The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1871, Page 8

wo eS i TORK HERALD BROADWAY AND STREET. S$ GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JANE sealed. Volame XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THi3 EVENING. THEATRE, OLYMPIC Broadway.—Tar Drawa or Hozizos, _ ae NIBLO'S GARDEN, broadway.—Tne SPECTACLE OF Tar Live any Drath or Rieu cep ll, WALLACK'S TY RE, road be te Tar Lin HEATRE, Broadway ana 1Wtn sireet LINA EDWIN'S THEA‘ OF PLUOK. _— FOURTEENTH STREET TH ATLB (Theatre Francais) — Huyrep Down, 20 Broadway. Commoy NEW YORK sSTADT NY AND LOOKSMITH. GRAND op! La Beiux Hy BOWERY THE. t-ON HAND, BOOTH’S TH ATRE, LOH ELIRU. FIFTO Marup ro No, 45 Bowery.—Taz ERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana 23d st.— E, Bowery.—-AN Onacor or Iny- «verveen Sih ans 6th avs.— GLOBE THEAT. -VAuinTy ENTER: TAINNENT, Y Woon’s s ar Qdth st.—Perform: ances MRS. F. B. CONWAY’: ATRE, Brooklyn.— Nov Geri. SAN YRANCISCO M 4 685 Broaiway.— 232 st, between 6th THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comro Vooar- IGN, NEGKO ACTS. KO. NeWCOMB & ARLINGT< corner 2 BL and roadway. or THE RINK, Third avenue ae —Howr's Cirovi Afternoon and evening. ee re DR. KAiN'S ANATOMICAL M SCrEXCE AND ant. QUADRUPLE SI New York, Tuesday, April 18, 1871. CONTENT: FPaAcr. L—Advertiseme Ad S$ OF TO-DAY’S De inans public; Tiers’ Ne mans; Bonapartist Inirigues— Anotuer Out- age on ap American Uilizen, %—France (Continued trom sixth P; blngs Aniong the Reds: A X A West-- Cunning Com uians. -Yavsuing— Accidentally Shot and S—Editor Con the Democratic sidency—The Dili- Amusement Herald Special Reports trom Ver-aille-—)iiseeWineous pie: hipping™ Mtelligence—Business No- grams tices, — 4 — Sr ngress : A Flood of Bills Introdnced in Both uses; Anotiier Movement ard Red America and Australla—Obituary—vur Ship- ping Interests: Iron Steamship Building at Chester, Pa.—Brooklyn Ciiy Matters—Sale of the Metropolitan Hotel Furniture—Petty Bur- glars at Astoria. 41—The Coal Trowvles—Trapp:d by Telegraph— Indian Agent Bradley—Perils of Western | Navigauon—ihe Cotton Movement—Financtal | Collison on the Erie Rauway—Marriages and Deaths. 12—Mexico: The Troubles in the Republic Com- mencing—The Cli Street Arson Case—Young Men's Obristian A’ ot Homicide in St. Lo Adverusements, 13—Brookiyn’s Bridge: The Mammoth Caisson for the New York Tower—The Bilock-McKaig Tragedy—Proceedings in the Courts—Real Estate Matters—Views of the Past—Foreign Personal Gossip—Scientific Instruction—Ad- vertisements, 14—Adverusements. 15—Advertisements. 16—Advertusementa, —bkuropean Markets— ConGRESS will try to adjourn to-day, Good luck attend its efforis! Tne REPUBLICAN A BLYMEN who signed the caucus pledge the other day, look upon - Winans as a mocker. Ben Buiter attempted to catch the Irish vote yesterday by a resolution requesting the President to introduce the Fenian claims for 7 ment to the Joint High Commission. a uot be caught, however, xt. t Senator Mor- + ton meceed Mr, Boutwell at once in the chair of Gas The policy of the hoard- ing Secretary of the Treasury has long been obnoxious to the financial minds of the coun- try, but it seems the President wishes to make @ change because Boutwell is not politician euough. Frexce Ranto. i is out of favor in Eng- land. Tho mee’ which was held in Hyde Park on Sunday last, for the parpose of ex- pressing British popular sympathy with tho “reds” of the Continent, was a failure. Our cable telegrams from Londou indicate, how- ever, that the spirit of reform still ‘‘walks sbroad” in the land of Watt Tyler and Richard Oobden. Tue Woman's Hospira, Fair in Broor- wyn.—Tie Academy of Music in Brooklyn has the nightly scene for the past week of a re briiliant display, captivating to the eye, more endearing to the heart, becanse it is not alone the charms of beauty and music and all the exquisite Uijouterie which crowds the tables which render the fair for the Woman's Hospital and the Foundling Asylum 80 attractive as much as the motive which inaugurated it, and the purpose to which what- ever profits may be derived from it are to be » appropriated. When the voice of charity is i raised in behalf of the suffering, the poor, or x the orphan, who fails to respond? glad to perceive that the people of Brooklyn ey} are not _suttmindfal of the morils of the insii- fo? vatioar “for which this fair is expected to con- ; ' tribute a liberal eum. We hope that the ladies of our sister city w re conducting the fair : ; » with so much success be generously aided tf by their friends in N ork, and cannot be by seas or Charity