The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | Semmes = tae tastnusiteatie SROCADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeEravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRA, Bowery.—Gi0, THE ATMORER OF TyaE—Jack LONG, FIFTA AVE THEATRE, GOLDEN Fire Tur Comical OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—NEW VERSION oF JACK SHEPPARD, +t 3 BOOTH'S TH SATRE, 25d A Winter's Tacs. Wood's M ances every WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th etreet.— ROSEPAL) NIBLO’ TRAVELL GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay, ana 28d st— Tux Tanne HoNCuBACK: LINA EDWIN’S TH or RANK. CENTRAL PARK *GARDEN.—Tnroporr Tuomas! SUMMER NivuTs’ ConogRts, GARDEN, Broatway.—Kit, THB ARKANSAS i; 720 Brondway.—ConEpy BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, jague GRayp Concrer, mane ees rest BRYA ana Tth w DPERA HOUSE, 234 st., between 6th HOBO MINGTRELSY, &0. 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Se ae ti er cre yam 3—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3-The Mine Disaster: Coroner's Inquest Over the Bodies of the Victims—News from Washing- ton—The Weehawken Murder—Honor the Union Dead: The Decoration of soldters’ Graves—The German Movement on Long nd 4—The Lost Cause Redivivus: Specch of Jeff Davis in Atlanta, Ga.; Bold Defence of the Rebel- Non—A Southern Philosopber: Ex-Governor Orr, of South Carolina, on the Political Situa- Non—Running Notes, Political and_General— Great Fire tn Bridgeport, Conn.—Rome: The Papal Guaraptees Bill and Its Principal Modt- fications—The Insurance Congress: Fifth Day's Froceccings—Real Estate Matters—German June Warbiers—Contradictory Connolly—Kul- Jed by Falling from a Pacific Railroad Bri G—The Methodist Book Concern: Findings and Ar- guments of the Book Committee—Casualties on the Hudson—Bonner Has the Eyes of Dela- ware Upon Him—Young Communists—Trot- ting at Fleetwood Park—Che National Game— A Curious Will Case—The Filterer’s Fatal Fall—Liz Carro!l’s Baby—Proceedings in the Courts—New York Centra! Railroad Taxes— army and Naval Ordere—Accident ou the Har- HERALD, lem Railroad, 6—Edit is: Leading Article, “The Commune at Last Extinguished—The Chaotic Condition of pe—What Is to Be the Result ?’—Amuse- ment Announcements, Y—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)— France: Terrible Vengeance of the Versailiist Authorities; Drumhead Courts Martial and Summary Executious—Miscellaneoas — Tele- grams—Local News—Amusements—Yacht- ing—Business Notices. S—Financial and Commercial Reports—Cattle Ket—Domeslle Markets—Egbert's Exit— Poisonous Prattiers—Ku Klux Wanted in Westchester—Proceedinys in the Board of Aldermeu—Marriages and Deaths—adyertise- ments. 9—Acveri ents, 10—Ptingsten: Whit-Monday Among the Teutons— German Peace Jubilees—The State Canital— Obituary and Local News—Shipptug lutelil- gence—-Advertisements, 41—Acivertisements, 12—Advertisemeuts. Paris was considered secure in her encircling enceinte and fortifications; but what have these defences done for the city? After all, they have caused its ruin. Had Paris been as defenceless as London, in the way of walls and fortifications, it is not likely that the city would have suffered the starvation of a German siege, or the slaughters and incer- diary fires of the Commune. So, for the future security of Paris, it would be best if her walls and fortifications were levelled to the ground. Tuz Governor GeNERAL OF CANADA is @aid by the provincial press to have deter- mined to sign the Treaty of Washington with- out awaiting any consultation with Parliament, and according to the tenor of one despatch we would infer that he has already signed it. The Queen of England, of course, will sign it also at her pleasure, and so of all the nations interested in this matter; our own is the only one where the Chief Executive awaits the decision of any representative body of the people. Some matter of pride,"this, for us who glory in the sovereignty of the people; but after the way in which the Senate worked at the treaty we cannot say that this pariicu- lar instance redounded much to our glory. Tar Goveryor has disapproved of the Code Amendment bill, the bill abolishing the office of Canal Commissioner, the bill relative to insane persons, and over a hundred and thirty others, among them a number of bills creating trust companies, savings banks and other corporations. The special bills for the crea- tion of trust companies, &c., have been. steadily discountenanced by the Governor from the first, so that there has never been any doubt 2s to the disposition he would make of them, but the other more important bills have been lively subjects of discussion