The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1871, Page 9

‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1871-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Velume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOIN AND EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broa: corner 0th st,—Perform- (ances every oon and THREE BLIND MioK. wessoee THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— NIBLO'S GARD: Pavt CLIrFop; om BAARDEN, Broa \ 7. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th ay. ana 23d st.— ‘Tax Tasker Huncusacks. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.~Pomr—Tuk Watcu we ere AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Naur. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz Ewmorio: Pray or East LYNxr. vif hasan? BOOTH’S THEATRE, 24 st, between 6th and 6th avs.— ‘TER Man o' AIZLIE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Linp—Jaok SUEPPARD, Ac. iia a! MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— AoR0ss THE CONTINENT, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Taropons Tomas’ SuMNER NicuTs' ConceRts. DR, KAHN'S AxATOMIOAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BoikNcE AND Ax’ TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, June 17, 1871. —= CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. ‘Pace. 1—Advertisements. @-- Advertisements. S—Pio Nono: The Twonty-fifth Anniversary of the Pontificate; Sketcnes of the Career of Pius IX.; Celebration of the Jubilec in the Me- tropelis and Elsewhere; Music, Masses, Prayers aud Pyrotechnics, @—Narvagansett Park Kaces: Fine Weather, lm- mense Concourse of Spectators and Excitin; Sport—ltodian Legislation: Grand Council o! elegates in the Indian Territery—Another Polar Expedition—The Gallow: vice Con- victed and ‘fwice sentenced; Justice at Last —Coal Miners’ Celebration: A Gala Day in the Wyoming Valley—The Bigamist Conta- rini—The Viaduct Raliroal—New York Ciiy News-—state Sunday School Convention—Not ‘That Fox. 6—The Lanahan Trial: The Investigation Began— Were ‘hey All Potsoned ?—Foreign Persouat Gossip—Clever C: pocket—Rowing —Financial and Com- mercial Reports— wes and Deaths. G—Euitorials: Leading Article, “Rome, Berlin, Paris, Washington—The Great nts of the Day—Shadow and Sunshine’’—amusement Announcements, ‘J—War in the Corea: Important News from the Asiatic Squadron—Battie With the Voreans— News from France—Entry of the German ‘Troops Into Berlin—News from Rome, Eng- land, Spain, Sweden and Norway and India— important from Mexico: Capture of Tampico— Views of the Pasi—Vallandigham Shot—Bust- ness Notices. S—The Public Health: First Annual Report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of “eed of New York, April 11, 1870, April 10, ome ‘public Health (Continued from Eighth Page|—Statistics of Commerce and Naviga- tuon—Brooklyn = Affairs—Fisk’s Favoriles— ‘School Exercises at Morrisania, 10—Pio Nino (continued from Third Page;—News | from Washington—Yachting—Shipping Intel- ligence—Advertisements. Ai—New York City Couris—freemasonry ana the New Capitol—Keport of we Law Department of the City of New York—R: tot the Board of Excise—City Goverumeot: Board of Assist- ant Aldermei—Where to Buiid the Viaduct Ratiroad—The Royal Havana Lottery All Right—Killed on the Hudson River Raliroad— Suictie of a Fnendiess Woman~—The Cadets | Let Loose~Doubie Tragedy in Jefferson City, | 10. 12—Advertisements. A PROCLAMATION FROM THE INTERNATION- ALE.—The Internationale, or Society of Reds and Communists extending to all civilized na- tions, have issued a proclamation in which they say that, thongh disarmed, they are not con- quered, and are still a hundred thousand strong; that their misfortunes are due to Trochu, Favre, capitalists and the priesthood ; that the Internationale accepts the responsi- bility of the late conflagrations, and that now these men of anarchy are going to try their strength at the polls. Sothey go; and so they are strengthening the elements of despotism which, through their stupid excesses, these Jacobins think it is their mission to destroy, that they may themselves riot in their ill- gotten plunder. Tae Viapuct Raitway.—A correspondent proposes that viaduct railways be built along each river front, and that they be intersected at short intervals by crosstown routes. He thinks this would be better solution of the problem of rapid transit than the railway pro- posed in the centre of the city. We believe it is the intention to build riverside railways in “the future similar to the proposed viaduct along the Broadway route, thus giving us three direct routes up and down town. But evidently the central one is the one in most demand just now, apd there is no use agitating the subject of the others until we have that. One suggestion we wish to impress strongly upon the directors of the viaduct route, how- ever, and that is that its lower terminus should be at the Battery instead of the City Hall, Tue Foreicners Servinc mm tHe Com. «cNe.