The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— RaRatoGa. Matinee at 1. GLOBE THEATRE. t Broadw: TAINMENT, &0.—APTER THE Wa VARInTY ENTER. jatinee at 234. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., vetween 6th and 6tn ave.— Muog Avo Apour NotH WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ‘ances every afternoon and evening, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue SrRoTacuE oF THE BLaok CRoox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana I8tn street.— RoMANOE aND REALITY. LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—LInGARD SKETOUES—DAvY's LOVE. Matinee at 2. RAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. ana 23d et.— GRORGIENNES, OLYMPIO THEATRE. Broadway.—Tur RicnELtev OF vax PrEIop. Matinee at 2. Li NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—FRra DIAvouo. 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Pak PE aeseeeNeoUTe t—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—News from Washington: General Butler's Bill for the Protectien of Southern Loyalists—The Joint High Comission—Tke State Capital: —— New Tax Levy—Miscellaneous Tele- gral 4—Proceedings in Congress—Open War: The Radi- cal Fight ust the President—Metropoiitan, Museum of ‘The Flag of the Union: George Washington’s Memory in Europe—Spain's Troubles: Particulars of the Attempted ja3~ sination of Seiior Zorilla—Miscellaneous For- eign Items—“The Lawyers’ Trade’—Incen- diary Fire in Williamsburg—Another Military Outbreak in Winnitpeg—The Cotton Movement. S—Proceedings in the Courts—The Great Sugar Case—Financlal and Commercial Reports. G@—Editorials : Leading Articie, “A Political Thun- derstorm—The Dangers and the Opportunities of Parties"—Personal Intelligence—Amuse- ment Announcement. 7—Paris—General Reports from France—The Em- peror William’s Return to Berltn—Napoleon 2#n Rowe tc England—HERALD Special Report from Mexico—General Cable and Otner Des- patches—The New Hampshire Election—gusi- ness Notices. A Bamed Confidence Man—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. 40-The Schmidt Murder Case—New York City— The Tweed Testimonial—Sireet Clea — United States Senators—American Jockey Club—Brooklyn Burglars’ Beneflt—Real Estate Matters—European Markets—Drowning From a Ferryboat—Naval Intelligence—Orashed to Death — Shipping Intelligence — Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements, 12—Advertisements. Tue Ko Kivx Br agreed upon by the joint republican committee of Congress is General Butler's, and as far as he could go, in his heartfelt desire to flay every Ku Klux alive, General Butler bas gone in this bill. Tae Boarp or Heart has instituted vigorous measures for the immediate and thorough cleaning of all the streets, We are glad to see the Board disposed to do the “clean thing.” Certainly nothing is more needed than a sweeping of some of the side streets. Forrester, the Nathan murderer, is now said to be in the Cambria county (Pa.) jail. Among the great numbers and varieties of Forresters reparted in different sections of the country it will go hard if one genuine one is not captured. ARKANSAS PoLiTics are {ncomprebensible. There is no more dependence to be placed upon them than upon that “‘theathen Chinee” who has become se trite an exponent of ways that are dark. Governor Clayton, who was under the ban of impeachment a few weeks ago, having made his arch enemy, the Lien- tenant Governor, his Secretary of State and thus debarred him from the succession, has again gone before the Legislature that was so recently thirsting for his blood, and again been elected United States Senator. The poli- tical tricks of Arkansas are as unfathomable as its mud. Tue Bur or Mr. TweEp changing the system of the tax levy in New York city was reported in the State Senate yesterday. There was some apprehension of a stiff fight over it, the less prominent city democratic members being understood to oppose it as a means of closing against them the rich lode of the old tax levy system and the republican members opposing it on general party principles, But it was received very quietly in the Senate last night, and some weak amendments on the part of one republican member being rejected, it was ordered to a third reading by the customary party vote. Tax St, Domineo Commissioners are at Kingston, Jamaica, where they appear to have created an immense sensation, All Kingston is said to be alive doing them henor, We take this to be another satisfactory de- monstration of the era of good feeling that prevails among all nations; for here are the representatives of the two nations that are even now competing or preparing to compete for the great prize of commerce to flow through the Darien ship canal hobnobbing and mak- ing merry together—the negotiators for the purchase of a storehouse for us in St. Do- mingo jollily entertained by our business rivals ia their own storehonse in Jamaica. ) . 