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Me poor and ignorant than the opposites do in the minds of the rich and the cultivated, The great majority of then, too, loathe spiritual pauperism as much as they do physical poverty, and in the house of God, asin the home of the dead, the rich and the poor should meet together as equals. And the Word of the Lord should be minis- tered as freely, as fully and as impartially to one as to the other. We do not charge, of course, that it is not so ministered now; nevertheless, we should not like ta take the responsibility of proving the affirmative in every case, As a pecuniary investment we believe the owners and the city would have been hand- tomely rewarded had they left standing a majority of the Protestant churobes which have been demclished and obliterated from the lower wards of the city during the last fteen or twenty years. The loss to the city yy arson, burglary and other crimes during this period, which misht have been averted had the churches stood and the congregations done their duty toward the masses, far exceeds, we doubt not, the money value of the edifices so destroyed. And who can calcu- late the moral loss of such destruction? It would be just as absurd for us to look for grapes on thorns .r figs on thisiles as to expect a moral community where one church stands over against thiriy-six grozshops—one grogshop for every seventy-four persons and one church for every 2,704 persons—as we findin this southera tier of wards, Neither the laws of nature nor the law of morals operate in this way. Every seed will produce its own legiii- mate fruit, and as the grogshops sow the largest quantity of seed so they reap the most abundant harvest, and the city has to gather up the wrecks of vice and crime and spend its millions annually to build and maintain prisons and almshouses because the Christians of New York have neglected to rear and support churches for the religious and moral instruc- tion of the people, Here is where the respon- sibility rightly belongs, and we believe God Will require this at their hands. As a matter of self-preservation they should spend their money freely now to give the Gospel to the masses, 80 that by and by they will not have to pay increased tuxes to support the victims of intemperance and crime, Advice to the Southern Democrats. The prospects of the democratic party for carrying the next Presidential election, or for breaking down the power of the radicals, de- pend in a great measure upon the conduct of the Southern demograts. The party in the North and the democratic representatives in Congress from all sections, as we have seen by the address they have just issued, are on the right track. Ifthe Southerners will follow the course of the Northern democrats and their own Congressmen who signed this ad- dress, they will deprive the radicals of much of the political capital relied upon for election- eering purposes. The burden of Senator Morton's speech lately delivered in Washing- ton, which was intended as a campaign docu- ment, as well as of all the speeches and argu- ments of the radicals, is that the democrats, the Southern democrats particularly, are re- solved to undo the work of the war, to re- pudiate the constitutional amendments, and to deprive the negroes of the rights secured to them by law. This !s a libel, no doubt, upon the mass of the democratic party, both North and South, and the address of the Con- gressmen to which we have referred shows that. But if any men of extreme and exploded State rights views— any imprudent and impracticable men claiming to be democrats—should ex- press sentiments in conflict with the accomplished facts of the war and ob- noxious to the conservative masses of the people the radicals will not fail to use that against the whole party. They know the people are sensitive on the subject of disturb- ing the issues of the war, and make that the ground of hostility, even though unjustly, against the democrats. We advise the South- erners, therefore, particularly the old seces- sion leaders, who are odious to the loyal peo- ple of the country, to abjure their heresies and impracticable views, or, at least, to re- main modestly in the background, where they ought to remain, The only hope for the South, as well as for the country, to get back to a constiiutional, liberal and economical government is through the democratic party. Will the Southerners—will the Blairs and Vallandighams of the North—comprehend the situation and become more practical? That isthe question. The party has made a good start through the action of its representatives in Congress, but it remains to be seen whether others, who assume to be leaders, will be as prudent, conservative and sensible. Personal Intelligence. Senator T. W. Ferry, who arrived yesterday from ‘Washington, is at (he Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. Mariscal, the Mexican Minister, is stopping at ‘the Westminster Hotel. Governor Hoffman occupies his usual apartments -at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. C. L. Merriam, member of Congress from New York, has arrived at the riith Avenue Hotel. Mr. M. P. Bemus, of Chautauqua, member of the Assembly, is among the arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. DELSASTE’S SCIENCE AND AIT OF DRAMATIC EXPRESSION. Mr. James Steele MacKaye will, by request, deliver this evening, at Steinway Hall, an tlustrated tecture on “Francols Delsarte’s Sctence and Art of Dramatic Expression.” The proceeds of the lecture will be devoted to the relief of Delsarte, who has been a great sufferer by the Franco-Prussian war. The brilliantly