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TRIP New York, Friday, LE SHEET, » 1871. 3S OF TO-DAVS HCRALD, he Repntiiic and the Ninth Corps in Boston— News froin Washington—Loc ul Intelligence. 4—Bisniarck av Home: An Evening at the Resi- dence of the Great German Statesman—Gen- eal Sheridan's Visit to Ireland—The An- niversaries—The — Episcopaltans—De:ocracy Ab: —Varade of the New York Police Le- ariinent-—Jersey’s Great Sensation—Evil fects of Elevated Ratlroads—Western Morals— Fractured Skull—Naval Intelligence— New York Homeopathic voliege Dispensary. S—The Treaty of Washington—News from South America—The Klu Klux Klans: Fearful State Of Affatrs tn the First South Carolina District— Oytrages in South Carolina—Amusements— Brookiyn Matters—Political Notes—Queen’s County Criminals—Base Ball—Cricket—Boy Burgla:s in Lleecker Street, 6—Ejiltor: Leading Article, “The Great Treaty Before the Country—A Fair and Com- prebel We Adjustment’—Amusement An- noun nts. ‘7 — Ealtor! ontinued from Sixth Page)—Per- igence—The Situation of Affaira in By igh Parjtareut—Tie New : céolings of the Committee on n Felations—The New York Sports- —isvellaneous Telegrams—Busl- he Diamond Smuggling Case— Murder: Postponement of the ’ ter Until Monday Next—Rullof’s Examinailon--Attempted Suicide by a Con- victed Murderer—The Late Kerosene Oil Ex- plosion—Marriages and Deaths. 9—Financia! ani Commercial Re; is—Real Es- ks—Scaided tate Matlers—Department of to Death — Advertisements. 10—A_ Carpet Bazger’s Views: What Tim Marley Thinks of the Situation in South Carolina— The Long Strike Ended; The Pennsylvania Coal Troubles Adjusted at Lasi—Miners’ Meeting at Cooper Insutute—Shipping Intel- hgence—Adverusementa, < 11—Advertisements . 12—Advertisenients. Two Boy Brretans, aged fifteen and six- teen, were captured in Bleecker street, the other night, at ther trade, Here's a moral Jesson for the City of Charities. Tne Report that Minister Bancroft has resigned is neit»er confirmed nor discredited in official circles. The Minister had very arduous duties to perform in Berlin during the French war, and probably is anxious for rest, Tue Mact axp Copurn Fienr was inter- rupted by the police yesterday while the two mea were in the ring, before a blow was struck. It is not probable, however, that this will prevent the fight altogether, as the refe- rees and seconds of the two men are to meet — ee to-day and meeting. arrange for a new place of Tue Heirs or Fant Srimirve have entered & protest ogainst any disposal of their rights fn the Canadian fisheries by the Treaty of Washington. The samo protests and claims were presented before ; indeed, we believe they have been presented every time a treaty touch- ing upon this question has been proposed. As the treaty does not in any way affect the pro- prietorship of the fisheries, we do not see that the Stirling claims are of much moment, be they ever so well founded. Tox Granv Anmy or tHe Repuntic clected Generai Burnside Commander-in-Chief yester- day, to succeed Logan, who declined a re- momination. It was intimated that the ad- ministration aimed to turn the association to political accouut by defeating Lozan and placing Plearonton in the commander's chair, ‘but the better sense of the association itself defeated this idea and kept it aloof from poli- tics, The Convention adjoursed yesterday, after a meeting of considerable enthusiasin. Tor Dummy on THE GreENwicn Srreer elevated railway now has a fatal accident to nawer for, It frightened a tenm of horses on Tuesday, and they ran over a boy, killing him instantly. The country members of the Legislature refused to repoal the charter of this concern at the last session, and it bas a right to rua its dummies up and down the one-legged track if it chooses; but as i doesn't pay, and ¢o far as experiments are concerned the people are satisfied, Canuot the directors find it In thd hearts and to thelr interests, us well as to the interests of the propia, to coawe operations altocathor 2 ‘The Great Treaty Before the Country— A Fair and Comprehensive Adjustment. We have the text of the Treaty of Wash- ington before us in full, from which we sub- mit this morning to our readers the arrange- ments and engagements entered into between the two great nations concerned, omitting only some of the rules and regulations laid down for, the several boards of arbitration provided for and other immaterial details. Substantially the treaty agrees with the ab- stracts we have already published; but there are several points upon which our information, heretofore cloudy and indefinite, is now official and explicit. Considering, then, the paramount importance of the subject to the American people, to the British people and to the world, we are drawn briefly to review the adjustment actually agreed upon in reference to each of the unsettled qnestions involved in this great treaty—great from the lofty and magnanimous spirit governing the high con- tracting parties, and great in its generous concessions on both sides and in its fraternal reciprocities. First and most important of all, in the pre- amble of this treaty, there are some words fitly spoken which are ‘‘apples of gold in pictures