The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1871, Page 6

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Proceedings tn the Jersey Legisia- ria—Native m Algeria— y_intelligence— ‘Town Elections, jatton of the Can- : Injunction Sought " More Stock—Pro- Seventh Ayenne nancial and Matters. ‘France—Her Sit- A . the Reign Prookiyn th Amend- ents. Proclamation of the Com- the Insurgent Committee; A Bo- iiiteeman Condemned to Death; Concentrating at Versailles— Washingtoa—The Joint High ne St. Domingo Commission— —Miscelianeous Telegraph— ths—Advertisements, ments. iglish Optuions Regarting the Re- Sumuer; the New Organization Lorraine—The Sleepy Hollow ond ‘Trial of Isaac V. W. Buckhout urder of Alfred Rendall—Health mith,’’ the Sceamp—Another Mr. —The HERALD as a Detective—Weather —Shippug Intelligence —Advertise- of Tae PitLapErrara FireMen, well fed and well taken care of in every respect, on their late visit to our city, bave returned, home, we are sure, entirely satisfied that New York, after all, is the city of “brotherly love.” + Tne Deve CLerk Bit, amended so as to sts as well, has been signed by the It simply provides that both drug- sts and drug clerks shall know enough to fill up prescriptions correctly, and thus give sick people and the doctors fair play in the fight against disease and death. Ay Arab Cir, Sidi Mokrani, with forty thousand troops, is reported as within twenty- five miles of the city of Algiers. That fellow is evidently posted on French affairs, and is seizing his opportunity for Algerian inde- pendence. Poor France! Raitroap Desporiems.—The tremendous indictment and specifications, from numerous citizens, brought against the New York Cen- tral, will apply, more or less, to all the rail- roads of the country, and the time is fast approaching when Congress will be compelled to regulate them, No other power ¢an reach thom. THE QvuEstioN or Tuz EAst—Poutrios AND RetiGion.—The agitation toward the reuewal of the “E stern question,” or the production of a new Eastern difficulty, progresses rapidly, as will be seen by our European cable despatches te-day. ‘Tbe movemeut prevails from Bucha- rest to St. Petersburg and Constantinople. It is influe y politics and rvligion, by statesmen clerics. Prince Charles of Roumanis ssolved the territorial Parlia- ment, He ns alone and absolute. He ¢annot remain in this position during any very lengthened period. Russia or North Ger- many, or both Powers united, must resolve (he situation. Tis solution may be in favor of jnee, or it may be entirely to the bene- powerful neighbors, Russia has tw: renewed ile question of religioa—a powertu agency 1 always of avaii to serve th poses of (he Czars when tt toward tle boly shrines. ernment feels slighily excited aod uneasy, aud, a9 it appears (0 us, ugt withou! cause, | peaeepianasctrt 9 ee FP | which will prev | France—Her SitaationTho Relan ot Terror Against the Reign of Law. Our news of this morning does not in any material sense differ from the news of any day during the last three or four wecks. The Atlantic Cable ts doing more justice to Francd | than France is doing to herself. Tho Atlantic | Cable hasa purpose, and is consistent. France has no purpose, and is not consistent. But facts must be looked at. What, then, aro the facts? Paris claims to be Franco; hence the municipal elections, the result of which is an uom’stakable gain to the “reds,” We are told that the Commune has been proclaimed in the Place de I’Hotel de Ville ; that mem- bers of the Communal Council spoke from a platform covered with red cloth; at the speeches were inaudible, and that the re republic was inaugurated by a crowd by a flourish of bayonets, by the firing of sixty guas and certain salvos of artillery. |The Paris elections have most unques- tionably—because a very small number of | electors have exercised their rights—resulted in favor of the communists. One Paris paper tells us that the Parisians did not vote. Othors speak differently. The fact, however, clearly remains, that the “reds” are magters of Paris, It is gratifying to know that the principles of disorder are not fully endorsed by the French people. The National Assembly at Versailles remains true to its trust, and up to the present moment we have ng reason to say that the Assembly and the government pf M. Thiers are not equal to the situation. {he government has issued 4 proclamation in which it says:—‘‘France is rallying to the support of the national cause. The continued occupation of French territory »y the Germans is due to the insurgents. The government has temporized with insurrection because the gov- ernment has wished to avoid the shedding of blood.” Good and noble words! We have blamed the Assembly and M. Thiers, with his associates, for inaction; but if M. Thiers will show good reason for his policy we shall not be the last to praise him and wish him success. It wag our opinion and we stated it—thet_ if _M. rs bad dealt “mdré determinedly againat the Montmartrists and lleville the $) crowd, it would to-day