The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1871, Page 6

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Pace. ere &—Advertisementa. 2—Advertisements. 3—Afnirs at the State Capital; The Irving Special Election Bill in the Assembly; Republicans Standing Firm; The Bill Lost by One Vote, but Reconsidered and the Motion Laid on the Table—News from Cuba—Russia: Religious Persecution of the Jews and Rtot in Odessa— Plymouth Lecture Room. 4@—Disordered France: How the Elections were Carried Out and the Numbers who Voted; The Ceremony of the Iustallation of the Com- mune; The Scum of the Streets Controlling the Capital; Versailles; Rouen; Marseilles; Tou- louse; Napoleon—Music and the Drama. 6—The Erie War: The Transfer Clerk on the Stand Yesterday—The Criutenden Homicide: Cun- finuation of the Defence—Tne Block-McKaig Homicide: Second Day’s Proceedings Before the Court at Frederick, Md.—Woman’s Sutf- frage—Reception on Board the Oceanica— Educational—A Lanalord Censured. G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Difficulty at Albany—The Manifesto of the Assembly Re- pablicans and the Results’’—Amusement An- houncemenis. 7—The Rouge Revolt: Severe Fighting and Com- plete Repulse of the Versailles Forces; Inces- sant Artillery Fighting; Government Ac- counts; Insurgent Claims of Success Dented— Latest from France—Spain and South Ame- rica: Agreement of Armistice Between Spain pe tne South American Republics—Business - otices. &—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Finan- cial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Ma‘ters—The @otton Movement—The Legis- lative Fees and Charges of Auctioneers— The Prize Ring—Stenea to Death—A Youtnfal ere eee in Long Isiand City. 9—Haul of Brooklyn Pane: Thieves—What a Cor- poration Can Do—Mysierious Death in Belle- vue—Authors “On Hand’—Marriages and Deaths —Advertisements. 10—News from Washington: Passage of the Ku Klux Bill in the Senate--The Joint High Com- mission: Basis of settiemeat of the Alabama a> a eee ee ee Claims Agreed Upon—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, T1— Advertisements. 13—Advertisements. Tur Grow or Tue Nortnern Lients, look- ing up the Hudson on Friday night, we were sure was connected with some unusual electri- cal perturbation in the atmosphere, and the news from Albany of that nigtt explained the disturbance. Tae Great Issve—The issue on the fif- teenth amendment between the Northern and Southern democracy. The Southern demo- cratic journals keep up their old fight, and with such zeal that there is a prospect ofa third party. ‘ Tax Senate passed the House Ku Klux bill yesterday with several important amend- ments, most of them making the bill more stringent. One of these provides for assessing damages to persons and property upon locali- ties where the outrages are commiited. The vote upon the passage of the bill showed Schurz alongside of Trumbull, in the demo- cratic column. ' Senator Hows takes back all he said sbout Senator Sumner turaing democrat. He $s glad to see that Senator Sumner’s stand on the Ku Klux bill is thoroughly republican. What an unsatisfactory republican Senator Howe himself muzt be when he doesn’t know ‘enough of his party to kaow that Sumner is the biggest man and has the biggest brain in it! Tue Kv Kevx Bru is not a mere nullity of legislation—‘‘full of sound and fury, signi- Jying nothing.” It is meant for use, every word of it. It isto be a heavy battering ram - fo batter the marauders to death if necessary ; and the exciting work was commenced yester- day by the arrest of two Ku Klux pages of the Senate who frightened a little darky in the Capitol grounds by putting a rope around his meck and yelling ‘‘Ku Klux” at him. It is to do hoped that these cold-blooded miscreants sill be made to feel the full terrors of the law—- ‘hat Is, if we have a law bearing upon their case. JR Saloni drill t Grerr.ays Women in Washington at- tem; register yesterday in order to but they were sternly turned away by unfeeling avd unappreciative Registry The women had better give this up. jobody in office able to further their aims inclined to agree with them, and their is hopeless. We begin to think that the liary, long-haired individuals who incite on to this, like the furious reds of Paris, have set the women there to craving and smoke, or the mischief-brooding 4 patie std who fire the heart to a ‘7 ing for office, ought to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APKIL 15 187L-TRIVLE SHEET. The Difiiculty et Albany—The Mauifesto ef the Assembly Republicans and the Results, The game of fisticuffs at Albany, whereby Mr. James Irving attempted to pound convic- tion into the head of a refractory member of the “‘hayloft and cheesepress democracy,” and which brought about the compulsory re- signation of said Irving, left ‘‘the Boss” and his budget of big bills in a deadlock in our State Assembly. That patriotic body num- bers, when full, one hundred and twenty- eight members, of which sixty-five is a majority. The State constitution declares that ‘‘no bill shal be passed unless by the assent of a majirity of all the members elected to each branch of the Legisla- ture.” Very good. But