The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD tp nthanndilg“Mirgate BROADWAY AND ANN | SXBEBT. sAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. wee All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke HERatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVI.......c0cseseerecesseres NG, SBS AMUSEMENTS THI THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSI G, Fourteen street. —| OPERa.—MI@NON, 4 ~ La ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eignth street and Broad- way.—Nan, THE GOOD FOR NOTHING--BAcouUs. ee THEATRE, Broadway and 13th atreet.— PA 4-4) MUSHUM, Broadway, corner 35th st. —Perform- noes afvernoon and evening, -CLATRYOYANCE, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 st., between Sth and 6th avs, — ‘Tar Viorims—SoLon ‘Surnace, BOWERY THEATRI Bot » ~SRARCHING THB 4 EB, wery. NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston greets. —OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. GRAND OPERA ROUSE, corner of Sth ay. and ud st.— Pana; on, Tur Dars or TF COMMUNE, LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—Or ena Bourrgz—Lx vont pes SovrERs, FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Tue New Draua or Divorce. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tne® BALLET PAN- TOMIME OF HumPTr DuMPrY. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.OnaToRrio oF Tux MESSian. THIRTY FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- Bue.—NeanO EOCENTRUOITIRS, VOCALISMS, & BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIQ, Montague street— GRanp Concert. MRA. F. OB. conwars ; BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Maourth. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NEGERO ACTS—BURLESQUE, BALLET, 4c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Com1o Vooatr 19M8, NEGKO Ac18, a0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— Tuk SAN FRANOIGOD MINGTERLS. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA Hi Yo) s and 0 ave.--Buranr's Mixereece, 1 “t+ between 6th Ls. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bi = Nxouo Eocenreicrrins, BORLESQUES, aC. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—ScENES LW tum RinG, AcROLATS, 40, DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway, — NOR AND Bo TRIPLE “SHEET. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’s HYuALD, Pace. IA dvertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Prize Fight: Battle Between Jem Mace and Joe Coburn Near New Orleans; Eleven Rounds Fonght; The Fight Declared a Draw by the Referee—Poor Kichard: Tue Ex-Comptrolier #, santow Stree’ Jali—The Trials of Brigham ng. 4—Toankeziving: Celebration of the Day at Churches, Charitavle Institutionsand Places of Amusement: Sermons on National Topics; The Foor Remembered in Their Time of Need; Kejoicings at the Howard, Five Points and Water Street Missions; Sol- diers and Sailors’ Home, Home of the Friend. less and Kelievue Hospital; Rey. Dr. Crane on the American Citizen; ‘The Busy D oings of Ministering Hands and Genial Hearte: nat Was Done at the Theatres; Serms by Revs. B. W. Beecher, Yalmage, Chapin, Bellows and McVicker and Father Preston, S—Thanksgiving (Continued trom Fourth Page)— Trouing at Prospect Park Fair Grouads— “Moses in Egypt''—Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroud—Alfray Between ne in-Law—A Druggist’s Case at Saratoga Spri @—Faitorials: Leading Article, “New York— Growth, Future and Need of Transit ‘Acconie modation”—Amusement Annouucements ¥—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth Page)—Im- riant from France—The Prince of Wales’ jeaitn—Beigium: The Brussels Agitation Re- newed—Interesting from UOuba—News from e ‘ashington—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Art jatters—business Nouces, 8—1' ne. National Finances; Report of the Treasurer of the United States; Mr. Spinner to Mr. Bout+ well; The Receipts and Expenditures of the Last Fiscal Year; Re funding of the Public Debt; National Banking and Nattonai Insur- ponent How Does Schenck Stand/—Court Cal- endar. 9—South Carolina: Additional Details of the Cra- sade Against the Ku Klux—The Rights of Races in Virginia—Views of the Past—Finan- el aa Commercial Report—Marriages and aths, 1Q—Alexis’ Thanksgiving: Princely Deference to American ideas—The Collapsed Ranks—'The Tichborne Bonds—Charies O'Conor Deciines to Become the Counsel of the Ku Kinx—New York Cliiy—The Meanest (Ring) Steal of All— The Wintry Weather—Modern “Writs of As- sistance’—Fires Yesterday—Local News— Shipping Inveiligence—Auvertisements, 11—Advertisements. 