The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE BROADWAY A RALD ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volome XXXVI ‘lai Aa ae ua : AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, RAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth ay. ana 23d st— ar. Matinee at 2. No. 259 ). 720 Broadway. —E ELLY FIFTH AVENUE THE, Twenty-fourth Tur New Drama or D ge at L street. — tinge at Ly. WALLACK'S THREAT! ‘ay and y 18th strogt.— THE PRINOFSS OF TREDIZONDE. Matinee at 2, ~ OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tir - roMiMe or Kumpre DoxPrr. Matinee at 8 ove? PAS BOOTH'S THEATR erween Sth an 6th avs. Per oF TH EETIOO. ‘ ene AMILY Jas. Matince at 13g. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadwas, corner 30th st. —Perform- ‘eces afiernoon and evening—EAST LYNNE, BOWERY THEATRE, ~Twe vES— siBQYERY THEATRE, Bowery. Two GALLEY Sta vEs- NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tur Dr ama or Frirz, Matinee at 2 Wed GLOBE THEAT® 2 <1Bs, BURLESQU 4 Broadway. Matinee at 234. Ro ECORNTBI- UNION SQUARK THE and Broadway.—NreRo r of Fourteenth atreet TS—BORLESQUE, BALLET, &0, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Brerua, (mB SEWING MacnIN C, Montague street— RL. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAUL, §8 Broadway.— THE SAN FEANOISCO MINSTRELS. BRYANT" and 7th a NEW OPERA H Lat, between 6th YANT'S MIN TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 3 . No. 201 Bowery.— NEGRO ECcENTRICITIRS, BURLESQUES, . 4&0. Matinee. STEINWAY L, Fourteenth street.—Vocan anv INSTRUMENTAL ConcrRT, Matinee at 1, CENTRAL PARK ! —Taropor® Tuomas! SUMMER Nicuys! Cow: si IGHTH STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner LINGTON'S MINSTRELS, Third avenuo IPLE SHEET. TR New York, Saturday, September 16, 1871. HERALD, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’ PAGE. 1—Advertisements, ments. eat Injunction Case: Arguments of Mr, Bartlett in Behalf of William M. Tweed, and ex-Judge Barrett in Opposition; Judge Bar- nard’s Decision—What the People Say— Rumors in the Pubile Omces—The Joint Com- mittee at Work. 4—The Paris Massacre: George Wilkes’ Review of tie Situation in Paris—Goldsmitn Maid’s Time at Milwaukee—The ‘Temple of Mammon: Opening of the Renovated stock Exchange— Base Ball Matters—Police Pecultarities—A Foolish Young Wife. 5—A Galiows Respite: Buckhont Respited an Tour Before the Time for Executlon—Gamblers in Gold: Wall Street Lockers-Up in a Quanaary; Plucky Judge Bedford Challenges a Clique and Calls Them to Account—The Courts—Judge Bed‘ord und the Abortionists—Utah: The Se- cret Murders of the Avenging Angels; Two Mormon Bishops Indicted for Murder—The Jewish Happy New Year—The Children's Home at Binghamton. 6—Eilitorials: Leading Article; “Judge Barnard’s Decision—The Breaking Up of Municipal Cor- Tuption”—Amusement Announcements. 7—Editorial (continued from Sixth Page)—News land, France, Spain, Algeria and Cholera tn Europe—Affairs in Hayti and Venezuela—News from Wash- e Riot in Pawling, in Massachu: scellaneous nal Telegraphic New—Bust <i F tails of the Great Ratl- xXcitement in the State; rth Carolina ‘all Particulars Recent pedo Horror—Americs Association—Musie and the Drama— for Justice at Last—New York City Ni Elevated Railway Under the Hammer. ‘The Philadelphia 1 Mines—Work- in and Clams: History of the Heavy Ladies’ Bake—Brooklyn Yr Act—Trotiing at Fleetwood land Commercial Reports—Marr' Deaths, Third Corner cipal Maddie (Continued from he Joint Committee ai Work— ¢ Ceremonies—ihe New Jersey —A Ship on Fire tm the Lower Ba: pt to Pire a Cath- Items—Foreign Scientific Notes—Quai rn 40 Tue Laroest Rartroap Depot—-The Rens- solaer and Saratoga, at Albany—all out doors, Curr Justice Case is in Chicago, fully recovered, except that bis tongue and the lower part of his face are partly paralyzed, so that he has come difficulty in his utterance, A Circus Visirep Paw.ine, N. Y., yester- day to amuse and entertain the people with a “‘moral exhibition,” and the attachés thereof, in order to carry out the programme, com- menced robbing and maltreating the citizens, killing one and wounding several. The authorities had to summon help from Dover Plains before the sacking could be stopped. Tue Mcrperer Bucxuovy bas been further respited by Judge Prati, of Brooklyn, the mistaken sentimentalist, who has kept Foster from expiatiug the Putnam murder. While ps tk azn Be el gs ain a tam i a i CR tl la NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1871.