The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1871, Page 6

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IN TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, W1 Bowery.—Va- ‘RIETY ENTERTAINNENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Comzo VooaL- tus, NzGno Acts, 20. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUS! . aud 7th avs.--NeGRO MiNeTusLey, ko. at Seine DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. a ‘ag TRIPLE SHEET, —— = New York, Thursday, April 6, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. t—ad: 2—Advertisements. 3-St. Domingo: Special Message from the Prest- dent on St. Domingo; His vourse Explamed and Justified; Report of the American vom- Miasioners: Bt. Domingo an Arcadia and the Dominicans Arcadians; The Population Small, Anoffensive, Honest snd Uneducated; Great Mineral and Agricultural Wealth of the Coun- 4—Xevellious Paris : Details of the Massacre in the Place Vendéme; Demonstrations by the Batta- lions of Montmartre; the Pai Assassina- tton; Correspondence Between the Government and the German Military Authorities; te, : vy. Germany : Emperor William's Reception y the People and Parliament—The Morse Memorial Monument—Disaster in the Bay. S—The Crittenden Homicide: The Trial of Laura D. Fatr for the Murder of A. P, Crittenden— Proceedings 1n the Courts—The Broadway Swindie—Real Estate Matters—Elopement from New York—Marriages and Deaths. G—Editorial: Leacing Article, “The Connecticut Etection”—Afairs in Washington—Amuse- ment Announcements, 7—The Rouge Rebellion: Another Battle Ex- i—The Rebellion in St. Domingo—News ‘om Mexico and Porto Rico—News from the State Capital—Business Notices. 8-Financial snd Commercial Reports—The Cotton Movement—Alabama Finances—Buflalo—Ad- vertisements. 9—Advertisements. est. yong ad {continued from Third Page)— Shipping Intelligence —Advertisements, 41—Advertusements, . 12—Advertisements. A Fmsr Rats Spezoumaxer—The Empe- ror William of Germany, The ‘old man elo- quent,” in his speeches, as in his war de- Fpatches, speaks always to the point and tothe purpose. He speaks to the hearts of the peo- ple, too, and hence the unity of Germany ‘around him. ~ A Megtancuory Rrrorr—The report that Viscount Trielhard, the new French Minister at Washington, is deranged in his mind and is in the National Insane Asylum. The report, however, we dare say, is an invention sng- ‘gested by the unfortunate fate of Prévost- Paradol. Te Proposition introduced in the Senate ‘yesterday for an insane commission of three well known physicians, to decide upon all ‘cases of alleged lunacy, is an excellent idea, It will prove an effectual bar upon a great deal of private madhouse villany of which the world knows naught at present. * Our German Peace Jvpiex on Easter Monday, from the arrangements perfected and from the programme of the celebration, will be one of the very grandest displays ever ‘witnessed inthis city. The musicians alone engaged, we learn, number upwards of five thousand. The turnout, we dare say, will com- pletely eclipse the Connecticut election. Tux Jomwt Hicn Commission, it ie said, “have at last gone regularly to work around the diplomatic green table, and that within two weeks, or -thereabouts, perhaps, with a good run of shad in the Potomac, they will be able to lay before the President a treaty set- tling the fishery question, the St. Lawrence navigation question, and those aforesaid Ala- ‘tbama claims, and various other claims. We consider this glorious news, as the signs of a good run of shad in the Potomac are said to be very encouraging. | ‘ Rai Transtt.—The Governor signed the ‘Viaduct Railrond bill yesterday and we may consider that scheme as the one we must accept for rapid transit. The Governor has ‘shown such uniform good judgment in his ap- ‘provals and vetoes heretofore that we may rest assured the present bill has received his close ‘attention and has been found even more satis- factory than we have heretofore believed it to This is some comfort, and since rapid transit is to be, and Mr. Genet has said that he would have this road running from the to Union square in two years, we work will be commenced at once and ‘that there will be no tedious injanctions or ‘Ailatory motions interposed to stay the work, mentee Toe Grand Mass Mzzrise at Coorrr InatrrutTe to-night of the city “Council of Political Reform,” we expect, will be a memo- rable affair, The object is to bring a powerful moral high pressure against certain measures Introduced into the Legislature ‘‘disastrously affecting,” as the Council believe, ‘the material avd political, and éspecially the moral and educational interests of this city,” including the city tax bill, the bill for the abo- lition of the Board of Education, the bill to Fepeal the law regulating public amusements and the bill for