The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1871, Page 6

Si ERE : 7 ~ * NEW YORK RK HERALD The Confusion in France—The Republic, BROADWAY “AND AD ANN 87 STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ITRLO'S GARDEN. Brows i Livk AND DRaTH OF Ru Tar SPrecTacuEr oF I. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE. 720 Broadway.—Comepr oF Puck. Puss ors OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. ana 23d #.— BOWERY TERATRE, Bower? — —SomntpeR—NEw Sonas anp Dancr: VIFTH AVENUR THRATRS, Twenty-fourta street.— ‘Tae Carric—A THOUSAND A Yran. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Rroadway.—Vamtery EXTER: TADIMENT, £0.—PEARL or ToKAy. peeerto Bort WEW YORK sTADT. THEATRE, Gusuan Ori na—La Jor: BOOTH'S TH“ATRE, Ya & Worrer's Tae. Woup's MUSEUM B ances every uiteruoon a THEATRE, Broadway.—Tok DRAMA OF No. 45 Bowery.— erween Sin and 6th ave, — way, corner Sith st.—Performe evenlas. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana 13th street.— Tax Lian—Tar Nrzvovs MAN, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S FARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Paot Pry—Roast CLaus at Conky ISLanp, BAN FRAY Batsuma's Royal JAPAN ISCO MINSTREL HALL, 885 Rroa‘way,— EK TROUPR. Matinee at 23. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 23d at, between 6th ana 7th avs.—Nroxo MINSTRELSY, &O. TONY PASTOR'S orupa “HOUSE, 21 Bowery.—Va- RIELY ENTERTAINMENT. SHEATRE COMTQ! Tams, NFGXO Ac 18. kc. QA MEWOOMB & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS, corner 28th @t. and Broadway.—N&GRO MINSTRELSY, 40, 514 Broadway.—Comio VocaL- DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BOIENOE AND axr, TRIPLE ae fe York, Toursany, Apri an is71. ‘SHEET. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. PAGE. Es Advertisements. 2—Advertisementa. 3—News trom Washington—Important Decision of the Untied states Supreme Couri; State Sov- ereigniy Vindicated—The Joint Ligh Commis- tuement of the Monticello Case— Lawrence, the Missing Pension tealti Matters—Contracts by the eer of bile = Works—Demolishing the “Dives”. eys’ the Killer—A Brutal As- Sauit—serenade to Senator Fentou—Miscel- laneous Te.egrams, ecings in the Courts—Bedford versus Bur- @lars—A Natinal Poison Association Organ- 4zed—Carpet Criobers—A Meriied Reward— Fivancial and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. dverusements, G—Editoriais : Leading Article, “T fusion in France—She Repuolic, the Bonapartes and the Bourbons"—Amusement Announcements. %—The Rovge Kevoit: HERALD Special Keports from Paris and Versatiles—News from Ceniral and South America: HERALD Special Report irom Panama-—News from Mexico; HetaLp amoros—Important a sto Avainst Chris- Wan Education and Misstonary Teaching—The Crittenden Tragedy: Mrs. Fair Convicted of Murder in the First_,Degree—Miscellaneous ‘Telegrams—Business Notices. S—A dvertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—Yachting : Brooklyn and New York Yacht Clubs ; The Yacht Wanderer—Methodist Miil- tants— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisemen Five-Twentigs Par 1x Gotp.—Yesterday the five-twenty six per cent bonds of the United States sold at par in gold. Tue Jomt Hicn Eneiisimen decline to visit Boston. That presumptuous city muat expect nothing better than Fisk and his Ninth regiment this summer. A Burciar, canzht in the act, was sen- tenced by Judge Bedford yesterday to seven- teen years in the State Prison. His plea in defence was that he could get no work at his trade of stone cutting and was driven to bur- glary by necessity; but the discovery of a fall and artis‘icaily finished set of burglars tools and acids in his possession convinced the Judge that he was going more deeply into business than the present ne>essity seemed to require. Wurrt tae Money Gors.—The steamship Wisconsin took from this port on her last trip to Liverpool over sixty-five tons, or about two million dollars, ia silvem coin, principally Spanish and Mexican dollars. This hard cash is probably intended for the Chinese market, the merchants there requiring silver in all their commercial transactions, believing all foreign gold bogus. What a fine harvest the Wisconsin, similarly freighted, would have * been in the days of the Alabama and Shenan- doah ! Genera. RuGer has been appointed Super- intendent of the Military Academy at West Point in place of General Pitcher. The seri- ous dezeneracy of soldierly discipline in the Academy had long demanded some change, and Congress has heretofore, by resolution, called upoa the President to make such changes as be deemed necessary in the mat- ter. General Pitcher has been a faithful and industrious Superintendent for many years, but the kindness of his heart for the boys under his charge has probably led him into a little laxity of discipline. THE PrResiprnt is at Lafayette, Ind., where Hon. G. S. Orta acts as his guest and probably his spokesman. He ought to be very careful in the selection of his mouthpieces, for every- thing they say is now taken for republican gospel. What Blow said in St. Louis-is con- sidered undeniable proof that the highest figure is to be afforded to native iron, aud what Orth may fay wil! be equally entitled to be con- sidered authoritativ’. So if the President stops much on his route and has a new spokes- man at every stopping place he is likely to find the repubiican party saddled with a parti- colored platform. Lawrence Svuiiivay, Tue Conviorep Mvr- orrgk.