The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1871, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broads between Houston strects,—OUR AMERICAN CoUMIN. Prince and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A SOLDIER'S Pno- @nKss—Six DEGREES OF CRIME. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—La Fi pu RRaimen, La FILue WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Rosevae, OUYMPIC THRATRE, Eroadway.—THe BALLET PAN- Tomimk ov Horry Duxpry, ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third at, corner Sixth ay.— HAMLrT, WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway, corner 83th st,—Perform- ances afternoon aud evening. Liv IN THE STRFPTS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Stu av. and 2éd sh— ‘Tuk TaReR GUARDSMEN, FIFTA AVENUG TI Tweaty-fourth street. — Tux New Drama or Dr LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 72 Brondway.—OPRRA UFFR—-LE VONT DES SOUFERS, MRE. F. RB. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE Gov Dust. a THEATRE COM(QUE, 514 Broadwar.—Cousto Vooate 1aM8, NFONO ACT. £6. 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Pas, yp 1—Advertisements, 2—Adveruscinents, 3—News trom Wasbingzton—Catacazy’s Catas- trophe: ‘The Correspondeace which Led to the Russian Minister's Recall—The Treaty of Wash. ington; Lively Opposition of the New England Fishermen to the Arrangement—Wendell Phile Ups and Coummuntsm—ssceilanccus ‘Tele grams, 4—Goverror Hoffman: Has He Declared Agatnst the vemocraic Party!—New York Commu- misis—City Complications—Tumbiing ‘Tene ments; {rightiui Condition of the Habltations Of the Poor; Meeting of the Loard of Mealth— Music ana ihe brama—Art slatwis—Melan- choly Drowning Disaster—Tho ¢ rs’ Board Oi ‘frade—Confes-ing a Murder: petiag of the fire Coumissiouers—New York City \ews— ge Lu Tovee—Navigation of the Mississippi | er, S—Europe: President Thiers and the Explana- “ons of the Chinese Ambassadors; the Count de Chambord Interviewed at Li ne; Sir Charles Dilke Again on tue Cost of Ro ‘all roubles 1 “brussels; British Billtards— The Phiiadelphia Defalcations: irial «nd Coa- yizvon of C, IT. ierkes, Jr, the iroker— taal Appolatments—Leuenb-rger’s rhe Sing Sing Love Trageay Re. fhe Canadian Parlament—Matters in Missouri—Midaiesex couuty (N. J.) in Mouro- a he Postal Teie- graph Scheme—American Chess Congress. G—Eiitoriais: Leading Arucie, “Tne Fastern Question—Tiae Trouble Looming Up Between ia and Germany’—Amusement Au- nouncements, 7—European Cable Telegra: the West Indies and si Anu-Graut War: The Key Note of the Coming Presidential Campaign; Governor Walker, of Virginia, ou tue War Path—The Revoludion in Mexicu—Business Nouces, 8—dim Irving on Inmal: A Stuiking Wustration of the Late Style of Conducung an kiecuon— Procee.imgs in the Courts—rrize Fighters mm Court—Conte: i Homicide © tive Fire in Will Su, ply—Aid ior the cag: ie} 8—The Metairie Kaces: A Deligatiu! Day ana Large Atteudance—Pubic lostruction—Run- ning } , /olit.cal and Generai—Froven to Death. lice Pecuilarities—A ~lugular Fact— Fiusocial aud Commercial Reports—Lomestic, Xews iro: Caba, 1 America—The European and Havana Markets—Marriages and Deaths—Adverusements, 10—The Wharton-ketchum Trial—Alexis’ Last Day in Gota 3 ell Visit to the Opera; ths Fuiure Movements—Smugzling : Secret Ser- vice Seizure of D‘amonds—Sutuipping Latelli- gence— Advertisements. 11—Aadvertiscments. 12—Adyertisenents. Tur Prince oF Waxrs was out of present danger yesterday morning, with the fever ‘n regulir gradual decline. Gotp 109}.—The decline in gold bas reached 109}, the lowest point, not only since the close of the war, but siace July 5, 1862. Tog TxiaL oF Mes. WiaRToN was con- tinued in Annapolis yesterday, some addi- tional important testimony for tue prosecution being presented. Tux MextoaNn Revovrion is still progress- ing since the fall of Saltillo. The revolution- ists have levied a second loan in Monterey, and great aiarm and consternation prevailed among the fcreign traders in consequence. Sxrsuy City was tureaiened with a water famine yesterday trom the same cause which involved Boston in that unpleasant predica- ment last week, the massing of ice against the screens in the reservoir, Prompt measures saved the city, Tue Last oF tne WASHBURNS IN CON- Gress.