The New York Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD SROAPWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. QHE DAILY HERALD, pudlishea every day tn the tear. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Trice 812. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNSIN AND EVEHING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, o OrEBa AND Concert. at r of 8th av. ana 23d Matinee ai 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—Tiit ScLDIERS PRo- GRESS—NOUNTAINELRS—WHo's Wao? FIFTH AVENUE 1 Twenty-fourth street. — Usp Ur—Tur Crivio, Matin Lt at Lis. GLOBE THEATRE, TAINNENY, &0.—THE wav.—VARIETY ENTER- FOILED, Matinee at 234. OLYMPIC THEATR HORIZON, Matinee at 2. BOOTH'S TAUATRE, A WinTER'S TALE. 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New York, Saturday, CONTE Paar. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. 3—Our Veterans: Conventions of the Old Sixth Army Corps, the Cavalry Corps Association and — uh Ariny of the Potomac in boston—‘rhe South Carolina Taxpayers’ Conveution—The Code Amend- mieut Bill: Unconstituuonalty of the Pro- posed Amendments—News from Wasiitngton, 4—The Patuters Paradise: Royal London Academy Exhibiion; Annual Opening and Dinner At- | tended by the Artists and the Aristocracy— Foreign Miscellaneous ltems—The Cable Con- troversy: Grave Accusation Against the Atian- ielegraph Company—A Tiger Capture— Bills Signed by the Governor—-The Oppen- heimer-Peters ©ase-The Newark Stiver P..ters—ihe Des Momes (Iowa) River Lands. G—The Vre-idency: Grant's Visits to Pennsylvania id Their Cbjects—Rulloy, the Murderer: Ex ination by Medical Experts Into Rulioff's tty—Woouhuil’s Women: Tne second Day { the Convention—The Pennsylvania Raid Claims—The Government Buitdinys in Tren- ton —Misiorrunes of a Missouri Clatin Ageut— Th@ Rochester Forgery—A Misplaced Switch— Souther. Baptist Conveution—Ariny Intelul- —Almost Bnried Alive—The National ard—Journalistic Notes, Leading Article, “The Presidential General Grant and the Kepubit- ‘neral Sherman he ~Democ- ra-y’—Amusement Announ ts. * J—Tae Dying Commune: HERALD Special De- spatches from ani Versailles— The — Peace HEHALD — Spectal Report from Beriin—England : The Treaty of Washington in the House of Lords— News from Cuba and the West Indies— Fatal Ratiroad Collision- Misceilaneous Tele- oe —Aw usements—Amusements —Bnsiness Notices. e Mace-Coburn Fizzle: The Trip from Erie to Port Dover—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The Evans Abortion Case—The Late Counsellor Galbraith—The National Game— Turtle Tasting Tournament—Death of a Veteran ‘ypo—From the River's Depths— Serenading a Sheriff—Burglaress Bossuett— A Random Shot—Run Jnto by¢a Train— Teaching the ‘Tegcbers—Another Trenton Amazon—Marriages and Deaths. ®=The Iniand Customs System: New Regulations Concerning the Transportation of Mercnan- aise in Bond—A_ Brooklyn Bummer"? Burned—Pfrookiyn Prison Biris—Real Estate ‘Matters—Newark’s Douvie Elopement— Fiancial and Commercial Reports—Adver- tisements, 10—Mercantile Library Matters: Meeting of the Re- form branch at Masonic Hall—Obituary—Meet- ing of the Kings County Democracy—Shipping inteliigence— Advertisements. 91<Forein Personal Gussip—Personal Advertisements, 12—Aaverilzements. Notes— Nationa Gvuanps’ Excampment.—Adju- tant General Townsend, in reply to an in- quiry made by the Inspector of the Third division New York State National Guards, gives notice that no encampments of the Na- ds- will be ordered by the Com. hief during this year, Capactovs as is the maw of tie Pennsyl- vania Central Railroad Company, still it has failed to engulf the State of New Jersey, or rather the major portion of that Common- wealth, which is controlled by the Camden and Amboy monopolists. Jerseymen, how- ever, are under no obligations to the united companies for not being made an ornamental appendage to the Keystone State; Camden and Amboy was porfectly willing to make the transfer, but the Reading Railroad of Pennsyl- vania somewhat interfered with the arrange- ment, and for the present Jersey rewains an independent sovereiynty. Avornre Raunoan Siaveurgr.