The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD GORDON BENNETT, ' cok ROP RIE TOR. Genes Tas eve SFUTH AVENUE THRATEE, Twenty-fourth street.— Fun Garrio& Tgousann a Yuan GLOBE THEATRE, 73 Broadway.—Vauietr SNTEB- &0.—Paagy oF Toxay. JAMES SurEPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—TH® DRaMa oF Ss Cw "i 18. 9 workrs tee 334 ai. Derwoon sata tha a {WOOD'S MUSEUM Bronaway, corner Sib st.—Perform ‘every afternoon and evening, “gWALLACK’S ATRE, Broad a 18th street, tan Taw augurins iy Pane : SRLO's RDEN, Broadway.—Tae COMEDY OF A A LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Couapy F PLUOK. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 33d st.— pba Prvrr Facet. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—-Wuo Srraxs First— MNIDEE. { NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, ALSAVRIOAINE. — Ff. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— No. 45 Bowery.— BAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, SAtsUMA'S ROYAL JAPANESE TROUPE. hatha Caiemy BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 284 st., and 7th ays.—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &0, pores TONY PASTOR'S OPE! 80) —Va- piety BNTEBTAINMSNE es Rowen Ya. THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway. ‘pins, Haaee ne ae roadway.—Comia VOoaL- NEWCOMB & ARLINGTON'S MINSTRELS, Sb and Broadway.—NEGRQ MINSTRELSY, 40. a DR. KAHN'S ANATONI é = EAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. TRIPLE “SHEET. New York, Tac ny, May 2 1871. Pace. r i—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—News from baal Rete Report_New York City News—The City Judiciary—Personal Jutelligence—The War on the Shad Poles— Amusements—The Earthquake in Chile—Mis- cellaneous Telegrams—Brooklyn City Intelli- gence—A Big Crevasse on the Erie Canal— Another Fatal Railroad Accident—Horse otes. 4=—The Darien Canal: The Survey Almost Com- pleted; Explorers Within a Day’s March of the “Divide?—The Courts—Crime Rampant: Opening of the May Term of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions—The City Finances—Board of ‘Supervisors—Smoked to Death. S—The Car Hook Murder: The Inquest To-Day— Brooklyn City Management—Change in the Price ‘of Fetriage to Brooklyn—The Public Debt Statement—Financial and Commercial Reporte—Secretary Boutwell in Chicago—Mar- Tiages and Deaths. @—Eiditoriais: Leading Article, “Important News trom Berlin—The German Uitimatum to the Versailles Government—The New Danger to the Powers that be’ ?—Amusement Announce ments. ‘Y—Paris: HERALD Special Reports from the French Capital—Versailles: HERALD Spectal Reporis from the Seat of Government—Interven- tion: Important Decision of the German Imperial Council— German _ Rejoiciugs — Proceedings m the British Parhament—The New Alapama ‘Treaty; Another Johnson- Clarendon Arrangement Agreed Upon by the High Commission; The Alabama Claims More Than Offset by Private Engiish Claims; Twenty en Dollars Debit Against Us— Miscellaneous rams. 8—Bagnioism Ronted: Judge Dowling and Super- intendent Kelso as Moralists—Advertisements. 9—Advertiseménis. ‘1O—Revenge and Retaliation: A Father in a Frenzy—Admiral_ Tegethot!—Sorosis—Custom Rouse Affairs—Political Movements—Small- pox—Not a Murder—Yachting—A Riot Among the Quarrymen Imminent—Shipping Intelli- ‘ gence—Advertisements. - 1—Advertisements. | 2—Advertisements. “I PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INVORMA- @ION AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT IS patep Tae Kv Kivx, anp AM PERFECTLY SATIS- WIED THAT THE THING IS GREATLY OVER-ESTI- MATED ; AND IF THE Ku Kivx BILis WERE KEPT OvT oF CONGRESS AND THE ARMY KEPT AT THEIR (LEGITIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND PRUE MEN IN ALL SovTHERN StaTEs TO PUT DOWN jatt Kou Kxvx on oTueR BANDS OF MARAUDERS.”’— |General Sherman. Mister Wasusvens is tired of France and Bhe French mission and wishes to come home gain. He is certainly entitled to a furlough. » Brrenam Xouna yesterday broke ground for the new Southern Railroad with the cus- fomary demonstrations, puiting another nail Anto his own coffin with Spartan fortitude, Tae Sentence oF Perpv, now in Ludlow ‘Btreet Jail for arson on the high seas, bas been commuted from hanging to twelve years’ imprisonment. Executive clemency has been jextended to him very wisely. PourtioaL Movemen7s.~In the city quiet geigns upon the surface of the political waters; at there is no telling what a day may bring The Tweed clubs meet to-night. From broad we glean that the democracy of the jouth are far from being reconciled on the question of acquiescence in the constitational endments. This is especially the case in issouri, where the interlor democratic press flout the idea of acquiescence—like the Mobile Advertiser and the Stephenses of Georgia. The Virginia democrats are getting uneasy at the women’s rights movements, but the dames of the Old Dominion are not at all alarmed. ‘ Tae Darren Surveyise Expxpitiox.