The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. a JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVI coat ANIUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S way.—THr SProTACLE cv TE BLack ¢ WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana Uth street — Homm—S1Lur DEVILS. LINA EDWIN'’S THTATRE. SKETCHES—NAVAL ENGAGES Broadway NTS, 20. LING ARD GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 4h av. ana 23d st.— Las Gronoten ans. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Czau AND CARPRNTRE. BOWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—On Hany A Day WELL Spent. FIFTH A BARATOUA GLORE THEATRE WAINMENT, 0.- JUL US THEATRE, Twentr-fourty street.— 728 Broadway gE DOWLUN Vauiney GawTEn- ROOTH'S THKATRE, Bod OxeELLO evwoen Sb ans Oth ave, — of OURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)~ PUELLS. WOOD'S MUSSUM Broadway, corner 30th «t..—Perform+ ances eve pon and event: pOLEMPIC THEATRE, Broudwar.—Tux Drama oF OREZON. Mr Lras, TH. Pousa FALL, 88 Broaiway.— SAN FRAN( a eh BURL KSQUTS, £o. Nuego Miner! TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 21 Bowery.—Va- Rinty EXIERTALNMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Cowic Vooat- Ima, NEGRO ACTS, &e. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA ang 7th avs. 38d at, between 6th HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyu.--Hoourr's y KSLLE EB LROW MOSTRELS ee OOUREE amt NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth at 6 uBR Ring, AcROBaTS, 4c. paras Ramada DR. KAHN'S ANATOMII ENCE AND ALT. TRIP ; New York, Tuocsday, Maren aL 18: Nsbeerecenas ecg Sek Be CONTENTS OF T0-DAYS HERALD. USEUM, 745 Broadway.— PaGE. an t—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisements. %—News irom Washington: Interesting Proceed- ings of Congress—Amusements— lying the Knife—Sunday School Work—New Hamapshir Politics —Miscellaneous Telegrams. ae A=-The Royal Marriage: Princess Louise, of Eng- jand, to be Wedded to the Marquis of Lorn To-Day:; History of the Match and Sketches of the Bridegroom and Bride; The Wedding Cos- tumes British, Irish and the Garb of Old Gaul— A Notorious Pickpocket Sentenced—The Fish- ery Excitement—Brooklyn Municipal Affairs— The Gallows: Execution of Henderson Oxen- dine, a North Carolina Outlaw; Scenes and Incidents at the Executton—The Pneumatic tupnel—spontaneous Combustion. S—Proceedings in the Courts—Tne Williamsburg Mystery—Amertcan Aid in the War—another Landmark Going—The Boston, Hartford and Ene Railroad—New York Ctty News—Found Drowned—Naval Orders—Financial and Com- mercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths, G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The New Reign of ‘Terror—Is Paris Still France ?’—Personal {n- tltigence—The High Joint Commission—Poets and Poetry—Amusement Announcements. 7—The Pans Revolt: Herald Special Reports trom the French Capital: Proclamation by the insurgent National Guard; Details of the Murders of Lecomte and Thomas; The In- surgents in Complete Possession of Paris— The New French Loan—The Constitution of the Freach Republic Modelled on the Roche- fort Plan—The French Assembly and the Siums of Paris—Arrival of Napoleon tn Eng- land—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Business No- tices, S—Real Estate Matters—Methodist Ministers on Amusements—Advertisemenis. p—Advertisements. 20—News from the State Capital—Proceedings in the New York Legisiature—Ihe Coal Strike— Brazii—Dominion of Canada—Shoals of Seais— European Markets—The New Jersey Legisiature—Shippine —[ntelligence—Adver- | usements, 1—Advertisements. 32—Advertisements. ——— ' “I Woutp Not Die iy Spring Tuts”— | Song sung by bonest Tom Murphy at a social gathering of the LL. D’s the other evening. Gap To Hear IT—That the administra- tion has no notion of giving a hundred mil- lions, or fifty millions, or anything of the sort, for the island of Cuba. St. Domingo, offered us for a million or two, has at least knocked in the head all these other and more expen- sive projects of annexation. Having waited | so loug we can wait a little longer for Cuba. “Goop Lorp, Drrtver Us.”