The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD GROAPWAY AND ANN SyRurr. . AMES QORDON SENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —— AMUSEMENTS THES EVERING. SS =” FHRAPRE, Broedway.—Tas Daaxa oF ese Pian © ere oe THEATER, 7 ™ ipsgite NS aC P — apaliaenei (Poe Prana YORK STADT THEATRE. No. 45 Bowery. —Enzt- ReeuLears Somoot amp WaBrE BAL00N. ROUSE, coraer of 8th ay. ana $34 st.— ni Ci nine THEA Bowery.—am OnssoT oF In- 1 BOWERY TRE, Bowery. \FUPTH AVENUE THRATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— maamm ros MONEYPATEEN Wer OLATSEE. Sq@uope THEATRE, 12 Broadway.—Vantzer Extzn- ‘TALEENT, £0,—DaY and NigutT—KEno, pune FB. oonWaY's PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — | ‘GAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAL Satsuma's Roral. Jaranzss Tore eh, seis Rage rANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., bi ave.—NEGEO Mineresusys es, sis ata ae TONY PASTOR'S OPE! Var Ba fi ta BOUSB, Wl Bowery.—Va- " THRATRE oom 6M Broad =, yy way,—Comio Vooat YORK O1R F amo yen ig ed fourteenth street.—SOZNRS IN aeuwar HALL, Fourteenth street—Grann Con- DR, KAHN'S <— reeres Ml 4 —_ EABWS J AL MUSEUM, 145 Broadway. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, April 13, 1871. —— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. t—Advertisementa, 2—Advertisementa. S—News from Washington: Proceedings of Con- foe tee State Capital: Proceeda of the S nalcectetednat and the Drama—The Board lealth—Druggea and Robbed—Joking and ame or ing. ‘ittenden Tragedy: Mrs. Laura D. Fair, mer, On the Stand; the Story of Her Lov; she Never Intended’ to Kill Her Para- mour; He was Her Only Friend and Protector— ings in the Courts—Financial and Com. mercial Reports, S—Oommercial Report (continued from Fourth Marriages and Deaths —Advertise- ment Y=The Rouge Revolt: More Severe Fighting ? proand Paris; Incessant Bombardment of = Maillot and Port des Ternes; Emeute Dy erhae Communists and Prussians at St. Denis—Napoileon Ul at Chiselhurst—Tele- lc News—Important from the Frontier: yy Indians and Five Ameri- ‘cans Killed—The Coal Miners’ Troubles—Lite- Yary Ohit-Ohat—New Jersey Elections—ver- sonal Intelugence—The Weather—The Viaduct Raurpgd—Burglars Caught in the Act—Busi- rials: Leading Article, “The Political Horl- gzon— Which is to the Dornmant Party, and Who the Be Man?’’—Amusement An- nouncemén! S—Advertisements. 40—Real Estate Matters: Suburban Property and the Points of Local Emigration--The Eric Wut: ‘The English Sharebolders—Methodist Mints. ters—Encounter with Tuleves —Huropean Mar- kets—Aavertisemcnts. vertisements. f1—Advertisements. i vertisements. “Tax Dericrenoy Bu is undergoing thorough scratiny in the House, and the Ku Klux bill is the subject of the old, old palaver in the Benate. Ma, Fiztps announced in the Assembly yesterday that the session mizht be closed this week, but Mr. Alvord thought the pressure of public business would prevent. Better close ap and hurry home as seon as possible; for the season is almost a fortnight in advance of ordinary years. ToNNELLING- THE East River.—General Slocum has introduced a bill in Congress to Incorporate a company with power to con- struct a tubular tunnel under the East river between this city and Brooklyn. Has not the Legislature of New York 20) fe to say aoe OS matter? fe SX I ntataeenineeniniine iA Br was P. in the Assembly last evening giving thirty-three thousand dollars to the Ninth regiment for supplying itself with oniforms and other things during the war. Whether it wae the war at Long Branch last summer or the coming war in Boston is not stated. Tae Annvat Svppry Birt is under discus- sion in the Assembly. The members seem to be disposed to examine every item closely. The proposed appropriation for the new Capi- tol building was cut down in Committee of the Whole last night to $250,000, and with such driblets the ‘‘job” bids fair to draw its slow length along equal to our own new Court House. Tae Reps axp tae Cuvrones.—The “ ” are leaving the Frenoh people and the world no room to doubt that they are the enemies of religion. It is reported that the ouré of the Church of the Madeleine is reported to have been assassinated by the mob, and that the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette has been pillaged. Let them go on. They are bot hastening their own destruction, which cannot come too soon. Boss Twrep is in a critieal position. The many bills which he bas fathered remain in @beyance on account of Jim Irving's unfor- tunate set-to. Mr. Tweed has therefore sum- tmoned the last Tammany reserves—his allies from the republican oamp—to the rescue, In Obedience to his call it is said the bénéficiaires of Tammany's secret service fund have hurried to Albany to propel the new Tax Levy bill and sundry other jobs. It would not be the first time that the Tammany republicans did Mr. Tweed yoomaa's service—for a coasidera- tion, Napowgon axp THE Rervrsixa Sorpiers oy rae Late turemat Anmr.