The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eyo Niet JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic Aespatches must be addressed New York Tiggarv. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubdt{shed every day in the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription rricé $12. ‘The EuRorgan Epition, every Wednesday, at Six Cunrs per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $3 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- Berted in the WEEKLY HBRALD and the European Edition. Volume XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 38d OTHELLO WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner Soh st.—Perform: ences every afternoon and evening, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tat Horizon, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue SPECTACLE OF Tux BLACK CRooK. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th street Bretu. 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TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, March 31, 1871. Pack. —Advertisementa, Advertisements, 3—The State Capitol: Important Proceedings of the fe aaa Celebration of the Colored 4—Congress : The Senate Exercised Over Southern Outrages; the House Discussing the New En- forcement Bill—Blatr’s Last Blast Against the icals—Brown Butchered—A Ride to Death—Straub's Salve—The Aldama Property- ‘The Broadway Widening Case—Ractng Istab- Ushments of America: Mr, M. H. Sanford’s Horses—Rulotr and His Scholarstip—Erie’s ice, a The New ‘treaty Resulting from the Eastern Conference; A Commercial Crisis Feared in Frauce; Banquet to General Sheri- dan in Paris—The Zurjca Festival: Startling Peace Celebration by the Germans in Switzér- tanga pellaneous Foreign itéms—The Pi. er! Tota’ ip freslan Benevolence—"Larry’? Kerr's Lo iger. paleo — 6—Editoriais ; Leading Article, “Prmce Bismarck on the Adairs of Paris, France and Germany— A Hera.p Commissioner's Interview with the _ Statesmau’—Amusement Announce- ents. 7—Editorial (continued from Sixth Page)—The Re- bellion in Paris: Both Sides Preparing for War—Bismarck: His Views on the Rouge Ke- bellion in Paris—The Roman Riots: The Italian Government Tampering with the HERALDS Despatches—Cuba: Defeat of Detachments of Spanish Troops—Obituary—Views of the Past—Business Notices. $—The St. Domingo Commission: Occurrences on Board the Tennessee After Leaving Dominica; The Little Ditferences Among the Commission- ers; Cabral’s Letter to the President of the Senate—New Jersey Legislature—Proceedings in the Courts—Booth’s Bogus Bonds—Lilie’s “Say”—Another Cable Capture. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Matters—The Greenpoint Murder—Department of Docks—Marriages and Deatis—Advertise- ments. 10—Washington : Exciting Scene Between Senator Davis and Ben Butler; Debate on the Ku Kiux Bill in the House—Shipping News—Advertise- ments. 11—Aavertisements, 42~Aavertuusemen A Bitt Has Been Reporrep in the State Senate to incorporate a company to carry away the offal, carrion and other refuse of the city. Here's an offal fat chance that shrewd jobbers are not likely to refuse. Tue Firreenta AMENDMENT celebrafion yesterday was very creditable to our colored fellow cilizens, About four thousand of them were in line, moving with considerable mar- tial effect, notwithstanding the drizzling rain and the incongruous appearance of peaceful umbrellas among the warlike procession. Among the invited guests of the company were several distinguished colored men, including a son of the Prince of Gaboon. A mass meet- ing was held in Cooper Institute during the evening. Ir EvIvENceE were wanting to show how far ¢ome Jawyers will go in their endeavors to ‘carry a point it is only necessary to glance at the attempt in the Jumel case to twist and turn a very old lady’s testimony to the preju- dice of the moral character of the immortal Washington. There is only one word which properly characterizes so base an effort, and that is—‘‘infamous.” Tne Erte Ctassirication Fravp came within three votes of a defeat in the Assembly last night. The recusant republicans were to blame, of course. New Reoistry Law of Senator ed forth avery exciting discussion It was a very unpleasant dis- THE cuss bers who Gew the Morrissey and Manhattan It consisted mainly the coalition between Club banners lyst winter. of remisiseences of Tweed and .heh rewublicans to secure the pa b rand the Election law, the latter of which the present bill overthrows. The inded both the Young m0¢} ago and the rural repnb- De l r trust io Berrer Tuan Sr. Domi rations on a grand scale are bei cisco for the re ion of anticipated visit thera, u Fran- jrant on his a, tco, tothe Young Den ic mem- | F mB, to; to ths Tempe aeemporatis mem {| erous or incompetent to cope with the insur- ! a oe NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 381, 1871.