—What has be- come of Senator Lord’s bill for the removal of the State capital from Albany to the Metro- polis? Tur American Lecation Leay Pa On yesterday Svcretary Fish received a tele- gram from Minister Washburne, dated in Paris on Sunday, announcing the revolutionary movement and its success. Minister Wash- burne adds that he intended following M. Thiers’ government to Versailles, to which city the whole Diplomatic Corps was going. It is evident from this abandonment of Paris by Mr. Washburne that the situation in the French capital is much graver than even the deapaiches describe. After remaining in Paris during the siege, exposed to the double horrors of starvation and the Prussian shells, we doubt if Mr. Washburne would leave now unless the prospect was decidedly threaten- ing. ‘Tae Leois.ature will probabiy adjourn on the 8th of April. ‘‘Boss” Tweed bas intro- duced a resointion to that effect, and we may consider the thing settled. Twat Mysrertous Murpsit of the man found in Wallabont Bay, and who proves to be Mr. Edward L. Conklin, of Brooklyn, wiil afford | the police an opportunity of exercising a por- tion of that diligence which they appear to have been wasting in the endeavor to secare innumerable and imaginary ‘‘Nathan mur- derers” all over the country. Here is the case of a poor gentleman who seems to have beea foully murdered, under circumstances which are It isa good case for the police to work up, and we hope that they will expend a little of their energy and astuteness in tracing it out. We will not say that they koew ali about the Nathan marder long ago, or that this wild goose chase in search of the Nathan murderer isa mere blind. We will say nothing of that kind; but we suggest that there is a good case still shrouded in mystery. for the detectives’ skill in this murder of Mr. Conklio. ee Tar ALS. Journal (republic s noi at all desponde: the political situation. It says “those who indulge in gloomy prognosti- bonds it ible n8 just now forget the which must still unit p it had said all “par men we should have known w mean The ‘“‘irresistible of men together under.” bond” which keep that ¢ is the “cohesive power of p NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1871.-'TRIPLE SHEET. The New [elgn of Torror—In Paris Stil! France ¢ Our news from France is quite sufficient to make the heart sick. No such disheartening news to those who loved the French people has been received in the memory of living men. We forget not the whole interval since July of last year, nor, indeed, the interval since 1789—a long interval, certainly, but in the history of French sorrow not by any means to be overlooked. Itis fair, we think, to say that the news of the last two days has made the name of France almost stink in the nostrils ofevery man who was angry with Germany and who persisted in hoping for France. What is the situation? After a war of more than eight months France has been comp»lled to bow to the conqueror. Her Emperor has been for over six months a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. 1 Empress and all these, including Regency, have been for the same space of time exiles in England. As nearly us possible, four bunéred thousand of the picked men of France, the best and most trusted generals of the empire included, have been, since Sedan, prisoners in fortresses absolutely under Ger- men control, Since Sedan France has revealed no lack of pluck ; but the six mouths’ fighting, whatever we may say of the pluck, has served mainly to exaggerate France's misfortunes ; aud, what is more important still in the premises, the French peopie, accepiing the fate of their country, have, in a consti- tutional, manner, made peace with the con- queror and persuaded the armies of the con- queror to retire. The French people cannot deny that by a fair, constitutional vote the present National Assembly was elected and M, Thiers made President of the republic. There are few men who will refuse to admit that the terms imposed upon France by the German leaders were hard and, indeed, heavy; but the Germans went about their work with so much caution and consideration that no man of intelligence, no matter how much he sympatbizes with France, can he!p confessing that the French people fairly tested, fully en- dorsed the peace policy of the government of M. Thiers. In good faith the Prussians have been gradually evacuating the conquered strongholds and leaving France to the French. Foratime the promise was bright. It was the opinion of many thoughtful men that although the money demands of Prussia were something unprecedented, the demand for the cession of territory something more than humiliating, and the whole peace arrange- ment altogether too bard, France bad magnanimously bowed and done the best she could do in the circumstances. To-day every well-wisher of France and of the French people bas changed his mind, and the univer- sal sentiment is that the French are absolutely unfit for self-government. It was once a prond boast to be a Roman citizen. Itis a source of pride at this moment to be able to say “T am an American, or a Britisher or a Ger- inan ;” but where is the man who is not ashamed to confess ‘I am a citizen of France?” The deeds of the last two days have appalled the world, and many look upon France as another Poland which ought to be occupied, parti- tioned, extinguished. The treachery of the soldiers, and the cool- blooded murders of General Clement-Thomas