—The Hizratp's special correspondent with the ex- Sa engaged in surveying the Isthmus of Darien sends a very interesting account of the recent work of the party. The great point— viz., the altitude of the summit—has yet to be fietermined, but it probably would be in }wenty-four hours after the date of his letter. le does not speak in a very sanguine manner f the certainty of success, unless the height determined to be not over three hundred feet, In that case a deep cut could be made. jd it reach six hundred feet, which is not ‘mprobable, the proposed route, the one fleemed the best for the purpose, will be im- } ble, The hardships and discomforts by the surveyors are givén in de- Many have been stricken down with the of the country, and terrible sufferings been the result of constant exposure to attacks of the insects with which the pics are infested. f 4 “] PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INFORMA- p AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT 15 tun Ku Kix, AND AM PERFECTLY SATIS- THAT THE THING IS GREATLY OVER-ESTI- wep; AND if THE Ku Kix BILLS WERE KEPT ov OowGRESss AND THE ARMY KEPT AT THEIR TIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND MEN IN ALL SouTiteRn SrarEes TO PUT DOWN 11. Ko KLox OR OTHER LANDS OF MARAUDERS.’’— NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 2. 1871.-TRKIPLE SHEET. Important News from Berlin—The German Ultimatum. te tho Versailles Goverument— The New Danger to the “Powers That Be.” A special Heratp despatch, dated Berlin, 10:49 A. M., May 1, informs us thaton Sun- day last, at an imperial-council in that capital, at which Prince Bismarck was present, it was agreed to notify the French goveroment at Versailles that a further limited period would be allowed it for the restoration of authority, the enforcement of order and the fulfilment of treaty stipulations, after which Germany would proceed to an independent course of action in establishing law and order in Paris. Germany does not wish to interfere in the internal politi- cal affairs of France, but the prospect of an interminable civil war, originating in revolu- tion and characterized by disgraceful excesses, is a state of things which cannot longer be tolerated, because it involves the moral and material interests of Germany and of the whole of Europe, The same despatch says that private and trustworthy information, communicated to our correspondent in Berlin, leads to the belief that itis the intention of the Germans to restore the Regency (Napo- leonic) as the next legitimate government of France, in the event of a failure on the part of M, Thiers to re-establish law and order in Paris within the limitation to be assigned him, We have every reason to accept this intelli- gence as authentic—to treat it as true that the German government has resolved upon the course suggested, ard that in the event of the armed restoration of the Imperial Regency Ger- many, instead of being resisted by any of tho Great Powers, will be acting by and with their advice and consent in this proceeding. But will not the Thiers government settle this question within a few days in the suppression of the Commune and the occupation of Paris? We cannot tell; but even with his complete success in suppressing the Commune there is no guarantee that M. Thiers will be able to re-establish law and order in Paris and France. On the contrary, unless arrested by the strong hand of Germany, it is probable that new complications and factious outbreaks and a state of general revolutionary confusion may follow and spread its fearful contagion from the Seine to the British islands—to tho Elbe, the Po and the Danube. Prince Bismarck can hardly be ignorant of the dangerous elements which underlie the Paris Commune, and which in their ramifica- tions embrace -the British islands and extend at least to the confines of Russia and Turkey. We shall speak of them presently, but there is safficient justification for German armed in- tervention at Paris, simply in view of the restoration of authority and the fulfilment of treaty stipulations, There isno guarantee in the present condition of affairs in France that the’Thiers government, if left to itself, can long survive, or that the fighting factions into which unhappy France is now divided cra come to an agreement upon any government short of a general and exhausting civil war. French history, with all its revolutions since 1789, seems to teach us the impossibility of a French republic. That of 1793, with its reign