The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Mespatches must be addressed New York Pad panes WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broad: and ures pocattacne Sam—THE Nanvous Man, = corner 30th st.—Perform- ' woon's MUSEUM, le Mances afternoon and evening—' OcToRoon. BOOTH'S TH) ak ey - ~:~ a petal and 6h avs. BOWERY €h x THEATRE, Bowery.—HeLr—A Favorite NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broedway, fween Prince. DRoasion streets. —Lozp Duspaeiny. ane GRAND 0! — D orana HOUSE, corner of Sh av. ana 23d st.- STADT THEA’ 2 rn Saad @ and 47 Bowery—Orzza ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Fourteenth street.— WOrrna—Lvocia vi Lawueeuoon. STARA i ere ag ald THEATRE, No. 730 Broadway.— FRENCH PRRICHOLE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty- street. New Dnama OF Drvosce’ rn om ' eee , OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—' a alee an 2 away. Tor Baier Pan. \ ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street - pwoy.—Proa Donna FOR A Mio ac, ae ' —_— MRS. F. " -~ bir 8. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATBE. ' \ PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.. , frua, Tam Sewing Masuine Orne. Sgro UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth - peritnets dere Bussuscum Barer son d COMTQUR, bing nd Soe a 614 Broadway.—Comro Voca- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL RAL, — Sur San Francisco MineTaELs, bes deeatia at BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUS: ween fone Mh ave.—Baranr's iirwerans. mee bad TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi wery.— Reno BoosnrTRicrrizs, Bunsen, io spl hs PARIB PAVILION CIROUS, F ek er CUS, Foustocath street, between AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third ‘Sixty-third street.—Open day and evening. "* RIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Octeber 22, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Macr. 1—Advertisementa. 2— Advertisements. 3—State and City Politics—The Weather Report— The Donghty-Dowling: History of the War in the Sixth Ward—fhe Prosecution of the “Ring"—Fire in Thirty-sixth street—Fire in Ninth street—affairs in Chicago—Highway Robbery—The Racing at Prospect Park Fair Grounds and Fleetwood. Park—Horse Notes— Mysterious Disappearance—Nationat Insur- a. onvention—Bold Burglary—European @—The Great Barnard Injunction: Argument Upon the Application for Its Modification; A Raid on Munict, Extravagance and Sine- cures—The Rudd Homicide: The Accused Pronounced “Not Guilty, on the Ground of insanity” —Proceed: i ings in the Courts—Re- ; ligious Intelligence—Municipal Matters— : Jersey’s Last ‘stery—Another Concern “gone Up—Denis Daley's Doings. S—Financial and Commerciai—Dry Goods Market— and Deaths—Advertisements. @—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Pope and His DiMcuivies—Cunous Reports from Rome and Berim—What Does It All Mean t’—Amuse- ment Announcements, 7—News from England, France, Germany, Rou- mania and Hayti—Polygamy Doomed: Every Mormon at tne Mercy of His First Wife— Yachting: The gig Victory—Tne Ku Klux War: Effects of Martial Law in South Carolina—Prince Alexis—Business Notices, S—Aavertisements. 9—Advertisements. 2@—The Chicago and Forest Fire Funds—News from Washington—Amasements—Fatal Rail- road Accident—Shipping Intelligence—adver- tisements, @1—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Caicaco aNpD THE CaTHoLIC CHURCHES To-Day.—We trust friends will remember that subscriptions are to be taken up to-day in the Catholic churches in this city in aid of the Chicago sufferers. No doubt a handsome gum will be realized. “STEALING THE LivERY OF Heaven,” &0.— An expounder of the Gospel recently visited a mining district in California and raised quite a subscription to build a church. Instead of devoting the funds to this purpose, however, he started a monte bank and fleeced the miners outrageously. This is literally ‘‘steal- ing the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in,” Tae BonaPartes aND THE FRENcH.—The ex-Emperor Napoleon declares his belief that the government of the French republic is weak and “inadequate to the wants of the country.” Prince Napoleon travelling to Marseilles ran in danger of being made prisoner by the French ‘people at Valence. He was forced to show his safe conduct pass from the Thiers Cabinet, and was subsequently hissed from the town. This was certainly a pretty strong action, and {f the republic of France truly represents the people of the country it should not lack tone and force, as the ex-ruler alleges it does. Tae Trapr Stetkes axp Lasor Waces Quxstion is assuming very serious proportions in England. The united workmen fight with the police frequently, and are now proceeding to the length of attacking the property of the i master