12—advertisements, THANKSGIVING passed away as usual yester- day, with hearty turkey dinners, church ser- vices, fantastic parades and family reunions. It was universally accepted asa holiday—and, indeed, as a holiday it is one of our most thor- oughly enjoyable ones, and is fast becoming the great Yankee holiday of the year, Tug Mormons keep their courage up by loud whistling mainly. Que of their journals takes occasion, in reference to Thanksgiving, to say that they know God is with them when they are in the greatest extremity, and they feel like heartily thanking Him for that assur- ance, although they confess they have bad no especial benefits of late to feel grateful for. The report has been received in Washington that Brigham is hurrying home to attend his trial. Tus Svppen Cop SxaP, sounding winter's opening charge, threatens to bind several Hud- son River steamboats fast for the winter, The State canals are probably closed for the season, and in their icy folds are many canal barges laden with great quantities of produce, This peremptory closing of the canals is about a week in advance of the usual time of their official closing by the Commis- sioners, The snow on the Plains has delayed Pacific Railroad trains, in some instances as omch as thirteen hours, and telegraphic com- munication with the Pacific coast bas been cut off, Toe Cause or Tue INsvFPIOWNT ConpITION oy Our Navy, just at the time when we may need its services, seems to lie in the land- lubber tinkering of Congress with bavy iogls- lation, It seeps. the stopping of Jack's allow- ance of grog bas driven many good sailors from the service, and the limitation of the force to eight thousand men bas left so few sallors to depend upon that a large list of sick and detached leaves a sbip almost wholly un- manned, The Terror is expected in Havana to-day, but Admiral Lee still lingers in Wash- ington. Ministe Roberts has inquired the méaning of oS ihigaai naval circles, and be will probably recelve an | answer after the Cabinet has discussed his in- duley codes, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEEP. The Mace and Coburn Fight-A Poor Show | The Municipal Tumult Renewed in Brase New York—Its Growth, Future and Need of Transit Accommodation. On Manhattan ‘stand, or what is called New York city proper, there are hardly less than a million inhabitants. Taking Brooklyn, Williamsburg, the adjoining populous suburb in Westchester county, and the other suburbs just across the rivers and the bay, all of which really form a part of the metropolis, there is a population of over fifteen hundred thousand, Next to that of London or Paris this is by far the largest metropolitan popula- tion in the civilized world. In commerce New York is inferior to no city, and in some respects is superior even to the first and mightiest city of Europe. In foreign trade and shipping, particularly in the fleets of vast ocean steamers trading here, it eclipses every other. It is with- out a rival or example in history in the vigor, enterprise, daring, ambition and boldness of its undertakings and in the magnitude of its works. All the vast projects of improvement and development throughout the Continent find the capital and enterprise here for their accomplishment, and, directly or indirectly, contribute to the growth, wealth and progress of the metropolis. It is the centre of intelligence, refinement, fashion, art and amusements, as well as of capital and commerce, London or Paris does not equal {tin the number, variety and excellence of public amusements; and where can be found such vigor, enterprise, ability and vast circu- lation of the public press as in New York? To this city the people come from all sections of the country, as well as from many foreign countries, as to a modern Mecca, to satisfy their wants and to worsbip at the shrine of commerce, wealth and progress. To get some idea of what our grand city is destined to become, we have only to look back at the wonderful progress it has made within a few years, andat the mighty and rich Con- tinent of which it is the emporium. There are people living now—and people not of avery advanced age either—who remem- ber seeing green fields and marshes in tho neighborhood of Canal street, when the Astor House was the fashionable hotel farthest up town and when all the business was below the City Hall. This, let it be borne in mind, was only a few yearsago. Fifty years back the city had not grown to even that point. Now what do we see? The centre of population and movement is miles above the City Hall. Miles of beautiful streets, closely built up with mag- nificent stores, hotels, churches and resi- dences, and many of which structures are wor- thy of being called palaces, Hundreds upon bundreds of superb dwellings and solid blocks are now in process of construction up to the neighborhood of the Central Park, and even beyond. On the east side there is a continu- ous city for eight or nine miles, from the Bat- tery to the Harlem River, and even across and far beyond that river. Harlem is already thickly