The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1872, Page 6

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TRIPLE Sew York, Tuesday, February 20, aS = = eee CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. tS Advertisements, 2—AGverusements, S—wasmugion: the Ku Kinx Reports in the louse; the Tariff, the Deficiencies and the In- come ‘tax; Forney’s Prospects in the Cabinet; Confirmation of Charles Hale; Seth Johnson Mteuce \— Swindling: Arrest ot ‘'wo Women for Defraudimg Shopkeepers—Stokes’ Grand Jury: Another Field Day of Legal Procrasti- Pation—New York Courts—The North Caro- : oe Bandits—Xyiol: A New Specific tor Small- % 4—Congress: The Ku Klux Reports in Both Houses; Extending the President's Repressive Power; The French Arms in the Senate; Sena- tor Conkling Training the Adminsttration Ar- ullery; The Denciency Bill—The State Capital: Comprehensive Schemes Before the Legisla- ture; The Soara of Commerce Project; The Entire Port of New York lo be Seized; Erie and Ca al Ring Combinauons at Work; Chances of the Charter—Rapid Transit in New York: A Letter from John Foley—The Suicide of Young Lyons—Funeral of the Late Mrs. Astor—Hauling in the Harness, S—_Mayor Hail: An Eventful Day in the General Sessions; The Chief Magistrate of the City Demands a ‘rial; Intense but Suppressed Ex- citement in Court; Mayor Hall Dignified, Earnest and Impressive; The ‘Trial Aajourned Til Next Monday—The City Government: Meeting of the Common Councll and Board ot Supervisors; The Department of Finance; What the Comptroiler Has to Say About the Financial situation—The Cry of the People— The Judiciary Committee --Judge McCunn and tne Alleged Corrupt Judiclary—The Quaran- Une Investigation. “The Reign of G—Editorials: Leading Article, the Demagogues—National Honor Sacrificed to Party Expediency’—Amusement An- nouncemeuts, ‘9—Tue War in Mexico: Trevino, with Twelve ‘Thousand Men, Marching on San Luis Potosi; The City of Mexico Next to Fall—Telegrams from England, France Spain, Italy, Belgium and Cuba—Jeaiousy and Revenge—Canadian deparation—Miscellaneous —‘Telegrams—1'ne Methodist Preachers—Methodist Conference Convention—Tne Brookiyn Retormers—The 1872. Jersey City Frauds—Business Notices, S—Shberman's Tour: Tne Arrival of the Wabash in the Buy of Nice; the American Tourists’ Re- ception at Nice; A Festive Time—Dea‘n of the Philadelphia Chemist—Burglary in Houston Street—Financial and Commercial Reports— Domes'ic and Havana Markets— Marriages and Deaths, ®—Mr. Miller's Insurance Record: Further Testt- mony Before the Legislative Committee—Free Love and ‘‘Marriage” —Advertisements, Q—Disracli and Gladstone: ‘he Washington Treaty Discussed inthe British Parhament ; Mr. Disraell’s Review of the Past and Present ‘Treaties ; What Mr. Gladstone Has to Say in Reply ; @ Most Important Debate Fatally Shot in Fun—The Newark Child Murder— Shipping Invelligence—A avertisements, A1—Advertisements, tary year, from April, 1872, to April, 1873, shows a reduction in the government demand from that of the last but still current year ofa million of pounds sterling. This does not look like war. A few such items of retrenchment at home would soon make up thirty millions of dollars in gold to tender for 8 discharge from the American bill of damages In the Alabama case. 12—Adyertixements. Q Tor Briish War Orrick Estimate for Me support of the army during the mili- . . Romor Asovr TAZ PurcHASE OF THE Istanp or St. Pierre MIQUuELON.—A HERALD correspondent in Paris informs us that negotiations are now going on for the purchase of the island of St. Pierre Miquelon by American citizens. The acqnirement of the island is with the view of rendering more effective the telegraphic communication between the United States and Europe, the present operations of the French cable, which terminates at St. Pierre, being considered inconvenient and not equal to the necessities of the service. Tax ALABAMA CLAIMS IN PARLIAMENT.— Premier Gladstone assured Mr. Disraeli, in the House of Commons, during the session yester- day evening, that it would be “inconvenient” for the Queen's government to ‘‘communicate any information on the subject of the Ameri- can case in the Alabama claims demand” to Parliament just at present. This declaration fs, we apprehend, exactly true. A general in- ternational inconvenience may, however, arise from the fact that Mr. Gladstone's ‘‘inconven- fence” of the Treasury bench may continue or be maintained for a long time. Tue State Coron 1x ENcianp is bound fo go. The Irish disestablishment bas given an impetus to the agitation for a disestablish- ment in the sister island which cannot long be resisted, especially as the proposition involves the dismissal of o horde of lazy ecclesiastical blood-suckers, and the saving of from fifteen to twenty millions of dollars a year to the national treasury. Thus, step by step, Eng- Jand is on the road to the “divine rights” of the people, and no