it so happons that in consequence of the retirement of Mr. Irving the democrats of the Assembly can muster only sixty-four votes, and that the sixty-three republicans of the body have pledged themselves in a “round robin” to stand firm against those big bills of ‘the Boss” till it rains cats and dogs; in short, they have all subscribed a paper, which we may call a manifesto, declaring that they regard the bill for the repeal of the Registry law of this city, the bill to amend the Election law, the bill to amend our City Charter, the Buffalo Police bill, the bill to amend the B :ffalo charter and the bill kaown as the Two Per Cont Tax Levy bill as party (that is, democratic party) mea- sures, and that ‘‘ao republican can, consist- ently with his parity obligations, support either,” To make sure work of it the republicans concerned have further agreed “that, in case any member of the party shall desert it in acting upon the measures mentioned, we will regard it ag our duty to denounce such deser- ter as a traitor to tae party in a writing to be signed by us and published in the republican papers of the State.” But why this extraor- dinary exhibition of republican unity against these aforesaid bills as party measures? If we may believe the republican newspapers, it is because, among other things, these bills cover a scheme for raising a fund of ten or fifteen millions, more or less, whereby Tam- many Hall proposes, by the bribery and corruption of conventions and States, to carry the next Presidential election. The republican organs say, for instance, that the repeal of the Registry law of this city will enable Tammany hereafter, in any elec- tion of any moment, to report fifty, seventy- five or a hundred thousand demooratic major- fty, or ‘any majority that may bo required to overcome the republican vote of the rural districts; that the bill to amend the Election law isa Tammany bird of the same feather, and that so are the other bills indicated; that, worst of all, the Two Per Cent Tax bill is a scheme to enable ‘“‘the ring” to raise a Tam- many electioneering fund of millions for the purposes of the Presidential campaign, inas- much as this bill empowers ‘‘the ring” to raise any amount of money they may require and biads them to no accountability in spendin ; it; that they can do as they like with it and there will be nobody to call them to account, The Albany Journal says of this republican movement that “‘it will be hailed with satisfac- tion by the republican party throughout the State ;” that “‘it betokens the earnest and reso- lute spirit which animates our representatives in the Legislature ;” that ‘they could have ‘given no higher evidence of fidelity and devo- tion to the trust confided to their hands,” The Albany Argus, on the other hand, says that “never was 30 gros3 a scheme of intimidation resorted to in politics;” that “‘if forced upon members of a trades union it would legally justify the indictment of the authors of the threat;” that the republican caucus agreement is like one of those compacts which banded criminals sign, ‘because they know from experience each other's dishonesty, and have a lively sense of each other's cowardice.” But this excited democratic trumpeter flatly declares that the fight will be carried through; and that ‘‘if it be necessary to fill the vacancy in Irving's district by a special election the demo- crats can afford to wait or hold a recess till it is done.” This last resort was adopted by the democrats of the Assembly yesterday morn- ing in the bill of Mr. Frear providing for the special election of an Assemblyman in the Six- teenth district to fill the vacancy resulting from Irving's resignation. Here comes the pinch. Is this bill a party measure? Itis so proclaimed by the demo- crats themselves. How, then, are they to pass it? From the standpoint of the republi- can “round robin” we don’t see. The bill was ordered to a third reading—G4 to 62; but sixty-five votes are needed to pass it. There are only sixty-four democrats. They want one republican to help them out, and now if any of the sixty-three republicans is in the market he can command his own price and get it, as they say, ‘‘cash down on the nail.” Will “the Boss” be able to find his man? If not, then his failure will be the most remarkable event in all the history of Albany legislation. Some years ago there was a tie in the Assembly. The repub- licans then, otherwise in possession of the State, wanted one man from the democrats in the Assembly. They found him, and his name was Callicot, and they secured his services by making him their candidate for Speaker, and with his own vote, by electing him. The history of that man since that day is a history of misfortunes, including an involuntary term of service at Albany in an institution under a more rigid discipline than the Assembly. Still it must be, we think, that the republican now wanted by ‘‘ihe Boss” in the Assembly can be found for the money; for it is an old political maxim that “every man has hig price.” : But the test is made on the passage of this bill to fill the Irving vacancy, and the vote stands 64 to 63—every republican in the line— not one missing, and, sixty-five