The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, De a aeeeeanaeaaneneel JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE to R. —— Volame XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS THIS EVENING, BR THEATER, ‘ - eg i enor $52 ot, vetween Sth ans Gin ave, No, 104 WOOD'S MUSKUM Brontwer, os corner Sih et.—Perform- ances every afternoon and eventos, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadw: Bonzo. THE DBaMa oF NTBLO'S GARDEN, .—TOe SPncr: ‘Tax Lirk anp Dxark oF ituis THE Tima ” ee TABATRE, “Broadway gad 15th sires. “INA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 7230 Broadway.—iuTo— Lingaap's Sxerouss. YOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— Nowopr's Curvy. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, No. 45 Bowery.—LA BELLE Hevene, BAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. and 934 Bt— BELLE HELENE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—AN OxskoT oF In+ @EnEst—-On LAND. f FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twanty-fourth strest.— MARRIED YOR MONEY—PAITER Vs. CLATTER. “ QLOBE THUBATRE, 738 Broadway,—Vartare ENTER TAINMENT, &C.—DA¥ AND NIGHT—KENO, * MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S FARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Pour. ' GAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL FALL, 688 Broadway.— Bavspua’s Rovat Jaranrse Trourt. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUS#, 23: at. between 6th end 7th ava.—NeGRO MINSTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- BikAx ENTERTAINMENT. THRATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Comro VooaL- 18ME, NEGRO ACI8, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtconth street.—Somngs 1 WHE RING, ACROLATS, £0. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL NUSEUM, 745 BronAway.— SciENCE AND Aut. TRIPLE SHEET. New vated Friday, April bon iia the "CONTENTS OF 1 To-pi 8 | HERALD. Pack. wi 1 Sa dreciaeaneenn 2—Advertisements. 3-Tie pent ock in the Asse: 26 y: The Republicans nh Legislation; a y Al of ‘nem; The Amu: ents— ui ‘ence Yet ri a : HR rn Spectal Report of te Oxford and Cambridge Coniest; Dlic tement and a@ Brilliant Scene; of the Universities’ Men To- Oare of the Philups on * Episcopal jzht on the Orphans—A Deithera! Universal Amnesty—Tne Book Concern Investiga’ Frontter : Au Arizonian’s Distarbing Harn York yy News—Ine Block-M A S—Proceedings ta the Co Spicy Sensation and ting Develop- ments—Caught at Last—howers tn the Central , Park—Trunk Thieves Trapped—Pension Agent "Lawrence—Prowlers Atter Prowler’a Cigars— Marriages aud Deaths. @—Lditvrials: Leading Article, ‘The Struggle for Authority iu France—The Men oi Oraer and the Nen of Anarcay— ut i3 to Be the Re- suit /—Lirerary Cint-Ch Personal Intelli- gence—Fiune Arls—Amusement Announce. ments, 7—-The Kouge Reyolt: The Government Forces Driven From Neuilly: The rgents Operat- ing Agniust Courbevoie; heirs on the ; ast = Disarin— ew Zealand— of the Joint High ah Judiciary— | ~Views of te pm ne ercial Repor' epartinent of De ughters of Cuba—The 5! vueements. zens: Pigeon Match Rotween Piet tT Reunion va New AmsrerpaM Rxpivivus—The tration on Mond Ger- to be getting the removal of He ought to be much for bis St. Domingo trouble. thaakfal to General Graat A ial Gambetta, having failed, with Qaribal¢ fighting the Germans, is coming to the United States to look up Mr. Train to talk dow. M. Thiers? Where is Mr. Train? TFive-Twenties mx Loxpo sterday sold at 93—the highest figure which they have ever reached in the foreign market. Consols at the same time wore only 9 Tbe par of five-twenties in London is 91, so that, making allowance for accrued interest, they are not far from that level. JupGe STRicKLAN ton, asking for en appropriation to pay the United States Court ofticiais and jurors in that Territory. At present Brighem Young holds the purse, and to some extent slapes their verdicts. If they convict a Mormow he stops their pay, and the conse is that justice is vory difficult to admini the world , of Utah, is in Washing- enee or in that part of Rixe in Wash- t. General N. P. or Delegate to Con- asks:— Cav a service than Tar New ‘T ing‘on is a matte Chipman, the candidate { gress from the Distr democratic Delegate a republican Deiogate? eircumstances. With a democratic adminis- tration i¢ probably would be better for the interests of the Dietzict to Lave a democratic Delegate. mo’ more That depends upon Tax Ex-Emprror Napoi ww 's reported as boing quite unwell again, althongh in the bosom of his family, in his quiet reireat at Chisel- hurst, England, perfectiy secure from the san- fruidary Communists of Paris, He is, perhaps, chafing d2der his inability to rake them down with graposhd> and at the timid, temporizing It must be admitted, too, that of all the rolere of France the Bona- paries knew the best how ti ep down the Paris reds by grapeshot and by ples bixeiles, by bullets and by balio policy