The New York Herald Newspaper, April 8, 1871, Page 6

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New Yerk, Saturday, April 8, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, vertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Miners’ War: vutbreak Among the Labor- ers at Scranton; Several Kiiled; Proclamation of Governor Geary—Baster Sunday: How the Day is to be Observed in the Churches of All Denominations—Our Pagnacious Legislators— News trom Washington—Obituary—Miscella- neous Telegrams. 4—The State Capital—Terrible Vonfagration tn Al- bany—Fires_ Elsewhere—Good Friday: Ser- Vices In St. Peter’s, St. George's and Plymonth Churches—Horse Notes—The Army of the Ten- nessee—Jentral Bridge—Have the Whole or None—Eagiewood Institute Alumni. —! ings in Congress—Land Tenures and Titles—rhe Courts—A Scene in the Grand ra House—The Cool Conspiracy—The In- come Tax Question—Clever Capture—An £x- Densive Spree- Philadelphia Items—The Sul- cide of Mrs. Fox—Mr. Lafiin and His New Appointment—The Peace Jubilee in Brooklyn. @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Democratic Party and the Issues o/ the Rebellion—The Warning Vo'ce of the Late Elections’’—Per- sonal Intelligence—Yachting—Aimusement An- nouncements. —The Rouge Revolt: Two Days of Bloody Fight- ing Beture Paris; A Reign of Terror in the City—News from Central and South America : Herald Special Report trom Panama—Cuba : The Rebel Guerilias at Work ; Surprise of a Spanish Column—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Busine: jotices, ‘ne Register for 1871—Eqnality and e: A Female Ku Klux in Massach $ * Stone—Abundance of Se Brooklyn Homcopatnic Lying-in Asylum. O—The Criitenden Trageay: Continuation of the Trial of Mrs. Fatr—Financial and Commercial ce warrinces and Deaths—Adveruse- ments. 10—The Gallows: Execution of Andrew Brentlin- ger for the Murder of His Wife, in Allen county, Ohio—The Sleepy Hollow Crime— Mother Somerby’s Chickens—Tne Camden Parricide Respited—Crushed to Death—A Horrible Death—Shipping Intelligence—Aa- veriisemen 8. Tl—Advernsements, 12—Advertisements. Centra anv Sovra AmErtoa.—By special telegram to the Heratp from Jamaica we have later advices from the Central and South American republics. Several battles had taken place between the forces of Salvador and Honduras; but the result was not known, as the government had suppressed the news, but report says that victory had perched upon the banners of Salvador. The flood in Peru bad subsided. Twenty lives are reported to have been lost by the inundation of Supe, and an epidemic was feared. Ali the other repub- lics are quiet, and Bolivia is reported us being prosperous since peace was established by the success of the revolutionary party. The election in Colombia for President of the republic will probably result in the triumph of the Mosquera party. . This is not unexpected, since the latier has returned from his exile in Poru. Conaress Yusterpay.—The Senate has suddenly shaken off its lethargy and gone to work in earnest. The Ku Klux bill was received from the House yesterday morning, read twice and referred to the committee. Mr. Morrill, by unanimous consent, occupied three hours of the session in explaining his views upon the St. Domingo question, Mr. Morrili discussed the subject from every stand- point, dissecting the recent report of President Grant's special commissioners, exposing its fallacies and showing tho moral and political evils to the United States which must neces- sarily follow the annexation of Dominica. The House amendments to the joint resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to fovestigate the condition of affairs in the Bouth gave rise io considerable debate, geveral democratic Senators who originally favored the resolution opposing the measure oa its Ginal passage. — Tae Repcwiuicans in Washington have evinced some glimpses of returning reason. ‘They see that unless they present an unbroken front in 1872 the democracy will then sweep everything before them, and the prospect of being driven from the public crib after enjoy- Ing its emoluments twelve years makes even the friends of Grant and Sumner to question the policy of further continuing the quarrel hetween these leaders, and thus insuring the Gefeat of the party. Gerritt Smith has taken the matter in hand, and is now in Washington NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 8. i87L.