--r'RIPLE SHEET, Judge Baroard’s Dectsion—The Breaking Up of Municipel Corruption. Judge Barnard yesterday gave judgment in the injunction case against the city, and the conclusion at which he has arrived and the opinion in which he explains and justifies that conclusion, will meet the hearty approval and endorsement of the people. The injunction is made permanent, after certain modifications, which will remove from its scope the salaries of those actually employed in the service of the city, the works on the parks, docks and streets, and the operations of the Departments of Charities and Correction, Croton Water, Police, Gas and Education. These will go on es usual, The money for the payment of the employ¢s bas already been raised and should be now in the treasury. If it has been wrongfully applied to other purposes the Fi- nance Department of the government will alone be to blame, and upon Comptroller Con- nolly must fall the odium of keeping the labor- ers on the public works out of their hard- earned pay. But so far as other expenditu res are concerned the injanction applies. No more exorbitant and fraudulent bills can be paid by the Comptroller; no more bonds can be raised by the Board of Appor- tionment, until there shall be such an alteration in that Board as will restore to it the public confidence. The pleasant and profitable days of City Hall bills, of armory repairs, of bogus pay rolls, are brought to a sudden close, and the strong arm of the law is stretched forth to protect the treasury from the further assaults of unscrupulous ma- rauders. It may be, as Judge Barnard says, that the consequence of making the injunction permanent will be to partially disorganize the city and county governments; but this cannot be helped. Claims of an outrageous charac- ter, bearing upon their face the appearance of highway robbery, have been audited in the Comptroller's Orifice and paid by that officer. The bonds needed to realize the money have been raised by the Board of Apportionment, which is virtually in the hands of the Comp- troller, Under these circumstances it is the duty of the bench of equity to step in, and if no legal remedy shall be found to exist, to in- vent a remedy for such evils and to protect the citizens from plunder. Judge Barnard docs effectually step in, and he will not allow “another dollar to be paid from the treasury or another bond to be issued” until the man- agement of the financial affairs of the city shall be in cleaner and more t:ustworthy hands, The admirable and courageous decision of Judge Barnard will serve a double purpose. It will put an effectual stop to the old system of municipal plunder, and it will defeat the plans of those who hoped to take advantage of the existing excitement to throw the whole city government again into confusion for their own corrupt and selfish ends. In requiring the modification of the injunction, and in the plain language of his opinion, Judge Barnard makes it appear that the records of the Mayor and of the heads of the Departments of Docks and Parks are unimpeached and blameless. In regard to the latter, ‘‘no suspicion or alle- gation of fraud bas been charged against them,” says the Judge, ‘‘as far as I can find from any paper or any statement made.” And of Mayor Hall he declares that the Court en- dorses the opinion of the counsel for the plain- tiff, who had felt bound to acquit the Mayor of the charges made against him in the com- plaint The fact that the Departments of Docks and Parks havea right to issue bonds whenever necessary to carry on the duties entrusted to them by law is distinctly stated by the Court. Itis gratifying to know that these important departments will not be em- barrassed by the confusion into which the city has been plunged, but that the great public works already on their way, as well as those which are contemplated ia the future, will be suffered to proceed uniaterruptedly to com- pletion, The loss. of a few millions of dollars would not be half so great an injury to the city as would the stoppage of the system of improvement and embellishment aj which is at present adding so much to the beauty and wealth of the metropolis. The political effect of the decision will be to bring the municipal muddle to o head and to hasten the destruction of the Tammany Ring. Comptroller Connolly cannot longer stand up under the weight of public odium now heaped upon him. He refused to resign his office into the hands of the Mayor when requested so to do, on the plea that legal proceedings were then pending ‘‘before a just and fearless tribunal,” and to retire would be to betray weakness of position or fear of rigid investi- gation, Those proceedings are nit beks: and the decision of the Court, in plain English, brands the Comptroller with criminal neglect of his duty to the city. There can be no longer any doubt that fraudulent accounts have been audited and paid through his office; that pay rolls, with long lists of names which never had any existence, or bearing the signa- tures of persons who never did o day's work for or rendered a