workmen who refuse to accede to their demands. A cable telegram from London announces the occurrence of proceedings of this character in Lincoln yesterday. The police were driven off and considerable damage done to buildings subsequently. Lin- colo is » municipal centre of great importance to the peaceful well being of the kingdom, as St is connected with Derby, New Holland, Grimsby and almost all of central England by railroads. Tas Recarroxe or THE Schooner Horton is likely to prove of little benefit to her owner, swho has sent to the State Department an ac- count of that affeir, and modestly asks for the Issuance of new papers for his vessel in place of those seized by the Canadians. Secretary Boutwell, although sympathizing with the Gloucester fishermen, realizes too well the i situation to grant this request. If the Secre- | tary issues the papers he endorses for the United States government the recapture of the | Horton, and at once destroys the good feeling hich the present administration has effected _ between the two governments, and paves the vo " away for an open rupture, if not long and | @isastrous war. This Mr. Boutwell has "> pelther the will nor authority in law for doing, - gpd, unless the Canadian authorities see fit to HED the matter, the owner of the Horton will bs. the poor satisfaction of seeing his vessel » wot at her wharf, as she cannot, under any - qltoumstances, leave port without her proper 1 a bat he on f NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. UUTUBER 22, 1871—1KIPLS SHEET, perts from Reme and Borlia—What Does it All Mean? The difficulties of the Holy Father, touching the relations between Church and State in the city of Ronfe, are evidently approaching a crisis. We published yesterday from Rome and Berlin some very remarkable and sug- gestive despatches on the subject. Thus from Rome we are informed that the reunion of the Cardinals of the Church for a solemn conclave or council has been completed in the Vatican ; that the question placed before the Cardinals for debate was the important one of what action should be taken by the Pope relative to the claim of the King of Italy to the supremacy of rule in temporal affairs over the city and domain of the Holy See; that the Cardinals have advised His Holiness to quit Rome, ‘‘in order to preserve his spiritual independence,” and that the Pope has virtually determined to take his departure from Rome at the moment of the convocation of the Italian Parliament within the bounds of the municipality. On the same day, Friday last, we were in- formed in a telegram from Berlin that on that day a special ambassador from the Pope had obtained an interview with the Emperor Wil- liam, in which this Ambassador had stated that he had been commissioned by the Pope to inquire and ascertain of the Emperor if it would be allowable and in order for the mem- bers of the approaching conclave of the Church to assemble and sit in session outside of Rome, say in some French city. The Emperor, it further appears, received this ecclesiastical envoy with condescension, but referred him for an answer to the Papal message to the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bismarck; and that accordingly the Prince was next approached with the important ques- tion, bot that he evaded a reply. Finally, it appears that the Emperor committed to the care of the Papal envoy, for delivery into the hands of the Pope, an autograph letter ex- pressive of his personal sympathy for His Holiness in his present difficulties. And this is all; and for the precise meaning and objects of these extraordinary proceedings in Rome and Berlin we are left to our own conclusions, The despatch from Rome is comparatively clear, The Pope, it appears, has sought the advice of his Cardinals in reference to his course of action on the coming of the Italian Parliament to Rome. . They have advised him to retire, and he is inclined to do so. He has most emphatically, heretofore, in various encyclicals and remonstrances, de- nounced the invasion and occupation of his temporalities by the Italian government as the most outrageous usurpations, and the laws passed by the Italian Parliament for the pro- tection of the Church and the dignity of the Pope as the bead of the Church, as nothing better than the protection which the wolf vouchsafes to the lamb. With equal clear- ness and emphasis the Holy Father has de- clared that while he can never consent to these sacrilegious spoliations; he can never, as the custodian of the sacred patrimony of St. Peter, enter into any compromises affect- ing its integrity with ‘“‘the sub-Alpine govern- ment.” Since the promulgation of this Papal ultimatam the King of Italy has entered into the occupation of the Quirinal as his official residence in Rome; has dispossessed the Church of several convents in the city, in- cluding