The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1871, Page 8

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Woodhull, Clafin; The Great Sca Market Police ‘Lynching in Court—The Troub hee Day—a Railroad on Fire—Bothering “Boss"— Test Ron: iz the “Boss”—His 4—Utan: The Visit of the Americus Club to the City Of the Saints—Methodist Preachers—Nothing Like Leather—The Double-Headed Govern: ment—Proceedings in_the Cou Street Car Robbery—A _River Fight—Jefferson Market Court—an Unknown Man Found Dead—The Evans Abortion Case—Art Notes—Widening of ri iad ae Pea U : rwriters—Board of nen—The Putnam Tragedy— i een gedy—Real Estate G—Emigration: Annual Report of the Commis- sioners for 1870—The Darien Cinal—Opening ef the Trotting Season—Horse Notes—The National Lincoln Monument—The P Ccom- missioners—Death of a W Known Bos- Contemptible ch Brooklyn Mat- ters—The Jersey Meadows—Growling Gob- blers—Suicides in New Jersey—Columbia Col- iege Law School—The Indians—Railroad Mat- ment in Jersey— and Deaths, 6—Eaitonal Leading Articte, ‘The Popul ty of General Sherman in the South—The Ku Klux Question—Sherman the Man for the Demo- cratic Party’’—Personal Intelligence—Foreign Personal Gossip—Running Notes, Personal and General—Amusement Anuouncements. 9—The Dying Commune—The Peace Treaty—In- teresting from Mexico—News from Washing- ton—Engiand: The Eastern Question in the House of Lords—Thi rman Peace Jubilee in Philadelphia — er Report —Amuse- ments—Business Noti eae and Commer Reports—Advertise- men 9—Aivertisements, 40—Europe: The Municipal Elections in France; Bismark and the New Territory—Parsons in The Popularity of General Sherman iv the South—The Ku Klux Question—Sher- man the Man for the Democratic Party. The brief but significant and comprehen- sive New Orleans speech of General Sherman on the Ku Klux Klans, from the ventilation we bave given it through our editorial columns looking to the next Presidency, has been run- ning through the South like an autumnal fire in the dry grass of the great Plains under a roaring Nor'wester. The Memphis Avalanche, for instance, enthusiastic in its recognition of General Sherman as the man for the democ- racy in the approaching Presidential contest, proposes to run him on the admirable peace platform of ‘‘universal amnesty and universal amity.” The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says :— “If General Sherman comes with the olive branch instead of the sword the South will gladly meet him on half-way ground.” The Selma (Ala.) Times says :—‘‘The New York HeEratp has alwaye had the happy faculty of being with the strong side.” The Greenvills (S. C.) Enterprise says the HERALD urges with great force the claims of General Sher- man upon ‘the democrats and the liberal re- publicans.” The Wilmington (N. C.) Star says that, after this New Orleans speech, ‘‘we pre- fer to consider Sherman as an aspirant to Presidential honors rather than as the author of a mere explosion of generosity toward those to whom he has not hitherto been specially kind, or as a mere seeker after notoriety ;” that, “considered as a bid for the Presidency, itis a most timely card ;” that ‘Sherman is a Presi- dential whale of huge dimensions in the path of Graut,” and that “if he wants the Presi- dency we trust the democracy will not suffer him to beg for it long.” It is our opinion, however, that General Sherman, in this New Orleans speech, had no thought of the Presidency, and was no more bidding for it than was General Jackson, or General Harrison, or General Taylor, or Gen- eral Fremont, or General Grant when he was first brought into the Presidential field. In his Ku Klux speech at New Orleans General Sherman simply spoke the honest opinions of an honest soldier, He never has been a negro worshipper. We have before us a copy of a letter from him, written in 1864, in the midst of the war, which is strongly suggestive of his general opinions on the negro question. The letter is as follows:— To J. A. R., Baltimore:— Str—Yours of August 29 is received. Thank you for your kind expressions. Iron is iron and steel 1s steel, and all the popular clamor on earth will not impart to one the qualities of the other, So a nigger is not a white man, and ali the Psalm singing on earth won't ake him so. It is strange to me that among a people, North and South, who nave so much cominon sense, that you can’t say Dig- ger till both parties make fools of themselves, and t te ess » 3 mi 1 fae NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY. term, has always been considered as entitled to it, looking to the examples of Washington, | Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, But since the time of General Jackson this usage of two terms has been fruit- ful of mischief and of disasters to the country. Martin Van Buren and his devoted followers held that he, too, was entitled to a second term. The party conceded his claim in 1840, and they and he were swept from the field as by a whirlwind. He renewed his demand again in 1844, and was only defeated by the application of the two-thirds rule—another fruitful source of misfortunes and bad luck to the democracy. He renewed his claim again in 1848, and, being again rejected, he ran as the independent free-soil candidate, and so