votes being wanted for it, the bill is lost. Truly this is a most remarkable event. Here was an oppor- tunity for a speculative republican on the main chance to make twenty, fifty, or a hun- dred thousand dollars clear cash and retire to private life comfortably fixed, and there was no bolter. Has the age of miracles come again? For after all the buying and selling at Albany of the last two or three years this thing appears like a miracle. The bill is lost, Irving's seat is not to be filled this session, The Registry Reveal bill, thy Rlection, Wijl. tbe Buffalo bills and the Two Per Cent Tax Levy bill are all doomed. What next? The demo- cratic camp at Albany is in a great stew. “The Boss” is bothered and his faitbful henchmen are fearfully excited. But some- thing must be done. Mr. Jacobs has threat- ened to sink the Appropriation and Supply bills, adjourn the Legislature and throw the responsibility upon the intractable and bull- headed minority. An evening republican con- temporary ssys:—“It would be a matter of great rejoicing to the people if Mr. Jacobs | would carry out his threat;” that “it would sink not only several little jobs, but the demo- cratic party.” At all events we aré decidedly of the opin- fon that an immediate final adjournment of this Legislature would be no loss to the peo- ple or the State, but in the long run a clear gain to both. But we ara apprehensive that Mr. Jacobs will not even attempt to carry out his threat. The bills condemned by the re- publicans as party measures are not all the bills in which the democrats are interested. They are interested too much in the Appro- priation and Supply bills to cast them over- board, and there are many little bills which this, that and the other members atill desire to get through this session. The registry repeal _is knocked in the head; but why should Tammany be afraid of the registry? The project for changing the day of the State election has gone up; but that was a foolish project. The Two Per Cent Tax Levy bill, by which our city taxes were to be levied, collected and disbursed, under the man- agement of Messrs. Tweed, Sweeny, Hall and Connolly, was a brilliant conception; but it is swamped. and we believe that the city and the State will survive the loss, if it may be called a loss, We are only afraid that some trading will follow between the democrats and repub- licans, which will result in a tax levy costing more to the taxpayers than the wildest esti- mates of the bill defeated. Nevertheless, all things considered, from these events of the last twodays at Albany, we are disposed to regard James Irving as a man who ‘‘has done the State some service.” In this patriotic view of the consequences we rejoice that he “bunged the nose” and ‘“‘ put a Mansard roof over the eye” of Mr. Weed; and that to rectify the offence Mr. Irving resigned his seat in the Assembly. Otherwise we don’t know what might have happened in the reconstruction of our city and State governments. Now we do know that Tammaay will not ride roughshod over us into the White House, and that “the Boss” is not the Emperor of Germany. We know that in the legislation, henceforth, of this session, both parties will have a voice and an interest, and that both will be responsible for the acts passed. Let us hope that the end of this Legislature will redeem the beginning and the middle so far as to justify a monument to Mr. Irving in the Capitol square, at Albany, which will immortalize, in enduring brass, his pugilistic set-to with Mr. Weed. From such trifling events are shaped the ups and downs of parties, States and empires. The Alabama Clnims—A Basis of Settle. ment Agreed Upon. It is known, according to our Washington despatches, that a basis for the settlement of the Alabama claims has been agreed upon by the Joint High Commission. The responsi- bility of England for the depredations of piratical cruisers fitted out in her waters is accepted, and it is agreed that such responsibility shall be hereafter accepted as a political maxim between the United States and Great Britain, both these Powers also pledging themselves to make efforts for a general international ac- ceptance of the same view. The claims at present under consideration are to be sub- mitted for verification and auditing to a new commission of five persons—one to be named by the President, one by the Queen and one each respectively by the President of Switzerland, the King of Italy and the Emperor of Brazil. These commissioners are to be sworn, like jurors, that they have formed no previous immovable opinion and have no prejudices in the matter, but that they will decide altogether upon the evidence as they receive it. They will be cognizant of and adopt the maxim accepted by the present Commission, however relative to responsibility, and will confine themselves altogether to hearing evidence, auditing claims and signing checks, which will be payable promptly on their endorsement, for any sums that our insurance companies, ship- owners and merchants generally are able legi- timately to pile up against England. After the Commission gets through another commis- sion of three, one of whom is to be appointed by the