successful lectures of Mr. MacKaye in Bos- ton and Mr. Durivage’s eloquent biographical sketch of Delsarte in the last number of the Atlantto Monthly bave excited here, as well as ut the “Hub, deep interest in the famous teacher of Rachel, Sontag, Carvalho, Pere Lacordaire and Pere Bya- cinthe, The applicability of the Delsarte system to all the fine aris extends this interest widely beyond dramatic circles, and will doubtless insure a lar, iio at Steinway Hall this evening of the totelligence aud culture of our metropolis, MUADER IN ILLINOIS. Sr. Louis, April 24, 1871, On Saturday night Mrs. Mary Peters, a young and fespectable married lady, was hormbly murdered at Centreville, St. Clair county, I, by an unknown man, Who afterwards plundered the house of seve. fal hundred dollars’ worth of property. THE FAIN=CRITTENOEN TRAGEDY. SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 1871. Mr. Cook, the counsel for the defence in the Fair. Orittenden murder trial, again spoke all day on Sat- ¥ . He will resume his argument oa Monday, rs Vouieved une jury Wil con! prison anaiavghter. iy Vics tae er of NEW YORK THD ROUGE REVOLT. Tho Republican League of Paris Moving for Peace. LITTLE FIRING YESTERDAY, The Goyernmest Forces Building Barricades at Neuilly. CHATEAU BECON STRONGLY FORTIFIED, Severo Bombardment of Porto Antouil and Point du Jour. Cluseret Accused of Aiming at a Dictatorship. STUBBORN FIGHTING OF THE INSURGENTS. The Versailles Troops Bridging the Seine at Suresnes and Puteaux, ST. DENIS NOT OCCUPIED. Another Revolutionary Fizzle at Marseilles. PARIS REPORTS, TELECRAMS TO THE NEW Y92« HENALD. Light Firing—Insurgent Claims of Suce cesscn—Affairs St. Denis—The New Peace Plan—A Commandant for Paris. - Paris, Sunday Evening, April 23, 1871. The firing is not heavy to-day. INSURGENT CLAIMS OF SUCCESS, OMcial reports to the Commune state that the Nationals silenced several of the encmy’s batteries Saturday, and repulsed attacks at Forts Issy and Vanvres last Thursday night, AFFAIRS AT ST, DENIS. The Prussians have ordered strangers to leave St. Denis, No detachment of French troops was there yesterday, as rumored. THE NEW PEACE PLAN. The Republican League has published the details of its proposal for the autonomy of Paris, If Presi- dent Thiers consents to it the League will force the Commune to accept it. THE COMMANDANT OF PARIS, General Cecillia has been appointea Commandant of Paris. General Bergeret has been releasea from arrest. The Situation Unchanged—Operations of the Versailles Troops—A Truce—The Governe ment Forces at Charenton—Resiguation of Pyat. Paris, April 23, 1871. The situation of the belligerents is unchanged. OPERATIONS OF THE VERSAILLES TROOPS, Tho Versailles troops are bullding formidable par- ricades In Neuilly, and constructing pontoon bridges at Suresnes and Puteaux. Chiteau Becon, the " pivot of their operations, 1s strongly fortified, A TRUCE. General Cluseret has sanctioned a truce to enable the inhabitants to leave Neuilly. THE GOVERNMENT TROOPS AT CHARENTON, The Versailles troops have appeared in force at Charenton. THE INDEMNITY, The Mot @ Ordre credits the report of the payment Of 50,000,000 francs to Prussia. RESIGNATION OF PYAT. M. Pyat has resigned his seat tn the Commune. J A LAST EFFORT AT CONCILIATION. The Republican League has appointed delegates to make a last effort at conciliation. The City to be Invested—German Evacuation of the Forts—Reported Oc-upation of St. Dente—Fighting on Snturday—Cluseret’s Designs—Raising the Wind. Panis, Saturday Evening, April 22, 1871. It 1s supposed that the Versailles government in- tends to complete the investment of the city and cut off all communication with the interior. THE GERMAN EVACUATION OF THR FORTS, It is rumored that the Versailles government has paid the first instalment of the war indemnity, 500,000,000 trancs, and that the German troops are in consequence evacuating the forts north and east of the city. THE REPORTED OCCUPATION OF 8ST. DENIS. It is also reported that a detachment of gen- darmes has passed through St. Denia, and that five of them are on guard duty at the raflway station there. The Commune, however, denies the trath of these reports, and gives out that the gendarmes who were seen marching northward went no further than Geneviliiers. FIGHTING ON SATURDAY, ‘The battertes on both sides were tn active opera- tion at Nenilly and Sablonville to-day. Musketry firing was heard at intervals, and fighting was reported within onc hundred yards of the ramparts CLUSERRI’S DESIGNS. The Communist forces hold their ground with great tenacity. They complain of the maladminis. tration of thelr war offices, and begin to accuse Cluserct of alm'ng at & military dictatorship. . RAISING THE WIND. The Commune has made @ requisition on the gas company, and enforced it by seizing 200,000,000 ” francs at the office of the company, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The Cannonading—Porte Maillot Again Boan- barded—The War Indemnity Stil! Unpaid— The Northern Forts Usocenpied. VERSAILLES, Sunday, April 23, 1871. The cannonade from Fort Valérien on Saturday was mainly directed against the gates of Antcull and Point du Jour, where the insurgents have estab. shed batteries. To-day the guns of the fortress ‘Were again turned on Porte Maillot, which nad been partially repaired, A RUMOR CONTRADTOTRD. ‘The rumor that the first instalment of the war in- demnity had been paid and the northern forts oceu- pled by the Versailles troops 13 contradicted, Nothing Tmportant—Suspe: in of Hoathitics— Attempted Ineurrection in Marseill VERSAILLES, Saturday Evening, Aprti 22, 1871. Rain has fallen without cessation all aay. No military event of importance is reported, SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES, In the Assembly to-day Minister Picard expressed his willingness to agree to a suspension of hostilities for the burial of the dead. ATTEMPTED INSURRECTION IN MARSEILLES, Another attempt haa been made at Marsetiles to overthrow the government and mtroduce the Com. mune, but it has failed. The insurgents have beon ‘arresied, and @ large quanuty of ammunition which HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1871.