—-THIYLE SHEKT. The Democrattc Party and the Issuce of the Rebellion=The Warning Voice of the Late Elections. When the insufgent President Davis, of the “so-called Confederate States,” from the bat- tle field of the first Bull Run, saw the Union army routed and flying in confusion over the opposite hills, en route for Washington, he was filled with the inspiring vision of the final triumph of his Southern Confederacy. Ten years later, we find the same Jefferson Davis at Selma, Ala., expressing the hope, nay, the conviction, to a crowd of sympathizing friends, of the ultimate iriumpb of the Southern prin- ciples of State sovereignty which went down with his Southera rebellion, It appears, too, that this hope was inspired from the remark- able success of the democrats in the late New Hampshire election. But, as the first Bull Run, from its tremendous moral effect upon the awakened Norih, was the greatest calamity that could have happened to the Southern rebel cause, so it appears this New Hamp- shire election, in its moral reaction, promises to be more disasirous to the democratic party than would be a whole year of local defeats from Maine to California, We find, in the very midst of the exultations of the democracy, North and South, over New Hampshire, an apparent political reaction from Connecticut to Kentucky, and from Ken- tucky to Wisconsin, which suddenly changes the whole face of the political situations, With the republican defeat in New Hampshire it did appear that General Grant and the party in power were 0a the road to ruin; that Sumner and St. Domingo, Schurz and ‘“‘ revenue reform,” Trumbull and free trad2, Fenton and the New York Custom House, and a variety of such personal defections and factious wran g- lings in Congress and out of Congress, had so demoralized the republicans, rank and file, as to promise nothing better than a scrub race among the factions for the succession. On the other hand, it appeared that the democracy were gaining strength, as they certainly were gaining confidence from day today. They were sanguine of sweeping Connecticut as they had swept New Hampshire. Election morning at New Haven found them boasting of victory ; the evening found them defeated and chop- fallen. Various elections in other States occurring on the same day came in with the same story. New Hampshire had done the business. The old copperhead element of the North, and tha old unreconstructed Southern rights, and State sovereignty, and secession fire eaters of the South, encouraged by New Hampshire, had come to the front, and in bold speeches, and newspaper manifestoes, and by the increased outrages of the Southern Ku Klux Klans, in incendiary fires, and savage assassinations of obnoxious ‘‘carpet-baggers” and negroes of the Union League, had re- vived the old issues of the war, and the old Union war spirit of the North. This is the explanation of these late elec- tions. With the democratic victory in New Hampshire the cloven foot of the rebellion was brought into the foreground, and when even Jeff Davis from this victory began to see the ultimate triumph of the “‘lost cause,” the Union party of the war were roused as by an alarm bell, and what do we see? We see that as loag as the demo- cratic party, directly or indirectly, un- dertakes to fizht upon the issue of 1864, that ‘the war is a failure ;” or upon the issue of 1868, that the reconstruction acts of Congress and the concurrent amendments of the constitution are ‘unconstitutional, revolu- tionary, null and void,” so long will this party be soundly thrashed for its insolence and its stupidity. Keep alive the issue that the three hundred and fifty thousand Union soldiers of the war who died that the nation might live, and that the sovereignty of the United States over the individual States should be established, all died in vain; keep alive the issue that the national debt, now reduced to twenty-three hundred millions, will, with the success of the democracy, be wiped out as nothing better than the rebel debt; keep it before the people that a democratic President and Congress will restore the State rights of the South as they existed under Buchanan, and that tue black race will be returned to the status of the Dred Scott decisions, as having “ao rights which white men are bound to respect,” and the course is clear for the republican party, with General Grant or with any other candidate, against all secondary questions. Can it be that the ruling spirits of the democracy, like the Paris Jacobins, are gov- eraed only by a blind spirit of revenge; or can it be that they are the old Bourbons, who erleara anything and never forget any- hing?” Have they not had enough of defeats on the issues of the war, or do they desire another series, which will finish them? If they do, they will be accommodated. General Grant, in fact, has revived these issues of the war against them, and they must change their base or they