The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1871, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Friday, December = = eee CONTENDS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Pack, 1—Advertisementa. 2—Advertisemente, $—News from Washington—The Catacazy Imbrog- ties wore I “ tian ae of tae Rus- FAB scellaneous Telegrams —Lo- 4—Tie Dmperor of Brazil: His Second Interview With a HeraLp Oorrespondent—The Cuban Massa Captain General Vaimaseda Hor- rifled; How the Victlma Marched to Their Doom—More Cuban Nonsense: The Captain Gencral Orders All New York Newspapers to Pass Through the Post Ustice—Caamber of Commerce: The Merchant Priaces on Public Affairs—The National Board of Trade at St, Lous—Killed by Rall—Fancy Fair at St. Franois Xavier’s—Views of the Past—Obitu- ary—Ninth Ri ent Veteran Association— ‘ Judges and Prisoners Freezing. S-City ana County ‘Adiaira—Tweed's Tribulations: ne Boss to -be Rulea Out of the Tammany ociely—Political Reform—ihe Greeiey Re- publicans — Art Matters — Amusements—Tne Brooklyn Election Frauds: Trial of Alleged Ba.lot Box Stuffers—Colonel W, A. U. Ready— ‘The Proposed Long Branch Railroad. 6--Ectioriais: Leading Article, “Ine Presidential Succession—The Democratic Party and the Bolting Republicans—*Jonfusion Worse Con- lounded’ and the Way Out of It’—Auusement Announcements. 7~-Tntportaut from France—News from England, Spain ana other European States—Interestug 8, 1871. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEET. wwe Presidential Succession—Tho Democratic Party and the Boltiag Republicans—“Con- fasion Worse Confounded,” and the Way Out of Ie. With the reassembling of Congress the mauagers and the sappers and miners of both the great political parties, and all the outside factions and cliques, are drawn to Washington in order to compare notes aud count noses in reference to the Presidential succession. The question with the republican party being set: tled in favor of another term for General Grant, the only difiiculties to be overcome preparatory to the great battle are the dif- ficulties of the opposition elements in reference to their organization, their leaders and their plan of operations in the fight. The de- mocracy, disheartened and demoralized by their late defeats and the disastrous collapse of Tammany Hall, are like the poor driver with his cart stuck fast in the mud, crying to Hercules to give them a lift, and they seem to be wiiling to recognize as their Heroules any bolting republican with the odor of radical sanctity fresh upon his garments. So far we havo hardly had a whisper from Wasiington of any consultations between democractic leaders and republican soreheads on the situa- tion; but we are told that on Tuesday next Mr. George Wilkes and his colaborers in the political vineyard will hold a little confidential anti-Grant republican caucus, and if so they may do something that will cheer the heart of Mr. Schurz and illuminate the fave of the melancholy Mr. Featon. Meantime, with the demoralized democracy the condition of things may be defived as nothing better than ‘‘confusion worse con- founded.” The dowofall of Tammany has sorely disheartened them, and all their regu- lar candidates from the Tammany National Convention of 1868 have gone overboard— Chase, Pendleton, Hendricks, Hoffman, Sey- mour, English, Andy Johnson and all the rest, excepting only Hancock, who still is reooguized as having the elements of Presi- dential availability, in spite of the changed condition of things. But the main idea now discnssed among the democratic journals is the Missouri fusion policy—or the “passive policy,” as they call it—the policy of placing the bolting republicans witi their independent ticket in front, and of bringing up the demo- cratic party in the rear, The platform sug- gested for the bolting republicans is general amnesty, civil service reform, revenue reform, the public lands for actual settlers, &e. This is the Carl Schurz platform; but as all this thunder has been appropriated by General Grant in his Message the prospect for an out- side anti-Grant republican pariy is becoming very gloomy. Senator Trumbull, one of the leading can- didates named for the fusionists, gives it as his opinion that this fusion experiment will be a failure; Senator Sumner, it is under- stood, is not in that line of business; Vico President Colfax goes for Grant; Senator Fenton is not thought of even asa last resort by the democrats, and Mr. Greeley flatly declares that he will not bea party to any back-stairs Presidential arrangement. The conservative Governor Walker, of Vir- ginia, has put in the strongest bid of all the bids made for the nomination on this proposed fusion plan of operations; but Governor irom Mexieo—Afairs in Ouba—Alexis On the Wing—Meeting of the Darimeuth Alumni— Misceilat us Telegrams—Susivess Notices. 