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meen we PTR ee end SeweSORRERESART BSEoSeseecoarcos NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1871—QUADRUPLE SHEET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Velume XXXYVI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NIRLO'S GARDEN, Proat: TI Sree Tux Lark aNy DEavn oF RicnaRD bv tee Tue Lia LINA EDWIN'’S THEATRE. 7: anol or Fuvcs. Matinee a E. 720 Broadway.—ComEDY LAURA KEENE’S YOURTEENTR STREET THEATRE— Huntep Down. NEW YORK STA — 1 eae DT THEATRE, No. 45 Bowery. WAPLAOES THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th sireet.— GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av, ana 23d st.— La BELLE LeLenn. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—AN Onsxot oF In- ‘TEREST—ON HAND. BOOTH'S THIATRE, JONQUIL; OR, ONLY rween Sid and 6th ave,— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fonrtn street.— MaRRizy ror MonEY—ParTeE vs. CLATTER. GLOBE THEATRE, 738 froadway.—Vantrty PNTER- FAINMENT, SC.—PEARL OF TOKAY, Matinee at 2). OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Hontzox. Mateo at 2. Wood's MUSEUM B ances every a.ternoon DRAMA OF ¥, corner 30th st.—Perform- nin. MRS. F. 8. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Nor Guiry et HAUL, $8) roa sway. — Trourg. Matinee at SAN FRANCISCO MI: Batsusa’s Royar Javane BRYANT'S NEW OPERA 25d st., between 6th ang 7th avs.—Nzoxo Mixer: 2, TONY PASTOR'S 0 RiIriy ENTERTAINME om Bowery.—Va- | ce ai 2, abe THEATRE COMIQU: " —Comie Vooar- 48M8, NEGNO ACI, ac. oad Matinee al NEWCOMB & ARLINGTON’S MINSTRELS, corner 8th | gb and Broadway. GRO MINSTRELSY, £0. THE RINK. Third avenue and 63d st, How's © Afternoon and evening. BONES Rea DR. KAUN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, BOIENCE AND ant, 745 Broadway.— UPLE 1 y, April 19, 1871. “SE ERT.) publican Cause in Europe. Oar news of this morning shows that the Paris Comnunists and tr Nations! govern- ment at Versailles continue the fisht. Interest lies in the fact, not in the details. The Prussian goverament is giving all scope to Pi ent Thiers and the National Assembly. The London Times has a report to the effect that if the Versailles gov ernment should not be found equal to the task of putting down the Communists in Paris the German forces, who have already massed themselves near the city and fortified every point permitted by the peace treaty, will intervene and force the establishment of order throughout France. It is now several weeks since this fight began; and there are many thinking persons in the Old World and the New who fecl dis- appointed that, in the peculiar circumstances, the National government should not more speedily have put down the insur- rection and restored order. Why Paris should be able to hold out against France for so lengthened a period, begins to be a perplexing question. For a surprise Paris has always been admitted to be strong. For a protracted struggle against the whole of France men are not yet prepared to think that Paris should win. In other words, it was the general opinion that if the Versailles gov- ernment could continue to command the adherence of the provinces as well as order in the great cities the Belleville and Montmartre outburst would die a natural death. Days and weeks pass, and Paris still holds out; and while we write it is not by any means certain that the Versailles goverament, backed up by what is called a National Assembly, must win alone and unaided. Of course, if the Germans come to the rescue the solution jis simple and easy, France must pay to Ger- many what she has promised to pay. France, in revolution and anarchy, cannot pay. Ger- many still holds in her hands the whip; and ‘Germany is neither unprepared nor unwilling to use the whip, if the whip be necessary. In CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. Site t—Adver:isementa. 2—Advertisements. B—Adverusements, 4—Advertisewents, S—The State Capital: Interesting Proceeaings in the Legisiature; Passage of All the Blg-Mea- sures—Music and the Drama—Literary Chit- Chat—Fire on the North River—Miscellancous Telegrams—) acnting. G—Congress: Senator Teuton's Opinion of Traitors to the Repubiican Party; Ben Bauer Fotled in His Kevenge of Senator Davis—The New Domi- nion: Notes and Observations of a Herald Correspondent in New Brunswick; @ Visit fo Fredericton and an Interview With GovePnor Wilmot—New York City—Running and Walking—Kings County Supervisors—A Pair of Clever Customers—Proposed Enlarge- Meht of the State House, Trenton—a Corpse from the East River—Retormed Dutch Church: Annual Session of New York Classis—The Wainwright Memorial Church—Criticisms of New Books—Observatory for Yale College. %—The Crittenden Tragedy: “More Medical Exposi- tions of Mental Derangements; Another Batch of Gushing Letters; Cupid and Cupidity Cur- jously Commixed—Boyd and Buffour: Homie _ Equality in the Rival Races—Real Estate aiters, S—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Communists in Paris and the Republican Cause in Europe’—Amusement Anneucements. 