hedging by Her Majesty's ton the Alabama claims will serve to arrest this revolutionary movement. yh Peet NEW YORK HKKALD, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘The Reign ef the Demayegues—National | mains for Mr. Sumner; Honer Sacrificed to Party Expediency— | have sometimes thought he was more of 4 Time for the People to Act. Frenchman or Englishman than an American, Another day has been surrendered by the | this was a criticism upon his intellect and not Senate to the demagogues. Mr. Conkling | upon his patriotism. He is an American, made a brilliant and, in some respects, a | bornand bred in these lands, and has sat in necessary speech, and when the Senate | this Senate for nearly twenty-five years. He adjourned Mr. Schurz had the floor; so | knows as well as any man the effect of this we shall have another day of Schurz, with | preamble. He sees clearly the disasters it intermittent attacks of Sumner, most prob- | forebodes to our Geneva case. He cannot ex- ably, and Morton and the wild Tipton. The | Cuse himself on the ground of any enthusiasm debate has taken so wide a range that we | for Germany, as be can have no such feelings. should not be surprised to see it continue to | And yet he permits himself to drift into a con- the end of the session. When a debate of | spiracy of demagogues against the administra- this kind begins it is like the Mississippi | tion, to bring dishonor upon bis country to River breaking through a levee. In the | gratify that conspiracy, and to become the tool meantime public business has come to astand- | of a man denounced by Mr. Conkling as for- still, The Appropriation bills await | merly a spy of Napoleon, now @ spy action; necessary business languishes; | Of Thiers, and willing to be the nothing has been done towards crys- | Spy of Gambetta or the Orleans Princes or tallizing civil service reform; the taxes | the Bourbons, This is the greatest misfortune remain as they were. The gratification that could have happened to this anti-Grant of party hatred ‘and political malice will be | movement. It shows beyond dispute that the main business of this grave and reverend | these vaunted reformers and statesmen are dem- body, and bills involving the expenditure of | #g0gues after all, and demagogues willing to hundreds of millions will be burried through | bring any dishonor upon the country, provided in a few days, at the end of the session, with- they can carry their own schemes. What do out thought, revision or cara, they care for the Emperor of Germany's de- This is a most deplorable condition of | cision upon San Juan, provided they win the affairs, Instead of a Senate gravely delibe- | German vote? What interest have they in rating upon national and international ques- | the Geneva Conference compared with the tions, we have a club like the Jacobins or the | duty of defeating Grant? The interests of the Cordeliers of the French Revolution, Ag | Country are their own personal interests. Senator Conkling aptly said, ‘We do not have | They see the public welfare as in a looking- a military ring, as Senator Schurz declares, | glass, and have proved themselves to be but o Senatorial cabal, composed of disap- | Selfish und narrow demagogues. The spec- pointed and disaffected Senators, who have no | tacle of , American Senators and Amer- means of gratifying their ambition but by the | ican journalists beguiled by an emis- overthrow of President Grant; all means | ary of Napoleon into dishonoring their must serve that end, With consummate selfish- | country is asad one. It is only another illus- ness they bend every department of legislation | tration of what we havé called the era of to that result. We are in the third month of | small men—the reign of demagogues. We the session, and this cubal of reformers has look for eloquence, and we have gasconade, virtually blocked the wheels of government, | We crave statesmanship and legislation, and We had a committee of investigation here, | We have intrigue and disloyalty, We yearn which proved what everybody knew, that | for reforms, the purification of the Bench there was a general order business in New | and the overthrow of the Erie Ring, and we York, and that instead of giving this business | have debating society discussions at Albany to the time-honored rats, who have grown | #nd schoolboy quarrels. The demagogues gray and fat on Custom House plunder, it was still ride the wave and stifle every honest given to a couple of young men whose only wish for reform and good government. Bat merit was that they had served in the army, | bebind them, after all, is that honest,-setisible and whose principal demerit was that they did | public opinion, which has time and again not divide with the politicians. And now we | swept the demagogues into obscurity, and to have what is called an investigation into the | which we are convinced we can never appeal sale of arms to the French, in violation