She has recognized the thirteenth amendment abolishing and prehibit- ing slavery, and the fifteeuth amendment, es- tablishing negro suffrage; but she has not, they say, recognized and does not obey the supreme law as embodied in the fourteenth amendment. in relation to the eaual civil rights of the negroes, She denies, they tell us, to | Tho Joint High Commission—The Question her black citizens the equal protection of her laws, What legislation, then, on the part of Congress will be appropriate to meet this case? That which the republican majority in each House may think proper. This is the scope of this fourteenth amendment, and we dare say that the purpose which lies behind this Ku Klux investigation of Senator Morton is a bill for the enforcement of this fourteenth article which will astonish all those Southern and Northern antediluvian politicians who still en- tertain the delusion that State sovereignty underlies the constitufion, We are informed that a message to Congress from General Grant may be shortly expected on this subject suggesting the necessity of decisive measures. We are told that the resolution of the House for the adjournment of the session a few days hence has been laid aside in the Senate because General Grant, for various reasons, wishes the session prolonged, but particularly in view of some legislation against these Southern Ku Klux Klans. We await some definite revelations upon this business. Meantime our whole political horl- zon looks lowering and stormy, and especially down South. The Southern States are apparently lost to the administration beyond any remedy from Congress. Whites and blacks within the limits of the late Southern confederacy are, so far as we can learn, in har- mony—at least upon one thing—the repudia- tion of the national debt, or those taxes re- quired to meet the costs of their subjugation. This isa bad sign for General Grant anda bow of promise to the flexible Northern demo- cracy. Nor do wethink that the demoraliza- tion among the Southern republicans will be mended by further repressive measures against States or communities, or classes or Ku K lux Klans from Congress. The Joint High Commission, the St. Domingo annexa- tion and the Darien ship canal scheme pro- mise to be high trump cards for the next Presidency; but this Ku Klux business, if taken in hand by Congress, we fear, will only make this Southern confusion worse con- founded than ever, and concentrate the Presi- dential fight upon the never-ending blunders of Southern reconstruction. These things are certain, at’all events, that the great body of the Southern whites now, as in the war of the rebellion, are opposed to General Grant, and that they have their laboring blacks within their reach as political allies; that the North- ern democracy on these heavy national taxations are gathering strength, and that am appreciable lessening of these heavy taxa- tions, more than any Ku Klux legislation, is needed to secure the re-election of General Grant and to secure the holders of the national bonds from the hazards of a sweep- ing political and financial revolution. We say a sweeping revolution, for with the overthrow of the party in power will not all its works be cast out, as by the willof the people? It is not the Ku Klux but the tax question that calls most urgently for a remedy from Con. gress. ns scan «ett Affairs in France. On Tuesday last the Prussians delivered over to the French all the forts on the left bank of the Seine; by Saturday Versailles will be evacuated, and by the 19th inst. the neigh- borhood of Paris will be free from the presence of the Germans. While these movements are progressing on the German side it will be seon by referring te the cable news published on afiother pag ‘that the French leaders are not inactive. The appointment of General de Pala- dines to the command ef the National Guard of Paris, though the source of some uneasiness to a portion of those who compose it, may be regarded as an evidence of a desire on the part of the republican government of France to bring order out of chaos and substitute organization and discipline for demoraliza- tion and insubordination. Every day of quiet adds to the security of the nation, proves the permanent establishment ef the re- public and strengthens the hands of the Thiers government. Reconstruction should now be the great aim of the public men of France, and the people should lend all the aidin their power to attain this end. We are free to con- fess that we fear the radical republicans more at the present time than we do either the im- perialists or the monarchists. They can destroy the prospects of the republic for years to come if they give way to the rapid utter- ances which have characterized their course up tothe present. Now is the moment for France. Never had she a fairer opportunity to lay the foundations of free institutions than at the present time. Let us hope she will profit by past experience and take advantage of the present opportunity. Bavaria AND THE GERMAN EmpPireE.