The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1871, Page 6

6 EW YORK ii ERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. N JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROYVRIETOR,. No, 271 Volume XX> AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tue BaLLer Paw. vostus or liumpry Duspry. 2 BOOTIE THEATRE, 2a wt, berwees x ine Henny VilL apes ey evaehees WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broatitay, corner Dith st. —Perform- auces afternoon and evening—LA MENDIANTE. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—- 2 - CLT uns, BURLESQUE, Ac. aC aa BOWERY THEAT ery. —1 Be ‘RE, Bowery.—tor Rrowvsr—Do- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broalway, . BXIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, betwoon Prince and GRAND OPERA HOUS vo = oe one SE, corner of fh ay. ana 2d st. FIFTR AVENUE TIEATRI of — Tux New Drama or Drv ™ Ean te ee UNION SQUARE THEAT! and Broadway.—NRORO ACTS—BUuLESQUE, BALLET, &c. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—Kr & Leon's Minsteris, m ” - says SAN FRANCISCO MINS Tus Ban FRANCISCO MINI NEW OPERA UOUSE Brian's MINSTRELS, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— NBaRo KooRN cRICITING, BURLESQUES, Ac. et ASSOCIATION TALL, 86th strect and Sd ave.—Grann Conernt. PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth stroct, between 24 and 84 aveuucs.—EQUESTRIANIBN, &C. L WALL, 585 Broadway.— 23d at., between 6th AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHUBTITO! and Sixty-third abr Third avenue ‘Opea day unt evening. New York, Tharsdav, September 28, (S71. TS OF TS-DAWS HERALD, ate Convention: Unseenily Wr y York Del emma the ‘the Worst Speaketh a a te Moor? tne Misfor- ng to lis ‘n’s No! ta the ihe Me. c 2 Markeis—Jou ‘ket—Seranton seating Article, + Doines al A @ Trepnblican any and Wore ments, Intention of ws from Ger- Shipplag Lutel mercial Conve Unton— iveruscments. Convention : B, Washourn a Republiean vortises sements, 12—-Advertiserments, d their Con- endorsed Toa Vireimta RePuBiioans b vention yesterday, and President Grant's admi. strongly atom. “Warrixe For News Such was the general remark all day yester- day among the loungers on ‘Change, at the court rooms, ‘the place of customs,” the Post Office and in the botels and oyster houses. Tae republican mountain was in labor, smok- ing and groaning, and the general expectation was that some aw‘ul monster would come forth, and not a ridiculous little mouse, A Spiexpip Cawraicn—Tho late campaign of General Butler for the republican State Convention. If he has not proved himself a match for the Holy Alliance of all the old Puri- fan newspapers and all tie old Bourbon leaders combined against him, he has given them such a scare and such a shaking among the dry bones as will do them good, Butler or no Butter for Governor. Tom Fitips made a characteristic speech before the Brennan Society last night. Fields isa member of the Board of Public Parka, and took the anti-sez 1 side of the ques- tion by offering official figures and data slow- ing that the expendit under the present Board of Park Commissioners were leas than uoder the old Board, taking the extent and value of the improvements i consideration, Inthe present municipal confusion it is well for the public to hear neat Paixon ALuxs 13 »—The Russian Beet, conveying His F ness the Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, to this country, has left the shores of England and is now op the high seas, The advent of this young Prince upon our soil will be the signal for a general fint- ter among our fashionable circles. He will be feted and toasted and dimered and soiréed and flatiercd as probably no foreign prince ever was before since the Prince de Joinville created such a sensation among the American beau monde. Welcome, Ale. MIN Tue Goud Market Puzziep.—The specu- lative element in the Gold Room is puzzled over soveral conflictiny influences, The Bank of England rate is likely (so said) to be ad- vanced to-day, but epecic is coming this way from Europe. Then, again, consola and five- twenties are lower in London. Bui American wheat and cotton are going abroad at a lively rate. Mr. Boutwell ought to see by this time that the natural laws of trade and finance will regulate the gold premium. If gold is too dear for export our domestic produce will go; if too cheap our cotton and wheat will stay at home. Tue Peace Conoress ar War.—A_ tele- gram from Switzerlaud informs us that the Peace Congress men who are assembled in ses- sion at Lausanne are at war with each other. A tumultuons scene was witnessed during the meeting yesterday. Several of the leaguers became bellicose. They rushed from one ex- treme to the other, and attempted an open de- fence of the acts of the Paris Commune. The old fogies were not prepared for .this, and hence the rompus. Anything is good for a change in the matter of the proceedings of these fossilized sentimentalists, We trost, however, that they will be good enough to “Jet na have neace.” | The Repmntien B, corner of Fourtoenth street | are Convertions—The Doings at Syracuse and Worcester. The great subject of interest among the politicians to-day is the action of the two Republican State Conventiong—the ore at Syracuse, the other at Worcester, Mass. In the former the struggle for