-—TRIPLE SHEET, Prince Bismarck on the Affairs of Paris, France and Germany—A Herald Com- misaiouer’s Interview with the Great Statesman. From a Heratp commissioner, whose head- quarters are at Berlin, wo havé received by telegraph, under date of March 29, from that city, the material points of a recent conversa- tion between him and Prince Bismarck touch- ing the attitude of Germany in reference to the critical condition of France from the conflict botween the government at Versailles and the insurgent usurpation and armed occupation of | Paris. With great pleasure we submit our commissioner's report of this conversation to our readers this morning; with grent pleasure, wo say, because it so far simplifies the attitude and purposes of Germany in regard to Paris and to Franc2 that it removes allapprehensions a3 to the suppression of the Paris Jacobins and the complete triumph of the government at Versailles. What says Prince Bismarck? In the outset he expresses his appreciation of the good sense and consistency of the people of the United States during the late war. Ho is satisfied with our neutrality, notwiths‘anding our prompt recognition of the French republic of Gambetta and Company, and the shipment from this port of arms and munitions of war to France, amounting to + millions of dollars ia value. Oa the other haad, as we know from the protestations of the Prussian Minister at London to Earl Gran- ville, Prince Bismarck has not been satisfied with the peculiar neutrality of Eagland. Ina talk with a Heratp representative the ex- Emperor Napoleon at Wilhelmshthe, on the eve of his departure for England, indulged in a little pleasantry on ‘‘the cornucopia” of blessings showered upon the new German empire by General Grant, and Prince Bis- marck, perhaps, may be under the influence of this cornucopia. It is enough, however, that in our relations to France and Germany in this gigantic war he cordially endorses the “good sense and consistency of the people of the United States.” Sheba oF He does not regard this insurgent usurpa- tion and its armed and defiant occupation of Paris as possessing that degree of importance generally supposed. The public mind of Ger- many seems to be occupied in this matter only upon two points—first, as to the possible detention of the German troops in France, and, secondly, upon the reflection that the savage atrocities of the Paris “reds” furnish the proof that the German estimate of the population of Paris is nearer the troth ‘than that of neutrals, who consider Paris the centre of civilization, and almost too sacred to be touched by German barbarians.” To get at the whole truth, however, concerninz Paris, we must edopt the opinion of the neutrals and the" estimate of the Germans, and it may be thus expressed :— Paris is, or has been so far, the centre of modern civilization, and at the same time the hotbed of barbarism. It has been and is the attractive capital, where all the virtues of Christianity and all the fascinations and refine- ments of civilization have found their fullest developments, and it has been and is the great centre of all the vices of communism, | buffoonery, debauchery, red conspiracies and asavage thirst for blood. The events of this war, in regard to Paris, have proved the cor- rectness of Jefferson’s opinion that ‘“yréqt eat uloors gn the body politic, » t00, that if France would be ce With herself Paris can be France uo | more, This is the question in dispute between the insurgent reds of Paris and the government of France at Versailles, And here we touch the important views and designs of Prince Bis- marck upon this vital question. He says that in this conflict between Paris and Versailies the policy of Germany is very simple—tbat the Paris insurgents are but rioters, a lawle s3 mob, a mob of formidable propor{‘ons and or- g anization, but still nothing more than a mob; that the government of M. Thiers is the legiti- mate government of France ; that as between this government and the Paris mob the Ger- mans can have nothing to do until the mob shall encroach upon the treaty rights of Ger- many, or until the legitimate French govern- ment shall call for assistance. This reduces the difficulty to an easy set- tlement. If the Paris insurgents transgress the terms of the convention with Germany they will be treated as rioters by the German army and will be dispersed by force of arms, On the other hand, such facilities as the Ger- mans may afford to M. Thiers to strengthen him in the concentration of troops against the insurgents, without involving Germany as an unauthorized intermeddler, will be given bim. In behalf of law and order he will be allowed a larger military force than is permitted in the peace preliminaries, But, best of all, if driven to the extremity of an appeal to Germany for armed intervention, M. Thiers will be sup- ported by the Germamarmy. The only interest of Germany, meantime, in this business is that important interest of the fulfilment by France of her conditions of peace. Germany holds no relations with the usurping Paris reds. She has no desire or intention to interfere in the internal concerns of France; but all parties must respect and observe the terms of her peace compact with Germany. In this view, onan appeal for armed assistance, Germany, to acertaip degree, may give it, in order that poor France may be lifted to her feet and put in a condition to work out and pay off her enormous debt incurred by that stupid and dreadful blunder