one from which the nuns have been ejected to make room for the King’s horses, and has in many other things shown the Pope that not only is he completely dispossessed and superseded in his temporalities, but that he is the ‘‘servant of servants” in Rome. We can hardly doubt this report, therefore, that, in view of the coming of the Italian Par- liament to Rome, the sorely distressed Head of the Church is again meditating a retreat from the city and the scenes of his many trials and tribulations. Some months ago it was said he had entered into certain arrangements for a temporary refuge in the island of Cor- sica; but it was next given out that M. Thiers had persuaded him to abandon the hazardous alternative and to await in Rome the progress of events and the intervention of Providence, for that France was not in a condition for in- tervention. Now, this despatch from Berlin, referring to the German Emperor's permission for a conclave or council of the Church, ‘“‘say in some French city,” may mean the little city of Ajaccio, in the island of the Bonapartes— the island of Corsica. Let us see. The Prince Napoleon (Plon Plon) is now, with the permission of the Thiers government, making a pilgrimage to this ‘ever faithful island.” There is another Bonaparte who isa Roman Cardinal, and the ex-Emperor Napoleon him- self is, or has been, distinguished as the ‘‘eld- est son of the Church.” At the same time, it must not be forgotten that the devoted Em- press Eugénie, a recipient of the Golden Rose (still an Empress among women in her own right), has just been making a pilgrimage to the land of her nativity and the castles of ber mother in Spain. Putting all these things to- gether, with the Bonapartist intrigues going on in France, have we not the materials fora very plausible and a very important explana- tion of this Papal envoy’s proposition to the German Emperor? Let us suppose thatthe Emperor William has given his permission for this conclave or Council of the Church in some city in France; that President Thiers, in order to conciliate the Church, has consented ; that this Council, headed by the Pope himself, has assembled in the island of Corsica; that for the present it has declared, with the consent of France, the city of Ajaccio to be the headquarters of the Pope and that he will there remain till re- stored by the will of God to his rightfal au- thority and inheritance—the patrimony of St. Peter—may we not look for some startling events in France, inclading a Napoleonic coup @ état from the old, devoted soldiers of the im- perial army. The greatest fear of Thiers at this time is his fear of the Bonapartes. Hence bis coast guards around the island of Corsica and his hesitation in the permit to Pion Plon for a filial visit to the island. But the German Emperor, while expressing the highest consideration for the Pope, turned over his envoy for an answer to this proposition of a Church Council in France to Prince Bis- marck, and the Prince evaded a reply. There was something so extraordinary in this propo- sition that he could not see through it, and what he cannot see through he stops to con- sider, Like the qunoing old rat in the fable, The Pepe and His Difficaltice—Caurieus Re- he thought, no doubt, that while it might be an innocent tub of meal there might be a cat concealed in it, and he declined to touch it. But why should the Pope of Rome look to the Protestant Emperor of Germany as his special friend in the midst of his present heavy mis- fortunes? It is for the reason that ever since Napoleon’s proclamation of war against Prus- sia the King and Emperor William has shown toward the Pope a warmer sympathy than any other European sovereign; and it is because the Emperor William has taken the place of the Emperor Napoleon as the arbiter of Europe. Yet this entente cordiale between the Catho- lic Pope and the heretic Kaiser is one of the most remarkable facts of modern times, Look at that arch heretic, Dr. Dillinger, tarning the whole German empire upeide down with his agitation against Papal infallibility, and the Kaiser and all his subordinate kings backing him up! Look at Bismarck, laughing in his sleeve over Dillinger’s ‘Old Catholic” non- sense, and watching the hedging of Thiers for the Bourbons and the Pope with the keen eye ofa fish hawk? What can the Holy Father expect from such a nest of heretics? And why should the infallible appeal to the fallible? It is because human affairs must be managed through human agencies, and because the Em- peror William and Bismarck are at the head of these agencies in European affairs, It is said that nothing bat misfortune to the Pope has followed this dogma of infallibility. This is true; and yet it may prove to be a good thing for the Pope and the Church if wisely exer- cised. For example: If the Pope is infallible in refusing