of silver.” They are these:—‘‘And whereas her Briiannic Majesty has author- ized her High Commissioners and Plenipoten- tiaries to express, in a friendly spirit, the regret felt by her Majesty’s government for the escape, under whatever circumstances, of the Alabama and other vessels from British ports, and for the depredations committed by those vessels, now, in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part, of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of such claims,” &c. Here, in this regret of the British government for the escape from British ports and the depreda- tions upon our commerce of such rebel cruisers as the Alabama, the Shenandoah and the Florida, we have that graceful apology which silences the heaviest battery of Senator Sum- ner, and which clears the ground for an entente cordiale never before known between England and the United States. We were much and justly incensed by the conduct and confessed designs of the Emperor Napoleon in his armed occupation and imperial protectorate estab- lished over Mexico in the midst of those em- barrassmonts of a gigantic civil war, which limited us to diplomatic protestations against that French usurpation. The American peo- ple, with the suppression of our rebellion, were eager for armed intervention in bebalf of the Mexican republic ; but with the French evacua- tion, though tardy acd reluctant, all our ill feelings against Napoleon were dispelled. And so with this graceful apology at last from England touching the Alabama and her depre- dations the greatest wrong and the ugliest difficulty in all this deplorable business disap- pear. With this concession to them in the outset it was simply impossible that our mem- bers of tbe High Commission should not meet the other side in a corresponding spirit of con- fidence and magnanimity. Passing over the tribunal of arbitration pro- vided for the Alabama claims as fair and satisfactory we come next tothe stipnlations of this treaty on the question of neutrality. The arbitrators, in addition to the general principles of international law applicable to any case or cases coming before them, are to be governed by three express rules agreed upon, a6 follows: re. = Rvzes.—A niowiral govérnment 1s bound, First— To use due diiigence to prevent the fitting out, arm- ing or equipping, wituin ed ppm ang) of any ves- sel which it bas reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against fi wer with which it 18 at peace, and also to use @ diligence to preveat the departure from its jarisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or catry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction to warlike use. Second—Not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its porta or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the pur- pose of the renewal or augmentation of military sup- plies or arms or the recruitment of men. Third—To exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its juris- to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties, Here, then, we have another important practical concession; for while it appears that “ber Britannic Majesty has commanded her High Commissioners and Plenipotentiaries to declare that her Majesty’s government cannot consent to the foregoing rules as a statement of principles of international law which were in force at the time when the claims men- tioned in article 1 arose,” yet “her Majesty’s government, in order to evince its desire of ‘strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries,” and to provide for the future, agrees that these rales shall apply in the set- tlement of the Alabama claims, England, in this matter, then, retaining the shadow, yields the substance of the principles involved in reference to the past, while both parties are bound by them for the future, and agree to “bring them to the knowledge of other mari- time Powers” and to invite their concurrence. What more could we ask as the obligations cf neutrality ? The doctrine of belligerent rights as applied by Mr. Sumner to Lord Joan Russell’s recog- nition of the belligerency of the ‘‘so-called Confederate States” is ignored in this treaty, no doubt, becanse it has never been and is not recogaized by President Grant. It is as well, too, that nothing is said in the treaty on this question; for while we may contend that de facto the ‘‘so-called Confederate Siates” were mere insurgents against their lawful government, and entitled to no belligerent rights, it can as stoutly be contended, de jure, on the other side, that those States were belligerents, and were so recognized from the proclamation of President Lincoln’s “blockade” to the end of the war. In proclaiming a “‘blockade” we proclaimed the ports concerned as those of a hostile Power possessiug belligerent rights; and Mr. Sumner will have to abandon bis hobby. We cannot in this matter escape the responsibility for our own mistakes, The claims of British subjects against the United States provided for in this treaty, covering the period. between April 13, 1861, and April 9, 1865—ihe period of our late re- bellion—are notdefined. It is not probable, however, that the board of arbitrators will