had his revenge in cutting out General Cass and in so dividing the New York democracy as to elect General Taylor. And if we look at the inside intrigues and schemes and trickeries of the administrations of Tyler and Polk and Fill- more and Pierce and poor old Buchanan, it will be seen that all their troubles and failures are chargeable to their foolish desires for four years more, subject to the pains and penalties of the White House, And what a mess of it, from this insane desire, was made by Andy Johnson! Now there are many republicans who have, under General Grant, become converts te the one-term principle. They have, perhaps, been disappointed in the spoils, but there they are. In the constitution of the ‘so-called Confederate States” they adopted the one- term principle of six years, and it was a good idea. It was the one redeeming feature of that confederacy which we should like to see engrafted upon the constitution of the United States. Meantime, the idea is gaining ground that General Grant, having received the reward of the White House for his great ser- vices as a soldier, one term will do for him, when there are good soldiers to be rewarded who can as acceptably administer the govern- ment as he, Hence we believe that, apart from the disappointed politicians, there are many men of the republican party who are ready to join the democracy upon Sherman, because they know that under him the great issues settled by the war will not be disturbed, and that upon other things he may give us sotie great reforms. So It is that we again urge upon the leaders of the democratic party a new departure and the prospects of a great victory under the banner of General Sherman. Paris—The End of the Siege Approaching. The despatches which we publish to-day from the seat of war in France show conclu- sively that the days of the Commune are num- bered; that the insurrection cannot much longer resist the powerful force of men and is hard to say which are the worst, When we settle this litile fight on hand the great “nigger’’ question Will be tound settled also, W. T. SHERMAN, M, G. ATLANTA, Sept, 12. After writing this letter, in settling that “ittle fight” he had on rand, General Sher- man, before leaving Atlanta, depopulated it by a military order, and on leaving it com- mitted the city to the flames and destroyed the various railroads centring there to prevent the place being used as a rebel base of opera- tions, and then, heading for the sea and cover- ing with his army a swath sixty miles wide, he swept it pretty clean, even of “niggers,” taking with him a caravan of twenty-five thou- sand, more or less, with him to Savannah, and locating them, with many thousands more, among the sea islands of South Carolina, Then heading to the northward, through the Carolinas, he swept his fiery way over a swath from sixty to a hundred miles wide, to General Jo Johnston’s surrender at Greensboro, in the “Old North State.” And here, as the Selma (Ala.) Times says, if the people of the South “never will forget his ‘march to the sea’ and the utter desolation that marked his line of march, still they will remember, to counter- balance it, that when the war was over he gave to those who had fought him terms that Paradise—Exciting Contest ina Church—Ship- jug Intelligeuce—Advertise ments, Advertisements, 4A2—Advertisements, Tae Decision which the Attorney General made relative to the income tax has already been reversed by himself, the members of the Senate and House Financial Committees and Solicitor Mictael having interpreted the law another way entirely. e Waat 13 THE Reason no policemen are to found inside the gaies of our ferry houses? Their presence is sometimes more needed ere than anywhere else. It is poor satisfac- ition to the many thousands who cross our early in the morning and late in the ening to know that when they pass in their ts to the ferryman they leave all hope of ice protection behind. ANOTHER ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. —The mpt by a ruffian to assassinate Mr. John rand, of Park place, on Sunday night last use he listened to the appeal of a woman ing from the insults of a desperado, isa that demands thorough investigation at e hands of the authorities. With the Foster urder on hand, and the obstacles cast in the y of justice by his counsel, the ruffians may msider the present a harvest time of their and commit their outrages at will. We it the business portion of the community, of hich the respectable dealers in Washington ‘ket form no inconsiderable share, will see at their personal reputation is not compro- by the averments of such marauders as jhe one who is now in duress charged with commission of the atrocious assauit upon Mr. Durand on Sunday night. Mexican Arrains.