—We publish this morning an item of news among eur despatches which is possessed of much sig- nificance. Itis stated that the elections in Bavaria have resulted in the choice of twenty- nine liberals and seventeen patriots. Some time ago it was announced that the ratification of the treaty whereby Bavaria becomes a part of the German empire was delayed until after the election because the government could not control a two-thirds vote in the old Chamber. The result, as given above, must be regarded as unfavorable to German unity, What is known as the “‘patriot” party of Bavaria favors the preservation of the absolute independence of the kingdom and is especially hostile to any closer alliance with Prussia than now exists. As its representatives still control more than one-third of the Bavarian Chamber, and will be certain to vote against the treaty, Bavaria will have to remain out of the German empire, unless some political coup d'état is employed to effect the ratification of the treaty. As the matter stands now the result of the elections is @ wet cloth thrown upon German unity. Cuna.—By special telegram from the Heratp’s correspondent in Havana we learn that the Spanish forces suffered a severe loss in their recent defeat near Mayari. We also hear that the radicals were successful In the Porto Rico election for deputies to the Cortes, and that serious disturbances, causing blood- shed, were occasioned thereby among the Spanish volunteers. The Captain General discountenanced the action of the volunteers, and ordered them to store their arms in the barracks instead of retaining them in their houses. Tue Atianta Intelligencer says tombstones are being stolen in Georgia. Wh=* is Georgia coming tod ef the Cession of Territory. We have a special despatch by the Atlantic cable from our correspondent at London, giv- ing a pretty full epitome of the tone of the London Times on the present prospects of the discussion before the Joint High Commission. The Times, in commenting upon the possible failure of the negotiations, owing to alleged intemperate demands on the part of some of our Senators, says:—‘‘If a cession of territory is mooted the English Commis- sioners will take care that it is not mentioned twice.” These are brave words. Bombastes Furioso could not have expressed himself more fiercely if he had come in actual contact with the enemy who ‘‘would his boots displace.” They have that achoolboy ring about them which usually precedes juvenile fisticuffs in the playground, But, considering that the government for whom the Times speaks has within the past few months sold out her ancient ally for a mess of neutrality pottage, and has eaten Russian humble pie at the fierce call of her ancient enemy, it ill becomes her to put on so blustering an air in her dealings with us—another ancient enemy—who never came out of a war with her, even in our infant days, except as the victor,. The Joint High Commission was formed at England’s own request, as a tender of peace and good will, and as such it has been received by the American people. The members are even now dining and wining one another with an avidity that would long ago have floored Reverdy Johnson, and the goose that represents peace and harmony is popularly supposed to hang high. It is no time, therefore, for the big Waddilove of the school, whom all the smaller boys fag, to make any such playground threats. ‘The fact in regard to the cession of territory in payment of the Alabama claims is that we don’t want any unwilling people annexed to us, and will not take, and never have taken an inch of territory by conquest. The cession of any portion of the British domintons under the pressure of our demands would be as much a cenquest as the cession of Alsace to Germany under the pressure of her demands upon France. We want no such cession, and there has been nothing in the cenduct of the Ameri- can people to justify the London Zimes in such a bullying demurrer. Such highflyers as Chandler in the Senate may have let their spread eagle fly too high, but they do not aspire to anything more dignified or sig- nificant than buncombe. We believe, as everyone else on this Continent believes, the people of the New Dominion included, that all the British possessions are gravi- tating toward the United States, and that eventually every inch of territory in North America will rejoice under the one flag of the Union. We can wait if the British possessions can. Itisno prime necessity for us to have Canada, but it is doubtful whether it is not al- ready becoming a prime necessity for Canada troublés, the non-reciprocity of commierde, the disaffection of the anti-Confederates, are burdens and sores that have rendered Canada tender to the touch, and her only remedy for all these is comprised in the one word—annexation, But we are not the ones to feel galled. We have no need to wince. Our withers are unwrung; and as for us or our Commissioners insisting upon the cession of Canadian or any other territory, the Lon- don Times may rest assured that Canada will do the insisting before we take her. No; we don’t want Canada for our Alabama claims. We want cash—money down—and enough of it to replace every cent of damage that was done to us by the Alabama and the Shenandoah and the Flerida, and all that fleet of pirates which England, follewing up her old game of money-making neutrality, built and launched and manned and sent to sea. She thought, with Lord John Russell, that “The Union was dissolved sine dic,” when she clinched us. But the Union was not dissolved. It ia stronger now than ever. It has shown what it could do, and it demands satisfaction for these Alabama losses—satisfaction in full, without any offsets in Fenian raids or cotton loans. . Paris Stitt DisorpERLy.