—A Cologne paper called the Zcho states that the French prisoners are leaving Germany at the rate of one thousand per day, and that those only who ere known to be fayorable to the Ver- government aro a lowed to depart, There are some who will interpret this asa for the restoration of Napoleon. It is jast @ natural to conclude that the retarn of the late soldiers will ald the cause of thé ‘oF contribute to the restoration of the House of Orleans. { NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 187)--TRIPLE SHEET. : ‘The Political Horizen—Which ls te Be the Deminest Party, and Whe the Comisg Mant Political movements throughout the country become more interesting every day. The great Presidential prisé, with all its power, offices and spoils, is stirring up the political elements everywhere, and from present ap- pesrances we are likely to have an exciting time for a year and seven months to come, till it shall be decided who is to be the next Presi- dent and whioh shall be the party in power for another four years. But these movements are chiefly within the republ’can party and arise from two causes. The Grst is the rivalry of aspiring leaders in that party for the Presidency or for ® controlling position under the next administration. The other is the ap- prehension which began to seize the minds of the President and prominent repub- licans, after the New Hampshire election, the St. Domingo fiasco and Sumner’s attack on the administration, that the party might be losing ground, and that, without an extraordinary effort were made, it might lose the election in 1872. Hence the motive for, and object of, that remarkable gathering in Washington last week, which, as we said, was a sort of pra Uminary convention to renominate General Grant, and at which both the President and Vice President ggsisted, Not only were General Grapt_a and is ‘friends desirous of heading off the rival Prosidential tial aspirants, and of placing the General fairly on the track for the race of 1872 by this early movement, but they saw, no doubt, that some such action was necessary to check the threatened disintegra- tion of the party and to give the republicans ground on which all would rally and be ex- pected to stand. That the administration and the leaders of the party which support it and favor the renomination of General Grant as the best, if not the only, chance of success, have well considered the political situation and carefully matured their plans, there can be little doubt. The speech of Senator Morton, whois evidently the mouthpiece of the administration, at the meet- ing referred to, covered the whole ground and was a good and well prepared one. It was the platform of the administration party, and foreshadowed the plan of action in the cam- paign then and there opened. Then the measures that have been brought grward in Congress, either for immediate action or as holding out hope to the people, have direct reference to the approaching political contest. The Ku Klux bill is intended to strengthen the republicans in the South and to reawaken the feeling of hostility to the democrats among the voters of the North. The proposed amnesty bill, whether carried this session or not, has been brought forward at the same time to cover up the high-handed Ku Klux legislation and to make a show of liberality. Now we see, too, that Senator Sherman makes a move- ment to head off the revenue reformers and to take the wind out of the sails of the democrats on the subject of reducing taxation. The resolution he introduced in the Senate on Tuesday is comprehensive and goes as far as almost any yevenue reformer or democrat would desire, By this resolution the Committee on Finance is instructed, during the recess of Congress, to carefully examine the existing system of taxation with a view to repes!certain taxes, to reduce hoth the faternal taxes and the duties on imported goods, so that the aggre- gate of such taxes shall mot exceed the sums required to execute the laws relating to the public debt and the current expenditures of the government administered with the strictest economy—that, in fact, the taxes may be dis- tributed so as to impose the least possible burffén