—For the first time in sixteen years there is not a Washburn in Congress, Mr. Wasbburn, Governor elect of Massachusetts, having sent in bis resignation as a member yesterday. Is the race fading out, or are theo'tie? repr sentatives thereof surfeited with official pabulum? Tug First Ick Accipest of the season in this vicinity occurred at Kensico, in West- chester county, on Tuesday. ‘Three little children, coasting on a mill pond, suddenly sank through the too briitle ice and were drowned. This warning comes in so sad a shape that it onght to be a reminder to reck- leas skaters all through the season which just commences. A Verpior was Ruenperep yesterday in the Superior Court which shows that travellers on our city cars have some rights as well as those moneyed corporations, and that the same cannot be disregarded with impunity. Mr. Thomas Hamilton got on a Third avenue car at Ninetieth street to come to Thirtieth street, He paid his fare, and at the depot was transferred to another car, but no transfer ticket given him. Below the depot his fare was again demanded, and upon his stating that he had pa‘d bis fare once and refusing to pay it again he was forcibly ejected from the car. The jury gave bim a verdict of five bundred dollars damages. A few more such suits anda few more such verdicts will be likely to teach our railroad officials that they cannot by such @ course as that pursued toward Mr. Hamilton publicly brand a passenger as a cheat and a fraud without havinz to make sowe indewnity. ‘NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, Two years ago Gilbert ©. Walker was elected Governor of Virginia over H. H. Wells, Although the former was a conserva- tive and the latter a radical, both were republicans prominently identified with the war against secession, and of the two, Walker was rogarded as the especial supporter of General Grant, who, if we remember correctly, wrote a letter endorsing the principles upon which the con- servative candidate conducted the campaign. Nevertheless, Governor Walker now opens the administration war against the national with force and vigor, and in his annual Message to the Legislature of the State of Virgins, published in the Heratp to-day, sounds the key-note of the coming Presidential campaign. As General Lee, of Virginia, marshalled and led the forces of the Southera secessionists against the gov- ernment of the United States in 1861, so Governor Walker, of Virginia, essays to marshal and lead the forces of the secessionists from republicanism against the federal administra- tion in 1871, the difference between the two being that, while Lee was a bora and bred Virginian, Walker belongs to the tribe of carpet-baggers who were thrown into political prominence in the Southern States through the instrumentality of the war. It is evident that Governor Walker has been studying the portents in the political sky, and foreseeing the approach of a grand revolutionary movement in the ranks of his own party, and believing that ho discovers the promise of a union of all oppo- sition elements, including the leaderless and objectless democracy, against General Grant in the campaign of next year, he has boldly determined to take the initiative, and to give to Congress the cue upoa which to start the ball from the elevation of the national Capitol. The Governor's Message is a lengthy and elaborate do:ument, and, so fir as it refers to State matters, appears to be unusually interesting, if we may jadge from the synopsis which reached us at an early hour this morning. He declares that the novel experiment of universal suffra:e and equal rights before the law, first voluntarily inaugurated in Virginia and faithfully and impartially tried, has proved a success; or, rather, that if left to work itself out under favorab!e circumstances and without undue interference, it would eminently con- duce to a good and stablo rebuilding of the goverameat. ‘The great need of Virginia to-day,” says the Governor, “is capital and population;” and these he evidently believes would flow libera'ly into the State under the attractions of equilizition of taxa- tion and a thorough system of free education, if the State goveroment could only be left to itself without the intermeddling of federal authority, After reviewing the financial policy adopted by the General Assembly, which the Governor heartily endorses, the Message pro- ceeds to arraign the administration of General Grant ina scathing manner. The interference cf the federal government with State affairs, the suspension of the habeas corpus, the mar- shalling of United States bayonets around the polls, the assignment of a federal gunboat to point its loaded cannon on a city during an election in order to intimidate voters; the arbitrary arrest of citizens in time of peace—all thess acts he charges upon the administration and brands them as wanton attacks upon the liberties of the poople and the free institations of the country. He declares that tho absorption of the powers and functions of States by the federal goverament was as foreizn to the de- sign of the founders of the repablic as was the nullification or repudiation of federal authority by the individual action of the States, for the triump’ of elther usurpation in- volves the destruction of the Union. Nor does he regard the war of secession