of Napoleon’s quarrel with Germany about » Hobenzollera as a Spanish chosen king for Spain, The insurgent usurpation of Paris, it will be seen, is fairly withia the gresp of M. | Thiers, If the troops from the French pro- ; vinces called in to his support prove treach- gents of the capital, he has only to say the word and the German army will march into Paris and disperse the mob, Those Jacobins have had their misgivings upon this point | from the beginning; for among their first proclamations they were very careful in dea claring a faithful adhesion to the treaty stipu- lations with Germany, It may be that M. Thiers bas had no fear of a necossity of an appeal for military aidto the German Em- peror through Prince Bismarck, and t may be still in doubt as to a favor sponse in the event of such Hence, perhapa, his extreme cautiouin regard | hat he 1 ble 8 { part of T to the Paris insurgents. Now, if still in doubt, let him be assured from the New York Herarp that Germany, if called upon, will help him with her army in the restoration of law and order; for we have no doubt of the substantial truth of our commissioner's re- port. We dare say, however, that the pre- sence and daily increasing forces of the Ger- man army within striking distance of Paris will of themselves give an easy victory to M. Thiers in an armed movement upon the city, and so we conclude the reign of the Jacobins is nearly ended. The provinces are loyal; the large cities of the south and north of France have not been materially disturbed by. the Paris revolt, With the suppression of this revolt the probability is that it will have served a good purpose in behalf of a self-sus- taining restoration of order in Paris and | France, Prince Bismarck is a bellever in the power of the independent preas, and, as the master mind among the diplomats of Europe, he | knows that the independent press of the United States may be usefully employed through an intelligent interviewer- even in the | shaping of European political affairs. In this | way we may recall a conversation of his with | a HgRap correspondent on German matters a year or more ago which, in going back to Germany in our columns, there produced a marked effect in favor of his policy of Ger- | man unity from its republication in the lead- ing German papers. From time to timo through our columns we have given the con- versations with our special representatives of | most of the leading statesmen of Europe on the engrossing political events and questions of the day; but of all those great statesmen Prince Bismarck speaks most to the point and the purpose. The brief report of bis views which we give to-day on the present crisis in France makes the solution of its complications as simple and decisive as the settlement of our negro question in the fifteenth amend- ment. The Bouge Rebcill Proclamations and circulars from the Ver- sailles authorities and the Paris insurgent committee seem about to give way to ener- getic and, we fear, bloody work, It was, of course, impossible for the rival governments to remain long within twelve miles of each other and content themselves with firing off “‘paper bullets ;” hence the news we publish this morning does not come unexpected. Per- haps it would be exaggerating to say that fighting has already commenced, but there was picket firing on the Versailles road on Wednesday night, and although our despatches do not report any firing yesterday it is probable enough that the outposts of the opposing forces resumed their skirmishing. Which side will take the initiative is still problematical. Itis announced from Versailles, however, that the military commanders have agreed upon a plan of attack o& Paris, and as M. Thiers bas had ample time to concentrate a large force in the vicinity of the city an advance ought to be made within the next seven days. One despatch reports that General Vinoy has been superseded by General Barral, but a later despatch sta‘zs that Viaoy is still in eom- mand, Of Barral we know liitle, He is probably & gon of the late Count Hippolyte de Barral vtor of the Empire, and, unless he differ: ‘ly in political sentiment from his father aud grandfather, must be an im- peria . eo We are uncertain whether the Germans will give the French active aid in restoring order in Paris, Yesierday M. Theirs stated in the National Assembly that a convention had been signed by which more German troops are to enter the city and the French garrison is to be increased. The despatcd, however, is ob- scurely worded and conflicts, to some extent, with a previous one, which states that Herr Fabrice, the German Civil Administrator in France, had consented to the French increas- ing the garrison of Paris to eighty thousand men, but nothing is said regarding the entrance of German troops. If M. Thiors has applied to Bismarck for aid he will cerainly receive it; but the application will be a confession of the inability of his government to suppress the insurrection, and though its making, under the circumstances, cannot be regarded as other- wise than patriotic we fear that its political effect upon the administration of M. Thiers will be fatal. Paris (and perhaps St. Etienno) seems