of our | in vain when seeking so desirable a consum- neutrality obligations to Germany. The an- mation. nals of our legislation show no proceedings | The Heavy Snows of the West—A Warn- more unworthy, and the darkest feature is that ing to New Orleaus. Mr. Sumner lent the weight of his great name Our latest accounts from the great Plains to the conspiracy. and the Rocky Mountains from day to When the armies of France and Germany | day still add to the melancholy list of were in conflict our government was en- | armers, hunters, trappers, miners and tray- gaged in disposing of its military stores. We | ellers lost and frozen to death in those had the remnants of an enormous war estab- | terrible Western snow storms, avalanches and lishment—cannon, firearms, powder, cart- | drifts, Weareglad to hear, however, that a ridges, artillery and monitors, The statute | wagon train of supplies bound for Spotted Tail provided that the Ordnance Department might | and his band at their new reservation made sell any portion deemed necessary, especially | its journey of two hundred miles without the the guns that were useless or such portions of | loss of a man, though the brave men of this the powder as threatened to be wasted. In | expedition were six weeks on the journey, pursuance of this statute and General Grant's | cutting in some places through snow drifts a desire for economy, large quantities of arms | hundred feet deep, and though many of the were sold to the highest bidder after public | men were severely frost-bitten and several notice. Some were intended for Denmark, | dangerously. The snows through which Na- some for Turkey, others for Sweden. A con- | poleon’s grafd army had to fight its way in its siderable number were sold to Spain and are | retreat from Moscow were mere trifles com- now used to arm the volunteers in Cuba. | pared with these Western drifts a hundred When Napoleon’s army was broken at | feet deep, and with these blinding Rocky Sedan and Gambetta came into power, as the | Mountain storms of snow finer than the finest military chief of the French army of national | flour raging for several days and nights in defence, it was necessary to find arms | succession without abatement, and with the speedily. Large purchases were made in | thermometer at twenty degrees below zero. England and Belgium. The Enfield works But what, after all this enormous snowfall were kept working day and night to supply | from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains— Gambetta, The French appointed Mr. Rem- | what will be the consequences should there be ington, an American citizen and the head ofa | a sudden and general thaw, with the addition great arms house, to be its agent. He applied | of heavy spring rains over all that vast region? to our Ordnance Department for some of the | The consequences will be such floods down arms that were offered for sale. Asa known | the great Missouri and the Platte and the attorney of the French, our government | Arkansas and the Red River as will ‘probably refused to make any sale, and this refusal it | deluge the city of New Orleans. The authori- continued. Mr. Remington then applied | ties and the citizens of that prosperous city, through an attorney, whose connection with | therefore, would do well to consider and to him was not known—an American citizen, | prepare for this danger in time, or with the complying with the law—and to him the arms | return of June, if not sooner, they may have were sold. The point now made is that the | more disastrous crevasses than the worst in sales to the attorney of Mr. Remington were | the memory of ‘‘the oldest inhabitant.” made with the knowledge — the rifles were Norrnzrn Mexico is almost entirely under intended to arm Gambetta’s soldiers against | the control of the revolutionists commanded the Germans; that there was a corrupt com- | by Trevino and Quiroga. The former, accord- bination of military men interested in the sale; ing to our special despatch from Matamoros, that President Grant was cognizant of it, if, in- | i, now marching with twelve thousand men deed, he was not @ partner in the profits of the | on the important city of San Luis Potosi, guilty transaction; that for sheer gain our | which is bound to fall before so formidable a obligations of neutrality were broken, ¢0 far | force, With the loss of Matamoros, which is as Germany was concerned ; that we supported | ¢o pe attacked and will probably be captured France ina war upon a friendly Power, just | py the revolutionists under Quiroga, Juarez’s as we complain that the Confederate States | government will not have a vestige of au- were supported by England in their war upon | thority in the north, nor any important force to us. These grave allegations are sustained by | spare to oppose the threatened march of Tre- no evidence. They are recited ia » preamble, | vino on the city of Mexico. On the other elaborately drawn up by Mr. Sumner upon | hand, the Texans on the border begin to tire information furnished by the French Legation, | of the depredations of the Mexican maurau- and emphasized in speeches by himself and | ders, and if they carry out theirthreats of re- Senator Schurz. taliation the United States are likely to be Let us show the mischief that lies hidden | driven before long into armed interference in in this preamble. Of course we recognize the | sexica, necessities and the ambitions of Sumner and Tue Income Tax.