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

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Pace. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Mail News from France—keligious Intelligence— News from Washington—Miscellaueous Tele- grams—Local News—Affairs in Ireland, 4—Our National Finances: Another Chapter in the Story of Boutweil’s Blundering—Criticisms of New Books—New Pubiications Recerved— Policy Players’ Panic: Dowimg and Kelso Purging the City—Tue Empire City: Its Gov- ermuent and — Improvements—americans [er abba | of the Past—Another Whiskey mon of Mohawk Valley: Execution of Eacker for the Murder of Thomas ‘the Methodist Book Committee—The he Diamond Smuggling Case; Foster ed to be Hanged on July 14—Pennsyl- vania Politics—Nuisances—Army and Navy Orders—Dominion of Canada—The Mauiers Manacled—The School Children and the Bust of Washington—The Explosion at Port Hud- sonu—The Car Hook in Use Again. ©—Ladttorials: Leadiug Ariicle, «The New Depart- ure of the Democracy—A Fine Opening for the Great Battle of 1872°—Amusement An- nouncements. 7—Editorials (continned from Sixth Page)—The French Horror: Heraip Special Reports trom Paris and Versailles—Germany: Prince Bls- ck Yielding to the Demands of the Retch- —Misceliaucous Teiegrams—Personal In- telligeuce—Business Notices, 8— Polut breeze Park: Closing Day of the Spring ‘Trotting Meeting—Lexington Races—Racing im England—Yachting im England—The Lonton Season: Fashionable Life at its Rest -The National Game—An Insane Jcono- clast -rhe flartmann Homicide—Almost a Marder—Another Suicide in Jersey, 9—The Ipenrance Congress: The Third bay's Pro- ceearngs—Crime in Minnesota—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisexent. 40—The Late Dictator of Paraguay : President Lo- pez and Madame Lynch—Amusements—MiIs- cellaneous Telegraphic News—Policy Dealers im the Yorkville Police Court—Shipping Intel- ligence—A dvertisements, 11—Mexico vo Cuba by Cablie—Crop Prospects of the Cotton States—Demand for Labor on the Pacific Coast—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements, Moxey.—The two great English-speaking countries are groaning just now under a phlethora of lucre. A cable despatch says the Bank of England has on deposit twenty- four million five hundred thousand pounds. The banks of this city now hold in their vaults fifteen million dollars gold and sixty-five million dollars legal tenders. The United States Treasury holds ninety-four million dollars gold. What are the burglars think- ing of? ‘CHaRLes Eacker was executed at Fonda, N. Y., yesterday, for the murder of Thomas E. Bardick in July last. The prisoner was by no means one of the sentimental order, but neglected religious matters and preserved his stoicism to the last. As the officer was about to draw the black cap over Eacker’s head the latter evinced considerable feeling, protesting against the act, because he ‘wanted his spirit to fly away like a butterfly.” PRE WTAE. Tur Ku Kiox Br in Carirorsia.—John Chinaman is an apt scholar. Doctor Lipotai, an almond-eyed son of Galen, brought a San Francisco justice to his senses in genuine Yankee style. The Doctor hada suit in court, but his own evidence was excluded because of his nationality. The Doctor proceeded to sue out a warrant in the federal court under the Ku Klux act, whereat the California jus- ce gave in and permitted the Celestial to westife NEW YUKK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1871.—TRIPLE The New Departure of the Democracy—A | awakening that the democrats begin to open Fine Opening for tho Groat Battle of 1872. As arelief in this article, as a refreshing diversion of the mind from the terrible scenes of confusion, fire and slanghter which all this week have given to Paris the demons and the ghastly horrors of the infernal regions, let the reader suppose that he is taking a morn- ing ride with us among the peaceful scenes and vernal glories of our charming Central Park, while we explain the new departure of the democracy as defined in their new Penn- sylvania platform, and take a glance at the fine opening thus presented them for the great ap- proaching Presidential battle of 1872. The contrast between our beautiful Central Park and the dismal Bois de Boulogne, as they ap- pear to-day, will serve, meantime, to illustrate the difference between the fruits of American republican institutions and ef French republi- can ideas; and so we shall proceed at once to the subject before us. We are now entering our great Park from Fifth avenue, Here is a bust of Humboldt, s contribution from our sclence-loving German citizens. Pretty little lake, that, below, and the hill flanking it, with its dense evergreens, not only screens it from the glaring street boundary, but brings out the lake into fine relief. Fine taste in that arrangement. This old arsenal bofore us, with the buildings behind it, serves a very good purpose, for the present, for a sort of menagerie; and those grizzly bears are jolly dogs, though, cooped up there, the American eagle is not at home. But this new democratic