among the public ever since their passage, especially the obnoxious Code amendment. The Govy- ernor’s vetoes agaln strike in the right place. Goverxor Oxr isa sound, sensible South- ern democrat of the conservative stripe. A Heraxp reporter had an interview with him yesterday, and he expressed the most reasonable views on the Ku Klux and Southern political questions that we have yet heard from Southern politicians of eminence. He said of course there were Ku Klux in his State, wild young fellows from the rebel army, but that Wade Hampton and other leading men there could recall them from their midnight maraud- ing with a word if they would. But they feel sore over their own disfranchisement, and do not care to doit. South Carolina has thirty thousand more negroes than whites, and, he said, would always go republican, unless the white democrats learn enough to accept the situation and wheedle the negro out of his vote, Chaotic Condition of Europe—What Is to Be the Result? We live in times which for thelr revola- tionary character have had few parallels in the world’s history. The Deluge, the Exodus, the Captivity, the fall of Babylon, the destruction of Jerusalem, the collapse of the Roman empire, the Crusade outburst, the Reformation, the first French Revolution, the gold discoveries in Cali‘ornia and Australia, our great civil war—thesé'are the grand his- toric epochs of which we are forcibly reminded by the events which are now taking place in France, and, indeed, all over Europe. The latest sensation is thé extinction of the Paris Communists—the men who have revived the Vandalism of the barbarians of the North who destroyed the Roman empire, and who have re-enacted the worst scenes of the first French Revolution, Paris is once more in the hands of the representatives of order, and the heart of the world is gladdened at the pros- pect of France being restored to herself. At the same time we feel it to be impossible to look at the events of which Paris is still the scene to consider the wretched condition of France, and, indeed, the condition of Evrope generally, without pausing and asking the question, whether the end of another his- toric epoch has not been reached, and whether the fearful predictions of the bards and seers of ancient Israel are not now, to a large extent, at least, being fulfilled? Cer- tainly, so far as Papal Rome and imperial France—the mother and the eldest son—are concerned, the vials of Divine wrath are being emptied. Which of the seals is being opened we know not, Most certainly, however, there has been a great earthquake; there has been no lack of blood and fire and vapor of smoke ; and thera are not a few to whom the sun has become black as sackcloth of hair and the moon as blood. If the heavens have not departed asa scroll and the mountains been moved from their places, it has to be admitted that the kings of the earth, and the great men and the rich men, and the chief captains and the mighty men, bave been made to tremble. The Papacy, the most ancient of all existing European monarchies, tho power which more than any other has given shape and character to our Christian civiliza- tion, is now the dependent of Tialy. France, whose pride it has been for many generations to be the protector of the Chair of St. Peter, has fallen, and to all appearance fallen forever, Austria, too, so long a main pillar of the Papacy, is, with the whole of South Germany at her back, on the verge of a great religious revolu- tion similar to that which shook the world in the sixteenth century. Italy and Spain strug- gle into new life, but the new life wanders away from its ancient religious centre. The empire of Cuarlemagne, of Otho, of the Great Frederick, after the lapse of many years, has been revived; but in the restored empire there is no place provided for the spiritual Chief before whom of old kings trembled and haughty emperors bowed the knee. In the Holy Roman empire the theory was—and the practice was all along more or less consistent with the theory—that the imperial crown was the gift of the Vicar of Christ. Looking at the Papacy in connection with the restored Ger- man empire, and remembering the days of Hildebrand and Heary the Fourth, and the days of Alexander and Barbarossa, we cannot help exclaiming, how are the mighty fallen! It is not to be denied that the fall of the temporal power of the Papacy is one of the greatest historical events in many centuries, That the Ho!y Father is comfortably provided for we are satisfied; that as the spiritual chief of a large religious body he will continue to be useful we must admit; but the thunders of the Vatican will never again terrify the nations. Like the divine