—The late refusal of the Supreme Court General Term Judzes to grant a new trial to Lawrence Sullivan, convicted in the Court of General Sessions of the murder of James O'Brien about a year ago in Whitehall street, and sentenced to be hanged, does not seem to have put a quietus on the case in the courts, As drowning men clutch at straws so convicted murderers catca at any possible chance to save themselves from the gallows. An appeal was made yesterday from the decision of the Supreme Court Judges, carrying the ease to the Court of Appesis. Senaror Suwxae has again banqueted the English members of the Joint High Commis- sion. He evidently wants to make them fat the Benapartes aud the Bourbons. All our latest news from Europe relative to the situation in France is of a piece. It shows, or seems to show, that Paris for once, at least, is not France, It will not be surprising if one day more makes an cnd of all this French trouble. The Communists, “reds,” or what the reader feels disposed to call them, have done their best; but their best has proved weakness. Paris to-day is viriually sur- rounded; the blockade practically is complete, and the presumption is that Frenchmen them- selves may do to Paris what Von Moltke and Bismarck meant to do, but which they fore- bore doing at the request of the so-called civ- ilized world. Paris was believed to be the centre of civilization, the eye of the world; and because of her rich treasures of art, her model streets and her gorgeous palaces the merciless Germans, yielding to universal entreaty, against their better reason, proved themselves merciful. The false senti- ment of the world and the constrained mercy of Germany must be regarded as the parents of this fresh French sorrow. We do not think we exaggerate when we say that the one mis- take which the Germans made in the conduct of the war consists in this—they did not oc- cupy Paris. It is also our conviction that the cardinal blunder of M. Thiers and his friends consists in this—they did not insist that the Germans should, following the examples of 1814 and 1815, occupy Paris. These things, however, belong to past his- tory. If there were folly and weakness on the one side and on the other let it be so. The facts of the hour are before us, and with these we must deal. That France, from some cause or other, is in a state of wild confusion, all the world admits. Republicans, limited monarch- ists, imperialists in all lands, are all of one mind. To most thinking men France, so long the hope of all those who looked forward to the happy reconstruction of Europe, is now an_ eyesore. We = dislike offensive expressions, but we must reflect the dominant sentiment of the hour; and the dominant sentiment of the hour is down upon French civilization, In truth, France in all lands and among all peoples has become a hissing and a byword. If French civilization, which means that the individual may do as he likes, and the world may do as it pleases, is the flowering and fruit of what some call modern civilization, the universal opinion is that we must retrace our steps and seek by some means other flowers and other fruit. It is not necessary for us to go into details ‘| to convince our readers that the condition of France is cheotic. No such confusion ever existed in any nation at any former period. Ina letter addressed to the London Times by the venerable statesman, historian and philosopher, M. Guizot—a man who has studied the revolutions of the past, and de- scribed them, and whose public life covers a large portion of this century—an attempt is made to explain the folly of his couatry- men; but the letter of M. Gnizot, sen- sible as it is, bas not in the slightest affected public. opinion, From his own point of view it may be a fair statement of the case as between Paris and France; but, in admitting that there was a cause for divided action inside of Paris, he admits that French- men as Frenchmen have no united policy, and that, therefore, though they are strong as individuals, they are weak as a nation. The real question is, How and in what