of M. Thiers; Tur SENATE PRoPosrtt0x to repeal the Tw for the meeting of Congress on the 4th of March, which in effect made a perpetual Congress, was passed in the House yesterday by a vote of 99 to 98. Speaker Bisine, who opposes the rep?al, refrained from voting and fons etd a tie, for some reason best known to himself, and to him personally is therefore due the credit of having done away Mreegltize uselees and expensive piece of legisla- ion, whioh was inatituled by a republican to offset the usurpations of Andy god shou!d never heve been kept up a9 @ threat azaing! President Grant, e The Struggte for Authority fa France— The Mom of Order and the Men of Anarchy—What Is te Bo the Result? Up to the moment while wo write the fight between the government forces who receive orders from Versailles, and who represent France, and the forces of the “reds,” who occupy and control, but do not represent Paris, continues. Both parties claim success in the struggle, which, how- ever it may end, deeply concerns the future welfare of France. , President. Thiers, in a circular dated the 12th, says:— “The goverament will act at the proper time, The Commune accounts of victory at Paris are as false as they are unprincipled. Our victory will be bloodless, We have re- ceived the Paris delegates not bsoause they are Communists, but because they are repub- licans, My answer to them was, ‘No one menaces the republic but assassins. The lives of the insurgents will be spared, but the workmen who are now paid to be rebels must return to their lawful occupations ; and secession here, as in America, must and will be suppressed.’” The venerable statesman and historian Guizot has just pub- licked a letter, in which ho exhorts the Ver- sailles government to be firm, approves the conduct of tho Assembly, and éxpresses his confidence that victory on their part is certain and decisive: It is gratifying to know that Marshal MacMahon fs at the head of the army which represents order and that M. Thiers, yielding no doubt to the advice of experienced military men, is no longer disposed to con- ciliate. The one grand fact which stands out before us in regard to the internal condition of France is, that Paris is standing out against the whole country. So far as we know the truth the trouble in the other large cities, such as Lyons and Marseilles, has been easily quieted, and the rural population waits to know who is master. If the peasantry have any preference it certainly is not in favor of the “reds.” To them the “reds” are enemies who have no more interest in their welfare than to rob them of their farms and to drive them from their homes. As the large cities have failed to respond to the call of the Paris insurgents and as the peasantry most un- questionably lean to the side which repre- sents order, it is not unreasonable to conclude that the Versailles government will win. All this we say on the assumption that the German forces, who occupy a large por- tion of French territory, and who are, besides, masters of Paris if they only choose to make use of their guns, will not take any part in the strife. But is it for a moment to be imagined that if the government and Assembly at Ver- sailles see themselves and their cause in danger they will not call the Germans to their aid? We cannot imagine it. Let it not be forgotten that Bismarck foresaw all this trouble; that he wisely and sufficiently pro- vided against it ; that he hates Communism ; that he made peace with the government which M. Thiers and the National Assembly at Versailles represent, and that, although he has said he will not interfere so long as the terms of the peace treaty are not violated, he is ready to obey the first summons of the Ver- sailles government. While we do not forget ibat the “reds” have formally declared them- selves willing to abide by the termsof the treaty of peace, we must still say that Bis- marck is on the side of order, and that, as the Versailles government represents order, the whole s'rengih of Germany may be relicd upon to put down the Paris insurgents, Looking at the struggle from this point of view, we cannot but say that Paris cannot win. Without the support of the other large cities, without the support of the peasant classes, and with the forces of Germany ready to act against it, Paris must once more succumb. All this having been said, we will not deny that if the populous centres had more heartily responded to thé Communist call of Paris—if all the large cities of France had proved them- selves equal to the occasion and the opporin- nity, the Versailles government might have had no choice but to resign and retire, and Germany might have found it convenient to deal with a Communist representative in the fulfilment of the conditions of the treaty of peace. The occasion, however, is no more; the opportunity has been lost. Communism has killed itself, and we are not permitted for one moment to think that the men of the gar- ret and the