Emperor of Russia and the other two respectively by the President and the Queen, will wind up the little odds aud endsand sweep ont the rubbish left by the two previous Commissions. Thus we are to have a clean sweep made of all the Alabama claims, provided always that the government of Great Britain and-the Senate of the United States are satisfied with the settlement now made public. The main point in the whale arrangement seems to be that the final payment of cash on these claims is to be delayed almost indefinitely. It was too much to ask that the high and mighty Commission now at Wash- ington should go over all the petty details and tote up item after item of damages when they had so much extra labor in the way of fox-hunting, starting docu- mentary evidence from cover, dining, flusbi old precedents, visiting and merrymaklag; and they have done as well and about as much as could be expected of them, Nothing is sald about any counter-claims, and we may reason- ably conclude that the English Commissioners have very sensibly refrained from pressing them. Toe Prestpznt Witt Not Go to San Franoisco Tuts SuMMER.—We have the news from Washington that the President will not make his contemplated trip ‘‘across the Con- tinent” this summer ; that his public duties in connection with the business of the Joint High Commission and the Southern Ku Klux Klans will detain him at or near Washington (at Long Branch, for instance) till the fall. Very well, We concur in this programme—busi- ness first and pleasure afterwards. It is a ad role Severe Fighting Before Paris—Tke Gov- erameat Forces Repulsed. It is very clear to our mind, notwithstanding the repeated denials from Versailles, that there has been severe fighting around Paris during the past three days, and that the government forces have been repulsed. Our special reports from both Versailles and Paris add to this im- pression, and a brief despatch from Londos, which simply says, “The Versailles forces have been repulsed every where around Paris,” con- firms it, The despatches of our correspond- ents, as well as the other accounts, make it evident that there were engagements on Wednesday and Thursday nights, at Asnieres and Neuilly on the west, and in front of Fort Vanvres on the south of the French capital. The conflict before the last named place was witnessed from the fort by our correspondent. He reports that the scene was magnificent; that the rifle firing was the heaviest he had ever heard, and that the peculiar grunting sound of the mitrailleuse was Incessant. He adds that the forces of the government were badly repulsed, suffering heavily in killed and wounded, and speaks of the insurgents as elated by their success. The engagement referrad to in the foregoing took place on Wednesday night. Oa Thurs- day the fighting was resumed, and it seems to have been exceedingly s:vere in the vicinity of Asnieres and Neuilly, At one time a part of the forces of General Dombrowski gave way. He sent for rein{grcemeets, which were forwarded, and in the night the Commu- nal journals announced that the Army of Ver- sailles had been everwhere repulsed, | Yes- terday the battle was probably resumed; but of that we are not certain, There seems, however, to be no doubt that thus far the re- sult of the fighting has been unfavorable to the upholders of law and order. If the insur- gents have not been able to assume the offen- sive, they have at least succeeded in holding their own, and our present fear is that this fact will dishearten the French army support- ing the government of M. Thiers, Although we are satisfied that reverses have attended the arms of Marshal MacMahon’s forces, we do not think they render probable the final success of the Communists. No deci- sive battle has yet been fought. All the actions which have thus far taken place seem to have been brought out in the effort to take up cer- tain positions from which to operate the more decisively against Paris, At the present time the insurgents must be superior in num- bers to the government forces, but they cannot recruit, while M. Thiers has three hundred thousand veterans in Germany from which to recruit. The existing disparity must conse- quently disappear before long, unless the troops which have been repulsed beceme so disheartened as to be rendered ineffective. Herein lies the danger of M. Thiers. At the best the soldiers do not feel any great confi- dence in his government, and the fact that they are fighting their own countrymen—a fact, by the way, to which the insurgents are supremely indifferent—united with their failure in the field, must naturally have a de- pressing effect. Unless the brief despatch from London, to which we have already rsferred, reports the result of yesterday's fighting, we have uo in- telligence concerning the military operations of that day. A despatch from Versailles states that the cannonading was severe at Asnieres and Clamart, but with little result, At the hour of writing this we have no later reports from Paris than those dated on Thurs- day night, so that it is difficult to arrive at any conclusion regarding yesterday's conflict. Severe as was the damage inflicted on Paris by the Prussians