—The House Committee Schurz, Greeley and Fenton, as republican 4 guerillas outside of the party and anxious to of Ways snd Means, it is re reget ites decoy the President into a political ambush | °P the idea of repealing the tnoome tax this and io destroy him; and if by any expedient session. The President's recommendation and they can carry the German vote from the | the general expectation of the taxpayers thus President it will bea triumph. But to attain | 8° for nothing. The East pays the bulk of this political end what is sacrificed? The these income taxes, and the West thinks they Emperor of Germany is now an arbitrator onght to be kept up. There is the difficulty ; between England and America on the San | ut with such a beginning we think the Juan question. If it can be shown that we | Chances are very slim for any tax reductions have been unkind to Germany it will not be | Whatever from this session of Congress, and without effect upon the imperial mind and may | the only way to secure any reductions at the be remembered to our injury, We are | 2eXt session will be in the coming elections to about to appear before a mixed tribunal at | holdevery member to an account before his Geneva to arraign England for her aid | ©ustituents. to the South during the rebellion. If| Tue Emperor oy GERMANY AND THE IN- Mr. Sumner and Mr. Schurz were | TeNationat.—The Emperor of Germany has the retained counsel of Great Britain they | or is about to make determined war against could not have done her as much service in | the International, Not only does he intend that tribunal as they did in the Senate, This | to inaugurate o crusade against the society in very preamble reads as if it had been written | Germany, but he will, if he can, have the to strengthen the British case against America; | doors of other nations closed against refugees for if it is true, or in any way approaching | who may be compelled to flee the empire on truth, it blunts the edge of our case and pre- | account of complicity in the machinations of pores the mind of the world for an adverse | the revolutionary workingmen. Tho late decision to our claims, Now, we can under- | movements of governments and potentates stand why Mr. Schurz, a German, and not | against the {nternational will serve to fan the above the natural and honorable emotions of ae a ‘red eohabegeaey be wel the society sympathy for his Fatherland, might have been | rather jabdue ie wisdom of the rien, hls eibonanm for Gormany, to do | Gey Hmperr'dteminuton i quewioned a thing which is ag act of moral disloyalty to | the aims of the one and the workings of the the United States. But a0 such excuse re- | other.” for although we felt as though they held loaded dice. England wants—what is necessary to her supremacy on the ocean—is precisely these new principles of international law. as the Alabama claims remain unsettled, and the precedents established by England during the rebellion are unchallenged—so long, in fact, asa maritime nation can so stretch its laws that its ports may become a base of sup- plies for the enemy of a country with which it is at peace, without incurring any responsi- bility, England is held in bonds to keep the peace with all the world. Our Situation with England—President Grant's Duty—We Must Stand by Oar Case. Lord Granville’s note to the American gov- ernment in reference to the Alabama claims left London on the 8th instant and will probably reach Washington on Thursday and be considered in the Cabinet session. The tenor of this note has been anticipated in the HERALD despatches from London, and we do not presume the text will in any way vary the impression it has made upon our government. Lord Granville will ask us in a smooth, diplo- matic way to reconsider our case as pre- pared at the State Department, on the ground that it places a construction upon the treaty which is @ surprise to the British Miolstry and was wholly unexpected by the English members of the Joint High Commission, and could only have arisen from a misunderstand- ing of the case, as in law there can be no contract where one party fails to comprehend his share in the obligation, and that even according to the rude but generally sensible rules of the sport- ing clubs there cannot be a true wager where ei her party misunderstands the tenor of the challenge, so in the treaty we cannot hold England to an agreement which she never intended to make. The