—Our special and general advices from Paris agree in represent- ing affairs in that city as unfavorable to order. The National Guards seem bent upon a row. They have formed camps, supported by artil- lery, at Montmartre, Belleville, La Villette and other quarters of the city, with the evi- dent purpose of resisting any attempt to dis- arm them. Our despatches refer to deplora- ble acts of violence, without mentioning any specific acts. Enough is said, however, to prepare us for news of a formidable outbreak on the part of the reds and a bloody collision between them and the troops. Well may the press (republican, we suppose) appeal to the rioters*in behalf of order, on the ground that republican government is compromised by dis- orders. Nothing else can make certain the restoration of the empire or re-establishment of the kingdom than a continuance of scenes in Paris which are vaguely spoken of as terrible. Jupaz Brprorp’s Sayster CrvusapE.—As the tree is known by its fruit so the wisdom of and the necessity fer the admirable charge of Judge Bedford in the General Sessions on Monday last is seen in the fact that it has already borne good fruit. The ‘‘shyster” crusade then opened has resulted in verifying one of the prognostics of the Judge—that probably before the jury would be discharged one or two “‘shyster” cases would be presented them. This fulfilment was perhaps nearer than was at the time supposed, for yesterday the first gun in the ‘‘shyster” warfare was fired in open court. While this first victim ef the inevitable is undergoing legal castigation it might be as well for others of that ilk to look upon their doom with the eyes of Captain Scott's coon, and come down at once. Cuoxep 1x Taz Yoxr—The proposition in our Legislature to make Decoration Day and St. Patrick’s Day legal holidays. Most oF THE NewLy EstasuisHep Southern newspapers pay more attention te railroad jobs than they do to the gathering and ‘publi- cation of news. This is not the way to con- duct a newspaper—North or South. Give news. We advise our Southern contempora- ries that details of reported outrages received through other than our own special corre-. 1 spondents are not reliable, The Reopening of the Hudson. The Hegaup extracted yesterday from the Albany Journal, of the 6th ingt., a vivid description of the scene at the breaking up and moving out of the ice last Sunday. Be- tween Albany and Troy the ice had nearly disappeared before the weakened and melting mass gave way on Saturday, moving down and blocking up the Boston ferry cut, where it again became stationary, ‘but not without separating and dividing the immense field into thousands of huge and massive blocks.” It must have been a fine sight when on Sunday first one portion and then another of the fleld gradually gave way and moved gracefully and safely down along the city front. ‘Without any of the piling or the usual damage result- ing from the breaking up of the ice after a hard winter, it passed away, and the residents of the lower part of the city and along the docks felt relieved as they saw it glide so smoothly out.” During winter the Hudson river, from its source in the Adirondacks to within a few miles of New York city, is entirely frozen over. Only five times for nearly forty years bas the river been suffi- ciently clear of ice to admit of navigation throughout its whole navigable course— that is, from New York to Troy. Five times it has remained closed until April— in 1843 so late as April 13, Usually it has been opened in March, but only twice—in 1859 and 1862, on March 3—at an earlier date than in the present year. The breaking up has now occurred three weeks sooner than last year, and “‘old river men say it was the quietest and least dangerous that has occurred in many years.” Albany and Troy may well be congratulated on having escaped the terribly destructive floods which generally accompany the breaking up of the ice. Even on Saturday the pressure of the great mass of ice at the Boston ferry cut was not sufficient to cause the water to rise more than a single foot. The snows had for some time been gradually melting and disappearing in the mountains, and this partly accounts for the fortunate and extraordinary absence of disastrous floods, So soon as tho ice still in the basin at Albany shall dissolve the various boats which have been locked up in it during the winter will be ready to take their share in the travel and traffic of the coming season. Overhauled and refitted, the floating palaces of the different steambeat companies will ere long carry pas- sengers and freight either to Albany and Troy or to any and all points east, west and north- west, with which the steamers of the Hudson connect at Troy by means of the Rensselaer and Saratoga, the Vermont Central, the Rutland and Burlington