9—Ediorials (continued from Eighth Page)—The Rouge Revolt—Ine Insurgents Claim to ve Steadily Advanciog; Several Batteries of the Versailles Troops Dismounted—The Coal Trou- bies—Business Notices, §O—Procveedings in the Courts—The Erte War : The Company Contumacious and tue Books Still Wituneld—Inhumanity to Man—Police Kill- ing: Trial of Policeman Too: jor the Al- leged Killing of John Murphy—The Reception to Senator Norton—Twenty-one Years’ Sunday | School \\ ork—Mrs. Killoran’s runerai—House Noves—The Kite and Ball Nuisance in Brook- yu—A Contemplated Prize Figh Squelched. pted Murder—The Last Lotnario—Mace Coburn—Smallpox—Seven Men Supposed to Have Been Murdered—Ciearing Out the “Runners’—Tne Americus—Boys, Beware— Financial and Commercial “Reports—Our Foreign Trade—Desperadoes in Virginia—Mar- Tlages und Deaths. 12—News from Washington—Shipping Intelli- nee—Advertisements, 13—Toe German Empire: Striking Points of the plain terms, if France does not promptly mect her engagements Bismarck will fore- close the mortgage, occupy Paris, overrun French territory, satisfy Germany, withdraw his forces and leave France to her fate. The knowledge that this solution of the difficulty is certain almost stifles speculation. At the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that the Paris insurgents have | revealed a strength which has surprised some, which has disappointed many and which de- mands explanation. Is there any explanation possible? We think there is, What is the explanation? Let it always be borne in mind that the men who rose to the surface in Sep- tember last and made a revolution in the capital at the very time that France was crushed by a foreign foe on the field of battle, represented principles which have been dear to the French people since the times of their first great revolution. These principles are essentially republican. If at the moment the September men were more republican than patriotic, let us at least be just to them. For years they had labored and waited, not always either wisely or well. The first Napoleon put them down and held them down, When the first empire, which was in many respects more a shem than the second empire, fell, they were too weak, too much off their guard, too much demoralized, to resist the dominant desires of their own people and the combined forces of the dynasties of Europe. In 1830 they had again struggled to the surface, but they were again suppressed. In 1848 they fought and won; but always wanting in competent leaders and always atthe mercy of Debate in the Reichstag on the Address to the Throne—Rome and the Peopies— Foreign Miscellaneous Items—Foreign Personals—The McKaig Tragedy—Impor- taut Internal Improvements—Remarkable Miracle—Death of a Dwarf—a Man Arrested for Murder that Was Not Commitved—Brook- lyn’s Charity Fair—Prize Fignt in Indtana— Terrible Murder in Shreveport, La.—Journal- istic Notes. 14—Advertisements, 15—Advertisements, 16—Adverusementa. Tory Have Hap a grand temperance demonstration in Providence. How is that for “‘high ?” Somepopy says Winans acted from constitu- tional motives in going over to Tammany. Corruption is, unfortunately, a constitutional infirmity at Albany. Tue Hovse has nothing better to do, while -waiting for the action of the Senate on the Ku Klux bill, than to discuss what are sup- posed to be the leading political questions of the coming campaigns. Revenue reform was the subject under discussion yesterday. Tue Tunee Iuportant New York Bits that have been creating all the great anxiety and turmoil in Albany were passed in the Assembly yesterday within a space of ten minutes. Such hasty and important legisla- tion has not been known even in Albany for many years. A Lapy has been appointed professor of eye diseases at Harvard University. A very suitable appointment, especially as she ap- pears to be a skilful practitioner, for it is gen- erally understood that the mere sight of a woman in a hospital is good for sore eyes. Tne Ku Kivx Bi is not yet safely through Congress, The report of the con- ference committees on the disagreeing amend- ments staried a debate in the Senate which lasted pretty nearly all of Just night. The Senators listened to it patiently and resignedly, ‘with their heads on their desks or their forms stretched out on the sofas, dreaming quietly all through it of masked marauders and mur- derous Ku Klux. It will probably be ended to-day, and then Congress will adjourn. Tne Fisagrey Question as been settled by the Joiy High Comm o. It has been agreed as a