—From an article recently published we have been able to obtain some facts in relation to the nationality of the men who were serving the Paris Commune in prominent positions. Of foreigners the Poles hold the first place. The names of twenty are given who eccupied military, medical and political places. Next in order come the Italians, who figure to the number of nine; then the Germans, with six Tepresentatives ; the Wallachians, two; and then the English, Portuguese, Prussians, Hun- garians, Belgians, Spaniards and. Duich, one each. General Cluseret, Delegate of War, and Dr. Witton, Surgeon Major of the Seventy- second battalion, are set down as the Ameri- cans in the list. Tux INTERNATIONAL SocIETY AND THE Ferenc Assrmpiy.—An animated discussion took place yesterday in the National Assem- bly of France regarding the late insurrection in Parie. M. Hautjens attacked the party of the Left, and pronoucced the members of it as fosterers of the revolutionary spirit. This brought M, Tolain to his feet, who defended with much warmth the International Society, but denounced Napoleon, who, he said, was willing that the society might circulate a docu- ment throughout France, provided he was eulogized ina paragraph inserted in the paper. A committee was, after some debate, ap- pointed to inquire into the causes which led to the insurrection, and M. Tolain promises to appear before it with documeuiasy evidence, of a Female Pick- | Rome, Berlin, [aris, Washington—Tho Great Events of the Day—Shadow and Sunshine. It is our privilege to live in times which are exceptionally full of great events. Ours is a period of convulsion. All the forces in the heavens above and in the earth beneath and in the waters under the earth seem to be let loose ; and events imposing by their magnifi- cence and startling by their suddenness crowd upon us after a fashion which has no parallel in the history of all the past. We think of the Deluge, of the confasion of tongues, of the Exodus, of the Captivity, of the dispersion, of the fall of Rome, of the crusade period, of the renaissance, of the Reformation, of the first French Revolution, of the great gold dis- coveries in California and Australia, of our own civil war, and we feel that once more those mysterious revolutionary influences which have so often changed the face of things in the past and given the nations and peoples new points of departure are again at work, If ever creation groaned and travailed, it is groaning and travailing now. Were mighty events—events which compelled the attention of mankind—ever so crowded together? To natjons as to individuals, was the cup of des- tiny ever so full? Was it ever drained to the dregs with so much of Joy or so much of sor- row? Berlin, Paris, Rome, Washington, each to-day commands attention; and it is univer- sally felt that in those great centres of human life and thought movements have just been made or are being mado the result of which must be great good or great evil to the whule family of man. Yesterday was a great day in Rome, and among the adherents of Rome all the world over. To-day and to-morrow will be equally memorable in the same connection... Popo Pius the Ninth has, happily or unhappily, lived to see the twenty-fifth anniversary of his election to the chair of St. Peter. In itself this is an event of considerable historical im- portance. Accordiag to trasted authorities two hundred and fifty-nine bishops have ruled in Rome, Of these two hundred and fifty- nine St. Peter and Pops Pius the Ninth are the only two who have reigned twenty-five years, Ii is not possible to ignore the impor- tance of this great historic fact. Most justly, most becomingly, does the Catholic Church make it the occasion of a graad jubilee. The event derives additional importance from the peculiar position of the Holy Father and from the events of which Rome is so soon to be the scene. On the Ist of July, unless the programme is altered, the government of Italy will be trans- ferred from Fiorence to Rome, and the City of the Seven Hills—the ancient capital of the ; Cmsars, the city hallowed by the lives and labora of many pious pontiffs—will lose its sacred character and become one of the secu- lar capitals of the world. To-day the Pope rejoices; then the Pope will mourn. To-day Rome is given up to the Church; then Rome will be given up to the world. On the Ist of July the Papal temporalities, associated with the pious memories of Constantine, of