to be the only point in insurrection against the Versailles government. The attempt to es- tablish the Commune in Marseilles has completely failed. M. Crcmienx, the head of the insurgents, has been ar- rested, and the red flag has disappeared from the city. Paris, consequently, stands isolated, and the question now is whether she is strong enough to resist the army concen- trated at Versailles. It must be admitted that the insurgent Sub-Central Committee are act- ing in a manner that betokens little apprehen- sion of failure. On Wednesday M. Assy meade a violent speech, in which he threat- ened to shoot all enemies of the Commune, and yesterday one of them—Fouvielle by name—was actually sentenced to death. At the same time orders were issued to search out and arrest all persons op- posed to the miserable mob in power in Paris, thus practically inaugurating a second Reign of Terror. Fortunately for France the bloodthirsty committee do not display as much energy agaiost Versailles as they do against the defencelcss men in their power. Still, there is no telling what a day may bring forth. Unless they proceed vigorously at once against the army at Ver- sailles they will find themselves shut up in Paris and probably starved out. Audacity is their only ally at present, and it may be that they will as audaciously attack Versailles as they audaciousty drove the Thiers govern- ment from Paris, But whether or not they inaugurate a warlike movement, it is evident isis is approaching which will only na bloody encounter between the gover ment forces, representing law and or- der, and the Paris communists, representing anarchy. Tug Proposep AMENDMENTS to our City Charier have been passed in the State Senate. They are v acceptable amendmonts gen- erally, indicatiag a laudable intention on the ped to d out the most obioction- able features of the present Charter, Tho. Fasion of the Bourbons=The Count do Chambord. A cable despatch which we priat this morning, states that the long expected Bour- bon fusion has at last ‘taken place, and that by the full consent of the members of both the elder and younger houses the Count de Cham- bord is to be the acknowledged Bourbon chief. In the person of the Count de Cham- bord, if report speaks truth, the claims of the Legitimists and of the Orleanists centre, Whether the arrangement is wise or unwise it is really difficult, in present circumstances, to decide. It is a bad thing for France to have too many pretenders. One is bad enough. There are too many. Great Britain had for one or two generations trouble enough from one Pretender. The Battle of the Boyne, and the later movement under ‘‘Bonnie Prince Charlie,” have left an impress on the English-speaking races which is felt in the New World almost as much as in the Old, and which is not likely soon to be effaced. All that trouble came from onesource, If one Pretender can work so much mischief what must be expected frem three? The House of Bonaparte will never give up its pretensions, It cannot; it dare not. The Bourbons will never give up their pretensions. They cannot; They dare not. But the House of Bourbon is divided; and itis felt in this case, as it bas been felt in all similar cases for the last three thousand years, that a house divided against itself cannot stand. The fusion of the two | Bourbon branches haz long been contemplated. ; It was announced as far back as 1853 thata satisfactory compact had been entered into; and we were taught to believe that hencefor- ward we should hear no more of Legitimists and Orleanists, but only ef the Bourbons. Somehow the compact proved a failure; and tho Legitimists and the Orleanists divided have continued to present their rival claims, As pretenders we have had latterly the Count de Chambord, the Count de Paris and the Duc d’Aumale. It cannot be a bad thing for tbe Bourbons to concentrate their strength, So far as they are conceraed they have done well to unite, The question ig whether the French people will sanction the arrangement, In our judg- ment the fusion is wise; but the result of the fusion is unwise, The Count de Chambord, it is true, represents all the Bourbons, and, the Count having no family, the presumption is that at his death the House of Orleans will represent all the interests of all the French Bourbons. But retrogression is seldom popu- lar with any people. Can France go back to the discarded Lezitimists? Can France sign her name under a bill which favors divine right? Wetbink not. If there is to be a fusion of the Bourbons the fusion must reflect the grace of God and the will of the French people rather than legitimacy or divine right. The Bourbon compromise, so far as we can see, is to be a gain to tho Bonapartes. The House of Bonaparte is the only house that can give France the semblance and comforts, with a permanent and ‘hereditary executive head. This Bourbon fusion encourages us in the be- Nef that the ragtoration of the Bonapartes is almost a certainty in the not distant future, Davis and Butier—f« te be a Duele A most amusing scene occurred in the Senate chamber yesterday during tke dcli- very of Garrett Davis’ speech against the proposed Ka Kinx bill. Ben