departure? Ah! yes. At the Chicago Democratic Convention of 1864 a few unfortunate words introduced into the party platform, significant of hostility to the Union cause and of sympathy with the re- bellion, defeated the democratic ticket in ad- vance. Those words were that ‘“‘the war for the Union is a failure,” and that it ought to be stopped. This interpellation came from Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, a peace democrat during the war, whose outspoken hostility against the Union policy of the bayonet had caused him to be arrested by General Burn- side and shipped off into the Southern Con- federacy. After an absence of some months, on returning to Ohio, his political friends, re- garding him in the light of a martyr for demo- cratic principles, sct him up for Governor, and he was defeated by a hundred thousand ma- jority; but he nevertheless maintained the truth of that ancient dogma, that - A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still. And so, in the great National Democratic Tammany Convention of 1868, we find Mr. Vallandigham conspicuous again among the stage managers and scene shifters, and active, tot only in the nomination of Seymour, with the failure of Pendleton, but also active with General Wade Hampton in putting into the party platform that fatal resolution declaring the whole reconstruction system of Congress “anconstitutional, revolutionary, null and void.” [Yes, those bushes with their white flowers are very pretty.) We say that fatal resolution, for, coupled with the nomination of General Frank Blair for Vice President, on the strength of his famous Broadhead letter, looking to the undoiag of the work of the army and the carpet-bag governments down South, that resolution was but the repetition of the blunder of 1864, which defeated the party in advance. General Grant in 1868 [he is a great admirer of this Park] on the platform of the issues of the war was, like Lincoln in 1864, triumphantly elected, and in 1870, under his administration, we find, in addition to the thirteenth amend- ment [those vines on the rocks are natives, and are very common down South], abolishing and interdictiug slavery, and the fourteenth amendment, declaring all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens there- of and of the State in which they reside, and that all are entitled [as we see them here] to the equal protection of the laws in their civil rights, &c. We have the fifteenth amend- ment, declaring that ‘‘neither the United States ner any State shall make any abridge- ment of the right of citizens to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servi- tude.” At the beginning of the year 1870 we find all these amendments in practical opera- tion, and yet we can find nota word from any democratic convention or conventicle recognizing their validity, but all the pro- ceedings of the party bearing upon these amendments dead against them. Here we have the Mall. Webster defines a mall as public walk, where they originally played with malls and balls; but our ball ground lies beyond. These rows of elms have grown finely. There are two varieties, you observe—the English and the American elm. The foliage of the Englishman is of a darker green; but he has a stiff, unsocial look about him, compared with the graceful, flowing drapery of the American tree. Beautiful walk, this, and ona fine summer afternoon, when the music of Dodworth’s band brings out our citizens to enjoy it, it is a beautiful scene. Yes, these deep-cut thoroughfares across the Park are neatly done. They are so cleverly disguised that we can only here and there get a glimpse at them in the Park, and their em- bankments and bridges add much to its charming varieties of landscape gardening. Next we have a State election in New Hampshire, in which, from the disturbances in the republican camp resulting from Senator Sumner's fight with General Grant on the St. Domingo annexation scheme, the democrats elect three out of four Congressmen and have the best show for the Governor; and what then? A general democratic hullabglog of rejoicing all over country, and a bewilder- ing display of crowing roosters in the demo- cratic journals from the Wallaligosquegamook, in Maine, to the Devil's Gulch, in California, Nor is this all; for, under the inspiration of this New Hampshire election, we have a little speech from Mr. Jefferson Davis, down in Alabama, in which he expresses his belief in the ultimate triumph of the “lost cause ;” and we have, too, a pretty general outcry from the Southern democratic press denouncing the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments as frauds and outrages which must be put down. What next? Next we have the Connecticut elec- tion, in which another great democratic vic- tory is expected, but in which the republicans, roused by, what to them appears to be the rappel of the rebellion from the enemy's lines, turn out en masse, “niggers” and all, and recover the State, And it is from this rude their eyes, and begin to see the folly of their efforts to resist or to ignore those imprints upon