supremacy has been between the two rival organisations in this city; the old-time Greeley Guard, who, having espoused the in his fight found : cause of Reuben E. Fenton with Roscoe Conkling, have selves left left ont in the cold in the distribution of the federal patronage, and the new-fashioned Conkling- Murphy faction who bave monopolized the substantial ‘‘fruits of victory,” and who, with a proper appreciation of the value of office, are doing their best to secure a renomination of the present dynasty and the continuance of republican rule, In Massachusetts the fight partakes more of a personal character; on the one side being arrayed the particular friends of Ben Butler, who claims to be par ezcel- lence the .supporter of General Grant, and on the other the republicans who fail to appreciate the virtacs and the title of the hero of New Orleans, and who, despite his affected monopoly of the confidence of the administration, profess to be friendly to the present powers at Washington. | The main distinction between the family quar- | rel in the two great States has been that in | New York the ‘‘opposition,” as it has been | cunningly designated, headed by Fen- ton and Greeley, is avowedly op- posed to the renomination. of President Grant by the Republican National Convention of next year, while in Massachusects both sides avow themselves friendly to General Grant and favorable to the extension of his power over another Presidential term. The republicaus at Syracuse, according to our report, have sought to emulate the old | days ef Democratic Convention holding in the | City of Salt, and our graphic description of thelr opening proceedings calls vividly to mind the time when Fernando Wood, with his Custom House and _ police force bullies, endeavored to ride rough- shod over the party to which they professed to belong. The hall in which the Convention: met was for some hours a perfect Babel of con- fusion, and a spectator might well have be- lieved himself to have been in the | midst of an old-fashioned Tammany row, rather than iu an assemblage of republicans, who claim to possess all the virtues, all the patriotism and all the intelli- gence of the country. Hard words were ex- changed, blows were siruck, pisiols were drawn, and although no blood appears to have been shed, unless it may have been from the the nose, the police were compelled to inter- fere, and the proceedings opened with a strong force of that body drawn up as a guard around the plat- form. Rufus Andrews, who has been the chief fugleman of Comptroller Connolly in our receat municipal troubles, was promi- nent among the noisiest of the delegates, and } nade a Brutus-like appearance in the mélée. A test vote having been speedily taken, the office-holders found themselves in a decided majority; but, in a commendable spirit of conciliation, they offered a resolution to the effect that the New York soats in the Convention should be divided between the Conkling-Murpby and the Fenton-Greeley del- j egates, and that a reorganization of the party ia this city should take place, under the aus- pices of the State General Committee, on the un- derstanding that a0 person holding office under tho Tammany municipal government should be allowed a position on the committees, The Fenton faction evidently discovered in this movement an artfully devised plan to destroy their power in New York, where they claim to hold the regular organization of the party. They repudiated the stigma of being allies of Tammany, and refused to deliver themselves bound band and foot into the power of the State Committee which had already avowed itself as an enemy to their organization, Offering an indignant protest against the attempt to destroy the regular party organization in New York, they left the Convention, and retired to the enjoyment of the creature comforts of the Syracuse House and the Globe Hotel. After this bolt from their body the Conventionists evidently grew alarmed over their work, and on the calling of the roll a resolution was offered looking towards a reconciliation in the morning and holding half the vote in the New York delegation still at the service of the bolt- ers. The Fenton delegates, on the other hand, appear to mean business, Standing upon their rights as the representatives of the regu- lar organization, they issue a call for a meet- ing of all their friends and adherents in Chautauqua, Onondaga, Kings and other counties, to arrange fur an independent Convention. In view of this high- handed course, the Conkling office- holders appear to be disposed to change their conciliatory attitude, and it was rumored at a late hour last night that they would alter their base of operations and take hostile ground against the Fentonites both in their ticket and on their platform. It will be seen whether a uight’s reflection will serve to bring the disunited factions together once again or whether we are to have a pitebed republican battle in the State this fall, as a set-off to the squabbles and troubles of the democracy. There are rumors afloat to the effect that the latter is to be the result, and that the course of the Fenton-Greeley delegates is prompted by the Tammany leaders to help them out of their present awkward dilemma. In Massachusetts General Butler has been fairly and completely beaten at the Worcester