are gone. The leading demo- cratic organ of this city is beginning to appreciate the necessity to the party of a change of base. It says ‘‘the time has come when it should be fully understood by the South that the Northern democracy do not in- tend to fight that battle (on negro suffrage, &c.) over again, and that no democratic vic- tory in the North will bear such a construction ;” that such hopes entertained by some of the Southern journals are failacious; that ‘the party has been so often defeated by an indis- creet plank (think of that, an indiscrget plank) in its platform as to justify considerable solici- tude on this subject ;”-and that ‘if the repub- licans were permitted to make our platform they would put into it the very things which a few blind or Quixotic democrats (Quixotic is good) have been recently advocating in the Southern press.” In the course of his argument our chop- fallen contemporary suggests the adoption by the bewildered democracy of Governor Hoff- man's sound advice in reference to ‘dead issues.” We have a thousand times given the game advice to the democratic leaders. We submit now that a change of front before the “battle is joined will be a good move, while, on trying to heal the division in tho republican ranks, ‘The old anti-slavery apostle will soon fod that loaves and fishes have more weight with his radical friends than any argument he ‘ean adduce, and if the discordant factions are to be brought tegether it must be through the vision of « democratic President at the White Hoase and Tammany leaders revelling in the the other hand, an attempted change by a flank movement in the heat of the battle, as in 1868, will be equally unfortunate. There is much instruction upon this subject in the delays of General McClellan in changing his base from the deadly swamps of the Chicka- hominy to the James river. General Grant, by pushing the enemy, instead of waiting him- self to be pushed to the wall, got over the same ground without interruption. As the democratic party now stands it is fighting on the defensive on the issues of the rebellion. It is asiride the Chickahominy, as was Gen- eral McClellan when attacked and compelled not to advance on Richmond, but to retreat from it to save his army. The Southern democracy must be made to understand that the Northern democracy have had enough of this sort of strategy. Very good. But how is the party, as a national organization, to change its base in advance of its Presidential Convention? Through a eancus of the democratic members of both houses of Congress, At their recent caucus they did, on motion of the Hon, Fernando Wood, adopt a sort of national platform on retrenchment and reform; but General Grant can beat them at that game. They said nothing, however, on the main ques- tion—the fourteenth and fifieenth amend- ments. They are said to be fishy on these ordinances of the payment of the national debt, and equal civil and political rights to all citizens of all races and colors, Is itso? If 80, there is anend of the argument; but if not so, how simple a thing will it be for the democrats in Congress, in behalf of the party throughout the United States, to proclaim that they accept and will abide by the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the constitution as parts of the “supreme law of the land,” and that they recommend to the democracy of the North and South the full recognition of the equal civil and political rights of all citizens—white, red, yellow and black, The Southern democracy and their Northern sympathizers, since the New Hamp- shire election, have made this change of front necessary to the national party, for without it they will be compelled to fight again on the untenable platform of the rebellion, When Jefferson Davis speaks for the democracy in bebalf of the lost cause, from the encouraging results of the New Hampshire election, the democratic party must define its position. During the living generation the issues settled by the war of our great rebellion were maintained, and with the generation to come they will cease to be debated. It is too late in the nineteenth century to think of upsetting the fixed facts of equal rights, civil and political, and too late to dream of going back to the South as it was, or to the Union asitwas under Buchanan. Such delusions are fit only to be classed with the dreams of the French Communists, who are fighting for their eld Jacobin republic of the guillotine, Severe Battles SBetere Paris—Increasing Gravity of the Situation, For the past two days a battle has been raging before Paris, surpassing in magnitude any of the engagements of the late siege. Nearly all the