—A la- mentable accident occurred onthe Erie Rail- road yesterday, by which five children lost their lives and twenty adults were severely injured. According to the report from Buffalo a freight train was delayed to recouple an emigrant car and caboose, which bad twice broken loose. bile being recoupled the second time, and just before the signal could be reset the extra freizht train came thunder- jug along the down grade, collided and crushed everything before it, The result we have given above. Of course, responsibility must reat somewhere for the worthless coupling, but tho difficulty always is to find out who is respousible, As the unfortunate creatures whose children were killed were newly arrived emigrants, they are not likely to become plain- tiffs in suits for damages; but we bold that they are vone the less worthy of the utmost care and attention from the railroad companies. They should aot be placed in cars whose coup- lings are eo frail and unreliable that they break twice withia a distance of » few miles, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEMr, 3 The Presidential Quostion—Genera! Grant | but the policy of local remedies of law for and tie Republlcans—General Sherman and the Democracy. There are two things in regard to the next Presidency which are morally certain, and a third which can hardly be doubted. The first is that General Grant will be the republican candidate; the second is that the republican party will be united in his support, and the third is that unless the democracy take a new departure, they will, as in 1860, 1864 and 1868, be again defeated. The necessities of their position demand a new departure, both in their platform and in their candidate ; for, though we look ali the way back to General Jackson, we can find no demoeratic Presiden- tial platform available for 1872, and in.all the list of regular hold-ovemdemocratic politicians mentioned as among the probabilities in the coming contest, there is not one of them pos- sessed of sufficient wind and bottom for a four-mile heat over the national.course with General Grant. j While he was pushing his St. Domingo an- nexation scheme, and with the apparent reso- lution of pushing it at all hazards, there was a hope, from. the republican defeat in New Hamshire, that the party might become s0 demoralized and divided as to render the re- nomination of General Grant somewhat doubt- ful, and the prospect for the democrats, in any event, very encouraging. But the Presi- dent having put out of the way his St. Domingo apple of discord, the Connecticut election upset the pleasing democratic delusion that New Hampshire was the beginning of a great political revolution, and convinced the party that that clection must be set down to the chapter of accidents. Indeed, the alarming clamor and enthnsiasm of the democrats over New Hampshire, including the unfortanate speech of Jeff Davis in Alabama, expressing his hope of the ultimate triumph of the “lost cause,” had much to do with their defeat in Connecticut. In the one Stata the republicans Were caught napping over Sumner and St. Domingo; in the other they were thoroughly roused by what they supposed to be the old war drums and the rappel of the reballion. Bat if the dropping of St. Domingo by General Grant silenced thé mutineers of-his party aod disarmed even Senator Sumner, what shall we say of the grand idea of the Joint High Commission and of the great treaty from that enlightened body of peacemakers now before the Senate, in connection with General Gravt and the Presidential succes- sion? In the very announcement, from those significant despatches between Queen Victoria and General Grant, of the grand idea of this High Commission for the adjustment of all the , questions in controversy between the two countries, we believed that this thing would be a great feather in the cap of the adminis- tration, and so expressed our belief at the time. The grand result in the admirable treaty before the Senate confirms our antici- pations, and lifts up General Grant to an en- viable position among the great practical statesmen of the enlightened age we live in, Peace bath her victories noless renowned than War, And this victory of peace at Washington, we think, will be ‘tno less renowned” than any of those bloody triumphs of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Wilder- ness, Petersburg and thence yp to Appomat- tox Court House. Surely General Grant, not less in this thing than in his policy of economy and retrenchment, has vindicated his adminis- tration before the country, and his sagacity and capacity in the great cause of international peace. And here we may remark that his ex- perience in the horrors of war, as in the case of the Duke of Wellington, has given the world one of the most devoted champions of peace, The question, then, as to the republican candidate for the Presidential succession, and as to his commanding claims and popularity over all other candidates of his party, is settled in favor of General Grant. As he now stands before the country, the great peacemaker, how small appear the wrath of Sumner, the folly of Fenton, the complaints of Carl