gutter, and the women of the slums—-the liberty, equality, fraternity and anarchy class—have any chance of final suc- cess, As we have no longer any doubt that order must soon emerge out of all this chaos it is more important to ask, How is order to be established, and what is to be the resniting form of government? The first question is not difficult to answer. Order may be established by the resignation of M. Thiers. M. Thiers is not necessarily the head of the present National Assembly. He is the elect of the Assembly, not of the French people. It is possible that the resig- nation of President Thiers might disarm the insurgents and give the Assombly and the party of order an easy victory. It is more than possible that the resignation of M. Thicrs ia the one thing which ia the circumstances of the case is needed. As he is suspected» by some to be an Orleanist, by others to bea Bonapartist, his resignation might save bim- self and eave France. Order may be estab- lished by the Versailles government whether M. Thiers resigns or docs not resign. If the present government remains firm the mere love of order on the part of the French people warrants ug to believe that they will stand by their elected representatives, and that from the Palace of Versailles or from the Palace of the Tuileries the historian of the Revolution, of the Consulate and of the empire may preside over a united and grateful France, If the drider-loving cle- ireats of France cannot unaided restore order thego elements have but to call in the ald of Bismarck, and the work is done. The exam- ples of 1814 and 4815 oan never be forgotien, The fact ia that the policy of Bismarck in retiring the German forces before a govern- ment wae thoroughly established in France is by many considered the act of an enemy rather than the act of a friend, The German troops in Paria with the consent of the Ver- saflics government, there could be no more anarchy. We are willing, however, to believe that France, without the aig of Germany, can save bet cult to answer. Whatis to be the resulting form of government? Who can positively answer this question? It may be a republic. It may be a limited monarchy. It may be the empire. So soon as order is established steps must be taken for another plédiscite. Who can tell how France will decide? Asa republican people alli our sympathies go with the republican oause in France, We shall rejoice, and rejoice heartily, if the good sense of the Fronch people finds proper expression and establishes in Eu- rope a model republic. But France has so often found and so often lost her opportunity, and the appearances of the hour are so little in her favor that we can barely hope. It is just as likely that when order is re-established and when France is once more asked to record her vote, the vote may be in favor of the restoration of the House of Orleans or of the House of Bonaparte as that it will be in favor of s republic. If the republic fails the fault will be the fault of the republicans themselves. Fairer play from the outside world no conquered nation has ever had. If France is blind and stupid and unreasoning, unable to learn and un- willing to bow, France must submit to fate and go the way of the many great monarchies of the past. : However all this fronkag may end, we must, as the expounders of the sentiments of tho American people, say that much as we love republican institutions we love order more. If France cannot be a republic, let France at least have domestic tranquillity and a chance to prosper. . " The Crisis Albany=The Republican Manifesto Against Partisan Legislation. The deadlock in the Legislature has become a case of locked ‘horns: flot ven’ the golden key of Tammany seems likely to ualock it. The republicans in caucus, including every man of them in the Assembly, have signed a pledge to vote against any party measure of the democratic majority, and have espe- pecially named the new Tax Levy and the Registration, the amended Charter and the amended Election bills as measures that come under this proscriptive title. In case any member of the republican clan “goes back” on his pledge he is to be denounced as recreant in all the republican newspapers by means of a card to be signed by all the mem- bers who remain loyal. This is considered so in formidable a demonstration that it has frightened the Boss and all bis ad- herents and, the democrats of the two houses held earnest caucuses last night, whereia it was determined to present a bill this morning providing for a special election to fill the vacancy in the Sixteenth district caused by the resignation of Mr. Irving. The Assembly caucus agreed to force this bill before the House as a privileged bill, the Speaker being agreeable, and to pass it if possible. If the democratic members cannot } pass it they will have the satisfaction of plac- ing the republicans on record as opposing the representation of the citizens of the Six- teenth district in the