and General Lecomte (and while we write son, who belonged to what was called the | who can tell how many more ?) revive the worst memories of the past. We think of the storm- ing of the Bastile, of the July horrors, of the September massacres, of the Goddess of Rea- son and the associated blasphemies, of the Susillades, the noyades, the guillotine and all the other horrors—real and imaginary—of the Reign of Terror. Another Committee of Pub- lic Safety, another Danton, another Marat, an- other Robespierre rise up before us, and we ask, How is this fresh outburst of revolutionary violence to end? Are we to have another feeble Directory, another Consulate, another Empire? Are new names to figure in the destruction of another Directory? Is Gam- betta, or some suca, to figure as a new despot by the special will of the French people? These questions are not by any means out of place in present circumstances. No one can tell what may happen. Anything—every- thing is possible. We are willing to believe, however, that Paris, in spite of appearances, is no longer France in the ancient sense. The railroad, the telegraph and the newspaper have made wondrous changes during the last sixty years. Already the order-loving people of tie capital city talk of appealing to the provinces orto the Germans for relief. We have not much faith in the provinces, for the reason that the provinces are controlled by the large cities. The, provinces cannot save Paris except by a vote; but if anarchy reigns in Paris it is difficult to see howa provincial vote can be obtained. King William, it is said, has halted in bis homeward march, and asthe Germans are now as much interested in the peace and prosperity of France as are the French themselves, it is not at all impos- sible that King William will send back Man- teuilel or some other skilfal general, at the head of a sufficient number of men, to do for France what France | in her agony confesses she cannot do for herself. If the German troops should be | t | men whom that election floated into prominent ordered back, they will of course occupy Paris ouly temporarily. allies in 1814 and 1815. With all the facts of the last six months before him he cannot | King William’s business | the admission is made that a new plébiscite, fairly conducted, will restore Napoleon the Third. We will not say how it may result, but we cannot refuse to admit that the chances of the House of Bonaparte are not only greater than those of the republicans and the monarch- ists, but more promising than they were two weeks ago. Much will depend on circumstances which we cannot foresee. It is possible that the excesses of the mob of Paris will so disgust the order-loving people all over that France, as one man, will rally around the person of President Thiers. The revival of the Reign of Terror has no attractions for the French, properly so-called, They will have any- H the rains in Paris—rather than © other hand, however, it is also vent success won in the ublic may communicate a » to the large cities, and so creat mass of the soldiers. nk it must be admitted that France, If President Thiers can conirive to keep the Assembly together and a from the mob he may, without the assistance of Prussia, succeed in restoring order. But France seems to stand on the edge of a smouldering volcano, and we must wait for results, urae ae tn Englaod—Unioun of Joulse and the Marquis of the Princess Lora, Queen Victoria's daughter, the Princess Louise, will be married to the Marquis of Lorn in St. George’s chapel, Windsor, to-day. The bride is the sixth child and fourth daugh- ter of her Majesty. The bridegroom is the eldest son of the most noble the Duke of Argyll, and heir apparent to that title and the estates of his father. The Queen will be present at the ceremony. The event will be peculiarly interesting from the fact that it is the first instance which has occurred within @ great number of years where a member of the royal family of Britain has been legally and openly, according to the forms of the Church, married to a subject of the Crown. In the present, the union is the result of mutual affection, encouraged by a good deal of parental foresight on the part of the Queen. The Marquis of Lorn is the adult of that child of “‘two years old” which was described by her Majesty, after her visit to Inverary Castle, the seat of his father, as ‘‘the Marquis of Lorn, just two years old, a dear, white, fat, fair, little fellow, with reddish hair, like both his father and mother; he is such a merry, inde- pendent little child.” To-day the crown ‘of England will, to a certain extent, come still nearer to the people by elevating this ‘‘dear little fellow” to the steps of the throne. It will not be very much ofa descent for the throne, however, as will be seen from the special history which we publish in the Herawp, detailing, with all the other facts of the occasion, the lineage of ‘the bridegroom and the public services and honors and wealth of the members of the clan Campbell. The prevalence of this feeling among the people of Scotland has | been happily expressed in a dialogue which is reported as having occurred between two humble Gaels, one of whom has just returned from the northern fisheries, and says to his friend :—‘‘Hoo’s a’ wi’ you, Donal’? Hae ye ony news yonder?” ‘“Na—oo, aye—they were sayin’ Mac Cu!lum Mobr’s son’s goin’ to get marri’t!”