despatches from France which we publish this morning, including our special reports from Versailles, are devoted to accounts of the fighting, which they all repre- sent as exceedingly bloody. The battle field extended from Genevilliers, on the north- east of the city, to Charenton, on the south- east, and the numbers engaged were evidently large. Tue result of the contest at Neuilly has been favorable to the government. After a desperate struggle, in which the slaughter was great on both sides, tho insurgents were driven from the bridge. Follow- ing up their success, the troops crossed the Seine, attacked the Communists, who appear to have obstinately contested their advance, and finally drove them under the ramparts of Paris, At last accounts the Army of Versailles held positions before Porte Maillot; so that we reasonably expect a renewal to-day of the terrible carnage, M. Picard, in his official report, claims a complete success, but admits that the losses of the government forces were serious, and our correspondent telegraphs that the loss of life was terrible. It is evident, however, that a blow has been struck which must be seri- ously felt by the Communists. The confilct at the bridge of Neuilly and along the Avenue de Neuilly was not the only engagement which took place on the west side of Paris, It is stated from Versailles that a column of insurgents are, or were, sur- rounded at Genevilliers, on the peninsula of that name; that it had made a bold but futile effort to cut its way through and return to Paris, and it is certain that it was fighting yesterday. On the south of Paris some engagements are also reported. In addition to the sharp artil- lery duels between the forts held by the insur- gents and the government batteries, a fierce battle is reported as having taken place between Forts Vanvres and Chatillon, the result of which the insurgents claim to have been the recapture of Chatillon by them. This claim, however, is evidently false, as our latest dispatches from Versailles say nothing on the subject. On the whole, it is certain that the Government has gained decided advantages, At the same time it is equaliy certain thatthe struggle is not yet over, and that the fratricidal shedding of blood will continue for some days longer. On the side of the insurgents the utmost deter- mination is expressed not to treat for peace, and the Commune, with unflagging energy, pushes forward the work of organization and defence. This, of course, was to be expected. The Communist leaders know that if they fail the guillotine will be their doom, and, conse- quently, they are making every exertion to win. Within Paris there is a perfect reign of ter- ror. The prisons are crowded ; houses and churches are pillaged; priests are arrested and imprisoned, and meetings in behalf of conciliation are prohibited. Chaos and an- archy are supreme for the time being. Yes- terday there were no religious services in the city, although the day—Good Friday—was one of the most solemn known to the Catholic Church. The scenes enacting in the French capital are of such a nature as to make the world horror-stricken and indignant, Taz Acoxy Over.—The Senate yesterday confirmed the nominations of Laflin to be Naval Officer and Darling to be Appraiser of Merchandise at the port of New York, No serious opposition was made te the confirma- tion of these officers, although when the fact became apparent several Senators abstained from voting. Exgcvution in Onto.—Andrew Brentlinger was hanged at Lima, Ofio, yesterday, for the murder of his wife on the 24th of last Octo- ber. He met his fate with firmness, and died with scarcely « struggle, The Fuss in the Custom Houso—Breaking Up of a Hard Winter. The fuss in the Custom House continues, It is like the breaking up of a hard winter among all parties. The fuss in New Hampshire gave democrats reason for national success, The fuss in Counecticut gave republicans similar encouragement. The fuss in an executive ses- sion of the Senate of the United States gave encouragement in this wise—that the majority knew their own business and were not to be sold out at auction. The whole matter looks like the thawing out of a sevore winter season. The river is open. Both republicans and democrats are floating down with the tide and capering with the eddies, like cakes of ice, hither and thither. They touch this shore and that shore, and upon neither do they gather pearls to help them upon future political ventures. The republicans take the old war issues, and the democrats, with a wisdom not Solomonic, join. and select Jeff Davis, with his Selma ante-rebellion enunciations, as their platform for national