Legislature, and they will in return refuse to carry on any further legislative business whatever. In case the special bill is passed by any miracle they will at once adjourn until the vacancy is filled and they again have that magical sixty-five members absolately neces- sary to do business. The sudden junction of all the republican forces directly in front of tho enemy seems to have utterly demoralized the democracy. Boss Tweed and his advisers were in close consultation with the Gover- nor and the Attorney General up to a late hour last night, and the excitement at the adjourn- ment of the Assembly was such that Speaker Hitchman and Mr. Goodrich came near®epeant- ing the scene between Irving and Weed which originated all this fuss, The special election bill, which both caucuses seemed to have seized upon simultaneously, is a slender chance, an extremely forlorn hope, and we cannot imagine how they can have any shadow of hope of its passage. If any of the bills designated by the republican caucus are partisan certainly this one is, and as the republicans held another caucus at mid- night itis safe to presume that they know of its intended introduction and are prepared to oppose it. The deadlock has thus assumed such solid proportions that there is no possi- bility of its being broken during the present session, and adjournment is ‘the only course to be pursued. - The Brooklyn Charity Fair. It{s not every day that we have so noble 4 cause to recommend as that which is repre- sented by the Charity Fair which is now being held in the Academy of Music, Brook- lyn. The proceeds of the Fair are to be de- voted to the establishment of a Foundling Hospital in our sister city, similar to that which has been recently established in New York, and which, according to all accounte, has worked so well in what we must persist in calling the interests of humanity. Pity it is that foundling hospitals should be necessary in the midst of us. That they are neccasary, however, no one who takes any Interest in the welfare of the community can doubt. The New York Foundling Hospital, not much more than a year old, has, we understand, scarcely less than two thousand infants under its care. This fact has, no doubt, two voices; but if the one voice speaks of eyil, the other voice speaks no less emphatically of goodness. The Brooklyn Fair speaks only of goodness. It is 4 revelation of the best side of humanity. We are glad to know that the Fair is proving a grand success, The Brooklyn people are doing well. We cannot forget, however, that Brooklyn is often kind to New York, Let New York on this occasion kindly remomber Brooklyn. Our words are addressed partica- larly to the New York ladies, who aro always so good and so kind. Soormern Weaxkngss.—The / Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel says:—‘‘A deluge of despotism has swept over the Southern States, utterly extinguishing the lags vestige of Stats rights as secured to ua by bath State and federal constitutions.” The dove of peace followed that deluge and its olive branch Ys the symbol of arestored and united republio. Let our Southern friends think of that. The same paper declares that ‘“‘of all the despicable characters inside or outside of the penitentiary the most despicable is the repentant rebel.” Repentant rebels will make the hogt citizens, The English Universities Bont Raco—Our Special Report from London. The Heratp special report of the English Universities boat racc, between the Oxford and Cambridge crews, reached us by mail yester- day. It appears in our columns this morning. This complete narrative of the event confirms in all its essential particulars the account which we received by cable telegram on the night of the Ist of April, the day of its occurrence, and priated a few hours subsequently. The scene was extremely ex- citing, although a little more tame on the part> of the people than in former years. The crowd of spectators was multitndinous, ‘jolly” aud good-natured. It lacked the aristocratic pres- ence—a feature which had come almost to be regarded as a sine quad non by Englishmen on the ‘Varsities race day. The crews were popularized—if we can he permitted the expression—to a very great extent. The muscle of the democracy sent forth its power during the struggle. Cambridge won. Tho people were glad. “Johan Bull” proper likes fulr play, and tells all the world of his predilection. British “snobbishness,” as will be secn by our letter, fought hard to muintaid its, almost privileged, class impudence. The attempt was a failare in the faco of the natural, national jurispru- dence of a thoroughly British crowd, the members of which had just learned to test their constitutional franchise strength in a manly, parliamentary manner againsi the manorial claims of the sona of the barons, who have succeeded the Conqueror, nah Tho trath is that the result of ie I Oxford “aquutio contest ‘the gild off the British Universities oarsmen. The bone and