right of kings, the lofty pretensions of the Papacy must be abandoned forever. On France the Papacy has leaned for the last twenty years. With France it has fallen. With the collapse of France and the fall of the temporal power, the Latin or Romance nations have lost whatever they had of unity andstrength. The star of empire shines in the northern sky. Religious and political troubles are not wholly confined to the south of Europe. We have already alluded to the religious excite- ment which exists in Austria and South Ger- many, There are some who seem disposed to belittle the Déllinger movement. If Dr. Dillinger stood alone, it might be safe to do so. He is a man far advanced in life, and in the natural course of events he must soon pass away from the scenes of human strife. But he is not slone. He has the sympathy of the most intelligent Catholics, not in Germany alone, but all over the world. One of the latest addresses of sympathy which he re- ceived was from a body of priests in Naples— showing that outside of Germany he finds en- couragement and support. Our readers have not forgotten the letter addressed to him by Father Hyacinthe. He is on the best of terms with the King of Bavaria and the imperial family of Austria. In spite of the excommuni- cation he continues to lecture to the students, although for the present he wisely refrains from officiating at the altar. His associates in this movemeat, Dr. Friedrich, Dr. Schulte, Professor Huber, Dr. Michelis and others, are quite equal to Dr. Déllinger in learning and influence; and we are not permitted to doubt that were he recalled from these scenes his mantle would be caught by another Elisha, Atthe present moment the question is being vigorously discussed ih Bavaria whether the decrees of the Vatican Council have not actually created a new religion, and conse- quently a religion contrary {to the re- quirements of the Bavarian constitution. But what sball we say of Austria and her political difficulties? The condi- tion of the Austrian empire is anything but satisfactory. She is doing her best to satisfy the peoples and yet ,to preserve the form of unity. Hungary has obtained autonomy; but Bohemia and some of the other sections clamor for what Hungary has won, Then, again, the German population of Austria proper fret at being shut out of the new German empire. The Hapsburg empire is anything but satisfactory. At best buta rope of sand, it may break up all of a sudden or be compelled to seek a new centre in Pesth, The prospects of Germany are no doubt bright; but signs are not wanting that much hard work must be gone through, and possibly LLL NEW YUKK HERALD, TUESDAY, some painful experience, before the new empire is consolidated. Too much as yet depends on the life of one man, Russia and Great Britain, -strong as they are, peaceful and prosperous as they are, have much to dread from internal dangers and from foreign foos. Germany has become a kind of terror to them both. Englishmen are already dream- ing dreams, and in imagination seeing the spiked helmet of the terrible Prussian on Eng- lish soil. From the North Sea to the Medi- terranean—from the Atlantic to the confines of Asia—there are everywhere signs of change—political and religions unrest, - Men's minds are filled with wonder and alarm as they study passing events and peer into the future. What is to be the result? Is the Pope once again to be restored to his position as a tem- poral prince? Is the Hyacinthe and Dullinger Movement to die as so many such movements have died—a natural death? Is France once more to fall under the heel of despotism? Or is the past to be entirely swept away and the departure made en- tirely new? To these questions we can- not say either “yea” or “nay.” The possi- bilities are numerous—the probabilities few. Much depends on France. If M. Thiers can give to France a solid, strong, yet popular government, the revolutionary tide may be partially checked and a general European convulsion avoided. The fall of the Commune has given M. Thiers his oppor- tunity. Wedo not say that he should recall the Emperor or restore the empira in any form, or that he should restore the Bourbons, younger or elder, or that he shonld insist upon the republic, His duty clearly is to consult the wishes of the French people, and, in con- formity with these wishes, to set about the establishment of a government strong and Itkely to endure. This can only be done by calling upon the people to elect a new Assembly, Let President Thiers do this with- out delay; let it be distinctly understood that the new Assembly shall have the power to decide upon the future form of government, and whatever be the voice of the