upon the people. Mr. Sherman said this resolution represented the views of every member of the Finance Committee. It is clear, therefore, from these and other move- ments and measures, that the administration party are determined to leaye nothing undone to secure byth the renomination of General Grant and his ré-election, if possible, in 1872. Itis evident, then, that the breeze which Mr. Sumner Sunde, even with the aid of Schurz and others, on the St. Domingo ques- tion, will not prove serious and was only a little political diversion for the time. The President bas wisely ¢ that by giving up St. Domingo out of defer- ence to public opinion, and what he may ‘have Inst in reputation for want of knowledge or sagacity on that subject he will gain for showing his good sense in yielding to pub- lic opinion. We think it likely, too, that Mr. Sumaer, having had his revenge, will cling to the party to which he naturally belongs and which he has done so much to build up. There is more reason to believe this when we reflect upon the news from Washington to the effect that Mr. Sumner is about to make a thorough radical speech and to define his position in the republican party. Nor do we think the Fenton-Conkling difficulty regarding the rela- tive position of the two Senators to the administration and the quarrels about the federal offices in New York. will lead to any serious disruptiog of the party here. Party necessity and power of the administration will either reconcile the factions or render power- less the one that may be disposed to be rebel- lious. One of the latest phases of the politi- cal disturbance in the republican party is the outspoken hostility to General Grant by Gov- ernor Geary, of Pennsylvania, as reported in an interview which one of our correspondents bad with him and which was pul lished In the Hegratp yesterday. Gov- ernor Geary, it is understood, is a candidate for President himself and bag affiliated with the revenue re! for that object. But his al or politi ical hostility to General Grant cannot change the course of the party, and as to revenue reform, the action of Senator Sherman and the Finatice Commit- tee of the Senate, to which we hive referred, is likely to take this thander away both from Geary and the other revenue reformers, General Grant is head and shoulders above every other republican aspirant for the Presi- dency, nd the lenders of the pa: have to soknanledg lady a that ‘He pate i nalte, other me can be taken to carry the party through, Though the republicans are waking up to the necessity of finding new and popular issues they have none at present, and have to fall back upon those of the war. Sober, sen- taken the sting out of both f ‘ trae; an wile like to hear no more of the dential election. General Grant, then, having been the prominent figure in the war, and representing more than any other the war issue, he must be the radical candidate, Say he is not a statesman—that he has none of the elements of a statesman in him—still, by bis military ability, in combination with favor- able circumstances, he’ conquered the rebel- lion and stands pre-eminently the representa- tive man of that conflict and closing event. We conclude, therefore, that he pill be the radical candidate, and that unless an extraordinary change takes Plage in the political situation he will be elect The tivalry of political chiefs, the growing, vast and varied interests of the country and public sentiment, will operate, probably, to make his re-election, should he be re-elected, the last one of any President. The time is past for two-term Presidents were it not for the remarkable state of political affairs just now and the exceptional position of General Grant. Foriunately for him and his party the demo- crats are acting unwisely, Apart from the war issues and what can be cunningly manu- factured out of them by the republicans to prejudice the public mind, there is no doubt that the country is democratic at heart. There is always a tendency to return to demo- cratic policy, and this has been seen to some extent in the elections of late; but the Union, the cause for which the war was fought, and the results of the war, are dear to the mass of the people. The amendments to the constitu- tion, however, were carried, and the political rights of the negroes are accepted by a large majority of the pecple as a final settlement. Any intimation on the part of democrats, though it may be from a few men only who do not represent the mass of the party, alarms the conservatives and throws those who would otherwise go with the