from which the nation hap- pily came out victorious, if not un- wounded, as any more fraught with danger to the life ofthe republic than is the alleged attempt of the federal administration to strip the States of their liberty and independence, under the pretended necessity of enforcing the national laws and protecting the rights of the people under them. “We have passed the ordeal of secession,” says Governor Walker, “but tho recoil has carried us to the other extreme— the danger of centralization; and the perils that menaced the Union in 1861 are finding a parallel in 1871.” Whatever may be thought of the indictment thus brouzht against the administration of General Grant, there is no doubt good ground for complaint at the politi- cal tinkering in the Southern States, which has been going on ever since the cessation of the war, and in which both political parties have had an equal hand. The great game of the aspirants for a continuance of office, or for the succes- sion to power, has been the control of the reconstructed S:ates, and to this probably the Virginians owe their present Chief Executive. If the South had been left to ilself, free alike from the intrigues of the carpet- baggers and the undue intermeddling of the federal government, nearly all the States would have been to-day at peace, with equal rights secured to all their inhabitants—black, white a:d copper-colored. The true safety of the freedmen lay not in the protection of United States bayonets, but in the political status conferred upon them by the consequences of the war. The necessity of making friends of those who, in many instances, hold a controlling power over the ballot box, would have soon tanght the most hot-headed rebel a lesson of pru- dence, and State governments, eager for popular support, would have speedily made an end of all Ku Klux troubles, As it is, a great portion of the South, six years after the war, is disorganized and distracted, the people held under the iron rule of martial law, and the Stete governments paralyzed. This is an injury, not to the South alone, ‘but to the whole Union, and_ the sooner the political harpies on both sides take their bands’ off the reconstructed States, the beiter will it be for the prosperity and progress of the whole nation. Governor Walker announces his platform te be, inviola- bility of the writ of habeas corpus ; subordina- tion of military to civil authority; honesty and economy in the adminstration of publio affairs ; equalization and reduction of tariffs and taxes to the lowest point consistent with the main- tenance of the public credit; free education for all; a fostering care, encourage- ment and elevation of abor, and universal amnesty and impartial suffrage. Whether this pronunciamento will make him an available candidate for the Presidency on the ticket of the Grand Liberal Union party is a subject for future consideration, Congress Yesterday—A Dull Day. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were characterized by extreme dulness. No sub- ject of public interest or importance came up in either House. The Senate did not remain in open session longer than an hour, when, on the receipt of the correspondence in reference to the Catacazy matter, it went into executive session. There were some resolutions pre- sented in the open session for the arrest of recusant witnesses in the Ku Klux investiga- tion; but that whole matter bas come to be regarded in the light of an unmitigated aui- sance, having not the least interest for the general public. If everything connected with it could be allowed to sink out of sight for- ever it would be a relief to the whole country. In the House a resolution was adopted, on the motion of the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (Mr. Banks), calling on the President for information as to the in- structions given to our naval commanders in the Cuban waters, as to further particulars connected with the brutal execution of the Havana students who were charged with the desecration of Castailon’s grave, and as to the failure of the Spanish govern- ment to carry out promised reforms in the West Indiancolonies, Mr. Banks probably expects to make the response the groundwork for a report from his committee, in which our government is to be placed in a hostile atti- tude to that of Spain. A large part of the time during which the House sat yesterday was frittered away in a fruitless attempt to have a new drawing for seats, and in the read- ing of a voluminous bill codifying the postal laws. Subsequently the House took up the bill for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress, but had made no disposition of it up to the time of adjournment. The Froposed Fusion Party—Scnator Tram- balls Objections—The Anti-Grant Repub- licans Backing Down. Senator Trumbull, according