Schurz, the defection of Gratz Brown, the hedging of Tiumbull, and the doublings and twistings of Greeley conceraing the distribution of the spoils! With the record which Geveral Grant has made for his administration, and especially from the Joint High Commission, he can stand before the people upon his merits as a states- man, and will be hard to beat as a candidate for another term. The democratic party will have to meet him again in the fleld; and here these important questions recur, who is their man, and, what is their proper plan of opera- tions? General Sherman is their man, and the plat- form proposed in Memphis—‘“U niversal am- nesty and universal amity”—is their proper platform, The great difficulty of the, demo- cratic party, with its copperhead and Southern rebel affiliations, has been and is the cloud of popular distrast which hangs over it in reference to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; and the secret of its wonkness in 1864 and in 1868 was that opposition to the war for the Union and its fixed results which cut off from it the great mass of the supporiers of Lincoln in the war. Let the democracy make General Sherman their candidate, and all these barriers between them and the Union party of the war will be removed. They will at once divide the honors of the war with the republicans and disarm them on that issue. All doubts, too, as to the future policy of the democrats ia refer- ence to the fourteenth and fifteenth amend- ments will be at an end with General Sher- man’s nomination, and all misgivings in regard to the redemption of the national debt. He is sound upon all these questions, andewe know that he is not aman who can be molded to their purposes by unscrupulous and mischiof- making politicians, In short, the nomination of General Sherman would of itaelf be a new departure for the democrats which would break dowa all those distinctions oo the war which have boon their weakness and the strength of the republicans, But it is particularly upon the Ku Klux question that General Sherman commends himself to the democratic party. His late speech at New Orleans on the Ku Klux has given him a now claim to the confidence and support of the American people in any posi- tion {a which he may appear before them, In this speech he has defined bis policy in the South to be not that of coercion, but that of Conciliatigg; not the policy of the bayonet, local disordera uch as those of the Ku Klux Klans, He is opposed to thrusting in the army where it is not wanted, and hé believes, and he, as the head general of the army, ought to know, when he gays that it is not wanted in the suppression of the Ku Klux. These ideas of General Sherman are the pre- vailing public sentiment, and it must be remembered at the same time that peace in and with the South is not less to be desired than peace with England on a mutually satis- factory basis. The Southern policy of conciliation and re- conciliation emanating from General Sherman is better than the policy of the bayonet adopted by General. Grant. ‘Universal am- nesty” is good, and “universal amity,” we believe, will follow it. The victorious party | {na foreign war can afford to be generous, and the victorious party in a domestic war ought to be generous, How else, looking to the South, can we heal the wounds still left open from the war? General Sherman, then, is the proper man for thg democratic party. Put him in the field and in the front against General Grant, and: not only will the Union supporters of the war be divided between them, but the courtesies of brother soldiers will prevail in the campaign between the two parties. The violent hostilities between the two parties and the two races will disappear in the South, for, as many of, the blacks will be drawn to Sherman and the democrats, the bitterness of the whites against them will change into a better feeling, and the present danger of a war of races will be removed. On the Ku Klux question General Sherman will neatralize the popularity of General Grant on the Joint High Commission; and on the war and the issues of the war the two par- ties, with Sherman opposed to Grant, will stand substantially on the same footing before the people. Thus, then, upon the great finan- cial questions of the day, the democracy, under the banner of Sherman, may, North and South, secure the balance of power in the election. In short, if for the great Presiden- tial battle of 1872 General Grant is the only man for the republicans, General Sherman, of all men, is the man for the democracy. Let them try him, and the party will at ounce rise to its feet, ‘like a giant refreshed with new wine,” North