basis for settlement that American fishermen may cast their nets anywhere in Canadian waters, without reference to dis- | tances from shore, and fisb for anything but shad or salmon, Canadian fishermen to enjoy the same privileges, with similar restrictions relative to shad, salmon and shellfish, in any American waters north of the tbirty-ninth parallel of latitude, which gives our New Dominion competitors full sweep for their nets an ignorant popular vote and a dangerously powerful standing army, they once more lost themselves. The coup d'état of 1851 left them nowhere. For twenty years they waited. Sedan gave them their opportunity, as they thought; but the time was badly chosen, and the September opportunity will be remembered in history as a French sorrow. That Jules Favre and Gambetta and the better class of men who worked with them did well few thonghtful observers of the wonderful events of the last eighteen months will refuse to admit. They, too, however, failed. Let it be said in this connection that Gambetta, the one man, mistaken as we must still regard him, who heroically represented France during the crisis, has since retired practically from public life. He, at least, is not to blame for subse- quent follies and sins. The election of the National Assembly made an end of the gov- ernment of National Defence, and the pro- visional government ‘of M. Thiers took its place, The Assembly, two-thirds of the mem- bers of which were notoriously monarchists, disappointed the republicans. Paris, Lyons and Marseilles and more or less all the large cities which under the empire were denied municipal rights, felt that republicanism was once more doomed. As in 1796, in 1830, in 1851, they were again to be sold. Rightly or wrongly this is the opinion to-day. The opposition to the Versailles government has been strong in all the large centres of popu la- tion. Out of Paris the insurrectionary ele- ments have been easily held in check; but in Paris the so-called Communists have found unexpected aid from the shopocracy and other traders, who are wrathful with M. Thiers for robbing them of what they consider their rights by keeping the Assembly and the gov- ernment out of Paris. This, we think, is no unfair representation of the republican side of the question. This, however, is not an exhaustive state- ment of the whole case. France was so reduced by the war with Germany that the love of country ought to have been the strong- est sentiment of the French people, and the re-establishment of peace their dominant de- sire. We have a strong ambition to be just to the republican sentiment; but we cannot afford to allow the republican cause to be dis- graced in Europe, or, indeed, in any part of the world. Peace after Sedan might have been a republican gain. The folly and sin | of the one man power was more ap- parent then than now. The full recog- | uition of the popular voice and of | the terms of the peace treaty might also, we think, have proved a republican gain. If republicanism means anything it means a full and honest recognition of the voice of the ail along our const, from Delaware to the upper end of Maine, certainly scope and verge enough, if there is any richness whatever smong our finny chattels. people. In not abiding by the vote which created the National Assembly, and which entrusted the powers of the Executive tothe veteran statesman, M. Thiers. and. in not | reader will, have grievously sinned. advance their own cause, the Paris rebels, or call them Communists or reds, or what elso the It is never in any circumstances the right of the few, where the rights of all have first of all been recognized, to rebel against the rights of the many. France spoke out and spoke out plainly ; but a section of Paris rebelled, and hence all this trouble. This, however, is not all. The men who have come to the sur- face in Paris, and who now war against the national government, have proclaimed them- selves in favor of the worst principles of the worst period of the first French revolution. Belleville now rales Paris, and Belleville is full of all the exploded theories of St. Simon and Fourler and Baboeuf. Their programme is simply absurd. Paris is to be an inde- pendent community, having supreme legis- lative, financial and administrative powers of its own. The other large towns are to have similar constitutions. The cities are to be federated, and a treaty isto be cdncluded which shall determine the relations of Paris and the other cities on the one hand and the relations of all the federated cities with France on the other. We do not forget that Florence once ruled Tuscany and that other large cities nearer home wield a mighty influence over tho neighboring rural provinces; but we question whether so complete a system of mob govern- ment was ever