is a coimmon caus @ivided by rivers or ¢oluw oceans. be Letters and packages should be properly} Faithtu | and Commercial Reports—i he National Game— | The Democratic Candidate for the Next Presidency—Tho Didiculkty of the Twos Tatras Rele. The success of Tammany Hall at Albany, ia gaining the one republican needed to carry through the whole budget of the “‘party mea- sures” of “the ring,” will give to the Old Wig- wam a powerful foothold for the next Presi- | dency. It secures ihis State to the democracy ‘against all probable contingencies, and will ; enable the Tammany managers, through their powerful financial means and combinations, to control to a great extent, except the two-thirds rule, the National Democratic Convention. Meantime, although Tammany has officially withdrawn her candidate for the next Presi- dency—Governor Hoffman—it is with tho | understanding that he is still heid in reserve j to take his chunces in the Convention on the same general footing as all the other aspirants of the party, Among the other democratic availables whose claims have been discussed | in the newspapers are Charles Francis Adams | and Joha Quincy Adams, both chips of the , old federal and whig blocks of Massachusetts ; | General Hancock, of Pennsylvania; Governor zlish, of Connecticut; Thomas A. Hen- s, of Indiana; Sezaior Thurman, of Ohio; General Frank P. Blair, of Missouri; Governor Haight, of California; George W. Cass, of Pennsylvania ; Thomas W, Garrett, President of the Baliimore ard Ohio Railroad, and last, though not least, George H. Pendieton, of Odio. But of all this list, looking to the difficulty of the two-thirds rule of the democratic nomi- ha'ing convention, it is probable that not one will be able to run the gauntlet, The two- thirds vale was first brought effectively to bear in the Convention at Baltimore of 1844, In that Convention Martin Van Buren had a clear | majority of the delegates; but he had, like | Henry Clay, declared himself against the an- | nexation of Texas, because he thought it would be annexing a war with Mexico, and | that, was enough for the Southern pro-slavery oligarchy, who were resolved, war or no war, upon che acquisition of Texas as a clave Siate to maintain their b- lance of powerin the United States Sena They accordingly enforced the two-thirds rule upon the Convention, and so cut out Van Buren and sceured the nomi- nation of Polk, of Tennessee; and on the Texas annexation cry they succceded, by a “very tight squeeze,” in electing him. But | this very act, designed to strengthen the | Southern oligarchy and their institution of | slavery, was the entering wedge to the destruc- ! ! | | | tion of both. Texas was annexed, and the act did involve the annexation of a war with Mexico. But in | the second year of this war, with the occupa- tion of the Mexican capital by General Scott, at his merey that | » whole republic was offered to him as ictator in the name of the United States, eneral Scott declined the offer, because | he could not see how the equality of races— | the supreme law of Mexico—could be recon- j eile with fegro slavery—the supreme law of the United States, However, in 1848, a treaty of peace was Concluded, whereby, ia addition to the disputed boundary of Texas, we acquired all that vast region now com- | prising the States of Nevada and California, | and the Territories of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, except that portion of Arizona subsequenily acquired by the Gads- den treaty with Santa Anna. In the seitle- ment of the governmenis for these new Tervi- tories began that fierce revival of the slavery | agitation which has ended in the fifteenth amendment, All the intervening momentous events in our political history, including the rebellion and its consequences, may be traced to that two-thirds rule of the Democratic | Presidential Convention of 1844. Mark how it worked. Martin Van Buren chafed under the device by which he was saperseded in that convention, and in 1848, with the regular party nomination of General Cass at Baltimore, he (Van Buren) became the Presidential candidate, with Charles Fraacis Adams for Vice Presiden', of the ‘free soil party,” their platform being the exclusion of slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico. The main object of Van Buren was | revenge for that affair of 1844; and he had it ' in carrying off so large a vote from the demo- cratic parly in New York as to give the State owas so comple’ | by an overwhelming majority to General Tay- | lor, whereby he was elected and Cass was | handsomely defeated, The important