Pepin, of Charlemagne, will recsive their death-blow, and amid the glitter and show of a military triumph Victor Emmanuel, as King of United Ttaly, will make Rome his headquarters, the Pope, meanwhile, in what he calls his own city, becoming once again the subject of a hated sovereign. From the jubilee to the occupation of Rome—how few the intervening days, but how mighty the leap! Rome, however, is not the only centre of interest in these eventful times, Yesterday the German soldiers entered the Prussian capital in triumph; and what with its rows of captured guns, its countless eagles and other precious trophies of war, its floral arches, its illustrious strangers, from the sovereign Czar of Russia to the sovereign citizen of free America, Berlin presented a scene of magnificence which to many will revive the memory of Paris in the days of the First Napoleon and recall the triumphs of imperial Rome, when Rome, protected and adorned by the Casars, shone in all the pride of her imperial splendor and was the un- disputed mistress of the world. To our minds the show which Berlin made yester- day is insignificant when compared with the great fact of which the show is the symbol. As the occupation of Rome means that Italy is no longer divided, so the Berlin triumph indicates that Germany is one, that the dreams of poets and patriots have become reality, and that the empire of Charlemagne, of Otho the Great and of the Red-Bearded Frederic, has been revived. It indicates more—it gives substantial proof to the world that the Teuton has become the master of Europe, and that henceforth the star of empire is to be sought in the Northera sky. Berlin and Rome, however, are not the only points of interest in these eventful days. It is scarcely necessary to mention Paris. She has spoken out so emphatically for herself that there is the less need to state her case. As one of the great facts of the times it has to be recorded that France bas fallen from her high estate; and it is impossible to close our eyes to what seems a certainty—that whether she reappears before the world seeking her place among the nations as a republic, as & monarchy or as an empire, she will not soon be a terror to any of her neighbors. The fall of the Commune must not be overlooked in the summing up of the great events of the day. Deplorable as the second siege of Paris must be considered, it must ever be regarded as an immense gain to humanity, for the simple reason that it has swept out of existence a class of men who were the enemies not of France and Europe alone, but of civilization. And what shall we say of Washington? Simply this: that the name within the last few weeks has been associated with a treaty which has bound the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family in one, and that the Treaty of Washington will be remembered in the great future as one of the grandest triumphs of civilization in the nineteenth century. The destruction of the temporal power of the Pope and the consequent resurrection of Rome as the capital of Italy; the fall of France and the restoration under the most promising auspices of the German empire; the Treaty of Washington, not only prevent- ing war between the two branches of the most advanced living race, but uniting those two { \ branches of the same glorious stock in the bonds of true. brotherhood—these are the three great outstanding facts of these times, and, as we think, the healthful influence of these facts on the future of mankind is incalcu- lable. Rome as the capital of Italy can no longer be a source of disquiet to Italians, It can as little afford an opportunity to the am- bitious statesmen of France. This, as we think, is a gain to civilization. France has for many generations been the only disturbing nationality in the European system, France is shorn of her aggressive strength, and she is bound to keep the peace for some generations. This, too, we think a gain to civilization. Germany has become all but a unit, and thus realized the dreams of ages. She professes to be satisfied. Unless she belies her professions we must re- gard German triumph as a gain to civilization. The Washington Treaty prevents the destruc- tion of those forces which have carried civili- zation from sea to sea and from the rivers to the ends of the earth—forces which are doing more than all other forces combined to make the kingdoms of this world the kingdom of our God. We think this a gain to civilization. Altogether, we must admit that in spite of the sorrows of the Holy Father and in spite of the miseries of France, and in spite of the grumblings of gome of our near neighbors, right to-day is in the main triumphant. So may it always be! Leave Kome for Corsicat-Hopo