democrats into the arms of the radical republicans. Where the public mind is so sensitive little things are magnified into great ones, The imprudent speeches of Frank Blair, the utter- ances of Jeff Davis and other similar oixcum- stances prove damaging to the democratic party, though that party, as a body, is not re- sponsible, Then, many of the old generation of Southern fire-eaters and extreme State rights theorists are still alive to embarrass the democrats and to damage their prospects, These men are like the old Bourbons—they never forget and never learn anything. Ex- perience %s lost on them. This generation will have to die out, probably, before the political dogmas which the war virtually destroyed will be forgotten in the South. It is to be feared, indeed, that these old State rights Southerners will continue to damage the democratic party, will enter the National Convention with their im- practicable ideas, and will undo the work which many of the more liberal Northern democrats are doing. Nor bas the democratic party in the Northern States come up to the expectations or the proper wants of the coun- try. In the great State of New York their views are narrowed down to local issues and the spoils of office. Through this and the divisions and rivalries among themselves their situation is becoming precarious. Evidence of this is seen in the condition ,of affairs at Albany just now, where parly trading in poli- tics, troubleg and the expulsion of one mem- ber threaten to stop important legislation. If the democrats would succeed they must har- monize, drop wornout and obnoxious issues, uth and North, and inaugurate a new, Gomprehensive gad progressive policy. With- out this they will not only | fail in 1872, but may never reach that land of ‘promise—the control of the federal government and patron- age—from which they have been cut off for the last ten years. The Civil War in France. It is worthy of notice that althongh the despatches from Versailles of yesterday's date report the cannonading about Paris as less frequent, and state that nothing of Importance had transpired, telegrams from the French capital, dated at noon yesterday, represent the cannonading as incessant from five o'clock in the morning, and report severe fighting before the forts on the south and in the Bois de Boulogne. The Versailles despatches are mite brief, and it is possible that there is an error in the date, This alone can reconeile the discrepancy between the two reports. That there was fighting going on is very evident, as when the Paris despatches left large numbers of wounded were arriving in the city from the scene of action, and the supposition was that the losses were heavy. Besides, our previous advices from Vergailles stated that yeater- daya desperate effort would be made by the ~—— forces to carry the positions held by urgeats and to force an entrance into Pa liigence of the result of the con- flicts will be awaited with deep interest, as it must materially affect the military situation for good or evil. A conflict took place on Tuesday Inst be- tween a party of Communists and the Prussians bs Denis, and although {t soon ceased it is unlikely to get the Commune into serious peitiens Doubtless, however, the Insurgent leaders will make every effort to concillate the Germans, who, by the way, have already established & battery at St. Denis, with its guns pointing toward Paris, | lesa this conflict should change e presen’ policy of Bismarck there will be no interference by Germany in the domestic affairs of France antil it shall become necessary for the collec- sible people are somewhat tired of them. it is | tlon of the war indemnity, The Amazons of Paris Called to Arms ‘for Adberty, Equality, Wraternity and Anarchy. The insurgent ruffians of Paris, among their desperate expodients to prolong their ‘Beggars’ Opera,” have, it appears, invited the women ‘of the city (that is, the women of the town) to form a military organization for its defence. The Amazons of the gay metropolis, who may be classified as the ruffians and cutthroats of their sex, Ggured conspicuously in nearly all the horrible atrocities of that hideous frst French Revolution of 1789, of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity,” anarchy and the guillo- tine, They were conspicuous In the storming of the Bastile; in the royal progress from Versailles to the Capital, riding upon the cannon; tn the pursuit of Louis XIV. and his family in their flight from Paris; inthe motley Procession of the sans culottes which escorted the poor King back to the Tuileries; in