people— whether it calls for the Bonapartes, for the Bourbons or for a republic—let that voice be obeyed. Delay is dangerous. If the Presi- dent does not show some vigorous activity in this directiot. Gambetta may leap into power, rally France around him and repeat the réle of the First Napoleon. M. Thiers has behaved with so much firmness hitherto that he has a claim on our confidence; and the presumption is that with the fall of the Commune France will find peace. It is not, however, permitted us to think that the restoration of order in France will undo what has been done during the last nine months. There is but small chance that it will restore the temporal power of the Papacy. It will not check the progress of liberalism in Italy and Spain. It will not stay the course of events in Austria, Most certainly it will not prevent Germany from reaping the full fruit of her glorious vic- tories, If all our good bopes and good wishes should fail—if the end should yet be found to be afar off—we see for France and Europe a dark, dreary and desolate future. Let us re- joice that our lines have been cast in more pleasant places; and, while we sorrow for those who suffer, let us find comfort in the thought that out of al! this chaos may come a beiter and wiser France—a nobler Europe. Latest News from Paris and Versnilles. Now that the reign of the Commune is over, Paris is gradually quieting down and approach- ing a condition of peace. The last bands of the insurgents have laid down their arms, and military rale now prevails all over the city. General Vinoy is Governor of Paris, and no one is permitted to leave the city without a pass signed by Marshal MacMahon. The final straggles of the insurgents before giving up their last strongholds at Belleville, Menilmon- tant and Pére la Chaise are described as despe- rate. No quarter was given to man, woman or child. It was wholesale slaughter, if we are to bolieve the telegrams which come to us from Parisand Versailles. The troops of both forces were infuriated, the one bz the terrible deeds which distinguished the course of the Commune in its final defence, the other because they beheld their approaching doom and saw no hope but in a continuation of the struggle. It was with feelings such as these that the final fight was carried on to a despe- rate and deadly conclusion. In the Champ de Mars, where the Parisians many a time and oft have gathered to witness military pageants, numbers of the captured insurgents are now meeting the fate which their evil doings merit, and which the outrages they have committed justify. From forty to one hundred of these unfortunate wretches are brought out of prison ata time and shot down. Nearly every member of the Commune by this time has either been shot or executed, It is in this way that Paris is purging herself of a class which had éver been a source of annoy- ance and dread to the peace and well-being of the capftal, Will this wholly effect a cure and effectually eradicate the evil which had its origin in socialism, flourished in rebellion and opposition to established laws and finally culminated in the death of the Commune? This is a question yet to be determined. According to a despatch which we publish to-day the leaders had pre- pared their plans, in case of defeat, to fall back apon Belgium and in the city of Brussels inaugurate a reign of terror similar to that which they established in Paris, The prompt action of MacMahon, when the movement on the capital was really commenced, prevented the carrying out of this plan. The leaders who conceived the intention of plunging another country into the horrors of rebellion found themselves cooped up in Paris without chance of escape. This, possibly, has saved Belgium from a great calamity. ‘The signs of returning peace are already beginning to make themselves evident in Paris. The Wegt- ern and Orleans railways were reopened yes- terday, and provisions, which were scarce a day or so ago, are again making their appear- ance in the Paris markets, Tne Germans are having peace jubilees all over the country. The ‘Watch on the Rhine” is kept tramping his beat at a tremendous rate, and “Where is the German’s Fatherland ?” has become a moro ingoluble coaundrum than ever, MAY 30, 187L.