sinew of the youth- fal Americans taught Englishmen of the existence of a grand silent power hitherto unknewn to them. It pro- nounced a_ great fact in ethnological sciencc—that the human organism is im- proved in its structure by the migration or transplantation of the species, America has preserved the best blood of Britain—kept it untainted in a pure air and under a healthy eky. She will some day return it beyond the Atlantic for the reinvigoration of the parent stock, The annual contests of the Universities boat crews on the Thames will become more dashing, more “‘swift and decisive” after- wards, and Great Britain will acknowledye in imperia! voice the truth of the asscrtion that “blood is thicker than water,” as it was ultered by an American tar to Queon Victoria’s naval officers in China, when the gallant arms of United States sailors helped them to suetain_ the ‘Union Jack” under the river fort fire of the Asiatics. National sports have their lessons and uses. Such are our inferences from the Heratp special report of the English Universities boat race on the Thames. ‘Harvard. Theatrical Criticism. There is a small weekly paper published in this city devoted chiefly to theatrical adver- tising and the fulsome puffery of the theatres advertising in it and to denunciatory criti- cismgof the performances at theatres whose advertisements do not appear in its columns. Booth’s theatre does not favor this paper with ils advertising patronage, and not long since a very hitter and virulent criticism of Booth’s Richelieu appeared in its columns, Incensed ‘at this attack upon his professional merits Mr. Booth gave orders not to admit to the theatre either the wrller of the article or the editor of the paper. Both proffered money at the ticket office for tickets, which were re- fused them. Buying tickets of a ticket specu- lator outside they thought to pass the Scylla of the box office, but encountered a relentless Cerberus in the person of the doorkeeper. It was their turn to be incensed, and so they were. Only one alternative presented itself. This they adopted. They determined to bring the matter to a legal test, and accordingly an application was made yes- terday before Judge Brady, of the Su- preme Court, for a mandamus compelling Mr. Booth to appear and show cause why these complainants “should not be admitted upon payment of the price of admission the same as other persons. The mandamus was made returnable next Monday, at which time the merits of the case, from a legal and equity point & view, will be fully discussed. This subject of hostile theatrical criticism is an old one, ‘It has been before the courts re- peatedly, A theatrical manager once under- took to prevent tho writer of a criticism against him entering his theatre. In the courts, how- ever, his action was not sustained. It has been soin every case, and will continue so. The law is plainly explicit on the point, Theatres, like hotels, must open their doors to the public. If a person is disorderly in :a hotel he can be turned out. If a person is disorderly ina theatre he can be turned out. If a newspaper critic writes a mendacious, scurrilous and libellous criticism, or one that is considered such, there is proper redress in the courts, and there is the place to seek it. Mr. Booth has not only taken the wrong course of action in defending hitaself against the enmity of un- friendly critics—as in the case referred to— but he has given to his adversaries an opening to that notoriety which they now seek through that application to the courts, Tae RrsigNaTion oF Invina has really made sad havoo with the democracy in the Legislature. Although the democrats aiill possess a plurality of one vote in the Assem- bly they are at the mercy of the republicans. The constitution of the State provides, in sec- tion 15 of article 8, that ‘no bill shall be passed unless by the assent of a ma- jority, of all the members clected to each branch of the Legislature.” As there were one hundred and twenty-eight membera elected to the Assembly it requires sixty-five votes in that body to passa bill, There is, therefore, a ‘‘deadlock” in the lower House, which the repablicans have already taken ad- vantage of, in caucus, by declaring the more important bills introduced by democrats “party measures,” and, under the whip, have exacted a pledge from the republicans to vote solidly against them. Taw Present has sent in the names of eleven men to compose the Legislative Council of the District of Columbia, .Three of these are colored, Fred Douglass being one of them, The election for Delegate to Congress takes lace on the 20th inst, g —————E 4] I I 5 ee ee eee u NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 14 187L-TRIPLE SHEET. ff. Tho other question is more diffi- | ‘The Ku Kinx and the Amnesty Bills. The rights of the States are subordinate to the rights of the people, and. the jurisdiction of the States is subordinate to the sovereigaty of the United