4 Political and the Opportanities of Parties. The political atmosphere at Washington is stormy and squally just now, Perhaps we should not be surprised if hurricanes and earthquakes were to ensue, consitlering that the breezes which disturb the elements at the national capital come mainly from the tropical regions of St. Domingo and the West India island regions, A St. Domingo tornado has swept Somator Sumner out of his seat as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela- tions. Whether it be wisy policy to “swap horses while crossing the stream,” as the lamented Mr. Lincoln said on a memorable occasion, will have te be determined by the result which must accrue to the republican party out of all this boisterous business. There are many who think that the time is not ripe to disturb the status of our Senate Committee on Foreign Relations at this important crisis in our foreign policy, even to substitute the wise head of Simon Cameron or Oliver P. Morton for the scholarly brain of Charles Sumner. President Grant, however, trained as he is in the school of the soldier, wedded as he is by education to discipline in all things, and not brooking insubordination in the ranks of the party any more than he would submit to it in a division, a brigade, ora regiment, no doubt considered that the presence of an enemy to his St. Dominge policy onght not to be tolerated in so important a place as Mr, Sumner occupied. That the President's intentions are good and honest no one doubts. His judgment and wisdom im dealing with party difficul- ties and intricacies of faction, on the other hand, are open to criticism. He may have all the iron firmness of Andrew Jackson, but his party to-day is beset with more dan- gers than threatened the administration or the personal popularity of the man who could swear “‘by the Eternal” that his will should be law. It is not only the question involving Mr. Sumner’s position which has set all the disturbing elements in the republican party in motion—although, among all the deviltries pitcbed into the witches’ caldron, this may prove the wickedest. Here is the Ku Klux trouble in the South. In Nerth Carolina, espe- cially, the operations of tbis body would seem to be very terrible indeed, if we are to rely upon the majority report of the Senate Com- mittee solely, and ignore the minority report altogether, which represents a very different state of things. Between two extremes there is always to be found a “happy mean.” We can readily imagine the bad feeling which the presence of a crowd of carpet- baggers—Yankee pedlers in politics—would create among the Southern people, It is the most natural thing in the world that they should mistrust and detest them. Suppose that the same class of fellows were to come into our Northern States from the South to poke themselves into all our public offices; to meddle with our domestic affairs; to interfere, for example—if we might strain a point—with the inherent right of Connecticut to manu- facture wooden hams if she can find a market for them; or should they crowd around the polls in our own city to dispute our established privilege to vote early and vote often, would not every one of us feel Ku Kluxy, and desire to see the scamps and their carpet-bags sent back across that imaginary but historic line known as Mason and Dixon's? But, apart from all jesting, what is this re- ported cruel and bloody Ku Klux Klan—this mysterieus league that plots in darkness and executes in the light of conflagration? It is the afterclap of the war. It is the wandering wickedness of spirits sorely embittered, and only half subdued, manifesting itself in the restless way which men are apt to fall into who are unwilling to accept the consequences of defeat. But we must not be understood to adopt all the stories of the Ku Klux atro- cities as true. Oa the contrary, we believe they are greatly exaggerated. Weshould be sorry to suppose that much of this trouble in the South was not rather attri- butable to the ingeniousness of political intrigue than to the inhuman instincts of any portion of our people. We know what the afterclaps ef a great war may be. We may expect, for instance, to see the Franc-tireurs of the disembodied French army keeping up a kind of guerilla warfare in France, inflicting, perhaps, much misery to mo purpose. The German ublans, in like manner, may torment the peace of the frontier districts of France and the ceded provinces. These are the inevi- table consequences of great wars; for we can- not hope to contrel the irritability of defeat or the passionate exultation of conquest by a simple treaty of peace, whether it be verbally agreed to by two gentlemen wearing the uni- form and recogaizing mutually the honor of soldiers under the apple tree at Appomat- tox Court House, or whether it be done in due diplomatic form between two prominent statesmen at Versailles—the palace of fallen kings and the plaything of dethroned empo- rors. But we must not lose the philosophy of our article in historic memories. The republican party is seriously menaced with dissolution. Overburdened, as it has been, by o miserable financial system, and having no policy, except it be St. Domingo—a sound foothold for the President—and the Alabama and Canadian fisheries claims to keep it in popular favor, General Grant cannot afford to lose one inch of ground in his march toward succession in 1872. Twenty-six inches from toe to heel and thirteen inches from back to breast is the military rule, and if the repub- lican party would not break rauks and become demoralized they must stick together. But