during the late siege, it promises to be a mere trifle compared with the damage which will be done the city during the present “asurrection, Our special correspond- ent reports that many shells are falling in the streets, and that two millions of francs’ worth of property has already been destroyed. As if to invite destruction, the insur- gents have mrounted heavy guns in the most populous quarters with which to reply to the fire from Mont Val¢rien. As might be supposed, the result of this absurd action—for the insurgents will not be able to injure Mont Valérien—has been and will con- tinue to be most disastrous to Paris, All the other items of news from France are interesting. Our Versailles correspondent states that some of the commanders of the in- surgents have offered to sell the gates of Paris and of Forts Issy and Vanvres to the govern- ment forces, and that M. Thiers has refused to make the purchase. We believe the insur- gents quite capable of the treachery, and if M. Tiers has refused the offer he has committed anerror. Why should he be so punctilious, after peremptorily refusing to recognize the Commun'sts as anything else than rebels? The peace delegation from Paris to whom he made this refusal have returned and reported to the Commune the result of their visit to Ver- aailles, Following this we have a declaration from one of the Communal ministers to the effect that ‘conciliation is impossible.” Altogether the prospect for France is very grave and very mournful, While we are con- fident that the present struggle will terminate in the overthrow of the insurgents, we fear that the results of the engagements of the past two or three days will protract it. It is a sad thing for Paris, for France and for Europe to see a great people like the French destroying themselves by the most deplorable of all con- flicta—a civil war. Our Bonds Abroad and pect. United States five-twenties were quoted in London yesterday at 90} ex dividend, which makes them within about a half. per cent of par. The six months’ coupons payable the 1st of May have been taken off to forward here for payment. No doubt the easy money market in London and the reduction of interest by the Bank of England have contributed to place our securities just now so near par; but there has been going on for some time a steady and healthy advance. The capitalists and people of Europe begin to realize the fact that there are no safer or better paying securities in the world than ours; that we have boundless resources and that the debt is a bagatelle compared with our means. In all proba- bility American bonds will continue to advance. This will give the Secre- tary of the Treasury facilities for convert- ing the six per cents into the vponperel debt at lower intocogh, 99 neovided far by the Financial Pros- act of Congress, Mr. Boutwell is a fortunate | The Wrerchea Condition of Frince-Our finance minister. The wealth and progress of the country and the enormous revenue the people raise make his duties very easy. With the present activity in business and abundance of money a good foundation is laid to bridge over tho usual dull summer season without a financial depression. Then will come in the enormous crops of cotton, cereals and other things, which are now so promising, to carry us over the seasons that follow. This flatter- ing prospect is not overdrawn. The country i3 moving on to a high tide of prosperity, and if the government will reduce taxation and practise that economy which the Senate reso- lution of Mr. Sherman promises a glorious and happy future awaits the American people, Contested WilleThe Jumel Estate. “There are names not born to die.” There are but fow names, however, that have yet come within the application of the words quoted above. Singularly enough, it is not in the lifetime of any one that such immortality. of name is predicted or even dreamed of. No one in the lifetime of the ancient lady of Washington’ Heights—Madame Jumel—or during her long years of isolation from the active world around her, would have ever sup- posed that, after she had passed away to the silent tomb, her name, so long forgotten, would become as famous as that of Anneke Jans, which has long passed into history. That the name of Madame Jumel is one of those ‘not born to die” is, in fact, becoming more and more apparent—at all events as far as suits and actions, and proceedings in courts before judges, lawyers and juries, testimony of witnesses, oral and bene ease, and records of pedigree can make it. The accumulation of money during life must certainly be one of those evils which men do which live after them; for we see it ex- emplified every day. The greater the amount of the accumulation the greater the evil and temptation the deceased bequeath to those whom they leave behind. The courts of this city and of the country at large are full of suits and litigations instigated by disappointmonts, by envy and heartburnings among the living, who clamor and wrangle over the moneys and properties left by beset persons, Like carrion birds, relations never perhaps heard of, or whose consanguinity with the de- ceased had been long tacitly or mutually forgotten or ignored, and