have, boon. fais fe the whole Frepeh nation. If the fonate stands by the cblef of the executive, and if the gévernment asserts itself and restores order, we shall be glad to retract and to give to the cause of order what help we can. Our news shows that out of Paris the insurrection- ary elements have been put down. Order, in most of the populous centres, has been re- stored. In Lyons aud elsewhere the sensi- sible classes have rallied around the represen- tatives of law, and the “reds” in Paris, who have given way to violence and the spirit of cruelty, are even now trembling in their boots. If there is anything clear about the situa- tion in France it is that Terror is opposed to Law. Of course it must be admitted that this statement is especially applicable to j Paris. Paris, however, has in all the past ‘been France. What wins in Paris will | win in Lyons and Marseilles. In the | large towns the mob rules. If Paris can hold Se on in spite of the government at Versailles, | the large towns will to a dead certainty | go with Paris. The proposal of the official | jouraal of the Contral Republican Committee what there should bg drawn up a new charter, ‘gnt the large cities being swamped by the rural voter's, s22WS that the “reds” are already in despair, and that they | are. prepared to resort to any violence, to the + most reactionary measures, rather than lose | the opportunity which they think they have found. If Paris can hold out, if there be any sympathetic show in the other large cities, the natural result would be the inauguration of the Reign of Terror. The idle and the hungry in such a case will prey upon the owners of property, there will be no end of stealing; and if the guillotine cannot be made as serviceable as it was in 1793-4 the midnight Susillades and noyades may be found usefal. Why all this trouble should have ‘arisen in circumstances so unfavorable for the carrying out of any levelling purposes is a question for the philosophers rather than for the news- papers. It {s° possthle “that séntinienta which smouldered under the émpire, which found feeble exptession after Sedan, which were timid at the late election fer the National Assembly, have at last found themselves stronger thaa all restraining barriers. It is possible that the National Assembly, which is very nearly two-thirds monarchical, has sur- prised and exasperated the populous centres, and compelled them to think of principle rather than patriotism. It is possible, too, that the government of M. Thiers, by its inac- tion and the unmistakable absence of any policy, has contributed to bring about the pre- sent state of things. But whatever the cause, the facts are before us, and must be looked in the face. Our opinion is that universal suf- frage is a curse to France, because the French pedple know not how to use it. Since her first great revolution France has had ao back- bone of strength. The revolution killed the aristocracy, or rather the solid land owners, and as there were no States system or muni- cipal rights France fell under the control of centralization in its worst form. The government for the time being, whether republican, or monarchical, or imperial, has been absolate; and the power which bas been able to command the army has been able to control France. This fact, if rightly” “fousidered, explains the fall of Charles X. in 1880, the fall of Louis Philippe in 1848, the strength of the Third Napoleon since the famous coup d'état and the situation of to-day. Since the first revolation, if there has been no central force in individual power to command the allegiance of the army, France has been in danger of lapsing into chaos. The real difficulty of the hout is that the French army is wituout a leader. All things considered, it is not unaatural that it should beso, The best soldiers of France have for at loast six mouths been prisoners of war. The best generals of France are suspected by upstaris who claim without good reason to represent the Fronch people, To-day France hassoldiers, butno army, The result is that the armed men of France are useless because they know not whom to obey. The regulars are nowhere; and even in Paris the Nationals are divided, Had M. Thicra been awililary manor the representative ia apy NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, ! sense of military ideas the present trouble could never have arisen, It is simply impos- | sible that the state of things which now exisis | can last much loager. The ery for the estab- | lishment of some form of order is loud, gene- ral, strong. Our hope for tho ro-ostablish- ment of order in Franco centres not in M. Thiers, not in the National Assombly, not in Committee, but in the French army. one does not rapidly rise to the surface who France the horrible iniquities of 1793-4 must ' be looked for—the Reign of Terror must be of ours whether France decides to be a repub- lic or a limited monarchy or an empire. In herself one consolation remains—Germany means to save her. The German forces are j Peady at a moment's warning