and Grand Trunk railroads, and at Albany by means of the New York Central, Rensselaer and Saratoga and Albany and Susquehanna railroads. The boats accommodate each from five hundred to eight hundred passengers, and in summer are usually crowded to their utmost capacity. It IRR A Mery 2 eight cattled by the New York anu Troy, the People’s and the Albany day lines average nearly a million dollars in value daily. The railroad freights and fares and the prices of country produce must at once be cut down by the early opening of river navigation, and the revival of the spring trade will be hastened forward at least three weeks by it. Already the most encouraging indications of an excep- tionally gay and prosperous season begin to be manifested by our crowded hotels and streets and our busy counting rooms, stores and wharves. With each successive year we have to chronicle the epening of navigation on the Hudson as an event of increasing impor- tance not only to the people of this city and State, but to countless inhabitants of the States east, north and west of us. Etta Carroxt’s War Cram.—Ella Carroll makes a pretty clear case of a claim on Con- gress for plans and suggestions made to the federal authorities duting the late rebellion. We think, however, she lacked wisdom in not accepting the offer of five thousand dollars in liquidatien of her demands. If she intends to keep up the fight for a hundred thousand dol- lars she isin danger of being gobbled up by the insatiate lobby or claim lawyers, and come out at the little end of the horn, ‘‘A bird in the hand‘is worth two in the bush.” ‘The memories of gallant and patriotic services during the war ‘are, unfortunately, gradually becoming more and more obliterated, and therefore we admonish the fair claimant in the case before Congress to take what she can get, and not run the risk of losing all. In THE Ruope Istanp LEGISLATURE on Tuesday, according to the Providence Jour- nal, several measures were advanced ‘“‘one stage.” It is not long since nothing but stages were advanced through ‘‘Little Rhody.” Toe Manure Qvzstion, thanks to the glimpse of the hereafter which the HzRALD gave several members of the Board of Health who were going astray, has been settled by that body with a righteous deference to the absolute needs of our citizens, The Sanitary Committee yesterday reported very stringent measures, providing that all ordinances rela- tive to the removal of manure heaps from the city limits be rigidly enforced, and that no manure dumps other than boats or vessels would be permitted; all others to be removed by May 1. These measures, after a short debate, were carried. Tuere 1s Somz Trousie in Massachusetts about paying the State income tax. The Boston Advertiser says:—‘‘This tax is most unequal.” So are most incomes. Pay up, ye solid men of the Hub, and don’t vamose to your country seats and thereby avoid all taxes! Anotner New Hampvre Raicway TRAP IN Emsryo.—The attention of the officers of the Harlem Railroad is called to the rickety and dangerous condition of the bridge at 104th street. The slightest divergence or swaying of trains—which is so likely to occur at a time like this, when the frost is coming out of the ground—as they pass each other at this point, is likely to produce a catastrophe so frightful as to throw the New Hamburg slaughter en- tirely in the shade. A number of cerrespond- ents have called our attention to this subject, and we in turn invite the immediate attention of the railroad managers to it, Commodore Vanderbilt among the rest. A Patent Has Macnins is wanted in Mis- sissippi. Apply at Meridian for six dave ge th LS | Znatan@s Diplomacy During the War. One of our cable despatches published this morning gives a chapter on English diplomacy during the war in France. Immediately on the arrival of the Duc de Broglie in London he addressed & communication to Earl Granville, complaining of the indifference exhibited by the British government to the fate of France, and asking the intervention of England for a prolongation of the’ armistice and for a reduc- tion of the war indemnity, then fixed at six thousand millions of francs. Earl Granville declined acting in the matter of the armistice, but forwarded a despatch to Versailles urging a reduction of the indemnity on the ground that France could not pay the sum demanded. The despatch might as well have remained in London, for Odo Rusgell says that when he received it the time for intervention had passed. He be- lieves, however, that Count Bismarck must have received a duplicate despatch, as the sum originally named as an indemnity was re- duced. We doubt exceedingly if Bismarck was in any way influenced by the representa- tions of England. The fact is that British diplomacy during the Franco-Prussian war has given satisfaction to neither party. Bismarck says it was tricky and evasive, and the French declare that it was first hostile to them and subsequently indifferent. Instead of retaining the friendship of both nations, or, at least, of making one of them a firm friend and ally, England has succeeded in drawing upon herself the hostility of France and Germany alike. The same result attended her diplomacy during our rebellion. The feeling in the South against her was only less bitter than in the North. A moral may be drawn from the unfavorable situation in which the British government is placed. It is that in times of war openly avowed hostility or friendship for one or the other of the bel- ligerents is better than a neutrality which aims to encourage and condemn each, thereby inflicting injury on both, SusPENSION OF THE GOVERNMENT WEATHER Reporrs.