any compromise with Italy he will be infallible all the same in accepting a com- promise. Therein lies the strength and the great beauty of thissplendid dogma. It meets all cases; it comes right side up every time; and we expect yet, through the good offices of the German Emperor and his great Chancellor, that the Holy Father will be reconciled to Rome under the temporal power of Italy, with a contingent fund from the State of six hun- dred thousand a year. Let us have this set- tlement of the Roman question, and even Dil- linger will be upset on Papal infallibility, The Polygamy Trials in Utah—Hawkins Convicted. In another place in the Heratp of this morning will be found a despatch from Salt Lake City, Utah, giving a condensed account of the trial and conviction of Hawkins. The penalty prescribed by the Utah statute for adultery is imprisonment for not over twenty years nor less than three years, or a fine of not over $1,000, or both fine and im- prisonment. Time was allowed to prepare a motion for a new trial; in the meantime the accused was taken into custody by the United States Marshal. Hawkins is one of the prominent men in the Mormon community, His case is important, from the fact that it is the first case which has been brought toa legal and judicial test. It is fair, we think, to call it the test case. Brigham Young and Cannon and others have been indicted, but from some catise or other their cases have been delayed. The case of Hawkins was permitted to be pushed perbaps as much with the consent of the Mor- mons as with the desire of the United States authorities. Hawkins was charged by, his first wife with adultery. The evidence had was unimportant. Mrs. Hawkins No. 1 was the principal witness. She had borne her husband, she said, seven children before he took to himself another wife. But her hus- band’s wants had not been met by a second wife; be bad since married a third. To have a third wife—the first and the second being alive—we should have regarded asa small offence in Utah, where wives, by a single gentleman, are sometimes cared for up to the number of twenty, and by the privileged even to a larger figure. The evidence did not show, although in the estimation of an impartial Court it would be of some value, how far the first Mrs, Hawkins originally con- doned her loving but dissatisfied husband's marrying propensities. It leaves us perfectly in the dark as to whether Mrs. Hawkins—a Mor- mon in faith and practice—suffered from younger and more attractive rivals, or as to whether the ‘‘green-eyed monster,” which was known in Shakspeare’s and Abraham's times, finds any place in Utah. We have but little sympathy with Hawkins or with Hawkins’ wives ; but we have a linger- ing liking. for fair play. Poor Hawkins is a victim. But then the twin relic of barbarism was doomed, and Hawkins ought to be con- soled by the fact that his name will live in history. The wedge is now introduced, and Mormon polygamy is doomed. Hawkins has been convicted, so will Cannon, and so will brigham Young and the others. That it should be go no one regrets, Mormon poly- gamy was a stain upon our American civiliza- tion. It ought to have been wiped ont long ago. But then, while we are pushing the poor Mormons to the wall, why should we be so in- different to the Oneida Community and the other free love associations which exist in the midst of us? Fair play is a jewel. Let us be just all round. Justice for Johu—A Patriot Unroqarded. In the distribution of the spoils among the honest patriots who have battled so nobly for the past two months in the cause of municipal reform and a new deal for political pap all round, one distinguished laborer has failed to receive the reward of his toil. John Foley, the injunctionist, has been left without a nomi- nation for office. It is even rumored that he has been snubbed and ignored by his asso- ciate’ of the famous Seventy, who appear to be envious of the fame he has achieved. All that the people have gained in this war upon official corruption kas been won through the gallant efforts of the persevering Foley. Itis to him that we owe the slashing, crashing Barnard injunction, by the power of which the hands of all our city depart- ments have been tied, the wheels of government blocked and the laborers left to kick their heels outside the Comptroller's office, waiting for their overdue pay. Barrett has received his reward, and has found poli- ticians, for once, faithful to their pledges, O'Brien has met the recompense of high po- litical morality and official integrity in the endorsement of his record by the venerable Tilden and of his nomina- tion for the State Senate by the mu- nicival reformers. Ben Wood is to go to Congress next year on the honesty policy. Why, then, should Foley be left out in the cold? Here is another splendid opportunity for the