The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1871, Page 6

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Pacz. t—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—News trom Washington: Important Proclama- tion by the President—The British Army—Af- fairs at the State Capital: Proceedings in the New York Legisiature—The Joint Hi igh \om- Mission—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News— Reliet for Saffering France—Buried Alive— Peter Cooper's Predicament—Female M. D.’s— Weather Report, 4—Unhappy France: Scenes on the Boulevards of Paris—An Explanation of an “Apology” and a Word for Paris—The American Proposal to Ask for Canada—Miscellaneous — Fore’ Items—Yachting: Promising Prospects for the Coming Season—Literary Blossoms—Personal Notes—Rutgers Female College Recepuon— Bound to ie—A Car Driver Killed. S—Proceedings of Congress—Letter to Mr. Sumner from a Retugee of st. Domingo—The Sumner Political Earthquake—Italy in Rome—The Lay Power and the Papacy—A ‘‘Healthy” City— Army and Navy Inteliigence—City News—Lea- ture by Kev. Dr. McCavbe—Athietic Carnival— Real Estate Matvers—Smallpox or Croup. @—Eaditorials: Leading Article, “The Joint High Commission at Washington—What It Ought to Aim at’’—Amusement Announcements. ‘7—Editoria! (Continued from Sixth Page)—The In- Burrection in Paris—News from Central and South America—St. Domingo—Miscellaneous ‘Telegrams — Personal Intelligence — amuse- menis—Business Notices. S=The Courts—Police Corruption in Massachu- setis—How the State Constabulary Enforce the Laws—The New Jersey Legislature—Cus- tom House Affairs—Financial and Commer- cial Keports—The Canadian Canals—Good Lord Deliver Us—The Women’s Insticute—In- dependent Excise, 9—Great Expectations—Another Check Transac- tion—Light Weight and Short Measure—Mar- riages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—The Gallows: Execution of James Grady in Washington—The Fenian Convention— Brown's Equestrian Statue ot General Winfleld Scott—The Waliabout Mystery: Inquest in the Case of Edward L. Conkling—Proceedings of the Dominion Parliameni—Canadian Annex- ation—Senator Sherman's Fortune—Latest News from the Newioundland Seal Fisnery—A New Drink—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tisements. ‘11—Advertisements. 12— Advertisements, Tnx Paris “Reps” are anxious for a change, that’s all. They have been she@ding tears of blood, and now they want to shed the blood of Thiers. Tue Pneumatic RarLroap is supposed to be all underground, but we are sorry to see that legislation upon it has not been all above- board. Messrs. FizLps aNp Gooprion, in the Assembly yesterday, had a sharp encounter of Billingsgate. It was highly entertaining to the country members, but it makes the judicious grieve to read of it. Tse CompPLarnt is made in Boston that the constabulary seize only the smaller liquor saloons, and pass by the large hotel bars, just as the police here svize the little keno dens and ignore the great gambling houses about the Fifth Avenue Hotel. James Gravy, who murdered an old lady in October last, was hanged in Washington yes- terday. Ina letter which he dictated before his death he took occasion to denounce Presi- dent Grant for not pardoning him; but it is satisfactory to know that few others will ‘go back” upon the much abused Executive on that account. Grady died as boldly as mur- derers on the scaffold usually do. Senator Sumner persists in presenting his fesolutions against St. Domingo in the Senate, although legislation is supposed to be confined entirely to the Ku Klux. Perhaps Senator Sumner's vision is so distorted by his changed relations with the Executive that he looks upon Cabral and his Haytien adherents as pimple-minded colored republicans and General Grant himself and the navy as the bloody Ku Klux. SoctatisM—Waat Dozs Ir Want?—It wants money. It wants ease. It wants com- fort. As applied to Europe, it means the de- struction of monarchy, then the destruction of aristocracy, then the appropriation of all property and the equal division thereof. As applied to the United States it means no more Vanderbilts, no more A. T. Stewarts, but uni- versal equality. Socialism means theft. Where is the man anywhere who loves order who can wish success to the Paris “reds?” Honest men try to save. The socialists have for their purpose to feed fat on the savings of all honest men. Socialism as interpreted in * these later times is the enemy of humanity, REE Ee eT a RE a CELT Me aE TER Ce eR Me nM EE Caer ne aa, Ha NEW YORK HEKALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1871-TKIPLE SHEKT, NEW YORK HERALD | Sttt_ Bist Commission at Washing- tom—What It Ought to Aim at. The High Commission, as it is termed, com- posed of distinguished men from England and prominent public men of the United States, now sitting at Washington to discuss disputed questions between the two great English speaking people of the world, and to find, if possible, means of adjustment, looms up prominently before the public mind on both sides the Atlantic, This is natural, for, with all the prejudice that exists and with good reasons of complaint on this side at the policy England has pursued toward America, the in- terests of the two nations are so