8- Jim Irving: Ciose of the Testimony for the Pros- ecution; the Defence;an ex-Tammaay Sine- curist On the Stand; What He Got for Doing Nothing—Pre 3 in the Courts—Kidyap- ping Extraor —Actors On _aSpree—Tue Death of M. kuk—The National Pen- Methodists: Great State pal Syracuse-I'resemtauon at at Convention Newburg. @—Tie Phiiadelphia Defatcations : Trial and Con- vickion of Joseph ‘*. Marcer, City Treasurer, for Conspiracy to Mefraud the City; Another “Victim oi the Chicago Fire’’—The Metairie Races—Poughseepsie: Exciting Fracas at Poughkeepsie—Opening of the Second Parlia- ment of Ontarlo—Temperance Reiormers tn Council—Bold Burglary—Devastation by Fire— L irom Europe—Finauctal and Sy ays Reports—Caty larkel—Powgztie ike Mat triages aud Dae 10-Toe Wharton-Ketehum Trial—Bank Clerks’ Mutual Benefit Association—Revision of the Bibie—Snipping Inteiligenc: <veruisements. (J—‘lichvorne: Sir Roger interviewed by a Heraid Correspondent and Professor Anderson—Re- collections of Ausiralia—The Claimant's Horse- Stealing Scrape in Company With Orton; the Scandal About the Ciaimant and His Family Refuted—Cholera in the Bay—Tte Ice in the verbisements, Tan {xQvEsT ON THE Bopy oF Newkirk, who was alleged to have frozen to death in Jefferson Market Police Court, was held yes- terday and showed that he died from conges- tion of the brain, produced by alcoholism. Notwithstanding this verdict there seems to be no doubt that the prisoners’ dock at Jeffer- Bon Market is very cold and uncomfortable, and itis likely that some of the prisoners may get their death there, even if this one did not, Tar Trist or James Invixa.—The trial of Tames Irving, ex-Assemblyman and at present Alderman, for an alleged violent assault upon Deputy Marshal Dowley was continued yester- day in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict, in the presence of a crowded auditory, The prosecution is being very ably and energetically pressed by counsel for the government, while the lawyers upon the other side are leaving nothing undone to serve the inierest of their client, The case will hardly close to-day. Should it do so it will be ata late hour this evening. The result is looked forward to with much interest, Two Mors Deravirers have been dis- covered in the Treasury Department. The flefaloatigns of one amount to about twelve thousand or fifteen thousand dollars, and those of the other to about fifty thousand dollars. The discovery of defalcations in the’ Treasury is the more distressing because of the confl- @ence which General Spinner placed in e rigid security of his department from robbers from within or without, he hay- Ing piously -and fervently gccredited the re- Warkable freodom® from embezzlement for which the Treasury has heretofore been noted Yo a special Providence,- If, therefore, the Treasury is invadéd by these harpies, wherein are owe safe? be, Ty nal Tor New Departure Democrats are now variously termed the “‘passivists,” the “thumb-suckers,” the “faint-hearted,” the “possum democrats,” the ‘“‘pollywogs" os the “tadpoles.” At the same time ‘old hunker,” “barnburner,” “softshell,” hard- shell,” “copperheads” and the other political phrases of older Gt8 Passing away. “Reform” ig the giant cry that should now | u.8 ‘fd of the country to the other, Pbeling wih alzacon oud eld te nove Walker Hardly carries guns enough to com- mand the position. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s plan of a scrub race, with a sepa- rate anti-Grant Presidential ticket in each of the States, is as good as any other which re- quires, first, the sinking of the democratic party in the fight. It is as good as the prop- osition to run this party as a tender to a bolting republican faction; as good as the scheme of running a mongrel ticket without any platform in opposition to General Grant; it is quite as good as the plan of Mr. Micaw- ber of waiting, still ‘‘waiting for something to turn up;” aad it is vastly better than the prop- Osition of hitching the democratic party to the eight-wheeled, up-hill locomotive of ‘‘Tom Scott,” the Pennsylvania railway king. But none of these various schemes for a joint stock fusion movement of the democrats with the bolting republicans against General Grant will do, be- 9) hey all depend ppon this bolting se ee dake tia eR woes quantity, and concerning which there is a general suspicion that it amounts to nothing— that it is too timid to lead off against Grant, and (oo weak to be trusted asa balance of power. ‘The game of the anti-Grant republi- cans has been to keep down the discussion of the party candidate for 1872, as a matter belonging exclusively to the national party Convention, and yet to work meantime like beavers to secure the Convention against Gen- eral Grant. But the discussion has, neverthe- less, been kept up until it 1s made manifest that Grant will have his party Convention, and will be renominated on the first ballot; and hence the democratic idea that these anti-Grant re- publicans arein the democratic market. But to all such political adventurers there is in the catastrophe of the downfall of Tammany such a discouraging prospect for Presidential spoils and plunder in the democratic camp that these hungry men are in no hurry to enter it, The actual situation of things may thus be stated. The democrat? have found it out from the late elections that they are in 9 minority in the country. They confess it, and that they must bave reinforcements in order to go into the Presidential campaign next year with any show for success against General Grant. They have an idea that there is a large