the constitution, Stamped upon it, as Mr. John Quincy Adams puts it, “by the mailed hand of war.” [You are right. This Park is rapidly improving our horses. The English Joint High Commissioners say that the turnout hera is equal to the dis- play in Hyde Park and its Rotten Row in fine horses, though not in fine liveries; but old Tom Jefferson would say we have a little too much of that sort of thing, and we must not forget Old Tom.] The Connecticut elections, and Senator Mor- ton’s movements at Washington to shape the fight of 1872 for General Grant upon these new amendments of the constitution, which, in a condensed form, are the issues of the war, waked up the democracy. [These vine- clad bowers are another pretty feature of this Park, and, under the blazing skies of this Continent, we want in our parks, Mr. Sweeny, all the shade and shady retreats we can get. ] Accordingly, we find Mr. John Quincy Adams firat coming to the front for these new amend- ments, and then Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, thoroughly convinced at last, with his Mont- gomery democrats of the old red-hot school, and then the Pennsylvania democracy, in their State Convention, Jerry Black and all. This is, indeed, a new departure. [This is our fa- vorite skating Inke—a handsome little sheet of water. This terrace isa little bit Versail- lish in its oppressive artificialities; but the lake, with its general surroundings, is grace- fully natnral, as it should be.] Of course, State by State, North and South, the democ- racy will fall in with Pennsylvania, so that, by the year 1872, they will be relieved of the deadweights of the war which, in 1864 and 1868, broke them down. What, then, is the prospect? Look about us. Look at this lovely picture of woods and fields and lakes and fountains and rambles and walks and drives and summe™ houses and gafes, and at these pretty groupings of shrub- bery and flowers, and 64 toe fresh and sweet the air is coming from the close and heated city, Such is the prospect to the democracy from the abandonment of their hostility to the fixed facts stamped upon the constitution by the ‘mailed hand of war.” This new departure is like an invitation to leave the Five Points for the Central Park and a drive to the High Bridge. Let the democratic party, now that the men of Penn- sylvania have cleared the track, bring out General Sherman as their candidate on the constitution and the Ku Klux question, and, instead of meandering about for another gene- ration in the Dismal Swamp of dead issues, they may, even in 1872, and almost certainly in 1876, advance to the enjoyments of the White House and the national Capitol and the gardens thereof, which, in a political sense at least, completely eclipse Mr. Sweeny and the glories of his Ceniral Park. The Closing Horrors of the Paris Commune. the cemetery of Pitre la Chaise the conflict stil! rages, and in this city of the dead the struggle for life is carried on over the resting places of the dead. Well, indeed, may It be said that Paris is now suffering for the sins of years; and the rabble which dis- turbed its peace and perplexed its govern- ments are now passing away amidst the vio- lence of their own creation, to be judged for their misdeeds by a higher power than that of human laws. Tho Prosperity ef Our Country. The progress of the United States in wealth, population and material development is with- outa parallel in the history of nations. It had scarcely emerged from the most gigantic, costly and devastating civil war of modern times than it began to rise with renewed vigor and prosperity. Within six years after the war closed a stupendous floating debt of hua- dreds of millions was paid and several hundred millions of the organized national debt liqui- dated. And all this without complaint on the part of the people. Never before did any people pay what the government demanded of them so freely and liberally, True, the Ame- rican people begin to realize the fact that the enormous revenue which has been raised year after year since peace was rostored has been unnecessary—an unnecessary bur- den—and now demand a reduction of taxation; but they are able to bear these taxes, or heavier ones if needed, Really there is hardly a limit to the resources of this rich and prosperous country. Even with the improper diversion of so much capital from industrial pursuits to liquidate hundreds of millions of debt and to keep the vaults of the Treasury full of gold to no pur- pose the country has advanced surprisingly in material prosperity. Nor has this been local or confined to particular sections, It has been general—North, East, West and South. New York represents more than any other city this general prosperity. It is the me- tropolis, the commercial and financial centre, the spot from which enterprise emanates and to which capital tends. Look at the hundreds of magnificent buildings and private residences The Heratn’s special correspondents in Paris and Versailles as well as the information received through other sources unite in declaring the situation in Paris as