—RIPLE SHEET. they had concealed ina ruined castle near St. An- tonin has been seized, Havre to Mediate Between Paris and Ver- snilles. Haver, April 23, 1871. The Municipal Council of Havre has deputed three of its members to mediate between Paris and Versailles, NEWS BY MAIL. The Guillotine Destroyed on the Streets of Paris. PARISIANS FLEEING FROM PARIS. Particulars of the Storming of the Bridge of Neuilly. PROGRESS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. Sickening Sights Resulting from Bursting Sheils. INT TO THE IMPRISONED ARCHBISHOP. Paris, April 10, 1871, The new decree calling upon everybody to serve in the marching battalions, married or not, from nine- | teen to forty years of age, docs not seem to meet as yet with open resistance. It has not yet been put into force in private houses, but the large ware- | houses have been visited, and many clerks have re- | ceived strict orders to join forthw.th their respective battalions, THE GUILLOTINE DESTKOYED. On Friday last a well meaning crowd broke into the shed where the guillotine 1s kept—a bran new | guillotine, say the papers, on a new aud improved prine.ple—and dragging 1t to the foot of the statue of Voltaire, broke 1t into pieces and burned it, amid the applause of the public, This is supposed as & protest avainst capital punishment; but, says M. | Kochefort, “Of what avall is it to destroy the guillo- tine when you are 80 ready to use the chassepot; | and what dutference do you find between cutting off | & man’s head ani placing him against the wali and putting a dozen musket balls into his body? Of the two,” he adds, ‘I should, perhaps, prefer the guillo-. une. It at least allows @ i.ttle tine fur reflection.” THE EXCESSE3 OF THR COMMUNE and Its adherents, especially towards the priests and nuns, increases hourly. The treatment of Mon- signore Darboy, the Archbishop of Paris, is thus describea by one who claims to have been present | while the indignities were inflicted on the venerable prelate:—Upon reaching the Conclergerie he was surrounded by a band of men who stripped from him all his clothmg, bound him naked 10 a pillar, thrust a wand into his hand and beat him with rods. The Archbishop bore his sufferings with calmness and resignaiton. One of the other priests was 30 cruelly maltreated that no expired. THE BRITISH FLAG OVER A CARMELITR CONVENT. Not only the leaders but the organs of the Com- mune are very angry because @ Carmelite convent has sent a portion of Its property to be protected in | the British Embassy, One of the nuns is a niece of Lord Lyons and a danghter of the Duchess of | Norfolk. It is na‘ural enough that property in which she is interested should be transferred to the British | Embassy, All movable ecciesiastical property here is disappearing fast. The Cathedral of Notre | Dame has at last been sacked. Scarceiy anything of value is left in the edifice. GENERAL CLUSERET announces tne formation of a commission for the erection of barricades in the streets, apprehending a resort to this style of conflict before long. He has also issued an order which forbids the rappel without the authorization of the commander, and | reiterates to the forts to maintain the strictest de- fensive, and not to waste their ammunition. Cluse- ret makes an appeal to the ciuzens to fill up promptly the war companies, and concludes py in- sisting on the maintenance of order and the obser- vation of discipline and patience. The General, moreover, urges simplicity of dress and abandon- ment of all military decorations, The Commune endeavors to keep up the spirits of the troops by a system of premises and praise and guarantees, Every citizen who snall be matmed for life is to re- ceive an annual pension of from 3) to 1,200 francs, ANXIOUS TO LEAVE, Notwithstanding the magnificent inducements held out to all classes of citizens to fill the ranks of the Communal army, which are rapidly falling away, attempts are numerous to escape from the city to | avold being pressed into the service. The greatest vigilence has to be exercised to frustrate these ate tempts. COMMUNAL PRISONERS. As soon as the news reached here that the pri- soners who were captured outside the walls were sent away from Versailles were chained five to- gether the excitement in the Communal ranks was intense. Une thousand four hundred of the pri- soners were despatched to Belleisle in four detach- ments, escorted by 450 mobilised guardians of the peace, armed with six-shooter revolvers, The three cantiméres who were captured marche at the head of the convoy. Fourteen per cent of the | prisoners were escaped convicts; twelve per cent dectared that they had fougnt voluntarty in de- fence of their particular views, per cent alieged that they had joined the insurgenis through tear. Over 300,000f. in gold and bank notes were found upon the prisoners. FLOURENS’ FUNERAL. The mother of Gustave Flourens obtained the body of her Vad 2a son, brought it to Paris and | had it ouried in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise. The funeral was attended only by the sorrowing mother, @ brother