States. This, as we nnderstand it, 1s the interpretation of the fourteenth amendment, as embodied in the bill empower- ing the President to suppress the law-defying Southern Ku Klux Klans, to the extent when in his discretion it may be deemed neceszary of suspending the habeas corpus, declaring mariial law and employing the army and navy. ‘It is useless, however, longer to discuss the con- stitutional questions involved fn this bill, inas- much as it may be considered a fixed fact. The two houses have remained in session for the single purpose of passing it; and, as the measure was recommended by the President as urgently required in behalf of law and order in the South, he will, of course, promptly sign the bill, But the House, and by the required two- thirds vote, has passed another bill, now before the Senate, which, we think, ought to become a law in connection with the Ku Klux bill’ Wo refer to the Amnesty bill, which, under the fourteenth am@adment, requires the concurrence of the two houses by a two-thirds vote. We think Mr, Hale's bill, thongh only a _ balf-way measure, if concurred in by the Senate, would goalong way to render the Ku Klux billa superfluous act of coercion, We believe that a universal and sweeping amnesty, embracing even Jeff Davis, would quictly disarm and dispersg Shox Southern Ku Klux Klang, in taking from them their last pretext of hunting down “radical niggers,” Northern “‘carpet- bag- gers” and“ Yankee Schoolmarms” leased 1 in teaching aspiring D biggers to read an d write. But the House bill of Mr. Hale, as far as it goes, 1s on the right tack for the pacification of the Sonth, and the Senate will act wisely in passing it. Senator Roberison, of South Carolina, thinks 80; and his opinion on the subjoct is that of a man who ought to know the reasons why, for his State more than any other is overrun by the Ku Klux Klans. Wendell Phillips, in his latest manifesto on the subject, says that this Amnesty bill is ‘one more outgrowth of that coward and biundering anxiety for party success which has poisoned the whole reconstruction policy,” and that ‘‘whoever supports it helps to dig the grave of the republican party, and por- sibly of the Union itself.” But, touching Ahese Ku Klnx Klans in South Carolina, for ex- ample, the opinion of a republican Seaator from that State is more entitled to respect than the opinion of the old Massachusetts alarmist. The St. Domingo Priativng Job. We see by the proceedings in Congress yesterday that Senator Cole offered a resolu- tion, which was, referred to the Committee on Printing, to print fifty thousand copies of the Commissioners’ report on St. Domingo. Now, while we think it might be proper enough to print a limited number of the report as made out by the Commissioners for the use of Coa- gress and the departments, there is no necessity to print such a vasi number, A few thousand copies would be snfficient. The report and all the information about St. Domingo have already been spread broadcast over the couniry through the public press, But there is a moro serious objection to print- ing than this, for we understand the intention is to print with the report signed by the Commissioners and already made public the mass of trashy and useless matter collected by the protégés, friends and so-called scientific men of the Commission. Then itis said the St. Domingo Land Company cf New York has, through its superintendent at St. Domingo and influence at Washington, received permission to print with the report and as a part of it a stockjobbing report of its own. This would be, of course, a vast saving to the company in the first place, and would send the stock up through such official endorsement in the next place. But why should the people of the United States pay for this private job? The report and accompanying documents would make one Immense volume at least, It isa cunning echeme to advertise the St. Domingo Land Company and the men, most of them of small calibre, who were attached to the Com- mission. The printing of these documents would be a great waste of money and would be of benefit to nobody except the printers, paper contractors, speculatora in the St. Do- mingo Land Company, the conchologists, bug hunters and other little pretending scientists who accompanied the Commission, The coun- try cannot afford to be taxed for such a job, and it is to bs hoped the Committee on Print- ing of the Senate will report against the reso- lution. State Soverzienry, NULLIFIOATION AND Szorssion.