to the Louis- ville Journal, bas been interviewed by an ex-United States Senator on the project of a coalition between the democracy and the anti- Grant republicans in the coming Presidential election, and from the report of this interview it appears that Mr. Trumbull whistles the project down the wind. He would nol, for many reasons, run as a Presidential candidate against General Grant. He thinks the time has not come, North or South, and especially South, for a reconstruction of parties; that the defeat of General Grant in 1872 would result in a Southern reaction which would be worse than the present state of affairs; that General Grant, in the main, is a conservative man, and that the proposed democratic passive policy will be @ failure. From all this, and Much more from Mr. Trumbull to the same effect, it is clear that his mind is fixed upon General Grant for 1872 against any opposi- tioa, coalition or new departure, In the next place, we understand that Senator Sumner is not in the fusion market; that General Logan is coming round, and that Mr. Fenton and Mr. Greeley can be recorciled with a few sops from the Custom House. This leaves the anti-Grant republican sore- heads pretty much in the hands of M:ssrs. Gratz Brown, Carl Schurz and George Wilkes; and we are afraid that their followers will not be sufficiently numerous to encourage the democracy to try the ‘‘passive policy” under the confederate flag of a republican bolter, In short, we think that Mr. Trumbull is right in his opinion that this proposed new party coalition movement against General Grant “will be a failure,” We see that Governor Hoffman goes in for this coalition; but the downfall of Tammany has made a new de- pariure necessary for the Governor, and he is wise enough to recognize the fact. The pro- jected Holy Alliance, however, comes too late for 1872 and too soon for 1876; and the wisest course for the democracy under the circum- stances is that recommended by Mr. Voor- hees, of Indiana—viz., a national convention of the party as soon as possible in crder to hold the party together. Basincss iu the Supreme Court. It was an unnsually busy day yesterday in the Supreme Court, General Term, and the cases before it were unusually important. In the first place a decision was rendered in the Riverside Park assessment matter, sustaining the appeal from the order of the Special Term confirming the report of the Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment. New commission- ers are to ba appointed, who will be named on the settlement of the order. Another de- cision was rendered which will cause rejoic- ing—tbough not extending beyond this special circle—among the friends of the two youthful light weight contestants, Edwards and Collins. hese pugilistic gladiators, after their fisticuff encounter on Long Island, were sentenced to one year’s bard labor at the Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island and to pay a fine of one thou- sand dollars each. Tho Court decided that their conviction was not legal and granted their release. Both, however, have been pretty well “punished” by their several moaths of imprison- ment and labor, and as they declare their intention to abandon the profession in future the result of the decision is perhaps, after all, not to be greatly deplored. Subsequent to this arguments were heard in the cases of Lookup Evans, convicted of abortion; William Okell, convicted of receiving stolen bonds, and McCarty, convicted of the murder of Cline, The end sought ia the appeals from their convictions isto ‘secure for each a new trial, The Court reserved its decision in each case, but will probably announce the same in afew days. Tas Winter Prosrgot.—Thero is an old onying that ‘“‘when the winter comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb.” Wo hope that in relation to this winter this old rule will be adhered to, but so far the signa are all in favor of an old-fashigned oogtinental winter, The Eastern Question—The Trouble Loom- ing Up Between Russia and Germany. A cable despatch, special to the Hzratp, informs us that the Roumanian government has received a protest from Constantinople against a treaty, said to have been concluded some two years ago, between the government of the Czar on the one hand and the govern- ment of Prince Charles on the other. The treaty in question gave Russia certain privi- leges in the matter of consular jurisdiction, and the government of the Sultan protests against it on the ground that it isin direct violation of the terms of the Treaty of Paris. Our correspondent adds that the protest is credited to the influence of Bismarck. Bis- marck, it is said, is perfectly indifferent to the interests of Prince Charles, His purpose seems to be to hurry up a difficulty with Russia, and, apparently with