the practical abolition of the : Registry law. Against these measures this \ mnooting is called, and from the distinguished : Ppeakers engaged for the occasion we aro sat- fafied that they will ‘‘make Rome bowl.” KEW YURK HRALD, THURSDAY, ‘The Connecticat Election. If ever there was 8 muddle of an election it is the contest that has just been concluded in Conneoticut. With a full vote, as far as returned, of between ninety-twd and ninoty- four thousand, the election of Governor remains in doubt, The latest returns show that Governor English has a plurality of five votes, with a hundred errors yet to be cor- rected in the official count. The old proverb that one swallow does not make a sammer is illustrated in the comparison between the democratic victory in New Hampsbire and the democratic disappointment in Connecticut, The fact is that the sudden shock which the republican party got from the reverberation of the democratic cannon announcing a» triumph from the battle field ia New Hampshire, woke them up to the necessity of looking after their interests in Connecticut. They braced them- selves up, stiffened their muscles and put on their dignity for a good square fight, and there is no doubt but they fought it well. Tho administration, too, was alive to the fact that Connecticut must not be permitted to add another success. to the democratic cause in New England; and hence every effort was made on Monday last by the labors of federal officers, and, it is said, by the influence of federal money, to a great extent, in helping out the necessary electioneering expenses to defeat Governor English. The colored vote also, which was brought to ihe polls for the first time at this electton, took at feast eight hun- dred votes from the democratic majority of 1870; for it is fair to conclude that the newly created colored voters nearly toa man went for ex-Governor Jewell. The majority of Governor English last year, being only eight hundred and forty-three, would thus be easily demolished, compelling the democrats to build up that majority from other sources, and these sources appear to have been dry. In many respects the Connecticut election is a curiosity in politics, The machinery was admirably managed on the part of the repub- licans, The clever scheme, whereby the voters were made to believe that Tammany Hall had seized upon the State, by means of an imaginary despatch from Governor English to Mr. Tweed, was an admiral contrivance. Tammany itself could not beat the trick in adroitness. The despatch purporting to come from Governor English to Mr, Tweed, which we may safely assume was never written and never worried the telegraph wires, was cun- ningly circulated in the weekly edi- tion of a republican paper at Hart- ford—the Cowrant—throughout the country districts with such appeals to the prejudices of the farmers and others in the rural places as brought the spectre noir of Tammany béfore them in hideous aspect. Shall the honest voters of Connecticut or ‘‘the thieves of Tam- many” carry this election? was the question presented to the rural voters. Naturally enough they were alarmed at the alternative ; they were not going to be sold like cattle, and they came out, consequently, in consider- able strength to assert their claims to New England backbone. Hence, in a measure, the fall vote polled. It was a cunning trick, well devised and lucky in its operation ; but all is fair in politics, as in love and war. We hardly think, after all, that the St. Do- mingo question, made hot and irritable by the fierce assaults of Sumner and Schurz upon Pre- sident Grant, had much te do with the result in Connecticut. We are disposed to think that the republicans there looked with considerable indifference upon the quarrel, In short, they probably were about equally divided in their views as between President Grant and Sum- ner, and rather liked the boldness of the Mas- sachusetts Senator than otherwise. At all events that question was skilfully withdrawn from sight in the canvass by the republican organs and orators. It was not trumpeted in the columns of the radical press, neither was it proclaimed from the radical stump. The only issue supposed to carry any weight with it, which was presented carefully up to the last moment, was this terror that Tammany was controlling the State with its greenbacks, its cohorts of rufflans and its innate and dangerous corruptions. We are told now that Mr. Tweed is [homme qui rit, and that he enjoys a very hearty laugh over the affair of the bogus despatch. It may not be so difficult after all to dis- cover the reason why this election in Connec- ticut was so unsatisfactory and indecisive, when we consider that local quarrels existed in almost every district in the State, and split tickets were the common rule almost everywhere. The Second Congressional district, for