—The whole community, especially its mercantile, maritime and agricultural classes, are naturally incensed at the abrupt suspension of the government weather reports, the importance of which was just beginning to be duly appre- ciated by them. The Western Union Telegraph Company has done commendable service by transmitting these reports for three months without remuneration. No company can be expected to do such a service for the public without a reasonable compensation. But if it should prove impossible to negotiate for its being done on reasonable terms there remains a final remedy which must inevitably be employed, and the adoption of which will only be hastened by parsimonious action and high-handed measures en the part of the tele- graph companies. This remedy will be the passage of an act by Congress conferring upon it the sgnteol of al sna selegrarh syd Fag “Wiy Hoapatos in the country aud effectually preventing them from becoming odious and insufferable monopolies. Rnope IstaNp is making a start toward the improvement of her internal fisheries. Are clambakes on the bay included? ‘What cheer?” Sr. Parrror’s Day AND “THE FRIENDLY Sons.”—If the bill to make St. Patrick's Day a public holiday has failed in becoming a law the national pride which all Irishmen feel in celebrating the day shall never fail. The love for old Ireland and her patron saint ‘‘was never less nor can be more” than in the pres- ent day. The pride and the love are sponta- neous now, as they ever have been, and shall ever continue to be, and the idea of making it a compulsory holiday was naturally scouted by alltrue Irishmen. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will assemble as usual to honor the day, to “drown the shamrock,” to say a kind word for the ‘‘euld sod”—in fact, to sing its praises and its old renown. No society or class of Irishmen celebrates the 17th of March more enthusiastically or more patriotically than the Friendly Sons, even though all politi- cal questions, either of the past, the present “Our people might as well be preparing themselves for a sort of tidal wave of enthusiasm in favor of the annexation of St. Domingo when the Com- missioners return.” Can the dumb talk or the deaf hear? Howe is that for the High St, Domingo Commission ? Testing A New Articole OF CABINet Ware—The trial of the Indian Bureau. Personal Intelligence. Senator Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander McCreery, of the United States Navy, is temporarily stationed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Wendell Phillips is staying at the St. Denis Hotel. General James S. Whitney, of Boston, is among the arrivals at the St. James Hotel. Mr. D. A. Van Mamter, of Omaha, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. David A. Wells, ex-Commisstoner of the Inter- nal Revenue, is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel, Jonn D. Perry, of St. Louis, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Morton, of Springfield, Mass., is temporarily At the St. James Hotel. John R. Carpenter, a heavy stock dealer from Texas, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. John A. Poor, ex-Member of Congress, hae arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General McCook, of Ohio, is quartered at the Path Avenue Hotel. NEW YORK CITY NEWS. Coroner Keenan yesterday heid an inquest at the City Hall in the case of James Clegg, the lad tweive years of age, who was killed some days ago in front Of premises 66 xobinson street by @ milistone fall- tg on him. The jury did not find thac blame at- tached to any one. Deceased lived with his. parents at 102 Washington street, Charles Henry, @ man twenty-one years of age, died yesterday in St. Vincent’s Hospital from the effects of having one of his legs crushed on the 2ist ult, by being run over by a Greenpoint car, of which he was driver. = 1 ately after the accideat Henry Was brought to this city and taken to the house of some iriends, 257 Spring street, where, alter remaining a week, he was removed to the hos- a Coroner Keenan was notified to hold an in- ques On Friday night last Patrick Murphy, residing at 455 West Sixteenth street, was dangerously stabbed im the left breast by an Italian musician, While passing the corner of Tenth avenue and Six- teenth street yesterday afternvon, oficer White, of the Sixteenth preomect, arrested a band of musi- Ciaus, one of Whom, named Jean Battiste Jambere, was idenuded by @ triend of Murphy's, who was With Dim at the time, as the party who committed the aasault. He was arraigned vefore Justice Suandiey, at Jefferson Market, and committed to await the result of the injuries. Murphy 1s at pro- sent confined to nis bed, under the care of @ DUYSI- cian. Whe has Lopes of lis recovery: