The New York Herald Newspaper, October 21, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD|“™ BROADWAY AND ANN STRERT, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic NEW YORK HERALY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, %671.—-TRIPLE SHEET, Kui Klux and Suspension of the Writ of Habens Corpus. A suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by the federal government in any of tho States in a time of general peace would have been regarded formerly as a very serious matter. Both Americans and English—all people of the Anglo-Saxon race—have ever carefully despatches must be addressed New Yor« | guarded their civil rights as protected by the Hera. No. 204 EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Proadway.—Tnm BauLEer Pan- voMmme or Humpty DuMPry, Matinee at 2 Volame XXXVI. "AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNODN. AND WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and %u strett— 4 CoRIOUS CASE—A GAME OF SUECULATION, si WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st. —Perform- ances afternoon and evening—THK OCToxoON, 2 ROOTH'S THEATRE, 9a st, berwe> ee MAOHRTH. Matinee ie betweea Sth and 6th avs. writ of habeas corpus, and have taken alarm at the first step to deprive them of these rights, The writ of habeas corpus has been regarded as the bulwark of liberty, and it is this which more than anything else led to the freedom that we enjoy. But times have changed. Our late civil war and the de- moralization which resulted from it have destroyed in a measura that watchful- ness of the American people over their liberties and jealousy of the encroachment of arbitrary power, Now the President 7ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hircr-a ravourre | Of the United States suspends the writ of NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Rouston streets.—THE STREETS OF NEW York. Matinee. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot 8th ay, - Biu.TeEN OGe. Natines at 2 i Abana tg STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Rowery—Ov" SRASON— THE MAGIC FLUTE. " aes ACADEMY OF MUSI oa" Fourteenth street. ENG OPrEBA- It, TROVATORE. Matin: ie SATANELLA, LINA EDWLN's THEATRE. N 5. 120 Bi — Oprta-— La PERICHOLE. M ince at pata espns FIFTH AVENUE TU Twenty -f z To NeW DwaMa or Divo: nee ae A street. — Matinee at 1g. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. — LaNcens—MARniEp LIFE. Matinee at 2. PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—Per- FROUON; Ob, THE MAID OF MUNSTER. Matinee a a UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth at. and Broad- way.—NFGRO ACTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, &C. Matinee. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broad rt DOA Le isms, Noro eo lg Matines ate oot” VOoae SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Tar SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. B si BRYANT'S NEW OPERA 119: 34 zy aud Th ave.—Bryanr’s MINsti coral ae tg TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 R. = Ne@RO KCORNTRIOTTINE, BURLESQUES, AG. Matinoes” STEINWAY HALI, Fourteenth atreet,— INGTROMENTAL CONOERT. ‘Matinee ar ae’ VOCS AND PARIS PAVILION CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet 20 and da areuuenEQUEeTRiAwIsG ao, {UT between AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXUIBITION, Third avenue y and eveutng, New York, Saturday, October 21, 1871.8 CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HTRALD, eine. wrt annnnnnnnnnne 1—Advertisements, 2— Advertisements, . 3—The Newark Tragedy: th and Last Day of the Trial of Botts; Closing Sceues of Judictal Sol- ewunity; Murder in the First 0 st Feuian Raid—The Eastern Prince: Tne Labors of the Execatuve Committee Compieted—News. trom Washington—Latest from Chicago— dangri a dustiiute Falr—Frospect Park Fair .Grounds—Horse Notes, 4—The City Crisis: ‘The Municipal Muddte Sull Badly Mixea: Action of the Courts Yesierday; Judge Ingraham to the Rescne—The New Cau: Monary Signals: The Display of Slorm W ings to Begin Lmmed Rules for the ¢ ance of Mariners an 8 ing the Signals; Late Seience cicn ational Insurance Conventuon—New York € ‘ws—A Family Broken Up. 5—A Political War Clond: Sachem Brennan Pats on His War Paint; A Lively Time Alead for ike Politiclans—Literature: Criticisms of New Books; Literary Chit-G ew Publications Neveived—Art Revie’ York Infant Asyium—suiclde of a Religious Kutoustast— Yeliow Fever mi Charlestou—Nayal aud Army Intelitgence. 6—Editortais: Leading Article, “The Ku Kinx and Suspenston of the Writ of Habeas Corpus" — Amusement Announcements, ‘7—Kantorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—~Ttaly and the Pope: The Conflicts Beiween the Crown and CI Comlug to a Crisis—Rome and Germany—Koyal Resoive of the European Crowns for Action Agalnst the Internationals— News from France, Algeria, Germany and En- gia The Fishery Filibusters—The Presidcut in Maine—Yachting—The Polar jon—South Caroiina Ku Klax—Miscellaneous Telegrams— Amusements—Views of the Past—Basiness No- tices, S—Acuons, Not Words: New York's Generosity exemplified; Later Donations and Names of the Contributors—The Westfield Disaster and the Chicago Fire—Exhibition Game of Base Rall on Behalf of the Chicago Sufferers—Kings ‘onnty Penitentiary—Speech of Frank Biair at Monigomery, Ala.—Brookiyn Adairs—Burglary in Bond Stree. 9--New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The American Fair—Financial aod Commercial Reports—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Delighted Delinquents: Interesting Proceed. ings at the Honse of Refage—Polttical Intel- lgence—Protestant Episcopal Convention— Lake Disasters—Miscetlaueous Telegrapb— Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements, é Chicago Fire: Narrative of Additional Oc- currences in the Strects of Chicago; Chicago Newsboys—Foreign Tonics—Cily Government —Adveriisements, 12—Advertisements, 11~ Borrs, tHe Mvrpi 2 OF Pur Hatstep, bas been found guilty of murder in the first degree. A motion made by his counsel for the hearing of argument for a new trial on the 11th of November was granted, Two Morr fire insurance companies—the Washington Fire Insurance Company and the Market Fire Insnrance Company—have been obliged to suspend operations in conseqnence of losses entailed by the late Chicago fire. Receivers were yesterday appointed for both these companies by Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court, and injunctions issued re- straining them from doiag business as fire companie: Iupowrant Nkws rrom THE. Porar Reaion.—The members of the German ex- pedition to the North Polo—the latest one from Prussia—have forwarded reports to Europe announcing “ihe discovery of an open Polar Sea, free from ice and swarming with whales.” The despatches are published in Gotha, as will be seen by our cable news from that city, Should their contente prove to be exactly correct the announcement is of the very highest importance, not only to the cause of eeience, but to the {nterests of the world at large. The news will also be more than gratifying to the American people, as the grand fact will go to verify the accaracy of the accounts which have been already pub- lished by ovr countrymen of the result of | their explorations North, * Seerior TSaRAHAM, of the Supreme Court, pursuant to his recent decisions, settled yes- terday the foar of the orders regarding the pro- posed examination of Mr. James 8. Ingersoll, and the peremptory mandamus asked by the Department of Public Parks requiring the Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller to issue assessment bonds called for by their requisi- tiona upon the Comptroller, The decision of the Judge, it will be remembered, in Mr. Loger- soll’a case-compels this gentleman to appear habeas corpus in a section of our common country and little notice of it is taken, as if it were a matter of ordinary occurrence or of ho tmportance—as if, in fact, no great princi- ple were involved. The proclamation of the President, dated Washington, October 17, 1871, which was published in our issue last Wednesday, places the counties of Spartan- burg, York, Marion, Chester, Laurens, New- bury, Fairfield, Lancaster and Chesterfield, South Carolina, under martial law, on the ground that combinations and conspiracies’ exist to obstruct and hinder the execution of the civil law, and that the federal government is called upon to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and to govern by military authority, in accordance with the actof Congress passed last April, If the public mind were not so demoralized and so indifferent to this exer- cise of military authority in time of general peace there would bea more searching tn- quiry as to the causes for or necessity of this extraordinary ac‘ion of the government, Fortunately, the independent press of this country is free to discuss the conduct of the government and to call public attention to this important matter, The independent press, as Junius said, is the palladium of our civil and religious liberties, Let us see, then, what foundation thore was for proclaiming martial law and creating such a dangerous precedent for exercising arbitrary powor in this free republic. The President tells us in his proclamation that combinations and con- epiracies exist in the countics placed under martial which cannot be reached by the civil law, and these he calls rebellious and insur- rectionary. By this he means what is gener- ally known as the Ka Klux. The changes are rung on such expressions as conspiracies, organized and armed combinations, violence, defiance of the onstituyed authorities, and so oa, but there t no evidence of rebellion or insurrection either in the sense generally understood or of the constitution of the United States, The law of Congress on which he bases his action may have given a new inter- pretation to rebellion or insurrection which was never meant tn the constitution, and he may be acting strictly in conformity with that, But the lawlessness of a few individuals, which at most only extends to a sort of lynch law in punishing obnoxious per- sons or (hose who are guilty of crimes, cannot be construed into rebellion against the goverp- ment. In fact, there has been no such rebellion or insurrection, Nor have the proper consti- tuted local authorities called upon the federal government to suspend the civil law, as is required by the coustitution. Governor Scott, of South Carolina, when asked less than three weeks ago if he were opposed to martial law, replied, *‘Most unequi- vocally I am, and those men who are 40 clamorons for martial law are pursuing a@ mistaken policy.” He said, moreover, that he had no idea General Grant would declure martial law, that he (the Governor) was not in favor of it, and that he thought the civil law was more efficient, What better authority does the administration want than the Governor of the State, who is one of its own partisans? Then the State ig under radical government, and most of tae authorities in it are opposed to martial law. The clamor for such an arbitrary measure comes from only a few reckless and corrupt disorganizers and aspiraats for office ; from men who have little interest at slake in the State beyond what they can make out of the offices or the disraption of civil govern- ment, No doubt there have been deplorable outrages upon individuals by local bands, and probably the Civil Rights bill of Congress may have been violated in some cases. No good citizen would attempt to justify these. But such crimes are not peculiar to South Carolina, Crimes as bad or more heiaous are committed in all the States, and it would be easy enough to altribute them to Ku Klux if it should suit the federal government to do 80 for political ends, Indeed, there might be no limit to federal interference in the local affairs of the several States, or even in this city of New York, if the proclamation of martial law isto follow the commission of similar crimes as those perpetrated in South Carolina, Should the clamor of a few partisan politicians be heeded more than the principles of local self-government, upon which the fabric of our institutions rests, there will be an end to civil liberty. It is a curious fact, showing the recklessness of the administration in the high-banded course it is pursuing, that one of the most quiet counties io the State of South Carolina, that of Marion, isincluded in those placed under martial law, while the worst Ku Klux county— Union—is omitted. This Governor Scott, it is said, admits, though he says, in palliation of the conduct of ihé Adiministration, it must be a clerical error. If it be necessary to put a portion of South Carolina under martial law for crimes against individuals, what should be done in North Carolina, where a few bandits have successfully defied all the constituted authorities? Nothing has occurged in South Carolina since the war comparable to the frightful depredations and defiant conduct of these bandiis in the adjoining State, en- trenched in the swamps for months and com- for examination on Monday next, unless he appeals from this order to the Supreme Court, General Term, in which court the examination in to be stayed till the hearing and decision of such appeal. As to the public parks, he com- pels axsesement requisitions to be paid, the same being specified'in the order, and the de- cision as to the permaneat park improvement vonds is reserved. mitting the most diabolical murders and other fearful crimes. So we might refer to the hanging of the negroes in Tennessee recently hy the populace without law and in defiance of the authorities for outrages committed on white women, or to many other lavless acts both in the South ond North, Where, in fact, would there not be found a nvetexh for the gxgroise of federal pilitary authority ifthe government should wish to strain the law for that purpose or had a poli- tical object to accomplish ? The President believes, perhaps, he fa doing his duty. We are not wiliMg to think other- wise, But, unfortunately, he is not a civilian, and bas little opportunity to study State affairs in the light of civil and constitutional law. Lis training has been military and his mind is imbued with military ideas, No doubt he is a patriot and wishes well to the country, and believes, probably, that he has intuitively -thesame capacity to govern in peace as he had to command in war; but if he would have his name go down to posterity as a statesman he must leave the camp and drop the sword— he must in time of peace respect above all things the civil law and civil liberty, And will he not have some regard for the anoma- lous and trying situation of those poor South- erners, who, though thoy erred, are a brave find high-spirited people of our gwn race and biood ae he not Be the en nn tion they are placed in, particularly in South Carolina, in being political slaves to their former domestic slaves—an intelligent and cultivated population put under the rule of ignorant and semi-savage negroes and corrupt strangers, who have little or no interest in the State, except to rob it? Has he no bowels of compassion for these unfgrtunate people of our own blood under such trying circum- stances? We think, as we said before, that he means well; but he hag been led, doubt- less, to extreme measures, which are cruel to the people of Sonth Carolina and dangerous to civil liberty, by partisan and narrow- minded politicians, who care only for their own immediate interests. The President should know that he can make more political capital and win the good will of the generous American people, both North and South, more by a kind and liberal policy to the Southerners than by military coercion. ‘Let us have peace,” seems to be his favorite motto, and he can have peace in the South, as well as good will everywhere, by abandoning his military idea of government and making the civil law supreme in every section of our common country. The Frauco-German Treaty. The Alsatian difficulty, regarding which so much bas been written of late, has been got over. The Franco-German Treaty has been ratified both at Paris and at Berlin, Accord- ing to this morning’s news the ratification gives great satisfaction in Paris; and, for his share in the conduct of the negotiations, M. Pouyer-Quertier has reccived the Cross of the Legion of Honor, The treaty is a gain to France, inasmuch as it provides for the com- plete evacuation of French territory by the German troops at @ much earlier date than that stipulated in the original Peace Treaty. By the end of this year, if nothing occurs to | moar the arrangements which bave been made, | France will bo restored to herself, It appears, however, that the six departments about to be evacuated by the Germans are to be regarded as neutral territory until the indemnity is fully paid. Not until tien, unless some fresh agree- ment is entered into, may the troops of France take up stations nearer the Rhine. The treaty is a gain to Germany, inasmuch as it secures for her newly annexed territories a market for their industrial products, Alsace is a great centre of manufacturing industry. In one branch of industry it numbers no fewer than 1,633,352 cotton spindles. ‘The impor- tance of this addition to the cotton manufactur- ing power of Germany will be understood when it is known that in the whole Zollvereia there are only 3,000,000 spindles. The cotton products of Alsace, however, are not adapted to tle German market, Cut off from France, and with no market in Germany, the Alsatians saw ruin staring them in the face; and, con- sequently, they have lost no opportunity since their separation from France to represent at Berlin how necessary it was that, until they were able to adapt their machinery and their products to the demands of a new market, they should have some temporary facilities for the sale of their goods in France, President Thiers’ desire to accelerate the evacuation of French soil gave Prince Bismarck his oppor- tunity. With all the provisions of the treaty we have not been made acquainted, It is not go advantageous to France as President Thiers intended {t should be; but it must, on the whole, be regarded as 4 gain to all the parties concerned, It rids France of the invader, It | secures for Alsace a market, It saves Ger- many from the many inconveniences which must bave resulted from the destruction of | trade in the annexed provinces, Southern Politics, Tf one were to aitempt to straighten a shape- lesa thing, or to decide what would become of an immovable object if attacked by an irre- sistible one, he would find no harder task than in undertaking to give shape to Southern politics as they stand at this time, Texas has gone democratic and South Carolina has been placed under martial law, Kentucky went democratic, and the Bourbon democrats are fighting as hard as they can to make her radical republican ia the future, Louisiana wants to go republican, but by the aid of Gatling guns and armed soldiery a republican Convention is overawed aad the Pelican State possibly thrown into the bands of the de- mocracy. Tennessee was getting along pretty wellfor the democrata, when by some hocus- pocus or other that wrathful and remorseless old mouthpiece of sulpuhrous Satanism, Parson Brownlow, stalks back from the fringe of the grave and gives the new democratic Governor and the new democratic administration that which in vulgar parlance is called “rats.” So we might go on from one Southern State to another Southern State, and all our investiga- tions would tend to the conviction that South- ern politica are in a transition state, and that Aleck Stephens, Bob Toombs, Jeff Davis, Wade Hampton and the rest of the clan who believe that the new constitutional amendments are “unconstitutional, null and void,” are doing about as much toward keeping the South in a bewildered and unsettled condition as the pro- clamation of the Executive in regard to South Carolina is calculated to do mischief in that section of the country in more ways than one, In the meantime, Sambo grins before his | ivories, and takes all the chan ces, Tho Reformers Ticket—Tho Supreme Court Nominations. The reformers have made a portion of their nominations for the coming election. They have put General Sigel on their ticket for Register, and Judge Barrett has been re- warded for his labors in the cause by being made the candidate for the Supreme Court in place of Judge Sutherland, The remainder of the nominations are left open until next Mon- day, in order to see what combinations will best serve to strengthen the party, It cer- tainly seems a Létle anomalons to find an inde- pendent reform candidate who is to aid in rid- ding the municipal government of all corrup- tion and in restoring its reputation for respect- ability and integrity conducted to the platform on the friendly arm of Ben Wood, and to see aselect committee of reformers begging ex- Sheriff Jemmy O'Brien to consent to run as their representative for the State Senate. But “qhjle the lamp. holdg out to burn the vilest sinner may returo,” and hence we may pre- sume that these stale politiciany have aban- doned their old habits, given up all their bogus claims against the city, forsworn the sinful practice of organized repeating, and become very pure and conscientious reform- ers, At all évents the nomination for the Supreme Court is a fair one, and the only ob- jection to it is the weakness: of the party by which it is made, through the want of organi- zation and unity of purpose, This difficulty can, however, be remedied, and the election of an honest reformer for that important judicial office can be secured, provided the Tammany democrats will adopt the advice we have already given them, and place Judge Ledwith upon their ticket for the Supreme Court. By this exercise of moral courage Tammany will make a splendid coup, and will refute the charges brought against her of desiring to place on the Supreme Court bench 8 partisan who will prostitute his office in the interests of the municipal “Ring.” We shall then have two stead- fast and earnest anti-Tammany reformers in the field for the most important judicial offize to be filled this fail, and .the re- form party will be in the position of Ingo in the duel between Cassio wad Roderigo— whether Barrott kill Ledwith, or Ledwith kill Barrett, cither way makes their gain, The frank, manly letter written by Judge Ledwith explains satisfactorily the position he oceuc pies, He has not asked an office or been ten- dered an office by Tammany, nor will he cease the good fight against the ‘‘Ring” and in favor of an honest inunicipal administration, But he owes it to the cause of reform, if he should be put in nomination for the Supreme Court by the strongest: political organization in the city, to accept the nomination. Should he refuse it he would give Tammany the op- portunity to place a political tool on the ticket after having secured the ¢clat of tendering the office to a reformer, and would thus risk de- priving the friends of good government of a representative on the Supreme Court béhch, If the Tammany party has any political decency left it will name Charles O’Conor or Ledwith for this office; the first, if he will accept and is eligible; the second, in case of Mr. O’Conor’s declension. In the letter event, it is to be hoped that Judge Ledwith will have the moral courage not to decline a nomination that wouid be offered to him without solicita- tion, condition or even consultation, What- ever may be the result of the election, let us 9’, all events make sure of the elevation to the Supreme Court bench for the next fourteen years of an honest reformer and aa inde- pendent man. The Cardinals, the Popo and of Italy. The Herarp apecial telegram from Rome which is published in our columns to-day affords additional evidence of the fast that the Cardinals of the Church are determined to force an issue of the matters which remain in dispute between the Holy See and the Italian government at an early moment, and take all the hazard of the consequences. The mem- bers of the Sacred College have discussed the subject and will meet in conclave, the Kiag The result of their deliberations has been presented to tho Holy Father in the shape of an episcopal advice, rec- ommending him to quit the Vatican .and flee from the city, “in order to preserve his spiritual mdependence,” Tho Pope received the recommendation with a considerable de- gree of favor, and we are assured that he has “partially determined to take his departure from Rome at the moment of the convocation of the Italian Parliament.” This will not be ‘*a new departure,” by any means, even if it should be accomplished, The Pope hesitates, This is prudent, for the old question arises again, ont of Rome and where would he go to? The moment of an Old World sensation over a fugitive Pope has passed away. King Victor Emmanuel guarantees the spiritual indepen- dence of the Holy Father. The peoples have come to the realities of politics. They require the actualities of religion. Pio Nono should endeavor to get along the best way he can with the Italian Parliament. He has a good round sum in the Vatican treasury just at present, All he requires is the assistance of a few experienced “lobby agents,” ‘The ven- erable Pontiff should be permitted to die in peace in Rome; the broad territory of free America is open to his successor, Gorp 112,—The influence of the Chicago disaster has been curiously reflected in the gold market by @ decline of the price to 112. The reason of this reaction lies in the fact that gold, having been demonetized by the substitution of greenbacks as a legal tender, has had to suffer like all the other Wall street commodities, which haye shrunk in value at the approach of stringent money and financial excitement. The more fully greenbacks fill up the channels of business the more likely is gold to take its place as & carrency at its pac in paper, Tur Ovation or THY Grovorster Fisnen- men to the captain of the stolen schooner Horton took the substantial form of a thou- sand dollar donation, a band of musio and revolutionary speeches at Gloucester yestor day, While these gallant mackerel heroes are enjoying themselves so heartily in this way the two governments have been cordialiy Baron Iracona ie the Brazilian appointee onthe Geneva Commission under the Wash- ington Treaty, Ife completes the liat, so that the Qoncye Goragbssiog ia now Call, hobnobbing at the opening of the new Inger- national Railway bond of union and harmony, apparenily entirely unaffected by thete Mlibua. toring exnloila Westera Fires ard farrionnes. The most remarkable and the most appall- Ing fact in chnnection with these late destruc tive Western fires is the fact that, in most cases, they were driven forward by flerce winds, of the character of hurricanes, Thus, at Peshtego, the rushing fire through the woods came down upon the devoted village with such rapidity that large numbers of the flying inhabitants were overtaken and lost their lives. From various other places swept away by the forest fires in Wisconsin and Michigan we have the same melancholy story. Even at Chicago such was the unexampled rush of the flames from house to house and street to street that thousands of the bewil- dered citizens escaping with thelr lives con- sider it a miracle that they escaped at all. From experience and past observations in city fires they had calculated that the fire in trav- ersing a certain number of blocks would occupy 80 much time, and they proceeded to pack up and prepare for moving as upon a margin of two, three or four hours of grace; but in hundreds of cases the flames were upon and around them while they were yet discussing what valuables they could’ take away and what they would have to leave behind. The unparalleled rapidity of movement and overwhelming destructiveness of these Western fires are chargeable to the fierce winds which fed them and swept them onward, But why these flerce winds, amounting to hurricanes? They are due to geographical causes. From Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains and from the British possessions down to Mexico we have a region of great plains. Over these plains, as over the deserts of Africa and Asia and the pampes of South America, the winds havo free play. In their free play they indulge in frequent tornadoes during tho spring and summer, and in long and heavy blows during the autumn and winter, In regard to the hur- ricanes accompanying these Western fires they result, first, from the vacuum of light or rari- fied air created by the fire, aad next, in the outside current of denser air drawn into the vacuum, ‘Then, as the effect upon the outside atmosphere from a great fire in an extensive plain must extend over an indefinite space, the incoming current to the fire from the outside pressure rapidly assumes the character of a hurricane. In a mountainous or hilly country the wave of the incoming air is broken up and ont off; but on an extensive plain the wind gathers strength in proportion to the area affected, as the outpouring waters from a mill dam gather strength in proportion to the size of the pond, We think that the Signal Service Bureau will sustain us in the opinion that such was the effect upon the general atmosphere by these heavy fires in the West that they contri- buted very materially to bring up from the Gulf of Mexico the general rains which put them out. But apart from these general causes and effects, experience within the last few years, including these late destructive fires, bas taught the people of the plains of the West that they are liable to hurricanes, which in a few minutes may sweep their movable posses- sions feom the face of the earth, by wind or water, or by wind and fire. Ience the wisdom of deep and roomy cellars to the houses of our Western farmers, for the safety of the family and the preservation of its valuables against tornadoes; and hence the danger of building up a Western city on the Eastern or European plan of narrow streets and vompact blocks of combustible buildings. This lesson of adapting themselves and their homes to the peculiar accidents from winds, floods and fires to which they are naturally liable cannot too soon be learned and adapted by our Western poople. ry Pee Earl Granville: Between England United States. The speech of Earl Granville at Manohester on Thursday night, in the course of whieh -he alluded to the increased friendly relations be- tween the United States and England, is an additional evidence of the sincere sympathy evinced at the other side of the water for the settlement of all difficulties between the Eng- lish and American nations. The foreign Min- ister expressed ‘‘a feeling of pride at the result of the Alabama negotiations and the good relations they had established with a sister country.” The expression will find a hearty response in this country, With the ad- justment of the claims fairly aud honorably, to the satisfaction of all pariics concerned in the matter, there will be no cause for any further dissensions to arise and mar the harmony which should cement in peaceful bonds the two great English-speaking nations of the globe. The paths of both lie in peace and commerce, The frait of the prospective solu- tion of the troublesome Alabama claims ques- tion is already producing good results. [a the terrible disaster which blotted out of existence a great portion of the Garden City of the West England showed her sympathy by forwarding to the sufferers comfort in their hours of sorest need. Such acts as these are more potent than treaties, for they live in the memory long after the compacts are forgotten. and the Tur ReBvILDING ov Cutcago, or the burnt district, we are glad to hear, is not to be hur- ried up in a mass of combustible wooden houses. For the immediate necessities of the houseless citizens, wooden buildings in vacant places ontside the burnt district are rapidly going up, and urgent necessity admits of no alternative. But when the suffering people are provided with shelter for the winter it is to be hoped that the municipal authorities and leading citizens of Chicago will adopt a plan for the rebuilding of the burnt district embrac- ing at least two or three broad avenues, so laid out as to give the greatest possible security attainable from this precaution against any extonsive fire hereafter in said district, and #o as to give the greatest available facilities to the business operations of the city between the lake shore and the suburbs in every direc- tion. Ina word, the advantages now offered for the reconstruction of Chicago, with « view to enlarged facilities to business: transportation, within the city, and for securities again: A extensive fires, are so apparent and inviting that we cannot imagine they will be thrswn away by the local authorities. Tar Arrack or GaewRau ‘Boreen against the Washington Treaty having exploded, lite his Fort Fisher powder ship, without vuuch damage, the question reours, what next? Perhaps an attack 9 lager beer, Who can tell? The European monarchies are sorely pers plexed, as will be seen by a Hunarp special telegram from London, on the subject of the Proper mode of dealing with the International Society. This combination has now been ac- knowledged a8 a progressive political agency, which contains in its organization the means of a powerful and popular leverage which may be used with effoct for the overthrow of © the thrones. The moment of decisive battle is almost on the royalties, Its cause and ap- proach were canvassed by their representa- tives in the Gastein Conference, and the crowns resolved on the adoption of energetio measures for the suppression of the Interna- tional in the different countries, This resolu- tion was not unanimous, however, The King of Italy refused to join the new European league, alleging, through his Minis. ter, that ‘“‘the Italian agitators are themselves opposed to the International and its princi. ples.” King Victor Emmunuel-defends the radicals of his kingdom. He prefers the rifle and stiletto of the Italian revolu- tioniat to the rongh hands and ‘in. dustrial ifstrumenta of the workingmen of Europe, The Italian agitators ‘‘are opposed: to the Internationals”"—an extreme of politi- cal consolation which must