Butler sat near him, and gozed upon him with his awful eye until Garrett hecame con- fused and ended his speech sooner than he intended. Then he sat down, and he and Ben sat glaring upon one another like deadly enemies each at bay. Finaily the dreadful orb of Butler [proved too much for the weak eyes of Garrett. His glancqfell and he turned viciously upon the Essex champion. ‘You're a damned scoun- drel, sir!” said he; ‘Yes, sir, you're a damned scoundrel,” Butler’s thick skin was not ruf- fled by any such mild abuse as this, and hav- ing accomplished his object, which evidently was to bring the long-winded Davis to an earlier conclusion of his speech than he was likely to reach other- wise, he sidled out of the room. Davis was dreadfully ruffled by the occurrence, and it was thought probable that he would rouse himself up to a duelling pitch before the even- ing was over. A duel ought to come out of it. The two houses have grown sluggish through long disuse of the code of honor, and it is the prevailing impression that there is not real chivalric, hot blood enough in the whole Congress to get up a duel with real blood- letting. With such a sluggish plethora of blood among the members we'll have cases of apoplexy and vertigo and rushing of brains to the head ere long, unless there is a little judicious lancing. Butler and Davis are the men that are best fitted by nature and by the lack of any neces- sity for their further existence to relieve Con gress of this surplus of blood and to bring about a healthy reaction among the members. Let them have. pistols or bowie knives, or small swords or broomsticks and coffee for two at once, Tox Burra.o Courter thinks that the demo- cratic platform, as framed by Fernando Wood, might be made to comprise one or two additional points of importaace and yet con- tain a fewer number of articles. As it stands it resembles an overlonded express wagon, and an attempt to pile ona few more boxes will be likely to cause the entire load te cap- size. Tue St. Dominco Commisstoners.—Judg- ing from the letters of our correspondent on board the Tennessze, we should say that the St. Domingo Commission did not constitute a happy family. Ben Wado wanted to go home, and the others didn’t; they had not seen enough of the island, its people and their insti- tutions; they wanted to interview Cabral and remain in a warm climate uatil the snow and ice at home had disappeared; but Ben Wade wouldu’t. A compremise was effected, how- ever, and they went to Kingston; here the row broke out afresh, and it is plain that if they had continued much longer together Cap- tain Temple or his marine guard would have had to interfere to stop the slight unpleasant- ness, We are glad that they are home at last, that their quarrel did not become more serious, and we hope, now that their mission is ended, they will not permit any farther cool- negs to exiat between them, Italian Bnayonets on the Attar in Rome. The government of Italy has perpetrated a great many blunders under the administration of King Victor Emmanuel, His Majesty's officers in Rome have just now committed the grossest mistake of any, as if in verification of the time-honored adage that ‘a blunder is worse than a crime.” Indeed, itlooks as if the King’s troops endeavored to make their blun- der a crime, and that, too, of the most unusual and unchristianlike character. The Italian soldiers have arrested a priest on the altar— they have made a riot ina church. A special HeRatp correspondence from the Holy City, which appears in our columns to-day, reports the particulars of the riots which occurred in and around the Jesuits’ church in Rome on the 10th of March, after the delivery of a sermon by Father Tomasi. The dis- turbances were continued during tho next day, when the clerical party, as it is called, were pursued into the precinct of the sacred edifice by the military, driven toward the sanctuary with the bayonet, dis- armed, and another priest, Callati, made prisoner on the altar on the charge of ‘“insult- ing a policeman.” A very meagre notice of these occurrences reached the New York press from miscellaneous sources during the same night, A special Heraxp telegram report, which was immediately prepared by our correspondent for transmission by cable telegram, was em- bargoed in the telegraph office by the Italian authorities, its transit forbidden, and the money charge which had been paid to the agents of the company for forwarding it returned to our representative. The condition of affairs which then existed in Rome and the attendant cir- cumstances of this particular case are given in complete detail in our columns to-day. The picture is really sad. King Victor Emmanuel is forced to institute very violent proceedings in his endeavor to appropriate the property of the Catholic Church to the use of his treasury. ‘Leave not in Corinth a priest on her altars.” ‘Her priesthood hunted down like wolves.” Such was the order issued by the Turks to their fanatic soldiery in the capital of Greece—such the report of the British ailitary con imanders in frefand after the wlolatlon ‘of i Treaty of Limerick and the completion of the murders which were committed by their troops subse- quently. Is the King of Italy about to repro- duce the darkest side of these two pages of history—and in Rome and in the nineteenth century? Christianity, civilization and the cause of order cry, ‘“‘Nay” against avy such attempt. THe WARFARE IN CuBA.