business. The democrats can never succeed upon a platform like that. Jeff declares he has never asked pardon for his perfidious desertion of the republic. Probably the republic will never grant pardon to Jeff Davis 8o long as he remains in his present rebellious frame of mind. Jeff Davis has friends in the democratic party, and he ia entitled to the kindest consideration from them. Let these friends clasp him to their bosoms (for he is worthy of every kindness from his infirmities), but do not let them attempt to make a hero of a@ man who, a sad failure among his own people, can never be the instrument of pro- claiming a ruler over many. The fuss in the Custom House is very funny. The outsiders say that the removal of Mr. Grinnell and giving his place to Mr. Laflin is a Young America movement. Ask an old republican what it means and he will reply, “We intend to run this thing ourselves.” No grave, no epitaph, no mausoleum to poor old Mr. Grinnell! Republican Young America, has concluded to run the machine themselves, and prepare the pathway for a lively cam- paign in 1872 for the re-election of plain old General Grant, In the meantime, what are the democratic leaders doing? Floating down stream, like crows on a cake of ice, feathers dipped, and waiting, like Barnaby Rudge’s raven, for the ery of “Grip.” The young republicans are alive to changes, and General Grant has their support in his present operations in regard to the New York Custom House. The Rage for Suicide. We have always noticed that particular kinds of crime seem to come among the com- munity at the same time. One day it is for- gery that takes the field; another day it is bond robbery ; again, wife murder or poison- ings or depredations upon express trains fol- low each other in rapid succession. It looks as though, by some fatality, the viciousness of the human mind ran in regular channels at certain given times. Just now suicide appears to be the prevailing mania. By drowning, by poisoning as® by the rope unhappy vic- tims are every day reported as hastening, by their own volition, into a mysterious eter- nity. For the past week we have had to record three or four of these cases, A gen- tleman once prominent in political life—a man of fine scholastic acquirements, with a noble intellect shattered by the reverses of the world, immolates himself in a public asylum. A lady of respectable family, har- rassed with despair by incidents and sorrows of which, perhaps, her own heart was the sole receptacle, is ‘found drowned” in the river, Even children, piqued at a little domestic con- trol, rush headlong to self-destruction, making a ghastly gap in the household and a dismal chapter in the hideous story of the Morgue. How can we account for this? Only in one of two ways. That suicide, like otber promi- nent crimes, sometimes becomes as much an epidemio as yellow fever and other calamities of like nature; or that the standard of morality has fallen so low that the faith in God and Christianity has abandoned a large portion of our people. It is the moral coward who seeks relief from the world’s calamities in self- destruction, Those who carry the standard of faith and trust in Providence can endure, in a brave and manly fashion, the ills which belong to the lot of every man and woman, and await the release which death may bring when it comes to pass that death is the only portal of escape from misery. Riots Among the Coal Miners. The long continued quarrel between the coal miners and operatives in the Schuylkill dis- trict of Pennsylvania culminated yesterday in riot and bloodshed. Over a thousand infuri- ated, idle workmen attacked the few mines still in operation in the vicinity of Scranton, destroying the works, driving out the labor- ers and committing other outrages, The civil authorities being unable to quell the riot, the Governor was applied to for assistance, who at once ordered a re- spectuble force of State troops to the scene of the disturbance, and the city of Scranton was placed in the hands of the mili- tary. Governor Geary also issued a procla- mation recounting the causes which led tothe outbreak, and expressing his determination to use every power of the Commonwealth to preserve order and put down all opposition to the due enforcement of the laws, He not only warns the mob to disperse, but likewise says that nothing shall be left undone to break up the unlawful combination of the railroad companies, to whose rapacity and exactions much of the present difficulties is traceable, Tne Guermta War in Cona.