this end in view, he bas perauaded the Porte to make a bold assertion of its sovereign rights. There is something truly Bismarckian about this stroke of policy. It completely isolates Russia from the rest of Europe, For a time it did seem as if Russia might succeed in playing the 7rédle of the friend of Turkey. Bismarck, however, with his usual sharpness, has got ahead ot Gortchakoff, and in the event of war breaking out Turkey will be tho useful ally, not of Russia, but of Germany and Austria. On the part of the Prussian Chancellor this is a bold stroke of policy, and it will not be won- derful if in the early summer it shall have pro- duced such bitter fruit that war will bea necessity. Germany must have the German provinces of Austria sooner or later, and Aus- tria must find compensation in the Lower Danube. In other words, Francis Joseph will give up to Germany Upper and Lower Austria, and take Roumania in exchange. This is what we have always said, and our predic- tions now begin to find fulfilment. It is quite manifest that Russia, on the one hand, and Germany and Austria on the other, are fully aware that a conflict must come; and we are not in ignorance of the fact that both sides are making war preparations on the most gigantic scale. Prussia has secured and laid aside her enormous war fund, and from English sources we have information that Russia is rapidly concentrating her forces on the southwestern frontier, apparently with the object of overawing Austria. This action would seem to indicate an intention on the part of Russia to take the initiative in the inevitable conflict for the supremacy of Europe; But we do not believe that any such intention exists on the part of the Russian government, Tho concentration of the troops in grand camps is no proof that it is intended to assume the offensive,. and may be only dictated by prudential motives. Owing to the great ex- tent of the Russian territory, and the limited capacity of her railways to transport troops and matériel, it is of the first importance to assemble the army on strategic points, so that in the event of hostilities the different corps should not be exposed to be beaten in detail. Germany, with her splendidly organ- ized transport system, can concentrate rapidly the whole strength of the Confederation on any given point at very short notice, and the Rus- sians have had examples in the wars with Austria and France of the danger of keeping troops scattered and isolated when exposed to attack from a bold and enterprising enemy, and they are resolved not to be guilty of the imprudence which brought disaster to the arms of both these Powers, It is to this cause that we are inclined to attribute the reported concentration of troops towards the south- western frontier; and it furnishes a more reasonable explanation than to suppose that Russia has resolved to pre- cipitate a struggle for which sho cannot be prepared, and in which defeat involves ruin and the loss of all she has gained within the past century. Thongh we are aware that un- ceasing activity has prevailedin the Russian arsenals since the outbreak of the Franco- Prussian war, yet we believe that even the supply of field ordnance and matériel is still defective. In the matter of army organization the now system has not had time to be con- solidated, and though the army has been greatly increased in numbers we doubt if its efficiency has not been temporarily impaired. Of course all these ‘considerations are fully recognized both at St. Petersbarg and Berlin, but they suggest very different lines of policy at the rival ca pitals. It is evident that the interest of Russia points to delay, and we cannot believe that her statesmen would rashly enter upon a struggle where there is so much to lose when the chances of success are so doubtful. We are convinced tat Russia will not take the initia- tive, but will rather seek to restrain Prussia and Austria by such a demonstration of force as will make them pause before entering lightly on a war policy. This we believe to be the trae solution of the movement of the Russian forces. The voting of the War Fund bill under extraordinary pressure from Bismarck, and the extensive war preparations of Prussia have pro- bably alarmed Russia, so that she has made up her mind to prepare for eventualities, Bis. marck’s speech in the German Parliament left no doubt as to the purpose to which the war fund was to be applied. It is true, he carefully avoided alluding to Russia by name; but when he spoke of Germany being threatencd his words could only apply to the Northern Power. Bismarck, who is not much given to cause needless alarm unless when he has an object to be served, intended his speech to prepare the public mind for a crusade against Ruasla by creating the belief that her power threatened the