Tammany democracy to set themselves right before the people and to prove their dis- interested patriotism and fearlessness of in- vestigation. Let them at once nominate John Foley for Register and run him upon the capi- tal of his great injunction. This will be a dis- play of magnanimity unequalled in the history of politics, and magnificent enough to cast a halo round the head of the well known Indian who at present looks so gloomy and despond- ent over the roof of the old Wigwam. Review of the Religious Press. As might naturally have been expected, the principal editorial articles in our religious papers this week have been devoted to the calamitous visitation in Chicago. It is, in fact, the absorbing theme, and the moral to be deduced from it, it will be noticed, gives rise to some curious theological as well as po- litical speculations. The Independent discourses eloquently upon the ‘Enthusiasm of Humanity,” as demon- strated in the universal sentiment to relieve the sufferers in Chicago. It says:— Who could read the telegrams last week without a choking in his throat? Who could thiak of this great outpouring of com; 100 and bounty with- out feeling that love mightier, after all, than selfishness; that the new commandment is, indeed, the highest law? And if to us, who were only spec- tators of this beneficence, or, ante oO our ability, partners in it, this manifestation of charity was 80 beautiful, what mus: it have been to the sufferers themselves ? Truly, “those who cast their bread upon the waters will have it returned after many days,” with butter on it. The Independent thinks ‘‘the Chicago fire has been a godsend to the Tammany thieves, as well as to a less dangerous set of mis- creants and plunderers.” ‘‘In the great excite- ment it has created they have found a meas- sure of the respite for which,” continues the Independent, ‘they have for weeks been pray- ing, and have doubtless faintly hoped that the warfare against them would in the fature be somewhat less fierce.” The respite Tam- many has had since the alarm against it was firs sounded has been like the respite given to fire when it is fed by tow. Tammany was never more thoroughly hounded than she is at this time, and the mischief of it is the fun, in view of the Matt Brennan defection, seems really to be just beginning. The Presbyterian Observer is rather out- spoken when, under the heading of ‘‘Chicago’s Fire and New York’s Corruption,” it asks, “Which is more to be pitied to-day, Chicago in ashes or New York in the hands of a cor- rupt and powerful band of thieves?” and adds :— to O pecuniary; the condition of New York is moral and polittost degeneracy and shame. Chicago will rise rom her ruins more beautiful, more substantial, more prosperous, more powerful than ever. But for us we see no present signs of political, financial or moral improvement to come from our humiliation. Politicians of both parties make no effort to improve ‘the occasion for the election to office of men fearing God and hating covetousness, The Observer thinks “the prophets of a speedy coming of the end of the world have been greatly cheered by the calamities of @arope during the past year or two, and as they read of this dreadful fire in Chicago, of the devastating fires in Michigan and along the lakes, and on the Rocky Mountains, they will again take heart of hope and be more than ever sure that the end is at hand.” The Observer is more than usually sensible when it writes about the word “regenerate” in the following style:— If the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in coming together from all parts of the country and spending three weeks in session at Baltimore, had performed no other act than to issue the decla- ration in regard to the meaning of the word “re. | eae in the baptismal service they would ave rendered more than an equivalent service, There is too much attention paid by our religious conventions to abstruse subjects when their time might be more profitably em- ployed in discussing practical questions like the above. It is probable, however, that the proper interpretation of the term “‘regenerate” will be left for decision to some other genera- tion. * The Evangelist sees a silver lining in the Chicago cloud. It has, it says, ‘‘called forth manifestations of character and expressions of sympathy” that would not otherwise have been evoked. The Christian Union—Henry Ward Beecher—claims a ‘‘victory over disaster” in the swift sympathetic thrill the Chicago calamity sent throughout the land. It con- tinues :— We have had a heart-stirring display of courage and generosity and mutual helpfulness. The same qualities displayed in the form appropriate to each separate exigency will make any oP onle strong against all disaster. It 1s the spirit of the Apostie’s injunction, ‘Look not every man on his own Dut every man also on the things of others.’