how can the party stick together upon any political issue while its leaders are divided and its adherents are indifferent ? It is tossed about in the midst of a tempest, and what voice is there to still the storm? The Southern States, negro votes and all, have drifted into the democratic ranks, The Southwestern States, led off by Missouri, with its earnest and not always judicious standard bearer in the Senate, are going in the same direction. Their affiliations are with the South, and notably so upon two points—detest- ation of carpet-bagism and resistance to the idea that the war still exists, and that military force is necessary in any State or section of a State where the civil courts are in operation. While such are the tempestuous dangers that surround the revublican vartv, what is Thuuderstorm—Tke Dangers the democratic party doing in order to convert the difficulties of their adversaries into their own opportunity? By the democratic party we mean the democratic party of New York, and we may narrow that down to the leaders of Tammany—the ring, or by whatever name they may be known. It is evident that if they are to seize upon the chances within their reach to become the great national par's -~“ 1872 they must not fritter awey sult strength or imperil their atgnity by any petty selfish legislation at Albany. They must not permit themselves to bo used by ambitious individuals for persunal ends, neither must they assume the responsibility of too many legislative jobs. With this word of caution to the New York democracy we would remind them that if the gate to power and the Presidency is not opened for them in 1872 there is every prospect that it will be in 1876, unless by some stupid blun- dering they rnin the fortunes of the party. But does it follow inevitably from all this that the republican party under the leadership of General Grant—and this Sumner difficulty, and his St. Domingo annexation views, and the plans which he has in hand {n connection with the policy of securing the trade of the South American States for this country, prove that he has the capacity to be a leader—does it follow, we say, that the party is past recu- peration? Not atall. Misfortune often binds up the wounds of wrangling factions—puts their petty quarrels to rest. Adversity is a great healing salve for the ills of political parties. Prosperity, like a plethora of blood in the system, often breeds diseases. If the republican party have any manhood or pluck in them would they not rather rally together and close ranks for a good fight in the face of danger? Columns and cohorts and torn standards on the battle field have been driven to tho last point of resistance and almost to despair; but the sense of danger and the shame of defeat threatening them have sometimes rallied the broken ranks, have brought a fresh front to the enemy and converted disaster into victory. Why not, then, the demoralized cohorts of the republican party obtain strength from the misfortune which apparently has befallen them and unite more closely for the defence of their principles? The result of the New Hampshire election, nor the result of the elec- tions to come in the Western and Central States, eo far from daunting them, may only serve to determine them for a bolder struggle for maintenance of power. The dangers of the republican party may, therefore, after all, prove their strength under proper manage- ment ; and the opportunities of the democratic party, on the other hand, may be wasted in fruitless conflicts, jealousies and too daring legislation before the grand Presidential con- test of 1872 comes about. ‘The News from France, On Monday evening Paris wae quiet, the remaining malcontents among the National Guards of Montmartre having aubmitted to the authorities and surrendered all the cannon in their possession. Yesterday, however, as our despatches published this. morning report, “some disorders” occurred in the city and several policemen were mobbed. This news indicates that the ‘‘gentlemen of the pave- ment” have not yet been reduced to absolute subjection, and ik will be a fortunate thing for them, for France and for the government of M. Thiers if the necessity does not arise for teaching them what law and order are, by means of bullets and grapeshot. It is reported that “‘the German government has asked information from that of France whether the decree issued by the iate Govern- ment of the National Defence for the expulsion of Germans from France has been cancelled.” Although an immediate reply was demanded, at the request of M. Favre time was given for consideration of the question. A Berlin official paper threatens reprisals ‘‘unless France protects peaceful Germans returning to their avocations and residences in that country.” It seems to us most unwise in them to return at present. The animosities engendered by the war have not yet even cooled; in point of fact they are more intense than ever. It will be unsafe for Germans to seck or renew residences in France while the feeling in the couatry is. so bitter against them. Undoubtedly the condition of affairs is much to be regretted and says l'ttle for the civilization of the age; but the recognition of and submission to facts are necessary, and we trust the Germans will not ignore them and imperil their persons and lives by a too hasty return to France, Tax Erie Ratway anp Tux Ena@uisn StooK- HOLDERS.