Convention, After one of the most gallant figuts ever made by an individual candidate he has suffered a decisive defeat, and itis said that, contrary to the general expectation, he yields to the inevitable logic of events, and expresses his intention to abide by the de- cision of the Convention. Butler has at least the consolation of knowing that he has given his enemies a terrible fright, and that he bas put them on their mettle, powerful as they are, to insure his overthrow. He has bad the press, the office-holders and the wealth of the party against him, and in spite of all he has made really a gallant and a grand show in the Convention. But fate was against him, as it was in his military efforts during the war. and he is now oolitically bottled! up. The best thing he can do is to accept the situation and make as good a fight on the stump,- on behalf of Wash- burn, as he recently made, although unavailingly, for himself. As Ben But- ler is man who is sometimes de- feated, but hever vanquished, it is probable he will accept this advice and wait patiently for something to turn up in the political world which will enable him to pay off old scores and to strike a balance with the men who have at present succeeded in placing him on the wrong side of the ledger. P The Washingten Treaty and the Rebel Cotton Lean Bendholders. From a historical sketch and legal argument on the subject published in a late issue of the Manchester (England) Azaminer it appears that “the appointment of the Joint High Com- mission, or Board of Arbitration, which is, ‘by common consent, to include all claims for compensation which may have been or which may be, made by each goverament or by its citizens, upon the other,’ has induced the holders of Confederate cotion bonds to vigor- ously prosecute their claims,” and that ‘‘a very influential committee has been formed in Loa- don to watch over the interests of the claim- ants.” It farther appears that ‘a very volumi- nous correspondence has passed between the committee and the British Foreign Office,” and that ‘inasmuch as five millions sterling of claims are affected the present position of matters is of the greatest interest and impor- tance.” We should think so, especially to the bond- holders concerned, with five millions sterling, or twenty-five millions of dollars, at stake. It next appears, from a reference of Lord Gran- ville to the twelfth article of the Treaty of Washington, that these cotton loan claims may be submitted among the other claims of British subjects, the settlement of which is provided for in said treaty, and that accord- ingly those bondholders ‘“thave determined to have their claims represented” before the Board of Arbitration appointed on the subject “by the higbest English or American counsel, but most probably the latter.” Very good. Five millions sterling is a stiff sum of money; but the five millions involved in these Confederate cotton loan bonds are sacrificed, lost, dead and gone beyond remedy. The so-called Confederate States, in the midst of their rebellion against the United States, contracted a loan in England of some ten millions of dollars or more, to be redeemed in “Confederate States cotton,” at the rate of sixpence per pound, ‘‘six months after the expiration of the war between the two bellig- erents.” The money was advanced on this loan at the rate of ninety per cent for the one hundred bond and for the option of changing said bond for the so-called Confederate government cotton at six- pence per pound, and the English blockade runners dealt largely in these bonds in pur- chasing their cargoes of cotton, But the moneys or arms, ammunition and other materi- als of war supplied to Jeff Davis in exchange, made all these English parties concerned his active allies in his rebellion against the sover- eign authority of the United States over the rebellious States, The constitution of the United States, third section, fourteenth article, therefore, will apply to these Anglo-rebel cotton loan claims; and it ordains that ‘‘neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claims for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” This is conclusive; for if it is contended that this provision of the constitution was not adopted till after the war of the late rebellion, it will be answered that the amendment in question is but the perpetuation of the position and the declarations of the government of the United States during the war. To save these English Confederate coiton loan bondholders, therefore, from the needless expense of a corps of lawyers to prosecute their claims under the Treaty of Washington, we would recommend them to ask for the opinion of General Schenck, our Minister at London, on the subject. As one of the American mem- bers of the Joint High Commission he is the very man who can authoritatively tell these claimants why it is that their claims uoder the Treaty of Washington are ‘‘illegal and void.” The Restless, Intriguing Bonapartes. However much the members of the Bona- parte family may differ in character in some respects, they are all alike as ambitious politi- cal intriguers. The ex-Emperor Louis Napo- leon, Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon) and the rest have this same stamp of character for which the first and great Napoleon was dis- tinguished. This