and a friend of the family, and prayers were satd over it by a priest. “We respect,” says Felix Pyat, “the mother’s feelings: put how can she have done @ thing that Fiourens him- seif would never have allowed had he been abic to | make his will befurenand?" MANIFESTO OF THE REPUBLICAN LEAGUR. The following Is the full text of the Republican League of the Union, which was issued here to-day :— LOW CITIZENS —The siege of Paris has recom: French government dares to continue te work | janaand to bombard our city. We protest, on the whole of Paris, shuddering with indignation, that 1 in tine to put a sto is fratricidal siruggie, which is only prolonged through a horrible misunderstanding. It | will and must cease the day when we shail prove 10 France that Paris, far trom desiring to impose upon France her w: only demande for herself to be independent, and wisles to support and defend not such or the great principle of her Communal Communal liberty? Upon what and the prolctary population of Paris ay d them already. “Let us be precise. Paris elects a mui | council charged to regulate alone the budget of the city. ich personaliues, put | rere What is that. | ‘The police, the assistant publique, the instruction, and the |~ guarantee of ibery, of freedom, are devendeut upon that ation: connetl, There ia ho other army In Paria but the Guard, composed of all able-bodied ele I own officers and staf, according to the re; by the municipal couhoil, in auch # rr in always subordinate tot At gontributes her own share in the general France, and, in case of a national war, no army is allowed to enter Haria; and certal its are fixed « be case in feparn it to destroy the work of the gres whe wishes to continue it. Paris doring the ‘Inst twenty years haw oppressed than the rest of the country, She wishes now to reconquer ber priviiezes and to afirm her mghts, The recent movement i not an tosurrection, but» revolution. It ts necessary that the government should bind {teeif to abandon all investigations Into the facts which have been accomplished since the 18tn of March Tt ia neces: nary, on the other band, in order to assure the free expression of universal proceed with the general electio’ of the Commun . We require @ great and powe ful manifemation ot public opinion to put an end to the Let the whole of Paris work with us to-day, as she ge, for the salvation of the rey fe. Should the government of Vernailles re- main dumb to theso legitimate revindicutions, let it be woll aware .bat Paris sball + one man to defend them. not revolution A Visit to the Archbishop of Paris in Prison. The Record newspaper publishes the following re port of an interview with the Archbishop of Paris in the prison of Mazas:— sion with a friend to see the Archbiehop eto the suifering dist in Franee, we sited him to-day in the Mazas prison, where he ts now kept hontage. order trom the Prefecture ot Police te nd his friend were allowed to nee the *detenu Darboy."" We were nko ibe ustial cell where prisoners aro permitted to throug e protested allowed to see bim in aceli alone, I told the poor Arch. bishop, who is a liberal wad kind-Learted man, how mach wo ympaihized with bim, And trusted God would xupport him under his trial. He replied that our aympathy was a bright ray in hia prison-house, and {f his head were le‘t on his Sayuidors Leboped wu should have We Ui easure of mecting inst this aod were | passed the bridge s | went on the ! are stsetf, and seventy-four | | qu | the'line of fire, we turned off to th | fatien a few feet | The battery | rately again. | Our brsiness ended, the tirnkey openod the door, we shook hands heartily, nd the poor Archvishop disappeared down the corridor igadiog to his coll.—Yours, ec. PARIS, April. ©. FoRBES, ‘The Storming of the Bridge of Neuiilvy—Bare rlendes on the Bridge—Dreadful Struggle Between the Contending Forces—General Besson Killec—The bridge and the Eutrance to Tt Sirewed with Insurgent Dend, The London Times Versailles correspondent Writes:—At none of the encounters between the Prussians and the French around Paris did I see more severe fighting than on Friday evening at the Courbevote end of the Bridge of Neuilly. There was one barricade there and another on the middle of the bridge; it bad been resolved to carry those bar- ricades on Friday with a view of opening @ way to, Paris by the Avenue de Neuilly. The division of General Montandon was marched to Courbevote for the purpose, and that General directed the move- ments. Generals Pechot and Besson were also on the ground. I saw the action from the giacis of Vaicrien. AT THRER O'CLOCK THE ARTILLERY OPENED FIRE, Valerien throwing fourteen and twenty-eight pound shells from seven and fourteen pound guns against Porte Maillot and the insurgent battertes on the ramparts close to that gate. At the same moment the dre of seven cight pounaers and of tour wwelve pounders was directed on the Tete du ont at the right bank of the river from the Courbevole road and open space to the left, and the canuon aud mitraile ses of Moalandou's division enfiladed the avenue leading down tu the encernte, PHB INSURGENTS VIGOROUSLY KEPLIED with heavy guns irom Porte Maillot and the ram- parts, and wih a mitratleuse battery on we banks Of tue Liver close to tie island. Tue troops possessed themseives of the houses at the angles of Butes aud Courvevols, aid irom Liese, ab bal-past tu 8) commenced @ chasse, ot tre on the insurgeots, Dreauiui was the thunder of artillery, the ruuuiag screaut of witrauieu and the shell whizziug of chassepots ior a quirter of an hour; the whole of the regiou of Courvevoie abd Neulily Was enveoped 1a 4 SL0Ke So