—By reference to our law report it will be seen that a notice has been issued by Mr. Kenneth G. White, as Master in Equity, to Mr. James H._Coleman, the receiver appointed in the State court, chlling upon the latter gen- tleman to attend personally on Monday next, ‘at Mr. White’s office, in the United States building, and proceed with the delivery of sixty thousand and fifty-six shares of the stock of the Erie Railway Company to the owners, Messra, Heath and Raphael, or to their duly authorized attorneys or agents. In this matter Mr. White acts under the authority of the order recently made in the United States Circuit Court by Judge Blatchford. We have seen and heard much of this Erie litigation. The public, it seems, are not yet destined to be done with it, and probably before it is over there will be many a “‘field day” in the federal courts, Rapica DgciaRaTIoN oF War AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION.—Wendell Phillips issues a ukase against the administratration. We reprint it to-day frem this week’s ational Standard. That paper was originally called the Anti-Slavery Standard, but slavery being passed out of the political programme it is now simply the organ of the foaming and seething debris of an exhausted political vol- cano, Wendell Phillips declares war against the administration for reasons he explains, Let the war go on; the republic will come to no harm, Toe Tweed TEstmMontaL AssocraTion bas dissolved, and the eight thousand dollars which it received by private subscription for the erec- tion of @ statue to Senator Tweed is to be returned to the subscribers, Probably the subscribers, with this return of money to their pockets, will be better satisfied with the satu quo than they would have been with the statue. u NEW YORK H#RALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 1871-TRIPLE SHEET. pt ‘The New Hampshire Electlon—Success of tho | American aud English West [edian Move-| The Adjournment of Congress—Signifi sant Democrate—A Tempest in a Teapot. The republicans suffered a complete de- feat in the New Hampshire election yes- terday. Down to this Sumner affair at Washington they were confident of swearing the State, but by the removal of Sumner from the Senate Cam=isiv, on Foreign Relations sue vid dyed-in-the-wool New Hampshire radi- cals appear to have become demoralized s0 far as to give up the fight. The democrats, of course, will crow lustily ever the result as the beginning of a great political revo- lution, destined, without further inter- ruption, to go on gathering strength until it culminates in the great continental democratic whirlwind of 1872. But from the elections of 1862-—democratic from New York westward to Missouri—the enthusiastic democracy were confident of electing their President in 1864, and yet in 1864 they were terribly defeated. Again, the State elections of 1867, generally democratic, it was thought opened the way to the democracy for their Presidential ticket in 1868; but again, with the union of the repub- licans and the bringing up of their reserves to the front, they were completely victorious, in- cluding the election of two-thirds of the House of Representatives, New Hampshire is a very closely divided State between the two parties, and the defec- tion or indifference of one or two thousand men throughout the State on the republican side is sufficient to turn it upside down, Yes- terday’s election, doubtless, went by default to a great extent on account of the defection or indifference of the Sumner school of radicals, But this is a sporadic case. There is really nothing in this Sumner imbroglio beyond the sensation of a nine days’ won- der. There might be serious mischief in it if this were the year of the Presidential elections; but there is still a year to pass through before the real Presi- dential agitation will begin, and within these twelve months to come we shall probably, through the development of the pregramme of the administration, have the whole repub- lican party arrayed in solid front under the banner of General Grant. We doubt, indeed, whether this Sumner defection will extend even to the approaching Connecticut elec- tion, The democrats will unquestionably charge this result in New Hampshire to the weakness of General Grant; but it is thelr game to cut him out, if possible, because they know that the odds are heavily against them while he is the recog- nized republican candidate. The republicans now will be apt to understand this thing, and that General Grant is their only salva- tion. They will understand that if two men ride upon the same horse together one of them must ride behind, and Sumner, too, will be made to understand it. They will under- stand that a party without a head is like an army without a genera!, and that the republi- can party must stand by General Grant or go to pieces. In this view the New Hampshire election is a tempest in a teapot. Vv Congress Yesterday. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner offered to present a memorial from citizens of St. Domingo against annexation, but the Senate declined to receive it under the point of order that memorials and petitions from foreigners could not be presented to the ex- clusion of the business of the country. The erudite Senator from Massachusetts continued, however, to inject the substance of the paper into the ears of Senators in a speech which he made in answer to the point of order; but finally the Vice President quieted him by ruling that there was no question before the Senate. The late chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations evidently feels as frisky over his relief from the duties of that position as @ young colt just let into pasture, and the question arises whether he will not be enabled to embarrass the admisistration mea- sures as much in his free guerilla warfare upon them on the floor of the Senate as he might have done by the more regular system of parallels in approaches in the committee. In the House Mr. Cox presented a resolu- tion expressing the sense of the House that the tariff should be for revenue only, and that aunual taxation should not exceed two hun- dred and fifty million dollars, including one hundred and twenty-five million dollars princi- pal of the public debt. The House being without committees the resolution had a fine chance of passing, but Mr. Kelley objected and it went over under the rule. The most interesting discussion of the day took place upon Mr. Beck's bill for general amnesty, which was amended by Mr. Poland to except five classes of persons named in the fourteenth amendment. The discussion was participated in by Mr. Beck, Mr. Poland and Mr. Elliott—the latter a colored member from South Carolina—and may be pretty fairly accepted as a foretaste of the manner in which the House will discuss the coming Ku Klux bill. Two-thirds failing to vote for the amnesty measure, it was declared rejected. British ArMy Rerorm.—A cable despatch this morning tells us that Sir John Paking- ton opposes vigoronsly the government mea- asure which provides for the abolition of the purchase of commissions in the British army. This is quite natural. Sir John is a tory. But the government measure is a good one and ought to succeed. The sys- tem of purchasing commissions has been at all times, and wherever praciised, ~ a fruitful source of corruption. It is no necessary source of strength to the British army, but the reverse. It is one of the evils inseparable from an oligarchy. Its abolition will be a heavy blow to the aristocracy. Democracy is doing well in England. Tae Soamint Morver Cass is being inves- tigated by Coroner Schirmer. This is the case of the young German who was mar- dered ina barroom by a party of roughs of the Nineteenth ward gang, and the witnesses yesterday identified five of the prisoners as being mixed up in the assault. A crowd of roughs belonging, doubtless, to the same gang, and having a strong fellow feeling for the prisoners, were present at the inquest yesterday, and kept in the prisoners’ vicinity on the return to the Tombs, These same fellows attempted a rescue when the prisoners were first arrested, and we advise the police to keen a cloge eve uvon thems meats. Governor Pint, the British Governor of the West India province of Antigua, sailed for England recently, carrying with him a well considered scheme for the confederation of the British West Indies under Sir Charles Peter Grant as Governor General, with the capital in Jamaica. The British possessions in the vast archipelago on our southeastern edge include the greater number of the islands and some of the richest and most desirable in 4 strategic military point of view. The Baha- mas, that low surface of rich coral formation, almost within afght of Florida, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and most of the groups of Windward and Virgin islands, rich in galt, lead, copper and various mine- rals, and aggregating a population of 820,000 people, present an exceedingly inviting array of neighboring dominions to place under the one strong bond of union as a confederated colony of Great Britain. Placed as they are across the great highway of travel and commerce, destined to become an overflowing thoroughfare with the opening of the Darien ship oanal, Great Britain already sees that they can be made to absorb immense profits from the great wealth that will take its way by the new route. The St. Domingo pro- ject is the only effort we are making at pres- ent to offset this movement of England, to secure our measure of the golden fruit that is to fall, or to pre-empt our cheap wild lands in what is to become the rich mart of the future. With St. Domingo, however, Hayti will come eventually, and then we shall have a territory extending over 28,000 square miles in area, containing a population of over 700,000 people, rich in minerals and fruits, mountainous and salubrious, and lying more directly within the line of commerce than eithertsland of the proposed British confedera- tion, We say that Hayti will come to us eventually, but we do not mean by conquest er even by purchase, but that the irresistible influence of a neighboring territory, well or- dered, peaceful and prosperous, such as St. Domingo will be under the new régime that will attach it to the United States, will cause that hot and unquict@ttle republic to seek