of terror— The bloodiest recordin the Book of Time— is a terror to France and to Europe to this day. The fiasco of 1830, on the other hand, was simply ridiculous; while the beautiful Arcadian experiment of Lamartine of 1848, “too beautiful to last,” was a short-lived poetical opéra bouffe. Yet as a French extravaganza it has been surpassed by the republic of Gambetta, with Gambetta bearing it higher than ‘high Olympus,” in his escape from beleaguered Paris in a balloon. And what else than a farce, though a terrible and bloody farce, can this raging conflict between the Versailles government and the Paris Com- mune be tothe impatient matter-of-fact Ger- man army looking on? With all these teachings from French history of the delusions of a French republic, the Germans, looking only: to their indemnity, can be excused, as the world goes, in cutting short this conflict between Versailles and Paris and in giving law and order to France by reinstating the empire. The Paris Com- mune of this day embraces revolutionary elements of a new character and of a more perilous and extensive organization against kings and crowns and Church and State than any hostile conspiracies of the past. We refer to the international league of the workingmen's associations, The workingmen of this league are the fighting men of the Paris Commune. It appears that they are united with the advanced socialists of Paris on the revolutiouary programme of a republic social and universal which embraces— First—The abolition of everything in the form of a State Church and of churches gen- erally, the confiscation of Church properties and the dispersion of priests, monks and nuns. Second—The abolition of all individual pos- sessions in houses, lots, lands, &c., and the transfer of everything to the State, as repre- sented by’ the agents of the people, on the basis of “‘liberty, equality and fraternity.” Third—An equitable division and appor- tionment of labor and recreation among ali'the people, of all pursuits and professions, and the equal rights of all, socially and politically, as children of the State, and the abolition of mar- riage exactions, restrictions, distinctions and preferences. In short, the grand idea of the Paris Com- mune, including the workingmen’s associations affiliating with it, is the transformation of France and the civilized world into the republic, universal and social; or, ia other words, into a grand confederation of Fourierite phalanxes, on the broad foundations of “‘liberty, equality and fraternity.” “That the Workingmen’s the Commune it is well known, and a mo- ment’s reflection on the degradation of the slavery which still, under existing institutions, is their lot and their manifest destiny, will convince the thoughtful reader that the sooner this Paris Commune is put down the better it will be even for the imperial house of Ger- many. When we were told that Assy was the head chief of the Paris Commune we were reminded that this same Assy headed the riots of the workmen at the great French iron works of Creuzot, towards the close of the late reign of Napoleon; and when we were ap- prized that General Cluseret had become the War Chief of the Gammuype wa weraraminded that he was here a year or so back as a dele- gate to the United States from the European International League of Workingmen’s Unions. Here, then, the intelligent reader will begin to realize the dapger eVen to Germany of any lengthened continuance of this Paris Com- muoe; for in this European league of work- ingmen they have a common cause, fo France and Germany, in Belgium and ia England. Hence in London the late sympathy meeting for the Paris Commune. We think that it is sound policy on the part of the German empire not only to put down this Commune, but to reinstate the empire of the Bonapaftes, with the imperial army captured with Napoleon, MacMahon and Bazalne to maintain it, as the only available alternative at present for law and order in France, and in the fature for im- perial authority in Germany. Let us suppose that Thiers has suppressed the Commune and is in occupation of Paris, His tenure of office fs still subject to the hazards of fresh revolts and larger conspiracies, Even in appealing to the French people for a new eleo- tion the prospect of a general reign of civil strife in the election threatens a combination of dangers more formidable than the Paris “Reds” cut off from their provincial confed- erates. We apprehend, indeed, that in an appeal to a new election M. Thiers, with the German army remaining neutral, will be ‘out of the frying pan into the fire ;” that a general uprising of the working classes of France may follow, spreading next into England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Austria, ina