interwoven and the hope of the world depends so much upon them that every enlightened man must desire a peaceful solution of their difficulties and a closer union between them, It remains to be seen whether the persons engaged in this matter comprehend fully this importaut fac!, or are endeavoring to adjust merely one or two questions in dispute, such as the Alabama claims and the fisheries, and are leaving the broader question to the future. Thus far they have not shown comprehensive, statesmanlike views, and seem to be contented with the wining and dining diplomacy for which the English are remarkable, and which has done much to hoodwink the ambassadors we have sent to England. Englishmen, like some of our politicians and lobbymen, think more can be accomplished through the dinner table or stomach than by appeals to the intelli- gence of the people. The English High Com- mission appear to be révelling in festivities as a means of capturing our politicians at Wash- ington, We think a good dinner and a good glass of wine excellent to promote congeni- ality, and so far there can be no objection to such social intercourse; but we warn our Washington men against the eating and drink- ing fascinations of John Bull, which proved fatal to Reverdy Johnson, and which might leave the broad question of our relations with Great Britain unsatisfactory. We are prompted to throw out this hint because certain leading British journals are disclaiming against our claims, while the English members of the High Commission are smiling most cordially upon the Washington politicians over the fames of good dinners and wine. Let us have no more humbug or at- tempts at overreaching in this serious and important business of adjusting the difficulties between England and the United States. Let the Commissioners be frank, honest, liberal and comprehensive in their views on all ques- tions concerning the present and future rela- tions between the two countries, and both lasting friendship may be established and the well-being of the world may be promoted. The Alabama claims and the fishery diffi- culty come in the foreground and form the basis of investigation and negotiation; but they sheuld be only incidental to the broader question of the future relations be- tween the two countries. What do twenty, or even fifty millions of dollars, in the settlement of the Alabama claims, or the interests of a few fishermen in New England and the colonies, amount to compared with the vast commercial intercourse and political and social considera- tions involved? England has been disposed to regard the settlement of the Alabama claims in a money point of view merely; basin rather an ostentatious manner offered to pay the claimants, and seems desirous of ignoring the higher consideration of violated national honor, comity and friendship; but while we insist upon payment as a matter of principle, we are too rich and prosperous to look upou a few millions of dollars as of much consequence. And with regard to the colonial fisheries, it is not so much what is lost or gained by our fish- ermen in consequence of the conduct of Great Britain or her colonies that we care about, as the unfriendly feeling exhibited and the want of consideration for the United States as the great, overshadowing power of the American Continent. Our people cannot and’ will not endure the narrow, selfish policy of a few colonists on our border, when it comes in con- flict with American interests and aspirations. To have peace and to promote friendship with the United States both the British govern- ment and the colonists must yield something to this great republic. In the fishery diffi- culty, as in other difficulties, it is not so much a question of abstract right that should be considered as of good neighborhood, friend- ship and regard for the controlling position of the United States on this Continent. Some of the statesmen of England, and pre-eminently among them W. E. Forster, one of the present British Cabinet, and others of the young England school, anticipate the time when a closer political as well as com- mercial union will exist between Great Britain and the United States. There is growing up in England a large party which favors this view. The old prejudice and spirit of rivalry against this country, which were so strong a few years ago, are declining with our growth and the pro- gress of democratic ideas in England. The mass of people there are beginning to realize the fact that this is soon to be the represen- tative and most powerful country of the English-speaking race. At one time we were regarded as offsprings and treated as such ; then we were cousins; now the British speak of us proudly as brothers. When we say the English-speaking race we include the Scotch and Irish, as well as the Anglo-Saxons proper, and in the contemplated closer union with the United States Ireland’s difficulties would be removed. That enmity to England which Ireland has cherished, with good reason, for the oppression she has endured, would die out e time if England were to assimilate her institutions to those of the United States, and were to be united to this country by closer political relations, A common language and similar institutions would go