Your Holiness. The Pope will go to Corsica—says, rather vaguely, our cable despatch—as soon as King Victor Emmanuel will make his entry into Rome, leaving us to infer that the Pope will rather submit to dreary exile than have his authority overshadowed by that of the King. We have had so many rumors of this sort that we can scarcely give credence to the present report. And yet there is some ground for the rumor after all. But a few weeks back we found a curious little paragraph in one of the French papers, which we republished among our miscellaneous items, to the effect that a lady and gentleman of high rank were pre- paring a casile in Ajaccio, the capital of the Island of Corsica, for some guest of exalted position, and that strong indications pointed to his Holiness the Pope as the guest whose arrival in Corsica was expected. Connect this vague ramor and that, and they acquiro a singular coherency. Still we are disinclined to believe that the Pope will leave the capital of Catholic Chris- tianity, and at so short a notice; for the King is expected some time next mona in Rome. It is rather too late in the day for him to be- come a wanderer in the world—to deprive himself of the much-needed rest during the brief space of life that can yet be his lot. Does his Holiness wish to imitate the example of his predecessors who retired to Avignon and there awaited better times—watched and waited, until at last they were triumphantly reinstated in the Vatican? Times are changed and history does not repeat itself; so his Holi- ness or his successor might vainly wait for the desired reinstatement into temporal power. Give up Rome, with all its sacred associa- tions, and retire to the remote and insignificant Island of Corsica—with all due respect to his Holiness, we must say—would be a desperate and suicidal step. The scheme might have been mooted in council and found favor with the irreconcileables, but that the Pontiff seriously contemplates leaving Rome, we re- peat it, we are for the present inclined to doubt. Not, Avother Blockmailer on the Warpath. We have had very frequent occasions for cautioning the public against the attempts of newspaper blackmailers. The Heratp, from its superior influence, is the journal most favored by these worthless piratical Bohemians, who, with the sesame of ‘‘HERALD reporter,” succeed in unguarded moments in making victims of all who listen to them. The first of a late series of raids that has come to our knowledge is that of a scoundrel, yet un- known, who on Sunday last selected Brook- lyn as the scene of his operations. He first interviewed Boss McLaughlin, of that ilk, and after him District Attorney Morris, the resalt being that he so set these worthies by the ears that the whole political fabric of the City of Churches, of which they are the main props, was threatened with dissolution. Noth- ing appearing in the Henaxp, however, as the result of the interviewing, and it being but too evident that both parties were egregiously sold, the threatened storm blew over and peace was restored, The worst feature in the operations of the Bohemian in the case referred to, and in others in which he has since then figured, is that he not only represents himself as a HERatp re- porter, but has actually assumed the name of an old attaché of the paper, the better to carry out his nefarious practices. Once more we would caution our readers against trusting or putting faith in the representations of any persons purporting to belong to the Heratp corps of writers. All attachés of the Hzratp employed on any special business carry with them for presentation the proper credentials of their office. If there are people green enough to be sold by blackmailing Bohemians after all that has been written about them, it is no wonder that the business has its attrac- tions for the worthless and depraved. Tue Pope's Jupiceg iN THE City.—The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pope’s reign in this city was a faithful expression of the affection cherished by the Roman Catholics of New York for the head of the Church. The celebration may have yielded in splendor, but not in spontaneous devotion, even to Rome, the seat of the Roman Catholic world. In another column will be found an account of the ceremonies, with the life of the Pope. Exgovtion at Irnaca.