roaring revo- lutionary conflagration, the end of which may be the end of the ‘divine righta of kings” and of property and the beginning of the republic, universal and social. Indeed, with all the stupendous events among the nations of the last ten years, with all the revolutions of this eventful period, we cannot resist the impression that the civilized world is approaching a new revolutionary epoch which will bring about the most radical changes in government and society in both hemispheres. The powerful and extending combinations and aggregations of capital against. labor on both sides the Atlantic are such as to force a contest which, sooner or later, is inevitable. In France, Germany, England and the United States, the Working- men’s Unions hold the balance of power to-day between existing political parties; in Paris they are stoutly fighting for the possession of the State. They are a new danger to “‘the powers that be,” and in this light it appears to us that the safety of the Hohenzollerns lies not alone in the suppression of the Paris Com- mune, buf in the restoration of the Bonapartes. The High Commission—Points of the New Treaty. Notwithstanding the secrecy that the mem- bers of the Joint High Commission have pro- fessed in regard to the points of the treaty they have negotiated, there remains no doubt that it provides for the recog- nition of the claims of Englishmen for damages during our civil war; that a money compensation is to be given for the use of the Canadian fishing grounds inshore; that the navigation of the St. Lawrence isto be free to our vessels, and the navigation of the Canadian canals bound only toa payment of tolls. The San Juan boundary question is not yet fully settled, but we shall probably get all we claim in that direction. The close reti- cence maintained by Earl de Grey and the English members is not so strictly imitated by our own side of the Commission. They venture to say to questioners that the country will be satisfied with their work, but they will go into no details. The Heratp however, has means of knowing these mat- ters which few not actually belonging to the Commission can have, and our readers may rest assured that the prominent points of the new treaty are as stated in our despatch in another columv. Our demands for indem- nity for the depredations of the Alabama are conceded, Englishmen in this country who suffered by our civil war are to be in- demnified, and our fishermen are to have the privilege of the inshore fisheries on the payment of a certain sum as compensa- tion therefor by the United States. As the damages to Englishmen are estimated at some twenty million dollars more than our estimate of damages by the Alabama, it can be easily seen that we are not likely to. make much by our bargala, and as we seem to be the party to the treaty that has to pay out the most money it is uncomfortably evident that having gone for wool we have come back shorn. The Senate meets on the 10th and we wait to bear Sumner on this subject, “I PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INFORMA TION AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT IS CALLED THE Ku KLUX, AND AM PERFECTLY SATIS- FIED THAT THE THING IS GREATLY OVER-ESTI- MATED ; AND IF THE Ku Kivx pms WERE KEPT OUT OF CONGRESS AND THE ARMY KEPT AT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND TRUE MEN IN ALL Soutuern States To PUT DOWN Aut Ku Kix 08 OTHER BANDS OF MARAUDERS.”— General Sherman. Tag Street Car Murpgr has brought to the public recollection myriads of instances of similar outrages where murder was intended although not committed merely because some- thing providential intervened. It remained for these outrages to consummate in murder Unions of Puris are the fighting elements of | before our quiet, order-loving citizens could be roused to the pitch of righteous indigna- tion necessary to demand as strongly as they working classes of Europe, and on the life of | now demand full and immediate justice upon the murderer and future protection from others of his class. The lower political elements of this city are mistaken if they think there are not honesty and virtue énough among our citizens to put down ruffianism even when ward influence is brought to sustain it. Honest public sentiment put down John Real and Jerry O’Brien and Jack Reynolds, and although it works slowly and quietly, it does its work very thoroughly, Neither rufflanism nor political influence can prevail against it when it works in earnest, Then, like the milla of God, it erjnds exceeding anagll. Paris and Versailles—Progress of tho War |The Barbarous and Retrograde Policy of Against the Insargeats. Our despatches from Paris and Versailles. are of yesterday's date. During