—By special telegram to Heratp from Havana we have later telligence from the republic of Mexico, The pposition party had elected a new President Vice President of Congress, which is con- ered a great victory. Seiiora Peralta had ived in the city of Mexico and met with an usiastic reception. A party of young mn, first removing the horses, made asses of emselves and hauled her from the station to house in an open carriage. A revolution broken out in Tampico, and active prepa- is were being carried out to put it down secure the commanders of the insurgent who had been enriching themselves several sources to the tune of three bun- and fifty thousand dollars. Their escape the booty has been rendered almost sible. They have been swrounded and probably be caught. were alike magnanimous to the men of the Confederate armies and honorable to himself.” These terms, as originally agreed upon by General Sherman, provided among other things for the least possible intervention by the general government in Southern recon- struction. Hence in coupling his original agreement with Jo Johnston with the late New Orleans speech of General Sherman we have the secret of his present popularity in the South. If war with him was war peace is peace; and this is the true Southern idea of war and peace and of Southern chivairy. The General's opinions of the Ku Klux and of the capabilities of the law and order men of the South to put down these Ku Klux Klans without the aid of the United States army are popular, however, because they are correct. From an intelligent and impartial correspon- dent travelling in the South we have these facts:—That these Ku Klux Klans do exist ; that they have been and are guilty of many lawless acts; that, in fact, a large number of their outrages never get into the newspapers; but that these terrible Ku Klux, instead of being political combinations, are a sort of vigilance committees, ferreting out and pun- ising, under the code of Judge Lynch, those idle and vagabondizing negroes and their accomplices guilty of robberies, murders and other outrages too horrible to name. In this view of the subject the intelligent reader will understand why it is that this New Orleans Ku Kiux speech of General Sherman is re- ceived so giadly by the Southern democracy. They perceive that he appreciates their pecu- liar situation, and are thankful for his recog- nition of their claims to a generous treatment by the government. Satisfied, then, that General Sherman is the man for the democratic party in the South in 1872, the whole difficulty is solved. His war record as a Union soldier makes him the very man needed by the Northern democracy, and being a Western man and entertaining the pre- vailing ideas of the West on the great political questions of the day, every practical considera- tion is in his favor as the democratic candi- date against General Grant. It has beena great misfortune to the country that one term was not fixed in the constitution at the outset as the law of the Presidency. Washington, at the end of his first term, desired to set the example by retiring; but he was compelled to accept a second term, and he would have been given a third term had he not positively re- fused it. The example of two terms, however, having been set, it was followed with but one break till 1824, and since that day, the Presi- dent, in making Limsclf available for a second the numerous batteries that are operating against it. The army of Marshal MacMahon is in some places close under the enceinte of the city, exchanging shots with the Nationals who line the ramparts. The Auteuil gate has been completely demolished by the fire of the batteries. Several breaches have been made in the walls, and the heavy fire upon the city itself is maintained without intermission. The soldiers of the Commune are being driven from their positions and forced to teke refuge within the walls. Such is the situation outside of Paris, while within the prospects are scarcely any better for those who still see fit to resist the legiti- mate government. The National Guards are becoming completely demoralized. They refuse to march against the Versaillists, and, more than this, a powerful party is springing up in Paris which threatens every moment to over- throw the Commune and declare in favor of M. Thiers. There is a possibility that the party referred to may prevent the necessity of carrying the city by assault. Its prompt action will certainly be the means of saving much life and property, but it must move quickly, or else it will be too late. The besieging forces are not in a humor to be trifled with; they will not delay on a mere expectation of assistance from within, and if once compelled to resort to extreme measures but few, if any, will be considered friends among those found within the walls of Paris. The exasperation of those French soldiers who have been so long prisoners in Germany, and who return to France only to find the doors of its capital closed against them, can well be understood. Being shot down by their own countrymen who did not venture forth to meet a foreign foe will not tend to render mild tempered those of their comrades who survive the attack, and if the army of MacMahon is compelled to enter Paris by force we can only say, God help the wretches who may be found resisting it! The ery for quarter, for mercy, will then be of no avail. The cold steel will do its work effectu- ally and the slaughter will be horrible. We do not believe it in the power of the officers to control their men; the bloody work will go on until the last man found with arms in his hands will be disposed of. Such will be the fate of the Communist soldiers unless sur- render comes before assault. “TLL Give Her Away,” was the brutal remark of the Washington Market bummer Wiggins as he planted a murderous blow with a billy or slungshot into the forehead of young Durand in Park place at an early hour on Sunday evening last, because Durand pro- tected a poor fleeing, crouching woman from the insults of the ruffian. It isto be hoped that justice will “give” the brute away so that he may not be heard of for a long time to come. Tne GERMAN Peace CELEBRATION IN PHILADELPHIA yesterday was an excellent display for Philadelphia. Of course it does not compare with the show that New York made on Easter Monday; it is doubtful if Berlin could equal that; but for Philadelphia it was very fair. GENERAL SHERIDAN TICKLING THE Fr- NiANs.