—Yesterday after- noon Ferguson, the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Lunger, near Ithaca, in March, 1870, under circumstances of peculiar barbarity, expiated his crime upon the gallows. Ferguson was man of little intellect, and for that reason strenuous efforts had been made to have his sentence commuted, but without effect, The acenes at the execution wete but a repetition of those usual on such occasions—the culprit forgave his enemies, was assured of a happy immortality and ‘‘died game,” Very Interesting News from Washington—An Extraordinary Battle in the Corea and a Fine Openieg for the Reconstruction of the Chinese Empire. We have some yery interesting news from Washington touching a matter brought before a Cabinet meeting yesterday. Our despatch says that Secretary Robeson, of the Navy Department, at this Cabinet meeting intro- duced a despatch, via San Francisco, from Ad- miral Rodgers, commanding the United States Asiatic squadron, giving an account of a fight between the Chinese on the Corean peninsula and the combined forces of the Americans and Europeans connected with their squadrons in those waters. Admiral Rodgers, it is under- stood, was conveying to the Corea a number of the natives of that country whom he had rescued from shipwreck. His inten- tion was to illustrate the humane prin- ciples of the Western nations in con- trast with the barbarities of the Coreans, who not long ago had murdered the crew of a French vessel wrecked on their coast. But it appears that the boats’ crews from the French, English, Prussian and American ves- sels on this benevolent mission were fired upon by the Chinese, that a fight ensued, in which the Chinese were punished, and that Admiral Rodgers had intimated that the fight would ba resumed next day, It is supposed that the Chinese were, per- haps, not aware of the object of the expedi- tion, and they may have judged it to be a descent of ‘‘the outside barbarians” upon their territory for no good purposes. In any event they have, no doubt, received a terrible thrash- ing, and have had their eyes opened to the folly of fighting the ‘‘red-headed barbarians” of the distant nations of the West. The Corea is a large peninsula of nearly six hundred miles in length and over two kundred miles wide, lying between the Yellow Sea of China and the Sea of Japan. It pays tribute to the Chinese Emperor, although it is practi- cally a kingdom of itself. The peninsula is a wild, mountainous region, and the sea on both sides is studded with islands, The people are represented as a well made race and polished in their manners; but from the geographical advantages of their peninsula, with its inac- cessible retreats, and from the numerous islands along their coasts, their temptations to enter into the business of piracy have been very strong. It appears, too, that all that we have learned of them for many years past has been in connection with ships wrecked and plundered in their treacherous waters and from ships’ crews murdered by those polished people. In fact, in all those waters contiguous to China, as in the archipelagoes of Australasia, piracy, which is aregular profession of the natives, has be- come a great nuisance to all ‘‘outside bar- barians,” and it seems to be increasing with their trade with those regions. The coalition of the French, English, Prus- sians and Americans, entered into for the pun- ishment of the piratical Chinese of the Corea, makes a fine opening for a decisive settlement, by a similar coalition, with China, and for a reconstruction of the Chinese policy of inter- course and reciprocity with civilized nations. The Burlingame treaty oa all sides has become a dead letter. The Chinese Emperor is evi- dently encouraging throughout his dominions the policy of treachery and hostility to all “outside barbarians.” He needs a visit at Pekin, from a strong military force, com- petent to capture the city and to hold it a few years as security for the fulfilment of a new treaty to be extorted from him at the point of the bayonet, Ten thousand American and English soldiers and marines, with their supe- rior weapons and discipline, would be suffi- cient for the captare and occupation of Pekin against even half a million of Chinese; but if France, Germany and Russia can be induced to join in the expedition, so much the better. We hope that General Grant will, from this affair in the Corea, take the hint, and proceed to the adoption of measures looking to an armed coalition for a satisfactory treaty of peace with China. American Jockey Club Races. This is the last day of the spring meeting of the American Jockey Club races. There are five events on the card, all of which will be interesting. These comprise, first, a mile anda quarter dash between eight of the fine three-year-olds that have been in training at Jerome Park for some time, among them the flying filly Salina, who ran at Lexington, Ky., last month, a mile in one minute and forty- three seconds, which is the fastest time on the record. The second race will be for the Con- solation Premium, and, as many will like the consolation of winning it, a good effort will be made to secure the prize. The third race will be a dash of three miles between Helmbold, Aldebaran and Catina. Then will followa match between Echo, with 105 pounds up, and Vitesse, with 87 pounds, for $500 a side, two miles, the meeting winding up witha match between Climax and Overland, for $500, each carrying 150 pounds, The pool-selling last night was principally confined to the race between the three-year- olds, Salina being a great favorite. The following are a few of the pools sold :— Salina.. 