national results which next followed were the admis- sion of California as a free State, and Henry Clay's great compromise measures of 1850 on the slavery question, including the Missouri compromise line, north latitude 36 30, north of which slavery was not to pass, and south of which slavery was left an open question. We ehall next see how the Southern oli- garchy violated this compact, or what were the consequences uader this democratic two- thirds rule. In the party Convention of 1852 at Balti- more, upon Cass, Buchanan, Marcy, Douglas, Houston, Dickinson and other candidates the Convention was balloting for a week, and at the end of the week a man whose name had not been mentioned before as a probability— Franklia Pierce, of New Hampshire—secured the nomination, Placed before the people, however, on Ienry Clay’s compromise mea- sures as the democratic platform, Pierce was elected over General Scott by a majority of the electoral and of the popular vote which was perfectly astounding. The people wanted peace on the slavery question, and they were afraid to trust Geveral Scott because of the agitating abolition elements of the whig party. That fight was the end of the whig party, and it was the beginning of the ead of the pro-slavery democratic party. In 1864, under the manipulations of the Southern oligarchy, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, repealing the Missouri Compromise, was passed, through the management of Douglas, in the Senate, and approved by President Pierce. This was the reopening of the box of We are | Pandora; and from this act the preseat repub- lican party—pledged to “‘the abolition of those twin of barbarism, slavery and polygamy”—ocame into the field, fully armed, compact and powerful, Then followed the fierce and bloody straggle between slavery men and free labor men for the possession of relics Tove cause of | Kansas; and in the midst of this ‘border ruffian” conflict came on the Deraocratic Con- vention at Cincinnati, of 1856. Buchanan, ia proving an alibi on that Karass-Nebraaka }and in being a man of wax in the hands of such men as Jeff Davis, Mason and Slidell, secured “the two-thirds vote, completely cut- ting out both Pierce and Douglas, with all their concessions to Southern slavery. From the Kansas ‘border ruffian” conflict Buchanan's administration drifted rapidly into the maelstrom of the Southern pro- slavery rebellion. Douglas, however, believ- ing, like Van Buren, that he had been cheated by the South, and having gone as far as he could go ‘for their infernal niggers,” and being powerfully backed by the West on “squatter sovereignty,” against the Southern fire-caters’ dogma that they had the right to take their niggers and settle with them in any of the Territories of the Union, Douglas, with his eyes open at last, was hot Tor a Agit with the Southern oligarchy. Thus resolved, too, his Northern followers went down to the Charleston Convention of 1860, and there, not being able todo anything better, they broke up the concera and the democratic party. Then came the new republican party into power with Abraham Lincoln, and then the war of the Soutlera rebellion, and next, in the midst of the war, came on the National Demo- cratic Convention of 1864. At this Conven- tion the democracy nominated as their standard bearer a Union soldier of the war, removed from the service—General McClellan. But there was enough of the old Southern pro- slavery leavening in this Northern Convention to exact, first, a declaration that the war for the Union was a failure, while General Sher- man was marching to the sea, for otherwise there was the danger of the rejection of McClellan under the two-thirds rule, In the Convention of 1868 Pendleton, under this rule, was swamped like Van Buren and Douglas, and Seymour's nomination was con- trived only through a Southern fire-eaters’ platform, which secured his defeat, and mado it a sure thing from the start. The same thing under this two-thirds rule, is threatened in the Democratic Convention of 1872. The Southern States will be able to poll or control ‘more than one-third of the full vote of the | Conveniion. They will thus be in a position, as in 1868, to demand the platform as the first proceeding, and the ticket as a secondary affair. They will, from all present indications, demand the reaffirmation of the platform of | General Wade Hampton, that the whole re- construction system of Congress, including negro suffrage, is ‘unconstitutional, reyolu- tionary, null and void.” And what then? Will Hotfman or Hendricks or Haacock, or any | of the Adamses think