—General Sheridan has officially opened his heart and extended his hand to the Fenian Brotherhood, or, what is now termed, the “Irish Nationalists.” He said, on the occa- sion of & recent interview at his hotel, in answer to an address from a committee who waited upon him, ‘‘That if he were in Ireland he would be a Fenian;” on the principle, per- haps, that “if he were in Turkey he would do as turkeys do,” or if “in Buffalo he would doas buffaloes do.” Now that the hero of the ‘“‘ride to Winchester” is on the trail of the bold Fe- nians George Francis Train will have to look after hig little hobby. ag * ate, Eek, | +s. 7 me hd MAY 16, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Treaty Under Consideration. The great Treaty of Washington is now under discussion in the respective legislatures of the two high contracting Powers, in the smaller assemblies of the little colonies affected by its provisions and in the yet more powerful councils of public opinion. It was favorably reported in the United States Senate yester- day »y the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the doors were immediately closed for secret discussion in executive session upon it. Inthe House of Lords Earl Russell last evening gave notice of his intention to move an address to the Queen against the ratifica- tion of the treaty in case the arbitrators are bound by rules or conditions except the law of nations and the municipal laws of England in force at the time the Alabama sailed, In the House of Commons the government stated that it did not know exactly what the terms of the treaty were, as an official copy of it had not yet been received. In the Provincial House of Assembly in Fredericton, N. B., the treaty is meeting with great opposition, especially that portion of it relative to the fisheries, neither New Bruns- wick nor Canada being much interested in any other part of it, and, in fact, not having much to say about any part of it whatever, and the Canadian government press express themselves as opposed to the provisions of the fishery clause, subject always, however, as they cau- tiously intimate, to the decision of Great Britain. While it is noteworthy that Eurl Russell and the pompous old aristocrats of his day who assisted the Alabama in getting to sea, and toasted one another over the belief that the ‘Union had adjourned sine die,” and probably Disraeli, who believes in the divine right and personal ability of England to exact homage and tribute from every other nation under the sun, are ranging themselves in opposition to the treaty, the democrats in our Senate seem willing to forego party ani- mosity toward the administration in order to discuss calmly and impartially the important concessions and provisions of the treaty, and Reverdy Johnson, the genial soul, who concocted that other famous treaty, seems filled even with admiration for the genius that negotiated thisone. These in- dications are all satisfactory, Noone would expect anything but opposition from Earl Rus- sell, who was in effect the moving spirit of the trouble which the treaty proposes to remedy ; and the democratic exbibition of cheerfulness is avery soothing acknowledgment of the great importance of the negotiations. As for the opposition developed in New Brunswick and the Dominion, that is merely the weak wailing of peevish children, Canada cannot affect the matter either way, and if she takes pleasure in making herself miserable over it nobody else need be affected to tears. But there seems, according to our Washing- ton correspondence, to be a growing opposi- tion to the ratification among our own Senators. It is said the more they study it the less they like it. They find innumerable “gouts of blood that were not there before.” They study its phraseology until, like Rulloff, they find new philological puzzles in the plainest Eng- lish, There can be no objection to this. No plain, honest treaty ever suffered from too close consideration. Let the Senators take their time; let them, if they-think wisely, wait, as some of them sugzest, upon the result of the discussion in the British Parliament; but by all means let them be vigilant and careful of the honor and integrity and just rights of the country. The Emperor of Austria and tho Temporal Power. The temporal power of the Pope is one of the most interesting and, in some respects, most puzzling questions of the moment. It is the one question which to-day, as much as twenty years ago, when republican France stood by the Papacy and saved it, compels attention to the semblance of unity in the Old World. The