truly horri- fying. A buraing city and an affrighted popu- lation, with the roar of cannon almost inces- sant, the crash of mitrailleuses constant and the rattle of musketry every moment, form a portion of the closing horrors of the dying hours of the Commune. The soldiers of MacMahon show no mercy to the rabble who, with their country’s arms in their hands, and clothed in the uniforms of the nation aimed at the destruction of France. After transforming the churches into meeting halls for unlawful purposes—after persecuting and afterwards imprisoning priests and nuns— after spreading horror throughout the city, growing from bad to worse every day they continued in power, the leaders of the Com- mune attempted the destruction of the cify on the appearance of the army of Versailles to wrest it from their tyrannical rule. It is difficult to imagine scenes more desperate, bloody, ‘savage or appalling than those now taking place within the walls of the once beautiful city of Paris. The telegrams which to-day appear in the columns of the Heratp describe the gutters of the streets running with blood, the dead bodies of the insurgents shot down by the Versaillists lying in the streets unburied, and public and private buildings in flames, and still the work of slaughter goeson. The rebels, now rendered desperate, continue the fight to the biiter end. With a victorious and merciless foe in front of them, following up every advantage and push- ing them back on their last strongholds, from which there is no escape—for even retreat is cut off from them by the attitude which the Prussians have displayed—there is no hope left but to fight to the end. It is death with them under all circumstances and they know it, and in the despair of their last moments they continue to fight as fiends who realize their approaching doom. Though the Versailles forces have suffered much, the slaughter among the Nationals is described as terrible. No quarter is given them. Prisoners in most cases were taken only to be shot, without even the formality of a trial. And yet scarcely @ word of pity can be expressed for them, They gave no quarter—now they receive none themselves. They took Paris in allher beauty, with her grand edifices and noble monuments hallowed by the historic memories of the past, and now they die like beasta amid the ruin which they brought upon the capital of France, The Palace of the Tuileries, the Ministry of Finance, the Pre- fecture of Bolice, the Court of Accounts, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the barracks on the Quay d’Orsay, the Hotel de Ville and the Mont-de-Picté, all have gone down into the general wreck which now disfigures the city. A portion of the Louvre and the grand collection of valuable books stored in the library have been swallowed up by the destroying flames, which at one time threatened the entire structure. More dreadful still to contemplate is the uncer- tainty which still attaches to the fate of the venerable Archbishop of Paris, the sixty priests and ether prisoners who were confined in the Mazas Prison. A report prevailed yes- terday in Paris that they had been all mur- dered in cold blood by the flerce reds, There is still a hope that this last fearful crime was not consummated and that the unfor- tunate prisoners are atill living, In that are springing up in every direction, at whoie streets of colossal and splendid stores, at the harbor fliled with shipping aid at the gen- eral movement, and we see reflected the won- derful progress of the country. Though the rapidly increasing wealth, business and popula- tion of the metropolis are so extraordinary, other cities advance in a relative degree. Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis and hugdreds of other cities and towns have a similar growth, Nor is this progress confined to them. Millions of acres of new lanfs are brought into cultivation. The prairies, where a few years ago the savage In- dians roamed, now blossom as the rose and resound with the hum and activity of civiliza- tion. The South, which was fearfully devas- tated and impoverished by the war, rose like the phoenix from its ashes, and a year or two after contributed hundreds of millions to our surplus wealth through its valuable staple pro- ducts. In mines, manufactures, railroads and all the other elements of progress we are mak- ing great strides, Then the hundreds of thou- sands of emigrants coming yearly to our shores bring a wealth of labor to enrich the country and to give profitable employment to capital. But, extraordinary as this progress is, we are on the eve, no doubt, of a more sur- prising development. The wars, revolu- tions and unsettled condition of Europe must increase emigration to the United States. The poorly paid laborers of the Old World will fly to this country as fast as they can; for here they can get better wages and cheap lands, Here they will be free from military conscription and can enjoy those political rights and social advantages denied them in Europe. Looking at the con- dition of France it is reasonable to expect that