? Under the heading of ‘‘Light Breaking” the Christian Union hails as one of the best signs of the time the meeting held last week by the young men of New York to organize for municipal reform. Do not deal with such mat- ters too lightly, Brother Beecher. You ought to put down heavy brakes on-municipal cor- ruption. The Golden Age—-Theodore Tilton—avers that the Chicago calamity instantly touched all hearts. Not since the shot at Sumter have we wit- nessed such a universal generosity in men’s breasts as toward the suffering city to whose relief ail other cities are now contributing. The tele- graph, for a week past, has been freighted, hour by tly ns pa Sg wns on af aro ie mon and clothing, sent from al of the mony to Chicago. This stream, of bounty recalls the days of the Sanitary Commission. The Golden Age throws out some curious hints about the Church of America. A dis- tinguished Episcopal clergyman, it says, “remarked to us the other day that America seemed to be feeling after a Charch, and if the leaders of the Episcopal Church had the wisdom to meet the opportunity they might make that the Church of America.” This does not agree with the fears so often ex- pressed by Protestant papers and echoed from Protestant pulpits that the future ‘Church of America” was destined to be under the direction of His Holiness the Pope of Rome. The New York Tablet—Catholic organ— manfally and Christianly calls for “‘help for the desolated city,” and says :— ss “a wed Archbishop, anxious to have caatite pe le of New York subscribe as a body to the relief their suffering fellow countrymen in om 0, has ordered a general collection in all the Pi Ee: et hus dock, Yoh and r that every member 0! Hioh and poor, ‘may ‘this case of dire rnd) oe The Freeman's Journal—Catholic—is out in ® strong appeal for relief for the seven burned Catholic churches of Chicago, includ- tng the pro-Cathedral, with ite ten to Afteon thousand souls depending upon its ministra- tions, From the above it will be seen that our religi- ous contemporaries have unanimously exhorted their worshippers to come to the relief of the Chicago sufferers, Why cannot something be done for the poor creatures hovering and shivering in the forests and villages of the Northwest—in Michigan, Wisconsin and Min- nesota ? The City Injunction and the City Gov- ermment—Position ef Judge Barnard. The application for a modification of the injunction issued by Judge Barnard against the city so as to allow the work in the Croton Aqueduct Department to be continued was argued yesterday, and the Judge took occasion to explain the object and intended extent of the injunction. It.was not designed to inter- rupt or in any manner to _ interfere with the machinery of the municipal gov- ernment so long as it was honestly managed, but simply to protect the treasury against robbery; to prevent the payment of hogus judgments and exorbitant advertising and printing bills; to sweep away the greedy army of sinecurists, who were receiving salaries for labor never performed in the departments; to stop the issue of any bonds by the Board of Audit without the authority of law, and to prohibit the ex- Ppenditure of another dollar on the new Court House until the community should become satisfied that it would be completed with hon- esty and economy. In short, the injunction was issued for the protection, and not for the injury, of the city, and a proper interpretation of it would not embarrass any department of the city government for an hour. As Judge Barnard says, ‘it was not intenCled Chat the laborers who are earning an honest living or poor men depending entirely on their salaries should be deprived of employment and thrown out of occupation in consequence of any irregularity that might have been committed by any officers temporarily holding and con- trolling any of these departments.” The Heratp has from the first taken pre- cisely this view of the injunction, and has insisted that, while all proper care should be taken that no more frauds are committed in the departments, the public works and all the necessary business of the government should be suffered to proceed as usual. There has, however, been an evident partisan and personal purpose in obstructing the machinery of the administration, and there is little doubt that -the object of many of the political cliques and factions that have been playing the dle of reformers has been to throw the great bulk of the employs and laborers in the departments out of work, and to bring the business of the city govern- ment to a standstill until after election, in the hope of thereby paralyzing the strength of the party in power. We have protested against this as a direct injury to the interests of the taxpayers and property owners and as a crimi- nally dangerous experiment. The credit of the