single service to the city, have been passed through the the intentions of this unwise Judge may be the very best, it is an undoubted fact that bis foolish intermeddling succeeds mainly in de- feating the object of the law that he was appointed io carry out, Tne AtTrorney Generar Is tn RALEIGH, at- tending the Ku Klox trials. It is reported that he will prosecute the Ku Kluxers in per- son, and as business is not very pressing with him just now we don’t see but that he might do so with great propriety. One cause of the success of the Ku Klox is that public opinion down South is so averse to punishing them that even lawyers firm enough to prosecute them to the bitter end are lacking, and conse- qneutly their cases go by default or are lost by inadequate ment. The Attorney General is able to remedy this defect, andwbould do it. Tox Sreamsuir Co “ voyage from Glasgow, arrived off Fire Island on Thursday, and then was suddenly discov- ered to be on fre. Great confusion and panic reigned for a time; Wut the fire, by strenuous efforts, was extinguished. To go down in the midst of the ocean is a ead fate; but to meet with the terrible disasters of the sea after all the dangers are apparently past and a safe harbor is in sight seems to be an accumula. tion of horrors. The crew are deserving of hands of his subordinates and received his own approbation month afier month. In his recent letter to the Mayor Mr. Connolly thought fit to to say, “My official acts have been supervised and approved by your supe- rior vigilance, So far as my administration is questioned, equal responsibility attaches to you,” But Judge Barnard shows that there is no divided responsibility in the case. The Comptroller, the city's financial officer, is entrusted with the auditing and paying of bills; be has paramount and supreme power, and on him more than on all other city officers together the people rely for the prevention of frauds. It is notorious that after an account has passed the ordeal of the Comptroller's department it is considered as good as paid. The duty is devolved on that department to scrutinize charges, to examine vouchers, to see that the items of an account are just and correct. If his subordinates deceive him, says Judge Bar- nard, and pass fraudulent or excessive ac- counte, it becomes an act of criminal negli- gence on his part that they are able to do so, The ordeal of the Comptroller's department ix supposed to be uo severe that other city officers, whose duty it is to counter- sigan accounts and warrants, are accustomed to discharge the obligation pro forma, and great praise for their zeal in combating what bid fuir to be, when discovered, # formidable jon” $iolpA Calon without examining their {tems or investigating their meriis, This is the plea of the Mayor and otherg who have cougtersiaued the ac- counts passed by Connolly; and Judge Bar- nard, who has had experience as a Commis- sioner of the Sinking Fund, testifies to the prevalence of the custom. Yet he says truly it is no valid excuse for carelessness. The community expect, or at least hope, that when three or four officials are entrusted with the duty of certifying bills each will see for himself that the accounts are correct, and not trust to the fidelity or the honesty of others. It is on this account that he with- holds the confidence of the Court from the Board of Apportionment, and refuses to allow. it to raise any more bonds until there shall be an alteration in its members, or, in other words, until the Comptroller shall retire and give place to a financial officer, upon whose honesty and competency the city and the Court can rely. We must now again appeal to Mr. Connolly to resign the office he has abused. He may still object to submit himself a ‘vicarious sac- rifice,” and may plead that the infamous frauds charged upon his department have been per- petrated, not for his own emolument, not from personal greed, but in obedience to the dic- tates and to meet the necessities of party. This does not render the act less criminal on his part. He fills the most important office in the city, and one which should be above suspi- cion. The city’s reputation and credit abroad depend in a great measure upon the honesty and competency of the head of the finances, and Mr. Connolly has now no longer any rea- sonable excuse for holding on to an office which the people desire him to vacate. Should he obstinately persist in remaining he will be held responsible for the disorganization of the city government. The money which was raised to pay the wages of the Park and Boole- | vard laborers has been improperly applied by him to other purposes, and so long as he is in power no more canbe procured. When he retires the injunction will be dissolved and the city government will proceed as before, The