and South, East and Wesg. Try him, for the fleld is open for Sherman, and tho Coast Is clear. ‘The Paris Commune at the Point Death. Up to an early hour this morning no news had reached us of the making-of the grand assault upon the enceinte of Paris. San- guinary encounters bad, it is true, taken place between the belligerents, but the rebellious city still remained in the hands of the: insur- gents and no general engagement bad been fought. It is probable enough that the Com- munists recaptured Fort Vanvres on Thurs- day morning, but their resumed occupation of the place cannot impair the pros- pects of the Versailles forces. Fort Issy was the real key to Paris, and that MacMa- bon’s army has got possession of and will keep. As soon as this fort is armed again Vanvres must surrender unconditionally; but, even if it persists in holding out, it cannot effect the operations against the enceinte. When the final assault will be. made is problematical of at present. In front of the ramparts of Paris is a continuous ditch, which must be filled before the assaulting ‘columns can reach the top of the works, and this will be no easy task to perform in the face of an energetic resistance. Neverthe- less, the terrible bombardment to which Point du Jour and the fortification on the southwest have been subjected indicate that the French will endeavor to fight their way into the city by that side; and it may be that a simul- taneous attack will be made on Porte Maillot, which, by the way, has been utterly destroyed by shells from the batteries at Courbevoie, Neuilly, Puteaux and Asnitres, aided by the guns of Fort Mont Valérien. One thing is certain, and it is that the Versailies troops are in the Bois de Boulogne, and the fact of their being there makes it evident that the insurgents have been compelled to aban- don their positions at Neuilly and Asaitres and retire within the walls of the city. Singularly enough, we have a report from Versailles announciag the storming of the Convent of Issy by the government forces on yesterday. This gives an air of plausibility to the claims of the Communists that they had driven the Versailles troops from the village. Our latest despatches represent the Parisians as bein much depressed by their reverses, Tie Commune, however, continued as deflant and hopeful as ever, although its members must certainly perceive the desperate nature of their situation. To shout “‘mourir pour la patrie” on the streets and boulevards does not cost much ; but when the Communists, every one of whom will wear a smile of pity when you speak to him of God and the hereafter, and will te!l you that the idea of God is a superstition which never troubles his miud—when these fellows are led forth to die for their country they sing to a smaller tune, and finally make tracks for the protection of the ramparts. We do not, however, think lightly of the courage of the Parisians. It is quite natural for them to feel depressed, considering how everything has gone against them since they tried to march on Verenilles. If the government troops can only succeed in giving them one more sound thrashing outside the walls it will be an easy matter to storm the ramparis, for the Army of the Commune would disappear by self-disbandment, withont so much as asking leave of M. Delescluze and the otber heroic gentlemen who sit in the Hotel de Ville and send men out to be shot down like beasts, with- out risking their own precious persons to the bullets of MacMabon’s men. But whether the misguided men abandon their leaders or not, it is clear that the hour of the final overthrow of the Commune is rapidly approaching. Tue Royar Lonpon Aoapemy Exnmr tionx.—We publish in another part of our issue this morning an interesting account of a visit by one of the He Raxp correspondents to the fine art galleries of the Royal London Academy. To the lovers of art, as well as to artists, the letter will prove of interest, and to the general reader it will be no less arateful. JEsthetic Pugilism and the Poetry of Broken - Noses. The only thing which at all redeems bratality in the shape of professional pugil- ism the odor of heroism which has been supposed to bang around it. As soon as that illusion is dispelled the public will have to be content with some less sanguinary sensa- tion, and a large class of rowdies and black- guards will find their occupation gone. In vain has it been pulpitized and illegalized; so long as the ‘‘principals,” as they are defe~ rentially called, were “game,” there was litile difficulty in finding men willing to risk their spiritual salvation and corporal‘liberty on the chance of witnessing a prize