put upon paper. Then, again, it is claimed that all property belongs to the State and should be equally divided ; that debt shou!d be an impossibility and that every man should be every other man’s equal. It has been authoritatively declared that religion is superstition and should be abolished, and that the Church, under every form, is the enemy of liberty. M. Vaillant, the acknowledged chief of what we might call, to borrow an English phrase, the Home Office, has openly advo- cated the assassination of the Duc d’Aumale and princes generally, his only qualification being that the assassin should be sure that he is murdering a prince. The habits of these people are in every way worthy of their creed. They rob the public treasury, desecrate churches, disturb the ministers of God in the discharge of their sacred duties, threaten the lives of bishops apd archbishops if their whims are not complied with, and arrest and imprison unoffending nuns. Such are the principles and such are the practices of the men who represent what some are pleased to call the republican cause in France. If they have not established the guillotine as a great public benefactor, and resorted to the fusil- lades and noyades of the years 1793-'74, itis because they have scarcely as yet had the opportunity; not because they have not had the will. It is not necessary to waste either time or space in pointing the moral. The Com- munists of Paris have made a republic almost impossible in France; and it is not, we think, {oo much to add that they have put back for at least fifty years the triumph of the repub- lican cause in Europe. The hopes of Spain and Italy are crushed; and the democracy of Germany look to Paris with mingled wrath and sorrow. Senator Fenton’s Explanation. Mr. Fenton, in the United States Senate yes- terday, defined his position in reference to the desertion of Mr. Winans from the republican camp to the democracy in the Albany Assem- bly, and from the Senator's personal explana- tion he is as innocent of any connection with this business as the Man in the Moon. Mr. Fenton goes further, and says that the news of this defection of Winans was as startling to him as it must have been to the intelligent constitu- ency of the bolting Assemblyman; that he (Fenton) deeply deplores the act, as he deplores all acts which bring disgrace to men and injury to agood cause; that he is pro- foundly sorrowful over the act, as calculated in some degree, and as seems to be intended from the use of his name in connection with this affair, to disturb and divide the New York republicans; that he condemns very earnestly any conduct or course of action at Albany or in Washington which does not tend to strengthen the republican cause ; and here he rests his case. We accept his explanation as conclusive in the premises. The Senator must, we think, by all fair-minded men, ba absolved from any con- nection with or knowledge of the mysterious influences whereby, in the course of a single night, Assemblyman Winans was trans- formed from a radical ‘‘straight-out” republican into a Tammany democrat “every time.” The mysterious influences effecting this change are thus reduced to the convincing logic of Jay Gould, of the Erie Railway, and the powerful witchcraft of Tam- many Hall. Either of these influences is suffi- ciently strong to make a simple-minded Solon from the rural districts forswear his grand- mother ; but both combined they are irresisti- ble with almost any public man at Albany, in view of a comfortable retirement to the shades of private life. Mr. Winans being disposed of, however, he may be dismissed. It is with Mr. Fenton that we are dealing. He says in the outset of his explanation :—‘‘I should not now notice this attack did it not appear in a paper (the New York Times) supposed to be in some measure an organ of the administration.” This conveys the idea that between the ad- ministration and Mr. Fenton there is no love lost. The Senator does not speak of the paper in question as a republican journal, but as a supposed “‘organ of the administration.” The hitch between the Senator and the President still exists. In other words, while Mr. Fenton as a republican sticks to ‘‘our cause,” he does not appear to consider General Grant of much consequence. This breach must be repaired, or we fear that the defection of Mr. Fenton in the Republican Presidential Convention, so far as New York is concerned, will reduce this Albany defection of a single Assembly- man to the small dimensions of the paltriest bagatelle. Tue Troy Whig discourses about “Tam- many’s man, Winans.” It is the radical and not the democratic press that now seems to have “Whinin’ ways.” But Tammany pockets the sugar, nevertheless, Some or tHe Ravioat Parers, io discuss. ing the prospects for the next Presidency, use