partisan organs and the political adven- turers who hope to make capital out of the city’s difficulties will continue to console him with the assurance that he is not a bigger rogue than his associates in the municipal government, and will persuade him to con- tinue to resist the will of the people; but it will be wisdom for him to retire to private life as promptly as possible. It has been whispered that he has threatened not to go overboard without dragging others with him, Well, if he should drown some of his political associates in the waves of popular in- dignation now fast closing over his own head, the municipal ship would be the lighter for it, and the crew would scarcely offer any strong objections. But go he must, and his department must be submitted to a thorough cleansing and fumigation. Judge Barnard’s decision has secured thus much for the people, and for the service be is entitled to their gratitude. If the political demise of Connolly is to be only the precursor of the death of the Tammany Ring, there will be more cake-eaters than mourners at the funeral. But at all events let us be rid of Connolly as a commencement, and then let the people demand a thorough amendment of the new Charter, with full power for the Mayor to remove dishonest or incompetent officers from the several depart- ments, This will give us a good government without having resort to a vigilance committee, and without adopting the suggestion of the English cockney organ to abolish universal suffrage and let only rich men have the privi- eee of a vote. Tue News From VeNmZUELA is more reas- suring. The latest advices state that Presi- dent Blanco is determined to pacify the country. He has placed the town of Barce- lona in the hands of the government troops, his fleet is active and effective in preventing the landing of insurgents troops, and he has ordered a large quantity of ammunition from the United States, so that nothing shall be wanting to assist him in completing bis victory over the rebels. The prisons of the State are full of captured political prisoners, who are thus placed beyond the possibility of doing any further mischief for the present. General Salzar, the invincible, has returned and at once made his presence known by issuing a procla- mation condemnatory of the President and the manner in which he has dealt with the insur- gent captives, but no notice appears to have been taken of the document. Tur Frexcu anp GERMAN Frontizrs.—A despatch from Paris, dated yesterday, says that negotiations are now in progress at Ver- sailles looking to a rearrangement of the frontiers of France and Germany. Count de Remusat, on the part of France, and Herr Von Arnim, on the part of Germany, are the repre- sentatives engaged in the matter. We thought that the business relating to the territorial lines which will in future distinguish the two countries was settled some time since; but this last piece of news informs us that it is not. The work will be thorough when it is completed, judging from the apparent care, thoughtfulness and caution exercised in its accomplishment, The difficulty between the parties now relates to a small portion of terri- tory convenient to Sedan, which Bismarck is determined to have and Thiers is unwilling to yield, Tue Caprain GENERAL oF CuBA, VALMA- SEDA, has been most entbusiastically received by the inhabitants and civil authorities at Manzanillo, According to our despatch from Havana the population turned ont en masse to receive bim on his return from Santiago de Cuba. In the evening the town was brilliantly illuminated, and the Captain was serenaded by, it is presumed, damsels dressed in dazzling costumes, at the house where he was staying, when from clear Cuban throats wafted the songs of welcome upon the evening air, Subsequently he was dined and wined by the City Council, and altogether seems to have Tne ALorRIAN INsuRRECTION is being gradually suppressed. A despatch from Algeria dated the 14th instant says that the rebel town of Lehifka has been totally de- stroyed and the rebel leaders captured and shot. This is what M. Thiers may truthfully term ‘a war of extermination.” If burning their towns and shooting the insurgents will not put an end to the rebellion we should like to know what will. Rosenzwere was formally indicted in the Court of General Sessions yesterday. Philosophy of the Paris Massacre—Letter from George Wilkes. The letter of Mr. George Wilkes, which we print to-day, hasin it just enough of truth to make it valuable and just sufficient extra- vagance to make it interesting. In his own line Mr. Wilkes is unequalled; but he is inva- riably an advocate who fights desperate con- tests with the creatures of his own imagina- tion, No man can raise up more respectable spectres or slay them with more tragic