. ‘‘Ay! ay! An’ wha’s he goin’ to get marri’t to?” ‘Ye ken the Queen— ech?” ‘Weel, it’s to her young dohter he’s goin’ to get marri't." “Ech! The Queen mun be the prood woman!” The Marquis of Lorn represents all the blood of the Mac Cal- lum Mohr. The newly married couple will have a royal residence in Edinburg and wor- ship in the old Cathedral, in the crypt of which Rob Roy warned, according to Sir Walter Scott, Francis Obsaldistone of the dangers of his intended journey to the High- lands. May the young couple be happy! Elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island. The annual State election in Comecticut takes place on the 3d prox. and that in Rhode Island on the 5th. In Massachusetts the 6th will be observed as fast day. The rebuff the republicans received in New Hampshire has operated like a two-edged sword. In some respeets it has had the effect of producing an extraordinary state of apathy among the republican masses in Connecticut, while, on the other hand, it has impelled ther leaders to unwonted efforts to redeem the State. Senator Buckingham has been despatched from Washington to look after matters, but from present appearances it is not unlikely that the cry of the democrats on the day after the election will be, ‘Buckingham is taten,” and a precious ‘‘Jewell” besides. Govenor Eng- lish, the democratic candidate, will probably be re-elected by an increased majrity over last year, when it was eight hurdred and forty-four. In regard to the Comressional districts in Connecticut the probabiity is that three out of the four will elect demoats. The State is so close, however, that the whole question may turn on the negro voe, and as the “negroes fought nobly” in the Southern rebellion probably they may help tleir repub- lican friends in this crisis im the North. In regard to the election in Rhode Isand there are no indications of a disruption inthe repub- lican ranks. Hence we may anticipte the re- election of all the republican candidtes, | Wau. Srkeer AND THE REVO.ULION IN for a moment think of a republic before the peace, its present f not but be despised. The ci the House of Orleans and the I | parte, We have until now clung to the hope | that the Count de Paris at the end of all this | confusion would find himself in the palace of The Count of Paris, as the of the House of Orleans, seemed to us to nt the best possible solution of the political vet which this war bas The moderation expressed by the h people in the recent election avd the ! : | wil] be to give France a government, as did the i | | hie ancestors. | head ed | public view, encouraged our hope. It was an | uomistakable indication thai France was in | favor of vernment which would avoid the extremes of tae republic on the one hand and the extremes of the empire on the other; but while we wait in vain tor some emphatic sign Velled | Paris.—The ‘‘bulls” in the Gold Room en- | deavored yesterday to get up an /xcitement | over the news from France similaito that of ly last, when Napoleon declared rar against Prussia; but the move wasa ded failure. ‘The fact is, France has no influence whatever upon American finance. The war last year sent gold up to 120 for a few days, because it waa feared that Prussia, in the exzencies of the war, would send us bak our fiv-twenties, which she and Germany together 1old to the extent of not less than three or for hundred | millions. But France has bad ver little in- | terest in our securities. In fact, they were | only put upon the list at the Peis Bourse | within a year, and were only rarvy dealt in, The important consideration about his French trouble is that it will make Jobe Bull draw tighter parse strings as regads loans to the French nation, and keep in Undon large in favor of the Count de Paris Napoleon has ’ found his way to England, and on all hands quantities of capital and coin sat would, with peace in France, go acrogs th Straits. Napoleons Arrival and Reception in Eng- land. The arrival of Napoleon in England and his enthusiastic reception by French refugees have occurred almost simultaneously with the mad outbreak of the reds in Paris. Unques- tionably a second opportunity is offered to the nephew of Napoleon