—By special telegram from the Hrrap’s correspondent in Havana we hear of further successes by the Cuban rebels. A guerilla party, under an active leader, has surprised a Spanish column and put forty of its number hora de combat. The guerillas then vanished. Four Spanish columns attempted to surprise the rebels in their mountain strongholds and met with a severe repulse, Their loss was so heavy that Captain General Valmaseda had gone to inquire into the case, The war has now assumed the complexion of mere bushwhack- ing, and we must be prepared to hear of a number of such affairs as are mentioned above before the end comes, The rebels are confined ‘to mountain strongholds—positions that it is madness to attack—and, watching their oppor- tunity, they swoop down upon smail bodies of men and cut them off. Such is the war now being carried on. Can Franco Save Herself or Must Germany Save Hert Our news this morning fairly raises the question which we put at the head of this arti- cle, The government of M. Thiers has most miserably failed in what we should call “action.” It has now had a fair chance, but it has done nothing. The Paris insurgents have revealed so much strength that we begin to ask the question whether might on their side is not almost justifying rebellion and identifying itself with right. The first Napoleon knew how to settle all such trouble, but President Thiers, although he knows more about the weaknesses and greatnesses of the first Napoleon than any living man—we do not forget the author of the “Life of Julius Cwsar”—is no Napoleon. He thinks and be- lieves that Paris is the curse of France, and he has been trying to govern accordingly. From his point of view he has done well in keeping the Assembly and government out of Paris. From the point of view of many others, he might have done just as well if he had accepted Paris as the capital and made good use of his own improvements of the capital city, Paris, as Paris is now known, is as much the creation of M. Thiers as of Baron Haussmann. For good reasons, no doubt, the President dreads Paris. For rea- sons just as good the outside world persists in thinking and saying that the government of M. Thiers is a failure. When we hear of troubles in almost every large centre of the kingdom, of “‘armistices” concluded between the government of Ver- sailles and the “reds” in Paris, we do not really much wonder that Prince Bismarck has consented to permit privileges with the Peace Treaty, and to allow M. Thiers to send es many men as he can into Paris. We wonder as little that Prince Bismarck has no- tified M. Thiers that if he can- not put down the Paris insurgents the Germans, in the interest of order and good government, must enter and occupy “‘the grand centre of civilization” until France set- tles down under some stable government, In the circumstances, and all things considered, the question is not impertinent, Can France save herself or must she be eaved by the Germans? Gibbon somewhere says that the growth of intelligence had made a barbaric invasion henceforward an impossibility. Macaulay somewhere replies that Gibbon did not dream that a flercer kind of barbarians than the bar- barians led by Atilla and Genseric were being bred and reared in our large cities, Gibbon had finished his great work before the French revolution broke out; he died in 1794, when terror reigned and when final judgment was impossible, Macaulay lived and wrote after the revolution, when thinking men all the world over looked to France and thanked her for a quickening and enlightening influence. The situation of Paris to-day justifies Macaulay rather than Gibbon, The street barbarians— tke men of the guiter and of the garret—are of a lower and more detestable type than the Gothsand the Vandals, The Emperor William or the Crown Prince or Bismarck in Paris to-day would be a gain to humanity, A Novel Scene at the Grand Opera House. A novel scene was enacted at the Grand Opera House on Thursday night. An officer from the United States Court, armed with a copy of an injunction in one of the Erie suits, for the purposes of serving it upon Mr. Jay Gould, proceeded to that gentleman's resi- dence, but not finding him there, concluded that he must be at the Opera House, and wended his way thither. There he found the object of his search, upon whom he served the paper in question just as Mr. Gould had left one of the boxes, There was some confusion at the moment, the officer being knocked against Mr. Gould by the pressure of the crowd. After the officer had accomplished his mission and gained the street: he was ar- rested by a policeman in citizen’s clothes, who produced no warrant, and taken to a police station, where a charge of assaulting Mr, Gould was lodged against him, Bail was ten- dered for the accused, This