force. Even Disraeli, when he marshalled his large assortment of plotters and intriguers, in ‘‘Lo- thair,” did not charge the Church of Rome with designs half so astounding as those which Mr. Wilkes conjures out of his brain. But for all this his letter is good reading, and its faults only help to give it piquancy. It may be true enough that the second em- pire was never a favorite with the Vatican ; but nothing could be less worthy of serious consideration than the assertion that the Church of Rome had taken a bond against the Emperor's desertion by placing him under the nfluence of a Spanish wife. Napoleon was a man not likely to marry to please any one but himself, and the influence of Spanish wives is never to be depended upon. This, however, is a small matter in comparison with the seri- ous charges which Mr. Wilkes brings against M, Thiers, Always a monarchist, and long recognized as the leader of the Orleanists, it was not to be expected that the French states- man, even as President of the republic, would bea hearty repnblican. But he has shown more candor and honesty than we expected from him. He has done nothing to thwart the will of the people or to overturn the govern- ment which itis his duty to cement. If the Ver- sailles authorities were unnecessarily severe toward the Communists, it was not because they were prompted to it by the Church of Rome, This is a fallacy that has never been excelled in extravagance; but to say that the hostages in the hands of the Commune were left to their fate by the Church rather than forego the ferocity of butchery is to say what not one person in ten thousand would believe. Events in France have been the logical results of the conditions by which the French were encompassed, and Frenchmen, both at Paris and Versailles, would have acted as they did if there had been no Church of Rome. The picture which Mr. Wilkes presents us of the enormities of the Church, a3 well as of the perfections of the Commune, is over- drawn. When a writer tells us that the native population of New York has sunk to the con- dition of a conquered race we know what he means, because we know what he ought to have said. His extravagance of language in such a case is amusing, and we are not de- ceived by it. In his letter to the Heratp Mr. Wilkes has committed the same folly through- out, and, by using “strong language,” has misrepresented facts. The Church of Rome has had more influence with M. Thiers than some people would be willing to admit and less than Mr. Wilkes would have us believe, The Commune had more good init than its enemies accorded it and fewer virtues than he clothes it with, Mr. Wilkes’ mistake, aside from the extravagance of language by which he magnifies and distorts every idea he ad- vances, is in treating everything which has oc- curred in Paris from tho capitulation and be- fore it, up to the present moment, as the result of design on the part of one party or another. The Germans permitted M. Thiers to pass ia and outof the city of Paris during the siege, so that he might forestall the republic and pave the way fora monarchy. The Church of Rome used his elevation to power as the step- ping stone to the ascendancy of the Papacy in France, and the whole state of affairs, from the elections of February to the proposed disarm- ing of Paris, was a Church plot, The Com- mune even did not act without a prearranged plan, and the defiance of Paris was the result ofa rational, worthy, well-conceived design, undertaken for the purpose of enabling France to think. This is the gist of Mr. Wilkes’ philo- sophy of the massacre of Paris; bat, like most new philosophies, it settles nothing, and only opens the way for new animosities and fresh controversies, Though Mr. Wilkes may not intend it, his aspersions of the American people and his reflections upon the American attitude toward France are downright calumnies, We are slow, indeed, to take our opinions on any sub- ject from England, We uphold republicanism everywhere and give our sympathy to every republican endeavor, We have not trusted implicitly in M. Thiers, and we have not con- demned the Paris Commune without discrimi- nation. But the tearing down of the Columa Vendéme was not the building up of republi- can institutions, ‘he fury of Lullier and Ferré and Assi was not the inauguration of a reign of universal brotherhood. The slaughter of the hostages was not necessary to the free- dom or happiness of France. These we have condemned, and we denounced also the inhu manity and bloodthirstiness of the Versailles army and the government of M. Thiers. The Heratp notably opposed every wish for French interference in behalf of the Papal temporalities, and in this it expressed the gen- eral sentiment of the American people. At the same time it must be