the mob which murdered the amiable Princess Lamballe, and marched in triumph through the streets with her head borne aloft upon a pike; in the bacchanalian orgies in the Talleries, with the occupation of the palace by the mob, and they were the life and spirit of the foul and obscene crowds which regularly, from morning till night, attended and exulted in drunken frenzy at the slaughters of the guillo- tine. Of all the domons in human shape let loose in Paris during that Reign of Terror, and till the e restoration of jaw, order, decency and religion by the First Napoleon, these abandoned and bloodthirsty Amazons of Paris were the most diabolical, detestable and disgusting. They reappeared again in the streets among the reds in the revolution of 1830, and in 1848, with the flizht of Louis Philippe, they enacted an opéra bouffe in the Tuileries which will, perhaps, some day be set to the lively music and scanty costumes of Offenbach, unless he shall prefer the more abundant materials for the illustration of the Amazons of Paris to be found in the glorious reign of its Commune of ruffians and prostitutes of 1871. Voltaire justifies us in the notion that your average Parisian is “part monkey and part tiger,” or part opéra bouffe and part tragedy, a buffoon or an assassin. Victor Hugo in ‘‘Les Miserables” describes him, but even Hugo fails to describe the shocking Paris Amazon in the political réle of French equality and women’s rights, There can be nothing more revolting, more de- graded or debasing than this female monster under the sun, And these are the creatures to whom the Commune of Paris of 1871 have appealed to organize as a military phalanx for the defence of the city. What © mockery for Paris as the capital of civilization! What a chapter of infamy is this in the present degra- dation of France! From the doings of the Commune in Paris during the last two or three weeks it is clear that their ultimate object is the universal re- public of Anacharais Cloots, They have made considerable progress, too, as it appears, in this direction. They have abolished the rents for lodgings; they have driven off some two or three hundred thousand landlords, and occupy their houses free of oharge; they have abolished the Sabbath, and in their spoliations of banks, stores and ciurches, in their imprisonment of priests and nuns, in their scourging of the Archbishop, and in their blasphemous proclamations, they have pre- pared te way for parading again through the Boulevards a woman of the town as the embodiment of their religion. Such are these Communists of Paris. Their whole programme may be reduced to these few words :—Every- thing for everybody; everything in common; no work, but a general carousal till everything on hand is eaten up, and then a sale of the national palaces to raise the wind, and so on. And it appears, too, that in all these social- istic doings the women of Paris, more than in any preceding revolution er revolt, are actively concerned. How are we to account for this? Isita natural outgrowth from the debaucheries of the empire? or is ita French development of women’s rights? or is it due to the demorali- zations of the late siegé, or to the general spread of infidelity, domestic, political and religious, among the people of Paris? All these demoralizing causes have evidently been at work, undermining the foundations of gov- ernment and society in the gay city, now called to meet some of the penalties due for its ging and follies. The German armies came first, as the Medes and Persians came down upon the gay city of Babylon and put an end to its reigning dynasty in the midst of a grand carousal. Under the German slege the army and the people of Paris were reduced for subsistence to hi asses, elephants, lions, tigers, monkeys, ‘alligators, rats, cate and dogs, and such strange food on empty stomachs, and under all the fierce excitements of bloody and fruitless sorties, unquestionably contributed much to demoralize and brutalize the Parisians, women included. Then from the capitulation and the harsh conditions of peace exacted by Germany, and accepted from necessity by M. Thiers and the National As- sembly, the general mind of Paris was so unhinged as to place the city and its people at the mercy of these reoklesg sad somegrate Jacobins. — Most lamentable in all these developtisats isthe apparent widely increased demoraliza- tion of the women; for surely these Com- munists would not think of forming a mili- tary legion of the women of Paris if the women themselves had not. applied for their equal rights in Sighting. So muc