to protect the | National Assembly and to occupy Paris, It would be a strange conclusion to this war if France should beg Prussia to save her from ruin, Tails Day’s Fifteenth Amendment Jubdilco— How Siand the Democracy on This Amend- ment? Our colored fellow citizens of this city cele- brate to-day the anniversary of the proclama- tion of the fiftcenth amendment, which de- clares that ‘the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude,” and that ‘Congress shall have power to enforce this amendment by appro- priate legislation.” That is all there is of it; but its adoption marks the consummation of one of the most remarkable and comprehensive political revolutions in human history. Ten years ago, under the constitution of the United States, Americans horn, of African descent, to the number of four milijgns, were held as slaves, or ” ee no rights as free people which whitg mi@ii_ r # 4. 10, Fe- spect, Withta “ten ai Hake i 4 tid Bigantic sectional rebellion for the pervetug-. tion of African slavery, all these civil and Political distinctions of race and eolor have heen swept away, aud this day’s African Selobration fs Tn ofior of the crowning Gichievemént of equal rights as citizats of all men of all colors at the polls. We expect, too, that our colored procession to-day will bea very imposing one, judging from the initial experiment of last year, which was @ great success, and especially in passing off, from first to last, without the slightest dis- turbance or interruption. There were reasons to apprehend last year, from the prejudices of race and color, that the procession of the grateful blacks would hardly pass off without some scenes of ruffianly violence; but, as by universal agreement among all classes, there never was a more orderly procession in the city.- So it was, too, last year with similar processions in every part of the country. So, we have no doubt, it will be here to-day. In these colored processions of last year we saw that the masses of the whites of the Northern States frankly recognized the fair play of this fifteenth amendment, and that even in the South the blacks were not disturbed in their jubilee. New York is a cosmopolitan city. Look at the nationalities of which it is composed. On the 17th of this month, in honor of the patron saint of Old Ireland, wo had an Irish proces- sign ex in numbers anything they could @st up in Dublin; to-day we shall have a fificenth amendment jubilee, which will bring out our African population in all their glory, andon Easter Monday we are to have a Ger- man peace jubilee, and an army of Germans with banners that would do honor to the impe- rial cily of Berlin. ‘The Hebrews of New York to-day are richer than were the Jews of Jerusalem inthe golden reign of King Solo- mon; and our English, Scotch, French, Italian and Scandinavian festivals will serve to mark the strength of each of these peoples in our world-absorbing metropolis. Of course, then, we all understand practically here the doctrine of equal rights, and so we are sure that our colored fellow citizens will have a happy day of it with their equal rizhts jubilee. Old Tammany stands well before thé coun- try upon this subject; but how is it with the democratic party of the United States? Down South they proclaim the fourteenth amendment, of equal civil rights, in- valid, and the fifteenth amendment, of equal political rights, a fraud, and it iapparent that the Southern democrats ex- pect to upset these amendments in the Presi- dential election of 1872. They do not miuce the matter. They boldly proclaim it. Butif the democratic party shall attempt again to try the experiment of unsettling the fixed facts resulting from the war they will surely be again defeated. In frgnkly accepting the con- stitution as itis they have a fair prospect of success; but if they will still insist upon ‘‘the constitution as it was” under Buchanan, they will surely be again defeated. It is for the Northern democracy this time to bring the South to reason, instead of following the Hot- spurs of the South once more on the road to ruin, Surely Tammany Hall has had enough of that folly. Tue WISEAQRES OF THE ASSEMBLY pro- pose to pay fifty thousand dollars to any man who will invent some better means of propel- ing canal boats, whether by steam, electricity, caloric or otherwise. Such a sum would be of little account to the successful inventor of such a motor after it had been in use two years as proposed, for it would long ere that have returned him many times that sum; but it would be a godsend to the poor inventor just sculptaring the crade idea of his brain into shape and too often pressed by lack of means to baild his model. Could not the Assembly” do better by devoting fifty thousand dollars to the purpose of aiding these cramped geniuses in the days of their need and helping them with funds to bring into perfection the coveted idea, which may be even now close-lecked in their brains for want of time and means to bring it forth ? Inportantr wf Trvz—The report that the devtocrats at Albany have abandoned the idea of changing our State elections from Novem- ber to October, in order to escape the super- vision of United States inspectors atAhe polls. The only safe, nay, the only hones’ way, is to (face the music and challenge investigation, MARCH 80, I871.