body of disaffected republicans who desire the * defeat of Grant; and they have an idea that it may be expedient and wise for the democrats in this campaign to drop republicans as liberal republicans to lead off with @ ticket and platform opposed to Grant, and that then, by falling in upon this anti- Grant republican ticket, the democrats may sweep the fleld, Butas itis beginning to bo apparent to the naked eye that these anti- Grant republicans will not lead off ag desired, and that they are too weak us a makeweight in any event to be worth the sacrifice of the democratic organization, the question still recurs, What is the best course for the demo- cratic party in reference to this coming Presi- dential campaign? Their best course is that recommended by Mr, Voorhees, of Indiana, a national convention right away for a reor- ganization of the party. ‘The overthrow and dissolution of the Tajz. their organization, to encourage these bolting | many Ring, the great central power of the party, as it was six months ago, makes a national reorganization the first necessity of the democrats for Presidential Purposes. ‘ho; ate now ks 5 Wrench ealing was a a capture of Napoleon at Sedan, and the dé- chéance of the empire—they are without a government, and all ave at sea, Let them call upon Mr. Belmont, through their repre- sentatives in Congress, to issue acall for a national convention for the purpose of a reor- ganization of the party, and Mr. Belmont and his committee will issue the call, and the Con- vention, fresh from the people, will know the “new departure” that is required to meet the new order of things. Let this Convention formally proclaim the principles of the democratic pariy to be: the consjitution as it is, including negro civil equality and negro suffrage, the rights of the States but the sovereignty of the United States, the fixed facts of the nineteenth cen- “tury as superseding the Jeffersonlan abstrac- tions of the eighteenth; labor reform, a new idea; a complete amnesty to the South; a civil service reform, embracing, in the general oftice-holding business, the abolition of Marcy’s old democratic war-cry, that “to the victors belong the spoils”; a revenue tariff, a length- ened term for the payment of the national debt and a further reduction of taxes; green- backs for the national currency, upon which twenty odd millions of money now paid aa interest to the national banks will be saved to the Treasury ; a general law for the regulation of railway monopolies, under the power which Conzress alone possesses of regulating com- merce between the States; the .improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and its great tributaries, and the annexation of Mexico. Let the democracy, we say, be reorganized upon some such platform as this, and they will make a splendid fight in the coming Presidential contest. They may astonish themselves with their accessions from the republican ranks, and if they do not carry the field in 1872 they may clear the Way fora glorious victory in 1876. Congress Yesterday—The Ku Klux Bether— The Senute Committees. Those confounded miduight raiders who have obtained such a terrible name and fame as members of the Ku Klux Klan have got the Senate inio a legal snarl which it appears extremely difficult to unravel. A couple of those worthies having had the audacity to re- fuse obedience to the summons of the joint commiitee appointed to investigate their doings, which required them to appear and tes- tify before it, have subjected themselves to the penalty which attaches to such contempt. But the difficulty arises at the very threskold, by what authority shall they be punished? Not by the Senate, nor by the House, acting sepa- ralely, for the committee represented them jointly, and the offence was committed, not against one, but against both. But, then, on the other hand, the idea of going through the solemn formality of a joint convention of both houses—which never takes place except once every four years, to count the Presidential votes of the Electoral Colleges—was not to be entertained fora moment. The matter was too frivolous for that. Such a course would appear to be, and would be, too supremely ridiculous, In this dilemma Senator &coit, chairman of the committee, invented a medium course, which was the introduction of a con- current resolution giving the Senate full juris- diction over the question. But other legal luminaries in the Senate opposed that plan as one of questionable legality, contending that if the House had concurrent jurisdiction of the matter it had not the right to delegate to another body its judicial power. Senator Carpenter got off a wilty aud sensible remark in that connection, to the effect that, while it was admitted that the Senate could not punish any person for con- tempt without the consent of- the press, he was not prepared to concede that it could not do so without the consent of the House. The subject occupied the attention of the Senate during the greater part of the session yester- day, but no result was reached, and it is not at all improbable that the legal bair-splitting over this knoity question will engage the attention of that dignifled but impracticable body reaper