560 «810 250 600 br Fanchon . 85 110 30 40 150 Lord Byron. 20 50 20 a 35 35 50 25 45 85 45 50 20 40 35 6s Bt +4 3 1% 25 45 50 Nathan Uaks. 20 10 *The last pool was sold leaving Salina out. Give tae Repvsiio A Farr Caance.—Mo- tions have been introduced into the National Assembly of France providing for the pro- longation of the powers of both the Assembly and M. Thiers for a term of two years. We hope the measure will pass, as it will tend to not only strengthen the executive, but will also have the effect of silencing the use- less clamor raised by those who are ene- mies of republicanism that the present govern. ment is only a makeshift, and but the pro- logue to a monarchy. Accent To Mr, VALLANDIGHAM.—A painful and it is feared fatal accident hap- pened to Mr. Clement L, Vallandigham yesterday at Lebanon, Ohio. Mr. Vallan- digham was counsel of defence in a murder trial, and, while explaining to his associate counsel his theory concerning the case, took from a table a pistol, which ex- ploded while in his hands, the ball entering his groio, inflicting a serious if not fatal wound, Progress of the Democracy os Their “New Departure.’? The democracy of Iows have struck into the path of the “‘new departure.” According to a democratic contemporary of the Monsieur Mantilini school, who undertakes to cipher out “the demnition total,” the enlightened Iowa democrats, after floundering about for ten years in the Dismal Swamp of dead issues, “accept the situation.” But why do they ac- cept it? Because, as the ingenuous Mantilini says, they wish “‘to adapt their utterances to the bigotry, the ignorance and the narrow prejudice of men who have voted with the re- publican party hitherto, and who have come sincerely to believe the falsehoods of repub- lican politicians and journals that democrats are impolitic at heart rather than patriotic” on the back track to Buchanan. This new de- parture, then, is a mere gull trap. This is, indeed, a new rendering of the old play of “She Stoops to Conquer.” But the move- ment is going ahead. The hint was given from Tammany Hall, the opening argument was thrown out by Mr. John Quincy Adams, the ball was set in motion in Ohio by Mr, Vallandigham, and, “right about face,” the democracy have since rolled it through Pennsylvania to the Ohio river, and down that beautiful river to Ken- tucky, and thence up the mighty Mississippl to Iowa, and so, from State to State, they will keep “‘the ball a rolling on” till the meeting of the grand National Democratic Sanhedrim of 1872. What then? Then, and before that day, we shall learn what this new departure really means. It means at present that, after fight- ing the issues settled by the war down to the late Connecticut election, the result in Con- necticut, from the ‘‘nigger balance of power,” left no alternative to the astonished democracy but the acceptance of the thirteenth, four- teenth and fifteenth amendments, including negro emancipation, negro civil and political equality, negro suffrage and all. In accepting the situation, then, and ‘‘the constitution as it is,” the Northern democracy simply accept Uncle Tom ‘‘as a man and a brother.” Under ‘‘the constitution as it was,” in the good old democratic days of Buchanan, and by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, persons of African descent had “‘no rights which white men were bound to respect.” And this was the constitution of the democracy down to the late Connecticut election, Now, in accepting the constitution as amended by the republicans, making free and equal all people, of all colors and all races, as citizens, the Northern democracy, in a single bound, jump from 1861 to 1871, and from the democratic platform of Jeff Davis and Buchanan to the republican platform of “Old Ben Wade” and General Grant. Call you not this high ground and lofty tambling? Dey wheel about, and turn anout, and do jes so; tay aL Ume dey wheel avout dey jump Jim row. But does this advance the democracy or does it set them back? That is the question. There is certainly no enthusiasm in the party organs over this new departure. What with their explanations and apologies and quibbling excuses, and what with the growlings and grumblings