tuick Lhat one couid see THE FIRE BLACR from the cannon’s mou. and from exploding shells as if Whad been night. Insurgents were secu col- lecling in tie Bois de Boulogne. Valérien sueied them, but they got under cover. Troops eutered the Wood aud gave them chase. They ran across toward the Vorie Mailot. ‘Tne Natho ai Guards there fired, and +o stopped the pursuit, but the sacs. | trom the tort brousnt down iriends and iocs alike, When the teirtile ain bad somewhat abated, and the smoke partially ci@arcd away, | saw a body of troops, each iurmished with a sandbag, approach the varricade at the end oi the bridge. ‘fhe imsur- gents lad RACREATED TO THE 3E'OND BARRICADE. Putiing the saudoays oa tne top oO: Lhe barricade the imiautry crouched behiud tt, aud tired volley a@iter voll-y along the oridge, watle yal rien and all toe midtary valiciles Kupi sWeepig bus avenue, In Mall au huur We trv, 8 Were vi tue bridge. A col umn of them was iarched over it, and proceeded to occupy the houses ut St. James, on tie mght, and Neuily, on the let. A cutssoa, lett bv the imsur- ents On tue bridge, exploded and kiled Geuecal es30N OD te spot. HOT WoRK. The firing of arMilcry was suil very hot; but now, four o'cioe le Nad ceased near the briuge. pertiva Of the troops had uo gentlemen frou Versailles Tushed down by # Side path to Ule Courbevole side of we river, and two of tiem, af Funek ad M, Bou. dikat, arcanged a hosplial In an empiy house, ao1 tue Combo de Ramanet, Mr. ruriey aud others, page aud carried oi the wounded, Tie cure 0. the parish Was wiso most active ta Uns work uf chary, ¢ badiy wounded. He died In tie press ambulance a short time arcer he wa: ‘iod an there, Lt Was nearly siX 0’cluck whe TUE ARCULLERY FIRE SLACKENED and the struggle cume to & conciusion tor the day, Just tuen two rifled twenty-four puunders arrived at Val-rien and were @& once paced iu pooitiol Durlag We Lygab no fewer than twenty-one oii were kilied aud Wounded on tae goverument ide, of the avenue were SPREWN WITH DEAD AND WOUNDED insurgeuts. At ecleveu at night the division of Geneval Grenier was marched outtrow Versailes to take the plaice of the division of General dMontundon, Wuo had veea wouuded, By sowe bad iuanage- Mucnt the iusurgents were allowed to regain pos- session Ol # barricade vu te Neuly sive, but they were diiven irom it agam yes terday = mornuig. aw Was reported that Porte Maillot was to be taken. 1 was near the ground irom morning tit nicit, but no attempt @t SLorming the Lusurzent position Was iuide. The ariulery combat was renewed eariy and continued till dark, and tue troops succeed 4 in vccapyiag wie houres im the Avenue de Neullly as fur as the church; but the inlantiy operations were cou- fined to FIRING FROM WINDOWS AND BEHIND: WALLS. The batieres at Porie Maulot and ciose to the | Pamparts on the right of the gave shelled Courvevowe and the other posiions of the troops, Va cricn, with loriy-cight pound suells, Kept up a@ consiaat fire on Vorve Maillot and we redoubis, and tue feld batteries of the Grenier division swept the avenue up to we Are de Triomphe. Une svet struck te On both sides hundreds of spctators were out to Withess tue perforwaue. Lsaw a lage body of Naaonal Guards prepare to march down irom the Arc de Triomphe at xbout tour o'clock. They were arrested by ihe shelling of the troups, The Bombariment of Paris—Slaughter in the Sircets—ihe Arc de Trivwpie Injurec— Barsilug Skells on the Boulevards—yicken« ing Sights. {Paris Correspondence of the London Times.] Shells are falling all around the Arc de Triompne, which again requires, though, unhappily, it no longer possesses, the framework which protected its handsome carving durimg the siege. A large white patch at one corver shows where the masonry bas crumbled away ata blow from a shell, and some of the houses in the imiediate ne!gnvornood are riddied, and have scarcely an unbroken pane of glass left, It is not without risk that one can pass anywhere near the arch, A woman was kiliea almest under it yesterday—one of a large crowd, eagerly watching the engagement between the batteries of the Porte Maillot and Neullly. Let your readers picture, if they can, the upper portion ot the avenue entirely deserted, with not @ carriage to be seen ip it, or even a pedestrian, except here and there, far away to vbe side, a stray outpost or two of National Guards, hugging close the sheler of the wall, A3 you drive up from tie Place tie Ja Concorde, if you aitempt to go further than the Rue Chaulot, sentry aiter sentry, as if some sudden alarm had been communicated along the whole line, franticaily rushes out and peremyp- torily orders you back. In my last two visits, how. ever—yesterday and to-day—I was accompanied by an ambulance surgeon whose carriage was privi- ed, and we had lite diMiculty in passing. We ere making for the American #inb lance in what was lately the Avenue de imp ratrice, now the Avenue Uhrich, and to-morrow may be Avenue Bian- but, in order to get as much as possible out of lett tuto the Rue Galilce, in order to turn the arch. 42 almost every one o| the streets through which we passed were numerous tra: of shelis, The Ottoman Embassy, Which is, it T remember rightly, in the Kue de Pres bourg, had alone received sevea, and had not a whole pane of glass. ‘The people, in fact, who have resolved to remuin In the houses about there—and many houses are still m- habited—are in greater danger than were most of the inhabitants of the quarter bombarded by the Prussians, The Frenen fire 19 concentrated over a smailer space. As we got ap to the Awerican ambulance [| saw one of its members, Mr. Hueco, who had been sitiing