among other causes—so much for tae beard tation of women’s rights, In the full fruition of this grand ides [It gives us the Paris Amazon, 4 monster compared with which the savage Apache is a humanitarian and the ilthy Hottentot a model of propriety feminine fasgination, If such are the outgrowths from the centre of modern civiliza- tion the question recurs, Is not this civilization, with Ite advanced ideas of equality, fraternity, women’s rights snd Communism, carrying its followers first to anarchy and then to barbar- ism? Reduce this advanced universal repub- lic of Anacharais Cloots to its elementary principles and results, and do we not find them embodled in the halteteryed Digger Indian? A Rion FapeRaL Jop vor Buooxryy.— Congressman Kinsella, of Brooklyn, has intro- duced a bill for the erection of suitable balld- ings for federal courts, Post Office, revenue offices, &c., in that city, This will bea nice federal job for somebody, Our Theatrical Stars. The Hxrap has often uttered a not anavall- ing protest against the evils of the so-called “starring system.” Managers of theatres are atlength beginning to learn that the steady light of © thoroughly well organized stock company ts preferable to the dazzling lustre of any single “‘star.” Nevertheless the public —. ; folioliated on the fact that at present ‘stars” of greater or less magnitude are shining in our theatrical sky. Edwin Booth, at his own splendid theatre, in the ‘Fool's Revenge”—Mr. Tom Taylor's transformation of the nightmare story of Victor Hingo’s “Le Rol d'Amuse” and of the opera of “Rigoletto” into what Professor Morley rightly calls ‘a wholesome English- natured plot’—is, at least for once, con- vincingly disproving the charge of his detrac- tors that he can never efface his individuality and make {it disappear in that of the characters assumed by him. He brings out admirably all the fine contrasts of dramatic color for which, as Morley observes, the dig- nity and tenderness of Bertuccio’s relation as a father with his child, the straggle of his revengeful spirit with. the coutsels of her simple piety and purity of heart, presently to be followed by the ferocity of exultation at what he believes to be the suocess of his relentless plotting, yield occasion. In the last act Mr. Booth moat effectively renders the Fool’s glorying, the base- ness of his triumph passing by swift stages, the terror of his doubt, the agony of his despair. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, as the poet friend and lover of Bertuccio’s daughter, in “The Fool’s Revenge,” and as Phidias and Raphael in ‘‘The Marble Heart,” acts with an intensity which, together with his exceptionally fine voice, entitles him to be ranked among our “stars.” But the “bright, particular star” of the week is Charles Mathews, at the Fifth Avenue theatre, as Mr. Alfred Mopus in ‘Married for for Money” and as Captain Patter in ‘Patter vs. Clatter.” We have already chronicled the hearty ovation with which this incomparable comedian was welcomed on Monday evening. In his farewell professional circumnavigation of the world the veteran actor must have dis- covered and bathed in the Fountain of Youth which De Soto vainly sought in Florida; for he displays all the ease, vivacity, wit and humor which have made him the delight of an entire generation of playgoers. William Creswick, notwithstanding the criticisms provoked by the exaggerations of “Nobody's Child,” Watts Phillips’ sensational drama, in which he appeared at Laura Keene's Fourteenth Street theatre on Tuesday evening, is another extraordinary instance of prolonged vitality. This sterling good actor now adda the prestige of fame honestly earned in England and mature experience to the qualities by which he won applause at the old Tremont theatre in Boston many, many years ago. Miss Laura Keene, in her double char- acter as directress and actress, met with the hearty reception due to a long established favorite of the public. James Bennett, in the title vdle of Richard Til.