of the unreconstructed, it is evi- dent that this new medicine is a nauseous dose to the unterrified. To give up all that they have been fighting for since the Charleston Convention, and to sign all that the radicals have done, by means of fire and sword, since the election of Lincoln, in the liberation and elevation of ‘‘the d—d nigger,” is in truth a bitter dose to your regular old line red-hot democrats, dyed in the wool by the Dred Scott decision, Noris it likely that they will for @ year or two, even on this new departure, escape the consequences of a continuous fight on these dead issues on their line of march. Especially will continuous bushwhacking be the case from the Confederate crossroads of Kentucky to the alligator swamps of Florida and Louisiana, Jeff Davis has developed the real fire of the old democratic flint in the cot- ton States, and Stephens and Toombs speak for a host of Southern confederacy men when they say that your fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are frauds and outrages commit. ted upon a prostrate people by a radical des- potism, and that these frauds will never be accepted by the Southern chivalry. This new democratic departure, then, will strengthen General Grant in the South; and what it is going to do for the democracy in the North we shall begin to discover ia the coming fall elections. The Cotton Crop of 1971. It appears from the reports which have come to the Bureau of Agriculture from all the cotton-growing States of the South that the area of cotton planted this year is on an average between fourteen and fifteen per cent less than last year, which is equivalent to nearly a million and a third acres. It is estimated, therefore, that the crop of 1871 will not exceed three anda half millions of bales, and that should the season prove unpropitious not more, perhaps, than three millions of bales. The planters are growing more corn and other products for home con- sumption this year. They find by experience that a large crop of cotton brings no more, or but little more, money than a short one, the price in the market being regulated by the supply. We can- not blame the planters for studying their own interests in this matter, while at the same time we may regret to see cotion high and cotton goods dearer. In this case the loss to the world seems to be a gain to the planters. Cheap cotton is a great boon, undoubtedly, to mankind as well as to manufacturers, and we hope the time will come when the production of this article may be cheapened by the use of machinery and improved methods of cul- tivation. Ferrx Pyar stands a fair chance of being the best arrested, oftenest killed and most successfully escaped man in France. He was killed a number of times; like the Irishman’s bird, he was in two places at once, being in Switzerland and London at the same time, and now he turns up again at La Villette disguised as a priest, Tne City or Tampico, the stronghold cf the Mexican insurrection, has at last been taken by the forces of the government, It was stormed by the bayonet—a fact which speaks volumes for the bravery of the troops who made the assault, The Indian Confoderation. ‘Tho traditional redskin is fast disappearing,’ and the Indian of the present age is progress< ing in pale face practices, ‘Lo” is an adepk at trickery, can outswear a steamboat punish more whiskey than a Hoosier and it by no means ® tyro in managing political conventions. A Grand Council of dele« gates of the tribes of the Indian Tera ritory is now in session at Okmulgee,! having under consideration the proj confederation of the numerous tribes south of Nebraska, On the 6th inst. General Sherman} was present and had a big talk with the dele< gates. He told them many wholesome truths with regard to their dealings with the white race, showing them how impotent was their! opposition to the advancement of civilization, | and that their only escape from final annihilation was union among them-! selves and abandonment of their nomadic! life. The Council approaches the subject of confederation with much caution, and it is{ plain that.many tribes are not very strongly} inclined to merge their individual existence, in that of a consolidated nation, The consti-, tution for the proposed confederation adopted: at the Grand Council in December last was submitted to the tribes then represented, but! has not yet been accepted by any, and’ a trick worthy a New York politiciam has come to light, by which action by the Cherokee Legislature upon the consti~ tution was defeated. However, in spite of all’! opposition, no doubt the proposed confedera- tion will be finally consummated, as the Coun-, cil is fully impressed with the fact pointed out by General Sherman, that