the very fresh and novel expression, ‘Let us have peace.” They probably mean to say, “Grant us this day—and next year—our daily bread.” . waiting and seeking by legitimate means to | T2e Sliuation In and Around Parls—The | The German Reicustag—Iatervention and the Latest News from the Seat of War. The latest despatches from Paris and Ver- sailles serve to confirm our previously ex- | pressed opinion regarding the intention of the | government and the hopeless condition of the insurgents. his report, speaks of advantages gained by the insurgents, and asserts that breaches have been made in the walls of Fort Mont Valcrien. He describes everything as being satisfactory to the rebels, but what he says is not always reliable, It is also stated that provisions are entering Paris from the north and east without interference. The report from Versailles is that Germany will not attempt armed interference in the civil war. It also speaks of some slight ad- vantages gained, but makes no mention of any movement of importance. It is stated upon good authority, via London, that Ger- many will interfere should the reds prove victorious, and it is also announced that the German commander has stopped the entry of supplies into Paris by way of St. Denis. The latter circumstance proves that an effort will be used to compel submission by starva- | tion, and thus prevent tho loss of life and de- struction of property that must follow a severe bombardment and an assault in force. This plan will probably work well and be as certain in results as before. The Communists are reported to have plenty of money, but it will avail them nothing if the necessary sup- plies cannot be purchased. It will require longer time to bring the insurgents to terms, but it will bea more satisfactory method and prove equally as effective as shot and shell. It will be cause for congratulation if Paris can be saved from further mutilation, and M. Thiers will use every effort to preserve the great city of France as free from the devas- tating hand of war as possible, and its inhabi- tants from the sufferings that must be heaped upon them should the place be carried by storm. Leaving the theatre of war it is gratifying to note that the rebellion has not spread beyond its present limits. Peace prevails through all of France, save in the capital, and an opportunity is thus afforded for the manu- facturing and agricultural interests of the country to receive all necessary attention. This fact is a tower of strength to the govern- ment. It is thereby enabled to exert its whole force and all its resources at one point and for one object, without the probability of an- noyance from other quarters. The rumors of the reds rising in other cities have evidently been without the slightest foundation, or else the movements have been so insignificant as to be unworthy of notice. No, Paris is the centre of tumult, disorder, ruffianism and bloodshed in France; itis like a great ulcer that requires severe treatment to keep it within bounds and prevent its poisonous influ- ence from spreading over the entire body. Keep the sore isolated; apply the strongest caustic remedies, and you effect a cure; but neglect it, let it once get beyond control, and soon the whole surface becomes infected with gangrene and the case is hopeless. Paris is now the great ulcer of France, but M. Thiers and Marshal MacMahon are proving excellent physicians. They understand the case, and are treating it properly, and although inflamma- tion still remains the sore presents a healthy appearance, and if not allowed to spread beyond its present limits the patient will, sooner or later, recover under the steady use of the actual cautery. Of course the whole world is anxiously waiting the settlement of the French question and the establishment of peace in France. Paris is now quite as much a centre of interest as it was when besieged by the armies of Ger- many, and go it will remain while the present condition of things continues. We must, how- ever, be patient; such disturbances are not quieted ina day. Civil wars are generally very stubborn affairs to deal with. The feud existing between father and son, or between brother and brother, is often harder to reconcile than a difficulty between strangers; and this may be the case with the brothers of France. Experience has proved that Frenchmen, with their excitable tem- peraments, are hard customers to calm and very difficult to restore to reason. Their blood once up it is a work of time to cool it, and when brought to bay, with a knowledge that death stares them in the face, that there is no salvation even by surrender and no hope of escape, they will die sword in hand, gloating over the devastation and misery they have created. A Paris mob, led by men whose necks, if captured, are