shape is France to emerge from this present chaos? This question would be easily an- swered if we had to decids only between the Paris Communists and the Versailles Assembly, The National Assembly has most unquestion- ably been slow, timid and cautious in the extreme; but it is backed by the common sense of the best portions of the French people, and there are few persons to-day who will say that, with all its slowness, timidity and caution, it is not marching to victory. That the Communists of Paris must cave in, that the troops of the Assembly must in a few days, if not in a few hours, occupy Paris, must be taken for granted. After the collapse of the Communists, after the occupation of Paris by the troops of the Assembly, what is to follow? Is it to be a republic, a limited monarchy or the empire? ll the facts of the moment lend importance to this question. The Assembly has been able, without much diffi- culty, to preserve order ia all the large cities, Paris only excepted. Let it not be forgotten that at least two-thirds of the Assembly, as the elections gave it shape, were non-republi- can, The conservative vote—which means the vote of the provinces—is not always wise and consistent. It is sometimes republican, some- times monarchical, sometimes in favor of the empire. It is, however, always consistent. It goes in for order, for strength, for safety. The vote which made the present Assembly was given after the war, when the so-called repub- lican leaders, even more than the men of the empire, had failed. The vote was, therefore, non-republican. If M. Thiers and the Assem- bly should go in strongly for a republic, it is not impossible that the next elections should endorse their policy. Few, however, believe that M. Thiers cares for power as the chief of the French nation. Fewer still believe that M. Thiers favors a republic. The triumph of the Assembly means a fresh national vote; but the vote will be taken in circumstances which leave us little room to doubt that the chances ate rather against than in favor of a republic. This, however, is not all. The Bonapartists are busily intriguing. One of our latest reports is to the effect that all over the provinces the feeling grows in favor of the restoration of Napoleon. Then, again, the Bourbons are doing their best; but, as is usual, doing it badly. The Count de Paris is the chief of the House of Orleans, The Count de Chambord is the chief of the legitimists or the old Bourbons, The Count de Paris has children ; the Count de Chambord has none. By a special arrangement, which cannot be called wholly unwise, the chief of the younger branch, while conserving his own rights and the rights of his offspring, waives his personal claim in favor of the chief of all the Bour- bons, The Duc d’Aumale, the uncle of the Count de Paris, is opposed to the arrange- ment, and, insisting on the rights of the House of Orleans, offers himself as a possible king or a willing president, The republican cause is, therefore, not strong; the Bonaparte cause fm case he should have to slaughter them in | is in disgrace; the Bourbon cause is in confu- the extra session of the Senate. sion, Looking all the facts of the hour in the face, who can say how this French trouble is to end? The republic, with the Duc d’Aumale as first President, is just as possible as the resto- ralion of the monarchy under the Count de Chambord or the Count de Paris, The resto- ration of the empire under Napoleon or his son is just as possible as either. As we have said before, the provinces which control the, national vote wish order, strength, safety. If these seem to centre ina republic they will vote for a republic. For the same reason they will vote for a monarchy or an empire. The most that we feel for the present disposed to say is that the failure of the republic and the divisions among the Bourbons give the House of Bonaparte one more chance. It is not im- possible that the Duc d’Aumale, who is on all hands admitted to be a capable man, may be the President of the French republic, But treachery in a royal house is dangerous, and treachery in the House of Orleans revives the memory of Philip Egalité. We wish France well; but we cannot see the end of her trouble. To sze the end is all the more difficult that while France is wasting herself and losing her chances Bismarck is waiting and watch- ing and not indisposed to foreclose the mortgage. Central and South American Affairs. By special telegram to the IWEratp from Kingston, Jamaica, we have later advices from Panama, with fuller particulars regard- ing the recent interesting events transpiring in Central and South America, The revolution in the Departments of Chiriqui and Los San- tos, in the State of Panama, is more serious than at first reported. The President