-—TRIPLE SHEKT, la New Era for Pramatte Art im America. | Feligion, can here enter in the race for the | Congress Yesterday—The St. Doml A new era for dramatic art in this country | pursuit of all that can make life pleagant and was inaugurated last week at Boston by the | Profitable. Know Nothingism was attempted | intelligent and enthusiastic welcome accorded | im the United States, but the common sense of | to the principles on which Frangois Delsarte | he people strangled it in its infancy. If the has founded and built up the science of dra- French people desire to emulate America in | he Central Committee or the Sub-Central i If some | can guide and control the armed forces of | | considered ré-established. It is no business | establishing a permanent government France ; an do as she will, If France cannot save | | matic expression. An eloquent exposition of | those principles was made at St. James’ Hotel, in that city, before a large audience of cul- tivated and distinguished persons—including actors, lawyers, teachers and clergymen—by Mr. James Steele Mackaye, Delsarte’s favorite | Pupil, a young New Yorker, whose engag ; ment to appear at the Théatre Frangais, al Paris, in the 7le of Orestes, by which Talmi | won his greatest triumphs, was prevented b; the war, and whose return home gave the New York Heraxp, in its issue of October 29, an opportunity of first making known to the American public the name of Delsarte as the discoverer of a scientific basis for histrionic art. Ia Europe the fame of this great teacher of Rachel, Malibran, Sontag, Ptre Lacordaire, Pere Hyaciathe and numerous other celebri- ties, in the science of expressing and delineat- ing human thought and emotion, was long ago established. Stage managers have sought his aid in producing effects, and it is well known that the spectacular success of “Le Prophéte” was entirely owing to his advice and superintendonce. The greatest living sculptors and painters have for years been in the habit of submitting their sketches and models to his criticism. A prominent French writer says :—‘‘As an orator Delsarte has had at his lectures enthusiastic audiences of academicians, literary men, artists, savans, politicians and fashionable women, As a singer and reader he has moved to tears the most scoptical of assemblies. He made Spon- tiniand the great Spanish Catholic, Donato Cortés, tremble and weep with emotion. At his concerts ladies of the highest aristocracy sang with or accompanied him on the piano. Asa er his pupils are princes, princesses, | Seca tree the highest olrcles. The prime ens arbot ga Qarvalho ows to him their chief power. He hag recelyed many medals and dec ration’ for his valuable discoveries Gnd inv is,” Delsarte has greatly suf- fered by the Fra co-Prussian war, and the two main objects of Mr. Mackaye in p and delivering a lecture on the profouna syé- tem, to the construction of which the old maes- tro has devoted his whole life, were, first, to afford him an agreeable surprise by sending him the proceeds of the lecture, and, secondly, to interest American culture and wealth in the system itself to such a degree as to justify the establishment in New York of a Conservatory of Art, over which Delsarte might be invited to preside. The Boston journals vie with one another in eulogizing the lecture of Mr. Mackaye and ia particular the extraordinarily effective illus- trations by which he enlivened it. But al- though it doubtless served a good purpose in true histrionic art, still it must have been somewhat unsatisfactory. The lack of cos- tume and dramatic accessories must have im- paired the effect of the lecturer's illustrative recitations, While we would gladly listen to his exposition of a theory which bas been tri- umphantly tested in Europe we could not rest satisfied until it was developed on our metro- politan stage. We understand, indeed, that it was Mr. Mackayo’s intention to make his d¢bit in New York this spring in an original play calculated to afford full scope for the illustra- tion of his school of art. The purpose was abandoned only because the piece was not 1 compieted in ti ¢ to admit of the careful pre- paration which. Importanee demands, and its piodzgtion has been wisely postpoaed i the opening of thé aututinal season. As an actor we shall expect this promising pupil of Delsarte to be much more influentiai than as a lecturer in promoting the objects of his gene- rous ambition—to demonstrate the necessity of a scientific basis for dramatic art and to win for dramatic art universal recognition of its true moral dignity and power. French Know Nothingism. An unhealthy, impolitic and unwise spirit has taken hold of the French people in their avowed hostility to the Germans who were forced to leave