populated. Oa the west side there is comparatively little more room for building up to Fifty-ninth street or the Central Park, while beyond that great improvements are going on which must soon cover that beautiful portion of the island, right along through Washington Heights and up to Spuyten Duyvil Creek, with elegant resi- dences. It will not be long before the Central Park wilf be surrounded by suberb mansions, and when, with the completion of the Grand Boulevard and fine avenues, the west side will rival the east in growth and will be far more beautiful. Let those who remember what New York was twenty-five years ago consider what has been its progress, and then try to imagine what it will be twenty-five years hence. There will be little of the island not built upon or appropriated to the adornment of residences. If we have a good city government, and proper facilities be made for travel in the city, it is reasonable to conclude there will be by that time a population on the island of two millions, or thereabouts, and that within the area of what may be properly called the me- tropolis there will be scarcely less than three millions, But we cannot measure the future greatness of New York by this increased pop- ulation only, for the city must continue to grow in wealth, trade, commercial im- portance, refinement and intellectual develop- ment and power in even a greater degree, comparatively. However much otber cities may grow in all these things, their progress, as well as the progress of the country gener- ally, will be made tributary more and more to the business, wealth and growth of the metrop- olis. The great and varied products of this vast Continent, and of the industry of a vigor- ous population, which in a quarter of a century will be increased probably to near eighty mil- lions, will centre here, Yes, within a short time this will become the central mart for the trade of South and Central America, Mexico, the West Indies and the British American Pos- sessions, as well as for that of our own rich country. Then, the development of California and the other States on the Pacific side of the Continent, with those important arteries of commerce, the Pacific railroads, New York will become to a great extent the empo- rium for the trade with China, Japan and the other rich and populous co untries of Asia. Nor can it be long before Mexico, Cuba, the British American Possessions, or other Terri- tories in this hemisphere, will become a part of this great republic, and, through the invigorating influence of the American peo- ple, contribute vastly to the trade and growth of this metropolis. Such is but a faint outline of what is promised in the future, Imagination can hardly keep pace with reality, No one who contemplates the history of the past or the prospect before us can venture to say this picture of the future is exaggerated. The questions now arise, Are we preparing for this wonderful destiny? Do the capitalista, property holders, political leaders and people of this city compreh d what is required to inet present exigencies and to prepare for the future? With all our advantages and the é glo- rious prospect b before us thie ¢lty is bebind some others, and far ‘behind London, | in those things which afford facilities of communicalion and transit which save time, improve the con- dition of the people, centralize basisess and advance the interests of all, The tral Park was a great blessing to ‘the “comibunity, and has contributed greatly to the jmprove- ment and rogress of the sity; but with t the excepiton of that Title as Feally bee: plished. True, some important works on heen projected and even adyanced—such as those of the Grand Boulevard, the St. Nicholas avenue, the opening and improvement of some other avenue, the widening of streets, {he adornment of certain squares, the pre- paration for a new system of docks, the Brook- lyn Bridge and some other lesser works. With all the robbery and rascality the Tam- mapy Ring was guilty of, the credit of having started great improvements must be given to it, Doubtless the Tafsmany leaders were in- fluenced by selfish motives, and cared more about filling thelr owa pockets and securing a firm hold upon the city than for the welfare of the community; but the works they com- menced, and the valuable character of them, are unaltered, and show the sagacity of the projectors. They are none the less necessary now than before the fall of Tammany. Let them be carried out, then, with vigor, though unnecessary and lavish expenditures be avoided, for they are the foundation, in part, of the future greatness of New York. But that which is most needed to accommo- date our citizens—yes, to render living within the area of the metropolis at all convenient or comfortable for the mass of business men and working people—is the means of rapid