example, was lost to the demo- crats in this way. The bitterness existing against the democratic candidate (Mr. Kendrick), since his opposition to Mr. Bab- cock two years ago, which gave the district to the republican candidate (Mr. Kellogg), con- fronted him at the polls on Monday, and resulted in the re-election of Kellogg. The democrats could not forgive Kendrick, and thus they permitted him to be sacrificed. There seemed to be that kind of feeling dibong thd democrats all through the Siate, extending even to the lutal elections, Those who calculated that family quarrels were going to demoralize the republicans, there- fore, counted without their host, They appear to have voted ‘‘the ticket” fair and square. The negro vote, after the applicants for the franchise had stood the test of the “reading clause,” which declares that every voter must be able to read at least one section of the constitution, probably amounted to a little over a thousand, It is fair to conclude that seven-eighths of these negroes voted the republican ticket, thus throwing seven or eight hundred votes into the republican majority. In the uncertain state of affairs it Is not unlikely that the election of Governor will pass from the hands of the electors into those of the Legislature, in which case, as the republicans have a majority of twenty on joint ballot, in both houses, Mr, Jewell will, of course, be declared the duly elected Chief Magistrate of the State for the ensuing year, Thus the Connecticut election, Instead of being a test of the progress of democratic sentiment in New England, turns out to be a general disappointment all round, Its political signi- ficance, however, Is that the recent democratic victory in New Hampshire {6 not an absolute test of public opinion in the Northern States, Toe Crirrenven Homrorwr.—The trial of Mrs. Laura D. Fair for the murder of Mr. A. | P. Crittenden has commenced in the Fifteenth Distriot Court of California, now holding its session in San Francisco. The. case will bo an interesting and important one, and we give the first day's proceedings in another part of the paper. Mr. Crittenden was a member of the bar of San Francisco of very high stand- ing, and for a long time lived on terms of criminal intimacy with Mrs. Fair, who appeared to have entire control over him. It was his endeavors to shake her off and rid himself of &@ woman who had done so much to injure bis social reputation that lrought about the act for which she is now being tried. ‘The Rouge Rebellion. The despatches we have from France this morning contain nothing very startling, although we are strongly of the opinion that the battle before Paris was resumed yesterday. A despatch from Versailles reports the insur- gents as having’ rallied, and announces a bloody struggle as imminent. The latest advices from ‘the capital report a continued cannonading. Rumors in goodly number are given. One of these says that twenty thousand insurgents haye entered Versailles; another reports the arrest of the Archbishop of Paris and of three of the Communist leaderse—MM. Assy, Blanqui and Gambon— by the Central Committee; a third has all the male population of Paris from seventeen to thirty-five years of age, drafted into the ranks of the insurgents, These rumors, with some facts of less importance, indicate that the reign of terror continues, Nor could any- thing else be expected. It is a life and death struggle for the insurgents; they must either conquer now or perish; hence we expect the next battle to be of great magnitude and of a most sanguinary character. One item of news in the despatches is of special interest. It is to the effect that Prince Joinville has fled. to London. What and who has he fled from? There were no insurgent Communists to trouble him in the provinces. Has the army or the peasantry been indulg- ing in Bonapartist demonstrations ? The Report of the St. Dominge Commis- sion—Messago of President Grant. The report of the St. Domingo Commission- ers-was forwarded to the two Houses of Con- gress yesterday. We surrender a great por- tion of our space to it this morning, it being an official document and a neces- sary part of the current history of stirring events, though we cannot say that it offers much more, if any more, information relative to St. Domingo than the readers of the Heratp have already received from our correspondents with the expedition. One thing, however, is of fresh interest in the report. The Commissioners say that, although there is some opposition to annexation, the greater mass of the people are in favor of it. No suggestion either way is made by the Commissioners themselves, although, from the rose-colored tenor of the report all through, it is evident that they believe in the policy of annexation. The message with which President Grant accompanies this report