admit claims of any class outlawed by either government, such as claims of British subjects living in our Southera States during the war for losses therein by the war, or claims of blockade runners, or claims arising from the rebel cotton loan, or Canadian Fenian raid claims, or anything of that sort; and this, from reports heretofore made, we doubt not, is the official undera:anging of the treaty. Nor eee can we suppose that the legal British claims provided for will be a tithe of our Alabama claims, or that the arbitrators will swell the amount of British claims beyond the demands of justice, Upon the fisheries and the Northwestern boundary dispute the treaty is as we have already represented, and while we hold that even the warlike General Butler has no cause for complaint against the fisheries adjustment, we have full confidence of an honest judgment from the German Kaiser upon the boundary question, He will have the Oregon treaty of 1846 before him and all the maps and evidence and arguments on both sides necessary to a full understanding of the case, and he will have the great Bismarck at bis elbow; and so we may rely upon a fair judgment from the Emperor of Germany, The agreement embracing the navigation of the St. Lawrence covers a much broader mar- gin than has been represented in our reports of this treaty; for this agreement is a pretty ex- tensive reciprocity commercial treaty between the United States and the New Dominion. If we are to have the full benefit with the Cana- dians of their St. Lawrence canals, from Lake Erie down to Montreal, they are to have-the same privileges in our canals, up that lake and river line to LakeSuperior, and they are also to have the free navigation of Lake Michigan for aterm of years. Now, as Lake Michigan is wholly within the United States, and has upon its shores the important commercial grain shipping depots of Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay and other places, this concession to the Canadians of the free navigation of this lake on the same conditions as our own citizens ought to reconcile her Majesty’s provincials to the reciprocities demanded of them in the St. Lawrence canals and the fisheries, Nor can we imagine that the authorities or people of the New Dominion will hesitate in the recl- procities proposed. All things considered, the Joint High Commission, in this treaty, have achleved a great and glorious work, worthy the two great nations of the English- speaking races; worthy their boasted enlightenment and advancing civillzation ; worthy the amiable, peace-loving Queen Vic- toria and our honest soldier President, whose motto is, ‘Let us have peace,” and full of promise to the general interasts of mankind in the cause of peace. Thereis nothing in this treaty between the United States and Great Britain to excite the jealousies of other nations. On the contrary, so many of them are invited to assist in it that they must all become interested in it and instructed by it in the ways of.peace. Its ratification, which is close at hand, will surely ba the opening of a newchapter of “peace and good will to men.” The War Agatust the Commune—Indicas tions of a Speedy Close. The most important features in the news from Europe bearing upon the civil war now raging in France are the surrender of the forts around Paris still held by the Germans and the immediate return of all the French pris- oners yet remaining in Germany. The former once more in possession of the French govern- ment and the latter added to the army of Mar- shal MacMahon will speedily end the existing trouble aud restore peace. The Versaillist commander, however, may not care to walt for both to be carried out, He may soe fit to make his grand movement without waiting for additional strength. It is to be hoped, bow- ever, for humanity’s sake, that he will, and afford to the déluded wretches within the walls of Paris another chance to save themselves and much of the city by surrendering on the best terms they can obtain, An opportunity once more given the troops of the Commune to leave the stand- ard under which they have done so much to disgrace France will, we think, be taken advan- tage of. Asan evidence of this we have the news of the refusal of a portion of the National Guard to march against the Versailles troops, and no doubt this disaffection exists among a very large proportion of those who are in arms against the legitimate authorities. Meanwhile the besieging forces are not idle, The tremendous fire of the government batte- ries has silenced completely Forts Vanvres and Montrouge, and they continue a heavy cannonade of the city. The troops of MacMa- hon have occupied the Bois de Boulogne ; they have attacked and carried several important positions, inflicting great loss upon the insur- gents, and are advancing rapidiy to a position close to the walls of the city; so that, if the assault becomes a matter of necessity, the dis- tance to be passed over before reaching the breach will be comparatively small. The in- surgents have discovered long ere this that the government is de‘ermined, if necessary to conquer, to des‘roy the city. The results within the wails of the heavy bombardment that has been so.long maintained ‘are fright- ful, and it will take many years to restore Paris to what it was less than a twelvemonth since. If the city is carried by storm the de- struction that will follow no one can estimate ; but we atill have the hope, however, that this terrible method of ending the war may yet be averted. The concessions of Prince Bis- marck may do away with the necessity of further violence when they are known inside of Paris; and if they have this effect France will be indebted to Germany for the safety rather than the destruction of the city of which Frenchmen have always been so proud, A Carpet Baccer.