transit, The street horse oars have outlived their day, at Teast for general travel, as most of the old omnibus lines had a few years ago, They are no longer capable of accommodat'ng the public. They are for the most part filthy, badly man- aged, and crowded beyond endurance. The loss of time to the hundreds of thousands of people who are compelled to ride in them is a loss of money. This amounts to a very large sum daily, to say nothing of the misery and injury to health of standing for hours crushed in a fetid atmosphere during the cold of winter and heat of summer in these crowded horse cars, Our citizens know the tortura, and we need not dwell upon that. It is surprising that our citizens have endured it so long. We want and must have viaduct or underground railroads, or both, with steam power, from one end of the island to the other, and on each side. In London there is a com- plete system of such roads, Why not in New York? The viaduct plan is, perhaps, the best ; but let us have both if necessary. A viaduct would be simply a continuous bridge, which could be made ornamental, and its arches and sides turned to profitable use for small stores or other purposes. Rapid transit by some such means has become, in fact, positively necessary, The city cannot attain its proper growth without it, The longer it is delayed the more will our population be crowded out of the city and driven into Jersey and other parts beyond the limits of the metro- polis. With viaduct railroads, the Brooklyn Bridge and other bridges across the East River; the clearing out of Hell Gate, so as to admit the largest ships to come by the way of Long Island Sound; a wide ship canal through Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Hudson River, with magnificent docks all along on each side, and other grand improvements carried out, what city would compare with New York? Cannot our capi- talists and property holders see what increased value this would give to real estate and what an impetus it would give to the trade of the city? Where are the men with sagacity and enterprise enough to undertake these improve- ments? Surely they can be found here, for New York is famous for grand under- takings. Let the city government, capitalists and our citizens generally combine in a united effort to accomplish these works, and this metropolis will rise in beauty and grandeur and become the admiration of the world, Revolutionary Excitement in Paris—An- ether Crisis at Hand. The especial despatch which we publish this -morning, on the revolutionary excitement which bas sprang up in Paris since the execa- tion of Rossel, is very significant, The Thiers government is uneasy, It displays excessive vigilance; troops are actively patrolling the streets; the police are at every street corner ; the public mind is unsettled; the impression prevails that the present state of things can- not last, Among the last words of Rossel, it appears, were these :—‘‘If yon have not be- fore long crushed the army, it will crush you. It has always been pretorian, and has always formed a distinct party ia the country;” and hence, no doubt, this active fermentation among the radical elements of revolutionary Paris, The crisis is evidently near at hand when the temporizing Thiers will be com- pelled to choose between the Jacobin Club and the empire, for it is apparent that all the political elements of Paris and France are joining the party which goes for an imperial restoration, or the party intent upon another revolution and a radical republican govern- ment. The execution of Rossel, it is already made manifest, was a blunder, which is worse than a crime. We see that the suppression of the Commune has not extinguished the revolu- tionary ‘‘reds”—that the revolutionary spirit, which was the strength of the Commune, sur- vives and is full of danger to the existing gov- ernment. Nor shall we be surprised to hear within a short time that President Thiers has retired from the helm, that Marshal MacMahon administered a coup-d'-¢tat upon the existing Assembly, that he bas proclaimed the restora- tion of the Emperor, and that Napoleon the Third is on bis way to Paris to answer to the call of the army. Tue Parxoz oy WaLgs,—The medical bul- letins issued by the physicians in aitendance at Sandringham stated yesterday the Prince of Wales passed an easy night; but the fever has shown no further sign of abatement. The patient remained quiet yesterday evening; but the symptoms of the disease were un- changed, The Princess of Wales has recovered entirely from ber aitack of iliness, The con- dition appears more hopeful for the Prince, | aoe Win th” ‘Conimenting npon Montgomery Blair’s nomination of William Cullen Bryant for President, remarks that ‘if & poet is to be chosen and his popularity con- sidered itis evident that Bryant or Longfellow