it is, too, that makes them the greatest revolutionists and firebrands in Europe. It appears from a despatch from London that “a correspondence has been dis- covered in the Tuileries developing a plan for placing Napoleon on the throue of Belgium. This is rather vague, it is true, as the time for this scheme and the particular Bonaparte are not mentioned ; but the plan is quite in keep- ing with tue intrigues of the family. The rumor has, at least, produced a sensation in Brussels. The sooner the governments and people of Europe utterly and forever ignore the Bonapartes the better. These usurpers are more dangerous than the worst leaders of socialism or communism. They are the ene- mies of liberty and the people. By cunning management, and, probably, by the expenditure of large sums of money, they constantly keep their names before the public, through the agencies of the press and by other means, in order to humbug the world. It is a species of charlatanism on a grand scale, When will the world, when will France cease to be de- luded by such humbug? The Bonapartes have the presumption to think mankind were made for their special use and ihterest, as the old barons in foudal times used to regard their serfa, and as our slavapolders used to look upon the negro A Movion was Mane in the Board of Health yesterday to turn out all persons living in cellars, on the ground that such mode of life was unhealiby. What is intended to be done for gpe unfortunates after their explusion from their unbappy homes is not stated; but as cold weather is approaching it is not likely that they would be any better off out in the aire down in the diver NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, Disrael’s “Departure” and Assault en tho British Crowa=The Spirit of Judith Us- appeased by the Slaughter of Holo-~ once. oe ; On the 20th of June, in the year 1837, Queen Victoria's mother—the late Duchess ot Kent—introduced the present ruler of Great Britain, then a simple-minded, confid- ing girl, to her snbjects, with the words, “I have educated my daughter.” This motherly expression touched the public heart immedi- ately. It found an abiding place in the breasts of the British people, and the fine sentiment which it conveyed has been warmly cherished around millions of happy firesides ever since. Her Highness the Duchess cut loose, uncon- sciously, perhaps, from the royal traditions of the House of Guelph by the utterance. She pleaded the claim of the throne to the recognition of the people, and by so doing atoned in a moment for most of the brutalities and for all the oppressions of the Georges. The Duchess of Kent was already warned by adversity. With her child she had been compelled to live in an unbroken retirement from court life during the later years of the reign of William the Fourth, so that at thc moment of the decease of that monarch the girl who was called, by the rule of divine right, to wield the sceptre of England, was almost completely artless of the immense power which it sym- ‘bolled and entirely unacquainted with the growing dangers which encompassed it. It was @ moment of peril for the thrones of female monarchs, Don Carlos of Spain and Don Miguel of Portugal had already declared in caucus, if not openly, agalost the claims of. their respective nieces to rule in those countries. His Royal Highness the Dake of Cumberland, uncle of Queen Victoria, was not at all un- willing to follow the example of his acquaint- ‘aces on the Continent. By means of the agency of a formidable secret organization, which had been industriously extended over the British empire, he sought to revolutionize the United Kingdom, seize the succession by a coup, change the policy of the Executive and Parliament, and endeavor to turn back the onward and loudly murmuring tide of popular reform and democratic enlightenment in England. Tie Duke of Cumberland and his confréres failed signally, and the shouts of scorn with which he was hailed in the streets of London at the very moment of his departure for Hanover proclaimed, very rudely and roughly, to be sure, to the world that the day of toryism was at ayend in Britain, that. the people had estimated their power, and were resolved on the complete enjoyment of their constitutional rights—cheap governmery, the abolition of class privileges, and the final attainment of a system of self-rale, The youthful Queen was placed in the hands of the Brilish reform party. The late Lord Melbourne became her counsellor. This statesman advised her, manfully and in direot opposition to many of her earliest prejudices, that England bad entered on a course of con- stitutional revolution, and that the throne must in future accept the situation as it pre- sented, and not by any means attempt to con- trol political events. Melbourne was a pru- dent afd honest statesman. He pre- faced a ‘‘new departure” in the gov- ernment. Queen Victoria haa lived to see most of his Cabinet anticipations fulfilled. She may survive to realize the wonderful consequences—in abdication, it may be, or dethronement by the voice of the people. The battle of freedom, though ‘“‘baffled oft,” is always won. Since the death of Lord Melbourne British statesmen have been daily found to bid for place and power by offering to lead the popular march toward complete liberty. The consequences