France when hostilities between Prussia and the imperial government were inaugurated and are now returning. Many of these people who were thus compelled to leave the country were at heart French, and during their absence have not taken up arms against the nation in which they earned a living or won @ compe- tency for themselves and their families. It is hard, therefore, for these people to ba pre- vented from going back and resuming the peaceful avocations which they pursued pre- vious to the outbreak of the war. We regard it as a species of Know Nothingism, akin, in many respects, to ‘that which at one time spread throughout this country, and which, during its short reign, was productive of very bad results. It is most foolish and unwise for the French people to pursue such a course, and we feel satisfied that it cannot long pre- vail. The letters from the HEgRALp’s corse- spondenis.in Paris, Boulogne and other cities of France show, however, that the feeling of hostility against returning Germans is most intense. At Boulogne, for instance, the American Consul has had to send a num- ber of those people back to England at his own expense rather toan that they should be exposed to the passions of an ex- cited populace. The hostility displayed is all wrong, and cannot fail in working to the dis- advantage ofthe French nation. France, more than.at.any other time in her history, needs the strong arm, the peaceful laborer and the industrious workman, in order to restore to her that wealth, position and power which the late war has robbed from her; and if the Germans can help to restore these it is plainly the duty of the French people to lay aside such potty considerations as those which now exhibit themselves in opposition to the return of former German residents in France. To make the nation once more great, ito set the machinery of industry again in Fmotion, to develop the immense resources of France, ! capital will be needed, and capitalists will be slow in invosting their money where such unjust and unnecessary restraints are imposed would entail, The greatay | people of every clint, reparing | that it can be exhibiting the possibilities and requirements of upon thomas this French Know Nothingism of the Americay. republic has been seeared wholly becasse tae of every race and, every very dubious about it, tbis respect let them go and do likewise. The Methodist Tartut and Brother Bottowm’s Interlude. Again have the Tartuffes of Methodism re- turned to the charge. This time, however, {there are perceptible signs of their having wenkened in vigor. Like Bobadil, their plan of campaign was perfect, and, like Bob Acres, they find their valor oozing out through the ends of their ftugers. On Monday last they met with the condemnation of theatre-going, coterie-caper-cutting and novel reading as the things to be anathematized out of Christian society, if not out of existence. The comical point of a body professedty free from popes and popery out- anathematizing the Papacy is something 80 much in the semblance of a ‘‘bull” that we are doubtful whether the animal’s parentage is Irish, Roman or Wesleyan. The general backing down in Monday’s performance is, Perhaps, a recognition of this inconsistency, Ifthe holy brothers in Wesley denounce the drama they can sometimes furnish a first rate comedy themselves, Shakspearian at that. In last Monday’s performance the principal character was Brother Bottom, a saintly but temporizing Methodist, not much after the heart of the illustrious John W. Brother Nick Bottom was the principal character. He com- mences by wishing to play the lion, not liking & part requiring love and tears. ‘‘Brethren,” he cries, ‘I will roar that I will do any man good to hear me.” He then goes on to quote from Montesquien, hoping all the time that the pub- lic will not discover the cheat, but believe him to be # genuine king of the forest. He is not very on dancing, but insists that it should ‘all be done for the glory of God. It is wonder- fal that be did not think 9f the pious David and his Israelitish breakdown ona public occa- sion as a precedent for this, so far as the light fantastic is concerned. He proceeds to say, “We are a singular people—an enigma to the ld World and ourselves.” This is so true | that it | o left id Bptak for itself Now déthes tha” Weakening. He complains that ministers are too technical and too fond of severe definitions. They cannot legis- late amusements out of existence. Since they cannot we had beiter hear the original Bottom for the rest of the paragraph: —‘‘Fair ladies, if you think I come hither as a lion it were pity of my life. No; I amno such thing. Iam aman asother’men are. I will roar, an’ 'twere a nightingale.” The cure pre- scribed by Brother Bottom is to the effect that the fire of amusement should be met by the fire of Methodism. The arch enemy should be made to hop instead of allowing humanity to dance to his tune. In other words, a high pressure Christianity is advocated as antidote to high pressure asaltation. It does not