Papacy, which was killed by the First Napoleon, which had been killed so often before, and which has been killed so often since, lives to-day, in spite of Victor Emmanuel, in spite of united Italy, in spite of the fall of France, in spite of the increased power of Protestant Germany. That the temporal power of the Papacy is practically gone no one can deny; the recent action of the Italian Parliament has settled that; but it is impossi- ble to refuse to admit that the temporal power is, for all these things, a lively question to-day. The Catholic world, with some few intelli- gent exceptions, stands by the donation of Constantine and the gifts of Pepin and Charle- magne. It will not letthem go. It will not consent to the arrangements made by the Italian Parliament. It is our duty to record the fact, but we are sorry to have to record it. The Catholics of Protestant England, of free America and of Lutheran Germany speak out more strongly than the undisturbed Catholics of France and Spain and Italy. Our policy has always been, and we cannot go back upon it, “No State Church, but fair play for all forms of religious belief.” We bave rejoiced in the Church system of the United States—a Church system which has told on the British provinces, on Australia, on Ireland, and which is now bringing forth fruit in Scotland and in England ; and, for the same reasons, we have rejoiced in the anti-State Church movements in Austria, in Spain, in France and in Italy. It is curious to observe that while Protestant Germany is winning such triumphs, and while Catholic Germany is so much torn and divided about infallibility and Dr. Déllinger, the Ger- man Catholics should still cling so tenaciously to the dead past. We confess that we have been surprised by the announcement that twenty-eight bishops, including archbishops, have petitioned the Emperor of Austria to in- tervene in the interests of the temporalities of the Papacy. We are not only surprised, but sorry, for the reason that revolutions never move backward, The fall of the temporal power is in harmony with the current opinions of the times, The current is not yet showing any signs of a backward rush, The tempo- ralities cannot be restored, and even if they could the Emperor of Ausiria is the last man to make any attempt in that direction. He loses the Church, but he also loses the crown ; and for the present the crown is to him more dear than the Church, The Catholic Church does not depend upon the temporalities. The Church of Christ was a power before the days of Constantine. It was mighty when Charlemagne howed to it, It will, unless we greatly mistake, be mighty when all crowns have been forgotten. Since the religious revolution of the sixteenth cen- tury Christianity bas grown stronger and stronger. This new revolution, as we think, is destined to give Christianity the mastery of the world. Let all our Catholic friends on this Continent and in Europe open their eyea to facts, see and recognize the promise of the future. We cannot go back; but there is a proud place for the Papacy and all other forms of Christianity. The Emperor Francis Joseph is a delicate rod to lean upon, and the twenty- eight bishops and archbishops of Germany ought to know and recognize the fact. Happy and prosperous times for all Christian bodies, but no favor, no privilege—that is the promise of the future, The New Municipal Dispensation. In our advertising columns this morning will be found the official announcement of the result of the labors of the new Board of Apportionment, and it must certainly be re- garded as satisfactory evidence of the deter- mination to enforce economy in the adminis- tration of our municipal government. When that memorable ‘‘angel of destruction” winged its flight over Albany last year and created the commotion or revolution which resulted in giving us the new and needed City Charter, the Heratp claimed persistently that the government created under that charter gave promise of being the best the city has ever had. We claimed that the ‘new régime” could be relied on, as the men composing the respective boards or de- partments of the city government were selected by Mayor Hall on account of their prominence in private life and their general fitness and qualifications for the offices to which they had been appointed. The results thus far apparent can bear testimony in corroboration of what we claimed. We are ever willing to give credit where credit is due as well as censure or expose where justice demands. In this regard we are called upon to commend the action of the Board of Apportionment. The Board comprises the Mayor (A. Oakey Hall), Comp- troller (Richard B. Connolly), Commissioner of Public Works (William M, Tweed), and President of the Department of Public Parks (Peter B. Sweeney). These gen- tlemen have constantly labored earn- estly in the work of apportioning the amount collected by tax in this city and county. When the Board was first organized a circular was issued by Mr. Comptroller Con- nolly, at the instance of the Board, calling upon the various departments of the city gov- ernment to make new estimates of the amounts required for the current year, and thus in- augurate at once the work of municipal economy. The Board of Apportionment has taken upon itself the work of reducing the amounts to be raised by tax and actually required to meet the current, honest expenditure of the government. They commence by making a clean sweep of fifty per cent from all appropri- ations that will bear lopping off without vio- lating existing contracts or provisions of law, saving thus nearly four and a half millions of dollars, as may be seen from the table given in the official announcement, as follows :— ON CITY. ¥ ppropria- Estimates, trons. Legislative Department. $723,000 $961,500 Mayoralty ....