-TRIPLE “We Are All Ip Here.” Dante never penned a more thrilling line than these words chalked upon the wall‘of the West Pittston mine, just outside of the barricade which the terrified miners erected for their defence against the fire. After the tumultuous excitement that first followed the warning of their peril they hastily but earnestly discussed their chances of escape, and, mindfal of the lessons of the Avondale disaster, decided to build a wall between them and the threaten- ing flames. They worked on the barricade as for life, some of them falling before it was finished into a deathlike stupor on the ground. The solemn scene which ensued can never be forgotten by the survivors. Perhaps ® more vivid narrative than theirs of a face-to-face encounter with death has never beon given. Psychologically it is of the deepest inte- rest. Imprecations and dying groans, mingled with prayers and sacred songs, and tender farewells exchanged between fathers and sons, brothers and friends. But these poor fellows did not leave all hope bebind when they took refuge on the other side of the barricade which they had erected. They felt sure that the most strenuous efforts would be made by their comrades and neighbors, and the inscription which they cha!ked on the wall indicated this confidence in the brave and generous hearts of those who were already secking to rescue them from death, The courage and humanity of the volunteers who eagerly risked their own lives to bring up, dead or alive, their unfortunate brethren cannot be too highly praised. Twenty- one out of the thirty-seven miners were brought up alive. One died shortly after coming out of the mine, and sixteen corpses were recovered. Althongh it is feared that several of those who came up alive may yet die from the effects of the dreadful disaster, yet in point of numbers the loss of life is not to be compared with the Avondale tragedy, which counted one hundred and eight victims. But the anguish of the widows and orpaans of the victims is no less poignant in the former case than in the latter. In both cases, more- over, the weight of responsibility is equally heavy, whatever may have been the dispropor- tion in the numerical results of the catastro- phe. The same sympathetic liberality will be manifested by the public in behalf of the families bereaved by the West Pittston dis- aster as was manifested in behalf of those bereaved by the Avondale disaster. The indignation which led the public to ask who was to blame at Avondale will provoke the same question as to West Pittston. The Avondale jury found nobody to blame particularly, and contented itself with declaring that the system of venti- lation was dangerous, and recommending that all mines should be provided with two open- ings in order to secure means of escape in case of accident. The people, however, as our Wilkesbarre correspondent says, supplied the omissions of the jury, and unanimously agreed that cupidity and reckless disregard of human life on the part of the Avondale mine led to the terrible results. This decision has never keen reversed. The West Pittston jury may be expected to arrive at a more definite verdict than the Avondale jury. It cannot overlook the facts that the immediate causes of the West Pittston accident were not only gross carelessness, but also a criminal violation of the Mine Venti- lation bill passed by the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture. Taat bill, expressly to prevent a repetition of the Avondale horror, provided that no mine could lawfully be worked without having two outlets of escape for the miners, and prohibited the employment of more than twenty men—ten miners and ten Iaborers—at one time in any mine which had but a single outlet. The jury will have to inquire how a mine inspector could have investigated the con- dition of the West Pittston mino only two days before the fire occurred and ‘‘reported every- thing satisfactory,” when he must have known that the provisions of the law had not been complied with, and that the same shaft which caught fire not long ago ‘had not been con- sidered entirely safe in its running gear for some time.” It will have to inquire how far the miners themselves must share the blame of there being thirty-seven men in the mine at the time of the accident, whereas the law strictly forbids more than twenty to be employed at the same time in a mine with buta single shaft. It seems that since the resumption of work ‘‘the mine has been driven to its full capacity in order that the benefit of the increased price of coal might be realized by the proprietors.” The latter cannot evade their responsibility for putting many more men at work than the Mine Ventilation bill allows. Bat tho men themselves, {t appears, have not been altogether blameless in the matter, for an instance is cited by our correspondent, in which they indignantly protested against an official notification that the mine in which they worked ‘‘was employing a number of men contrary to law,” and declared that they would work, law or no law. They thus mani- fested the recklessness which is as charactcr- istic of