point will be made that The English have shown great ability in this whole Alabama question. It has been their policy to narrow the case into the smallest possible limits—to hold the Americans down to the escape of four vessels from the English ports—and to limit all claims for damages to the depredations committed by these vessels, Having done this, they would then proceed to destroy our case, by the averment that Mr. Lincoln’s administration was to blame for the depredations of the English vessels, because Mr. Welles did not take proper steps to pursue argue use of our navy would have driven these cruisers from the ocean. from Washington makes us regard this asa very strong point, and that England, as a mat- and destroy them. that proper They will vigilance in the Our information ter of fact, can show that there was a laxity of purpose onthe part of our naval authori- ties during the war, so faras the pursuit of the English cruisers was concerned. The wily Secretary, it was suspected, used the English cruisers as an incentive to Congress, to compel the passage of large appropriations forthe navy. It will be shown that we took the Florida by a violation of the neutrality of Brazil, and destroyed her-in a surreptitious way at Hampton Roads to prevent her return to the rebels, and that the con- test between the Alabama and Kear- sarge was an accident. With this line of defence, and the American case forced into the narrow limits intended by the Eng- lish Ministers—namely, the consideration of the actual depredations committed by four ships—the effect will be to offset all claims for damages to our commerce by averments of negligence or incapacity on the part of Mr. Welles, tained England would be released from any pecuniary responsibility, would decide that the loss of our commerce was among the necessary calamities of war, and as such should be accepted by the United States. what she craves, the priceless advantage of the new principles of international law as affecting maritime nations, which this treaty provides, If these averments could be sus- and the tribunal This would give England With this view of the case the English have What So long We have two oceans which our seaports control, and in the event of a war between England and any Power, these oceans could be filled with privateers or men-of-war and with no more responsibility devolving upon us than England has accepted in the case of the Alabama. England, therefore, is im- patient to have these precedents abolished, She will pay a good deal of money for their abolition. tion that we accept a gross sum of money in lieu of our claims. was an enormous advantage to England in the adoption of the maritime principles embodied in this treaty there would be no treaty. We might wait until we were tired for compensa- tion; nothing would come but diplomatic cor- respondence. tively, by these principles, but simply concede This is the meaning of the sugges- If it were not that there We gain -nothing, compara- them as our contribution to the peace of the world. Will England retire from this arbitration? We do not believe so. Nor should we feel any anxiety if she did. What the English want is to make a bargain. They fancied they might have gained these principles for nothing ; they were willing to pay forty or fifty millions of dollars, but they did not care to be visited with an indemnity as great as that imposed upon France. It was this fear, inspired by a press which has always shown an amusing ig- norance on American subjects, that led to the recent panic. Nothing, to our mind, shows the value of this treaty to England so much as this very panic. Causeless as it was—in- sulting in many respects to the United States as the discussion has proved—they would never have arisen had not the English busi- ness mind feared there would be the loss of a great bargain. While the newspapers clamored and Mr. Gladstone lost his temper the government adopted the policy of menace. We were to be menaced into a surrender by a repetition of the policy of Palmerston towards China and Turkey and Denmark. We were to have an Oriental diplomacy. England might ask us to consider the Confederate cotton debt loan, and we should make no complaint. But the moment we went beyond the simple line of the four cruisers, and claimed to strengthen our case by illustration and argument, aod asked the tribunal to consider the losses to our commerce, our military and aval ex- penses and the prolongation of the war—the moment we went into » consideration of the consequences to us of the unfriendly course of $$$ $$$ rrr England—we were stopped. Wagland Worms us that we have taken ber at an advantage; that she did not so understand this treaty ; that we must make up our case to a certain point, for beyond that she will not go, and will rather retire from the arbitration, Upon us must fall the responsibility of the decision. There is only one thing to be done. We