far to remove the memory of the past and national pre- judice, England has made great strides the last few years in democratic ideas, and must continue to advance. No doubt it will take some time to destroy the aristocratic notions of almost all classes in England, but they will give way to the en- lightened and progressive spirit of the age and under the influence of this republic. While we are far in advance of England in establishing the rights and equality of man- kind as the corner stone of government, and have made model republican institutions for the world, we do not forget that the basis of our liberty came from the municipal institutions of the mother country. We are aware, too, that England, with all her faults, has been the home of liberty, free speech and a free press, while the Continental nations of Europe have, been denied these blessings. It is the English- speaking people—the people of the United Kingdom, of the United States aad of the British colonies—that have carried civilization and commerce to every part of the earth, and that now dominate, directly or indirectly, nearly a thirdof the habitable globe. They are the people of progress. They are the great civilizers of all countries outside of Continental Europe. They have a mighty mission and future before them. Why, then, should they not be united and work in harmony together? Let the High Commis- sion take this broad view of the destiny of the English-speaking race, and be prepared to give to each of the two great branches its proper réle and position—to the Unrted States Continental dominion in America, and to England a wide Asiatic and colonial rule in other parts of the world. While some of the great nations are decaying and others are being consolidated into military empires these two great branches of the same stock are spreading commerce, liberty and civilization to the uttermost parts of the globe. To com- bine their efforts and to unite them more closely together is a work to which the states- men of both countries should now give their earnest attention. The Ku Klux in South Carolina—Pro- clamation by President Grant. The President yesterday issued a prelimin- ary proclamation, reciting the disorders pre- vailing in South Carolina through the terror- ism excited by the Ku Klux raiders, and warning these ‘‘unlawful combinations of armed men” to disperse and retire peacealily to their homes within twenty days. In his Message to Congress some days ago Presi- dent Grant, in treating of the general state of disorder throughout the South, said that the authority of the Executive for quelling such disorder was not clear. In the present case, however, he finds his authority clear enough in the application of Governor Scott, the Legislature not being in session, for national aid to save the State from domestic violence— an application that places this preliminary action of the President, and the further action that it presages, fairly and squarely in harmony with article four, section four of the constitution. There is no doubt that this proclamation does presage something further. It means the dispersal at once of the Ku Klux Klans who have been making life there a hideous fright, the return of the republican Governor in peace and safety to his duties, and the restoration of order and security at once; or else it means the immediate rushing of United States troops into the State and the enforcement of peace in ® manner that will remind some old South Carolinians of the nullification days when General S¢ott and General Jackson preserved the Union, ‘‘by the Eternal.” The six years that have passed since the close of the civil war have not served to obliterate from the minds of our Union-loving people their hearty hatred of causeless rebellion, nor to teach them to be particularly merciful to those unthinking or else un- scrupulous spirits in the South who threaten to get up a new one. Nor is General Grant—who holds in his hands the personal paroles, dated as fur back as Ap- pomattox Court House, of the very men who have been creating these disorders in South Carolina—the man to rely upon any half way measures in enforcing the law against them. It is to be hoped the Ku Klux remember that characteristic of his, and will disperse quietly and at once. Our telegrams and correspondence, and the official documents in the hands of Senate com- mittees, show beyond a doubt that the Ku Klux have kept South Carolina and several other Southern States in a condition of anarchy equalled alone probably by the present Reign of Terror in Paris. The fact that the demo- crats, both North and South, condone, if they do not openly endorse, the doings of this ‘‘un- lawful combination,” is incontestible evidence that such doings spring from old rebel hatred of Northerners and ‘‘niggers;” and therein they contain the germ whence sprung the re- bellion of 1861. It is good and broad states- manship on the part of General ‘Grant, there- fore, as well as it is his official duty, under the requirements of the constitution, to put down this spectre of rebellion at once, before it be- comes like the powerful giant of flesh and blood that has just cost the country so many years of war and anguish and so many millions of treasure and