independence of Germany. The present time is so favorable for a trial of strength with Russia that Bismarck must be anxious to profit by the chance which pre- sents itself to crush her, as 80 good a one may never occur again. Should he succeed the supremacy of Germany in Europe would be assured and the ambitious dream of the Ber- lin Court fulfilled. Von Moltke and Bismarck are not likely to let pass so great an oppor- tanity. to crown the work of consolida- tion and aggrandizement, It is, there- fore, to Berlin that we shall look for the first acts of hostility, Russia own derive Do advantage from a change in her present attitude of watvhful and energetic propara- tion to an azgressive policy. Lt is so clearly her interest to wait and secure time to com- plete the reorganization of her military forces and the construction of those strategic lines of railway whioh must inorease enormously the availability of her resources that we do not believe her goverament wil! commit the folly of engaging in war unless attacked. The object of a concentration of troops would be twofold : in the first place for strategic reasons, in order to be ready to moot attack with the whole force of the empire; and, secondly, to restrain Austria and Prussia from hostile ac- tion by showing the forward state of the Mus- covite preparations, The advantages of the defensive policy are so evideat that we feel certain the Russian goveramont will not make the mistake of eatering on a war policy for some years to come, But the interests of Germany and Austria demand immediate action, because every year’s delay not alone allows the organization of the immense resources of Russia, but ralses her up an ally in France, We may, therefore, assume that the reported movements of troops are dae to some new plot of the wily Bismarck. No doubt the Russian Court is well informed of every act and project of the German Chancellor, and is ever on the watch to counteract his designs. To hamble the power of Russia is so uecessary to the greatness of Germany that there can be no reasonable doubt that Bismarck will not fail to take advantage of the present favorable condition of Europe to try issues with his gigantic neighbor. He cannot be blind to the fact that, as long ag Russia maintains her present power and influence in Europe, the work of German unity will be in danger. As a matter of self-proservation Germany finds herself compelled to undertake new and doubt- ful conflicts, and each day that the straggle is put off diminishes her chances of success, The recuperation of France and the development of the resources of Russia are evidently merely questions of time, and since it is acknowledged on all sides that a struggle for sapromacy must take place between Russia and Germany it is plainly the interest of the latter to fight as soon as pos- sible, so that Russia may be forced to contend single-handed. When Bismarck obtained from the German Parliament the continuance for three years of the war budget he was actuated by hostile intentions towards Russia, No other Power could pretend to be a danger to United Germany, and when the German Chancellor insisted on the necessity of continued prepara- tion to protect the Fatherland from menace his words were in effect a threat against Russia. And the Prussian Parliament voted the money to enable Bismarck to humble their colossal neighbor. In view of this declaration of hos- tility Russia has thought woll to prepare for events, This latest piece of news strengthens the belief that Bismarck is not prepared to give Russia the advantages that cannot fail to result from delay, We are assured by cable telegram from Vienna that the Russian government has for- warded its con;ratulations to Count Andrassy on his elevation to the Premiership of Austria, assuring him, at the same time, ‘‘that His Majesty the Czar has fall confidence in the wisdom and justice of the policy which will be pursued under his administration of the foreign relations of Austria.” This action is remarkably siznificant, pointing as it does to a Russian endeavor to estrange Austria as a German power. The Mesenge in England. Our President's Message makes a favorable impression in England, and is favorably re- ceived by the press. Satisfaction is generally expressed with the spirit in which our rela- tions with Great Britain are treated, and the opinion is almost unanimous that nover at any time has a more flattering exhibit been made of the condition of the country. The London Times, however, regrets the threatened aboli- tion of the income tax without the adoption of a substitute; but the Times forgets that no substitute is wanted. We oan dispense with the revenue collected from these income taxes, and get on very well without a substitute. General Grant has simply adopted the idea that in the