of the State, who was making an official visit, nar- rowly avoided assassination: he escaped to the woods and only succeeded in reaching Panama after a terrible journey of over twenty days, during which time he suffered many privations and was much of the time without food. In Panama great excitement prevailed, fearing an attack from the insur- gents. Allthe men over eighteen years of age have been called upon to arm and aid in defending the city. The war between Salva- dor and Honduras was ended by the complete defeat of the latter, its capital being occupied by the victorious army of Salvador. The gov- ernment of Columbia has demanded of Ecua- dor an explanation of the note writ- ten by its president, Garcia Moreno, threatening the life of General Mosquera if he landed in that republic. If the explanation is not satisfactory another war may be the result. The coming election for President of Peru was causing some excite- ment. In Chile a very violent earthquake had occurred, the strongest since 1857, lasting over a minute. It happened on the day of a religious festival, at eleven o’clock in the morn- ing, when the churches were filled. The buildings commenced swaying about, and all the congregations rushed wildly into the streets. No lives are reported to have been lost; but serious damage to buildings and other property had occurred in both Valpa- raiso and Santiago. The Darien surveying expedition is progressing favorably, and satis- factory results may be anticipated. Important from China—The Demands of the Imperial Government. We have a despatch from Shanghae dated the 12th inst., which states that by advices from Pekin it is learned that the impe- rial government has made a demand upon the foreign ambassadors that schools for the education of females shall be sbol- ished; that the teaching to male subjects of the empire of all doctrines opposed to Confucius sball be forbidden; that mission- aries shall be considered as Chinese subjects, and that women shall not be permitted access to the empire in that capacity. The ambas- sadors are also notified that the attendance of women upon religious service is one of the occasions for the recent massacres Of foreign- ers, and that those events cannot but be de- plored by the imperial government. Com- pensation for their commission is absn- lutely refused. From the nature of this despatch it is evident that the Chinese govern- ment is unable to live up to the treaties it has made. The pressure of the people will not permit it; they do not desire and will not submit to any closer alliance with the ‘‘out- side barbarian.” It is not their wish to have other religious ideas than their own instilled into the minds of their race, and above all they do not wish their females to be educated fora higher position in life than they now occupy. The action of the Chinese govern- ment will doubtless cause a serious outbreak. The great Powers will not listen to any such demands; they will insist upon their rights and privileges, even if force has to be used. Acombined movement to this end will have to be made, for the Chinese must be given to understand that, no ‘matter how much they may be prejudiced, they will not be permitted to seriously oppose the onward march of civili- zation. “Time Works Wonders.” It is not many years since the English had such a contempt for Americans and American genius and enterprise as to lead their papers toask derisively, ‘‘Who reads an American book?” What acontrast with the condition of things at the present day. The English have not only learned that Americans are capable of writing books, but that an American can invent a sytem of international communication which can furnish opportunities for trans- mitting despatches like the following :— R OF THE KXCHRQUER AT LONDON COMMISSIONER AT WASHINGTON. immediately how tax on iriction Matches works. Did imposition derange manufac- ture or check consumption’ What yield this year? General Pleasouton made the following reply :— Right Hon. Rosset Lows, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, London:— Tax on friction matches works well. Manufac- ture not deranged nor consumption ciecked., Yield $2,000,000 anum, A. PLEASONTON, Commisatoner. From the abovo it will be seen that if the question was asked in former years in Eng- land, ‘Who reads an American book?” there is no difficulty about finding out who reads an American telegram per cable, on a matter of political economy, in the present day, even if they inquire of so high a fanctionary as Eng- land’s Right Honorable Grand Chancellor of the Exchequer. The friction in England, how- ever, at this time, is probably not entirely con- fined to friction matches. Verily. time works | wondera The Queen’s Cup and the Coming Yacht~ ing Season. In what