fight. For some months past, in the flashy rum- holes of this city the air has been poisoned with blasphemies over the respective hitting and enduring qualities of two bruisers, Mr. Mace and Mr. Coburn—Jem and Joe, as their admirers lovingly and familiarly dub them. With as much precision as ever the Joint High Commission higgled over the Alabama claims were the preliminaries” of the encougter laid down between ‘the bigh contracting pugs, and at last, to the delight of every raffian in the civilized world, and not a few of the more highly moral, was it declared a ‘‘match.” We need not enter into the loving exchange of sparring benefits and affecting mutual presen- tations of bull-pups which occupied the suc- ceeding days of. bufferistic joy. Beautiful specimens of broken noses and shiv- ered front teeth, the property of the bruisers of a past generation, turned up, as it were, @ut of their graves, and aired theit adornments before the bara in the homes of fisticuff humanity. A delirious joy permeated their dry bones, accompanied by fathomless horns of rotgut, when it was an- nounced that the “men” had “gone into training.” About this time the excitement reached the respectable classes, and gray- headed old fools, who ought to have known better, and decent young idiots who couldn’t be expected to, scanned the morning papers, and even ventured into the sporting (? ) bucket shops in search of information on the absorb- ing topic. The civil war in France, where hundreds were daily murdered and mutilated, lost all bloodthirsty interest beside the specu- lation as to whether Joe had pluck or Jem would whip him in five minutes. Enough to say that, amid the concentrated and unsub- dued enthusiasm of the masses, the day before the battle arrived, The amouut of money which in every ima- ginable way had been staked on the encounter was something fabulous. Jem and Joe were reported to be in magnificent condition and the smile of a dying Christian sure of heaven beamed over the disfigured countenance of every pimp and bully who had. secured his transporiation to the scene of the coming “mill.” To such of the fossil fighters or de- cayed roysterers who could not raise enough money to secure a ticket it was a sad purga- torial trial. But they bore it bravely and be- came the oracles of all the lower order of liquor stores where colored prints of pugil- ists, gamecocks and trotting horses betokened the votaries of the manly art. As a reward for their misery, verdant youths con- soled them with. successive skinsful of Brooklyn rum, while they related how Humphreys and Mendoza, three-quarters of acentury ago, pounded each other into jelly. Those of Irish extraction who were blessed with the busky remnants of a vocal organ chanted the glories of Donnelly and Cooper, who fought upon the Curragh of Kildare, re- lating how the Irish champion with one blow knocked the Englishman’s jaw out of joint and himself oat of the ring and out of time, when a certain patriotic Miss Kelly, who was present, bet her carriage and horses on the chicken of Erin. Memories of the Tipton Slasher drew tears from their rascally old eyes, and thus they waited for the dawn. The respectable old fools recalled Corinthian Tom's visit.to Cribb, the champion’s, parlor with a childish delight, and dreamed of prize fights until the morning sun arose that was to look with his fiery eye upon the great set-to, and probably take a bright interest in the struggle, We shall now leave these, perhaps twenty millions of people all over the Union, on the tip-toe of expectation and hungering for a series of such paragraphs as the following in the papers :— Rovnp 32.—The Boy cane up lively and, after dodging twice, gotin heavily on poor Tom’s conk (nose), Opening a fresh bin of claret (blood), Tom countered lightly on the whistler (mouta), but a spank from the Boy's sinister maniey (left Nst) above Tom's dexter bliuker (right eye) sent bim to grasa in a jiffy (suddenly Knocked him down). We shall now carry the readers mentally to the spot on the Canadian shore where the pu- gilistic mountain was in labor. Picture a green field, fresh with the velvet verdancy of spring; in the centre of this a twenty-four feet “ring”—that is, a square staked off with ropes and poles, and around it some fifteen hundred rowdies, chivalrously willing to see two of their class knock each other out of all semblance of humanity. Inside the “ring” are two stripped bruisera and sundry bottie- holders, referees, sponges, water bottles, and so forth. This is the picture itself; the seething, reeking, semi-drunken wretches out- side it are the frame. Let the lovers of the “manly