—We learn by special telegram to the HeRAtp from Havana that two Spanish detachntents have been sur- prised by the rebels, and one of them, seventy in number, were all killed. The Spaniards must expect this; the rebels in Cuba will die hard, and in their death agony will be danger- ous. They must be on the lookout for sur- prises and massacres, for both will be the order of the day now. . Mr. TwkED proposes to limit the expense of giving us Lake Gilead water to five million dollars per year, the cost of the lands to be included. As the bill was passed and signed by the Governor some time ago we ought to feel very grateful to the “Boss” for limiting the sum at all. Toe New Apysrtisina Donor, by which somie enterprising individuals hoped to get | the rigut from the Legtslature to erect columns on the public streets for the purpose of post- ing bills thereon, as if the various dead walls and the new Post Office fence were not eye- sores enough in this respect, has failed sig- nally, through the watchfulness of the Gov- ernor. He had a crushing veto prepared to hurl against it, when its friends begged to have it returned ‘‘for correction,” the cor- rection most probably being the striking out of the enacting clause. Tne PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS at acro- batic exhibitions is the purpose of a bill just passed by the State Senate. It will throw so many safeguards about the men and women of the flying trapeze that it will probably divest that style of exhibition of all its attractive horrors. It will make midair performances touch safer exhibitions for the trapezists, but much unsafer investments for the managers. TaKING TIME BY THE FoRELOcK.—The Con- necticut republicans, apprehending defeat at the election on Monday next, are taking timo by the forelock by attributing their ill luck to the influence of that terrible old ogre, Tam- many. When the republicans learn party management as thoroughly as the Tammany leaders they may expect victories. Otherwise they may as well be content with what they can get, Tne PRESBYTERIANS OF PAILADELPHIA are wrothy at George H. Stuart for slaging hymns not set down in the established hymn book and for accepting sacrament with per- sons of another sect, and have excommuni- cated him therefor. This Mr. Stuart was the President of the Sanitary Commission during the war, and, if we mistake not, presented to the Presbyterians the very church from the membership of which they have just ousted him. Showing faith by works is no good doc- trine with these people. If you can’t be religious to the established tune and work for the glory of God in the prescribed key, and break bread and drink wine in orthodox Pres- bylerian company, you may go to a worse place than Halifax for all your sanitary com- missions and your church donations, Revivat IN Crvs Boatina.—The coming season promises to be a lively one among our different boat clubs. Bills are now before the Sonate, having already passed the House, incorporating two of our most promising clubs—the Nautilus and the Gramercy. Nothing conduces more to health and tho development of the human frame than the exercise of rowing. The Legislature ought to give these clubs every encouragement. Tue Hartrorp Zimes claims two thousand majority for Governor English next Monday. That's the plain English of it. A Writer in the Nation—once a student of theology—does not think that Rulloff, the condemned, would have passed for what De Quincy calls ‘a sound, well built scholar.” The young theologue was worsted in an argu- ment with Rulloff while the latter was in the Aubura State i in 1850, a a a ae en i ce ee eae The Sea Lawyer of the Administration. There is a certain two-legged marine animal, very commonly to be found in the forecastle of a well appointed ship, and popularly known as the Sea Lawyer, This creature has the phys!- cal likeness of a human being, but {s mentally so ignorant, cunning and mischievous that an impartial landsman at once acquits him of the accusation of manhood, Perhaps a disciple of Darwin might discover him to be the inter- mediate link between the genus homo and the brute creation, This monster seduces the crew from their allegiance, quickens the seeds of perverseness and revolt, and is fre- quently successful in bringing about a mutiny. When he does not, it is because the captain, like a sensible man, at the firat convenient op- portunity has clapped him in irons, Such, according to the hint thrown out by Carl Schurz, is very nearly tho rdle played by Secretary Robeson upon the geod abip Ad- ministration, Captain Grant, bound from St. Domingo to the Lord alone knows where. In some respects, however, Robeson is a uniquo specimen of the sea lawyer. In place of being the idolized oracle of disaffected sailors he appears to be the favorite counsellor of the commander. He does not slink about the forecastle, but walks upon the poop