is the most important document of the batch. It is, in a few words, a manly, soldier-like review of his action in the St. Domingo matter, a plain straightfor- ward history of his efforts to annex the island, and a firm § disavowal of any intention to enforce his policy in the matter against the will of the people. He suggests that no action be taken upon the report except for its general dissemination throughout the country, so that before the next session of Congress the people may have time to consider the subject and form an intelligent opinion concerning it. The report in both Houses was ordered to be printed. A Word on Wills. Persons of largely benevolent proclivities, and happily possessing the means as well as the inclination to leave bequests for favored charitable institutions, cannot be too careful in specifying the titular designations of the in- stitutions they propose to benefit by their legacies. A case in point—and it is not un- common for such disputes to arise—came up yesterday in the Superior Court. Mr. Alstyne, wealthy bachelor, died in this city a little over a year ago, leaving, among other be- quests, one of twenty-five thousand dollars to the “Society for the Relief of Indigent Aged Females.” Two societies now claim the money bequeathed—the “St. Luke’s Home for Indigent Christian Females,” whose institution is in Hudeon street, near Abingdon square, and the ‘‘Association for the Relief of Re- spectable Aged Indigent Females,” having its headquarters in Twentieth street, between Second and Third avenues. Both are char- tered institutions, and, {t will be seen, are chartered under names closely analogous, The bequest is worth fighting for—at least so the respective litigants think, Neither will compromise its clai Each is bound to havé the whole or ftoné. Ti isa pretty little fight. It may not be very clear which insti- tution the testator had in his mind when be wrote the bequest; but it may, no doubt, be set down as Very clear that he did not intend to give the greater part of it to lawyers, which, asthe iatier stands, is likely to prove the case, Prince Bismanrox'’s Rest Disrurpep By tHE Frencu Rovek.—Prince Bismarck was present at the opening of the session of the North German Parliament by the Emperor William, The scene was brilliant and im- posing; the occasion solemn and grand, The news of the outbreak of the rouge revolt against the authority of the French republican government had just been published in the Prussian capital. Bismarck expressed his sense of its gravity and importance in the peculiarly significant words which are reported by the Hzratp special correspondent to-day. The Prince Premier, standing {n the gallery of the Parliament House, said :—‘‘I always slept soundly at Versailles, but my rest was dis- turbed last night by the report of this Paris émeute.”, A pithy sentence, but full of point and meaning. Can demoralized France, in its murders, ruin and destroy the essential vital principle of the rouge, or will it be puri- fied, eliminated from blood and violence, and made universal tn Europe? Tae Wino Dritt or tHe Skventa Rear- MENT, at their armory, on Monday evening last, was a great success; but the wing drill of the democracy in Connecticut on that day was something of a failure, afi APKLL 6, (181L= TRIPLE » Congress—The Ka Kiax in tho Twe| The Onetom House, Changee—General Girast Houses. . ‘Taking die Whiphand. - The discussion in the Senate yesterday on |’ The political and commeroial circles of New the Ku Klux outrages was rather flerce, on the part atleast of Mr. Pool, of North Caro- lina, who was very denunciatory of the demo- cratic apologists of the masked marauders. Messrs. Caaserly, Thurman and Stockton, all democrats, insist that the democratic Senators are anxious to have an investiga- tion by a travelling committee, but are opposed to legislating before the investiga- tion. They finally offered a very reasonable amendment to the bill—instructing the Judi- ciary Committee to inquire whether the constitution and present laws do not give the President full power to quell any such unlaw- fal demonstrations as are reported in the South—but it was rejected by republican votes, & In the House Ben Butler tickled the palates of the democrats by intimating that John Brown and his seventeen followers were the original Ku Kluxes, but he cut them off in their congratulatory demonstrations over this sen- timent by urging that the President should at once.send troops to quell the Ku Klux as the President sent them to quell John Brown. The additional debate in the House was highly York have been excited by the recent sadden and extraordinary ection of President Grant in regard to leading Custom House and other federal officials in this city. The emotion has not been confined to the metropolis, but has extended as far as aome of