miners as of sailors, and which has occasioned so many dreadful accidents In the English collieries. Whatever may be the omissions of the West Pittston jury the public, as in the case of the Avondale jury, will supply them, And how- ever much the miners may have been at fault there will be no disposition on the part of the community to diminish the responsibility of the operators, The moral of the whole is wider in its scope than the anthracite coal region. It is this, that the American people, throughout the length and breadth of the land, must recognize the infinite importance of enforcing wise and essential laws, Watt Srreet presented rather more ani- mation yesterday than has been usual for some weeks. The Secretary of the Treasury is reported to have demanded the long-dis- puted tax upon the mammoth scrip dividend declared by the New York Central Railroad Company in 1869, and the ‘‘bears” took it to be a fine opportunity to operate their peculiar tactics. The ‘‘bulls” took up the gauntlet, and a rather lively battle ensued, nightfall leaving the result of the contest somewhat obscure, although the advantages were, strictly speaking, mosfly in favor of the “bulls.” Waar Has Become or THE AVONDALE Foxp?—Now that a fresh mining horror shocks the community the above question be- comes very pertinent, Who can answer it? SHEE#r, “nv ‘The Murder of the Archbishop axd the | Another Spoceh from Joffersen Davie—He Priests of Paris, and the Reason Why. Of all the diabolical atrocities of the hideous Paris Commune its purely devilish assassination of the Archbishop and sixty-nine priests of Paris appears to us the most shock- ing, unless it is true that » number of nans were included in this horrible slaughter of helpless non-combatants. The Archbishop, the Abbé Duguerry and sixty-two other priests were seized by the Commune, im- prisoned and held as hostages, from the day (the 7th of April) when the first direct attack was made by the troops of the French govern- ment upon the Paris Jacobin usurpation. But Marshal MacMahon was in occupation of the city and the Commune was virtually sub- dued when these hostages were murdered, and what object then was there to gain by the Jacobin Club in the slaughter of these poor prisoners? The object of the Commune from first to last was revenge against the empire and all its affiliation, and especially against the Catholic Church and its clergy as the mainstay of the empire, and as the power in the French provinces which was too strong for the red revolutionists of the cities in national plébiscites and national elections. Here is the secret of all these atrocities of the Paris Jacobins, including the pulling down of the Vendéme imperial army column, the burning of the Tuileries, and the murder of the Archbishop Darboy and his religious colaborers and subordinates, held as hostages by the Commune, after the fashion of the banditti of Italy and Greece. Those Jacobins of Paris had a long catalogue of accounts tu settle with the Bonapartes and the empire. One of the firat acts of the first Napoleon, which brought him into the foreground in Paris, was his decisive treatment of the revolutionary reds of his day with grapeshot and canister. Napoleon the Third, in his de- cisive coup d'état of 1851, applied to the same disease the same remedy, and with equal effect; and in keeping down the reds by the strong hand, in Paris and in the other Jacobin infected cities of France, he gave to those cities and to France, for twenty years, a reign of law and order, of peace, progress, power and prosperity which they had never known before and will probably nover kaow again, But during all-those twenty years he had, nevertheless, been inflaming the Jacobin elements of Paris, and organizing them for revenge and heaping up their wrath against the day of wrath. Hence, in the absence of the imperial army, with the news in Paris of the great disaster to the Emperor at Sedan, the immediate uprising of the reds and the proclamation of the repub- lic; hence the fantistic tricks of Gambetta, which so disgusted the French people outside their great cities that, in the midst of the German occupation of their country, they elected a National Assembly, involving not only a condemnation of Gambetta and Com- pany, but involving 9 demonstration, too, of the power and the will of the men of Jaw and order and religion in the provinces against the reds of Paris and the other great cities of France. This power of the French provinces is held by the Catholic peasantry, disciplined to law and order by the Catholic Church, and it is against this power and this law and order policy of the Catholic Church and the Catholic peasantry of France