art” hang up this chef dauore in all ita hideousness and foul odors in their draw- iug rooms, and find what pleasure of manli- ness they can in it. Ha! now comes fight, the long expected moment, for the referee calls “Time!” Jem and Joe are in the ring, have shaken hands to show what friends they are, and literally proceed to prove it. They toe what is known as the ‘‘scratch,” and then separate about six feet and remain there in the well- known attitude of ‘“‘self-defence” for about ten minutes. This piciure deserves to be im- mortalized. Of all the human beings pre- sent the two gladiators showed tho great- est sense, The others had come to enjoy the twain savagely pommelling each other, the noble pair stood calmly enjoying the rage of the others at having their sport spoiled. It may be that they had prematurely taken the Heratp’s advice on the advantages of Delsarte’s aystem of msthetic gymnastics, and were determined to be nothing if not gracefal. Certainly the six feet of separation was a charming chance for this display. Cowardice it would be indelicate to hint at; or, if it be possible, they were of Falstaff’s mind on the question of honor, Foran hour and a half, with little variety, this msthetic aad harmless state of things lasted. “It recalls forcibly the celebrated duel of the Earl of Chatham with Sir Richard Strachan, the epigram on which’ we will be excused for parodying, since it describes the “fight” to a nicaty:— Coburn, cornered, wouldn’s budge a pace, But waited smilingly for Mr. Mace; While Mr. Mace, Whose rage did wondrous slow Smuurkea and waited for the cornered Coburn. At tho end of an hour anda half a ory of “Police!” was raised, when, to the relief of the sensible sloggers, a Canadian justice of the peace and a quaint little man ‘“‘with a cocked hat and a straight sword” walked into tho “ting” and ordered them in the Queen's name to disperse, observing at. the same time that 4 detachment of twenty of the champion run- ners of the Canadian volunteers—the Queen's Own—were within gunshot, and would-run a Ridgeway race after them if necessary. At this gentle hint the much obliged gladiators put ontheir garments and left, their fifieen hundred heroic friends being already half a mile off, It is curious to think how long the “fight” would have lasted had it not been for the Sheriff in the cocked hat, who dropped in like a dream of old chivalric times, with his remark, “Gentlemen, this can’ go on any longer.” They would probably be there yet. By a curious corollary they think of having their next ‘‘mill” on the same scale on the prairies of Kansas, to show the bowie- knived border raffians there the humanizing influence of modern civilization on the most debasing of all scoundrelly exhibitions, Then they will exhibit their forbearance in Alaska and wind up among the Ku Kluxes in South Carolina, where it is to be hoped the lesson will not be thrown away. Thus ends the latest chapter in the decline and fall of pugilism, with its sbam heroism and cowardly presumption, forming a complete refutation of the gladiatorial glories of pugna- cious rofganism, Rullof, the Murderer, on Good and Evil~His Last Chance Removed. The condemned murderer Rulloff has been, atthe order of Governor Hoffman, subjected toa searching examination by a commission of prominent physicians—Drs, Gray and Van- derpool—wit a view to finding out whether the wretched man was sane or otherwise, The appointment of this commission is eredit- able to the Governor of New York, since it sets at rest any doubts that might: have formed in the public mind on the subject. They prongunee him of pertectly gound mind, and, indeed, he repudiates atronzly the idea of lunacy himself. Now that this question may be looked upon as settled, the query remains, shall Rulloff, because of his philo- logical attainments, escape the penalty of bis crime any more than ignorant Jack Reynolds, who believed hanging to be played out? The sentiment awakened by his scholarship has created a scale of reasoning in his case entirely spart from the nature of his crime, There is little doubt that the account of this striking interview with the physicians, pub- lished in to-day’s HeRAxp, will heighten this feeling in a painful way. It may be prema- ture to draw deductions from the subtle old_ sinner’s carefully mystic replies, but they un- mistakably point to strengthening the grip of justice upon him. How many men have studied tenfold more deeply than he, hon- gered mentally after the same intellectual ends, wrestled with and been overcome by the same doubts, and yet preserved their social lives free from the terrible taints of per- sistent crime