all the night of the 30th the firing was fearful and utterly reckless. Nothing like it has been heard since the war commenced. The city is greatly excited and alarmed, and groups of excited people are gathered at every corner discussing the state of affairs, General Okolowitz has been wounded very severely and his recovery is doubtful, The Masonic delegation has re- turned to Paris entirely unsuccessfal. Private telegraphing in Paris has been entirely sus- pended. General Cluseret has been dismissed from the office of Minister of War by the Com- mune, and replaced by M. Rossel; he was afterwards arrested by order of the Executive Committee, with the approval of the Commune, but has since been released. The report of the evacuation of Fort d'Issy was premature. It was summoned to surrender and time solicited to consider the summons, which was granted. Negotiations failed,- however, and the bom- bardment was then recommenced with terrific violence. Some slight difficulties had occurred at the municipal elections, but they were soon suppressed, Additional barricades are being constructed in Paris to completely encircle the city. - The Masons take turns with the Nation- als in guarding their banners on the ramparts and do duty under a terrific fire, The Ver- sailles despatches state that a large number of troops moved towards Paris yesterday to rein- force the army of investment. The editors of all moderate journals in Paris have been ordered by the Commune to be prose- cuted, and they are leaving the city as rapidly as possible. General La Cecilia is in command at Fort d’Issy, and General Duvassier replaces General Okolowitz, who is disabled by his wounds. Some fighting had occurred at Neuilly during the night of the 30th. The government troops are reported to have evacuated Gennevilliers, The above summary indicates no important change. The troops of the government are advancing slowly but surely and driving the insurgents closer to the city walls. The fight- ing is obstinate, every foot of ground being apparently disputed. From the nature of the news received the inhabitants of Paris are becoming doubtful of the success of the insur- gents. It is about time they were; for they must see from the preparations being made in the interior of the city for its defence that the troops of the Commune do not expect to remain much longer outside the walls. Of course the destruction goes on hand in hand with the fighting and it wii: require years to restore Paris to what it was prior to the last few months of siege and bombardment. “I PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INFORMA- TION AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT IS CALLED THE Ku Kix, AND AM PERFECTLY SATIS- FIED THAT THE THING IS GREATLY OVER-ESTI- MATED; AND IF THE Ku Kix BILLS WERE KEPT ouT OF CONGRESS AND THE ARMY KEPT AT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND TRUE MEN IN ALL SOUTHERN STATES TO PUT DOWN ALL Ku Kix OR OTHER BANDS OF MARAUDERS.”— General Sherman, The City Oredit. The attempt on the part of one of our daily papers to depreciate the financial credit of the city upon purely political grounds, if not from purely personal motives, is unworthy of that high standard of journalism to which it was to bave-been hoped the respectable press of the metropolis aspired. ‘The ability of the city of New York to pay its honest debts, with ample interest thereon, was never before questioned, nor has an effort ever before béen made within our knowledge to shake the con- fidence of citizens in regard to the soundness of city bonds by appealing to the easily awakened suspicions of gepositors in our savings banks, whose funds are more or legs invested in city securities. We have no doubt that our most eminent capitalists are ready to affirm that the bonds of the city are as safe as those of the nation, and less likely to fluctuation in the money market. When the city is obliged to borrow money for pur- poses of public improvements, it is pretty cer- tain that those improvements will tend to en- hance the value of city property, and at the same time augment the value of the real estate of our citizens generally. The more improve- ments, the more taxable property, and conse- quently the lesser the burden our taxpayers have to bear. The increase of population, the employment of capital, the encouragement given to art, science, manufactures and literature, the rapid strideg the city is making in all the elements that aid in the creation of a magnificent metropo- lis, éxtending from the Battery to Harlem river and from the East river to the North river, with its rejuvenated and heautified parks and promenades, and splendid public and private edifices—all these considerations warrant the city