lives to overcome, British Agitation Against Aristocracy in the Army. The movement which has been in progress for some time past in England with the view of popularizing the army by effecting a change in its system of command and a reduction in the cost of the establishment gains in public favor daily. It is a democratic movement directed against the aristocratic system of the purchase and sale of commissions, and also against the royalism of the maintenance of a huge standing army in time of peace. Mr. Mundella has given it parliamentary form and expression by his motion in the Honse of Commons for the adoption of the resolution, which we report by cable to-day. The debate which ensued—the points of which we have also telegraphed—goes to show that Premier Gladstone is placed officially between two fires. He cannot afford to cut loose fiom the members of the aristo-democracy who sup- port his Ministry. He is not prepared to lead British radicalism. The motion for army re- form was opposed by the Prime Minister and lost by an overwhelming majority. The poli- tical agitation in this direction will be main-"| tained, notwithstanding. It is likely, indeed, to increase in force—crescit ewndo—particu- larly after the British people have attempted to digest the huge money amounts—the mil- lions of pounds sterling—which it is proposed to take from their pockets for the maintenance of the troops during the military year of 1871-72, as set forth in the Heraxp to-day. Great Britain moves for legitimate economic ereforms, in Parliamentary fashion, without the “reds,” and will thus triumph in the end. Toe ApsouRNMENT Hircn in Congress seems still as far as ever from a settlement. The Senate is dead set on making a deadlock of it, Spread of the Losurrection in France. What we predicted would result from the continued inactivity of the French government has already occurred, Our despatches this morning report the spread of the insurrection of Lyons and Marseilles. In Lyons the mob have proclaimed the Commune and raised the red flag. By way of inducing the red republican Lyonese to keep quiet M. Thiers has instructed the city authorilies to provide them with work, We fear that he is too late. What will afew sous per day appear in the eyes of men who aspire to a general dis- tribution of property? The Lyons mob, how- ever, have not yet gofte as far as their patriotic brothers of Marseilles, who appear to have seized the telegraph stations and cut off com- munication, It is not a difficult matter to imagine the events that are probably transpir- ing in that city. That the situation in France is much graver than the Versailles government will admit is evident from the measures it is adopting to suppress the insurrection. M. Thiers appears to place his whole dependence in the volun- teers and Gardes Mobile of the provinces, to whom he is making appeals which betray his doubts and apprehensions. But little or nothing is said about the regular army, neither is any intimation given that the thousands of imperial soldiers returning from Germany are organizing to take part in the work of restor- ing order. In addition, all the principal offi- cers of the late imperial army who have returned from prison are retiring from the military ser- vice, without exception, the despatch says, although the name of General Ladmirault is now referred to in connection with the military command of Paris. Is not their retirement very significant of their lack of confidence in the present government of France? In 1830, when Charles was driven from his throne; in 1848, when Louis Philippe was expelled, and in 1851, when the coup d'état restored the em- pire, but few army officers of any prominence resigned. What other cause than distrust of M. Thiers’ government can be attributed to the retirement from the army of “‘all the principal officers, without exception ?” Any hope entertained that the Germans will aid in the restoration of order in France will be pretty nearly dispelled by the perusal of a letter addressed to the insurgent com- mander-in-chief by the Prussian general com- manding at St. Denis. That officer declares that he will maintain ‘‘a passive and friendly attitude” as long as the terms of the prelimt- nary treaty of peace are not violated. As the general could not have viven such an assurance without authority we must conclude that Prince Bismarck adheres to his expressed determination not to interfere in the reorgani- zation of the French government. Naturally enough the Paris insurgents are much elated by the friendly tone of the letter referred to, while the Parisians who oppose the insurrec- tion suspect the Prussians of complicity with the rebellious movement. We believe the suspicion entirely without foundation. Bis- marck wants the five milliards of francs war indemnity paid, and he knows very well that he never will get them from a red republican government, It is stated that the ‘‘men of order” among the Paris National Guards are moving ener- getically to aid in suppressing the insurrec- tion; but, as this report comes from Ver- saikes, it must be taken with ‘‘many grains of allowance.” What chance have they against the ferocious brutes of Montmartre and Belle- ville? The fact is that the prospect