tog tiie The iti. culty which is thus raised ought, at all events, | to have the effect of making Congress careful not to organize joint committees of investiga- tion—a thing which, it was stated in debate, has not been done in the English Parliament since 1695. The Senate standing committees were reap- pointed yesterday, as the result of a caucus of republican Senators, The changes are few and unimportant. Mr. Sumner gets the chair- manship of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, Mr. Cameron continuing at the head of that of Foreign Relations. Various bills were introduced in the Senate, including one to unite the telegraph and postal systema. The proposition, however, has not the merit of simplicity in giving the control of “the tele- graph system to the government, but is simply a modest scheme to invest a sharp Yankee named Hubbard with the exclusive privilege of building and working telegraph lines at a profit of ten per cent. In the House there was nothing done yes- terday of the slightest interest or importance, Boih houses have adjourned till Monday. Tue Boston Post—straight-out democrat— says it does not believe the anti-Grant repub- licans will nominate ‘any one” for the Presi- dency, or if they do they will desert him, as the anti-Lincoln men deserted their candidate, and vote for Grant. Here is exactly where the difficulty lies, and the pollywog and tad- pole democracy will find it out sooner or Later, Aw Ovp HiatwayMas, a notorious offender, was sentenced by Recorder Hackett yester- day to twenty years in the State Prison for the robbery of a man on Cherry street a few weeks-ago. A boy of sixteen, who was also concerned in the robbery, was sentenced for five years. Two very effective comments on the hardness of the transgressor’s way of life, Tug Manoarster (N. H.) Union thinks the democrats have only ‘‘to nominate a good man and adopt a good platforfi to insure euc- cess.” At what time during the last twelve years—three Prestdential terms—were the democrats ever guilty of being sensible in 6? of the Mexican Revoluttou— Fall of Saltillo. A special Hzratp despatch announces the fall of Saltillo after a lengthened and gallant defence, This victory gives to General Treviiio complete command of the Northern States, and lays open the road to San Luis Potosi, which will, no doubt, declare for the revolution as soon as the victorious rebels appear before it, All chance of the suppres- sion of the insurrection is now at an end, and the prospect that opens up for our ua- happy neighbor must fill every right thinking man with horror, It was hoped by those who looked with favor on the sister republic that, with the departure of the French and the overthrow of the empire, a new era of peace and prosperity would begin for the Mexican nation, It was thought that the severe lesson which had beon taught this people during the French occupation would bave convinced them of the necessity of avoiding internecine strife, and devoting themselves to the develop- ment of the resources of their country, But it seems as though the selfish ambition of the Mexican leadera cannot be resirained by any considerations of patriotism or justice when something is to be gained by sacrificing them, Any doubts which might have existed on this point have been removed by this last move- ment, which has been organized and carried out by men who, a few years ago, were the stanchest supporters of President Jua- rez. Whatever objections there may be to his occupying the Presidential chair for the third term, one thing is certain—that no other man can replace him with advantage to Mex- ico. No doubt his administration has com- mitted faults, and perhaps crimes; but no other administration would have done better, or. perhaps not so well. Since the full of the empire peace has been maintained, and the work of reconstruction haa been puesued with vigor. If the leaders of the present move- ment had thought more about the interest of their country and less about their own, they would have passed over the possible irregularities in Juarez’s election which they allege as justification for their revolt. Their selfish objects are too plain for any one to be deceived by their patriotic protestations, by which they try to cover up the real aim of the revolt, which is simply to obtain possession of the revenues of the country. No more forcible evidence of the corruption of the people could be required than that furnished by the almost universal uprising against order which followed the pronunciamiento of Trevitio. We believe that the revolution will ultimately triumph, as the elements of disorder exist everywhere inthe country; but with the fall of the Juarez government will come’anarchy, and unless the United Slates should interfere in the .iaterest of civilization Mexico must fall back into barbarism, The people have proved themselves unfit for a free government, and every day seems to incline them more to bloodshed and strife, If any man could have saved Mexico Juarez was the man. He hada claim to the gratitude of the nation no other man possessed in the noble resistance he continued to offer to the empire when there seemed scarcely the shadow of a hope of success. In