authorities in asking for and using money. Hence we hold it to be a piti- fal spirit that begrudges the funds necessary to carry on these improvements as well as a dangerous one that would attempt to weaken the confidence of any class of the community in the power of the city of New -York to pay all its liabilities as they mature. The credit of the city of New York never stood higher than it does to-day. The May Anniversaries. We do not notice any particular change in the religious barometer in consequence of the advent of the usual May anniversaries in this city. So faras we have examined the pro- gramme the anniversaries of the present year will be more of a political rather than a re- ligious character—the initiative being taken by a meeting of the New England Labor Re- form League, commencing on the Oth at Cooper Institute, with a grand divertissement on the 7th at Tammany Hall. We learn that the Baptists do not honor New York with thelr presence during the current anniversa- ries, They go to Chicago this year. But we shall have the gatherings of the Seamen’s Friend Society, American and Foreign Chris- tian Union, Howard Mission, National Peace Convention, Women’s Suffrage Convention, American Bible Society, American Tract Society, American Congregational Union, New York Sunday School Missionary Union and several others, winding up towards the end of the month with the meetings of our always welcome visitors, the Society of Friends; for they may generally be counted upon as bring- ing refreshing showers of goodness whenever L they make their anucarance, China—The Duty of the Great Christian Powors. When in June, 1868, the Chinese Embassy, headed by Mr. Burlingame, was honored with ® public reception by the Congress of the United States, we felt encouraged to believe, and we wrote accordingly, that a new era had dawned upon the world. It seemed as if, at last, light bad penetrated the dark places of the earth, and as if even exclusive China were yielding to the benign and genial influence. Our hope was strengthened and our pride was flattered by the fact that the liberal policy of which the Embassy was the expression had been brought about largely by the influence of an American. Tho appointment of Mr. Bur- lingame as chief of the Embasay which was to visit the government of the United States and the various courts of Europe, was a recogni- tion of the merits of the man and a compliment to us as a people, both of which we felt proud toacknowledge. The failure of that Embassy, not through the faults of Mr. Burlingame, who, unhappily, was called away too soon, or through the faults of the great Western Powers, who were, all of them, kind and courteous in the extreme, but through the inherent per- versity of the Chinese character, has rendered it impossible for the governments and peoples of the civilized world for many years to come to have any faith in Chinese promises. What “Punica fides” meant in the days of ancient Rome, when Rome was yet uncorrupted, Chi- nese faith means to-day. The demand which has just been made upon the ambassadors of the various Powers by the imperial government of China dissipates every fond hope to which the Burlingame mission gave birth. The Tier-tsin massacre, which was horrible and barbarous beyond anything which has occurred in modern times, and which took place while the Embassy was on its tour through Europe, was no doubt dis- couraging. But the government officials de- nied the responsibility, and feebly attempted for a time to throw the blame on the shoulders of certain ignorant fanatics. Disposed to be just to the government of China in what we were willing to believe a trying and and transitional period, we have waited to seo the offenders brought to justice; but we have waited in vain, or rather we have waited to find insult added to injury. In place of an apology and & promise to do what is right, there is made upon the representatives of the civilized Powers of the world a demand which can only be answered properly by swift and effi- cient punishment, To make our position plain and intelligible to our readers we repro- duce the despatch which we printed some days ago, The demand made by the Chinese gov- ernment is as follows :— First—That schools for the education of females be abolished. Second—That the teaching to males, subjects of the empire, of all doctrines opposed to those of Confucius, be forbidden, Third—That missionaries shall be consid- ered Chinese subjects. Fourth—That women shall not be permitted access to the empire in that capacity. The foreign Ambassadors are also notified that the attendance of women upon reli- glous service made one of the occasions for the recent maesacres of foreigners, and that ‘though those events cannot