would stand no chance by the side of Walt. Whitmatt or pret Harte,” In the midst of this digersity of opinion” “Why does wot some one propose @ theatrical ticker, with, say, Ned Forrest for President and Joha Brougham, for for | the Vice, or Lester Wallack and Edwin Booth ; or, taking” ‘@ musstrelsy (uro, select Jolly Backus and Tony Pastore and 1tg Moral. The fight that took place yesterday between Joe Coburn and Jem Mace, the one a New York bully and the other an imported bruiser, affords a fair sample of the degeneracy of the prize ring—if, indeed, a business that was always as low and vile and disgraceful as it well could be, can properly be said to have degenerated. We are not disposed to preach & sermon upon roffianism, brutality, primeval savagery and the like, as illus- rated in the conduct of two wild beasts in human form who step into o circle for the purpose of beating and pound- ing each other into a jelly, and in the yet baser sight of a low crowd gathered round looking on with relish at the disgusting spec- tacle, Let it be conceded for the nonce that there is really some reason in the argument of those who contend that the “manly art of self-defence,” as practised in the prize ring, elevates a man into a hero instead of degrad- ing him below the brute creation. Still the fact remains that the exhibition made yesterday by Mace and Coburn shows that the last spark of decency has died out in the profession of pugilism in the disappearance of its one re- deeming quality of brute courage. These two worthies claim, forsooth, to be the cham- pions of the world at fisticuffs, and yet they disgrace even their own disgraceful calling by proving themselves to be cowards as well as bullies. Each time they have entered the ring they have exhibited their lack of pluck, and although they have at length exchanged blows, it has been in such a manner as to insure against the danger of either being injured,. and the sparring match—for it seems to have been nothing else—ended in a ‘‘draw.” Champions of the world! Why, there are a hundred rounders in New York who would have whipped either of these champions in fifteen minutes’ time. While all decent people have a right to com- plain that Coburn did not beat out of Mace the little semblance of humanity that remains in him, and that Mace did not return the com- pliment by ridding the world of the Co- burn nuisance, there may yet be a deep philosophy concealed under the sneaking ‘‘dodges” and cowardly ‘“feints” tbat seem to have taken the place of knock- down blows, terrific ‘‘plumpers” on the “Isnowledge box,” tremendous ‘‘stunners” on the “spectacle beam,” and frightful ‘“‘sock- dolagers” on the ‘“‘peeper,” to which we were wont to be treated in the well-remembered language of the prize fights of old. The day of the bruiser has gone by; the recent total overthrow of the Tammany ‘‘Ring” drives the last nail into the coffin of the equally respectable prize ring. Where are now to be found fat offices for your Coburns and Cusicks, your Heenans and Maces, when the distinguished patrons of such heroes are themselves knocked out of time? How can sinecures be now obtained by the gallant short-haired and broken-nosed crowd that used to hang about the office of Public Works while the ‘‘Boss” himeelf is being thrown a square -backfall by the powerful arm of the law? And why should Coburn and Mace have stood up to be punished in New Orleans when they could hope for no such reward as they have been accus- tomed to receive on their return to New York covered with the scars of a hard- fought battle? After all, these dodging, feinting, falling fighters have played a wise game. Their more profitable calling as the heelers and Wallies of successful politicians being gone, they have, doubtless, deemed it profitiess to beat each other as deceut people would have liked to have seen them beaten; and so for this unsatisfactory result of the last great fight in the prize ring, as for numerous other unsatisfactory things, we have, proba- bly, no one but the Tammany ‘‘Ring” to thank. Tag Late Cuban Barsanrtizs,—We have a special despatch this morning informing us that the bodies of the poor students executed the other day at Havana have been refused to their parents; that others of the students con- cerned in their disastrous adventure of dis- turbing the grave of a royalist are working on the chain gang in the streets; that the father of one of the murdered students has died of grief and that the mothers of two others have become insane. This is a horrible state of things. Indeed, the chapter of Valmaseda’s barbarities in Cuba is a scandal to the civil- ized world and a reproach to our government which should be wiped out. If President Grant shall fail to submit this bloody business to the attention of Congress, as calling for the active intervention of the United States, he will fall short of his duty in the common canse of civilization and humanity, and short of the just expectations of the country. He has been temporizing with those Spanish savages who rule Cuba too long, and he should shilly- shally with them no longer. Peace is a good thing when it can be maintained with the na- tional honor; but otherwise it is national cowardice and degradation. Tne Return oF Minister SickLes—Waat Dogs It MEAN ?