manner the Queen’s Cup shall be sailed for has become a serious matter. Many opinions, one way and another, have been expressed. Lawyers have been consulted and editors called upon and several letters have appeared in various papers about it, Some yachtsmen think one way and some the other, and argument runs high. In fact, the subject has caused great excitement, and it is about time the matter should be settled, We do not believe in having all the delights of the coming yachting season marred by reasor of an existing controversy regarding the point raised by Mr. Ashbury. We do not wish it to be possible for any unpleasant feeling to result from a mere difference of opinion, Yacht- ing is a pleasure—a pastime—and it would be poor policy to destroy the enjoyment of this year’s season fcr a mere technicality or by a determination to hold on to one interpretation of a question and make no allowance for the opinions of others. We all know that the cup was won by the America against the entire English yacht squadron, and it is natural to suppose that it should be sailed for by a challenging yacht in the same manner; but many think differently, and assert that Mr. Ashbury has the right to challenge our cham- pion vessel, and not the whole of our fleet, Herein is the point at issue. The sole survivor of the four donors who placed the cup in the custody of the New York Yacht Club has expressed the opinion that o foreign yacht can challenge our champion vessel, and not be compellod to sail the fleet, and that Mr. Ashbury is right in his under- standing of the deed of trust under which the cup is held, Although many do not concur in his decision, and retain the opinion that it should be sailed for as originally won, against the squadron, still they think it would be best to yield the point and agreo that Mr. Ashbury’s challenge shall be accepted, and that a champion vessel be named to sail the race that will afford him the opportunity to gain possession of the much coveted prize. Good feeling should always exist between the yachtsmen of England and the United States; there should be no serious difference between them. Friendly controversies may be carried on, and intense rivalry be maintained; these can do no harm; on the contrary they will in- crease the excitement in and fondness for yachting and gain the point aimed at. We naturally wish to make our waters an attrac- tive resort for foreign yachtsmen; we desire that the numb>r of their vessels among us will increase with every future season; and this result can only be obtained by cultivating the most kindly feeling and avoiding everything that may possibly lead to dissension. It will be remembered that when the Sappho visited English waters last year her owner, Mr, Douglas, conceded everything demanded by Mr. Ashbury in the races with the Cambria; and English yachtsmen will find tbat the con- duct of the New York Yacht Club will not be different from that of its gallant member, the owner of the Sappho, Of course, if this point is conceded, it will prevent a repetition of the magnificent spec- tacle of last year. The great race will fall to the insignificant affair of a trial of speed and weatherly quulities between two vessels in- stead of a score or more; bnt it is perhaps better that it should beso in this particular case. We would suggest, however, that, in order to be compensated for the loss of the regatta for the Queen’s Cup, the citizens of New York should offer a grand prize for a race that will be open to the yachts of all nations, Let the prize be of the tirst class, worthy in all respects of the wealth of our great city. Let it be made of such a character as will induce the owners of foreign yachts to consider it worth competing for, and then the season will prove most bril- liant and attractive—worthy of our coun- try and our people. We still claim superiority in respect to our yachts, and believe that nothing yet has been con- structed that can surpass them; but we may be in error—England may, at last, have pro- duced something superior to our best efforts. The Livonia may be all her owner claims—the champion yacht of the world—and this should be determined. The inducement should be offered for more than one foreign yacht -to visit our waters, It can be done in the manner we venture to suggest, by offering o prize that will be worth coming for, and one that can be carried back with pride. We trust that our future intercourse with foreign yachts- men will be as in the past, of the most agree- able character, and that interchanging visits will become hereafier a common occurrence. We have now one representative yacht in European waters—the Enchantress, owned by Mr. Lorillard. She has visited Madeira and Gibraltar, and after a cruise in the Mediterranean will