our Western coun- ties—Chaatauqua and Cattaraugus, for exam- ple—wherein at least one of the parties inte- rested is supposed to have commanding influence. The Union League Club is shedding tears like a school of crocodiles upon the oocasion, and woe and iamentation are upon the land of Israel, St. Patrick and Christopher Columbus. Now, what is all this row about? If we had 9 Scotchman in the Cabinet he might ask, “What's all the steer, Kimmer?” The an- swer is simply this :— General Graut, exercising his prerogative as President of the United States, chooses to remove Moses H. Grinnell from the position of Naval Officer of New York and to put in his place Addison H. Laflins What derangement in party machinery would naturally be ex- pected to arisefrom @ supersedure apparently so simple? Was not Mr. Grinnell, with all illustrative of tho extent to which the new | his weighty influence, his profuse expenditure element of scandal over which we lamented in the Hzratp yesterday has crept into the legis- lative tactics of Congress, Swann and Butler had a fierce set-to, in which Swann said that Butler was drank for three days at Baltimore during the first federal occupa- tion of that city, that he degraded women and children there and that he stole spoons. Butler responded by showing that Swann was once a bloody Know Nothing and had slaughtered @ thousand innocents to secure his election as Mayor of Baltimore, These pleasing amene- ties were exchanged for a considerable length of time to the great amusement of the mem- bers and the galleries, and not absolutely to the detriment of the business on hand, inas- much as the discussion, bloodthirsty and unseemly in its tone, gave the members an illustration in a moral sense of what the Ku Kluxes of the South are supposed to be physically. In rebuttal of Swann’s charges Butler said he was in Balti- more on the firat occupation of that olty for only one night, and as to degrading women he looked upon his New Orleans order, No. 38, regarding the women there, as one of the best orders he ever issued, serving, as it did, to prevent disastrous bloodshed in the streets. Our Paris Correspondence. In another page of this morning's issue will be found interesting letters from the corre- spondents of the Hzratp in Paris. The com- munications give details of the late murderous assaults of the bad men who evidently hold con- trol in the capital and spread a reign of terror and who have been fitly named “‘the party of assassination.” Additional particulars of the massacre of the Place Venddme, of which accounts have already been given, are furnished our readers, and from the letters published to-day new light is thrown on that bloody transaction. The brute instincts of the rabble who now paralyze Paris, trample on her citizens, sacrifice innocent lives, pilfer and plunder, lead them into the very worst ex- cesses. Notcontent with the blood of Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas, they impri- soned General Chanzy, a soldier whose ser- vices to the republic are undisputed, and who, while commanding the Army of the Loire, saved it from annihilation by the victorious army of Prince Frederick Charles, and even threatened him with an ignominious death, These madmen call themselves republicans ; all sane and honest men look upon them as rioters and murderers. They disgrace their country, have stained their hands with inno- cent blood, and every day of their rule in Paris. sinks that unfortunate capital deeper and deeper in misery, desolation and fear. We hope the end of their sanguinary reign is near and that the government of M. Thiers has already arranged some comprehensive plan to crush this insurrection, which terrifies not only Paris, but spreads fear and trembling throughout the nation. St. Domtnco.—By special telegram to the -Heratp from Havana we learn that some brisk fighting has been going on in St. Do- mingo between the insurgent forces under Luperon and Cabral-and the army of Baez, in which the former were defeated in two engage- ments. The loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners does not appear to be large, judging from the reports received, The insurgents probably lost all their cavalry, from the fact that fourteen horses were captured in one fight and fifteen in the other. Ten general officers and about eight hundred men composed the forces engaged in the first encounter, No estimate can be formed from the result of these two battles of the probability of peace for the future. Active hostilities may be resumed at any moment, when the tide of battle may be turned in favor of those who of late have met with but little success, Geverat Borier's Prorostrion 10 wit Demooracy.