in frodt of the teats, run for- ward and pick Up.a@ fragment of iron which had minim, The shell had probably burst in the Avenue de la Grande Armée, but the at tance to which these tragments are carried, somo of therm as big $5 aman’s hand, is almost incredible. on te Pont Neuiliy, which the Versaillais carried on Friday afternoon, was keeping Up & bot Contest wiih the Porte Maillot, and A great many of the shelis naturally dropped beyond into the Avenue de la Granmie Armée. The firing was so good, however—the gunners having had plenty of time to verify their sim—that the shelis rarely feli very jar veyoud the gate, and the few that passed on nearly as far as the Arc de Tri- omphe were, [I have no doubt, delive- sent there to tuterfere with the occasional movements of troops—mo.ements distinctly visible even with the naked eye from Neailly brage. This is the best, indeed the tors thought it ¢onbtful whether she contd live. In the next room lay another woman badly hurt in the shoulder, and up the narrow staircase was being brought with difficulty a man oleeding trom a deep wound in the side, Afew doors off lay @ corpse. ‘These foar victiins, with others, [ was told, less se- riously injured, haa all been struck by the same shell—a saell sent against Freucn people by a French guonerat the orders of @ French govern. ment, Horrible as the scene was I should feel that Thad no rignt to denounce those who had cansed tt if their fire had been directed at a battery; but they kept on deiiverately firing into houses, taking their wa triumphal arch fora mark, Assoon as If bad helped to carry the wounded duwn to the ambulance carriage, that they might be moved to a hospital— it Dae unsafe to leave them where they were—I Went into the Rue Rude, and from the corner of it, as it opens on the Avenue de ia Grande Armee, [ could easily see that some of the shells {rom Pont Neuilly wero Aeliberately sent up to the Aro de Triomphe, The mia however, fell about the Porte Maillot, the batteries of which responded with great vigor, but many were obviously aimed either at the arch or at some point close to it. As 1 was looking up and down the avenue I saw, on my left, a National Guard advance and carefully examine the ground. He evidently did not lack that discretion which is considered the betier part of valor, for though no shells were at the moment fallt any- where near, he came out from an adjomniug street to the avenue upon ali fours, and alter looking round, made a signal, which brought up out of the street past the arch a regiment of National Guards, They marched steadily enough at first, bub the Pont Neu'lly batteries were evidently all read; for them, and before the whole regiment nad passe @ shell was thrown with marvellous precision in, as Appeared to me, its very midst. ‘he ground was insiautly covered with prostrate figures, and [ thought for a moment that the slaughter was terrific, but tn an instant, as the smoke disappeared, L was relieved to see everybody get up and run away. GENERAL GRANT AND S:NATOR SUMNER {From the Saturday Review, April 1.] AS might have been expected, Mr. Sumner ts not Qisposed to retire silently irom the high position which he has occupled for many years as chairman of tae Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, In an elaborate speech he charges the President not only With party manceuvres, but with a practical breach of the constitutional rule which reserves to Congress the power of deciaring war. Itis impossible for foretgners to judge whether tho President is justi- fled in forming & combination to remove a political opponent from a cominittee of the Senate, The constitution has for some time past ceased to.be an inspired aud infallible document, and it seems con- velient that the persous who divide between them the attrivuies of Foreign Minister should generaily actin.concert. General Grant and Mr. Hamilton Fish were likely to be thwaried in every diplomato transaction as long as Mr. Sumner commanded a majority in the Senate, As the Englisn remedy of resignation was inappiicaole, il, was natural that tLe President and the Secretary ‘of State should en- deavor to drive their adversary from ottice, On the otier hand, Mr. Suinner argues with much plausi- bility that the power of rejecting or approving dip- lomatic arrangements was con.erred on thg Senave for the express purpose of providing a check on the policy of the President and nis Ministers, The con- stitution of the United States 1s, In fact, UNDERGOING A CHANGE which has many aislogies in Engish expertence. ‘The House of Commons, like the Senate, though the respective juncuions of tae two borlies are in other respects widely diferent, was lormerly supposed to exercise a vigilant supervision over the Crown. In course of time it was praciicaliy ascertained that the coniicting powers must arrive at an unver- standing; and consequently the leaders of the ma- jority in the House have become the uecessary Min- isters Of the Crown. When the American President is popular «ith the dominaut party he may, like General Grant, require his supporters to choose be- tween himse.f aud any rival in the party. The re- puplicans have receatly made up their minds to prepose General Grani for re-election at the usion of his term, and consequentiy they have abandoned Mr. Suinner, who stil ainiained dus hosulity to the ‘resident. In Mr, Andrew Johnson's time it was almost impossible for the President, in the face of an adverse inajority, to deal with foretgn atairs. It would not have suited the repubiicans to tuipose @ similar disabilty on their selected coampion. — it ts evident that the same pro- cess