reduction of the national debt already achieved such assurances have been given of the capacities and the fixed purpose of the country to meet all its obligations, that we can with propriety go on with the redemp- tion of the debt at considerably less than the extraordinary figure of one hundred millions a year. Hence his recommendation for the reduction of our internal and external taxes, including the abolition of all our internal taxes except those on wines, spirituous and malt liqaors, tobacco and atamps. The President’s recommendations on the subject are sound and universally approved by the country; but as to what will be done by Congress upon the line of tax reductions recommended no man can tell. We presume, however, that the income tax will be abolished, and most, if not all, the other internal taxes suggested as surplusage by the President; but on the tariff question there is such a con- flict of opinions in the House of Representa- tives that it is possible there may be no agree- ment in that body this session upon any bill of reductions. Meantime the important fact which stands out in the boldest relief is this, that our present national taxes, internal and tariff, are far in excess of the wants of the government, immediate or prospective, and they ought to be reduced, Tarers, BisMAROK AND THE Popr.—We are specially informed by cable telegram from Paris that President Thiers bas demanded of the Holy See the recall of Prince de Chigi- Albani as Nuncio of the Vatican to the French republic. Bismarck is said to have influenced the action of Thiers. The merits of the case, as against Prince Coigi-Albani, are not stated particularly, but we suspect they will be made plain in a very brief space of time in the light of the question of the East, Prince Chigi is Guardian of the Roman Conclave and a Mar- shal of the Roman Church. The Church has turned its eyes towards the holy shrines in Turkey just at the moment when Russia, Ger- many and Austria are peering with unusual earnestness in the same direction. Prince Chigi-Albani may have expressed an opinion to the effect that Franco is out in the cold and that the empire missed « grand opportunity io Turkey, as has the republic go far. The clerics of the Russo-Greek Charoh may arrive at the grand objective point in the East first, notwithstanding all the disappointments which the Czars have endured since Suwarrow drilled his Cossacks in Ismail in 1790. Tax Perkins Cram Against Russia.—It Commenced in gunpowder, aod is likely to ond in @ fash io the pao, ‘ ‘The Catacasy Question. Tho question of the récall of Minister Oates Casy is fairly opened by the partial publica- tlon of the correspondence on the subject, and‘ Wwe can now get at the merits of it, Mr. Oam- eron, who presented the resolution calling for this Correspondence, is the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate, having superseded Mr. Sumner on the reor- ganization of the Senate committees at the beginning of this Congress, last March, be- Cause the personal relations between Sumner and the President and Secretary of State were of that character which prevented a confiden- tial intercourse between the parties on public affairs, Mr, Cameron, Politically and per- sonally, being in perfoct accord with the Prosl- dent and enjoying the most friendly rela- tions with the Secretary of State, may be con- sidered as acting by authority in this afore- said resolution. The conclusion inevitably follows that General Grant desires the official correspondence on this Catacazy question to” be made public, because he is confident that the public judgment in the matter will be the condemnation of the ‘‘inexeusable” Mr. Catacazy, a conclusion further confirmed by the promptness with which the corréspoa- dence was furaished to the Senate. The President, on this subject, in his Mes. sage, says :—‘‘The intimate friendly relations which have so long existed between the United States and Russia continue undisturbed ;” that ‘‘the visit of the third son of the Emperor’ is a proof that there is no desire on the part of his government to diminish the cordiality of those relations;” that ‘the hospitable reception which has been given to the Grand Duke is a proof that on our side we share the wishes of that goverument,” but that “the inexcusable course of the Russian Minister at Washington rendered it necessary to ask his recall, and to decline to receive that function- ary asa diplomatic representative,” &o. The question to be settled was, therefore, in what consists this ‘‘inexcusable course of the Ras- sian Minister?” and the correspondence settles It. It assures us that Mr, Catacasy officiously interfered in matters pertaining altogether to American home politics, “ap- proached” Senators and Representatives with arguments and exhortations upon measures