—Tim Hurley, of Co- lumbia, 8. C., an Irish Yankee, who hails from Massachusetts, and who represents a good deal of wealth in the capital of the Pal- metto State, gives his views of the situation among the whites and the negroes down there in our coluinns this morning, He uses pretty strong and rather profane language, but his side of the story is well worth hearing, as one never told before, and one which is evidently the story of most of that bardy race of pioneers who have penetrated into regions where civilization, wealth and educa- tion are the obstacles they have to contend against instead of savages and wildernesaes, and who, for some reasons, deserve much more credit than they get, Tim especially dis- closes some of the minor inconveniences that carpet-baggers of his class have to contend against. Ong Democratic PresipentiaL ASPIRANT Our or tag Way.—A republican bas been Dronopnced Governor of Connection, , ° The Frankfort Pence Treaty—The Peace Prospect in Europe. Our cable despatches to-day and yesterday have been more than usually interesting. At last peace treaty has been signed between France and Germany ; and, so far as we know its terms, the treaty is fair and honorable on the part of France, and, just and generous on the part of Germany. Prince Bismarck, speaking for Germany, has abated his demands. He has consented to reduce the war indemnity by half a milliard of francs, a sum equal to twenty million pounds sterling, or one hundred millions of dollars. More than that, he takes a bond in place of cash for four and a half milliards of francs, or bine hundred millions of dollars, payable in one year. Germany, besides, consents, on the ratification of the treaty, to hand over to the Versailles government the forts east and north of Paris which she has held since the cessa- tion of hostilities, and to limit her guarantee occupation to Belfort, Longwy and Nancy. It is gratifying to know that the Rothschilds and the Erlangers on the French side and the house of Herr Hahn on the German side have already taken up a large part of the loan. © It is impossible to overestimate the impor- ance of this treaty. By restoring to the Ver- sailles government all the forts around Paris Prince Bismarck has not only expressed his opinion of, but killed the cause of the Coms mune. The treaty is a vote of confidence on the part of Germany in the government of M. Thiers and in the good sense and honest purpose of the Versailles Assembly, Prince Bismarck might have acted otherwise; but, acting as he has done, he has revealed some- what of the same magnanimous disposition which has found expression in the finished work of the Joiot High Commission at Wash- ington, For France’s sake, for Germany's sake we are delighted with the peace treaty of Frankfort-on-the-Main. It gives France a fair chance to recuperate, and, by honest toil, willing sacrifice and patient waiting, to regain her position in the family of nations. It leaves the new German empire free to work out its own glorions destiny. ¥ Taking it for granted that France will in ao brlef space of timo be restored to herself and that some stable ‘ational government will be established, it is not unnatural to raise the question, What are the chances for continued peace in Europe? The chances in favor of peace, as we think, are numerous, For at least half a century France and Germany will not meet in the battle field. Possible war points in other directions, Itisa most singu- lar fact that at this moment the peace disposi- tion is finding universal expression. Not to say more of the work of the Joint High Com- mission and of the prospect of an amicable settlement of all outstanding questions be- tween the United States and Great Britain, we find Italy making peace with the Pope, Russia making peace with Turkey, Germany and Russia equally discouraging disaffection in Austria, For years past the Slavonic provinces of Austria have been looking to Russia for encouragement to revolt, and fey have not been allowed to look in vain; but within a brief period the government of the Czar has distinctly made it known that what- ever thero is of the Slavonic in the Austrian empire has become so Germanized that fo endeavor to undo what’ has been done would be a hopeless underiaking. Again, Russia listens no longer to the com- plaints of the Christian subjects of the Sul- tan. One other fact of importance deserves to ba mentioned. The Roumanians, who have been making the life of Prince Charles so miserable of late that he has on more than one occasion threatened to