will be repeated whenever the President be- Jongs to &@ party which has @ movlerate and wavering Inajurity; und If 16 Once becomes the practice to ap- pout an aah reat of the President to the chair of foreign Alfairs iu the Senate, the balance ot the consubation Will have been readjusted, not perhaps Whihout paolic advan'age. The non-existence of any funcuionary who can fully represent the govern- ment tn Invernational transactions involves tucon- venience to the United States, as well as to otter x jes to negoliitions. It on be presumed that ir. Sumner's successor wil pass any treaty which muy be propose. by General Graat. THE ANNEXATION UF ST. DOMINGO, | though 1t has mtherio been rejected by the Senate, | Wul be supported by the same wajority winch re- moved Mr. Sumner from the chair of the committee; | aud already a motion condemning the policy of the President Nas been rejected by two to oue. Tue ex- pedienoy of the measnre will raise a less important issue thaa the beariag of the uecision on the next ; Presidential election. It 13 surprising that sciene, notwitastanding the obvious the reasons popular, The extension of American sovereignty over ie Western Heuisphere is almost universaily |. thought desirabie: and the acquisition of St. Do- ming Wouid hereafter form a precedent for the coveted appropriation of Cuba. If the Dominion of Canada 18 at any thme seized or otherwise ob- tamed by the Uniied States there will be eueral clamor for the expulsion of a European ‘ower from the West India Islands, niingo is necessary because It contains & Conventent naval station it will be easy to find some equally co- ent reason for taking possession of Jamaica and far ados, Nevertheless ihe st, Domingo purchase will be completed, if at all. in de‘erence to the per- sonal opinion and wish of the President. It seems to be generally admitted that there ts little protit and less glory to be earned by an unnecessary ex- tension of territory. Even when the President pro- cured the appomtment of tie Commission which will, o2 its revurn, report in favor of the purchase, his opponents succeeded in adding to the resoiution @ proviso that the appointment of the Commission should not be understood to involve @ sanction of the plan. THE REPUBLICANS DISSENTIOUS. ‘The schism between the Cabinet and the repnh- lican pariy auring the Presidency of Mr. Audrew Johnson had pernaps produced a dislike of Mr. Seward’s policy, it was long before the Russian governiwenut could obtain payment of the purchase money of Alaska; and the agreement for buying the islam of St. Thomas was finally repudiated, The renewed devotion of the party to General Grant will perhaps again reverse the tendency The President ni for tue su than for any other measure which has proposed during his term of office. His most aciive prompters and supporters are not perbaps influenced uke himisell exciusively by public constieratious. It whl probably appeur hereafter tbat the establisn- ment of an American government in St. Domingo wil not be unprofitable to American speculators Who have purchased property in anttcipation of the purchase. Li St. Domingo ts considered apart from ts nabitants, there can be litte doubt that it will become more peaceful and more prosperous under American aduinistration, It 18 only doubtful whether the present intabitants wili gain by the arrival of uncongenial strangers. Even the Spun- jards who some years ago re-established their ancient government in the island were disiiked and ultimately tired out by the natives because they against it, should wot have become mure generally | Bee, Apri been | 7 | Repronentatives to share In the legislation and eroment of the Union, It will be necessary (0 hot | the island as a co ony or vependency tll 4 consider able American population nag superseded the pre Sent inhabitants of tae island. Jiicuiues of tha kind weigh with serious American politictana, ab though they may be disregarded by the populace, If Mr. sumuer was tnd ice » Oppose tae annexauog by bis disitke to the Prestlent. the soundness of his judgment 1s independent oi his mouves. A DIO’ 7“. rr tact e Hit by the most malig ant adve raary; but moral defecrs have no tendency to couceal that Liere Was @ biot, " im ~ SPAIN, Republican Effort Against Amadeus’ Throne. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, April 23, 19T& The demoeratic republican movement against the monarchy progresses. It has found a decided om» Pression in the most influential political circles, Deputy Castelar announced in this city yeaterdag that he will “introduce a motion in the Cortes. de manding the dethronement of the Kin, AUSTRIA. Parliamentary Summons to the Austro-Hunge- rian Legislators, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, April 2%, 2672, The members of the Austrio-lungarian Parti mentary delegations are summoned by. unpertad convocation to meet in session in Pesth on tho £34 of May. JAMAICA, The Royal Mall Stenmship Servin—Deapaw ture of the Fiying Squidron. KINGSTON, April } VIA HAVANA, April <3, 1871. The Royal Mail Steamship Company intend te raat thetr boats fortnightly to St. Thomas, Porte Bese and other islands, touching at St, Domingo, fhe british fying squadron has ieft these wate. for navana. HAYTI. Country Moro Sett : the French Debt. Pore av PRENcR, April 18, 187%. The country 1s in @ more settled condition, Thew® ig still sume trouble about the collection ef the French debt, ST. THOMAS. Salting of the Cable Expedition. Sr. Tuomas, Aprid 17, 187L, The expedition to lay the submarine cable to $6. Kitts has started, ANTIGUA. Marine News—Earthquake *hock—A Drought. ANTIGUA, April 11, 1871, The bark Lilile N., from Charles ou for Greenwicm, has arrived, leaking and with loss of rudder, A shock of earthquake was felt on the 30th ais, A drought prevails throughout the isiand, BARBADOS. Tocrease of Duties. Banpapos, April 1, 18%1. The import duties on spirits, tobacco, malt aa@; jumber have been increased, TRANSMITTING A TELEGRAM ERNONKOUSLY.