the First to hold himself in readiness to exchange exile in England for imperial power in France. Notwithstanding his terrible defeat at Sedan and his recent formal deposition by the Assembly, it will not be the greatest in the series of surprises which constitute his own biography and the contem- poraneous history of the French people if he is shortly recalled to the throne by the plédix- cite which has more than once ratified his first election as Emperor. The apparition of the spectre rouge will startle millions into remembering and desiring the peace and material prosperity which characterized the greater part of his reign of nearly twenty years. Whatever judg- ment may be passed upon bis coup d'état, which involved the violation of his oath and the overthrow of the republic of 1848, it must be admitted that no monarch since Louis XTV. has governed France more splendidly and successfully than Napoleon II. His restora- tion to the throne would be far preferable in the interests of bumanity and civilization to the anarchy into which such lilipiftian Robes- pierres as Blanqul and Flourens and Rocehfort would fain precipitate the nation. Whatever ridicule the personal enemies of the ex- Emperor may fling against him on account of the sudden collapse of the empire can be no greater than that which he safely braved after his memorable failure at Stras- bourg and Boulogne. In fact, ridicule affects only the more intelligent minds in any com- munity, and its effect is utterly lost upon the masses of men. It would even be compara- tively easy to convince the majority of French- men that the disasters which have lately be- fallen the ex-Emperor are due to the ministers and generals who deceived him, and therefore entitle him to sympathy rather than indigna- tion and contempt. But the imperial cause needs now but little effort on the part of Bonapartist agents. It is scarcely necessary to suspect that the latter have been active in fomenting the insurrection in Paris; for any such activity would have been a work of supererogation, so blindly bent were the reds on effectually working together to injure the canse of republicanism while professing to be devoted to it. The Journal des Débats is right in asserting that they have already done more harm than all the Bonapartes; and it mizht have added that they have done more than all the Bona- partists toward restoring and re-establishing the Bonaparte dyuasty. If anarchy is again followed by despotism the reds will be chiefly responsible for it, and the world will witness a fresh and striking exemplification of the profound remark of De Maistre—that “a people has always the government which it mer its.” Congress Yesterday—Debate on the Ku Klux Question. The debate on Southern affairs has fairly commenced in the Senate, Mr. Bayard, demo- cratic, leading off yesterday in refutation of Mr. Sherman’s charges of lawlessness and crime in the South. The bill under discussion is not Mr. Sherman’s bill for an anti-Ku Klux law, but Mr. Anthony’s resolution to limit the business of the session to legislation on Southern affairs. It is impossible to tell when a debate fairly under way in the Senate may cease. Every one has the right to speak indefinitely, and this discussion upon a limitation of the business of the session is as likely as not to stretch the session out to an indefinite length. It is more than likely, however, to prove a brilliant one, The subject is fruitful, and the opposing debaters are fiery and earnest In their opposing views, The discussion on the same question is also agitating the House, but it is a kind of dis- cussion peculiar to the House alone. It is the sharp retort and heated word-bandying style of argument which seldom enlivens the pon- derous dulness ef the Senate. Mr. Dawes and Mr. Butler had it yesterday, and the wit and sarcasm that was strock out in the encounter was worthy of a comedy. Butler was worsted from the start. Mr. Dawes, besides the satisfaction of crushing the Essex champion, also had the gratification of having his proposed substitute for the Senate resolution for an investigating committee in the South passed by a: vote of 127 to 60. The substitute improves upon the original mainly by giving the committee greater powers, allowing them to report at the next session and providing for the payment of their expenses out of the contingent fund of the Senate. After the vote Mr. Wheeler re- newed his motion to adjourn sine die on March 23, which was carried. Tue Pneumatic Ramtroap Biss. glides along as smoothly in the Legislature as if it were in its own pneumatic tube. A motion to recommit it, in order that the committee could hear the arguments of citizens opposed to it, was defeated in the Senate yesterday by avote of 4 to 16. The petitioners who ask a hearing