certain to feel the keen edge of the guillotine’s knife, is a dangerous body to deal with. They will, if attacked, retreat from house to house, from barricade to barricade. They will defend every street and will make every avenue of the city run with blood. They will not surrender while one of their leaders remains to cheer them on. A hungry Frenchman is, however, a different being. With a full stomach he cares not for the muzzle of a rifle er the point ofga sword; but, deprive him of his rations, take away his bread and wine, and surrender soon follows. M. Thiers knows this full well, and is content to let the want of something to eat and drink, rather than a forlorn hope, bring peace to France and his own restoration to power and authority. With the end of the rebellion and the return of the Thiers government to Paris, what will follow then? Will the people of France be content to enjoy the blessings of peace under a free government? Will they consent to live without being surrounded by all the pomp and circumstance of glorious war? Will they be satisfied to give up all the excitement and splendor attending the rule of kings and emperors? Will they pay more attention to the sober realities of life and devote less time to plea- sure and gayety? They may—at least for a time; necessity will compel them to do 80; but we fear that before very long the old habits will come back in full force, and that a strong arm will be required to hold them in check. We hope for the best, however, and will continue to believe that there is a bright future for France not very far distant. We shall continue in this belief until all bope has fled—until Frenchmen prove that they are wholly unfitted for self-government and are worthy only of the rule of 9 despot. A Rerrain From Want, Street.—'‘Stocks are never going down anv more,” General Cluseret, however, in | Pepe. The Berlin correspondent of the Hzratp furnishes us with a résumé of the debate in the German Reichstag on the address to bo presented to the throne. From the debates on such subjects as iatervention or non-interven- tion in the domestic affairs of other nations, the Pope, the army and education we are enabled to form a fair estimate of the im- portance of the parliamentary session so recently entered upon. The Catholic party has already shown its hand, and has given ample evidence of its intention to do good battle for the Pope and help him, if it can, to the restoration of his temporal power. At all events it will not be the fault of the Catholic members of the German Parlia- ment if the imperial government of the country does not interest ‘itself in the restoration of the States of the Church to the Holy Father. The work before them is, however, a herculean labor. The Catholics of theempire scarcely number two-fifths of the entire population, and that the influence of the remaining three-fifths, which are composed entirely of other creeds, will be arrayed to a great extent against such a measure is not for a moment to be doubted. The days of an intimate connection between Church and State are passing away, and it is hardly possible that so intelligent, progressive and healthy a nation as the Germany of to-day is will attempt to restore the temporalities of His Holiness. That the exclusion of the Pope from worldly rule will have any injurious effect on the Catholic religion we do not for a moment imagine; og the contrary, his retire- ment from political life, by enabling him to devote his entire time to religion, will ronder it more active and energetic, and will also tend to infuse new life into tho labors of its missions at home and abroad. On ‘the other subjects referred toin the debate in the Reichstag there is an evident lack of unanimity among the mem- bers, even among those of the same party. The sudden accession of Germany to the great power it now wields ina measure ac- connts for this state of things. New parties will spring up, or the old ones must be modernized or reorganized. There has not been sufficient tine for this yet. The successes of the German armies, peace and the accession of new terri- tory are not the final triumph of Germany. There is something more than this, something higher and nobler than military glory, and it is the advancement of the whole German race toward a more advanced civilization, The excellent personal relations existing be- tween Pius IX. and the Emperor will, we feel satisfied, aid greatly in securing this grand end. Wnuo Arr the three republican members of the Legislature who agreed to stick to Winans provided Winans shared the spoils—say twenty-five thousand dollars apiece ? Winans owes it to his own reputation (?) to show the greedy fellows up. The Presidential Question. The announcement is made in some of our exchanges that the leading wire-pullers