then pending in Congress, and indiscreetly denounced high officials of our government, and acted in other ways unbecoming a foreiga Minister. Secretary Fish represented the case, through Minister Curtin, to Mr. West- - mann, the Chancellor aid to Prince Gortcha- koff, and requested Mr. Catacazy’s instant withdrawal. Some delay occurred, Gortoha- koff being in Germany, and Westmann de- clining to act upon the matter himself; but Secretary Fish insisted, would hear of no delay, and declared that, as communication with Prince Gortchakoff was easy, he must have an answer. The answer came, request- ing that Mr, Catacazy be tolorated until after the Prince’s visit. The request wag acquiesced in, and Mr. Catacazy now ocases to ba tho Russian Minister to this country. ——— Taz Report Berore tae Boarp of” Hearn yesterday showed the condition of some of the tenement houses and cellars which the Inhabitants had been ordered to vacate. The description of these dwellings, with their roofs leaking and their ceilings cracking, and the dark, noisome atmosphere which infects them, will be sufficient justification in the minds of all intelligent people for the appar- ently arbitrary measure which removes them in this inclement weather. Persona! Intelligence. ae REEL ° Captain Boyle, of the British army, ts at the Bre voort House. Generai Judson Kilpatrick, of New Jersey, ts at the Metropolitan Hote!. General Kilpatrick, while Minister to Chile, wedded a fair native, who now, tt 18 said, desires to return to feel once more the ex- Dilarating effect of the “earthquake’s play,” and the General will follow her desire. United States Senator William Stewart, of Nevada, ‘Was one of the passengers of the steamer Russia, that arrived yesterday. He 1s now at the 8t. Nicno- las Hotel. Gencral Edward M. McCook, Governor of Qolo- rado, arrived from Europe by the steamer Russia, and took apartments at the Glisey House. P. 8. Giimore, the master of the wind wonders of Boston, often trreverently dubbed “Jubilee Pat,” arrived by the steamer City of Aniwerp yesterday morning, and at poon started for Boston. Hels said to have been eminently successiul in the work for which he visited Europe, Fortified with a letter of recommendation from President Grant and others of our notabilities, he has “interviewed” a number of the sovereigns of Europe and received, promises of atd toward his projected world's jubilee to be held in Boston. Generals E, F, Noyes and ‘tom Young, of Ohio, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, from Washing- ton, last evening. General Noyes is the Governor elect of Ohio. KENTUCKY. Governor Leslic’s Mesange—Lawiensncss aed Lynching to be Put Dowa—Negro Testimony im the Courts—Separate Kdacution for Colored Children. Louisvitie, Ky., Dec, 6, 1871, Governsr Lesite in bis mesaugh to the Legislature, is very sevcre On lawlessness, He says mob law uw no remedy for anything, and if a mob inntct death on any one, all who countenance the act are gutity of murder, He recommenJs additional legis- lution which will more certainly reach unlawful organizations, and evil disposed persons, and for imposing more stringent aad severe penalties on pubiic oMicials for tailure or neglect to enforce the Criminal laws. He savs:—“i am profoundiy’ impressed with the urgent ni ty of sometning being done to efectually check and break up disorders. The unwarranted interference of the federal authortiies in local affairs, has provoked and Aggravated inuch of Of the lawlessness existlug amoung us. He recom- mends the passing Of an act admitting negroes as witnesses in the oourts on. the same footing as other citizens. Also act admitting aries to an aotion, d an aud all interested in the issue, as competent wit- nesses. He recommends that Ls re hagen mena from colored peopie, after paying the expenses collection, Delnet apart exclusively for the educa, tion of colored children. THE KU KLUX TRIALS. Reverdy Jovnson’s Argument—Congressional Acts Agaiust tho Ku Klux «Il Unoonstita. om Omarieston, 8. C., Ded, 6, 1871, In the Ku Klux trials at the United States Court Reverdy Johnson closed his argument on motion to quash tho indtetment. He argueu that the acts of Congress of May, 1870, and April, 1871, are unoone al and void es far as pretending to pulleage, ‘aud that Congress should not be permitted to override the Oonstivation, He argued that Con- giess could give the Fedorat Courts no rizht totes ae we ea jaws, Pay owes thas the n+ alctment pul ra wi via., ge violating an spb ot Congress ad the laws ot the tal Pi gi ba | LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE, il New ORLRANS, Deo. 6, 1671, \ ‘Tho Senaty to-day elected Mr. Pinchback (colored) Prossangs, 07,8 vote-ot 18 to 16. The constitu makes him Lieutenant Governor. Thi is ded as @ victory Bowie Taoton, election the Ware