was refused, how- ever, on the ground that the Superintendent of Police was not present to approve of it, The officer was, therefore, locked up for the night. Yesterday he was brought to Jefferson Market Police Court and discharged on bail. This affair has caused a considerable amount of talk and speculation in the courts, and the probability is that the federal authorities will not overlook it. The Marshal is inceased that his deputy should have been treated in the manner described. ‘Hear the other side” is a good maxim. Mr. Gould's version of tho story remains to be told, Let the truth be disclosed. This Erie war must not be fought in this way. It should be conducted with gravity and decorum, and, it is to be hoped, decided with justice to the litigants. Un- seemly demonstrations cannot aid the cause of either side, Marrying and Unmarrying. A striking instance of peculiarly primitive ideas upon the subject of matcimony was brought to light on Thursday in the Superior Court. A young couple, recently married, thought it just as easy to get unmarried. Like asking the minister to marry them, they thought all they had to do was to ask a judge to unmarry them, and the work was to be as quickly done. Introducing themselves to the Court, which they did openly, they asked to be di- vorced, Upon tho Judge asking on what grounds they sought a divorce their only re- ply was that it was by mutual consent— “this and nothing more.” Neither had charges to make against the other, The green-eyed monster had not disturbed the serenity of their young wedded lives, Peccadilloes there were none, Neglect, harshness, crucity—there were none of these, Incompatibility of tem- per, that dernier resort of divorce applicants, had not ruffled the smooth waters of their matrimonial existence, All the Judge could do, | of course—and this he did—was to discourse to them briefly upon the nature of marriage as 8 civil contract, as defined ia the law ; upon its solemnity, as set forth in the pages of Holy Writ, and upon the inutility of their applica- tion by telling them he could do nothing for them, Spantsn amsire—nepe tor te New Dye ea one nasty. Our news from Europe for some time past gives us reason to hope that Spain has made a fresh start, and that the chances are largely in her favor. On Monday last the new Parlia- ment of Spain met in session for the first time since the elections under the new régime. In the Heratp of next day we gave all the details of the first opening of the Spanish Parliament under the sovereignty of King Amadeus, The report was gratifying in the extreme. The scene, we are told, was bril- liant. The young monarch, the elect of the people, when he entered the Hall of the Cor tes, was received with all the demonstrations which indicate popular approval, All along the route, from the palace to the Assembly, the crowd was sympathetic; but the approval of the crowd was found to be a small affair when the members of the Cortes rose, on the appearance of the young King in the ancient hall of Spanish sovereignty, and stood, un- covered, saluting—the man of their choice, a stranger, the representative of a successfal revolution, of new Spain and of an ancient and honored house. So far as we know the facts the king spoke wisely and weil. He desired the “pacification of Cuba.” He had a strong desire for ‘“‘the resumption of friendly relae tions with the Pope.” He had many good words to say about reform generally and about finances particularly. The speech of the Stranger-King was cheered throughout, and the result was that the majority of the Cortes pledged themselves to support the Crown and the Ministry. This Spanish affair, taken im connection with the general movements of the day, writes a lesson which all must read, What is that lesson? What but this—monarchy wins and re- publicanism is in disfavor, Think of the re- joicings north and east of the Rhine! Think of the rejoicings south of the Alps and the Pyrenees! Think of the follies of France and the French, so long the republican representatives of Europe} The wise reader inows what we mean. Haror pean republicans know not what they want. France, the centre of European republicanism, behaves so badly that even American ree. publicans cease to have for her any reapect. In spite of the opposition of Montpensier, of Castellar, of the Izabellinos and the Carlista, we feel it to be our duty, as the interpreter of the facts of the moment, to say that the young King of Spain has a fair field before him. The blood of the martyred Prim will, like the blood of Cesar, for years to come cry for revenge.. This cry for revenge will be re- sponded to; but the result will not be a