which have blackened to damnation the repute of his researches, Following Kant, Comte and Spinosa, he has refused, like the Peripatetics, to ac- cept anything not reducible to mathematical laws; but, unlike them, he boasts of defying what he cannot comprehend. The terms “good” and “‘bad” gave him great trouble, and finding them to express relativeness he acted in defiance of both. He also boasts that he always acted without any reference td a God or an accountability hereafter. With- out wishing to force any belief on a man, we hold that whea such a man robs or murders he is as accountable to society as any one holding the firmest religious convictions. If, as in bis case, reason teaches him his unaccountability in the taking of life, does it take away- the duty of society to itself? No perversion of the intellect, outside of lunacy, could allow him to believe in a right to marder, His sanity is established, and if, ‘therefore, the law for mutual protection says that the gal- lows is his lot, the duty of the law-dealers should be plain. Womnn’s_ Suffrage, The National Woman’s Suffrage Associa- tien came out particularly defiant against the male kind in general during its session yesterday. Mrs, Stanton, one of the leading spirits of the bright galaxy, thought that the secession threatened by women (meaning her- self aud associates) had at last frightened the press into respectful language towards the Woman’s Suffrage Convention. Another lady, Mrs. Hallock, launched ont upon her favorite topic, the social evil; while Miss Anthony, among other bright things, said that women who were competent to obtain a livoli- hood wero competent to cast a ballot. As the best proof of this argument she referred to the advertising columns of the HeraLp. Oao speaker, Mrs. Middlebrook, talked about organizing a society for the prevention of cruelty to women, as women, she said, are more in need of protection than even Mr. Bergh’s protégés, Sha gave the eminently gentle and feminine advice to her sex to go to the polls, if necessary, armed with re- volvers, in order to enforce their right to the exerétse of suffrage. Altogether the pro- coedings seem to have been very spirited, and the Convention dissolved to meet again in Washington and to establish a new political party, “‘based on the declaration of 1776,” it Congress should refuse to come to terms on the basis now proposod, Ayotnen Waitriety.—Our sister city of Brooklyn is always agog about somebody or something. The latest cause for excitement is the preaching of a big-headed, black-haired Scotchman, the Rev. W. M. Taylor, who comes over from Liverpool, where he has been drawing crowded houses, to take the place in the pulpit of, the Rev. De. Storrs and fill the seats of the magnificent edifice of the Church of the Pilgrims, The latter he doos effectually, His intense Christian earnest- ness, gilded by genius, gives him immense SST CENTER ee nS ee ea power. over his audiences, and those who hearken to his preaching cannot soon forget his appeals. Go and listen to the words which come from his lips, now with the sweetness of Hybla’s honey and now with the power and. stir of the tones of a trumpet. -Go and let him persuade you to-become almost a Chris- tian, and by Heaven’s help you may be saved. Go hear him and be better men. Amen. The Alabama Claims in the House of . Lords, The treaty of Washington, or at least the main points ofjit, must already have come, by cable, to the knowledge of the British govern- ment and Parliament. In the House of Lords yesterday the provisions of the treaty regard- ing the Alabama claims were, without direct reference to the treaty itself, severely criti- cised by Lord Redesdale, who repudiated all responsibility on the part of England ‘for the depredations of the Alabama and kindred’ ships.” The argument of the noble Lord does’ not, however, hold good, for although it is contended that ‘the Alabama was not armed when she left British waters,” it may, on the other ‘hand, be safely said’. that it was well known to the British authori- ties that the Alabama and “‘kindred ships’ left British ports for no other purpose than to prey on American commerce, That England is morally, if not legally, responsible for this injury inflicted on American shipping interesta, has already been virtually acknowledged by the English Commissioners, whatever Earl’ Granville, who seems to ignore this fact, may say to the contrary. The British Secretary for Foreign Affairs is therefore ill-advised when he talks about the ‘resistance to the payment of these claims,” There is no doubt that the treaty will yet un- dergo a minute criticism before it