against the bill are the heaviest property owners on Broadway, and their arga- ments are at least worth hearing. The rapid transit project that ought alone to be car- ried out in this city is not one that the property holders in its immediate vicinity are likely to oppose. It must meet the wishes of the peo- ple and be more an acinal benefit than a job. All others will be fought out of existence hy the law of injunction, even if tho law pass the Legislature and the Governor. | A Srormy Maro ‘All over the United States this month of March has been remark- able for its rains and storms; and now comes the report of another of those fierce Western tornadoes, this time in St. Clair county, Mlinois, involving the destruction of life and property. The lower Mississippi bottoms are flooded, the upper Mississippi tributaries are booming, the New Englaud lakes and | rivers are foli, and from the mountains of Oregon to the coast range of Southern Cali- fornia heavy snows or abounding rains have been and are the order of the day, and more are coming. Very good. They are laying a good foundation for the wheat, cornu, cotton and other crops of 1871. The Windom of the Thiers Goverament im Kecping Ont of Parts. The wisdom of M. Thiers in keeping bis pro- visional government out of Paris is now made manifest, The “‘reds” of Paris could not comprehend the imperative necessity of peace to France on the severe and humiliating terms accepted ; but Thiers understood those ‘‘reds.” He had seen enough of them to convince him that after that treaty necessary to save France from annihilation, the removal of hig govern- ment into Paris would be the folly of the traveller venturing into a Russian forest filled with hungry wolves lying in wait for him. It was not the want of moral courage, but a keen perception of the actual situation of the dan- Gerous classes of Paris, armed and equipped, and inflamed for mischief, as they never were before, that satisfied M. Thiers that the capital was at the mercy of the mob, and that Ver- sailles was as near as the actual danger to his government would permit him to go. Thus, so far, France has been saved from anarchy and the general horrors of a reign of Paris Jacobin mob law; for, had M. Thiers and his colleagues in the government gone into the city and established themselves there, we cannot doubt that all of them would have been seized and shot without ceremony by the infuriated and howling Jacobin mob. We can also now understand why the German armies, after entering it, were not marched directly through the city, and why, in their temporary occupation, they were limited to the south side of the Seine. The German Emperor agreed to these limitations in order to save his troops from needless slaughter and the city from destruction; for it is now evident, had the Germans persisted in their original inten- tion of occupying the Tuileries and inspeeting the Louvre and Hotel de Ville, &., they would have suffered some losses from the numerous armed, enraged and implacable “reds,” and it is morally certain that this reception would have resulted in the general slaughter of the armed population and in reducing Paris to a plain of ruins and ashes. The wise forbearance and magnanimity of the Emperor William in this matter will now be appreciated by all thoughtful men; and it will be seen, too, that where M. Thiers thought it unsafe for the German armies to be seen, he has considered it unsafe to ven- ture himself with the peace-making govern- ment of France. All the city authorities affiliating with his government have fled to Versailles. Paris is in the hands of the Jaco- bins, and it is possible, even with the restora- tion of order, that the government of France will keep out of it, and permanently. Thomas Jefferson once said that ‘‘great cities are great ulcers on the body politic.” This is certainly true of Paris, and is somewhat suggestive even in regard to New York. The Keno Kaid. ‘The police have done very well in suspend- ing, even for a time, the operations of the keno houses by the arrests made on Saturday night of eight hundred people who were de- tected in the enjoyment of that fascinating game; but no one supposes that the practice will be abandoned on that account. The owners of these establishments were set at liberty on a trifling bail, which, of course, they were ready to furnish. They have, no doubt, gone back to their keno globes again, and are working away as vigorously as ever, One week’s profit can cover the bail, so that their pockets are not severely oppressed. Whether they shall ever be called to trial de- pends upon the District Attorney, and we doubt not that he will do his duty as far as the law gives him power. The great mischief of these keno houses is that they are seductive places of pleasure