—General Butler says :—‘‘Let the democratic party, through all its leaders, North and South, of all its organizations, pro- claim that it is necessary for the success of the democracy that these Southern Ku Klux murders, outrages and wrongs shall stop, and that life, property and allthe rights of citi- zens must be respected orjthey cannot elect a democratic President in 1872, and from that hour, {n my belief, profound peace and quiet will reign in every county in the Southern States.” This is a fair proposition, and as easy to meet, we should say, as the proposi- tion of a general amnesty. What says old Tammany? Is she to be bluffed off by Gen- eral Butler? We want to know. Tue Reason Way.—Some of the outside politicians want to say that Tammany Hall, by her officious interference, spoiled the de- mocratic Johnny cake in Connecticut; some profane fellows say ‘it was the damned nigger ;” some say it was Marshal Sharpe and the New York Custom House; others say that it was because Jewell repudiated Grant, Sum- ner, St. Domingo, “Old Ben Wade” and all concerned; and .yet others affirm that it was the fuss raised in Congress over the Ku Klux Klans that did the business, We suspect that had not the republicans been caught napping over Sumner in New Hampshire they would not have poen waked up in Connooticul of money for party purposes, his unexampled popularity among the commercial peopte of New York, his tried integrity, his sublime devotion to republican principles, transplanted by the President from the higher office of Collector of the Port.to the lesser one of Naval Officer, to make way for “Honest Tom Muiphy,” whose political history remains to be written? Why, then, should any excite- ment be created by the removal, by order of the President, of Mr. Grinnell from the post of Naval Officer, to give place to a gentleman like the Hon. Addison H. Laflin, of Herkimer district, ex- member of Congress and brother of a demo- cratic Inspector of the State Prisons of New York, as well as a wholesale manufacturer ‘of gunpowder? Who could so well fill a federal position in this city as the Hon. Mr. Laflin? From his connections could he not send de- faulters summarily to the place they ought. to go, and keep them there, and ‘blow up” recu- sant party offenders without expense to the administration? Therefore General Grant was, in his way, wise in’ making this change. Next on the docket we have the removal of General Palmer, of Cattaraugus, from the office of general appraiser of merchandise at this port, and the eelection of William A. Darling to the post. General Palmer served his country well whenever he bad a chance, and did not deserve, we think the people will say, 80 summary a dismissal from the public service, unless it is the intention of the Execu- tive to appoint him to the superintendency of the Soldiers’ Home at Washington. Mr. Darling will bring experience into his new position of appraiser of merchan- dise. He has been a member of Con- gress and, therefore, knows the value of Congressional and lobby merchandise, and his long experience as President of the Third Avenue Horse Railroad Company emi- nently entitles him to a knowledge of the manner of packing human merchandise so that it will pay when it arrives at its point of desti- nation. Therefore this change must also be considered beneficial to the public service. The matter of a change in the Pension Agency is of small moment, unless General Grant may think it necessary to have a firm friend in that office to look after the killed and wounded in the Presidential race of 1872. Bat the above is not all. It is whispered that there will be a change in the Postmaster- ship of this'city, and that the gallant General Patrick Henry Jones must go by the board because he has—not because he has not, but because he has, a brother-in-law. So the machine works, Above we have briefly shown what General Grant has done and menaces. What's the upshot? He means to be commander of the political situation, just as he was commander of the military situation at Vicksbarg and Petersburg. The State election in Connecticut assures him that he has the support of the rank and file of the republican party in the East—laying aside New Hampshire—and the local elections throughout the West, even in the democratic State of Kentucky, confirm him in the assurance. That assurance is that the revolt of Sumner and Schurz and all the reat lng not pagermingd bls popularity in the &stimation of the people, aid that he can take another ran over the Presidential course with- out danger of defeat, So far as the State of New York is concern- ed, the Custom House and other changes men- tioned above indicate that Senator Fenton's influence has gone up into the clouds, and that that of Senator Conkling is upon the solid earth. President Grant has evidently taken the whiphand in the conduct of his adminis- tration. He will make no more compromises, He will declare that “those who are not for him are