but be deplored by the imperial government, compensation for their commission is absolutely refused.” We collect money for China; educate mis- sionaries, male and female, for China; build schools and churches in China—in the good work all Christian nations and all names and denominations of Christians unite—and this is our reward. A more deliberate insult was neverflung in the teeth of united Christendom. Look at the different items of this Chinese ultimatum. Inthe mission schools we seek to educate the female as well as the male, China says the girls must not be educated, Let our women’s rights women think of this, So much for the first item. The second item is worse than the first. All doctrines taught to males, subjects of the empire, must be in har- mony with the teachings of Confucius; if not, they must be forbidden, Under this qualifi- cation the missionary must have a small chance. Another demand is that we must send no more female missionaries. The last is that the missionaries, who, of course, must be males, are to be regarded as Chinese sub- jects. The imperial Chinese manifesto is honored with an addenda which informs us that the presence of women at the religious services was one of the principal causes of the ‘recent Massacres”—massacres which the Imperial government deplores, but will nol cdmpéilsate, What we havesaid, werepeat, This language is an outrage upo thé whole civilized worl It concerns the United States deeply, because our misstfonaries all over the Bast, from Egypt to Japan, are numerous, dutiful and success- ful, according to their own hopes and the plans of their employers, It concerns Great Britain quite as much as ourselves. It con- cerns France—poor France, to-day. It con- cerns the Pope. It concerns Germany. It concerns Russia, which is a great Eastern Power. China has really insulted the civilization of the West, Trade, the gospel, the telegraph, the steamboat, the steam plough, the steam car, the newspaper, all force us onward. Exclusive China resists in the interests of a so-called civilization which is as antiquated asthe habits of the men who lived before the flood, or of our own Indians, who have found their epithalamium in Longfellow’s ‘‘Hiawatha.” How Is this stupidity on the part of China to be overcome? Precisely as it was over- come in 1857-8, by the combined forces of Europe and America. Russia, America, England and France then brought China to her senses, What happened in the summer of 1858, when the allies moved up the Peiho river, compelling China to submit to all demends, must be repeated as soon ss possi- ble if in that great populous empire of the East Western—or, as we prefer to call it, Christian—civilization is to be respected. It is our opinion that this fresh Chinese trouble is due to the unhappy collapse of France, Eight years ago—five years ago, the name of Napoleon was potent in China. The collapse of the empire has made China impertinent. It {s our conviction that a combination of the Christian Powers is all that is required to bring China to her senses. In the inter- ests of civilization, In the interests of Christ- ianity, in the interests of common eonse we advise this combination, Barbarlem {a M8, our way, Lot us put it down. On this O3. tinent at least we are not ‘unkind to the “heathen Chinee.” Christian civilization demands the free and not unjust use of the world. Let us have it. A fresh combination of the great Powerse—France, of course, in- cluded—might make an end of all this trouble. For the sake of European civilization and for the sake of Christianity generally let us hope that President Grant and Prince Bismarck, and Prince Gortchakoff and M. Thiers, will all unite and batter down this modern Chinese wall, The plain duty of the civilized world is to put down this modern barbarism. Our kinsmen and friends, our brothers and sisters call to us for help, Let us respond with effect. “I PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INFORMA- TION AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT IB CALLED THE Ku Kiux, AND AM PERFECTLY SATIS- FIED THAT THE THING IS GREATLY OVER-ESTI- MATED; AND IF THE Ku KL0x BILLS WERE KEPT OUT OF CONGRESS AND THE ARMY KEPT AT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND TRUE MEN IN ALL SournERN States To Pur DOWN Aut Ku Kivx or OTHER BANDS OF MARAUDERS.”’