union of action and civilization are the only measures by which’ the red men can for any length of time pre- serve their national existence, The Entry of the German Troops inte Berlin. The crowning ceremonies of the victorions war came off yesterday amid the boundless enthu- siasm of the German metropolis, It would be difficult to find a parallel to the magnificent festivities that graced the conqueror’s march, through the wide streets and avenues of Berlin. The nearest approach to it may have been the grand review of our troops in Wash- ington before their final disbandment; at any rate they both served to commemorate the same end—the triumph of a united nation. The Emperor, as a matter of course, was the centre of attraction, Flowers strewo by young girls in white marked the progress of the honored chief of the German nation. But the grand feature of the festivities was the unveiling the statue of Frederick William IIL, | performed by Emperor William amid the cheers of the admiring multitude. The Em~ peror’s speech on the occasion was in his’ usual vein, modest and devout withal, The statue, which was erected in honor of a! very indifferent monarch, will henceforth be associated with the crowning triumph of united Germany. Our cable despatch from Berlin, full and graphic as it is, can give but: afaint idea of the appearance of the troops amid the cheering crowds. Every regiment of the armies which served in France was rep- resented by a contingent. The Emperor concluded the ceremonies in @ very appropriate manner, by conferring the highest military rank in his gift—ihe rank of Field Marshal—upon Count Moltke, the working genius of the German war. Kou Kirvx iw Norra Carouna.—The litile town of Rutherford, North Carolina, is making a history for itself, although it is one by no means enviable, On Wednesday night a dis- guised mob entered the town and made an attack upon the office of the Star, a repub- lican paper, the materials of which were entirely destroyed. Not being able to cap- ture either the editor of the Star or his assistant, the mob proceeded to the house of a republican member of the Legislature, and, bursting in the doors, seized the unfortunate radical, whom they carried into the street and barbarously maltreated, beating him severely and making him promise to reform his political ways, Their next visit was to the residence of a man named Biggerstaff, who had on two pravious occasions been the recipient of attentions at the hands of the Ku Klux. Big- gerstaff, fortunately, became apprised of the intended courtesies and fled to the woods, The mob, thus balked of their vengeance, dispersed, no doubt rejoicing in their easy victories over an unoffending printing office and an unarmed lawmaker. Personal wishes Seilch United States Senator i B. Anthony, of Ruod® Island, 18 stopping at the New York Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Ex-Mayor R. M. Bishop, of Cincinnati, is domt- clled at the St, Nicholas. Judge L. R. Watts, of Virginia, is residing at the Coleman House. Colonel L, R. Page, of Richmond, Va., 1s stopping at the Grand Central. Colonel F. W. Latnam, of Texas, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant Charles B, Seaver, of the United States Navy, is quartered at the St. George. General Frieze and Dr. Okee, of Providence, R. I, are staying at the New York Hotel, Colonel J. Buega, a purchasing agent of the Span- ish government, is at the Irving House, Colonel W. M. Mason, of Taunton, Mass, is 50+ Journing at the Fifth Avenue, Judge F. M. Hughes, of Pennsylvania, is staying a8 the Grand Central. General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, is quar tered at the St. James. Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, is the St, Nicholas. J. H. Ramsey, of Albany, the foe of Fisk, hag pat up at the Fifth Avenue. James Noxon, of Syracuse, is at the Colemaa House, Charles B. Thompson, of St. Louis, ts registered at the St. George. Estell McHenry, a prominent journalist of St. Lous, is at the Grand Central, George W. Beach, of Schenectady, is staying at the Irving House. Colonel W. B. Bristol, of Connecticut, 1s sojourne Ing at the Fifth avenue, C. F. Young, of Honesdale, Pa., 18 at the St, Nieholas, Melvin Foster, the billiard champion of Connec- ticut, ts at the Irving House. W. B. Taylor, of Albany, 18 domiciled at the Coles man House. staying at MATINEES TO-DAY, Matinées will be given to-day at tne Fifth Avenua, Wallack’s, Booth’s, Olympic, Niblo’s, Globe, Grandi Opera House and Wood's, ‘The attendance at Thomas’ concorta, at the Cea trai Park Garden, tucreases every evontng. They! are now the fashionable musical entertainments log the summer, papeeemaignatnpineenienepeptieng Roce age mt ;