-.. 12,500 6,250 Department of Fi 2 144.145 Law Department y 27,500 Department of Pul 1,281,950 Health Department 81,500 Department of Pubiic Chart- tles and Correction. 1, 632,272 Department of Public 140,250 Departmen: of Buildings. 10,000 Police Department. 148,734 Fire Department. 128,000 Board of Education. 562,750 Miscellaneous.... 175,000 $3,690,851 TY. 1,514,300 157,150 +$8,895,998 $4,447,997 In attaining this result the Board resolved to take no account of claims alleged to have been incurred prior to 1871, and they reduce twenty per cent the salaries of employ¢s who are paid at the rate of five thousand dollars per year. These provisions will, of course, cause a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth among many who had fondly hoped to draw a little more blood from the city trea- surey, but they willbe hailed with pleasure by capitalists and others who desire to seo proper economy in the disbursement of the public moneys. From the announcement made by the Board our citizens have reason to congratulate them- selves and thank the gentlemen compris- ing the Board for the reduction of the burden of taxation. For the current year but twenty millions of dollars will be required for the actual work- ing of our city and county governments. This, of course, does not include the State tax, and may include, perhaps, a portion of the sum of $190,500 donated in aid of charita- ble institutions. The last-named sum is to be taken, as far as practicable, from the Excise fund, and will only come from the amount raised by general tax should the Excise moneys be not sufficient to cover it. The action of this Board of Apportionment is the best refutation that could be given to the calumnious and scurrilous attacks that have been made on the gentlemen comprising the Board, and tends to show that New York city is as well able to take care of its finances as any other city or town in this State. The unprecedented custom of compelling the presentation of the city tax levy in the State Legislature gave so many opportunities for leeches and suckers to bleed our home treasury that the taxes ran up from year to year with alarming rapidity. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the local government will have the right accorded it of managing its own finances in the future, especially as the ex- hibit made by the Board of Apportionment bodes so much in favor of retrenchment and reform. “Look Ovt For Pickrooxers.”—This caution is found conspicuously displayed in most of the public places, hotels, railroad depots and cars, city horse cars, omnibuses, ferryboats, &c.; but it does not answer the purpose. Even when strangers think they are most secure from the depredations of the rascals they are frequently most liable to their attentions. It should be made the duty of every policeman or detective to follow a pick- pocket into a public place whenever he ‘‘spots him,” and proclaim aloud, ‘Look out for pick- This proclamation would attract pockets,” the attention of the people and serve as am veh better warning against the light-fingera? gentry than any dingy placard posted up im an obscure corner of a public place or vehicle. The Frankfort Treaty of Pence. No government is more appreciative of money and likely to turn it to better use than the government of Kaiser William, Far from having remitted any part of the war indem- nity, as was at first reported, Prince Bismarck has improved upon the opportunity by exact- ing still harsher terms, He has taken ad- vantage of the utterly prostrate condition of France and ground her down to the uttermost extent of her endurance. The iron has entered the soul of poor France, for the fatal fratricide that now poisons her gaping wounds has only served to whet the conqueror’s greed for more, The eastern forts of Paris are not to be evacuated until the payment of the second instalment. Everything has conspired to the ruin of France. Her powerful navy, the boast of the empire, has only served to in- crease the war indemnity which she has to pay. Allthe German ships captured during the war are to be restored, or, if sold or destroyed, their value to be refunded to Ger- many. The navigation treaty of 1862 remains in force, and the treaty further provides that Alsace is to enjoy extraordinary commercial advantages for six months. More Germany could not with decency have asked. With less she ought to have been satisfied. The Foster Trial—Selection of a Jury. The trial of the murderer of Mr. Putnam came up again before Judge Cardozo in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, and, as we predicted last week, the process of call- ing a jury degenerated into a mere comedy of excuses. Juror after juror was called, and