must accept the responsibility. We do not crave this treaty. If England withdraws from a conference of her own choosing, and declines to meet court before which she has an equal standing, the lossis hers, We can- not accept the position of making a case which is unjust or unfair. If we cannot state our owa case in our own way we cannot state it at all. If the English, under the influence of a newspaper panic and a thorough misapprehension of the whole situation, can compel us to withdraw one portion of our case to-day, they can do the same thing to-morrow. If it can be proved that we have in any way taken advantage of England; if it can be shown that we have advanced claims that are dishonest or improper, or that we have made arguments not justified by the facts; if it can be demonstrated that our case is not a natural, necessary, logical deduction from the treaty, then we can understand why as honorable men we can reconsider the whole question and amend it, and come at last to clear and solid ground. But we have not seen this or anything like it. Our case stands as yet unchallenged. We have simply to withdraw certain claims because England did not ex- pect us to present them, We are to make our case acceptable to England before she will consent to go into court. A more extraordi- uary situation was never seen in modern diplo- macy, and while we regret the complication nothing is more clear than the course of the President. Let the treaty live ordie, he has sent the honor of the country to Geneva, and he cannot abandon it without dishonoring the country. Congress Yesterday—The Ku Klux Report— Duties on Tea and Coffee, Coal and Salt— Supplementary Civil Rights Bill—The French‘ Arms Resolution. The House was all day yesterday the scene of busy turmoil and excitement. After the usual time spent in the call of the States for bills for reference a Supplementary Civil Rights bill, of which Mr. Hooper, of Massa- chusetts, is the reputed author, and which resembles in its main features that with which Mr, Sumner, of Massachusetts, so pertina- ciously bored the Senate some weeks ago, was introduced by a member from Maine, that State being the first on the call, and would have passed under the previous question were it not that the reMiainder of tho morning hour was ingeniously consumed by the democrats getting a vote by yeas and nays on the un- usual motion that the bill be rejected. It goes over now till the morning hour next Monday, coming up after the call of States for bills for reference; but as that business can be made to occupy the whole hour by requiring bills to be read in eztenso there is little probability of its seeing the light again through that process, Neither can it, of course, be passed under a suspension of the rules, as that would require a two-thirds ma- jority; but an effort maybe made in the Senate to attach it as an amendment to an appropriation bill or some other necessary measure, We think the country can manage to get along very well without this pet meas- ure of Mr. Sumner's, The colored people have quite as many privileges and rights as are good for them, and perbaps a little tage, It is not absolutely necessary for them to be received as guests in aristocratic hotels, to ride in palace sleeping cars, to occupy the choice seats in theatres or to be buried in the most exclusive cemeteries, and we rather think that they will have to dispense with these luxuries for a little while longer. The Ku Klux reports were made yesterday in both houses. In the Senate the minority report was accepted without a question, except so far as correcting or explaining one statement made in it. But in the House it had not such an easy time, and came very near being excluded altogether, owing to a criticism of Congress for having passed the Ku Klux bill at the dictation of ‘‘an impe- rious, if not an imperial, President.” Such and similar expressions were regarded by the republican side of the House as offensive, and were ruled by the Speaker to be in viola- tion of the Parliamentary rule. Objection was therefore made to receiving or printing the minority report, and a motion to suspend the rules for that purpose was rejected by the lack of o few votes to make the necessary two-thirds majority. Finally the snag was avoided by a motion of Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts, that the minority report be received and printed, on condition that it shall contain nothing in vio- lation of the rales. That was agreed to with- out a division, and both these electioneering documents—the majority and minority re- ports—were ordered to be printed together. A motion to print forty thousand extra copies was made and referred to the Committee on Printing. The question of taxation also came up in the House yesterday. First it was in the shape of a resolution, offered by Mr. Hale, of Maine, instructing the Committee of Ways and Means to report a bill putting coal and salt