our companionship for its own peace and pro- tection, The rivalry of the two great English-speak- ing nations for supremacy and control in the West Indies, like the temperate and earnest discussions of the Joint High Commission on the Alabama claims, is merely a rivalry in the interests of peace. There is no need of clash- ing in our race for the commerce of the Darien Canal. There will be enough there for two, and there are not likely to be any more claim- ants. The little French colony of Martinique is already broaching the subject of annexa- tion, and the great Spanish colony of Cuba has been so ruined by Spanish imbecility and misrule and the incubus of slavery that it can offer no hearty competition. The two govern- ments of England ‘and America will be the only contestants for the golden profits, and in view of the energy with which England is pur- suing her plan it behooves us to train up the sentiment of our Senate to a favorable conside- ration of the St. Domingo annexation treaty when it next comes before it. The Two Emperors Going Home. From our cable news this morning it will be learned that the ex-Emperor Napoleon passed through Verviers, Belgium, yesterday, on his way to Chiselhurst; and also that the Empe- ror William, on his way to Berlin, had arrived at Nancy, and was looked for at Metz to inspect the city and fortress. What a con- trast do the two men present! Napoleon goes home, no doubt, for the old mansion at Chiselhurst contains his wife and child; but it is, after all, the home of the exile. William goes home in the true sense, He goes back to his own family, to his own people. All the old familiar faces will greet him. Napoleon will be received in silence, and amid not a little sorrow. William’s return will be a show—a triumph. On the destinies of the two men how different has been the work of the last nine months! Fortune has show- ered her favors upon the one; none is so poor aa to do the other reverence. It would not be wonderful, however, if Napoleon were the happier of the two men. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. Napoleon is now free from that sorrow. The tables may yet be turned. Although Napoleon was to blame for commencing the war, he has as many friends to-day as the Emperor William. A Metropolitan Museum of Art. The generous alacrity with which afew of our wealthier citizens have already subscribed more than a hundred thousand dollars toward a two hundred and fifty thonsand dollar fund for the establishment of a metropolitan mu- seum of art is, we are confident, but an ear- nest of the response which the public at large will make to the appeal in favor of this highly commendable object. There is now every reason to hope that the shame of having no such museum will speedily be forever removed from the escutcheon of New York, Let us hope also that sound discretion will be exer- cised in laying well the foundations of an in- stitution which may yet prove to be one of the most useful as well as glorious attractions of our metropolis. We state elsewhere in our columns the objects and expectations of the committee who have taken the museum in charge. The names, both of committee and contributors, there recorded are sufficient guarantee that there is intelligence and enter- prise enlisted with the effort to bring it toa suc- cessful issue. The idea was -put in shape 4& year ago, but it was only recently that a char- ter was obtained. The object of the museum is to illustrate the history of art and cultivate the finer tastes of the people, as well as to afford an unex+eptionable school to the stu- dent. In fact, it is designed to give us a museum on the plan of that at South Kensing- ton in London. The enterprise is werthy the attention and support of every intelligent citizen, Wisnirec.—Another war is threatened in the Red River country. The Canadian volun- teers holding that Territory under control have been guilty of outrages against their officers and the civil authorities, and as elections were to have been held thero for. members of the Dominion Parliament on the 4th inst. fears were entertained of a general, uprising and \ revolt, Vote of tho Senate. By a very large vote the House had passed a resolution for bringing this session of Con- gress to an end on this day (the 15th), but on motion of Mr. Morton in the Senate yester- day the resolution wag laid on the table—yeas 32, nays 18, all in the negative democrats except one—Mr, Trumbull, republican, This is a significant vote, as a very brief explana- tion will serve to show. The high tariff or home protection republi- cans in the House find themselves in this Con- gress in a hopeless minority. They are afraid that with the prolongation of the session the abolition of the duty on salt and coal may be carried through the Senate, and they do not find much relief in the thought that the aboli- tion of the duty on tea and coffee may also be carried. The vote by which the bills repeal- ing all these duties have passed the House is very decisive, and the coal and iron men of the House do not feel that their cause is per- fectly safe in the Senate. On the other hand, the democrats of both honses are dead set against the proposed bill for the suppression of the Southern Ku Klix Klans, who