proceed to Cowes, where she may be expected in about a month or six weeks more. On her arrival there her owner may feel disposed to offer a chal- lenge to Mr. Ashbury to race the Livonia to Sandy Hook, or he may throw down the gauntlet to some other English yachtsmen, and, if this should be the case, the ocean races will be inaugurated before we expect. There can be no doubt that the presence of the En- chantress among the English yachts will have a beneficial effect, and, whether a race is agreed upon or not, she may be the means of bringing with her some of the vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron that otherwise would have remained at home. The largely aug- mented fleet of our yachts will this summer present a most attractive spectacle. No less than eight or nine new schooners will make their appearance for the first time, to say nothing of the smaller craft, and the proba- bilities are that thirty or forty yachts will at one time be cruising in the waters so much frequented by our pleasure vessels. It is the general opinion that fewer pennants will be hauled down at the close of the season this year than formerly. The visit of the yacht Josephine to the waters of the West Indies during the past winter has set an example that will probably be followed this year by other yacht owners. No more beautiful cruising ground can be found than among the islands of the West Indies. The climate, of course, in the winter season is delightful, the poinis of interest many, and those who visit them in their elegant crafts may be sure of every cour- tesy and attention from the authorities and the inhabitants. We shall be glad to hoar that NEW YORK HEBALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET, our seagoing vessels are to be kept moving and not laid up during the long, dreary months of the coming winter, The Trinl of Mre, Fair—The Prisoner Convicted of Murder in the First De- eree. The trial of Mrs, Laura Fair, at San Fran- cisco, for the murder of A. P. Crittenden, which has excited so much attention for some time past, was concluded yesterday. The case was given to the jury at twenty-five minutes to four in the afternoon, and after deliberating for forty minutes a verdict of murder in the first degree was rendered. We most heartily concur in the decision, From the nature of the evidence it could not be otherwise. There did not appear one ex- tenuating circumstance—not one loophole out of which the counsel for the defence could drag the miserable woman. The plea of insanity, in our opinion, was not well taken by the counsel of Mrs. Fair; but he had no other chance wherewith to gain a verdict—no other ground to stand upon. There was too much method in her madness, Her plan to carry out her designs upon Mr. Crittenden were too well laid to be the work of @ disordered mind, Her sanity almost up to the time of embarking on board the steamboat was fully established. She was sane enough to desire a profitable investment of forty thousand dollars, and wise enough to refuse ten per cent when there was prospect of obtaining twelve for her capital. The principal evidence favoring the insane plea was regard- ing her conduct in jail; but this was after the crime was committed—after she began to realize what she had done. Ifshe had bitten a piece out ofa goblet before the murder was com- mitted it would have had a better effect than doing so after being locked up in prison. While we can fully understand the feeling cf a man upon learning that his wife or his sister has been the victim of the serpent-tongued seducer, and believe that under the terrible excitement reason would for a time become dethroned, we can see nothing in Mrs, Fair's case of a like nature. No matter how badly Crittenden had behaved to her—no mat- ter how many promises he had broken, he did nothing in meeting his wife and family after a long separation that would drive the woman into a condition of lunacy. It was anger that caused the crime; it was the fear that Mrs, Crittenden would triumph at last and release her husband from the toils by which he had solong been surrounded that induced her to fire the fatal shot.” It is most singular the influence that Mrs. Fair had over Mr. Crittenden. We are ata loss to understand how a man of his great at- tainments, possessing a mind so comprehen- sive, so grasping in everything appertaining to the legal profession, should have been so en- tirely led away by the machinations of this bold, bad woman. Hoe appears to have been completely fascinated by her, to bave been her very slave, ever ready to do her will and obey her mandates even to the sacrifice of all honor and decency. He gave up name, fame and everything only to fall by the hand of her upon whom he had showered every favor. For having apparently