in the democratic party, including, itis alleged, the Tammany sachems, have effected a compromise upon the question of the Presidential nomina- tion by laying aside Hendricks, Hoffman, Pendleton, Hancock, Gratz Brown and all the rest, and uniting upon Judge David Davis, of Illinois, now one of the judges of the United States Supreme Court, and a gentleman of superior attainments and great personal popu- larity inthe West. The name of Gratz Brown !s mentioned in connection with the nomination for Vice President, and it would undoubtedly add strength to the ticket. In these movements among the democrats we observe a general desire to waive sectional prejudices and to go to work in earnest for a restoration of the party to national power. In Judge Davis they will find a sound statesman, and one not at all identified with those dead issues which some impracticable democrats still desire to have attached, like barnacles, to the Ad democratic ship. While the democrats are thus planning the republicans are wrangling; but the upshot of their difficulties will probably be a cordial union on General Grant for a second term. But there isa good interval of time between now and the Presidential contest; and the schemes of the present hour may vanish like dew before the rising sun before the fight really begins. Meanwhile we trust all par- ties will act with moderation, and that the result of their deliberations will contribute to the prosperity and perpetuity of the republic. Sata Ety, Jr., one of our New York €on- gressmen, objects to having notices of political elections read from church pulpits in Washing- ton. This is the old democratic whine over again. Why don’t the democrats become good Christians, fill pulpits and promulgate their own dogmas in the sanctuary of the Lord? It would be only a game of tit for tat. Besides, radical preachers are becoming rather scarce, good many having gone off into free lov- ism and kindred heresies, and many more to serve their master in the other place. A Sprrirvat Crrore in Cincinnati has set- tled the Presidential question by rapping out that Chief Justice Chase will be the next Pre- sident. That must have been a Connecticut wrapper with Kentuoky filling. A Just Cram Paw at Last—The claim of N. P. Trist for negotiating in Mexico the treaty of peace with that country of 1848,"on “his own hook,” and by ‘‘assuming the re- sponsibility.” His authority had been taken away from him when he made that treaty; but he made it, and it was ratified, and it has added over a thousand millions to the wealth of the country. Face tHe Music:—The democrats of Con- gress are going to issue an address to the people of the United States on the political issues of the day. Lot them squarely face the music on the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments, for otherwise they will be playing the play of ‘‘Hamlet” with Hamlet and the Ghost left out. Purr Bexe is at present the sensation in Boston. Where a State Legislature is in ses- sion, as that of Massachtsetts now is, corrup- tion of some sort may be expected to exist. But how much better off the Massachusotts people must be than those of Georgia, who have a corrupt Ballock always among them! Ei EE a i aa ee erent AE Oe ae a er nO De ene nO a = The Big Bills at Albany. The terrible ordoal at Albany is passod. The bills upon which the fate of our city gov- ernment and our city governors hung upon » thread have passed into laws, thus enabling the Tammany leaders and their thousand fol- lowers to breathe freely. The Two Per Cent Tax Levy, which confines the assessment of taxes to two per cent and no more upon the assessed value of property, leaving the power to assess the valuation to the judgment of four officials not unknown to fame im political life—and, we may add, personally not mistrusted by the people—has passed. The Tax Levy, of course, was the lever which was to move the whole machinery of our looal government. If it was not acted upon we should be in o state of chaos here. How could the salaries of the office-holders be paid? How could all the obligations to the various charitable institutions be met? How could all the contracts for public printing, which, we presume, have been faithfully fulfilled, be paid for? It would never do to let the Tax Levy slide, and, thanks to that conscientious mem- ber, Mr. Winans, who would not permit the democracy to be deprived of their legal ma- jority, it bas slid into the right groove. The Tax Levy, therefore, amended in unim- portant particulars, has passed the House, been again accepted by the Senate, and has been signed by the Governor. The bill to amend the City Charter, which means the filling in of certain leaks and chinks which the experience of the past year has discov- ered in the operation of that instrument, has