it worth while to stand for a nomination upon such a platform? Joff Davis has spoken for the democracy of the | South. The South will control the Conven- | i | tion of 1872 under the two-thirds rule. Clearly, then, the best thing that GovSgnor Hoffman can do is to keep in the background until the South bas cooled down. What say the sachems of Tammany Halt? Paris the Capital of France=Cau It Ree mein 50? The fight which is now going on between Paris and France raises in the mind of the out- | side observer many questions. Not the least important is that which heads this article, We bave already in these columns given good reasons why the government of France should not have its headquarters in a large city. Every day’s news furnishes fresh proof that the ground we have taken is solid. The | experience of the French people for the last seven months—an experience which has been steadily accumulative of sorrow and which is directly traceable to the bad elements of which Paris is the focus—must have convinced many, doubtless, that the welfare of the country and the people demanded some other safer centre as the future capital. If the saying of our own Jefferson, that ‘large cities are ulcers on the body politic,” was ever true it is surely true of Paris to-day. There is one other reason, which has not yet received sufficient attention why Paris should not continue to be the capital of France. Since the fall of Metz and Strasbourg, and the cession of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, Paris is literally unprotected. The first rush of the Northern foe would be to the capital, and ruin would be the immediate result, We are not prepared to indicate the site of the future French capital; but we have no hesi- tation in saying that as Paris is no longera central or strong position, and that as she has behaved so badly, she ought to be disin- herited, Frenchmen, however, love Paris dearly, and it is doubtful whether their eyes | are yet opened. More sorrow may be in store for fair France before she will abandoa what j she has been proud to cali “The Eye of the | World.” In our judgment the permanent re- moval of the goverament from Paris is a necessity, if France is to be made secure against the attacks of her own children or the attacks of the foreign foe, \ | | | Tur Important Party Measures of the session were rushed through the Committee of the Whole in the Assembly last night uader the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1871—QUADRUPLE S$ Proaching a Crisis. The latest despatches from Versailles and Paris do not present any noveltics or impor- tant changes in the positions of the opposing forces. Tho fighting continues, and the result is that the government troops continue to hold their own, which is, probably, all that Marshal MacMahon desires to accomplish at present. He bas occupied the Prussian trenches at Meudon and has placed therein sixtzon siege guns, which command Forts d’Issy and Van- vres, and he has also succeeded in surround- ing the insurgent forces at Asnitres with a strong body of his army. From the nature of these operations it will be seen that he bides his time and awaits patiently the hour to arrive when the great movement along his entire line, for which he is now preparing, will seal the fate of the red rebellion, That this is the present programme is further confirmed by the circular of M. Thiers, issued on the evening of the 16th inst, in which he says:—‘‘The Paris insurgents are emptying their houses and selling their furniture, The government con- tinues to temporize for the purpose of collect- ing an irresistible force and also to allow the Parisians time to reflect, The insurgents say we shoot prisoners, and intend to overthrow the republic and to suppress the subsidies of the National Guards, These statements are false, There was some cannonading to-day, but it was without result, Otherwise military affairs are quiet and nothing of interest has occurred.” The policy of the Thiers government is the proper one. It is confident of its strength, but wishes to make its power irresisti- ble. It can wait until this end is accomplished. It has the insurgents in a position from which they cannot escape, and is willing to temporize with them and give them further time to reflect, believing that they will yet be brought to their senses and be made to see how terribly they have been misled by their mad and unscrupulous rulers. To such a degree the goverment can afford to be lenient, but it can do no more, and it is vory evident that it will not. M. Thiers does not wish to destroy Paris if