numbers of the best class of skilled manufacturing workmen and artisans will come from that country to America, Though the Germans have been successful in war they have suffered greatly and are always subject to forced military duty, and they, too, will follow the hosts of their relatives who have already come to the United States, From Sweden, Norway and other parts of the north of Europe the tide of emigration is augment- ing yearly. From Ireland, England and even from the south of Europe the stream in all probability will increase. This is the land of promise, as well as of liberty, for all the indus- trious classes of the Old World; and this fact they appreciate more and more as knowledge becomes diffused. The present European emigration of two or three hundred thousand souls a year will soon increase, probably, to half a million or more. In truth, our glorious country has in prospect a wonderful fature, Every wise man will set his house in order aud prepare for the time coming. The moral and political influence of America is felt throughout the civilized world now; but this republic is destined to be at no distant day. the instructor and leader of the nations and the dominant Power of the earth. AFFuIRS IN VENEZUELA.—By_ special tele- gram to the Hrratp from Jamaica we have later advices from Venezuela. A gross out- rage had been committed by the authorities of Maracaibo upon the person of a British sub- ject. He was arrested and ordered to be shot, but the officer commanding the soldiers making the arrest refused to obey the order. A British gunboat would at once proceed to investigate the matter. A battle had been fought in Venezuela, in which the insurgent General Herrera was victorious. Presipent Juarez or Mexico 4 MAN oF Progress.—The salutation of Juarez, the President of Mexico, to the press of the United States, on the establishment of tele- graphic communication between his country and ours, and his prayer to Heaven for the progress and co-operation of the press in the work of diffusing intelligence, show that this pure Indian chief, the descendant of the an- cient Cacique race of Mexico, Is inspired by the progressive spirit of the age. He knows the value of the press as the great agent of civilization, which {s more than can be said of some of our political Bourbons, and the im- portance of the telegraph in promoting friendly relations between nations. If the chiefs of Mexico and tha ‘Mexican people grow up to such ideag We may at no distant SHEET. . day invite them, with their magniticent coun- try, to become a part of the great American republic, After this wo think Juarez ought to be elected President of Mexico. Prince Bismarck’s Compromise. Prince Bismarck has yielded the main point to the Reichstag. So the threat to resign has been one of his many tricks after all, un- doubtedly meant to intimidate the Reich- stag. By alleging sickness, we strongly suspect the astute Chancellor thought to get up sentiment in that honorable body. The last device is by no means an unusual one with injured or disappointed statesmen and potentates, and if we mistake not Prince Bismarck has tried it before. According to our Berlin despatches he has been unsuccessful in his attempt to frighten the Reichstag into acquiescence. His menace to give up his power could not have been seriously meant. He loves power too much for its own sake to yield up before his time the supreme control over the affairs of Ger- many—we might almost say over the affairs of Europe. It is well for Bismarck and for Gormany that the difficulty has been settled by mutual concessions; for Germany has not yet done with Bismarck. Germany {s united, but not yet consolidated. It requires a master mind to harmonize the conflicting interests of the dif- ferent Btates of the new empire. And who is better fitted for this task than the chief architect of German unity? To deal with the opposition that already manifests itself re- quires tact, and at times unflinching firmness. Both of which qualities are Bismarck’s chief characteristics. On the other hand, the Ger- man Parliament does well in resisting the main pretensions of the Chancellor—in keeping a tight grip on the purse strings. Giving absolute dictatorship to the government over Alsace and Lorraine, in all else it has jeal- ously guarded the principal sinews of power by making all matters of finance subject to its control. To all appearance, therefore, a con- flict between the Reichstag and the imperial government has for the present bgen avoided. ‘The Foster Case. 4 Judge Cardozo has passed sentence of the unhappy Foster. The sentence has a much more certain sound than the charge to the jury, The Judge spoke plainly and truthfully when he said :—‘‘A most intelligent and im- partial jury, substantially of your own selec- tion, have been your triers; but the case was too forlorn for human effort, almost for hope ;” and again when he said, ‘‘It is not likely that human mercy will be accorded to you.” We have already expressed our opinion of Judge Cardozo's charge. We do not say that it was not warranted