that the Paris Commune has most re- morsely pushed its blind revenge. Henco this savage slaughter of the Archbishop of Paris and his martyred priests. The Com- mune Jacobins saw pretty clearly, when it was too late to escape the consequences of their treason, that the power, the great moral power, which stood behind M. Thiers and the Assembly ‘was the power of the Catholic Church—that it was too strong in France for Communism and Atheism; and here is the ex- planation of the murder of the Archbishop of Paris and his priests. These innocent men, as the representatives of a public sentiment in France stronger than the diabolisms of the Commune, were particularly obnoxious to those Jacobins; but as the blood of the mar- tyrs is the seed of the Church, so may we re-" gard these Jacobin atrocities as guarantees against their repetition by tho will or by the toleration of the French people. “The American Has Precedence Because He Is a Sovereign and You Are a Snb- ject.”” These were the words, according to our Paris correspondent, of Napoleon III. to a French nobleman of high rank when deciding the question of precedence at one of the court balls at the Tuileries between this nobleman and an American citizen. There is a great deal of significance in what the Emperor said as showing the honor of being an American citizen and the position our countrymen may holf abroad if they be oftheright stamp. The misfortune is that many who go to Europe make themselves ridiculous through ignorant pretence and shoddy display. They are too apt to ape the cockaeyism of pretending and vulgar Englishmen. A citizen of old Rome, in the heighth of ils glory, had uot more rea- son to be proud of his position than an Ameri- can has of his citizenship. What a suggestive lesson is there, too, in the words of Napoleon to the downtrodden masses of Europe! How proud Americans ought to be of their birth- right and the glorious republican institutions of their country! Tar Meruopist Boox Conor internecine war growing out of charges made by Rev. Dr. Lanaban, late assistant agent, of frauds in ite management, principally directed against Rev. Dr. Carlton, chief agent, has at length been transferred to the Supreme Court. Rev. Dr. Lanahan, who was, on Saturday last, sus- pended by the Book Committee after three days of secret deliberation, and a complaint served on him the same evening to appear for trial on the 8th of June on the charges origi- nally preferred against him, has, it appears, taken Time by the forelock and yesterday made application before Judge Cardozo, sitting in Chambera, for ® mandamus compelling the Methodist Book Concern to allow him to ex- amine their books of account, Lengthy affidavits were submitted on both sides, when an adjournment took place till Thursday for presentation of further affidavits, after which the subject matter of the present application will be fully argued. The substance of the affidavits, by which it will be seen the case is in as deep a muddle as ever, will be found elsewheres Accepts Nothing. We give our readers this morning a special! report of the speech of the famous ‘Jeff Davis” at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday, with the proceedings on the occasion of his recep- tion there by his admiring fellow citizens of that reconstructed town. And this speech is a very interesting and a very significant speech, and will be read with interest by mem of all parties in this country and in Earope,; as giving us the present opinions of the chief, of the late ‘‘so-called Confederate States” om the existing political situation of those States, and as to the political duties of their people: looking to the future. It will be seen that Mr. Davis does not ac- cept the situation; he only submits to the powers which he can no longer resist. He does not recognize “the arbitrament of war.” The war, in his estimation, has settled noth- ing, or, if it has settled anything, it is only for the time being. He still pleads the constitu. tion and the constitutional principles and the, liberty of State sovereignty. He still believes) in ‘‘the lost cause” and that it is only lost for atime. He does not counsel another Souths ern appeal to arms. He has had enough of that, but he advises the people of Georgia to patience, and to the develop, ment of their material interests and the husbanding of their political strength until the time shall come when they can use it effec- tively as a balance of power in the recovery of their constitutional rights and their State sovereignty. Wo see, too, from the enthusias- tic welcomes given to Mr. Davis by the. sympathizing citizens of Atlanta and other Southern cities and towns, that he