addition to this he is a man of large views and great tenacity of purpose, and has given’ unquestionable proofs of administrative and executive ability in the way in which he has governed the turbulent population over which he has been called to rule. The pvesent trouble will convince the intelligent and wealthy Mexicans that the only salvation for their country is to be found under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. Already a large party urge the ad- visabilily of merging the Mexican nation into the great republic, and there are only the law- less adventurers and their ignorant dupes who would be likely to oppose a change that could not fail to prove extremely advantageous to Mexico. Peace would be secured to her by the strong arm of the law, and capital would pour in to develop her exhaustless mineral re- sources. We shall wait anxiously to know what result will follow the fall of Saltillo, It in the first victory, and (hat always carries with it great moral. effect. To a tottering cause the result is likely to be fatal, as fiumbera who haye been preserving a mas- terly inactivity will place themselves on what appears to be the winning side, We shall regret the fall of Juarez, because whatever hope ther’ was of the regeneration of Mexico falls with him, and will place us face to face with a condition of things which we canaot tolerate. Progross President Thiers’ Mossage. M. Thiers’ Presidential Message was read to the members"of the French Assembly in Versailles yesterday. Judging from our cable report of the chief points of the paper, we are of the opinion that the aged statesman was comprehensive in his recapitulation” of the great events which have just transpired in France, hopeful of the future of the country, exact in his exhibit of the existing condition of the foreign relations, but not very definite in hia projects for the amelioration of the present state of the repub- lic, The commercial treaty with England will be rearranged, most probably, at the time of its “expiration next year, Napoleon and his empire are blamed for the “‘wretchedness” of France. Complete organization must cure it, “God and time” will effect this, France will maintain a dignified peace, and if war ensue it will not be her deed. She must resume her proper position among the nations, She will support the Pope, display cordiality towards Austria maintain the relation of ‘‘reciprocal interest” with Russia, The military and naval services will be maintained in a state of efficienoy, and the executive lean for support on the patriot- ism of the Legiglature. Such are the main features of President Thiers’ offset against the cause of returning royalism in France, of the approach of which we are specially in- formed in the Huratp telegram from Paris, M. Thiers places his trust in God and relies a good deal on the Pope; but it is equally ap- parent from our report of the naval prepara- tions which are being made at Cherbourg and Brest that he has also a considerable share of confidence in the British warrior adjunct of “Keep your powder dry.” Wastep InmupiateLy—The names of those reform democrats who will be placed at the head of committees by the Speaker of tho next House of Rerroscatatives in this State, and « The Radical Reform Movement tu Europe Citizen Demonstrations in England aud Spain. The cable news telegrams from Europe, which are published in the Hgratp to-day, afford additional confirmation of the fact that the people of the Old World are moving actively for the attainment of a complete enjoyment of their citizen rights, The wants of the toilers and producers are many, and they appeal to the authorities who rule them for relief. The question has become general ; the exigencies of tho suffering fraternities almost universal. The British people are struggling to gaia the consummation of the Reform bill of 1832, That grand measure terminated the era of their subjec- tion to civil serfdom and placed in their hand the invincible weapon of-the parliamentary franchise, rough in fashion to be sure, and without any instruction as to the real object of its use, Jobn -Bull is a pertinacious, practical fellow, however. He is willing to use any instrument which comes to his hand in time of danger, and ‘‘slashes around” with it manfully, ever keeping some improved or improving objective point in view. Thus has he gone on since 1832, till we now find him, in 1871, standing forth to define a now charter of liberty for his children, broad in ils provisions, reaching to the yery steps of the throne, and sufficiently ample to enfold in its democratic embrace men of every rank and class of society. The British democrats demand a reform of the House of Lords and a curtailment of the obstructive legislative powers of the hereditary aris- tooracy. In this they alm to strike the feudal system atits very heart. If they succeed in wounding it seriously they will next ask for the abolition of the law of entail in property. When they do Great Britain will fully realize the truth of the existence of Communism in Europe, and experience the first home conse- quences of its birth, and its “baptism by fire” in Rome, in Paris and elsewhere, So much for the birthplace of