—Minister Sickles, having mar- ried an elegant Spanish lady, very properly, we think, and very naturally, bas concluded to take a trip homewards. There are various rumors afloat regarding his home-coming, Some have it that he is not likely to return to Spain. Others are of opinion that, consider- ing the state of things which now prevails in Cuba, Mr. Sickles has been requested by the administration to come home and consult as to the course which it is advisable to pursue in the premises. Certain it is that the time has come when the government of the United States should adopt a bolder policy in regard to Cuba. If Spain cannot keep the volunteers in order, let us relieve Spain of the responsi- bility by taking possession of the island. The return of Minister Sickles affords a fitting op- portunity for the reconsideration of our rela- tions with Spain. 1a bs on ———_—. PasstvisM IN Missour!.—The character of ten mortal columns of correspondence in the Kaneas City (Missouri) Times may be judged from the following descripti eadings :— “Passivism!—The Policy” ea hh ee dorsed—What the Representative Men of Mis- souri Think—Letters from all Portions of the State—A \ Frank, Full and Free Discussion of the Whole Subject—Communi lentions from Senators, Generals, Representatives and Judges—A Mass of Plain Truths for the Democracy.” Phat will do for the Hirst lesson, scleA Detachment ef the Civic Guard Becusant. Brussels is again disturbed by political agitation and popular tumult. The municipal excitement was renewed yesterday morning. It was intense in the evening. Yesterday was a féte day with the Com- munists of the European Continent. It was observed as such in the Belgian capital, despite an official warniag which was issued by the Burgomaster, in which he duly cau- tioned the inhabitants to remain within their dwellings and otherwise deport themselves as loyal men, He announced at the same time that illegal assemblages would be dispersed by force, Itappears as if the people did not obey the chief magistrate to any very health- fal extent, Political discussions were com- menced out of doors; wrangling among men of opposing factions began ; crowds collected ; Collisions ensued; the state of the metropolis was soon made worse than it had been during the first day of the riots; the police were un- able—our cable telegram hints they were un- willing—to act as the emergency required, and the civic guards were called to arms. A detach- ment of this force, sixty strong, when ordered to charge upon the people, reversed their mus- kets and refused to obey, This added fuel to the flame. Mobs took possession of many of the streets, and held their position amid intense excitement at the moment when our despatch was forwarded. Such is the report of the popular movement in Brussels. M. de Decker is but of the way and the Ministry i is out of office, What do the Tiofers want? Do “they know themselves? Perhaps not. The continuance of the political tumult reveals the existence of a decided intent notwithstanding. The agitated condition of Brussels is not to be exactly de- spised by reflecting persons, particularly when we come to regard the feeling of the peoples who neighbor Belgium on all sides, even across the Channel in Britain, The Connolly Case. Ex-Comptroller Connolly remains in Lud- low Street Jail; but it is rumored that his bail has been secured and will be per- fected by Saturday. Some of our contem- poraries seem to suppose that the pro- ceedings under which the ex-Comptroller has been arrested are of a criminal character, and grow indignant over the idea that he should have been allowed two or three days during which to procure bail before being locked up in a prison, The suit is a civil one. The constitution specially provides against exces- sive bail. The law contemplates that every prisoner should have ample opportunity to secure his freedom when an offence is bailable, and hence in this particular case some jour- nals are making a mountain of a mole-hill. When criminal proceedings are instituted against the parties guilty of the rascally city frauds it is very questionable whether bail will be accepted at all. There is now little doubt that they will soon be brought within the grasp of the criminal law, but up to the present moment the proceedings have been simply confined to the recovery of the money dishon- estly taken from the city treasury, and in such @ suit no benefit is derived from the incarcera- tion of the defendants. All that is necessary is that bail should be provided to insure their appearance in court, and that steps should be taken to prevent the disappearance of their property. Tarers Exgoures ANOTHER CoMMUNIST.