for the youth of the city. Boys of tender age, who do not frequent billiard rooms or the faro table, are led by the temptation of keno, which involves only the investment of small sums, while it furnishes all the excitement of a higher class of gam- bling. Hence there is, perhaps, more danger to the morals of the community in the obscare keno den than in the luxurious gambling house. We observe that this famous raid, with its eight hundred captives, was made only upon comparatively obscure places. If the police would exercise their vigilance in the vicinity of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and around the regions of Twenty-fourth street they would find much higher game to strike than ‘Fatty Welsh” or the miserable crowd who were swept into the police stations on Saturday night. Why do they. not put their claws on the faro banks that are as thick as black- berries all over the city, every one of which is known to the police? Let us not go back to the aristocratic principle which establishes one law for the rich and another law for the poor. If Superintendent Kelso is in earnest in this matter he should not stop at suppressing the keno houses. He will find plenty of good work to do in putting down the higher class of “gambling houses, of the existence and the location of which—each and every one of them—we presume that, as an efficient officer and experienced detective, he is fully aware. We hope, therefore, that the raid on the gambling houses will be carried out to the whole of them without hesitation, fear or favor. It will not do to nibble at the base of the structure and at the same time permit the gorgeous. temple of iniquity to stand. ATTEMPTED SERVILE INSURRROTION IN Brazi..—We have some news of a plot dis- covered among the slaves in some of the mining districts tor a rising and a blow for their liberty. The government of Brazil cannot under avy circumstances expect much longer to maintain its institution of African slavery,. with the knowledge diffused among the slaves of the total abolition of slavery in the United States. The wisest course, there- fore, on the part of Brazil will be to esbolish slavery at once and ebsolutely as the only sure preventive of an otberwise almost inevitable St. Domingo insurrection when least expected. Tne Bmw For THE INCORPORATION of the As- sociation of the Bar of New York, introduced in the State Senate yesterday, is the initia. tive { a movement on the part of the respecta~ ble lawyers of this city which has long been needed. A hearty co-operation of the decent members of the profession will serve to clear away the shysters and bummers who infest the courts, swindling /their clients and de- grading the law, - a Tho Fishery Question and the Joint High Comlnission, The Joiot High Commission has eptered upon the third week of iis deliberations, and does not seem to have reached any more advanced stage than mere informal conversa- tion upon the various topics before it. The fishery question seems to be principally under discussion, thus informally, and it is said that the British Commissioners sre disposed to allow us everything that we muy feel inclined to demand on that subject, in order that they may feel better authorized to insist upon their basis of equivalents in the Alabama claims settlement. It is not believed in Washington that Great Britain is willing to forego her imaginary claims for damages to Englishmen during our civil war, and that her Commis- sioners intend to press these strongly before conceding our long standing demands on the score of damages by the Anglo-rebel cruisers. With this end in view, and with true tradi~ tional English diplomacy, they waive a point or two in the matter of the Canadian fisheries, confident of making it up in more important particulars. ‘The gentlemen who conduct our side of this: argument must not forget that the fishery question is, after all, a small matter, and, although the present High Commission grew out of it, the Alabama claims question has become the higher and more important sub- ject of negotiation. ‘The whole interest in the fishery question is confined to New England, and mostly to Gloucester, Mass., in Ben Butler's district, and the interest in the Alabama question extends along our whole Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, throughout the full lengthof every commercial pathway of the ocean, and over every wave of the sea that washes the keel of an American merchantman, In fact, so far as the interest in the fishery question is concerned, it appears that our fishermen took only about one-fifth of their catch—or say, about sixty-six thousand bar- rels of mackerel out of a total catch of four hundred thousand—in the waters east of Maine last year, and, under the Reciprocity treaty, only about