prove eventually more dangerous to the Italian.monarchy than the emergency which the King secks to stave off by appealing to it. Is the White Cross of Savoy to be carried back to the moun- tain caves of Italy from which it was first borne to the plain, and by hands as atub- born ag were those of the original standard bearers? The Departments of Docks and Parks— Judge Lagrnhaw’s Decision. The Commissioners of Docks complain very bitterly of the embarrassiments to whiod they are subjected and the injury done to their department by the delay of Deputy Comptroller Green in the payment of the money to which they are by law entitled for the prosecution of the important work en- trusted to them, They had sixty-eight thou- sand dollars on hand on the last day of Sep- tember, and owed about seventy-two thousand dollars; but they retained the balance to pay laborers and mechanics, and allowed the bills against them for material to remain unpaid, Commissioner Henry stated at the recent meeting of the Board that a gentleman stood prepared to take the whole half million dollars’ worth of bonds to which the depart- ment is ungnestionably entitled, but the Deputy Comptroller delays their issue, The Commissioners apprehend that they are to be kept ou! of funds until after election, aa part of a seitled plan to obstruct the public works for political purposes, and they assert that the delay will entail great loss on the city, Commissioner Hunt declares that ‘by stopping the work the amount of damage that will accrue will be fully a3 much as the cost.” The public parks and the improvements o@ the boulevards and avenues are in just the same position as the works on the docks, Deputy Comptroller Green has admitted that he never had any doubt as to the legal right and power to issue nssessment bonds on the requisition of te Department of Parks, yet there is a singular delay and hesitation in doing so. Yesterday Judge Ingraham settled the order regarding such bonds, and he grante & peremptory mandamus ordering the Deputy Comptroller to issue them forth- with and to pay the proceeds inte the Tenth National Bank to the credit of the Park Department. There can therefore be no more procrastination ia the matter, and we may expect that the worke on the boulevards, avenues and streets will proceed, and that the next important two or three months will not be lost. It is to be hoped that Judge Ingraham will as speedily as possible render his decision on the other branch of the question—namely, the right of the department to require the issue of bonds’; for permanent improvements in the parka, assessable on the city at large. The impression is abroad that the Deputy Comptroller bas prejudice to gratify against the Board, of which he is himself a}momber, and that the obstructions thrown in the way of the Park Commissioners are not such as are raised io the interests of the city. The fact is that, allowing for the decrease in tho,time of labor fvom ten hours a day to eight hours, and for the vastly improved management and care of the parks, in the police, gardening and other arrangements, the expenditures under the present Board have been some two hundred thousand dollara a year less than under the old Commission, The condition to which the parks have been brought during the past year and a half is before the eyes of the peo- ple every day and can bo jndged by them. [ft is to be hoped that all partisan and personal warfure against these important Departments of Docks and Parks will cease, and that while all proper vigilance and economy aré exercised by the Finance Department no crusade will be initiated against the best interests of the city, either to subserve political ends or to gratify personal pique. Let Judge Ingraham hurry up the remainder of hia decision, and if the work on the public docks is obetracted for want. of funds let the depart- ment seek the aid of the Courts to protect the interests entrusted to their keeping, Tux Forcwie Mxasurxs Instrrorep by: the President for the suppression of the Ku Kloz in South Carolina have already bad. a very perceptible effect npon those mystical marauders, One hundred of them at Spar- tanburg surrendered yesterday to the United States Marshal, and numbers of others, sup~ powed to be of the higher and wealthier femities, are leaving the cowotry to avoid the punishment threatened under martian, law. ub iidasbibhaaibalaais Heme in Special Appeal te Gormnny.; ‘A Huratp special tologram from Berl/a, which is published fn our columns today, announces the Important fact that Pope/ Pina the Ninth has made a direct appeat ‘to the Emperor of Germany for advice as to th proper course of action for the Church to pairs sue during the existence of the complica siona which surround its head in Italy, His Holi- ness wishes to assemble a canonical ‘sonclave. He thinks that the deliberations yf its mem< bers canaat be qandnetad with rarfect Geedon