it can be avoided, neither does he wish to harm the thousands of innocent people that are within the city; hence he is disposed to postpone the terrible biow until the last moment, and his efforts will not fail to be appreciated by the right-thinking people of France, who fully understand the situation and see that the safety and future prosperity of their country depend upon the suc- cess of the legitimate government | and the overthrow of the revolutionists, The period is rapidly approaching when this event will take place; and when the insurgents are overthrown and their leaders are punished with the utmost severity we may hope fora new era of peace aud prosperity to distracted France. That the conflict is rapidly reaching a crisis, that the end of the Aghting is near at hand, we | judge from the fact that the German forces in the vicinity of Paris are being heavily rein- forced and are taking up positions nearer the city. This movement is doubtless for the pur- pose of aiding MacMahon in the assault upon the insurgent lines, should that be found necessary. It is the intention of the German commander, under the instructions of his government, to see that Paris does not much longer remain in the hands of the mob, He will wait until MacMahon considers himself strong enough, and receives his final $e bill, and in being ‘‘Pennsylvania’s favorite son,” | Versailles and Parls—The Conflict Ap- |The Merald’s Correspondence from Paris and Versailles. Onur colun2"8 to-day contain full particulars of the late ey ats in and around Paris and Versailles. Fiusn2d with excitement and animated with the belle,” that success would crown their attempt, the lea. 8 of the Com- mune led their forces ‘‘on to Versailles” to meet a defeat which those who deire the | prosperity of France glory in. The letters of our correspondents describe the men of whom the Commune is composed. So long as they had only a terror-sirickon population to contend with they were successful; but in the conflicts near Chatillon, Fort Valerien and the Bridge of Neuilly, where armed men were opposed by armed mon, disastrous failure orders to take possession of the city, and then, when the move is made, there will be wit- nessed the singular spectacle of Frenchmen against Frenchmen, the soldiers of the repub- lic opposed to the armed mob of the rebellion, the former being supported by an army of Germans, of whom they were so lately the bit- ter enemies. Is there a possibility of this’ calamity being averted? Is there a chance of the government not being compelled to resort to this terrible alternative? We confess that as matters stand at present there is not. Mad- ness appears to rule the hour in Paris—to have taken complete possession of those who must see that their cause is hopeless, that further resistance must only result in their own annihilation and the utter destruction almost of what has cost so much time and money to bring to its present state of perfec- tion. Reason with them appears to have de- serted its throne, and, with reason gone, what hope remains for a pacific solution of the difi- culty ? Wlio would have believed, only one short year ago, that such scenes would have been enacted in and around Paris in less than a twelvemonth? Who would have thought it possible that la belle Mrance would have been so thoroughly humbled by a foreign foe, and so thoroughly disgraced by her own people in so short a period? Truly time, and a very little time, often works wonderful changes; but we doubt if in history a parallel case is recorded of a country and a people standing at the very pinnacle of greatness being so suddenly hurled into the dust and so completely demoralized, The civilized world stands aghast at the new strength imparted by the generous Winans. The new Tax Levy, the City Charter amendments and tbe Election bill, all matters of the greatest importance to the people of this city, were thus indecorously pressed for- ward, andjonly the Registry bill was left out, on account of a lack of the two-thirds vote necessary to get it into commitiee. Mexican Arrarns.