s>en the error of his ways, for wishing to undo some of the great wrong he had done, for seeking the companionship once more of his deeply injured wife, the woman who had remained faithful to him throuzh evil and good report, in preference to the criminal society of a woman who had succeeded in dragging him down from man’s high estate and plunging him into an abyss of infamy. This was the crime for which he paid the penalty with his life. A crime only in her eyes, but one sufficient, in her opinion, t> justify her act. Itis not our intention to defend Crittenden’s conduct—that is impossible. Nor can we censure the dead. His follies and his wrongdoing were buried with him, and there let them rest. We cannot, however, pass over Mrs, Fair so lightly. She is one who should bs held up as an example, inorder to exhibit to the whole world how utterly bad, how deceitful above all things and desperately wicked an artful and design- ing woman can become. It is rarely a case like that of Crittenden and Mrs, Fair is made public, and we are charitable enouzh to think that but few occur. We have a better opinion of our morality in general than to suppos? that many such flagrant instances exist; and for this reason we have deemed it best to give it publicity in order that it may serve as a warning to others. We place it as a beacon light to prevent those who may be drifting that way from running on the great danger. They can see what folly and madness will accomplish, and learn a lesson from which much benefit may be derived, The result of the trial has not sur- prised us. We have always bad full faith in the impartiality and fairness of the court and jury that were trying the case, The prisoner had most able counsel, who worked faithfully for her and did the best they could with o very bad case. While we thought it possi- ble that consideration for her sex might induce the jury to bring in a verdict of murder in the second degree, still we are not disap- pointed. Weare satisfied now that law and justice reign supreme in San Francisco; that person—woman though it be—cannot escape punishment, when guilty, as Mrs. Fair has been. The result of this remarkable case will be a very severo blow to free-lovism. Those who are devoted to the doctrine will find that they cannot dispose of each other with impu- nity—that killing, under circumstances like those attending the murder of Mr. Crittenden, cannot go unpunished. Women who, like Mrs, Fair, entice husbands from wives, and shoot them down because thoy desire to return to the right path, cannot escape on tie plea of insanity, and so it will be with the opposite sex—they will meet the same fate. The ver- dict in the case of Mra. Fair will aid the cause of morality in a great degree, and for this reason, if no other, it may be looked upon in the light of a fortunate circumstance to society in general—a blessing not in disguise. Thr Catser is positively to ba recon- structed, Mr. Fish is cortainly going out in June next, and ex-Governor Morgan, of New York, is named as his probable successor. William M, Evarts was spoken of, but he denies having been offered the position, and states that he would decline if it were offered. Senator Morton is considered of more uae in the Senate than he would be tn the Cabinet, and he is 0 longer counted upon for the succession. Tho Campbells in Cannda. Sir John Young, it is reported, is about resign the position of Governor General } Canada, and his successor is likely to be either the Marquis of Lorn or the young Prince Arthur. We, asa people, are person~ ally familiar with both these young Britons ;/ the one from actual contact with his presence and the other from the innumerable prints off his head that have adorned our pictorial! weeklies ever since bis marriage with Princess Louise. Either one of them would be highly: acceptable to our snobocracy as a tangible’ bit of royalty, stationed upon our own Conti nent and breathing our own air. It would ba a pleasant sensation to the nobility worshippers, to feel that a few hours’ run by rail would bring them directly under the influence of the delighful aroma diffused by royalty itself, and it would be a glowing satisfaction to our hard- fisted Fenians to feel that the next Canadian invasion might make a royal Guelph actually tremble on his or her own personal branch of the imperial throne at Ottawa. Altogether, it is better for all of us than having such a com- parative plebeian as Sir John Young on the provincial throne—one in whose veins the blood is pale blue compared to the deep blue of the Guelphs and the Campbells. As for Louise, all America will welcome her with cordiality. She is too sound & republican for any son of free America to snub. Her example of marry~ ing a subject whom she loved whem she might have married any one half a dozen Sigmaringens and Gerolsteins whom she contemned is one that needs to be strongly enforced upon our own young femi- ninity. The rage for German barons and Russian counts among our marriageable females can only be checked by the teachings of a scion of a royal House, and she has given them the first lesson, She has showa her democratic principles in her marriage. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. If she can impress this idea upon our mars riageable young women we will hail her estab- lishment with Lorn upon the New Dominion throne as a boon. Young Lorn himself is an acceptable young Scottish gentleman, who is so democratic as to have one brother in the wine business in Glasgow and another in mer- cantile pursuits in this city. The Lorm family are consequently more acceptable to us than Prince Arthur, who has nothing beyond his blue blood to recommend him, and we believe Lorn could ‘‘raise” him on that. However, whether Lorn or Arthur is to suo- ceed Sir John Young, the United States wilk be contented, feeling secure in her strength against tho insidious influences of foreign royalty and confident of shining lustrously im all her republican simplicity beside the most gorgeous monarchical bauble that Kaogland can display ia Canada. The Income Tax. We publish to-day a communication with reference to this odious law, taking us soms- what to task for “‘being a little rough on the assistant assessors.” We know nothing, of course, about these officials in their persona, relations, and deal on!y with what they do 1m an apparently official capacity. They worry the pubiic by serving papers at their houses without any show of law. What we mean to say is, that if the assistant assessors know their duty they must be aware that Commis- sioner Pleasonton has decided that persons whose facome does not exceed two thousand dollars are not required to pay any, attention to their blank forms, They must know that these papers, as they are served—without the name of the party to whom they are addressed appearing anywhere upon the document, nor even the name of tha city, town or State in which they are issued— are utterly worthless documents, of whick nobody can take any notice. For example, » paper is left at the house of a citizen of Brook- lyn, in which neither the name of the party nor the name of Brooklyn appears, A citizom of Michigan would be just as much bound to respond to this demand as a citizon of Brook- lyn; but this does not render the annoyance any the less, when a man’s household is in- feasted daily by these pestilent tax officials, who torment the ladies of the family in the absence of the head of the household. Now, we think, under thes2 circumstances, seeing that internal revenue assessors and their assistants appear to be invested with a certain power to make trouble with people who have no taxable income, that General Pleasonton sould make some expla- nation to the public of the precise character of the law upon this matter, so that people may understand how far they are in the power of the assessors or how far the law protects them in their right to peace and comfort. It is well that the Commissioner should instruct his subordinates upon their duty, but the publio mind should be set at rest upon this vexatious question, Tur Most Revortine Crime that hae probably ever been committed in America is now under investigation in the Litchfield (Conn.) courts. A father, who appears to have been tolerably well cducated, has been making his daughters the victims of his incestuous desires for fiftzen years, and deliberately murdering the unnatural t eene of his lust. Personal Intelligence. United States Indian Commissioner J. D. Long, of Maine, is a sojourner at the Fifth Avenue. Colonel H, W. Freidicy, United States Army, te stopping at the St, James Hotel. Baltagzi Evendi, Chargé d’ Affaires of Tarkey, te & guest at the Albemarle House, James Terwilliger, of Syracuse, ts sojourning at the Fifth Avenue, Juage Lowell, of Boston, has apartments at the St. Nicholas. G. Cederstrabie, of the Swedish mission, haw arrived at the Brevoort House. Congressman J. H. Ketcham ts among the sojourn- ers at the Fifth Avenue. General G. M, Dodge, member of Congress, from Council Blum, Iowa, 13 stopping at the Grand Central. General Judson Kilpatrick is quartered at the Astor House, Protessor E. EB. Salisbury, of Yale College, and family, wre at the Brevoort House, having just ro turned trom a European tour, John A. King, of Jamaica, 1, 1., is at the Ale marie. Neal Dow, the temperance reformer, is quartered at the Astor House, General J. ¥. Farnsworth, of Illinois, is a recent arrival at the St. Nicholas, . Major BK. CG. McConnell, United Statea Army. nae Quarters at the Grand Central.