each excused himself on the ground that he had read the newspapers and consequently might have formed an opinion—the very best reason why he would be eligible for just and intelligent reasoning upon so grave a subject being distorted, under a strict interpretation of a law that was framed before newspapers and general education had made the mass of the people readers and thinkers, into a reason why he should not serve as @ juror atall. Thus the duties of the citizen are shirked and the private business of the man furthered by the, mere possession of that intelligence which ought rightly to redound to the honor of the State aud assist in the maintenance of her laws. Most of the jurors called were rejected be= cause they said they had read the newspapers about it and formed an opinion; but we ven- ture to say that not one of them is so firmly seated in his conviction that an entirely differ- ent report of the affair in the newspapers to-day would not cause him to veer round to an entirely different opinion. Evidence given under oath before a solemn court by eye-wit- nesses and participants in the unbappy affair which ended in Mr. Putnam's death can be as considerately and calmly weighed by a man who had heard the newspaper reports of the affair previously and formed an opinton there- on a8 by one who had not. ‘‘I said the horse was sixteen foot high, not hands, and I'll stick to it,” says the stubborn fellow in the joke book; but it is only in joke books that he sticks to it. Four jurors were accepted yes- terday out of a panel of sixty, and the attempt to get together the remaining eight will be re sumed this morning. Personal Intelligence. Sefior Lopez Roberts, Spanish Minister at Wash- ington, is domiciled at the Albemarie Hotel. M. O. Hillhouse, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, 13 sojourning at the Fifth Avenue, General Edward Serrell, of Fort Montgomery, is stopping at the Clarendon Hotel. Congressman Henry L- Dawes, of Massachusetts, and wife, have apartments at the Everett House. General Donaldson, of the United States Army, is quartered_at the Brevoort House. U. Thomas, of the United States Geological Survey, is a sojourner at the Astor House. Mrs. Lincoln left the Everett House for Chicago yesterday. General H. W. Bradbury, of Augusta, is stopping at the Sturtevant House, x Colonel 8. A. Hatch, of New O:leans, is abiding at the Fifth Avenue. E. D, Judd, Paymaster in the United Staves Army, is @ sojourner at the St. Nicholas. P. Diez de Rivira, of the Spanish Legation, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel! William Wall, of Washington, is a guest at the St. Nicholas. D. McLaine, of Cincinnati, is abiding at the Fifth Avenue. General F. W. Palfrey, of Boston, Is quartered at the Aloemarle Hotel. FOREIGN PERSONAL GOSSIP. —Mr. Gladstone has refused to receive a deputa- tion of ladies in support of the political enfranch'ss- ment of women, —Prince Louis, of Hesse, and General Goeven passed through Belgium last month to take their command in France. —Her Royal Highness the Princess Loutse, Marchioness of Lorne, has been pleased to appoint the Lady Sophia Macnamara to be Lady of the Bed- chamber to her Koyal Highness. ——M. Scineider, the President of the last Frencls Impertal Chamber and owner of the fron works a6 Creuzot, is about to commence operations upon & very large scaie at Stockton-on-Tees. —Antonto Oreficci, who claims to be a descend ant of the publisher of the Venice Gazeita—the first newspaper issued in the world—is now Meche in a journalistic capacity, with one of the dates that city. —M. Resaman, First Secretary at the Italian Le- gation, contradicts a statement in the France that after the departure from Paris of the Chevalier Nigra an Italtan tri-colored flag was taken from the hotel of the Embassy. —General Sheridan, while stang in Dublin, was waited upon by some nationalists, who asked him to name a day for the reception of an address. Tne General retused the request, stating that he was om oMctal business from the United States, —he marriage of Henry Stuart Fitz James, Count of Galoe, with a beautful Polish iady named Mme, de Bravura Basilevaki, took place on April 20 at Brassels and was attended by the Ministers of Russia, England and Spain and other persons of distinction. —M. Regnier, the gentleman to whose efforts General Bourbaki owed his involuntary escape from Metz, has been arrested by the Versailles govern- ment and is still detained 1a confinement by them. No reason 1s assigned for his detention, but it ts attributed to his supposed Bonapartist leanings. RUNNING NOTES---POLITICAL AND GENERAL. In many divorce cases on account of “incompati- bility,” the income is the principal consideration, while patipility is rarely urged. Tue Circleville (Ohio) Lemocrat pithily says:— “ephe radical presses are opening their foul mouths on General Sherman. He bas upset the radical skil- lot end spilt the fat into the fire.’ ‘The servants in the White House noy appear in livery. Afterd872 it may be altogether de-livery, Itis stated that the Marquis of Lorne is said to hav some very decent kinsmen and kinswomen to Williamson county, Tennessee, ‘The New Orieans Times don’t want elther Grant or Sherman for President. The Ztmes is hard t lenges