on the free list. Mr. Dawes, the chair- man of that committee, attempted to remon- strate against such an invasion of its province, and wished to have the resolution simply referred to it. The Pennsylvania members instantly fired up into active hostility to the proposition, and it failed to receive the requi- site two-thirds majority, the vote belng 103 to 86. This raid upon the Committee of Ways and Means was followed by another, proposing to take from the Committee of the Whole, where it was referred last week, the bill removing the duties on tea and coffee and to pass it under a suspension of the rules, The Penn- sylvanians and all the protectionists sup- ported this proposition, and the free traders, while recognizing that it was a protectionist measure in the disguise of a measure of popu- lar relief, were afraid to record their votes against it, and so the bill passed by a vote of 153 to 38, Its passage, however, 1s of no practical account, fora precisely similar bill has been lying before the Senate since the 18th of March last, when it passed the House, as well asa bill to pat salt and coal on the free list. As ® sotoff to these meditated Measures of tax reform the Committee of Ways and Means has resolved to recommend the collection of the income tax for 1871, and is not even disposed to recom- mend its-abolition afterwards, The debate on the French arms resolution dragged its slow length along in the Senate yesterday, The day was monopolized by Mr. Conkling, who brought his batteries to bear upon Sumner and Seburz, accusing them of being part of & Senatorial cabal engaged is furnishing arms, not to the French, but to the democratic party, and he raked up an old United, States statute to which he thinks those Senators may have made themselves amena- ble, which forbids any citizen of the United States carrying on written or verbal corre- spondence or intercourse with any foreigm government or its agents in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States under the penalty of flue and imprison- ment. It would be awasing if Mr. Sumner, who has been trying to set the net of his Sup- plementary Civil Rights bill to catch and pun- ish those who might be guilty of disrespect to his beloved negroes, should be caught in the meshes of this old statute, of the existence of which he seems to have been totally oblivious, Tae Surrerinca or THE Sours, according to the reports of tae Congressional Ku Klux Investigating Committee, are perfectly awful. On’ the one side it appears that the poor negroes are murdered or burned out of house and home by the savage Ku Klux, and on the other side it appears that the poor whites are taxed and robbed and ruined by the rapacious carpet-baggers. In the face of such drawbacks can it be wondered at that the currents of emigration from the North and from Europe cannot be drawn into the South ? This is the great question for Southern men to consider—landholders, poor whites, poor negroes, Ku Klux, carpet-baggers and all. Where there is no security for life or property sensible men will not go. AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera House~German Opera. The Fabbri troupe,took possession of the Grand Opera House last night, before an audience of re spectaple dimenstons. The opera was Nicolas rather unsatisfactory work based on “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” We say based, a3 the librettiss has made sad havoc with the lines of Shak- speare, and has even changed the names im the most unauthorized manner. It 1s hardly probable that such an opera will ever flad favor with the countrymen or admirers of the poet, The music ig very trying on company, not so muct from ite intrinsic difficulties as on account of its unsultable- ness in some of the scenes to express invelligibly tne situation, The cast last night was the following:—Falstaf, Carl Formes; Ford, Jacob Muller; Page, ir. Lehmann; Fenton, Mr c. Alves; Siender, Mr. Janickzt; Dr. Caius, Mr. Weinlich; Mirs. ‘ord, Mme, Faboris Mrs. Page, mme. Clara Perl; Anne eee Se Rosetti. Of these we can only select Mme, Fabbri, Mme. Perl and Mr. Muller as deserving of praise. ‘These two ladies were in excellent voice and re- ceived hearty appiause during the evening, and Mr, Mulier’s magnificent barivone voice (and we doubt 1f it is second to any in America), fine stage piesence an jal acting elevated the comparatively small vole ot Ford into a prominent position. Cari Formes, for whom the rove of Falstaff was written, hag lost little or notaing of his greas powers as an actor, but of the voice that once thrilled the élite of Europe nothing remains but ® wreck, to listen to, As for the rest of the cast, we regret to be obliged to say that wo cannot offer an extenuating explanation of their utter worthlessness. ‘The venor who personated Fenton was simply execrable, and the chorus im the last act sang terribly .utof tune. Professor Milder held a well-appuinted