also passed; and so with the Registry law, a thoroughly democratic measure, All these measures have also been signed by the Governor, and are therefore laws, This impor- tant work being accomplished what more is left for the Albany Legislature to do except to hurry up such little country local bills as members may have pledged themselves to put through in consideration of the countrymen’s votes upon their own favorite bills, and adjourn? The Legislature has done all that could have been expected fromit. If much good legisla- tion has been neglected and a good deal of very bad legislation has been enacted, it is only in keeping with the usual winter's work at Albany. We must take all that the retiring Legislature has done ‘“‘for better or worse.” Winans, Come Forta!—The people alk over the State are demanding that Winans shall come forth and tell all he knows about lobby and jobby legislation at Albany. Now is the time for Winans to make a delec- table exposé of the secret manceuvrings and schemings which have rendered the name of a New York State Legislature a synonym for corruption. Come forth, Winans! Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Give usa pronunciamento that will echo like a clarion note and scatter perfidious politicians as if the Old Harry were after them. Immigration from France. The return by the steamship Virginia om Monday afternoon of one hundred and thirty volunteers who left New York last Septembor to fight against the Prussian invaders of their native France is but the precursor of a great French immigration to this country. These young men had learned to appreciate the ad- vantages which the United States offer to im- migrants from every land, and when, at length, repeated defeats of the Freach armies resulted in the capitulation of Paris and the destruction of their patriotic hopes, they eagerly accepted the offer of government to pay their expenses back to America. They believe that their ex- ample in seeking for remanerative employ- ment and happy homes on this side of the Atlantic will be extensively followed by many of their compatriots. Initiatory steps have already been taken toward the organization on @ large scale in Alsace and Lorraine of emigrant parties composed of inhabitants of those provinces who are determined not to submit t the necessity imposed by the war of becoming Prussian subjects. The chaotic condition of things produced by the war itself and subsequently by the mad revolt of the Parisian rouges will co-operate, with the burdensome taxation requisite to meet the ter- rible indemnity exacted by the Prussian victors, in exciting aud spreading throughout France a desire to emigrate to America.. Itis not unlikely that we shall witness ere long am exodus resembling that which succeeded the edict of Nantes, depleting France of much of its best blood and culture and almost all ita skilled laber, and conferring upon England and Holland and the British colonies in America inestimable advantages, such as we may now expect to derive from the approach- ing French immigration to the United States. Of this immigration certain of our manufac- tories, as well as our colleges and theatres and galleries of art, and especially the vine~ growing districts of Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas, will probably reap the earlicat benefits. ConsiwerInG the fact that Winans. is. re-. ported to have received seventy-five thousand: dollars for his services some people are in clined to think that Winans goes in for the winnins. ‘Tne SprcuLATIVE Fever in WALL STREET. — As every canine is entitled to his day it is not improbable that other animals are vouchsafed a like privilege. On such a theory, doubtless, may we account for the heyday and success of the present grand “bull” speculation in Wall street. The gold panic of 1869 gave the “bears” a long lease of power in Wall street, but the “bulls” have at length tossed off their adversaries and are enjoying their trinmpa in turn. A Wesrmen Paper thinks there is ‘“‘vory little prospect of mollifying the Fonton-Conk- ling contest in New York.” Suppose a little of the mollifying power of the “Mollie Ma- guires” of Pennsyivania be employed in the, premises ? ea aed ‘Tux Surnewe Court ann THRE Lraan Tenpen Act.—-Upon these fmportant ques- tiops—First, is the act of Congress known as the Legal Tender act constitutional as to, con- tracts made before its passage? Secuad, is it vatid as applicable to transactions since its passage ?—and the case now is with the Court, and the country must await its deciwion, Tho presumption is that with the twoMew judges recently appointed the Court will Alocide in the affirmative, not only npon the gecond quostion but likewise avon the first, Ohief Justioe

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