against him,” and, relying upon the co- operation and support of the people, he will change and’ rechange, model and remodel, move or remove as he pleases, Let him now try his tiand at remodelling or removing some of his Cabinet furniture. The Ist of May, the season of removals in New York, is approaching, and it would not astonishing to see the business of the day carried on by General Grant on a scale of far greater magni- tude than that already indicated. But we caution the President not to go too far. Fenton has friends and Conkling enemies, Both are potential in their way. Hence he should drive with steadiness and caution if he expects eventually to win the day. Tre Orp Apaae, that the fools are not all dead, can be very satisfactorily maintained in these days of raids on keno and faro, but the most decisive proof of all is bronght forth by the seizure of the co- operative distribution swindle the other day on _ Broadway. The respectable chaps who swindled the more hopeful and sanguine among our city fools, by offering them a chance to win twenty-five thousand dollars for one, all appeared at the Tombs yesterday and were held in five thousand dollars bail each, Jersey ApPLEsaoK.—The Senate at Tren- ton has killed two bills forbidding the manu- facture ‘and sale of adulterated liquors, Those fellows in Jersey have heard from Con- necticut . : 4 WASHINGTON. Sumner Still Harping on St. Domingo. \ Wasutnaron, Aprit 5, 1871. Sumoer Fierce for the St. Domingo Fight. When the St. Domingo message and report were submitted to the Senate to-@ay there was a disposi. tion on the part of the Sumner-Schurz party to de- bate it, The President's friends, on the other hand, were anxious to have it printed and laid on the tahlé without debate. Sumner says he never saw 60 bold an attempt to cut off debate in the Senate since 1852, when he insisted upon dis- cussing the slavery question. {t was finally agreed to allow a speech on each side; but there will nea struggle on the part of Sumner and his friends to have @ regular discussion upon the message and re- port, Geverner Swana Used Up—Ben Batler’s Way of Dealing with the Enemy. Just before the House adjourned this afternoon there was a sharp encounter between General But- ler and Governor Swann, of Maryland. On Monday last Swann delivered a speech on the’Ku Klux bill wherein he imitated his fellow democrats ana a few republicans, and undertook to abuse Butler, charging him with being the enemy of amnesty and the chief oppressor of the South, Butler had no chance to reply to Swann’s personal attack atthe time. In tact, he was not aware of it until he saw tho speech in the @love. There are few men attack Butler who ever have any ambition to repeat at. Butler bas a way of hunting ap men’s records and reproducing suddenly what. everybody is supposed to have forgotten. That makes politicians who have been “everything by turns and nothing long’? rather shy of attacking him. Swann is now a State rights democrat, but he was not always trained in that church, Years ago, iesa than twenty, when he was @ younger man, ho was & leading Know Nothing; then he was a Southern democrat, and after the close of the war he was of that class of radi- cals who believed with Andy Johnson tha’ “Rebels. should take back seats.” Atl these facta are as familiar to Butler as the alphavet, He apparently knows more about Swann than Swann does about himself. Sinoe Swann’s speech of Monday Butler nas been carefully watching his opportunity to get even with him. It occurred to- day. Some of the ex.rebela—a large number of whom are members of the present House—have un- dertaken, for the last twoor three days, to lecture the republican side. of the House on the constitution of the United States, Of course Butler came in for a large share of the abuse heaped upon those who are charged with violating that in- strument. Butler undertook a ten minutes’ speech to reply to some of these gentlemen to-day. After disposing of them to his satisfaction he took up the case of Swann. The latter gentioman is not a ready debater. He usually writes his speeches, and then reads them in a tone beard only -by five or six gentlemen in nis immediate vicinity. He ts, therefore, no match for Butler, who is always ready for afree fight. Butler touched Swann on the sore spot when he broughu up his Know Nothing record, espectallyas Swann owes his seat in the House largely to the Irish vote Swann was forced to confess that he had been a Know Nothing, but he put it upon the ground of youthful indiscretion, He accused Butler of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors in Baltimore and evidently got the City of Monuments mixed up with Butler's administration in New Orleans, Butler, in reply, showed that he was not in Baltimore over thirty-six hours altogether, and he proposed to read from