speaks the: sentiments of the mass of their people iden-~ tified with the “‘lost cause.” But still the question recurs, Are these speeches of Mr. Davis calculated to do them any good? What will Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, think of the expediency of this Atlanta speech; or what will the Pennsyl- vania democracy think of it after, accepting the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments? What will Mr. John Quincy Adams think of this speech after his apparent success in bringing round the, Northern democracy to the acceptance of the ‘fixed facts” of the war? We judge from the reception of this speech of Mr. Davis at Atlanta that he holds the Southern democracy, witbin bis grasp, and that they will not join the democracy of the North on the platform of Mr, Adams, Mr. Vallandigham and the late Pennsylvania State Convention. Are we, then, to have a third party in the South in the coming Presidential contest? The question rests with Mr. Davis, and, looking to ‘“‘the arbitrament of war,” he accepts nothing. Decoration Day. The tribute of love and honor which the Union loving citizens of our country pay annually to the dead heroes of the war will ba paid again to-day. The graves where the gallant fellows rest will bloom with the flowers of May, and be made beautiful with the most appropriate offerings of this lovely season of peace. Erect no monuments to commemerate/ the victories of a civil war, was the old Roman injunction, How much more fitting, then, is the touching tribute of flowers over th humble resting places of brave soldiers, whose glorious deeds are denied the commemoration’ of monuments! The programme of the display to-day is # very extensive one in this city, Brooklyn, Washington and other cities, and at all thé national cemeteries, The dead in Greenwood and Cypress Hills, in old Trinity churchyard, where gallant Phil Kearny sleeps his last sleep; at Arlington, at Andersonville, where thirteen thousand poor fellows pined away their lives for the Union— the graves of all—will be fittingly decorated by those for whom they died. In this city a grand procession will form in Union square, composed of the National Guard, the various Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, soldiers and sailors’ orphans from the Uniom Home and School, crippled veterans from the Soldiers’ Home and other invited guests, and thence march down Broadway to South ferry,; and out Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, to Cypress Hills and Greenwood. In the evening inter- esting exercises will be held at the Academy of Music, when the children will sing, the Governor's Island Band will discourse sweet music and addresses will be delivered by wil- liam M, Evart3 and Rev. Dr. Tyng. ( The day promises to be a pleasant one, but a slight shower will not deter loving hearts an@ hands from carrying out their labor of love. The custom is a beautiful one that should not be suffered to fall into disuse. Whatever changes and revolutions the turmoil of politics may bring about our people are not willing that the memories of the graves of the mem who fought the good fight should ever be aught but green. The Herald as a Religions Teachor—Aa Honest Testimony. In our columns yesterday was an interesting report of the services in the Metropolitax Methodist church, Washington. On the occa- sion Dr. Newman, the pastor of the church, resigned his pulpit to the dele- gates of the Young Men’s Christian As- sociation. Among the speakers was Mr. Mclean, from Canada, who, in alluding to the many agents and influences now enlisted: on the right side and vigorousty helping on the good cause, spoke of the invaluable aid which the New York Hsratp was ren- dering to the cause of Christ by its reports of sermons and by its religious editorials. This is but a sample of the kind of testimony which reaches us every day from all parts of the United States, and even, as in this case, from the New Dominion and the other British provinces. In far-away places, where it is impossible to see or hear the great men of the cities, the Herap of Sunday and Monday is welcomed as a special messenger of good news and glad tidings. The old story of the cross is felt to be refreshing when thus caught from the lips of the wise and the eloquent. The Heratp finds its way into homes where no priest or parson enters. It is grasped by hands that seldom turn the leaves of the Holy Book, It is read by men and women who sel- dom hear arermon. Reproducing, as it docs, the best sermons of the Sunday, and redeliver- ing them, 80 to speak, on Monday to its mil- lions of readers, and accompanying these ser. mons with well couceived and well written comm