—By special telegram to the Heratp from Havana we have later advices from Mexico, The news is quite im- portant. The prospect of the re-election of Juarez is improving, but the issuing of a pro- nunciamiento by a portion of the army in the State of Sinaloa in favor of another candidate renders it possible that disaffection among the troops may exist to a greater extent than is at present known of. Several of the Cabinet Ministers are to be impeached. This may further tend to complicate matters, The regu- lar session of Congress has commenced, and several new projects of law are to be laid before it, General Ochoa has been appointed Minister from Mexico to the United States, From the tenor of the news we cannot see that there is any less prospect of civil war than by last advices. If it were to break out at any moment we should not be surprised, Wovans is called the ‘‘knave of republican legislators.” Ina game of euchre the knave is sometimes the best hower, and frequently takes the trick. picture now presented in Paris, and it wonders what the end is to be. We can but hope that good may yet come out of so much that is evil ; that the ordeal through which France is now passing may be in the end her salvation, and that, the legitimate authority being once more restored, and peace esiablished, prosperity may take the place of ruin and desola- tion, Frenchmen may yet profit by their dear-bought experience, and learn that if they wish their country to once more occupy its former high position among the nations of the earth it must be by a different course of conduct from that which they have pursued since the treaty of peace with Germany was signed. They can build up the magnificent structure from the ruin they have created, but it can only be done by maintaining peace at home in lieu of dissension and consequent war and bloodshed. Ayotner EMANOIPATION Houtpay Yester- DAY.—The darkies seem to have an excessive number of holidays for this one event; and yet how can we blame them, when that one event opened up to all their race the one great eternal holiday of freedom ? Tim Paterson ALpErMen are divided among themselves, Each party in the Board has elected a president, and each prosident insists upon presiding, Two heads are usually attended those who fought under the blood- red flag of the Commune. The effects of these defeats was already beginning to tell. Immediately after the repulse of the Ver- sailles movement the military abilities of the Communal leaders were discussed in the streets of the capital, and in many instances the opinions expressed did not embody a very complimentary estimate of the merit of the chiefs of Paris, The trath of the matter, judg- ing from the views of our correspondents, both in Paris and Versailles, and supported, as they are, by the testimony of other writers, is, that the reds are frightened at their own acts; that they have reached their highest point of power, and that decline has already begun to make itself evident. Many of the Parisians who now murmur against the administration of the men of the Hotelde Ville will, ere long, speak boldly in denunciation of their course. It is absurd to imagine that the presont state of affairs can prevail, and that the pro- gress of an entire nation can be re- tarded by the course of the men who lead what can only be regarded as a gigantic riot. The people of Paris—the thinking, industrious, honest people of the capital— have no sympathy with theso rebels. The great mass of those who fill the ranks of the Commune belong to the same classes as those who inaugurated the riots in this city in 1863, and conducted them in murder, bloodshed and robbery. The reign of these roughs continued until the strong arm of the law brought it to anend, Paris, like New York, was taken unawares. More than that, the capital of France was almost helpless, unable to defend herself from either foreign foe or domestic enemy, and this dark hour of her suffering was taken advantage of by the men who now draw the nation to its destraction. Had France an army these men would never have | attempted the acts which will forever brand their names with infamy. The Presiden Question in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania has been declared by Danicl Webster the “Keystone of the Union.” Pean- sylvania has & powerful tofuence In the Union, especially on the tariff question. The report that Senater Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was going against Grant for renomination by the republicans is a question of grave importance. We do not believe that Cameron will oppose the renomination nor the re-election of General Grant. It will not make any difforence whether he does or not, for General Grant will he renominated by the republicans, while his success wili depend altogether upon the cohe- sion of the democrats. Cameron, who seems to run the republican machine in Washington In the absence of the old ; engineers, Sumuer and Wilson, once recognized in a perilous hour in our country’s history 9 remark made in offictal circles, to wit:—“df Lincoln can’t get rid of Cameron Cameron will get