is very gloomy for France. ' Lyons and Marseilles have revolted; we expect Bordeaux and the other Southern cities to follow suit ; and, with the regular army disaffected, M. Thiers will have no easy task in restoring order and tran- quillity. As regards the army, a despatch says that General Ladmirault will probably succeed General Vinoy as its commander. Ladmirault is a dyed-in-the-wool imperialist, and was a Senator of the empire. We should rather have supposed that General de Wimpf- fen would have been appointed, as he is a bitter enemy of Napoleon and a supporter of the Orleans dynasty. Ladmirault, however, is a good officer, and handled his troops with considerable skitl in the battles before Metz. The Brooklyn Bridge. In advance of the completion of this grand structure the Brooklyn people are already beginning to exult over the vast increase in value which must accrue to property in that city. There is no doubt that, even now, in prospect of the completion of the bridge, property, especially on the high, airy and healthy grounds in the direction of Prospect Park, overlooking the bay, enjoying the ad- vantages of a superb landscape and a deli- cious atmosphere, is taking an upward ten- dency, and that purchasers of homesteads are directing their attention thitherward. But the first necessity is to build the bridge. When that is done real estate in Brooklyn will have reached a very,pigh value, and the population will undoubtedly grow in a few years, from its present figure of four hundred thousand, way up toward the census of the metropolis. But we must have the bridge before these dreams can be realized. The work on the Brooklyn side is progress- ing rapidly and favorably. The caisson on our side of the river, we believe, is not yet laid, owing to the addition of certain improve- ments suggested by the fire which occurred in the Brooklyn caisson. It will not be long, however, before the foundations will be secured at both sides of the river, and then, when the substantial piers are erected, the rest of the work will not be very difficult. Fisk AGam.—The case of Fisk, Jr., against the Union Pacific Railroad Company is seemingly not destined to drop out of public sight. It was before Judge Blatchford yester- day, in the United States Circuit Court, upon the rendering of a decision on certain points of a technical nature previously argued. The main point to be decided was the legality of taking from the files of the court the plaintiff's bill in equity, on the ground that it included the name pf a debtor which did not appear in the title of the original suit, nor on the papers as they were officially filed, until ufter the re- moval of the suit from the State to the United States Court. As in all those cases the result is expense and delay—the old game of the boys and the frogs: what is play to one is death to the other. Erie bas, however, a pro- lific spawn, and it seems that no amount of stoning will bring them from the fleld, General Grant and the Repoblican Party— A Movement for Another Fight om the Fourteenth and Fiftecath Amendments. From the demoralized condition of the re- publicans in the House of Representatives, and especially in reference to Southern affairs before the delivery of the Prosident’s late mes- Sage on the subject, and from the prompt fall- ing into line of the conflicting factions in the action ofthe House upon this message, we are led to the inquiry, what can the republican party do without General Grant? And we are drawn to the conclusion that without him it can do nothing. From the 4th of March to the 23d the House was drifting about like a ship without a rudder in a gale of wind. The majority of the body would agree upon nothing, except a resolution to adjourn and go home, until some half dozen such resolutions had accumulated on the table of the Senate. The President, in an official communication, submits the necessity of some specific legisla- tion looking to the suppression of the lawless marauders and their scenes of bloodshed and terror, which render “‘life and property inse- cure, and the collection of the revenue and the transportation of the mails dangerous in some of the States,” and straightway the House assumes the character of an or- ganized legislative body and proceeds to business, In other words, the republican majority of the House, driven to the wall, acknowleged General Grant as the proper, responsible and authoritative head of the government and of the party. They begin to see that they must stick to General Grant to save themselves ; that whatever objections they may have to his policy, or to his claims as a candidate for the succession, upon this thing, that thing, or the other thing, it is Hobson’s choice with them, and that they must sink or swim with the administration. Mr. Sumner has fallen out with General Grant, and has pronounced him substantially faithless in his great office and incompetent to fill it, Mr. Fenton has become disgusted with the President in consequence of the appointment of the anti-Fenton, Mr. Murphy, as Collector of this port, and because of some other appointments distasteful to Mr. Fenton. By the same token Messrs. Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz of Missouri make a bolt from the party traces, and turn over the State into the possession of the democrats. To cap the climax, the old abolition republi- cans of New Hampshire, horrified at the re- moval of Mr. Sumner from his position as head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, assist in turning over the Granite State to the jubilant democracy. What next? Clearly, if things go on in this fashion, even six months longer, the republi- can party, from its intestine squabbles, will go the way of the democracy from the feuds between Douglas, Buchanan and the old Southern oligarchy. ‘‘A house divided against itself cannot stand,” and upon whom can the republican house be united except General Grant? Upon Sumner, or Brown, or Trum- bull, or Fenton, or Farnsworth? No. Each of these men has a little hobby, which may serve to disorganize the party in a. State or a Congressional district, and altogether they may serve to clear the way for the democrats, but that is all, And it isso much easier to tear down than to build up that a few dis- affected party leaders may undo the work in a year which has occupied thousands of men for many years. But this republican party has so far been a party of great and popular ideas, beginning with the idea of arresting the exten- sion of slavery and culminating in the idea of civil and political equality embodied in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, regardless of race or color. Now, with this whole pro- gramme carried out, the party, for want of a great idea, they say, is falling to pieces, as parties and empires do when they have ful- filled each its appointed mission. General Grant, however, in this message to Congress on Southern outrages, has evidently adopted the idea that the battle on the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments is not yet fought through. He has been working at it through Senator Morton for some time, and so intimate are the relation upon this subject be- tween the Senator and the President that the views of the one may be taken as those of the other. The President then holds with the Sen- ator that the democratic party has not recog- nized, and does not and does not intend to recognize, the validity of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments—that no legislative gath- ering, n0 convention, or caucus, or meeting, or journal, or leader, or orator of the party (except General Blair, when pinned directly to it), has admitted the validity of these amendments—that the democrats universally reject or ignore them in speaking of the constitution; and that while the Southern democracy are openly or- ganized and declared against these amend- ments, and are working by terrorism to nullify them, the Northern democracy are secretly aiding and abetting their Southern allies. The purpose of this movement is declared to be nullification, and that with the election of a democratic President and Congress negro civil and political equality will be practically abolished. In the debate on the fortheoming bill on these Southern disorders we expect the democracy in Congress will be brought to this test ques- tion. If so, they will be wise to recognize the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments as parts of the constitution and ‘the supreme law of the land,” for otherwise General Grant will flank them again. Sr. Domtnao.—The news from the Domini- can republic, via St. Thomas, is not favorable to the annexation party. General Laperon is moving with activity, “having captured two positions, and at last accounts was pre- paring to march on Santiago. President Baez must be rendered uneasy, and it is now very evident that Ben Wade told the trath in his private letter when he asserted that if annex- ation did not take place at once the existing powers would be turned out by the insurgents, Notwithstanding that the Commissioners are going to report the feeling of the people of this mongrel Spanish American republic as being almost unanimous in favor of annexation, it strikes us that there are enough holding o totally different opinion to make it very warm for the others, and we would not be surprised to hear at any moment that Baez had left and that annexation bad been killed by the Do- minicans themselves, acl ‘The Pontiff and the Lay Powers, Rome is of unusual interest. The Hears writers indicate, by a very interesting narra: tive of facts which have just transpire in the, Holy City, that inasmuch as the Old World becomes slarmed at the consequences of the prevailing demoralizations of the hour, 80 \do\ the Old World peoples turn their eyes moze \ inquiringly towards the ancient centre of law;! of executive right and of discipline for order. This movement appears to go on without much, if any, reference to the theological aspect, or the exhibition of any of the flery feelings of old time polemical disputation. Victorious imperial Germany and humbled republican France were engaged in an active diplomacy near to the Chair of Peter. The Catholics of Germany forwarded Church tribute to the Pontiff. The Emperor of Ger- many had instructed his Ambassador as to the observance of a certain ministerial routine near the great neutral point. France had commissioned a new delegate. Italy remained