have been the gradual shortening of the props on which the throne is elevated, with a silent reduction of the royal seat to the level of # Presidential chair. The privileges of the British oligarchy, of the Church, of the second class aristocracy, sf commerce, of capital and of the feudal ter- ritorialists have been curtailed or abolished one by one; so that to-day the crown of Vic- toria is placed directly before the masses, on trial as to the question of its utility, The prosecution is conducted by Mr. Ben- jamin Disraeli on the part of the people. This learned gentleman, himself descended from a line of the most magnificent monarchs, bas just declared that the bauble is worthless as a type or token of power. The traditions of his race and family tell of thrones which have passed away—of Solomon, of David, and the rest. Ue thinks of the royalties and splendors of the days which were. He values the gems in the British Crown with a practised eye, and regards them as mere paste when compared with the pre- cious stones which sparkled ia the Temple. In the universality of his genius he wishes to right the wrongs of the land which adopted his father. He despises class rights and establishments—a fact which he has himself set forth in his remark- able work, ‘‘Lothair.” Circumstances over which he had no control first gave Disraeli to the tory aristocracy of England. The sons of the Barons were unwilling, however, to be banded over to the great and powerful Israelite. Since the moment of the failure of his brief attempt at Cabinet rule in Downing street Disraeli has been rather at a loss as to how be should place himself as ® public man in the future. He pondered on the subject during his attendance at the marriage of the Princess Louise in St. George's chapel, Wind- sor, and has been engaged in the matur- ing of his resolution since. This resolution has been, evidently, formed, Its direction was shadowed unmistakably yesterday in the Heraxp special telegram from London, which reported the points of his speech at Hughen- den, Itis shown in our letters by mail to- day. Disraeli has ‘‘weighed” the throne of England “‘in the balance” and found it ‘‘want- ing.” He has measured the strength of the European peoples and finds it invincible. He knows that the British democracy require the lead of a man both of brains and nerve and the writer of ‘‘Lothair” presents himself as the Joshua of the radical republicans of the day. The master of Hughenden stands forth asa Pillar of Light in the eyes of the over- taxed toilers of the United Kingdom, who have accepted him as a most powerful instru- ment, sent by a kind Providence to complete the humiliation of their aristocratic rulers; a \ work which he, himself. initiated, and has con- ducted so far with masterly skill and most excellent effect, The political crisis which has been pro- duced in England by the Hebrew pronuncia- mento at Hughenden is alarming for Queen Victoria. It is almost deadly to the royal aspirations of the Prince of Wales; decidedly deadly should it be prolonged by the obsti- nacy of his mother in holding on to power. The Queen of England should take advice. She should abdicate gracefully. She should acknowledge her physical and mental incapacities. She should do wore than this, She should caution the Prince of Wales not to attempt to obstruct the wishes of the British democracy with regard to their future form of government, but to quietly permit the masses to give complete effect to the ‘new departure” movement of Disraeli, even if one of its first consequences should be the elevation of this plain and simple living son of Judah to the Presidential chair of a British republic. The Prince of Wales should heed and obey the matronly counsel, lest England should produce a Judith who would search for and find 4 moder2 Holo- fernes, The Crisis in Austria=Francls Joseph Almost Tired of Sovereignty. We print this morning a cable despatch, special to the HgRraxp, to the effect that Fran- cis Joseph is seriously disposed to abdicate. The cause is said to be despondency. Tho Emperor is sick of the policy of conciliation. It is well enough to conciliate when concilia- tion pays. But Francis Joseph, since 1866, has been finding ont that the more ho gives in the more he is asked to surrender. Decen- tralization has most unquestionably, in Aus- tria, become a necessity; bat it is very hard for the Austrian Emperor, the hereditary chief so recently of the German Confedera- tion and the heir of ali the rights of the West- ern Cesars, to go on always yielding and hay- ing for bis reward only further humiliation. It was well enough to grant antonomy to the Hungarians, for Wapgary had beea for many generations the most important unit in the Austrian empire, It was necessary to con- ciliate the Magyars. But when Bohomia and Galicia and Carinthia and Jllyria and the Tyrol begin to insist that what is good for the Hungarians ought not to be bad for them, the Emperor not unnaturally takes fright. It is quite true that Francis Joseph has beon crowned King of Hungary. It is also true that he has been offered and that he has pro- mised formally to accept the crown of Bohe- mia. Butit is hard to be offered and to be compelled to accept what one has been in the habit of regarding as one’s own. This decentralization policy has, in fact, become distasteful to the Emperor, With the aid of Count Von Beust he has been doing his best since 1866; but now that the German States threaten to secede from the empire, and that Count Hohenwart finds it next to impossible to remain President of the Coun- cil of Ministers, Francis Joseph can no longer conceal from himself that decentralization means the dissolution of the empire. As a nataral result he admits that retirement from the cares of State is desirable. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, Isabella of Spain is a wané@erer. Napoleon the Third, only a few years ago the most powerful monarch in the world, is now an exile in Englavd. Queen Victoria, on whose domin- ions the sun never sets, is pronounced physi- cally and morally unfit to rule her people. Now Francis Joseph joins the unhappy throng. It is our opinion that if monarchs were wise they would retire one and all. They are all ricb, and they are all able to retire with a competency for themselves and their families, The railroad, the telegraph and the newspaper have made them of little account, William of Germany and Alexan- der of Russia are the two monarchs of the day who are not mere figureheads; but they, too, must soon bow to the new forces, If Francis Joseph means to retire he is wise; and we think that most of his brother monarchs stould imitate his example. Monarchs have had their day. The peo- ple’s turn bas cowe at last. The Injunction Modificd. Judge Barnard has found his late injune- tion against the Compiroller as to the payment of money and issuing of bonds on account of the city a liitle too sweeping. Te yesterday modified the injunction so as to enable the Departments of Public Works and Public Parks to prosecuie the improvements in prog- ress under their control and to secure prompt payment to the laborers, This is as it should be. The work upon our city improvements must not stop. Tae modification of this in- jonction will be gratifying news to the Park laborers. It is not every day a Peter B. Sweeny can be found to come forward and advance money from his own pocket to pay our city workmen, The order makes no provision for the payment of the salaries of teachers in the public schools, ~ The probability is that an application to this effect from the proper source would secure the prompt issue of a supplementary judicial order covering the ground and remove the present difficulties in the way of the teachers getting their well- earned pay. The final settlement of the general order under the Judge's decision was to have been made yesterday, but the Counsel to the Corporation was not ready and it was postponed, The probability is that the order will be definitely settled within two or three days. Dr. WitttaM Wats Brown (colored) tells a story of the Ku Klux io Kentucky, from which we would judge that the Klan in that State is not composed exclusively of the cul- tured and enlightened citizens. It appeara from the narrative that Brown was captured by 8 party of them, and was on his way toa convenient hanging tree, when be opportuncly came acrossa man in delirium tremens, of course a dear friend of the Ku Kluxers. They directed that he save the life of this man, and he proceeded to do 80, injecting morphine by the hypodermic proces’, and doing other things so wonderfal and relieving the man of his pains so rapidly that the Ku Kluxers thought he was an emissary of the devil, naturally concluding that a black man who put his talents to such a use as curing invalid Ku Kluxers could not be an angel, and they consequently delayed hang- ing him. Thus he had time to escape, and, taking a railroad train near at hand, at once | went to Cincinuati, where black men are safe and Ku Kluxes are unknown. It was quite a miraculous escape; but everybody is not re- quired to place implicit confidence in the truth of the story. The Muddle in City Matters. The muddle in city matters appears to bo about as bad as ever, although approaching 4 culminating point, The hitch in rogard to fands was partially relieved yesterday after- noon by the borrowing of some few thousands by the Deputy Comptroller. This amount, however, was soon absorbed by the payment of arrears due to laborers engaged in one branch of the public works—namely, the Cro- ton Water Bureau. There was also a sensible relicf in the publig mind by the announce- ment of the fact that Judge Ba had x modified the character of his injunction, upo application on behalf of the Department of Public Parks, as to permit that depart- ment to raise moneys by the issuing of bonds or upon assessments for the improvement of boulevards or avenues, or to be applied by the Department of Public Works toward the prosecution of any public work under their care or control. He furthermore ordered, (¢ use the precise language of His Honor— ‘That nothing contained in any injunction granted in this action shall be hejd or construed as restraint upon the Comptrolier of said city, or tne Board of Apportionment therein, irom issuing any bonds of said city or county, or any measures for the purpose of raising money for which requisition has been made by the said Department of Public Parks, or which such department may hereafter deem necessary in the prosecution of the several works and improvements under the'r charge, or for the payment of laborers