resign, have, by the united voice of Germany and Russia, been tcld that if they do not content them- selves the forces of the Sultan will be invited to occupy the Principalities, All these things taken into account, it is impossible to refuse to admit that on the part of the great Powers the desire for peace is intense and the deter- mination to have it is strong. Are there any of our readers who will refuse to say “Amen,” when we express the hope and belief that the civilized world has entered upon a new era—an era of peace and pros- perity, of contentment aud universal good will? Murder—A Chance for Judge Cardoza. The Foster trial for the murder of Mr. Patnam on a Seventh avenue car was called again yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner, Judge Cardozo presiding. It had already been postponed a week, on the ground of want of preparation by the prisoner's coun- sel, byt he entered another affidavit yesterday asking for two weeks further delay, his pro- gress in the preparation of the case having been interfered with by his illness. Judge Cardozo declined to adjourn the case so long, but consented to adjonrn it until Monday, when, he stated, the case must positively go on, whether counsel was prepared or not. On that day, therefore, we may expect to sce the preliminaries of the case fairly opened ; but with the difficulty that is certain to ensue rela~ tive to the selection of jurors it is not likely that the actual merits of the case will come under discussion before the middle of the week. It is not at all probable that any one with intelligence enough to be en- trusted with the decision of a case so gravely involving public security and peace, and in- volving also the life of a human being, has failed to read the accounts of this barbarous murder and to have formed an opinion thereon. Although ander a strict interpretation of the letter of the law such persons are Ineligible as jurors, equity and a fair interpretation of the spirit of com- mon law will find these persons rather more eligible than an exeeptional class so ignorant as not to have heard of the case or so idiotic as to have formed no opinion upon it. Judgo Cardozo has a fine chance to render a new interpretation of the clause relative to jurors, one which will not only secure Intelligent citi- zens upon the jury bench, but will avoid the long delays consequent upon a close interpre- tation of it, and one which at the same time will secure all his rights to the prisoner. Tho Pataam Tue Crrizexs og Arizona have been teach- ing marauding sqvages in their vicinity such a lesson as Weageil Phillips wished to teach the Ku Klux, ‘They killed eighty-five of them near Camg Grant recently, in revenge for the murder of four whites, The Chinese Puzzle. In all the writings of the Celestial Mohammed there is not, perhaps, a passage more fre- quently quoted and admired by his followers than this:—“‘When you would do anything, first consider; when you have considered, do it; then resume the tranquillity of your mind.” There is not much profundity in the. advice of Confucius; but then ho was the Bunsby of his time, and his luminous remarks on everything, celestial and terrestrial, are still regarded with awe and reverence by the pig- tailed Cuttles of the Flowery Land, From a perusal of the extraordinary and highly inte- resting translation of tho Chinese incendiary pamphlet which we published on Wednesday last, we gather that the mandarins and high officials of the Celestial empire have fully considered and determined on the policy to be pursued toward foreigners: for the future. They have commenced to act, but it is to be seen whether they will be permitted by the Western nations to “resume the tranquillity of their minds.” We arainclined to think that they will not. The butchery of the Sisters of Mercy and the Russian traders last June was but the beginning of a relentless war of ex- termination, The plan adopted by the bigoted opponents of the conciliatory policy of Prince Kung to incite the depraved common people to acts of murder and outrage was well suited to the purpose. The most villanous fulse- hoods concerning Christianity and the motives and objects of Christians were put forth in the pamphlet to which we have called attention and distributed all over China in a manner that implied imperial sanction and approval. The “sacred edict” was quoted extensively and the “‘public records” referred to to prove that the writers were sustained by the govern- ment at Pekin in their hostility to the foreign population. That they were so sustained and encouraged in their foll purpose the declaration of the Emperor, that no indemnity would be paid to families of the Europeans massacred at Tien-tsin, is sufficientevidence. And, indeed, the increas- ing difficulty experienced by the represonta- tives of the Westera_pations in pyaln'gining relations with the Chinese officials shows clearly enough that matters are approaching a crisis. While pretending to ehserve treaties they evade their obligations, and are mora and more obstructive and insolent. It may bo true that the hatred now mani- fested by the Chinese towards the Christians is partly due to the injudicious zeal