confessed that there bas been great darkness, which letters like that of Mr. Wilkes will help to dispel; but his are the one-sided arguments of the advocate, which may enlighten the judge but would be an unsafe basis for the predication of a ver- dict. It will be many days before we can arrive at a deliberate determination of the problem involved in the recent history of Paris, and the future alone can reveal the fall meaniog of the most remarkable episode of history. Jacop VANpERBILT, Superintendent Braisted and Engineer Robinson were arraigned in the Court of General Sessions yesterday for trial. They all pleaded not guilty and the case was postponed, There seems to be a firm inten- tion in all parts of the Union to punish, as far as the law will permit, everybody who is atall responsible for what hitherto, in our religious reliance upon the vengeful disposition of a really merciful Providence, we have termed accidents. Boiler explosions and railway col- lisions, if the present proceedings form a pre- cedent, will hereafter be at once classed with homicides and manslaughters, and some one will be punished for them, The Inspector and owners of the Ocean Wave, the steamer that exploded ut Mobile during the great explosion season, have also been arrested on a charge of manslaughter and Jreld to ba’ The Un % Partics—W. an Reconstruction ¢ With the war of 1871 upon the powerful Political organization of Tammany’ Hall, the future historian of the United States wiil turn over a new leaf in his record of the ups.and downs and transformations of our political parties. In its local aspects the main ques-\, tion brought bome to our fellow citizens from this Tammany war is the important question of a reconstruction of our city government, whereby in its administration honesty may be secured in all its departments and in all its transactions. But in its general political aspects this war upon Tammany adds another to the numerous movements and elements operating to displace both the great political parties as they exist to-day, and to bring about a reconstruction of both or two or three new parties upon new issues, and one of them as the next dominant party of the nation for a period of ten, fifteen or twenty years. In a general view in reference to our politi- cal parties; they are in the transition state which followed the second election (1820) of President Monroe. Under that administration the old federal party, which had steadily been growing “‘small by dogrees and beautifully less,” mainly in consequence of its opposition to the war for ‘“‘free trade and sailors’ rights” of 1812, was dissolved, and the American people, on general principles, became ‘all republicans and all federalists.” So now the “new departure” of the democracy in favor of “‘the constitution as it now is,” after oppos- ing the late war for the Union and the great issues settled by this war, may be compared to that surrender of the old federal party under Monroe, which was followed first by the dissolution of that party and next by ao Scrub race (1824) for the Presidency, in which there were four personal parties in the field without any material differences upon principles; and next, by a crystallization of these crude elements into the democratic party, founded under General Jackson (1828), and the whig party, whose embodiment and great apostle and expounder was Henry Clay. We say that this ‘new departure” of the democracy may be compared with that sur- render of the old federal party under Monroe which involved its dissolution; but it must be remembered that this was after Monroe’s sec- ond election, 1820, which was an election almost without a show of opposition through- out the country. We do not suppose that Gen- eral Grant will be so triumphantly re-elected; but from all the developments and indications of the public sentiment of the day he will be triumphantly re-elected, and then we may ex- pect a fusion and confusion of our political parties resembling the state of things which followed the second election of Monroe, and Wwe may expect, too, from this confusion, in 1876, a Presidential scrub race, which, like that of 1824, will bring a new party, upon new issues, into the possession of the govern- ment, and a new and powerful opposition party into existence, whatever the names of these parties may be. The republican party of this day, like the old republican party of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, has fulfilled its appointed mission, in carrying through to complete success the revolutionary programme which called it into existence. Moreover, like the republican party under Monroe, it is held together only by its national administration. The democratic party of this day, like the old federal party, beaten from point to point, in every battle