— General Sherman, Reverend OClap-Trap. When the Lord Jesus Christ was leaving the Earth he commissioned His disciples and their successors to preach the Gospel; and, because of this commission and the sacredness of the office which it instituted, ministers of the Gos- pelare, by common and universal consent, called “reverend.” In these latter days thia term, like many others, has come to be used promiscuously, and men who have no rever- ence for Christ or for His Word are styled “reverend” just as much as those who love and revere both. By common courtesy, also, a very wide latitude is given in these days to Gos- pel preaching, and very much that is nothing better than twaddle and trash passes curreat among a certain class of people for the puro Gospel of the Lord Jesus. Very much more of it also beldngs to the platform or the lec- ture room, and not to the pulpit, But people with “‘itching ears” must be amused and tickled, and there are “‘reverends” ever ready to cater to this vitiated taste, and to say bold things because they dare to say them, and be- cause, being said ina pulpit and to a reli- gious (?) audience, they may not be held legally responsible. The Rev. O. B. Frothingham ia a minister of this stamp, and ‘his Gospel preaching demands a vast stretch of charity to enable any Christian mind to accept it as the “glorious Gospel of the blessed God.” Our columns from time to time can testify that there is in it very little of the spirit of the Master, nothing of the manly independence. of Paul, or the child-like and unaffected sim- plicity and love of John. It is from beginning to end sensational or nothing. On ‘last Sabbath this reverend gentleman discoursed on “The Agencies of Providence,” and in the course of his sermon, after denying providential agency altogether and throwing the Bible overboard as a human composition, he launched out boldly in favor of man—*‘tha grandest magazine of living force in the universe.” Every great invention of the world, he said, is the. result of human labor and human genius, and no one, we believe, will deny this. But having secured mankind in general as a basis to work upon, he becama bolder and selected ‘‘four rogues, uneducated, who have no moral culture and no social status, and whose frauds the newspapers are daily exposing,” upon whom to pour out the vials of his wrath; and to these he added “two scoundrels who manipulate the stook in Wall street.” Mr. Frothingham may know his men better than we do or he may not. Ifhe does not he can hardly be justified in uttering such strong language upon rumor and biassed newspaper reports, and if he does, he should not utter such clap-trap in the pulpit and call it preaching. Far better for himself, and more consistent and honest, would he appear were he to announce a lecture on ‘‘The Ring,” or kindred topics, and charge an admission fee. Then the unwary would not be taken in by specious advertisements of religious ser- vices and preaching by the Rev. O. B. Froth- ingham. Without designing at all to defend tho “Ring,” or the corruptions of our city rulers, we do most earnestly protest against such utterances, whether made from pulpit or plat- form, as being set down to the praise or blame of the Christian ministry. It is not Gospel preaching in any sense, and in the name of the great mass of ynsectarian Chris- tiana who Aésept the Heratp as their organ we enter this protest. It m'ght erhaps, with great pertinence, be asked at is tim’ whether all such whines are not the wail of the disappointed ones rather than the genuine sorrow of the heart for our city’s con- dition, From some recent developments we are very much afraid that a change of ‘party rulers, from democrats to republicans, here would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire—we should be worse off, and not better. We know what we have now, but we do not know how much worse we might get. We are as heartily in favor of good and honest government as any other citizen, but we .be- lieve there is something more thana longing after good government at the bottom of all this whining. There are bat five loaves and two fishes, and the secret sorrow arises with the question, what are they among so many? There is not enough to go allround, That is the whole secret, “] PROBABLY HAVE AS GOOD MEANS OF INFORMA~ TION AS MOST PERSONS IN REGARD TO WHAT 19 CALLED THE Ku Kuvx, AND AM PERFECTLY SATIS- FIEL THAT THE THING 18 GREATLY OVER-ESTI- MATED; AND IF THE Ku Kiox BILLS WERE KEPT ovr or ConGRESS AND THE ARMY KBPT AT THEIR LEGITIMATE DUTIES, THERE ARE ENOUGH GOOD AND ‘TRUE MEN IN ALL SouTHRRN STATES TO PUT DOWN att Ku Kix of OTHER BANDS OF MARAUDERS.”—~ | General Sherman. Tue SuLTAN oF TuRKEY has sent to Presl- dent Grant a magnificent carpet, which is said to have been year in making and to be worth nine or ten thousand dollars, though it looks common enough to have come from auy second hand carpet store. It has been placed In the East Koom of the White House, where this costly but homely testimonial of the goodwill of the Sublime Porte fs likely to be well trodden under foot by the democratic rabble at the firat Prosidential rqoeption, hs { f