editorials in @ leading democratic paper of Baltimore to show that Swann was a Know Nothing _and @ violent radical. The House was greatly amused at the scene, and Butler was encouraged by frequent demonstrations of applause on tne republican side. It is the general opinion that Swann will not attack Butler soon again. The Democracy Determined in Their Ope Position to the Ku Klux Bill. The democratic members of the House held a caucus this morning, Hon. Fernando Wood In the chair, A general interchange of views was had on the course of action to be taken by the minority as to the various amendments to be proposed to the Ku Klux biil, The proceedings were entirely har- montous, and a conclusion satisfactory to all was reached. They decided to oppose the amendments Generally, as well as the bill itself, Amendments te the Ku Klux Bill. In the House this morning Mr, Siellabarger offered an amendment to his bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment in place of the second, third and fourch sections, which was ordered to be printed. He ex- plained the effect of the amendment, which was based on that proposed by Mr. Cook. The deciara- tion of martial lew is excluded, the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus are not to be suspended unless the government shali so require as an aid in putting down violence. The amendment had boon proposed to accommodate the views of friends, alter consultation. " Tho Assistant Secretary of the Intertor. Judge William Lawrence, of Ohio, ex-member ot Congress of the Fourth district of that State, ts meucioned as the sucessor of Judge Otto, Assistant Seoretary of the Interior. Judge Lawrence, it ap- pears, drafted the bill increasing the number of assistant attorney generals, expecting to get the new appointment; but failing in this, he ts now willing to acépt the position of Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Robert Corwin, of Dayton, Ohio, is spoken of aa the probable succeasor of J. A. Bolles, Solicitor of the Navy Department. A Conflictn Reports Concerning Affairs in “Wiiceleelppi-Governor Alcora Versus the Official Rumors. The following despatches were read to-day by Representative Barry, of Mississippi, in the course of his speech:— * . JACKSON, April 2, 1871. Hon, A. Ames, United States Senate, and Hons, G. L. Hannis, J, L. MOrruis, H. W. BARRY, G, 0. McKEs and L, W, PIERCE, Members of the House:— GENTLEMEN—Lest the government should be led astray by the reckless statements published in Northern newspapers on the information of irre- sponsible parties aud by other misrepresentations, lieel tt my duty as Governor of this State to briug under your knowledge the following fucts:— Lhave before me the official revurns furnished by the Auditor of Public Accounts of the inquest claims presented and allowed in ae 1 for the last two years. For twelve months of military government, ending March, 1870, they number sixty-two; for twelve months of civil fo ogy ending 5 1871, they number precisely the same, As on the whole year, then, including the transition in the pular mind from force to law, the civil power Ras been as successful as the bayonet in cting life. In the iast six mobths of each of the two a ea hus shown Was a8 v= whereas the number uader ernment, forty-one: civil government but nineteen, . While we thus see the military rule on tn an increase of crime, which pots to the presumption ‘that it woull lead to anarchy, we see the civil rule 0 on in a. decrease of crime, which points to the resumption, a iG wa load to absolute repose, i yak for only m @. am 3. L. ALOURN, Governor of Mississtppl. JACKSON, April 3, 1871. fot datas tts ren e Anaitor’s ow 1869, to March 1, 1870, and 83 from March 1, 1870, to February 17, 1871. Report of inquests on many known te have been killed siuce January 1, 1871, not received by the auditor, National troops were sent w Meridian alter the riot was over. Jackson, April 4, 1871. To Hon, A. Ans, United States Senate: - Auditor’ mole a wee mee anchor january, ebruar Hates af toast 16 more killed in Marek, not oMticially *RRese two despatches are signed by fourgmembers of the Legislature. Iron Work of the New York Post Ofiice. ‘The contract for the iron work for the principal atory of the New York Post Office has been awarded to Messrs, W. L. Miller, Defreese & Oo., of Brooklyn, N.Y. This contract amounts to $165,000, and calia for wrought fron columns, beams, girders, doors, casings, &c. The delivery of the material will com- mence in about four weeks, and the construction of the story is to be completed about tho 1st of August. ‘The ornamental work will net be put up at present. ed The surviving war members of the Ninth New York (Huwkins’) Zouaves will hold @ meeting on Saturday evening next, at the armory of tho First mh a in “HK A. Kimball Post No. 0’ Of tue Grand Army of \