of the mis- sionaries. But that this is not the main cause is very plain. The explanation of the present outbreak of fanatic hatred will be found in the fact that the mandarins perceive that, through the civilizing influences of Christianity, their hold on the masses is being gradually loosened and their position undermined. It is their interest to be conservative and exclusive. Left to themselves, the people would infinitely profer prosperity and the ‘‘barbarians” to mis: ry and tho mandaring; but the gentlemen of the red buttons and peacocks’ feathers are masters of the situation, and their mandates must be obeyed. : Truly the situation, as revealed to us by this extraordinary explanation of mandarin policy, is a Chinese puzzle. How is it to be solved by the West? We may enter into agreements -with the mandarins—and they invariably beat us in diplomacy—aud make treaties with them, but how can we insure their observ- ance? It well suits the policy of the exclusive government of Pekin and its agents in the provinces to cover up the atrocities of the wretches they secretly incite to deeds of biood, by unmeaning pro- clamations and vermilion edicts; but the interests of our cilizons, as well as those of the subjects of European nations doing business in China, demand that the mandaring should be taught a lesson. It is now yene- rally admitted that the mission of Mr. Bur- lingame was a failure. The treaty entered into with France certainly did not prevent in- discriminate massacre of French subjects ; and aa it has been with the French it may be with us. The hostility of the Chiaese is not con- fined to the citizens of any one country, but includes all foreigners in China. But the mission of Burlingame served the purpose of the Chinese, as it gave them time to propare for the repudiation of all treaties previously made with the Western Powers, Being now, as they suppose in their arrogance, prepared to resist any further attempts to spread Western civilization in Cuina, they boldly proclaim their defiance, The result must be war. France, as soon as she recovers from ber present belpless con- dition, will surely demand satisfaction for the murder of her citizens and exact an indem- nity. We are prepared to learn that other nations have determined on measures for the security of the lives and property of their people in China. The sooner they do so the better, in our opinion. A coalition of the governments of the West to obtain, by per- suasion if possible, but by force of arms if necessary, proper guarantees that peaceful traders and Coristian missionaries will’not be molested or murdered, is the only solution of the Chinese puzzle that we can see, Toe Women's Surrrack Conventions: held in this city yesterday and the day before have been extremely interesting and quite success- ful. Indeed, it is a noteble instance of the remarkable progress which this erratie doc- trine has made that, whereas a.few years ago it had few supporters and seldom could gather a dorporal’s guard of listeners at its mectings, Steinway Hall, during the meetings of the last few days, has been crowded to repletion with as elegant and intelligent an audience as ever gathered within its walls to hear Nilssorsing. The audiences have been not merely listeners, amused by the vagaries of the wofnen who addressed them, but they have been interested, apparently, in the questions. disenssed, Allover the ball it has been the rule during the present sessions for sensible and fntelligentlooking people to pop up sa denly and proponnd questions to the speakers or reply to them, a fact which serves very materially to make the meetings rather spley. Pusstpent Grant is going West during the summer, notwithstanding previous reports to the contrary. There will soon bo no official necessity far his presence in ag and wa see no belter way for him to spond the vacation than by visiting ‘all parts of tho country, making himael( {n reulity 9 Presl- dent of the people, An Eveniog With Bismarck. In another page of this morning's issue we publish an interesting letter from one of the Herap'’s correspondents in Berlin, The communication describes an evening’s visit to the residence of the Impertul Chancellor dur- ing a parliamentary soir¢e givon by the newly created Prince. The guests who were presont on the occasion represented all parties. The Princess Bismarck and her daughter graced the scene with their presence, and by their amiability and frank and hearty conversation lent a charm to the evening’s entertainment. Surrounded by cherished friends and politicat opponents Bismarck moved about with tho easy grace of a host who for the time being had laid aside the cares of office to discharge the more pleasing duties of hospitality. Among those who thronged the salons of the great German statesman we perceive the names of Bishop von Keller, Dr. Simpson, President of the Reichstaz; Mr._ Lasker, leader of the national liberal party; Count Muenster, formerly Hanoverian Minister; in fact, all pariics had one or more representa- tives. During the evening, and in the cougse of conversation, affairs in France were dis- cussed, and, of conrse, the host had some- thing to sayon the matfér. Why