orchestra up to their work, and made that department a success of the most unqualified character. To-night Marschner’s “Ivanhoe;’’ or, ‘Templar and Jewess,” will be given. It would have been better had the management selected this opera for the opening. There are some exceilent elements in the company, which were not apparent in Nicolai’s work last night, judging from what we have heard in the 8 theatre, the performance of “Ivanhoe” will be found satisfactory in the highest sense of the word. Mme. Fabbri is an accomplished lyric artist and 1s eminently fitted for large ré/es in which dramatic talent of the La Grange order is requisite. Mme. Perl esses @ contralto voice of much power and high cultivation, and Mile, Rosect!, who ‘was suffering last night irom the eifects of a severe cold, has experience ahd ease in her profession. The baritone, Muller, would be @ star im any troupe, and his voice will always be heard with pleasure, Tne-young rima donna, Mile. Elzer, has evinced talents of a ign order inthe role of Zer- lina, in “ bon Giovanni,” and has a bright career be- fore her. The main thing wanted for the com! isa tenor. Likely this Want Will be su| plied. change of opera will occur each evening week, and matinées on Thursday and Saturday. Steinway Hall Concert for the Benefit of the Schools in India. Tne ladies of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church gave a concert last night for the benefit of the Zenana schools in India, There were 8 good many people present, although omimous gaps di- vided the audience on the floor. The following was the programme:— “ fugo” (MATEhA).s..sssesererereee ve Des, ms Pres ees A Piano solo, “Scherzo” “D1 Gioja Insolita.” Aria, “Di Gioja . me Romanza, “Salve Dimora’ WEY Ser, Legua Caratina, “0 Luce di Quent ‘Anima Cavating, "An quel ior rho! Scena e Cavatina, “An (uel Piano Solo, Berceuse—Waltz . Ir. "Bh the Mountain's Ballad—"She Wandered,pows the Ferzetto—'Vient al Mar”. ...... Mrs. Gulager, Mile. Moi Scena ed Aria—“Deb ti Ferma” (“sei Mr. ¥, Kemmertz. Duo—“Quis est S rtetto—“"Rigolet itr Ouiagere Mile. Morena, Mi. As may be seen from the distinguished names of the artists that appeared and the character of the selections, the concert was one calculated to entist the attention of the musical public We are surprised, then, that the wall was not crowdea. The principal feature, in pot of novelty, at least, was the first appearance in ee oe of Mile. Morensi, We regret to be compelled to say that she did not fulfil the high ex- pectations formed of her. Her voice, which, hav' gained in power and volume, has also become hai and coarse, and the delicious cavatina from “Semi- Tamide” was renderea by her with anything but suc- cess, Mrs, Gulager sang better than we have heard her before tnis season and reaecemed to 4 greas extent the unfavorable impression caused by ner efforts at the Philharmonic concert. We have spoken before of Miss Kellogg's pinging tn, oe num- bers set down he inet ican ee es sary to repeat our criticism - gat is endowed with a tenor voice of ‘constierstte sweetness, power and compass; but its upper Rotes show evident signs of want of culture, bi and nasal, Mr. Berti isan agreeable drawing rooms player, and if he does not command a high postion among the great umber 0 of, excellent, ans we have here, yet he can ha «now- ing that ‘ne will never offend even the critical pubic, ART SALE, An interesting sale of paintings will take place this evening at the Somerville Gallery, in Fifth ave. nue, and be continued on Wednesday evening. ‘This collection numbers about one hundred aad afty> examples by native and foreign artists. The char acter of the exhibition is emimently representative, There are works by nearly every well known Amert- can painter, and Verboeckhoeven, Van Schendel Diliue s, Frere and Maes are names 80 ‘WELL KNOWN TO THE ART PUBLIC that their works scarcely need recommer from the critics. Van Seven contributes quite a large number of striking works, painted with much force ana directness of purpose. Nenlig, one of our jew good figure painters, is re) nted by an ime portant painting of “Manogany Cutting in Cuva.’? ‘The scene ts well com and full of animation, but the tone of the picture looks @ little cold. of Brussels, paints shesp with rare felicity, reproducing the fleecy texture of the ‘woo! with success. One of the most remarkable works in the collecuon is Tatt’s “Pointers,! in to which the artist has displayed sympatnywitn the camine (rive, He has end ra le caught tise action of eager and excited search and transierred it to his canvas. This work bears in- ternal evidence of close and careful work, whieh we miss 1a too many of the paintings of our artists to-day. Hart, Moran, Jonnson, shattucg, Kensett, Brown and Gay are represented by works Which we regret we have not space to notice. But those who desire to obtain examples Of our Ameri oan artists cannot do better than attend (nis — ; : =