and contractors of said «de artment, or otuer objects of expenditure of said lepartment, We are informed that a copy of the above order was, after some delay in the Comp- troller’s office, officially communicated to the Deputy Comptroller, whose only notice there- of,,so far as is at the present writing publicly known, was to transmit to the department an elaborate statement, arguing that all moneys to be raised by the city should be collected under the Two Per Cent act of the last session of the Legislature, thus virtually ignoring the modification of the injunction pronounced by Judge Barnard, and placing the city essentially in the ignoble position of wanting to borrow money without substantial security to offer for its repayment. We are inclined to think that there are but few careful capitalists who will care to invest their funda in so questionable a venture, although we candidly believe that whatever : amount may be required for carrying on tho | city government can be raised and will eventually be redeemed to the last dollar, It is understood that, so far as the Department of Public Parks Is concerned, the city bonds will’ be taken at par, if the Deputy Comptroller will pormit them to be issued. There is ¥ plethora of money ia the vaults of the savings banks awaiting investment, and Wall street is’ ready to open its pockets if the Deputy Comp- troller will only give it a fair chance. In the meantime we truat there will be conciliation and compromise on all sides, in order that the city’s fair fame and financial integrity shall, not be tarnished to any further extent than’ , now is, Prince Alexis. ! Great preparations are being made for the reception of Prince Alexis. A fleet of yachts, a United States frigate, and a steamer. with the Citizens’ Reception Committee, will meet the Russian sqnadron down the bay and escort it up to the Battery. Thence the National Guard will escort the royal visitor ta his hotel, and afterward the proceedings will dependon the wishes of the Prince. It is thought that he will immediately post off ta Washington to pay his respects to the Presi- dent, . On his return a ball will be givem bin fl the Academy, a breakfast at Jerome Pafs, a review of the Fire Department, a torcblight proceesion and an excursion up the Hudson. Aliogether, the entertaine ment in honor of our Russian lion will be on a! grander scale than any entertainment we have ever given to a foreign visitor, except Lafay- ette. In the present case the charge of. flunkyism levelled against our people is simply puerile and foolish, If there is ang, European nation for whom we entertain « most hearly affection it is Rugsla, She was @ stanch, fearless and powerful friend of ours’ during our troubles, and has always been out- spoken in her attachment to us as a nation: She paid unusual honors to our own Farragut during his visit to her sbores in 1866, and in honoring “Rassia’s Prince we propose to recip-’ rocate in soma measure the honor she paid him, as well as to give expression to our wellp defined regard for Russia herself. WEATHER REPORT, Wan DEPARTMENT, OVFICE OF THE CHLEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasitineton, D, ., Sept. 28—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, An area of low barometer, which was, Tuesday night, northwest of Lake Ontarfo, has remained nearly stationary, with brisk southwest winds and rain on the Lakes, and the pressure continues low in New England and New York. The high baromeger west of the Mississipp! has ad- vanced slowly southeastward, ‘The pressure haa risen very decidedly from North Carolina to Florida, but 1s stationary in the southern portion of that State. The temperature has fallen slightly in the Middle and Eastern States and decidealy in the Southern .and Gulf States. Fresh northwest winds are reported on the lakes and lighter winds in the Atlantic and Gulf States, Southerly winds, with rain, continue at Key West, but northerly winds, with clearing and clear weather, prevail from Central Florida along the Atlantic and Guilt coasts, Clond and rain have prevailed on the lower lakes, ‘Telegraphic communication with Upper Michigan is stul interrupted. Probabilities, The rain and cloud in Western New York wilt probabiy move northeastward, over Matne, without extending southward. Rising barometer and clear weather will probably prevail, from Connecticut, south, to the Gulf, and west, to the Mississippi, by ‘Thursaay afternoon, with the highest varometer iw the southwest. THE CONFLAGRATION IN WISCONSIN, MiLwackes, Wis, Sept. 27, 1971, Later news from the fire raging along the coast of Lake Michigan, between Manitowoc and Ahnapee, slate that the Qames are lapping up everything and sweeping houses, barns, stores and piers in (heir course. Henry Marshall, of this city, who escaped through the fire at the risk of his life, and whose horses were vactly scorched, counted twenty-two houses and barns reduced to ashes. The losses in Kewanee county will reach a quarter of a million of doliara, The farmers are burying their household goods In the ground to save them. As all communt- cation hag been cut of the exact situation cannot be ascertained; but il is feared chat unless rain ous in the damage and loss 0! tite will be feaviul The Wells are all dried up, and the lake ty tae only resort for water, — Pa ————