—TR® Bink of New Oricans has sued the Western Tele graph Company in the Fourth District Court fer $1,738 16, being amount lost, it is alleged by the bunk, in consoquence of receiving a telegram froma x York, in Nove nner, 1469, quoting gold at 128%, when it shoula have been 127%, which, according to the petition, wee the figures in the despatch thas was given at the telegraph o tice in New York. The bank avers that the sum of $175,516 15 was bough’ | by tt, presuming the quotation received to be true, ana one Pu, cent thereon was lost.— New Orlans MAILS FOR EUROPE. ‘The steamship Westphalia will leave this port om Tuesday for Plymouth and Hamburg. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMe as If St. Do- | nalf-past eleven o’ciock A. M. Tux New York Herap—Edition for Europe— will be ready at half-past nine o’ciock in the. morning. 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A.—Pure South A 9 Hare Mattress: were comparatively orderly and civilized, When Americans settic 10 the isiaud, incompaubility of characcer wil lead to digerent results. If one class Ox the population is to make room jor the other, the vigorous citizens of the United States will certainly hot be expelled by the indigenous tmuiattoes, SENATOR SUMNER'S CHARGE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT, As far as exiernal and profane interpreters may presume to expound the constition Mr, Sumner’s Charge agaiust General Grant seems to be well founded. It is useless to deprive a President of the power of deciaring war, if he reserves the right of making war. Without shadow or preteuce oi quar- rel General Grant divected the naval oMicer in_com- mand on the station to inform the government of Hay that he would forcibiy resist and punish any hostile measure against St. Dowingo, The poor French negroes, wao, at the time of thy emancipa- tion, Were favorite ob,ects of American patro » were naturally puzzled and alarmed by the audtden threats of the American admiral They had given no offence to the United States; and 1 is not even known that their relation to their Spanish neigbbors was more than ordinarily unfriendly. It inay have heen a consvlation to their wounded feelings that the admiral at the same time deciared contingent war against ail otver nauous. Any at only, excuse | can invent ior the conduct of a Frencn government tu alliowlug the capital of France to be bombarded; and | think your readers will agree with me that the excuse is a very poor one. Let the Versailiais fro at batteries such ag those on the Porte Mailiot as long as they please; these batieries | attack them, and they have a right to defend them- selves, Hesiles, without silencing these batieries they cannot get Into Paris, Which they may perhaps have a right to endeavor todo, The remedy Is vi lent, but so is the disease, and if the Na+ jal Assembly thinks that France can be saved only by crushing the Commune, and means to crush it,” the sooner this is doue the beter for all concerned, not ota the Commune, But the Assembly would do well to remember that Paris contains, in round numbers, two milous of ineir fellow countrymen and women, of whom a large number—probably the majority—have no Com- muniatte sympathies, and that to fire upon these In- offensive people, on the pretext of interfering with the movements of the troops, is to do wWiat the Prnssians did, without the ans’ excuse. Wornen and children are being sinughiered aow; tue oy difference deing that they are shiughterad by French shells, and t a8 Kely as not, they ere partisan: overninent hy Whose oriers they ed, J had scarcely reached the Anie ) we 4 Woman cose by had had her leg carried off by « bursting stell, and turee or tour other people hal been badly wounded, Just at tie moment Dr. Cormack came up, and 1 went with him to the House tniv Wich the Wounded had bevn car: ried, I shall never forget the aight that met me there, On one bed lay ow Wolan with her face seamed with hiooly scars, anc one leg ending tn an unsightly strmp, roughly bane Gaged Up, BUC Was Dale ag GCabls Ald [le digg tack on St. Doniiugo would, he suid, be instantly re- sented, and if Engiana or Spaia or France had hap- pened to exact reprisals for a Dominican outrage Uhey would have been in dauger of a collision with the American squadron. ‘The territory which was to be guarant irom aggression was not a part of the dominiens of the United States uniess the un- authorized contract negoulated by the President ope- Fated as & transfer of ownersiiip. As che use of force would not even have been preceded by « declaration of war the unhappy people ef Hayu trembied obeyed, and other Powers perlaps never heard of the admirals = grandiloquent threat. Nevers tueless the power to create @ cause of war is equlvaient to tne right of declaring war, and the Prestaent nas virtually usurped the power which belongs to another brancn of the gov- ernment. When tie annexation of St. Domingo 1s accomplished the subjugation of Hayti will inevi- tabiy follow. There ts little to regret fn the final ex- tinction of alow type of tnitative civilization; but the possession of an outlymg coantry with & million aad a bait of tanabitants will invoive the American | goverament ia serious dificulies. 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