upon the war of its time and upon the issues of the war, and coming at last to a surrender on its ‘‘new departure,” stands upon the same platform with the republican party, and so, upon the great ques- tions which for seventeen years have formed the dividing lines between these two parties, African slavery, emancipation, negro civil equality, negro suffrage, the recognition of the sovereignty of the United States and the repudiation of State sovereignty, the American people, with this new democratic departure, it may be said, have become sub- stantially ‘‘all republicans and all democrats.” Of course this condition of things cannot long exist. It is that transition state in politi- cal partles which leads to transformation and reconstruction. It is apparent, however, tbat with all the elements of change and reconstruc- tion so actively at work already on every side— yes, it is morally certain that upon the saving merits of General Grant's adwinistration—the republican party will present a strong front in his re-election ; but, after his re-election, the work of disintegration and reconstruction will actively begin. In their squabbles for the suc- cession the republican leaders will make short work of their party, and a Presidential scrub race will, in our judgment, inevita- bly be the resalt in 1876, Bat will not the democratic party, purged and purified by this war upoa Tam- many, rise by the year 1876, if not sooner, like a giant refreshed with new wine? If there were nothing stronger operating upon the public mind than old party ideas and associa- tions this might be the case, but between the gigantic forces of labor and capital upon a thousand sharp points of conflict there is a contest impending over both hemispheres | which will shake their old political parties to pieces and their political and social institu- tions to their foundations. We see the gathering elements of this com- ing political storm, or succession of storma, in the dreaded workingmen’s International, in the labor reform party now developing in Mas- sachussets and other States, in the Trades Unions of the country, and in all the: working- men’s meetings, processions, manifestoes and movements of the day in Eurepe and the United States. Nor are these aggressive movo- ments on the part of labor “against capital without strong causes of jristification, Tho political corruptions, spoMations and de- baucheries of these timesfin both our great political parties; the grasping greediness of our moneyed monopo'ies, banks, brokers, manufacturing and pr,werful railway corpora- tions and combinations; the general de- moralization of ou'r political spoilsmen, rings and gangs of jobbyers; the grasping specula- tors in the publi¢, lands and public and private property of @", descriptions; the increasing Dowas of Our Pollticnl | twenty or thirty thousand Next In the Chapter of | city, whose banners and mottoes covered th workingmen in th! Whole field of revolution we have indicate The suppression of the insane Paris Commun hae not suppressed the underlying ideas o the wrongs of labor and the oppressions 0 capital which brought that Commune into i bloody conflict with the legitimate political and military authorities of France. On tha contrary, eince the remorseless extinction of fae Commune, the more methodical and fora miclable International has become stronger ont both sides of the Atlantic, and in due time wa! may look for an exhibition of its strength, with its .Milliating labor societies, in our politi< cal elections. In short, we suspect that by! the year 1876, if not before, the labor reformers, of all descriptions, will be organ~ ized into a political. party sufficiently powerful to inaugurate in that Presidential contest the, greatest and most radical political revolution: in the history of’ the civillzation of modern om ancient times. This mrast, sooner or later, ba the culmination of all these political corrup< tions and demoraligations of the day. Our opinion is that General Grant is too strong to be shaken in 1872, but that after his re-elec- tion the dissolution of the republican party and the disorganization of the democrati¢ will open the way for this new and radical political revolution, Constitutional Reform in Austrin—Bohemia and the Progress of Decentralization. \, It appears from one of our latest telegrams’ from Vienna that the reform policy, of which: Count Von Beust must be regarded as the’ parent, and Count Hohenwart, the present’ Prime Minister, the active promoter, is making’ satisfactory progress throughout the Austrian dominions.’ The Provincial Diets of the em~ pire have opened their sessions, and in the’ Diet of Bohemia an imperial rescript was read amid the enthusiastic cheering of the Deputies, In the rescript the Emperor Fran- cis Joseph expresses his desire for the settle- ment of the status of Bohemia, and declares himself willing to recognize her rights by « public coronation, by taking the oath of Prague and by consenting to her electoral and other national bills, This announcement is proof sufficient that: Austria has reached another stage in the pro« gress of that policy inaugurated after the bat- tle of Sadowa, and carried on under the guid- ance of Count Von Beust, the second great German statesman of the times. Since 1866 Austria has completely reversed her policy.. For many previous generations the Germans had control of the empire, and the policy of the Germans was a policy of centralization,’ So long as Austria was at the head of the Germanic Confederation this was a possible,. though not a wise policy, The battle of Sa- dowa, which drove Austria out of Germany, and which made Prussia supreme, made a new departure necessary. The Austrian em- pire was composed of a series of separate and distinct nationalities, some of them complete, some of them fragmentary; but the smallest sections were, the most of them, larger individually than Austrian Germany. In virtue of the status of Germany in the Union the Germans had hitherto ruled. This was no longer possible. Hence the recog~ nition by Francis Joseph of the claims of Hungary. Hence, too, that most magnificent pageant of modern times—a pageant which revived the dazzling splendor of medieval times—when Francis Joseph was crowned King of Hungary as the legitimate successor of St. Stephen, and when, as part of the cere- monial, he rode a prancing steed up the Mount of Defiance, an elevation built from soil brought from every part of the Hungarian royalty. Onthat day Hungary regained her independence; and if she did not break away from the Austrian empire and from the youth- ful tyrant of 1848-9 it was because she had not forgotten Maria Theresa and her ancient line of sovereigns. It was with difficulty that the German party: in Austria made up their minds to so important and so dangerous a concession. It was felt, however, that nothing else could save the empire. What was on all hands predicted soon came to pass. What was good for Hun~ gary could hardly be bad for Bohemia, for Galicia, for Moravia, for Carinthia and for the; numerous other provinces ef the empire. De~ mands for autonomy came in from all quarters,, To further decentralization, however, the Gera man centralists could not consent; and so the struggle has been going on from that time until now. The accession of Count Hohen- wart to power as Prime Minister of the empire was a mighty blow to the centralists; and! although the Count has had hard work to per- form, success is now promising to be his amplo reward. Francis Joseph consents to do for’ Bohemia what he has done for Hungary. ~ Bohemia has its crown as well as Hungary ;-" and the Emperor consents not only to recog=> nize the separate rights of the Czechs, but tot submit to be crowned their King. Bohemia is! an ancient kingdom, and on more than on oceasion it has played a noble part in the history of Europe. During the Refor . mation struggle it suffered terribly ; not few" we, than thirty-six thousand people, some of the m‘ noble, all of them Protestants, were force® to emigrate. The Thirty Years’ war fell hacli on Bohemia and grievously reduced the popula-; tion. It is gratifying to find the spirit of ‘the old peoples revive. It is moro gratifying/still’ to see them accomplish their long clwrished purpose and resume their places ananeg the na- tions, In the coronation of Francia/Joseph as King of Bohemia we have a grand approach- ing sensation. The decentralization programme is ‘not to be ended with Bohemia, As we have said al- ready, it will only mark another stage in/the’ progresa of reform. The other nationafities are already clamant for equal rights, ‘and it is imposelble to say how often Franais/ Joseph: may yet be compelled to submit to becrowned. The Poles now look to Vienna with hope and confidence; and they do so with good reason, for they have become the objects of special attention and special favor. Galicia, Aus. trian Poland, {s now hoaored as is no part of the Austrian empire, The concessions already made to her hardly fall sbort of making hor; independent, The Galician Dket makes laws cost of liviny; and the diminishing sources of manual lay yr are among the manifold causes which o9°ro bringing into the foreground this terribl, political organization of labor against cap“cal, \” We had the other day a procession of in all that pertains to home legislation. The Polish language is the recognized official lan- guage of the province. A Polish Academy has been created, with rights almost equal ta the Academy of Vienna, The chairs in tha Univergities of Lemberz and Cracow are to ha,