rid of Lincoln.” Policy required and power commanded a change, Cameron went out and Lincoln went ahead. Cameron is now running the Pennsylvania machine, with its high pressure tariff attachment, and it will require a great amount of influence in Wash- ! ington to displace him. Cameron, don’t op- pose Grant. Tar SENATE insists upon its amendments to the Ku Klux bill. They are much too strin- gent for the House or the country. Since Toe Ninrn Reoiment has had a bill passed in the Legislature reimbursing it for a large sum of money which the men paid out for uniforms during the war a number of other regiments have taken measures to get similar reimbursements for themselves, In most instances the regiments of to-day contain very few of the men of 1861 or of 1865. Soldiers who served through the war are not likely to train for five or six years afterwards ina militia regiment for fun, and many who went to the war in these regiments and paid for these uniforms never came back. In the Ninth regiment, especially, which went all through the war and came out with very few of its old members, the new element predomi- nates more than usual, having been augmented greatly by recruits from the ranks of Erie Railway employ¢s. We should like to under- stand, therefore, who gets the money thus refunded, the soldiors discharged at the close of the war or killed in battle, who paid it out, or their heirs, or the new recruits, who didn’t pay it out? Tae AMNESTY Bit Postroxep.—At a cau- cus of the republican Senators yesterday morning a lively discussion resulted in a vote of sixteen yeas to twenty-one nays against the consideration of the Amnesty bill during the present session of Congress, This postpone- ment of the Amnesty bill is a mistake. It should have gone down to the South together with the Ku Klux bill, if only as a sugar- coating of a bilter pill. Thus some spirit of concession would not only have tempered, but also rendered more efficacious, a determined spirit of coercion. If there be any doubt that the Amnesty bill will be passed at the next Congressional session, the pressure of public opinion in the interval will certainly cemove it, WINAns proposes to issue an address to the people setting forth his reasons for withdraw- ing from the republican party. It is under- stood that he will scathe some of his repub- lican friends in the address, We think it best for Winans to let this matter drop as quietly as possible, It is not for him to stir it ap any more than he can help, nor to fling dirt-at his late political associates, If he likes to wallow in his own mire let him do so by all means, We wouldn't hinder even a hog from taking his pleasure in that way. Nevertheless we think the best address for Winans is to address better than one, but in this case they ‘are | himself to solitude and oblivign as goon as worse than none at all. nosaiblo, _ The Joint High Commission, We have received positive information from Washington which confirms our belief that, although the members of the Joint High Com. | mission persist in not revealing anything what- | ever concerning the progress of their business, | there must be something in the foreshadowing | of its results, as already indicated by us. Doubtless difficulties, especially as to the i questions of the fisheries and the San Juan , boundary, seem to multiply. With the Cansdian government watching on the one hand and the British government on the other, it would not be strange if the Joint High Commission should be fully o¢cupied with ite deliberations all summer and even late in the fall, But its members must have been con- vinced, by the rejection of the Clarendon- Jobnson treaty and by the unmistakable actual sentiments of both the Senate and the Cabinet, that something more acceptable'to the American people than that treaty must be offered. The reluctance of the Granville gov- ernment to sanction even the concessions which, it is understood, the Commissoners themselves have been disposed to favor, is likely, in conjunction with other obstacles, to make their labors pretty severe and prolonged. But ‘‘all’s well that ends well,” and we can afford to wait awhile for a just and final settle- ment of the Alabama claims and all other questions at issue between the governments of Great Britain and the United States, The London 7imes expresses the fear, generally, that a satisfactory result to both countries, England and America, Is exceedingly uncer- tain, particularly in the matter of the Alabama claims. See our cable telegrams. Beginning of the “Rongh” Summer Seae son. For many years past, during the