city is good ; the taxes are flowing in, and there is ample authority in the law for raising allthe funds necessary for the purposes of government, It is clear that the laborers who have done work for the city must be paid, sooner or later. All proper safeguards against the misappropriation of money are now secured. There is therefore no reason to be found either in the operation of the injunction, the financial condition of the city, the interests of the taxpayers, or anything else, why the money due to the laborers should be withheld from them a single day, or why the public works should be interrupted for an hour. The delays are in consequence of misconstruction of the in- junction, and such misconstruction is made from political considerations. There could never have been any doubt as to the legality of the issue of bonds for the purpose of carry- ing on the improvements on the several boulevards, avenues and streets; yet the peremptory mandamus of a Court has been needed to force the payment of the neces- sary funds over to the Department of Parks, the laborers on those works have been kept for weeks: without the money due to them, and the works have been partially sus- pended. There can be no doubt that the law allows the issue of all necessary funds to the Croton Bureau to insure the proper supply of water to the city; yet the interference of the Court has been found necessary to force the money from the Finance Department. There can be no doubt that the Fire Department can legally claim the amount needed to keep up that important branch of the government, yet the Commissioners beg in vain for the sums due to them, and there is at least some risk of a demoralization of the force, which might leave the city exposed at any moment to the calamity that has visited Chicago. The same can be said of the Department of Docks and of the Health Department. It is to be hoped that the remarks of Judge Barnard will put a stop to the policy of ‘‘stopping the supplies,” originated by ex-Mayor Havemeyer, and that the machinery of the government, the public works, aud the pay of laborers and employés will not be stopped until after the election for any. political purposes, or to subserve the ends of any clique or faction. The Courts should hasten their decisions in these cases, so that the city may be protected and the dangerous experiment stopped as speedily as possible. WENDELL Painiirs on Corrurtion.—Wen- dell Phillips selected a congenial theme when he lectured in Boston on Friday night on the corruptions of cities, He de- clared that there was not a muni- cipal government, from Boston to San Francisco, that was not ruled by a mob of rumsellers—and even Boston was obliged to succumb at the dictation of an association of rumsellers when wealthy and respectable citizens attempted to reform the local gov- ernment. Rom—rum—‘‘What crimes are committed in thy name!” Tur Week iN Watt Street wound up with a “preservation of the unities,” in so far as the stock market was consistent in its in- consistency. The great crowd of excited “hears,” who were offering everything at the lowest prices when the market was in panic after the Chicago news, were the strongest kind of “bulls” yesterday after » rise of five or six percent. A “bear” on the Stock Ex- change was as egarce ag white bisckbicds, ‘The Coming of Alexis. The strong bond of sympathy that knits Russia and America together is something of a diplomatic mystery, Why there should be anything in common between the two nations is an incomprehensible riddle, if we argue in accordance with all reasonable precedents for international sympathy and alliance, The mother tongue would seem to be a common cause of affection between Old England and ourselves, and yet it seems to have required a very carefully prepared treaty to give such affection words—very cold and unimpassioned words at that—and in many quarters even these endearing accents are derided. The memory of Lafayette is enough to have bound us with hooks of steel forever to our old ally, France, and yet during the late war we seemed to incline rather to the beery Ger- mans’ side. The great bear of the East—the rough, despotic giant that sits wrapped in his im- penetrable snows, upon the common border of Europe and Asia, glorying in his rude strength, influenced to sullen growls by every piece of shallow diplomacy that shakes the rest of Europe to its centre—is as unlike in all his features and institutions as he can possi- bly be to the lithe young republic of the West. The one is free, so absolutely free that its elected potentates can steal the people's money and defiantly hold office. The other ia despotic, so absolutely despotic that the great nobles only live by the light of the Czar’s countenance. The two are separated by five thousand miles of sea—one at the frozen loins of the north, the