one-twentieth of the whole eatch—say twenty thousand barrels—were caught inside the three mile line. It is repre- sented, also, that the Canadians suffer more by their contumacy in this matter than our fishermen do. They have to depend on the Yankee nation for bait, and, in a great degree, upon the Yankee nation for the sale of their fat mackerel, because it cannot be cured for exportation to a warmer climate. The truth is, when the Canadian fishery matter is thoronghly sifted, that the Canadian fisher- men fare a great deal worse than ours do; that it is only the malicious spirit of the dis- appointed and cruelly snubbed. Provincials that has made them attempt to annoy our fishing interests, and that they-are biting off their own noses and spiting their own faces chiefly in the operation. Our Commissioners must not suffer themselves to forego any, diplomatic advantages in the settlement of the Alabama claims for the insignificant compen- sation of a remodelling of the Canadian Fishing laws. Crashing War Indemnity Upon: Frances With all the other dreadful disasters and humiliation France has to bear as the result of the war the indemnity imposed upom her by Prussia is enough to keep the nation crushed to the earth and must add greatly to the diffi- cuities of maintaining a stable government. The debt of France is about $3,000; 000,000. The indemnity imposed by Prussia wilh in- crease this $2,000,000,000—that is, the Ger- mans demand $1,000,000,000 cash, and France willnot be able to raise this, probably, at more than fifty cents on the dollar. Indeed, it is calculated that when France pays off all her obligations and the demands upon her result- ing from the war and her debt shall be cast up two or three years hence the total will hardly be less than six thousand millions of dollars— nearly three times the amount of our interest- bearing debt. France is a rich and: populous country, and the people are industrious and economical, it is true, but such a stupendous burden is fearful to contemplate and very hard to bear. Poor France! She pays dearly for indulging her ambition and vanity for military glory. She now has to eat the bitter fruit she was too ready to make others taste, and which she thought to make Prussia take. Let us hope the lesson may. teach both France and other nations not to be over presumptuous, and that she may yet overcome the diffisulties that lie before her. Personal Intelligence. Mrs. President Grant, Miss Nellie Grant and Miss Felt, of Galena, arrived yesterday afternoon at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The party of Japanese noblemen who have been sojourning at the Metropolitan Hotel have left for San Francisco on their way to Yokobama. £x-Governor Stanford, of California, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Olingman, of North Carolina, fas taken quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. George W. Childs, proprietor. of the Philadei- Phia Ledger, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. B. Middieton, of Philadetphia, is tem porarily at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. J. V. L. Pruyn, ex-member: of Congress, of. Albany, has arrived at the Brevoort House. Mr. A. J. Drexel, the prominent banker of..Phija,. deiphia, is at the Fifth avenue Hosel. THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION. An Unusually Long Sessioa—Earl Ve! Grey/a Dinner to Senator Sumner. Wasuinaron, Marcin 20, 1971. ‘The session of the Joint High Commissalon todas was the longest yet held. The commissee moet.for business shortly after twelve o'clock, and remained in council until after five o'clock. ‘This evening Earl de Grey gave a dinner at his.reet- dence, which was attended by Senators Suraner, Wil- son and Bayard, Judge Bradley, Baron Alvensieben, Secretary of the Prussian Legation; Mr. A. Maazel, the Netherlands Minister; Henry Howard, agtycné} of the British Commission; Colonel Bernard, Gen- eral J. Van Alen, Sir Edward Tharnton, Sir/Staffora Northcote, Professor Montague Bernard, Lord Ten- terden, Viscount Goderich, two sons of Str Stafford Northcote and Mr, D. Cremer, POETS AND POETAY. — / Iveland’s Bards Ulve-rated. Mile. Rosa D’Erina gave her ‘second concert at Stetaway Hall last night, rhough the elements were unpropitious the rosebud of the Emerald Isle was received by a large aud most enthusiastic andienoe. The genius of the aruste shed its bright luswe over the hal assemblage, and the delighted peo- ple manifested thett appreciation in round upon round of applause. Sittiwy in her green and lowing silk, softened by & Witudinous variety of tulle trimmings, she woked lke an allegory ef her coun- ory. | ‘The irrepressible and indefatigabie agent was everyWhore ab any thoment and kept order and at~ vention fastened On she yoipt of attractions