gain to what is now in Europe called the republic. We wish King Amadeus well, and we shall not be sorry if he succeeds in restoring Spain te something of her ancient splendor. Personal intelligence. Ex-Mayor Rice, of Boston, is among the arrivals at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor W. ©, Smith, of Vermont, 1s sojourne ing at the Brevoort House. Mr. J. P. Cowardin, Mr, Ernest Wiltz, Mr. C. A, Schaffter, Mr. M. P. Handy and Mr. W. 8. Gilman, members of the Virginia Legisiative delegation, have come to this city for the purpose of making arrangements for the International Exhubition. They are staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mrs. Senator Sprague is sojourning at the Hoff- man House. General G. W. Cass, of Pittsburg, has taken quare ters at the § liolas Ho. el. General Anson Stager, of Chicago, 1s at the Fitt» Avenue Hotel. Mr. Alexander Mitchell, Member of Congress from Wisconsin, has put up at the Hoffman House, Mr. L, A. Bigelow, of Boston, ts among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel James, of California, bas arrived at the Grand Hotel. Colonel E. D, Judd, of the United States Army, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. % Judge Spencer, of Syracuse, 13 sojourning at we Fuith Avenue Hot-L Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, has left the Hom- man House for home. M. P. Jewell, brother of the Governor who Is to. be, has departed from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, home~ Ward bound. We learn an item of news from abroad which ‘will be of interest to fashionable socicty. miss Na- taliede Loosey, daughter of the late Chevailer de Loosey, for so many years Austrian Consul General in this city, was married on the 15th of March. in Vienna, Austria, to Paron Max de Kuebeck, meme ber of Parliament and son of the for eight years Minister of Finance of Austria, The ceremony took place at the private residence of the bride’s brother- in-law, Mr. Theodore Havemeyer, of New York, temporarily sojourning in Vienne. Among those present were the most distinguished: personages in official and social circles of the Austrian capital, among them Count de Beust, the American Minister, Mr. Fay and Mrs. Fay, mem- bers of the Diplomatic Corps, Admiral Chevalier de Tegethof, the hero of Lissa, gave the bride away, and Miss Blanche de Looscy, the youngest sister, was the only bridesmaid. The newly-marned couple started immediately after the reception on @ tp to Italy, and on their return will reside perma nently in Vienna. Mr. and Mrs, Havemeyer, nce De Loosey, and family, are expected home in New Y.ork this sumuner. YACHTING. The Queen’s Cup—It Must be Sailed for aa ‘Won. New York, April 3, 1671. To tHe Eprror OF THE HERALD:— Permit me as a member of the Yacht Claband & lover of fair play a few words in reapect to tke ex- traordinary claim made by Commodore Ashbury and some of our own Yacht Club that he or any per- gon competing for the Queen’s Cup can foree the Yacht Club to designate its champion schooner. The first pertinent inquiry 18, how was this Cup won? Why, by the America satling aginst many veasela, In the next place, would the defeat of any selected yacht prove (what the Cup is intended to prove) that its international possession 18 proof of its interna- tional superiority ? The simple result in that event would be that in @ suceessful contest for one English vessel against one American vasae! the Eng- lish vessel won, Besides the Yacht Club might make a very dertous mistake 1m designating a champion schooner. Yachting, like whist, 18 of course de> pendent upon four-fifths skill and one-fifth luck. ‘The luck of yachting is in tide, winé ana weather; ‘the rest is skill and seamanship. Lag lied chal lenger sailing against the ficet 1s sure vena. pero pre torr some one vessel among the fleet that can ander the same circumstances compete, witn it, Again, how is the Yacht Club to dechle: which is the champion schoonext 1s any yacht owner going to vote for any other yacht than ls own? Each yacht owner in the squadron believes, as he ought, that his yacht is tho fastest. He hought it or puilt it beheving or intending It to be the fastest. Suppose, therefore, that tho Yacht Club eonnot agree upon a champion schooner, how 13 the Queen's Cup to be sailed for by a challenger? Tao intention of the gift, coupled with the way in which it was wan, and considerations of fair play, eertainly suggest that in an international trial of skill ¢ challesge? should sail against the whole squadron, and net add to the chances of hia luck thas of having Yaeat Clab Jealousy or management make @ mistake tasclect= 1Dg & CDAMAPLOD, 4. 0 Be