— M. Cremieux, one of the French Communist leaders, who was condemned to death by the Court Martial, was shot to death yesterday in accordance with the sentence passed on him, The death penalty was inflicted in a very sum- mary manner. He was taken from prison early in the morning, conveyed a short dis- tance outside the city walls and there shot, Cremieux bore himself bravely. He refused to be blindfolded, His latest words were “Vive la république!” M. Cremieux served as President of the Provisional Com- mittee of the Commune, He was arrested last March. President Thiers is se- vere, He is also exceedingly watchful, as will be seen by our special telegram from Paris, His publication of the illustration of the ‘‘Last Cart to the Guillotine” made an impression on his mind, evidently, with respect to “Red” revolutions, and the great writer knows that history repeats itself. Tur New Organs 7imes, referring to the proposed coalition of the democracy with anti-Grant men, remarks that nothing would appear to he easier than to effect a combina- tion of the kind “‘if it were not for a silly sen- timentalism, or the greed and ambition of party leaders, who apprehend they will lose their importance and prestige in any new or- ganization of parties.” It is that spirit of greed and ambition, together with the foul corraption of some of its leaders, that bas kept the national democracy ground to the dust for the last eight years. Before the de- mocracy find plain sailing they will, besides throwing overboard their cargo of corruption, cast aside the masses of dead wood that have for so long a time obstructed their progress. A Mystery IN OnI0 PoxiTI0s.—Hon, A. G. Thurman having withdrawn from the chairmanship of the Ohio Democratic State Executive Committee at its late meeting in Columbus, the Toledo Blade thinks that fact, in conjunction with another fact, that Messrs. Pendicton, Morgan and McCook, a trio of big democrats, failed to attend the meeting at all, although a very important one, food for some queer conjectures, particularly as the Ohio Statesman, democratic organ, was entirely oblivious to the fact that any meeting whatever had been held. What is this new mystery about the Ohio democracy? Who will solve it? Governor Warmotn bas called an extra session of the Legislature of Louisiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late Lieutenant Governor Oscar J, Duno. It is expected that Warmoth men will be chosen in all the vacant places, much to the grief and bitterness of the opposition, The New Orleans Bee doubts the constitutionality of this extra session of the Senate, The Times takes the same view, As the regular session of the Logislatare colitnendes the firsv woes Janu. ary, the calling of an extraordinary, session of one branch of the body so short & fiqe in ad vance is generally considered unwise and unnecessary, and hardly up to the standard of reform which the Warmothians are preaching, Prineo Bismarck’s Ulness, Prince Bismarck’s health did not permit him to be present at the opening of the Prus~ sian Diet. Considering the exhausting physical a and mental toil the Prince has gone through dur- ing the last Ave or six years it is not much to be wondered at that retirement and repose should be agreeable to him. Weare not led to believe that the illness is at all serious. At the same time it is to be borne in mind that the Prince’s tenure of life—important as that life is to Germany—is no more secure than that of any other mao. His death, in the present state of things, would be an infinitely more serious blow to Germany than the death of the 7 Prince of Wales would be to Great Britain. The British government machine would move on all the same. But Bismarck has a great national work on hand—of that work he has been the life and soul, The unification of Fatherland will be associated in all the future with Bismarck’s name. But that work is not completed; and we know of no German states- man who, in the event of the death of the Prince, would be equal to the task of carrying it on and crowning it with success, Italian unity is much more an accomplished fact than is German unity, There is but little danger that Italy will go back. Bismarck’s strong band _ and unbendiog will hold the German States together. His death might leave Germany in chaos and change the face of Europe, The Late International Geographical Congress. sf The gid c clty of Antwerp witnessed but 9 short time ags The dédstubiage ‘of this ‘det in- teresting and important Congress. It was called for