—which was produced at Niblo’s on Mon- day night with astonishing archsological accuracy as well as scenic splendor—has not equalled the anticipations of a critical New York audience, accustomed to the excellence of more than one of his illustrious predeces- sors, Perhaps he may yet demonstrate that sufficient allowance has not been made by his critics for the drawbacks of a first representa- tion, and for the influence on their minds of a certain strangeness in a version so different as Calvert's from that of Colley Cibber, all the lines of which they know by heart, Mr, Ben- nett’s conception of the part was consistent in itself throughout, evincing careful study. His apparent Imitation of the poses of Edwin Booth and the gestures and other peculiarities of Charles Fechter made an unfavorable first impression. Toward tho end of the piece he painfully be- trayed the fatigue which nothing but Del- sarte's principle of ‘‘strength in ease” can enable an actor to avoid. Although he made several striking points—his wooing of Lady Anne, in the first act, for example, was de- servedly applauded—yet he did not exhibit that magnetic energy which alone can thrill an audience. Mr. Neil Warner proves to be an acceptable Richmond, and Mr. Shewell an equally acceptable Duke of Buckingham. Mme. Ponisi sustained with her usual force and intelligence the part of Margaret. Mile, Aimée, the brilliant prima donna of the Grand Opera House, will appear as La Belle Héléne at her first benefit this evening. George Clarke will shine forth next week in Mr. De Leon's new piece, “Pluck,” at Lina Edwin's. George Fox is a ‘‘fixed star” abovo the ‘‘Horizon” at the Olympic;” and, to con- clude, Wallack’s excellent company is by itself @ constellation. A Verptor has just been rendered in the Supreme Court which, while it is likely to be fruitful of suggestive Jessogs to auctioneers, will doubtless be of great future service to those whom either misfortune or other causes compel to have recourse to gentlemen of the red 1 A poor woman employed an auc- firm to gell her furniture. The goods were sold, and, instead of two and a half per cent—the fees proscribed by statute—they withheld about twenty per cent, giving her the remainder. She bad the pluck to bring 4 | ig suit to recover the exddssivé chargés, and a jury had the sense and justice to give them to her. If others similarly victimized will do the same upon this species of swiadling, which is Importast from the Mexican Frontion By telegram from Galveston we learn that 8 train of provisions passing from Chihuahan for Fort Bacon was attacked by Indians-and seven Americans killed, The Chihushas troops pursued the marauders across the fron- ter into the United States, and killed and captured eighty of them, The United States troops at Fort Goodwin went to protect the Indians and came in collision with the Mexican soldiers. A fight ensued, in which thé commanding officer at Fort: Goodwin and forty soldiers were killed, We are st loss to understand why United States troops should protect band of murderous Indians; it appears rather" to have been their duty to: aid in chastising them. That the Mexican: troops crossed the border under such circumstances: can hardly be considered a violation of our territory, for they were only in pursuit of’ those who a:few hours before had taken the lives of seven Americans, We trust that the-account of tlie affair has been exaggerated, for if not it may lead to serious complications, The death of an officer and forty soldiers: of the United States in an affray with Mexican troops ¢annot be passed over without a. searching investiga- tion in order to discover who was at fault. Clubbing Policemem Atrial was commenced’ yesterday in the Supreme Court, before-Jadge Sutherland;, which, it is to be hoped, will determine-the- extent of freedom allowed to policemen in. using their clubs.upon the heads of prisoners without making themselves amenable for pe- cuniary damages. As usnal there has been. the proverbial “‘law’s delays” in this case. The: clubbing took place about six years. ago,, but by those strategic: devices known to the law the trial has been postponed till now, The present case seems a. rather hard one. The plaintiff, who resided in Westchester county, according to his story, was late in catching a train,“ and while running towards tho Harlem depot was stopped and held by a person-in citizen’s clothes he had never seen before. He tried to get away, when his captor shouted ‘‘Police,” and shortly a sergeant and three policemen had him in their clutches, beat him unmerci- fully with their clubs, dragged him to the station and thrust him, more dead than alive, into a cellin the Nineteenth precinct station house, where he was kept over night. He claims ten thousand dollars damages. The defence isthe old, old one of ‘drunk and dis- orderly conduct” by the prisoner. It remains to be seen, even if the charge of drunkenness is proved, whether four policemen will be held justifiable in using their combined clubs upon the head of a drunken man to effect his secure lodgment in a station house. This clubbing business is being carried too far. It isa