will be rati- fied by Parliament, and the tories, led by Mr. Disraeli, will probably make political cap- ital out of it, But loud as the traditional British lion may roar at first, he willin the end be brought to “roar you'as gently as a cooing dove.” The Miners and tho Railroad Monopelistes It is gratifying to hear that the Pennsylvania miners and their employers arP likely to come to some compromise, so that work may be re- sumed at the mines, We hope it maybe so for the sake of the poor miners and thelr fami- lies, who suffer most by such an unequal con- test. While we are opposed to all unlawful combinations and to interference with the in- dividual rizhts either of capitalists or of la- borers not in association with others, we must say that the effort of the great railroad corpo- rations aud coal monopolists to reduce the wages of the workmen r to keep them down to almost starvation point is a monstrous in- justice. The monopolists make a great noise about giving the workmen a few cents a ton* advance for getting ont the coal, while they ie charge four, five or more dollars a ton for transporting it a few miles. “The wages of the miners do not make coal dear in New York, Philadelphia and other parts of the country, bus the extortionate charges of railroad com- panies for transportation. Tbrough this ex- tortion a ton of coal that is worth on the sur- face, at the mouth of the pit, two or three dollars, costs the consumer in New York eight or nine dollars. It is time the American pub- lic should know who are the oppressors and extortioners. It is not the few cents, more or less, per ton paid to the miners that make the difference of price to the consumer, but the enormons charges and profits of employers and the railroad corporations. Wendell Phillips and the Ku Klux. Everybody knows that Wendell Phillips is a common scold; but he speaks such incon- ceivable nonsense with such earnestness and such indescribable grace. that .his words always carry some force with them. At the recent meeting of the self-styled Reform League at Steinway Hall he brought his tersest sentences tp bear upon the Ku Klux, and if one did not fully comprehend the belligerency of this stately male Xan- tippe he would be convinced® that civil war, with all the horrors of Paris and more than the persistency of our late rebéllion, was upon us, Mr. Phillips said President Grant ought to arrest some prominent ex-Confed- erate—some man of wealth and Influence, pos- sessing the love of half the Southern peopla— and hang him within six hours. Then, ‘he said, Ku Klux would be a name only for narsery legends ; but if it or something similar were not done, a new rebellion would be instituted and. be suppressed =«again by tho North. This talk, of course, is mere childish twaddle. Mr. Phillips is noth- ing if not beiligerent, and we have often thonght that thess days of freo spsech and unlimited toleration ara not the days for him. He was a gallant champion in the times when mobs greeted his anti-slavery invectives and replied to his abolition sentiments by rotten eggs and rough treatment, and he would have Spoken better than Junius wrote had he lived in the days of the Georges. The opposition would have served to strike fire from his hardy mettle. But now there is no antagonism. No one cares much what he says, and the world laughs while he beats himself to death against a padded wall. His charges, however, against the fyran- nical corporations of the country are well grounded. These are the windmills against which he ought to turn his lance with all his old spirit and still present power. He can say nothing against them that the people are unprepared to believe, and there are evils to be dreaded from their rising power and con- tinued aggressions that his terse English can best denounce.- They offer an object for a new crusade, in which Phillips, acting the part first of Peter the Hermit, could finally take up the swofd of Godfrey de Bouillion. We are glad to see. that the fearless champion has lost none of his miraculous power of invective, Even upon so intangible an evil as the Ku Klox he brought to bear a remarkable stress of invective, which would have been remark- ably effective had the facts borne out bis case. In his crusade against the agzression of giant corporations he has an object as worthy of him as the oldslivory question and one that will offer him strong and aggross ve opposition enough to strike out all the fire that ds in him. Let him, therefore, cease his crushing wartare upon what is at best a weak enemy, and strike with all his force at the most gigaatic and merciless enemy that now menacea free America,