the August of 1870, but the war in’ Europe prevented i's sessions and it-was post- , poned till this autumn. It was designed to meet at a time when Belgium was doing the long-deferred honors due to the illustrious geographers Abraham Ortelius and Gerard Mercator, whom she claims as her own, but — whose labors and renown are cherished through the civilized world. The last named geographer deserves the highest niche in the temple of cosmographic fame, and has been justly called ‘‘the Pathfinder of the Seas,” His chart, which will probably survive as long as the science of navigation is used by man, is acknowledged to-day by all cartographers to meet every want of the seaman as far as any chart can possibly do. Bat it is our chief object now to speak of some of the results reached in the delibera- tions of this International Geographical and Cosmographieal Congress. The possibility of adopting the same first meridian by all na- ” tions; the desirability of fitting ships of war with apparatus for obtaining deep sea sounds ings on all voyages, and preserving specimens from the bed of the ogean for investigation by scientific men ; the adoption of a uniform sys. , tem of coloring buoys, beacons and pee marks for the Ppilotage of coasts, hart ‘bors an rivers; the best means of determining oceanic currents; the advantage science may obtain from polar explorations ; recommendations for researches in the Antarctic Ocean; the adop= tion of a uniform system of orthography for, geographical names on maps at and charts, and: ss the great importance of adopting @ more éx- tensive application in the use of warning storm signals were the chief subjects of animated conference and discussion. The importance of such inquiries cannot be overstated. Tho adoption by international accord of a single prime meridian would greatly assist the ma- riner in the navigation of seas far away from home, and would materially secure him from fatal error, under trying circumstances, which otherwise would prove disastrous. It would greatly simplify the preparation and consulta- tion of maps and charts, and would be a step towards bringing all nations upon bce ot kindly intercourse. 07) The adaptation and equipment of ships of war to scientific purposes of marine explora- tion iseminently practical and wise. Our war vessels might thus become training schools for expert seamen, and the investigations would stimulate study and honorable emulation among officers and men in the very direction that the exigencies of their calling demand the highest skill and proficiency. Tho infu- sion of a professional spirit of a scientific cast is just what our seamen now need to make them all that they ought to be. Equally important with many of the other earnest suggestions of the Cos- mographical Congress is the appeal for a uniform system of orthography in maps, charts and in geographical and nau. tical text books. To the great mass of read- ers maps constructed in foreign countries, and lettered with foreign words, are as a sealed book. This evi] ought long ago to have been rectified. A map is to ail men what the guide-post on the roadside is to the travelling public, and, by law, it should be clear and legible to all. Not only onght some one orthography to be adopted for nautical charts, but for all geo- graphical treatises and school books and popular delineations of the earth’s surface. As far as the Congress took action upon the value and importance of polar expeditions con- ducted in the interests of commerce and science we can heartily endorse their views, and express the hope that in this country there may be some effort made to follow up the great American deduction of a route to the Pole by way of our Gulf Stream, which the Germans and Swedes seem determined at an early day to turn to their own advantage and national glory. But the forcible appeal of the International Congress for ‘the great importance of adopt- ing @ more extensive gee in the use of, warning storm signals” is, perhaps, the most practical and important idea advanced, and one the execution of which would amply. justify what Mr. Buchan, of Scotland, has long since proposed—a special International Gon, gress. There is no doubt the interests of humanity require the extension of the storm signal system, which, in this country, has already peat such splendid fruit, and, in the words of a contemporary, ‘has become the’ most popolar fastitution of the day,” Jn, the, narrow and ae up “countries of Enrope the et has abundantly justified ids satablish< from the time of Admiral Fitzroy to the present ; but its facilities are cramped and con- tracted, and ts dan Aever hope to reach tig accuracy or usefulness to Which, with our vast expanse of country and proportion, the’ facilities for weather telegrams we have, in lone than ® year, attained. It was proposed @