other just verging om the warm lap of the tropics, There seems to be nothing in common between the two, ex- cept Alaska; and yet no two nations on the globe feel such gushing affection for one an- other as the great, shaggy bear of Russia and the soaring, screaming eagle of America, During the war in the Crimea that hearty sympathy which the people of the United States insist upon showing to the side they like best, regardless of international entangle- ments or the sophomoric arguments of mother tongues and old alliances, was extended te Russia, caged in her fortress of Sebastopol by the allied forces of France, England and Tur- key. Again, when the dark days of ‘63 lowered upon us, and our discouraged armies had met Chancellorsville and Chickamauga, her welcome fleet dropped anchor in our harbor and brought Russia’s words of cheer as a cor- dial testimonial to the developing strength and heroic endurance of her comely young friend of the West. And then, when our gallant old tar, Farragut, the hero of the maintop, was sent by his grateful country to show the nations of Europe what stuff our sailors were made of, it was Russia who received him with the most hearty welcome, and treated him as if her admiration for us were alone untinged by the shade of jealously that tainted the demonstrations of every other nation of Europe. And now comes the young Alexis, a specimen of Young Russia, and the way in which Young America is to receive him will be worthy of the strange and inexplicable sympathy that binds the free, wild spirit of Western America to the strong, good-humored, unaggressive despotism of Russia. Probably it is something in our very dis- similarity that makes us havea friendly regard for each other. ‘Like seeks unlike,” they say. Perhaps surly old Russia, like the good- natured beast of the fairy tale, is attracted toward America by her brave beauty. Per- haps fair and light-hearted America loves Russia on account of that giant strength which she uses so little like a giant. But, whatever the underlying reason may be, it would seem that international sympathy, like kissing, goes by favor, and, like love, ‘‘comes without thy call.” Anarchy in Seuth Carolina and Georgia. The proclamation of martial law in the nine northern counties of South Carolina hae created great consternation among all classes, and caused hundreds of suspected persons te flee from their homes in order to avoid arrest. In Spartanburg county a den of Ku Klux, comprising seventy members, voluntarily sur- rendered, giving up their arms, disguises, &c. In York county forty citizens have been arrested and thrust into a filthy jail, already overflowing with negro prisoners. The unne- cessary rigor exercised by the federal authori- ties in executing their orders is exasperating the citizens, and on Broad River, in Chester county, culminated in a fight between a party of Ku Klux and the troops sent to arrest them, which resulted so disastrously for the military that reinforcementa were called for. Everywhere the white residents are trembling for the safety of their families and property, which they are forced to abandon to the protection of the negroes and the military. The federal authorities claim that the objects of the Ku Klux organi- zation have not been fully understood by the public, and that evidence has been secured showing the existence of a widespread rebel- lion against the State laws and authorities, and that the danger had become so imminent that nothing but the interposition of the mili- tary power of the government could avert it. The President’s proclamation has embittered the quarrel, and results alone must determine the wisdom of that measure. Georgia, on the contrary, appears deter- mined to punish her Ku Klux in her own way, without the interference of federal aid. Io the upper counties of the State scores of mes have been arrested by the local authorities om charge of Ku Kluxism, and Georgia juries will show no favor to such as sre proven guilty of acts which have brought so much trouble upon the South. Pastors’ SupsortPrioxs—A correspondent draws an unfavorable inference from the state- ment that while Brigham Young headed the Chicago subscription of his Mormon congre- gation with a donation of a thousand dollars, the pastors of our churches contented them- selves with merely calling upon their congre- gations to band in their contributions without subscribing anything themselves, We do not know how far this statement is correct; but one thing is pretty well established—the pas- tors of a great many churches receive such poor salaries that it is with difficulty they cam manage to make both ends meet, without con- tributing material aid, no matter how worthy the call, to the suffering poor. Their ricoh parishioners should make no such domand necessary upon the pocketa of tha poor parsoas,