the Ger- mans did not interfero in the domestic qvar- rel between the contending parties in that unhappy country was explained in this way :— Had the German army interfered the whole responsibility of ensuing events would bava been attached to the Germans by the Versailles government. Now this was exactly what Bismarck wanted to avoid, and his entire course since the war with France closed and the troubles between Paris and Versailles were inaugurated shows how effeciually he has carrled out his plans in this respect. Tho Coal Miners? Strike—Virtanl Scttlee ment of the Difficulties. We are gratified in being able to state that the troubles among the Pennsylvania coal miners is virtually at an end. This fortunate result has been effected by submitting the Fe ong in dispute to arbitrators, whose ecision shail be final. The conditions made by the Delaware apd Hudson Canal Company, the Delaware, Lackaw: and Western Rail- road Company and the Pennsylvania Coal Company to their men, in reply to the propos, tion to arbitrate, may be briefly enumerated as follows:—First, work 1o be immediately re- sumed at ptices offered Ist of December, which shall continue until the 1st of June; second, an umpire to be mutually selocted, who shall fix the rate of wages to be paid after the lat. ter date, whose decision shall be governed Ly certain conditions. As an alternative propo- sition, if the mon prefer the companies will make an advance of seven and one-half conte per car over prices offered 1st of December; outside labor $1 67 per day, all other labor in proportion, These rates to continue until the close of the present year. ‘ Our latest despatches from the scene of diff. culties slate that these propositions had been accepted, and that work would be immediately resumed. This is a pleasing finale to a ques- tion that has threatened widespread disaster not only to the miners themselves, but to the community generally, We trust that all con- nected with the mining interests of Pennsylva- nia—operators, railroad companies, employ<s, miners, laborers and all the rest—will now go to work with éarnestness and repair as far ag possible the damage already done before the next grim winter sets in. Repudiation in Minsesota. It looks as if Minnesota were about to carn for herself the unenviable reputation of Missis- sippi in the matter of State credit. A long standinz dispute as to the obligations of the State, with reference to certain bonds issued in her early history, has been at length roferred to the decision of the ballot-box and—Minac- sota repudiates. The election took place on the 2d instant and went against the holders of the bonds. Without entering into the details of the circumstances under which these bonds were issued, it is sufficient to say that their creation was a deliberate act of the consti- tuted authorities of the Territory and Stato of Minnesota, and as such were signed and sealed by the Governor and Treasurer. It is hardly an excuse that the enterprises were incom- pleted which were their origin or that bad faith was shown by the railroad capitalists for whose benefit they were authorized. The bonds passed into the hands of third parties, innocent Holders, wio were induced to buy them by reason of their endorsement by the State, which promised a guarantee to investors of final redemption. The quarrel between the State and the men who failed to build the railroads should not have extended further. That the State bas had a guilty conscience all the time is shown in her repeated offer to can- cel the bonds by an exchange for them of cer- tain lands beionging to hor domain—an offer as steadily refused by the bondholders, The Governor who originally signed the bonds has been foremost among those who have agitated for their recognitioa and redemption, The Legislature, alter an importuniny of over ten years, consented to lay the matter before the people—with the result above stated. Here the question ends for the present. It remains to be seen, however, whether Min- nesota bas not saved her money,at a very, expensive sacrifice of reputation, Tre Statute oF Limitations and the priny ciple of equity rarely go together, and in theit. inbarmonious reltions illustrate wits peculiar emphasis the curious crooks and quirks of the law. A case in point has just been decided in the Supreme Cour!, General Term. Captain Jolm Graham twenty years ago cold a, vessel in San Francisco, to Mr. A. A. Selorer, for which a trifle over one-half was paid in cash ‘and drafts given for the remainder. These “drafts were not paid, and owing to eontinnous, reverses of fortune several years passed gud, the same inability to make good these dratis continued. During this time Captain Graham did not press the paymeat, but, tr sted to his creditor's ability and willingness to pay at some future time when fortune was more pros pitious, This propitious tme came. Mr, Selover becamo wealthy. Captain Graham asked for the money due him, Mr, Selover made no denial of the tndebtedoesa, hut plead as a bar to tho claim to statute of limiations, Suit was then brought in the Supreme Court to compel the payment, which, however, failed, The guit was thereupon carried to the