Magna Charta, There are meetings in Birmingham and Reading, sngry discussion, @ row, outside intrusion and a rout of the revolutionary speakers. This is quite in accordance with the history of all the reform movements which Britain has initiated from the time of Watt Tyler to that of Sir Francis Burdett and thence to the latest Manchester riots. The spirit of ihe peo- ple survived all. Spain, even Spain, old, war-battered, distracted and demor- alized Spain, feols the invigorating influ- ence of the political fervor of the hour. The people are anxious to “twine their olive” in the “garland of liberty.” They have com- menced their endeavor towards tpis desirable end in the municipalities or city corporations of the kingdom—the very strongholds of liberty and popular faith in this time-worn country, The corporation elections have just been con- eluded in Spain, They terminated in radical triumphs. The cities were gained for the people, Amadeus’ royalism having obtained only five supporters from the entire number of the new officials. Thus we see that a great cause lives always; humanity alone dies. President Thiers the Orleans Privces= A DiMicult Question in the Assembly. We print this morning a cable despatch, special to the Heraup, which leaves us little room to doubt that a grave crisis has again arrived in France. On Tuesday last the Duc d’Aumale and the Prince de Joinville had an audience of M. Thiers for the purpose of con- sulting him as to the course which in present cireumstances they ought to pursue. Both, it is said, are anxious to claim their rights and take their seats inthe Assembly, To thls, it seems, the President:is, for the present at least, opposed. Their presence ta the Assem- bly, he thinks, would arouse existing animosi- ties and lead to serfous trouble. The Bona- partists are active; so are the Reds, and even the Legitimists have not altogether abandoned hope. Any attempt on the part of the Princes to take their seats M. Thiers would regard as a menace to the republic. The Princes have consented to take no decided action witi. further consideration. On the same night t. members of the Qommission of the Abrogatio: of the Law of fixile was convened. Itis not clear what course the commission has decided” to take. On the round, however, that the appearatce of the Princes in the Assembly would be a menace to the republic, the President has made up his mind to make to the Assembly some definitive proposition as to the establish- ment of the republic on a solid and permanent basis. The definitive proposition will, we fear, when it comes, be found toolate. The opinion, according to our correspondent, is general that if the Princes push their purpose the republic will fall. D’Aumale, it is sald, is confident of success, and there are many who think that if he were to take action at once the majority of the Assembly would be with jim. _ tt is notorions that two-thirds of the National Assembly are monarchieal in their principles, We have no doubt that if it were put to the vote whether the AssemVly favored a mon- archy or the republic the majority would vote for the monarchy. But it is not our opinion that such a vote would be decisive, The pres- ent Assembly is no longer representative of France. It was elected in circumstances and for purposes which no longer exist, “The nation, it is said, would gladly accept any arrangement which would promise them a solid and permanent government, It is im- possible, however, to imagine that the repub- licans of any shade would contentedly accept the decision of the Assembly if {t went against them, The Bonapartists would raise ®& bowl and demand a picdi- scile, There can be no settlement of this government question unless there be a fresh appeal to the people, If President Thiers takes this bold course he may yet make him- self the master of the sithation—finding himself quite equal either to tho restoration of the House of Orleans. or to the continuation and consolidation of the republic, If he does not take some such prompt action the Bonapartes, aided by the disaffected parties, may force a plébiscite and go restore the empire. When it is necessary to guard the French coasts by ships of war, In dread of “another descent from Elba,” it is reasonable to take it for granted that Napoleon and hia friends ure watchful of the situation and ready for tho opportunity, M. Thiers is in a tight,‘place, We ahall.goon see whether he ia equ%l to the eary demauda now made upon hind The New Wronch Minister to Washington. A cable telegram from Paris announces the appointment of Jules Ferry by President Thiers to represent the French republic at Washington. The announcement doca uot Surprise ys, as for geome time back ru- mors were current that he would be the choice of the French Executive. When his name was first spoken of in connection with the mission a few of the Parisian journals oried out against it; but, recent events have proven that this ontory had but little effect on M. Thiers, Jules Ferry is ono of the three Jules of Paris who for yeara back have been noted for their extreme radicalism, Jules Favre and Jules Simon boing the other two. Ho was 4 member of the Corps Législatif in 1869 and 1870, at a time