deck, with gold epaulets upon his shoulders and an enormous speaking trumpet, with a most hideously discordant tone, at his lips, through which he pretends to thunder out the orders of the captain. He is, however, true to the instincts of his species in the one essential rogard that he unceasingly occupies himself in getting up a muss, He dilizently foments discord, though he works upon the captain instead of upon the men; which is, perhaps, so much the worse for the captain. It was very unfortunate for Sea Lawyer Robeson that his letter to Captain Temple should be published the same day as Sumner’s speech, The speech was a dignified protest against 9 breach of the constitutlon—the con- acientious growl of an honest political mastiff, with a true and loyal heart, but with, perhaps, somewhat awkward manners and a gruff utter- ance, The letter was a labored attempt to prove wrong right; it was a literary wriggle from end to end, the epistolary squirm of a speared eel, the snappish cry of an over- pampered lapdog, with a temper soured by irregular and excessive feeding. If the letter had only been made public a few days earlier the speech would scarcely haye been necos- sary; for it praotically admits the one charge made against the administra- tion—that it meddled in the internal affairs of a friendly State. Sea Lawyer Robeson, indeed, not only admits, but de- fends, this clear violation of international law— we might say, further, of international moral- ity and decency; and, to make the matter worse, he has tried to prop up his bad logic with a bogus fact—the alleged action of Madison. in regard to West Florida—which was, of course, at once detected and exposed by Schurz and Sumner. ps TR The truth of the matter is that this entire St. Domingo scraps Springs from our Sea Lawyer's perverted gastronomic tastes, Robeson, as everybody knows, is an epicure, and is passionately fond of pité de foie gras. Paté de foie gras is made of goose’s liver; but the goose from which the liver is taken has to be gently roasted alive before a slow fire. When it was determined to gobble up the Dominica goose Grant would have been per- fectly satisfied to eat it plain, as soon as he could get it—after the fashion of a man who was bred on a farm and likes to dine at two o'clock in the afternoon, But Robeson would not hear of such a thing. He wanted to make a political pté de Strasbourg, and to do this it was necessary to put the land of Baez through a course of preliminary torture. And Sumner has now with a big stick got after him and all who have countenanced him in this flendish outrage, like a Sonatorial Bergh for the prevention of international cruelty, We believe Grant's policy of annexing Do- minica was at the outset popular and wise, and it was certainly in accord with the most dearly cherished of American political ideas— the manifest destiny of the Stars and Stripes to wave over every acre of American soil, If this policy had been carried out by discreet and capable men it would have been a mag- nificent success, and the republican party— or so much of it, at any rate, as chose to sustain the hero of Appomattox — would have had a new lease of power. But General Grant's grand mistake has been to place in the most respon- sible posts worthless, self-opinionated, un- popular and incapable men. He has allowed these creatures, who have brought discredit upon his administration and dishonor upon the country, to whisper in his ear all kinds of false reports. And these fabrications are, we believe, the true cause of the personal diffi- culties that have sprung up between the President andthe wisest and strongest men of his party. It is not too late, even now, for General Grant to save the republican party. But he must at once hand over Sea Lawyer Robeson to the tender mercies of Neptune's pitchfork, and he must weed out from his Cabinet and every branch of the administration all the noxious weeds thet now rankly flourish by his patron- age. Above all, he must dismiss from his mind all the lying tales that these false friends have carried to him. If he could only for an hour or ao get the loan of Ithuriel’s spear, and would stroll round the Capitol and give a gen- tle prog to every Congressmen he should meet, he would find that many men whom he has been told are his greatest enemies are in truth desirous of being his best friends; while many a fancied “faithful Achates” would be dis- played in his true colors as a rank traitor. Letter from Genoral Blair. Genoral Frank Blair has written a letter to the editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, in response toa request that he should en- deavor to compose the ‘‘dead issue” contro- versy among democrats in the South. In re- gard to the reconstruction acts and the amend- menis he says it is immaterial whether they went through the forms that catitle them to ba put on the statute book or not; nor doce it affect the ability of the democrats to put the government in the hands of the people if they carry the election, whether these acis and amendments are valid or invalid. Thatis to say, if we rightly understa id the Gouoral, if the democrats carry the couatry in 1872 they a eo