surprise us to think that Brother Ferris differed with this gentleman, but we can pity his lamentable avowal of ignorance of ‘‘waya that are dark and tricks that are vain” when he tells us that “until last Monday he was not aware a Metho- dist minister had danced during his term of office.” Tho facts and logic of this great Tar- tuffe are something worthy of more than pass- ing notice. He says, speaking of France :— “The result of all this dancing and theatre going is that every third child born in France ia illegitimate.” Verily, here is the Fiute of the comedy, a man who runs the nose of his religious bellows into everything, whether he Knows auyuuag woois fhe subject or aol. We think he should in future apply it to the holy fire on which Brother Bottom wishes to blow so eloquently. He propounds a very curious question—namely, why is it that men do not dance with men? Now, the Doctor weighs probably two huadred and fifty pounds, If we picture Brother Gorse, who weighs two hundred and sixty, as his partuer for a mazurka, we may furnish hin with a reason. Brother Ferris thinks exercise the great desideratum, but gracefulness is another, Five hundred and ten pounds of Methodism ia a hizhland fling might mean ex- ercise, but where the second feature of grace would lie is more than we can tell. A South American missionary gave his experi- ence a8 aman who by the force of silent ex- ample eradicated dancing in Rosario, This is the man who plays “The Wall,” for, like the original, everybody can see through him. Poor Brother Schaffer thought kindness should be applied and a better education. But tho pious man was not heeded. Holy horror was visible on every face; he had pleaded guilty to dancing, and that was enough. We shall not notice all the others who played utility. Enough to say that Snug the Joiner attempted to mend matters by advocating novel reading within limits, whatever that means. Altogether, we are somewhat sorry to see these excellent performers become reasonable sosoon. As they cannot set New York Bay on fire by their fulminations they might have contributed a little longer to our slender stock of fun. The stage is not half what it was. Impossible melodrama rides roughshod over the drollery of old times, and now we find our darling Tartuffe become suddenly dull as the traditional virtuous peasant with the flowery waistcoat. It is, then, ina kindly. spirit that we ask him to hoist the Wesleyan flag once more; for the public will be weaned from all other amusements if the Methodist preachers will only consent to deliver them- selves weekly of a grand series of tirades on the criminal tendeacy of fashionable follics, 1 Tur New Loax.--The Secretary of the Treasury, who excited considerable indigna- tion among some of our more patriotic domes- tic bankers by giving agencies for the new loan to a couple of European firms who were not the best friends of the Uvited States during the financial emearrassments of the government in the late war, has popularized himself by withdrawing such special agencies abyoad and making no discrimination in favor of particular agents. The response to this action, as well as to his rescinding the illiberal order limiting the time for subscription toa portion of the five por cents, shown in a yencrous subscriplic loan, which is progressing with a suc; | surprises’ mavy of those who were original yesterday to the new that ly | The atu wy bate. The discussion upon the St. Domingo ques- | tion, which has inexplicably grown out of the | Ku’Klux matter to which legislation in the Senate was to be strictly limited, has de-. veloped into one of the finest debates that any legislative body in this country has known since the days of Patrick Henry. ‘The open- ing speech of Senator Sumner, which was generally considered the best that could have been gotten up for that occasion, even with Sumner's great storehouse of knowledge, pre- cedents and wisdom to draw upon, is almost equalled by the incisive argument of Cark Schurz on the same side yesterday. The Senator from Missouri was not only posted on the constitutional law of the case, but he was full of new facts and sharp in his answers to those who were bold oe imprudent enough to interrupt him. He said that United States steamers had carried Dominican troops from one point to another for Baez; that the United States flag had been carried at the head of Bacz’s troops to intimi- date the Haytiens, and that rockets to signal United States gunboats in case of an attack had been given to the factionists of Baez. He even went so faras to denounce the Presi- dent as more deserving of impeachment than Andrew Johnson; and when some one of the opposition spoke of Sumner as the Brutus’ who had stabbed his friend, Schurz responded! that the dagger of Brutus was driven iato the heart of Cxsarism. The resolutions of Mr. Sumner relative to St. Domingo were finally tabled by a vote of 39 to 16, fifteen members being either absent or unwilling to vote. .