who perhaps when known to each other lived in enmity, assemble from all quarters of the compass when they ascertain that wealth and lands, the fruit of successful toil and industry, have been left behind. Then commences the unna- tural conflict over the dead man’s bones, From that moment nothing in the life or antecedents of the deceased is sacred. Truly, indeed, saith the poet, ‘The evil that men do lives after them.” Respect alike for the dead and living is cast aside like @ garment, The latter are content to take shame and disgrace as part of the portion they thirst after. No act of the deceased, in his youth, in his manhood or in his old age, has the charity of silence thrown around it, however calculated such may be to bring a blush of shame to the cheeks of the survivors. All is exposed with a rancor and hate which envy in the good fortune of a rival engenders in small minds, and the Recording Angel himself would probably find some act upon which he “had dropped ‘a tear and blotted it out forever” made as red as scarlet before an earthly tri- bunal. It were needless here to enumerate even a few of the many contested will cases that have been lately tried, while others are com- ing up every day before the courts, presenting the spectacle not only of distant relatives, but of mother aud daughter, bisther and sister, wife and children, engaged in unnatural conflict over wills and testaments. The great Madame Jumel will case, after years of contest in the various ceurts, is again revived. At present there are two distinct and separately contested claims against the Jumel estate. One cause, opened yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Woodruff, is pro- secuted by one Cuamplain Bowen, a non-resi- dent of the State, who claims to be one of the grand nephews of the late Madame Jumel. A like case, pending in the Supreme Court, is prosccuted by one George Wasbiogton Bowen, no relative whatever of the other claimants of the same name, who claims to be the illegitimate son of Madame Jumel, and who is now seventy-seven years of age. The question involved as to the claimants is one entirely of pedigree, requiring a vast amount of testimony to be submitted, but which has been principally taken by commis- sion in different partsef the country, as well 43 a great amount of random swearing to make the genealogical tree complete. The Madame Jumel will case must certainly rank among the causes céiébres of our civil courts, A Verdict Against the Too KFree Use of the Locust, Attention has already been called in these columns to the case under trial during the week before Judge Sutherland, fa the Supreme Court, in which several sergeants of police and patrolmen were sued for damages for in- juries inflicted by a too free use of their clubs on an unoffending citizen. Justice has Men vindicated by the result of that trial, and the rights of the citizens to protection from the sworn guardians of law and order, not to mal- treatment, at their hands, asserted. The verdict which was rendered yesterday gives to the victim of the official clubbing five thousand dollars damages. The sergeant who was king of clubs on the occasion was mulcted in three thousand dollars; two other sergeants who took a hand in, to play clubs as trumps, were each amerced in one thousand dollars. The others, charged in the com- plaint as showing weak hands on the oc- casion, were not included in the verdict of damages, but no doubt they have received as salutary if not so expensive a lesson as the others, and that they will go and sin no more. The verdict of the jury against the principals in the outrage, in assessing damages against them, is also a verdict of their incompetency to serve any longer on the force; and con sequent upon this action of a sworn body of eur citi- zens, with the fullest approval of an eminently just and impartial judgo of the Supreme Court, should be the action of the Board of Police Commissioners in dismissing these un- worthy public servants from the force whigh they have disaraged, Special Correspondence. The letters from the HeRALp correspondents in Paris and Versailles which we publish in our issue this morning, will enable our readers to form an accurate ides of the state of France ten days ago. Since then the situation has become, according to our special telegrams, worse. How completely the capital of France is in the hands of the mob, the wretched am- bition which animates the leaders of the rioters to acts of bloodshed, of robbery and of sacri- lege, the deeds perpetrated in the name of republicanism, and the character of those whe drive Paris to its ruin—all these are sketched by the pens of the Heraxp specials for the benefit of its readers. Notwithstanding the extraordinary energy of the Commu- nist leaders in Paris—an energy, too, which has been rewarded with a large measure of success—still the appeals of the bad men who call aloud to the large cities and towns to stand by them are unheeded. Paris of to-day is not France. It is simply Paris, and nothing more. Aid from * the provinces it cannot have. The capital itself is not. nearly unanimous in its endorae- ment of the Commune. Look at the election