in the discharge of her lay executive duties with a show of quasi authority. The city remained peaceful under the adminis- tration of two very opposite systems of rule—the bayonet and the breviary. Such agencies rarely harmonize. We are not surprised, therefore, to hear that the Pope complains that he is almost ‘‘a prisoner in the Vaticun,” while the King’s officers assert that all his Holiness has to do is to stand forth om the altar as the anointed and revered repre- sentative of ‘‘a free church in a free State,” The readers of the Hrratp will be pleased to observe that the Holy Father receives genial and generous tributes of consolation from America. The free children of the Western’ republic give expression to their feeling of love or pity in plain language and with liberal hands. Beautiful young ladies from the United States have waited on his Holiness. “Young America” has had its male represen- tatives at his Court. One of these, a New York ‘‘boy,” of course, has already initiated.a reform. Instead of falling on his knees as the Pope passed along the line of those who awaited a formal presentation, this juvenile. stepped forward, grasped the hand of the old man and gave it a hearty shake. The Pope smiled. It appeared as if he really acknow- ledged the healing influence of the touch of an educated democracy. We hopo that it may be so, as the Roman Pontiff may yet ve called upon to reconstruct European society on a basis of a true and enduring reform. Central and South America. By special telegram to the Heratp from Jamaica we have later advices from Panama, giving interesting particulars regarding the situation in Central and South America. In Colombia the revolutionary party of the State of Boyaca had been successful, and quiet was again restored. In Peru very heavy rains had occurred, doing much damage, washing away bridges, houses and telegraph lines. The town of Lambayaque, containing twenty thousand inhabitants, had only three houses left standing. In Payta the water was three feet deep jn the streets. In Bolivia peace has been fully restored. The people of Chile are violently opposed to the annexa- tion of St. Domingo to the United States, and. the government is called upon to protest against it as the first step towards annexing all of the Spanish American republics. The United States Minister to Salvador has noti- fied that government on behalf of England and the United States that in the existing war with Honduras the neutrality of the Hondaras railroad must be observed. A large number of German emigrants to Lower Cali- fornia had arrived in Panama, and twenty-five of them deserted. The whole scheme was pronounced a swindle, and the German resl- dents of Panama were about sending a pro-- test to New York against it. Witt Germany Go East?—By a cable- telegram from Bucharest we are informed that while the Germans in Roumania were engaged: in celebrating the anniversary of the Emperor William's birth they were assailed in a violent manner by a city mob, when a free fight ene- sued, The North German Consul was assaulted and handled very roughly by the rioters. This intelligence exhibits the actual working of Eastern nativism against German progress, and this induces to a repe-- tition of the question which we placed before the readers of the HERALD. a few days since: Will North Germany be forced to march East, “head off” France, and, it may be, meet. Russia at the Holy Shrines? Prince Charles of Roumania isa Hohenzollern. He is ex- eeedingly rich, but may require the presenee: of @ solid friendly army support after the arrangement of a family guid pro quo. Tae SENATE YESTERDAY slipped entirely away from the question of Ku Klux and dis-. cussed the Deficiency Appropriation bill. The only portion of it disposed of was an amend— ment providing tor a distribution of money and clothing to the poor of the District of Columbia. While Senators seem reluctant to. take any very stringent measures for the re~ lief of the darkies down South from the terrors. of the Ku Klux, they are very ready to. take care of those darkies of the District, who, according to Messrs. Logan and Thurman, sport umbrellas in rainy weather and gold spectacles on fine days. British Prax of NEGOTIATING WITR Cura.—‘‘A man-of-war in each of the five treaty ports, with orders to act in case of' out- rage, after communicating with the Lega- tion in Pekin”"—such is the reply, which Earl Granville gave in the House of Lords last night to remarks which were made by Earl Grey and the Duke of Somerset with reference to the treatment of British subjects in the Asiatic empire. Lord Granville has disclosed a most decisive plan of diplomacy with the Chinese. It will be effectual almost certainly. Tae Crry Post Orricg.—The mail business of this city, which is the great entrepot and universal distributor of majl matter to the whole country, is vaatly increasing every day. The figures show that three thousand bags of letters, papers and pamphlets, weighing in the aggregate a hundred and fifty tons, pasa’ through the New York Post Office during every twenty-four hours. To receive and de- liver this immense amount of matter requires the services of five hundred clerks and three Aundred carriers, How they can work and