summer season, the pleasure grounds of Hoboken and the ferries leading thereto have been notorious for scenes of riot, rowdyism and “,loodshed. There has rarely been a Sabbéth that was not desecrated by violence, either in that excrescent suburb itself or on the ferryboats. At one time, we remember, the Elysian Fields bore the name of the “dark and bloody ground,” upon which many a fatal duel was fought. There was something manly and chivalrous in this, If blood was shed it was | spilled by men in open, honest combat. But the Hoboken of to-day appears to be stained | by the cowardly blood-letting of the rowdy arid the assassin. Wo refer more particularly to the scenes which occurred at the ferry land- ing at Hoboken and on board the ferryboat, on Sunday evening. We have already pub- j lished the facts in ‘the case—the brutal offence by New York rowdies offered to ladies, and the resentment on the part of the husband of one of them, which provoked a collision, in which pistuls end knives were used with dan- gerous freedom. If this be the incipicat stage of rowdyism which is to prevail upon the Hoboken ferries, now that the summer has barely commenced, what must we expect hereafter, when thou- sands of peoplo—in a month or two at far- thest—will seek the umbrageous shades of the Elysian Fields, tho chill solemnity of the Sybil’s Cave, and the manifold temptations of the lager beer gardens? This is a question which we submit to the grave consideration of the Police Board. We are more interested on this side of the North river than the Jerseyites in the work of suppressing these bloody scenes which are so familiar to every summer Sabbath. The police should therefore be instructed to exercise more than ordinary vigilance at the Hoboken ferries. It is evident that the ferry company have either no power or no desire to keep the peace on their boats. They seem to be utterly given up to the worst raffian element of society on Sundays. There- fore it is necessary for our police to protect peaceful and respectable citizens whose busi- ness or pleasure may compel them to visit Hoboken on the Sabbath day. Tne Bur SpzouLaTion 1s WALL StREET.— The remarkable speculation for a rise in prices at the Stock Exchange seems to have been given a free rein, if we may judge by the fact in one instance yesterday. A clear advance of ten per cent took place in one stock, and that, too, after its price had already gradually risen ten or fifieen per cont above its usual quota- tion. The cliques, in anticipating Mr. Bout- well’s plans for placing the new loan, have taken advantage of the rose-colored aspect which he has given the financial situation in order to pave the way to a market for his new bonds. As if good luck never comes single Congress now ranges itself alongside of Mr. Boutwell as a great “bull,” by proposing to limit the annual reduction of the national debi to twenty-five million dollars, which would remove so heavy a burden of taxation from the people that business would thrive and all in- dustries prosper. Profits would then remain with the people instead of going to pay off the national debt before our creditors want the money. A Kaxaaroo Movement—The tail of Tam- many as tho head of legislation at Albany. Wuorzsome Caution To Bankroptos—In our law report will be found an important and interesting decision, under the Bankruptcy law, by Judge Blatchford. A party filed his petition and made onth that the schedule of his indebtedness attached to the petition con- tained a full and true account of his debts and of all the claims that could be made against his estate. A discharge was granted, but it, subsequently turned out that the bankrupt. hadi deliberately omitted from his schedule liabili< ties which should have been included therein, The Judge holds that. the bankrapt harp ‘*wil- fully sworn falsely” in his schedule, and that the discharge must, be annulled. ‘his is a warning that, while bankrupts actin honestly and fairly with the Court, will be surely treated with consideration and jrastice, those who by falsehood and fraut seek to cheat their creditors will meet with the ‘denunciation which their erime deservas. Tne Drarmep Men who had, the impndence. to ask for their commutation money back again are likely to be defeated. Luckily, their claims have been rejected from the first, or no doubt, suck must be the 6verwheliming assurance of those fellows, they would have eventually demanded the interest on their commulaifon money or iis payment in gold, and thus made-qnite 2 handsonae speculation out of their couutry’a heed and their own cowurdice,