—The Paris Commune is fighting the government of France upon these old ideas of Caluoun and Jeff Davis. Fanny people, those Paris reformers, Having tried everything else, they are now trying the ex- periment of a new confederacy by force of arms against the national government, Tar Bank or Enonanp rate of discount was reduced yesterday to two and a half per cent. The ‘‘buils” in Wall street went into spasms of delight over the cable telegram which brought the announcement, and vented their feelings in @ sharp rise in stocks, Personal Intelligence. Prince de Lynar, who had dnring the war deen attached to the stat’ of Emperor Wiillam, arrived yesterday by the steamer Cuba. Isis said that the Prince has come to this country to marry Miss Par- sons, @ young beauty of Cleveland, to whom he 1s engaged, He 13 now staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Baron Schlizer, the new Minister Plenipotentiary of the North German ‘Confederation, has arrived from Mextco, where he had been Prussian Minister for scveral years, He js to replace Baron Gerolt in Washington. Baron Schldger has tor the present apartments at the Brovoort House. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippl, 18 among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commodere Aldon, of the United States Navy, ia slationed at the Brevoort House. Mr. Georgo W. Riggs, the banker, of Washington, has apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Michael“ Hahn, of Louisiana, is stop- ping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. George B, McCartee, Superintendent of tho Treasury Department, Washington, ts at tho Fit Avenue Hotel, on o brief visit, Captain E.R, Moodle, of the steamer Cuba, is at tho Brevoort Honse. Samuel G Croments (Mark Twain) has put up at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Vioo President of the Ponsytvania Central Railroad, is stopping at the Filth Avenue Hotel ee a a a a a a tne op \ Sant RARER G RGR EPL LITERARY OHIT-CHAT. Tox LONDON Atheneum says that the United States contain ‘some thirty millions of Bible pead> ing Protestants.” We doubt it, - Mr. RANDALL, late Superintendent of Education of this city, has written a history of the common schoel- . system of the State of New York, which is said to be both mteresting and instructive. Sr. GEORGE MivaRt’s new work, attacking an@ refuting the tueortes of Darwin, bas been published by Appleton & Co. and should be read by all persona familiar with the works of Darwin. WE HAVE RECEIVED an advance copy of an tn teresting work on “Minnesota; Its Climate an@ Character,” written by Ledyard Bill and publishes by Wood & Holbrook, of this city, Leigh Hvn1’s autograph MS. of his modernization. of Chaucer's “Friar’s Tale; or, the Summoner aad the Devil,” was récontly sold at auction in London and fetched only thirieen doilars. AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, named J, TH, ‘simpsom, has published a little pamphieteatitled “A New Cru- sade to Put Down Wars.”’. As Carlyle once pithug said, “Would that it were feasible; that, IC feasiblo, 1t could be effectual.” Tur BrauM or Baorat. an East Indian lady, who. died in 1868, wrote a book entitied ‘A Pilgrimage te. Mecca,” which has been tranlated by Mrs, Wit loughby Osborne from the Urdd. It is a matter of remark that although the Begum was a devout Mo- hammedan her book expresses tho utmost disgust for Mecca, the holy place of her faith, THE LIFE oF Huau MILLER, recently published im London, 18 obtaining extended reviews from the English press. One eritic says:-—“Carlyle has pres tended to more than Miller, and his claims are stilt subd judice, Milter, if by no means the greatest man of bis day, was unquestionably a great and good man, and on that pedestal ts likely to stand.” ExcerriNa Scaimner & Co., who continue ad- ding to thetr admirable series of scientific works, American puolishers are do'ng very little at present in the way of bringing out books devoted to art and science, A few reprints from foreign werks are an- nouncea, but no American authors are adding tothe Most important branches of Iteraturo, they imp. 1s pally , if they pansy (tne, (the, rears RetEL SOT eel branches) even are the least Tine IN A WORK entitled “Journeys in North China, Muuchurta and Eastern Moxgolta,”” written by Reve Alexander Williamson, tho government of the Uht- nese empire ts denounced as politically, morally and spiritually corrupt, The author s9)s that the Em- beror of China considers that the 1dea of the Presi- dent of the United States being ranked as equal to him in power and dignity should be “relegated to the regions of laughter.” That 1s not bad. Mr. Evwarp Lana, F, R. 5. E., of England, has prepared ‘A New Table of Seven-Piace Logarithms of All Numbers trom 20,000 tv 200,00). ‘The impor tance of the work to mathematicians and others engaged in the labor of trgonometrical calcuiations cannot be overestimated. Professor Henry Briggs, Who improved on Baron Napier’s invention of logarithms of numbers, and whose system fs the one now used, Calculated the logarithms of numbers from 1 to 20,000 and trom 90,000 to 100,000, and 16 was considered that he had peiforined a marvellous plece of work. Mr. Lang, however, has exceeded hia labvors six-fold, and has aiso announced for early pub- lication, by sunhscription, tables of logarithms up te one million, calculated to nine decimal places, When published tais work will doubtiess