by statute law, but it is impos- sible to deny that it partook largely of the character of special pleading. It is simply absurd to say that Foster did not intend to kill, How few murderers intend to kill, If the mere intent were always tp measure jus- tice, it would be very convenient for the class of men to whom the unhappy Foster evidently belongs, but it would be very inconvenient for the public who are at their mercy. It has been clearly proved that Foster declared his purpose to ride on the car as far as Putnam went; that he would give him hell; that he asked the car hook from the @river some short time before Put- nam left; that he watched Putnam going out; that, with the car hook in his hand, he rushed from the car when Putnam left, and that with this murderous woapon he struck his victim on the head at least twice, breaking his skull into fragments. If there is no intention visible in all this we know not what fotention means. We have no desire to trample on the felon; but we owe the public a duty, and we can only say that if such offenders are to escape from merited punishment life will no longer be safe in New York city. There are cases in which moral suasion is good; but there are cases in which strong stone walls are better, and there are extreme cases in which the hangman's rope is the best. Law, wisely and effectively administered, not maudlin sentimentality, is the safeguard of a community. It is easy to say, ‘‘Poor Foster ;” but we ought not to forget poor Putnam. If ever a just verdict was rendered it was the verdict rendered in the Putnam case on Thursday last. We hope and pray for the happy day when it will not be necessary for the law to take away life; but when that happy time comes law-abiding citizens will not be at the mercy of the rowdy. Kelso’s Raid on the Policy Shops. Yesterday the police made descents on all the lottery policy shops in the city, arresting several hundred men engaged in the business of tempting the weak to part with their money in the hope of receiving several hundreds of dollars for every dollar invested. If it were possible to gather in the evidence of all the suffering and misery which these policy shops bring upon men, women and children, the record would be a fearful one for contempla- tion. ‘‘Policy” is more baneful than either faro or keno; for the class-which patronines it is generally that which posseses liitle money and can least afford to indulge their gambling propensities. To suppress the busi- ness, then, is a matter of importance to the moral welfare of our people. How extensively carried on it now is can be scen in the fact that some three hundred dealers were arrested in this city yesterday. The aggregate amount of money which these men daily re- ceive from the infatuated players must be enormous. It probably represents an income great enough to support in ease and comfort every poor family in the metropolis. For every man who makes ‘‘a hit”—i. ¢., wins—at least one hundred lose ; but even if the winners were more numerous and the chances of winning less. remote than they are the busi- ness f vicious in the extreme. It has caused and is daily causing the ruin of hundreds; it helps to fill our prisons with thieves, and is in every sense of the word injurious to public morals. So far as the raid of yesterday is concerned, the arrest of the policy dealers and the holding of them to bail to answer the ebarge of violating the laws of the State are deserving of praise; but until these men are tried, convicted and punished but little will have been done to de- stroy. the evil. Three-fourths of the faro banks recently ‘‘palled” are acain in full blast, and the sare may be said of the keno establishments; and until the policy te f dealers are sent to Sing Sing the traffic ia “horses,” “gigs,” ‘capital saddies,” and other names by which the combinations of numbers are known, will continue as large as ever. However, dealing at present with the raid, wo are thankful for the arrests made. The police seem to have performed their work thoroughly and to bave taken all the dealers in custody, without displaying the slightest partiality for any one of the nefarious gang. Panama and Prize Rivg Ethics. It is often the fortuno of events, surprising enough in themselves to happen unheard. The public mind must have a sensation, and the strongest at once dwarfs all the others. Thus on the war question, although Centrat America has been disturbed to the extent of armed rebellions in all directions, nobody seems to care, The fact is that the Franco- Prussian war, with its harvest of throat-cut- ting on an immense azale, so riveted attention that a quiet earthquake or massacre in Mara- caibo, or anything of the gently marderous type elsewhere, could have no hearing while the cannon of Sedan thundered on the public tympanum, This is all very ‘natural; it is simply human. But there is often a lesson ia these smaller matters which glide uoremem- bered out of the public mind that shames the bigger sensation when the truth is all known. The trae judge of events never hesitates in a