crying evil. It is time it was stopped. We are glad to know that a case is under- going investigation before a tribunal where political influence does not weigh—where the truth is likely to be elicited and justice done. Writs Habens Corpus. Some sort of sanctity should attach to writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. The right: to personal liberty Is a great right. Chartered rights must not bo ruthlessly trampled upon, But in the matter of habeas corpus there. ia being given In our courts altogether too wide and extended an area, This is the present great open sesame to criminals of every. sort, the key that unlocks prison doors, the. talis- ‘manic wand that transports from gloomy dungeons to the glorious freedom of the sun- light and pure air and that more acceptable freedom, freedom from one’s persecutors. The last attempt to make writs of habeas corpus subservient of ends designed to defoat justice showed itself yesterday before Judge Brady, of the Supreme Court, in tho case of the eighty- five low and abandoned wretches captured by the police in their late raid upon the miserably vile bagnios in Greenwich strect. What is the use in arresting such persons and imme- diately turning them looge again? The law ia clear as to the legality of such arrests: We only wish that it was as clear to the police authorities that it is their duty to follow up these arrests and clean out every bagnia in the city. Mara lene Wart Srreet SpgrovuLaTioy AND SuHER- MAN’S ResoLuTioy.—The first effects of the resolution introduced by Senator Sherman, proposing a repeal of all taxes save those necessary for the support of the government, were witnessed in Wall street yesterday, whero the speculative sentiment was rendered buoyant in anticipation of the sweeping aboli- tion of all the petty annoyances which the internal revenue system imposes upon the business of the street. The removal of taxes on capital, on deposits on interest, om coupons, on stock certificates, on salog and o all the e ioug tome of Wal street transac. tions, w: fii go a greal ‘way toward making the wheels of legitimate and speculative business glide smoothly in that busy mart, The im- portant point, however, is the vast stimulus which the change will impart to trade in general, ‘the hypdred millions taken yearly, from the profits of the people now will, when left with them, produce at least ten millions annually and expand their capacity for pro- ducing more and more, until in ten years the national dobt will be only mall fraotion of the real wealth of the Jountry. orn Resignation or Mr. Irvine at Albany will not t produce a tie in the House, as some of our contemporaries imagine. The House now stands sixty-four democrats to sixty-three carried on to qn alarming extent in this ofty, | republicans, with a number ationg the latter an effegtual estoppel may be placed upon a who are rather wealt In the knees. per ever Sib ts bis TOT Tp A Cotomto Jonas of the jupreme Court in South Carolina was the wrong passenger for the officials on the Richmond and Danville Railway to put off the train. He knew too much law, and charged them one thousand two bundred dollars cash for their little diver- ston, and they had to pay It. Ir g “Byaary PropaB.& that we shall bo favored with & a greak re redaction of internal taxes by the next Congress. lotions have | g been made simaltancously in the two houses looking to a promise of that sort, and, as the Toe Leoat Texpen Cases in the Supreme, Conrt have been postponed on account of the illness of Justice Nelson. His illness is eape- clally unfortunate just now, as he is also a member of the Joint High Commission. pane BROOKLYN MORTALITY. Ped Ce. 2 ts ‘The number Of doaths fn Brooklyn last week waa 171, @ decrease of 18 as compared with preceding week. Of the dead o4 were infants ander one qoan and 20 were persons whose ages from oares 85 were men, 44 women, 46 boys and rth meumonia carried otf 20, consutapnoa 28, Sivalsions 10) scasinune 4% marasmus 1 fall elections are generally unimportant, we | cancer 4, disease of the heart 7, disease 01 sf eiduer may take it for granted that the promise Is | 5; portent» ie pen i eit} @ finghest, tag a deaths occurred, {vito in the. "yirst and Nineteenth ‘warda not PI death 18 |. The nativi- tes of the deceased were:—United States, 114 Ire- land, $2; Germany, ui By 9 6; France, Oanad Nova Scotia, Sootiand and \ Vorao Talanda, 4 hob, made in good faith. In the passage of Mr. Sherman's resolution in the Senate wo may anderstend that the republican, backbone is stiffening for the contest of 1972,