forever close up this field of labor. Fin ARTS National Academy of Desigu. Last evening a large assembly of representatives of the most highly cultivated classes in our metro Poiitan society througed the galleries of tne Acad+ emy, having been invited to a private view of the works of art contributed to {ts forty-sixth annual exhibition, As usna!, music and flowers and bright eyes divertea the attention of the guests irom the Pictures and sculptures, which, after ail, cannot well be criticise. by ight A glance at these works, however, was Heient to Justify the gencrak Anticipation that the sprtug bition, offering the result of the pgst labor ou the part of our artists, is & superior to any whieh has ie ume preceded it. ‘The ves are More numeconsly repe te at the winter exhibity and severai prounctions of younger and less wel known artists give promise ‘or future distinction. notice of the that Gifford’s: prsivdvs “Ti the “Danger Signal,)? Coach,’* Reserving tor anotier day 4 exhibition we must be con “Fishiog Sierra and Boat on tie Adria’ lountams,’? Men Eustinan Jonson's alone richly repay a visit to wie Academy, Count de Marnotl:?s Collection. Ii must be remembered that tie sale of this eole lection, comprising works of Robbe, Persus, G Becker, B. C. Koek-Koek, Jacoty Verboeckho- ven, Savy and oth uropean priliag, takes place to-night at Leavitt's Art Galleries, im Clintou Hall, CHNCINMATI_AND INGIA’ POLIS RAILROAD. CINCINNATI, April 13, 1871, At a meeting of the director of the Cincinnatt an@ Indianapolis Rallroad to-day M. E. Ingals resigned the presidency. His successor is not yet named. Ata meeting of the directors of the Indiauapolis, Cinemnati and Lutayette Railrond in New York Mr. Ingals’ resignation of the presticucy of that road Was also accepted and Williamg A. Booth was elected to Gill the vacancy. Mr. Ingais has disposed of his stock and resigned the presidency tn view of the re- cent decision of Judge Cox, Bee was unfavorable to his continuance aa recelver 60 long as he held in- terest as stockholder, Me will consequentiy com tinue in connection with (nc roads as recetver, THE SOUTHEXN PACIFIC RAILROAG, Memrmis, April 15, 1871. The organization of the Southern Pacific Railroaa next weck excites great interest, The name of Colonel Sam Tate, president of the Memphis and Lite Rock Raliroad, is centidently spoken of tm . connection with the presidency; also that of Gov- ernor Alcorn, THE K WELLOGS O'VORCE CASE. Another Epinode=Tho ¥ Further Attempt te Kidnap Wis Children. On Wednesday night last a most unusual excite- ment was caused on Court street, Brookiyn, by the screaming of three children who were being fok Jowed by & man. Two oflicers from the Third pree cmict soon come up and took the children in charge. On arriving at the station house it was_ascertelned that the gentioman was Mr. Kk. B. Kellogg, who lately sued for a dtvorce in the Supreme Court from his wife, and he was adopting this means to regaim possession of his children. A lawyer Pete ha called in, he advised the sergeant lather was the egal guardian, and fe guested that the children be ‘allowed to go away with nim. ‘The children were them asked if they would return with their father, and they refused. The mother, Mrs. Kellog, arriving @m tila time, the children were handed over to ner, an® slice immediately toox them to her homme, ir. Ket- Jogg seemed very much affected by the absence o& feeling manifested towards bim by iis children, ‘SUICIDE of A WEALTHY FARMER, Yestertay morning Mr. Leiferts Bergen, @ wealthy Long Island fermer, living at Nydo Park, hung himself in the barn of Jonn R. Burts, a neign- bor. Ceeaant a of Fads ae Led hist acd = 1g supposed that Mr. Bergen wi ra pane. ie has boen troubied in his mind since the thine he was wayiatd, shot and robbed of year since. He was flity years of age, a Talried but a few mouths ayo. THE HOBOKEN CHARTER ELECTIONS. Hoboken ta too near New York to be free from some of the evils which atvend the elections. fm “Gotham. It turns out that In the Titird ward ap wards of one pants votes ee ae ie bagh my aur number hitherto kuown, ini through. Charges of te. which carried Schmersal ug! cree Oe ie lao made ond several Biection law are said to have been violaich wheal, Board of Canvaasers meet to-day to determine shall be done, — A Th BRAKEMAN WiLLED, On Wednesday night, about ten o'ciock,.a vi man on ihe New Jorsey Central Rallroad i b bbe near West Elizabeth by a Western “ght train and was instantly killed. The body ore Fiiscovered Bee inna ware whines — OU, MeN WI a ome- or fon” tte track, Deceased waa named Ata Reed. Ho was shortly to be marrien and was tie mnain stay of a feeble mother, SUDEN DE DEATH. Mz, Movrta Beoker, a 1 Wonltlyy, respectable cltzety who resided at No, 308 West Forty-eighin street, Hed very auddenly ab twelve o'clock catertar. file auton servios 1a the Jewian ia ‘thirty-fourth sirest, Wetween Sixt and Seveath ave~ nnoa, Coroner Schigme: Wil Lold an ingest,