returns. ‘Fraudulent, illegal, deceptive, and in some instances stained by vioJence,” to use the language of one of the Heratp's Paris correspondents, ‘‘they only represent the victory of an active, energetic minority.” But, sad to record, the mischief and disaster which are everywhere conspicuous are sinking the country deeper and deeper into misery. While it is true that the French nation has not given in its adherance to the party who control affairs in the capital, itis plain that the working of the Paris rule, though it does not prevail to any serious extent outside of Paris, has a most demoralizing effect on the provinces. The work of reorganization under the republic is delayed, the farms remain untilled, the finances of the country are disordered, the credit of the nation sink- ing, the industry of France paralyzed, and wretchedness prevails almost universally throughout unhappy France. Men, too, have become distrustful of one another. Thiers’ declarat{on before God and man that he would remain true to the republic is discredited by men who doubt the Executive, but for what reason they cannot say. Even at Versailles the counsels of the government are tainted with distrust. No confidence is reposed in any one; unity of action, of sentiment and of determination to resuscitate France, to stay her downward course, or to arrest the civil strife which is consuming her, all are wanting. Churches profaned, clergymen persecuted and the rights of religion denied to the dying, are acts 80 common in Paris to-day that they cease to attract attention. On such a foundation of bloodshed, persecution and sacrilege the Communal leaders expect to rear a government which they affect they be- lieve in, but which all thoughtful men con- sider can only hurry the nation still faster to its doom. The reign of terror which now racks Paris has driven two hundred thousand of its citi- zens to seek an asylum in the provinces or to earn a livelihood in a foreign land. The visitors who in other and in happier daya thronged the capital now shun it as they would a plague, Capital has fled, and the machinery of industry and enterprise is at a standstill. The gates of the jaila have been thrown open and criminals of every grade have been libe- rated to prey upon the country. The chief of the London detectives, who is, it is said, in Paris at the present time, estimates the num- ber of English thieves in the city at féur thou- sand. What they are there for it is needless tosay. The result which must follow from such a state of affairs is not difficult to con- jecture. Hoping for the best, however, we fear the very worst to accrue from the machinations of those who have substituted the blood-dyed flag of the Commune for the tri-color of the republic. Though the dreadful machinery of the guillotine has not yet been set in motion, there is no telling how soon it may be prepared for its bloody work of execution. The cold-blooded and brutal mur- ders of Generals Lecomte and Clement- Thomas prepare us for almost any hellish act of the mob, when fairly aroused. Stimulated and urged on by the flerce utterances of a de- moralized press, which regards assassination asasacred duty, there are no acts too base, brutal or bloody for the party of disorder in Paris; no instruments too cruel to be used in the accomplishment of its ends, and no course too reckless which it will not attempt to en- force. ‘‘Society has but one duty,” says the Journal Officiel; ‘towards princes—death. It is bound but to one formality—proof of identity.” There is no reason to doubt that these sentiments find a warm response in the minds of the leaders of Paris, Thank God they prevail not to any serlous extent throughout the provinces! But their effect is felt, never- theless, The country bleeds from every pore, and the wretched condition of the nation claims our sympathy, coupled with the hope that the day of sufféring is nearly past anda happy futare is in store for the now unhappy France, Fieutina 1s Cvsa.—By special telegram, from the Hxratp correspondent in Havana we learn that the rebels are violent in their death struggle. We knew that this would be the case, that the last of their efforts would be- the most energetic, and that if the Spanish. forces were not careful they would. receive severe injury from those who, seeing their cause to be hopeless, prefer death by the sword rather than the garrote. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN THE Ease, — From Vieana and London comes intelligence of outrage against the Israelites in the East. The cable telegram, which appears elsewhere. in our columns, states that the city of Odessa. has just been covvulsed by a religioas riot, and that during the tumult “the Jews were despoiled and great devastation com- mitted.” The hopeful glory of Baster has been clouded, if the despatch speaks cor- rectly, among the populations which, ‘inhabit the line of the Danube. Conscience ‘has been violated, ag it has been frequently of old, almost in the path eastward to Calvary. We fear that the Russo-Greek Ohuroh needs a little more of the ‘spirit of Christian tolerance, with a more careful and oonstant teaching from the word of ‘the Sormon on tha Mount,