when Thiers, Gambetta, Raspail, Garnier Pagis, Favre, Simon, Grévy, Daru and others of greater or lesser note, who, since then, have occupied a prominence before the world, or who have dropped altogether out of sight, During the stormy days of tho National Assembly in Bordeaux M. Ferry was present, but took no really active part in the legislation of those days, In the frst days of the Commune, if we mistake not, be was in Paris and was elected to some position, but declined to serve, evidently foreseeing that trouble would come from the wild, ungovernable, revolu- tionary programme the Communists had marked out, A stanch republican, a devoted Frenchman to his country, and a fearless advocate of republican constitutions, Jules Ferry will be warmly weloomed as the repre- sentative of republican France to.the United States, Tho New Apporti ent Bilt. The House of Representatives has under consideration a bill introduced at the last ses. sion to make a new apportionment of member. ship to that body. bill proposes that the next House shalt conalst of two hundred and eighty-one membera, in- oluding four Representatives elected from States having the largest fractions—being an increase of thirty-eight members over the present number, Vermont and New Hamp- shire will lose one member each—they have only three each now—and Illinois gains five, the latter having reached to the dignity of being the third State in the Union on the score of population, ranking with Ohio. Massachusetts gains one, New York one, New Jersey two, Pennsylvania two, Maryland one, Virginia one, North Carolina one, South Caro- lina one, Georgia two, Alabama one, Missis- sippi one, Kentucky one, Tennessee one, In- diana one, Missouri three, Arkansas ono, Michigan three, Texas two, Iowa three, Wis- consin two, California one, Minnesota one, Kansas two. The present House consists of two hundred and forty-three members, {ft is proposed that the bill, if passed, shall take effect after the 8d of March, 1873, so that the present regulations respecting the Presiden- tial Electoral Colleges will not be disturbed next year, The Tichborne Case to England—Baronet or Butoher? We publish in the Heratp to-day an inter- esting account of an interview held by one of our London correspondents with the claimant in the Tichborne baronetcy case, now creating 80 much excitement in England. The maia features of this singular story are familiar to many of our readers and can be briefly summed up. Sir James Francis Tichborne, the tenth baronet, had two sons, Roger Charles and Alfred Joseph, The former of these, Roger, was born in 1629, in Paris, and was removed to England when he was eight or nine yoars of age. Ho en- tered the British army, but, having always been of a wild, erratic disposition, he sold his commission and left England for Australta when he was twenty-two or twenty-three years ofage, and was supposed to have been lost off the coast of South Amerioa in 1854. Nothing was heard of him by his family from that dato up to the time of his father’s death, vhich occurred in June, 1862, and his younger ther, Alfred Joseph, succeeded to the rnd estates as tha eleventh baronet, ‘fred married a daughter of tndell in 1861, and by her sons—Everard Francis, who a ‘afancy, and Henry Alfred Je »y, 1866, who still survives. Sir “bruary, 1866, before the birth who consequently was from his athe successor to tho title and e. ager, Lady Tich- and Sir Alfred, “der boy, and borne, the » had been much refused to boliev death by drowning. She haa “hat Sir Alfred had no right to vt his ‘ia death, urged on by a pe wife, the mother of the ahe caused advertisements for the missing Sir Roger to b the Australian papers and made e. to discover if her long-lost son were existence. Soon after the appearance o advertisements. she obtained intelligence th Roger Tichborne was alive and was then in Australia, and {n the year 1867 the wanderer made his appearance in England and laid claim to the title as the successor of his father, Sir James F. Tichborne. Al though greatly altered in appear- ance he was recognized and acknowl- edged by his mother} ™, av thet soup atatives of the infant son of his Arann agdk wROther, Sir Alfred, digputed his identity and refused to yield possession of the estates, They treated the claimant as an impostor, and declared that the Dowager Lady Tichborne, his mother, had the motive of enmity toward the widow of Sir Alfred to Induce her to acknowl. edge Roger as the heir, To complicate the ease the old Lady Tichborne diod bofore tho matter could be brought Into the courts, The trial now progressing is a suit brought by Sir Roger against Mr. Lushington, a tenant on the Tichborne estate, to recover possession of certain property, and of course the whole question of identity comes up, Not the least alngular feature of the case is tho fact that the defendant Lushington, who know young Roger Tichborne before he left Ragland for Australla in 1853, fs a witness in favor of tho olalmant and swears to his identity, The theory of the real defendants—tha mother and trustees of the infant Henry, now five yoars old—is that the claimant is not Sic Rogor Tichborae, hut ig a man uamed Arthuc It will probably pass, The ‘