° Tn the House the Ku Klux debate wis con- tinued, Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, de- claring that the condition of the South at present wasa condition of war, and that it was the duty of Congress to order the federal troops into the disorderly sections and restore peace, © 4 aid ~~" Rapid Transit—Day Breaking. After a tumult of unexampled rigor between rival interests, it seems that at last day is breaking in the matter of rapid transit bétween the lower and the upper sections of the city of New York. The Viaduct Railroad bill has passed the House, after a raging tempest in a teapot amdig tember’, ahd, having already passed the Senate, it only awaits the signatura of the Governor to become a law. It is ex- pected the Governor will sizn the bill without unnecessary delay. - ae So far, so good. We say we think we now geo the dawn of the day of rapid transit; but how will it be at high noon? Is this viaduct enterprise to mect the fate of the many other experiments in the philosophy of quick loco- motion that have already been elaborated at Albany? Is it to come up and become an es- tablished benefit to the citizens of New York, or is it to go down into the fathomless abyss of bargain and sale, jobbery and collusion? The underground, tumbledown and property destruction fraud has been exploded. The ar- cade delusion has been dispelled. The tube-rosa has lost its sweetness. The surface schema has been pronounced impracticable, and the interests of its aiders and abettors have be- come null and void. That King Job has had a finger in these various plans has been ag patent as any patent of nobility King James of England ever vouchsafed an early foreign immigrant to the American Continent, We trust, however, that the reign of King Job ia over at Albany (about the city transit busi- ness, at any rate), and that a shower of good legislation will appease the thirst of the Go- thamites for better modes of inter-communi- cation. ? + net pronosition iay possess somo. objectionable features, for Ho bili of its mag- nitude ever passed our Legislature that some lawyers or corrupt politicfans could not find flaws in, But let it be taken as it has been given. We are not likely to get any better plan in our day. Let the men who stand be- hind it push it through. If in the initiative it is found to be & nuisance it can be abated as a nuisance. But don’t let it Slip through like the jobbing schemes of the past \yithout a fair trial. There is no reason why the viaduct principle should not work as well here as in London and in other cities where it.has been put in practice. : Now is the time for the Tammany people to erect a monument to their memories more ea- during than brass. Hence-in the absence of any better scheme we say, ‘Push along the viaduct, and give us ten minutes to Harlem.’ Personal Intelligence. Mr. William Williams, member of Congress, of Buffalo, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Judge J. G. Abvott, of Boston, has arrived at the Brevoort House. , Mr. Oakes Ames, member of Congress,.of Masma- chasetts, ts sojourning at the Fifth Avenue 'Hovek. Colonel Charles S, Medary, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Hoffman House. John A. Griswold, of Troy, has returned to hig apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ’ Mr. J, Nevett Steele, of Baltimore, is temporartty, at the New York Hotel. Jushi Kujotaca Kuroda, Japanese Minister to. Rus sia, and his secretary, Iwasaki, who will sail by the next steamer for Europe, are now at the St. Nicho- las Hotel. Mr. John Duff, Vice President of the Unton Pacific Railroad, is among the arrivals at the Fifth Avenue: Hotel. Mr. Francis B. “Hayes, President of the Atiantic. and Pacific Railroad, is at the Brevoort House. Mr. G,. W. Huntington, director of the Kansas ana Pacific Railroad, 13 stopping at the Hoffman House. Senator John R. Yaliup, of New Orleans, and Sen- ator A. Caldwell, of Kansas, aro at the Si. Nicholas. A BROOKLYN TEMPCRANCE AXCUNGRT. Coroner Jones was notified yesterday to hold am mquest over the body of a sailor, Wililam Castor, who recently boarded at No. 422 West Warren street, Brooklyn. From the testimony elicited at the inquest it appeared that the uniortunate mariner went out early on Tuesday morning and got-ona violent spree, visiting gin shops and alefvautts with alarming rapidity, and partaking deeply’of the intox- cating beverages dispensed, Late in’ the evening he headed for his quarters, in West Warren street, and staggered to within a couple of Wlocks of the board. ing house, When he fell to the #idewaik insensibie, He was recoyrnized, and the Keeper o1 the house at which Castor had been stopging procured & wheel- barrow and went after the prostrate man, Liftwe him on the b Whe stayted home with bim, and mn fo th on Ol § use found Mat life waa brain was she immediate The colored population celebrate to-day In grand | Stylo the anniverzary of the adoption of the fifteenth emendment. Taere will bea grand parade and a mass meettny In the cven ne ee ey EN En ae LEE DI Ea Eek aA. FASE RRS be extensiv her beat will be ow and u