comparison which points a healthy moral; therefore we say that there are four recent events which should be jointly considered in order to be properly appreciated. These are the civil war in France, the civil war in New Granada, the Mace and Coburn fizzle and the Collins-Edwards fight. Those who wish to be shocked at this are moral cowards, and there is no such thing as parleying with such. In the French civil war we see an immense prize fight savagely conducted and of doubt- fal credit to either party, since the Veraaillists, though courageous, showed no quarter from the start, and the Communists retaliated like tigers. The rules of the terrible prize ring of war were violated again and again, yet the great referee, the vox populi, declined to de- clare a “foul.” In that little “mill” which took place on a spring green meadow the day before yesterday, in East New York, “fouls” were frequéat, bat the bloodthiraty lookers on and the purblind referéé, & tteature called “Snatchem,” overlooked them all, declaring that the “men should fight it out.” While no one questions the brate courage of either the Paris insurgents or Collins tue “pug,” we cannot help seeing but very little difference betwoen them, or between the soldiers of tha Assembly and Billy Edwards. Now, if there is anything we admire it is the esthetic, and on this ground we commend the Mace and Coburn combat and the conduct of the Colombian civil war to universal ad- miration. The cause will be seem in compar- ing the graceful posturing of the twogladiators who were afraid of each other with the Herap’s despatches from Contral America published yesterday. We will not point out to further admiration the noble bearing of the two buffers, whose refined, delicate, msthetia taste, displayed in their caution, alone’ saves them from being considered abject cowards; but the names of Correoso and Herrera, tue chief parties in 2 warlike struggle going on at Panama, should be above all praise. Correoso is the President and Herrera is the head rebel there. There is such a continual round of revolutions there that thus much is all that is necessary to be explained— a good cause for fighting outside of the “stakes” in the shape of government offices for the chiefs and direct plunder for the followers being altogether unnecessary. The rebels had seized a steamer, the Montijo, and some three hundred of them getting on board and steam- ing away caused unutterable anxiety to Cor- reoso lest they should come back. Cer- tain backers of both parties in this matter called a conference between the princi- pals, and Herrera modestly commenced. his claim by demanding Correoso to resign the “championship"—that is, the Presidency—ané pay his (Herrera’s) expensos in the unplea- santness, Correoso, the champion, waxed wroth and refused to give up the champion- ship, but said he would not hurt Herrera.or his backers if they would put down their “mauleys;” in other words, lay down their arms. Ontside of that he was willing to meet Herrera and his eight hundred friends in a ten mile “ring” outside the city—no Paris busi- ness, mind—and fight it out like a man. Thia last delighted all parties, and Mr. Herrera and friends went into immediate ‘‘training”—that is, began to drill. On the other side Correosa called to his aid six hundred State and three hundred national troops. Mr. Manuel Diaz, with his three hundred on the Montijo, landed also to take a hand in with his “pal,” Her- rera, So far, although the preliminaries for. this big set-to were all that is fair, civilization had. cause todeplore. But the mathetic has its heroes even !n Central America. Those were the Consuls of foreign Powers stationed among the Spaniards and half-breeds of the peninsa- lar town of Panama. Through these pupils of the graceful in everything a treaty of peace was arranged which turned the pic- turesque Spanish demons into angels. of wstheticism. Wecan look in imagination at them, clad ia the long scarlet or blue zarapa, smiling the smirk of fraternal affsc- tion from under-their wide-sombreros, turning their Remington rifles into duck guns and the strangulating lazzo into a clothes’ line with a poetic fervor. Surely/such a desirable end should justify the modus. At any rate, here they are. Correosoggives to Herrera and his friends all the “minor government offices and pays the expenses of tha revolution. That is to say, pugilistically, the stakes were divided. Of course there were some not sltogether pleased, but who could expect otherwise in such now converts as Spanish brigands are likely to make ? The cause of the picturesque and beautiful, therefore, advances. Mace and Coburn took a hint from the Heranp, and now Panama acta on the suggestion, This is encouraging, even ifcomtc. Where is the next big “mill” we can settle? Speak, M. Thiers; aitend, Presi- dential candidates for '72. A Jockry in Lvox.—Winning the Derby was a fortunate circumstance for the jockey riding the horse that came in first. Its owner, Baron Rothschild, with a liberality worthy of hoing recorded, presented, the rider with the acco tater ome