are charged by the republicans as being elec. tioneering desperadoes of the Southern demo- cratic party, whose business it is, by acts of lawless violence and terrorism, to drive the negroes from the polls or compel them to vote the democratic ticket. At all events, in order to defeat this proposed bill for the suppression of the Ka Klux, the democrats of both houses are in favor of adjourning at once. Mr. Morton’s motion in the Senate, with the vote upon it laying the aforesaid resolution of adjourament on the table, means that the republicans of the Senate intend first to pass this Ku Klux bill, and in the meantime the St. Domingo Commission may return in season to enable the President to submit their reports from the island, with a special message to both houses on the subject of annexation. The result, therefore, of this Senate vote on the House adjournment resolution may be an indefinite extension of the session, Music and the Drama. Assuredly New York city is entitled to ro- cognition as a first class capital in the dramatic and musical world when it can wit- ness on a single day two such memorable events as the farewell benefit of Marie Soc. bach and the welcome retura of Christine Nilsson. At the Seebach matinée yesterday, in Wallack’s theatre, the most consummate actress who has yet trod the American stage evinced in comedy powers fully equal, if not superior, to those by which she has won en thusiastic applause in tragedy. Thalia, no less than Melpomene, {s the inspiring muse of Marie Seebach. This was abundantly proved: at the Stadt theatre on Monday evening and at Wallack’s yesterday by the exquisite art of her impersonation of Anna Elise in the popular comedy of that name. That réle is in itself peculiarly favorable for the display of Madame Seebach’s rare versatility of genius, inasmuch as its swift alternations of light and shade make it at times as tearful and even passionate as at other times it is delicate, graceful and mirth provoking, Her admirable acting yesterday brought to mind Prior's famous line :— The Loves delighted and the Graces played. While wishing that this illustrious German artiste may enjoy a prosperous provincial tour, we hope that the enterprising manager, Mr. Grau, will not permit her one hnndred and forty-first to be her last appearance in our metropolis. The splendid ovation to Christine Nilsson last evening, at Steinway Hall, in honor of her recent victorious progress throughout the country was not enly a tribute to the extra- ordinary gifts and accomplishments of the Swedish songstress, but also an encouraging proof that our people are rapidly advancing in the love and knowledge of music. But that nothing less than the successful revival of Italian opera will satisfy them should be:re- membered by the stockholders of the Academy and by ambitious managers, Tae Great Sucar Casz.—We have already announced that in this case, which had been at trial for thirteen days before Judge Blatch- ford, in the United States District Court, the jury were discharged without being able to agree toa verdict. The action was brought: by the government against the firm of Weld & Co. to recover four hundred thousand dollars, being the amount’ of duty which they claint they have been defrauded of owing to an alleged false return in the weight of an importation of sugar by the defendants from Manila. This return, the government say, was procured by a bribe given by the defend. ants to the United States Weigher. As the suit is one of very great importance to the various commercial interests of the city, and especially to importers, we publish to-day a carefully prepared résumé of the facts and leading legal points, which will be found well worthy of attentive perusal. Tae Hanproap Raozs at Jenome PARK.— The weights for the handicap races of the American Jockey Club will be found in another column, and we commend them to the owners of the horses as the most evenly balanced list of weights that were ever adjusted. We do not see where an objection can be made, The bookmakers will be puz- zled in making out their schedule to find favorites; and, if we are not very much mis- taken, the judges will be in a like dilemma in placing the horses at the ead of the races. Personal Intelligence. General Mcvook, of Ohio, has left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for home. Colonel L. H. Robinson, of the United States, Army, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Lord Howard de Walden has ieft the Hofman’ House for Washington, ) Mr. ©. T. Hulburd, Superintendent of the new Post Ofice, is stopping at the Astor House. Hon. John L, King, of Springfield, Mass., 1s s0- journing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ' Commodore Mcade, of the United States Navy, lq stationed at the Astor House, Colonei James Fass, from Georgia, is at the Metro. politan Hotel. Mr. J, Tillinghast, a prominent politician of Albany, {s-temporarily at the’St. Nicholas Hotet. Judge 8. Woodward, from Vermont, is at the Fitth’ Avenue Hotel. 4 r Mr. Vernon Seaman, of San Francisca, ts at the St. James Hotel. General J. L. Clinman, of North Carolina, has are rived at the Grand Central Hotel, Colonel Charlies A. Converse, from @onnectiout i temporarily at the Sturtevant House, EE