The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1872, Page 6

ee 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STRBET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROFR JETOR All businees or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New Yorke Heratp. Volume XXXVII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WOOD'S MUSKUM, Brosaway, corner 30th at. — ‘ances afternoon and evening. DAwiino. ee WALLACK’S THE. - ‘one ‘ATRE, Broadway and 13th street. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston ats,—BLack Uncen. between Prince and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Cnossina TUE LINE— Borravo Bi. 8ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twoaty-cighth street and Broad- way.—MaRniagE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— ‘Tuk New Drava oF Divonor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae BauLet Pam ‘womime or HumPrry Dompry. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty.th ie GROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st, corner Sixth ay. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, co: f 8th av. _ Gaawan Orsna—Liapgioamne. St at oee er MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROO! i Sur Duce's Morro. KLYN THEATRE. 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Seer ees MICAL MUSEUM, 746 Broadway. — TRI New York, Friday, February 23, 1872. — CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Advertisemen: @—Adverusemonis, S—Sectarianism : is 8 Religious War To Be Inau- gurated? Report ot the Political Reform Com- Mitiee of the Upion League Club; Nearly Two Millions Taken’ from the City ‘Treasury in Three Years; Importaut Stausties—Pigeon smegee : The Jerome Gun Club Celebrate tne Day at Jerome Park with Good Shooting and ® Grand Dinner; Washingtou’s Birthaay on the Ciub Grounas at New Dorp, Staten Islanu—An Address by Vice President Colfax at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—The Mar- Ket Savings Hank and Mr. J. P. Richards— Afairs in the New Dominion. 4—Euroye: The Political Parues in the National Assembly of France; McMahon, Duke d’Au- male, Gambetta; ‘The Revolution of 1860 and the Reaction oi 1872 10 Spain; DiMculties of Amadeus; Existing Relauous Between France and Germany; Religious intolerance in Rome—kevoiutionary Mexico: Fighung All Over the “Wayward Sister’? Republic; The Assassination of Felix Diaz; The Campaign wiust Trevino—The Figiting in St. Do- mingo—A Complaint Against the Police. GS—The Fatver of His Country: How His Birthaay ‘Was Ubserved; Parade of the Nationa! Guard, the American Mechanics, the American Pro- tesiaut Association, the Orangemen and the Continentals; An Imposing. Tribute to George Washington's Memory—Twenty Pickpockets Arrested—Cuba: The Situation of the Insur- rection; Valmaseda’s Promise to Pacify the Island in Three Months—Art Notes—News from Venezueia—Measurement and Time Al- lowance—Indiana Repubucan Convention— A New Presbyterian Church in Brookiya— Stabuing Affray. G—Ediwrisis: Leading Article, With England; Keception of the English De- spatch”—Amusement Announcements. VeWashingtou: Arbitration or No Arbitration; Earl Grauvilie’s Note Received by Secretary Fish; Profuse Expressions of Friendship; Tne Conference, With Indirect Claims In- cluded, Impossible; America’s Reply; All Claims Presented Provided for in the Treaty; American Sentiment vs, British Feeling; Re- ried Resignation of Collector Arthur— vlegrams, from Belgium, Germauy, Rome, Spain, France, England, Greece and Cuba— Troubles in Hayti—A Loan to Venezuela—The Western Snow Blockade—Miscellaneous Tele- grams— Weather Report—Basiness Nouces, S—The Board of Audit: Important Meeting of the Board Yesterday; A Peaceful Session; A Lurge Amount of Claims of City Creditors Audited, Aliowed and Ordered to be Pala— The Streets: Horrible Condition of the Wards in the Lower Part of the City; Smalipox and Cholera; Tne Street Contractor's Little Game aud the Puviic Payment for It—The Sanguin- ary Sixth: Frightful sStavbing Case in Mul- “Our Relations berry SU One Italtan Hacks Another With a Dirk Ky —The Quarantine Quibbles—The New tan jarket—New York City News—The Tobacco Tax. Q—A vbapter on Rents: The Bosts and Quality of Rental Values in This City Considered; \The Great Uptown Move ueat; Past, Current and Prospective Changes in ‘trade Centres—Great Cock Fight—Iceboat Race on the Mudson— Aqguatics—Racing and Trotting tn California— Foreign Racing Notes—A Burglar Arrestea— Opening of an Orgau—A Bear Fight in Penn- sylvania—Financial and Commercial—North Carolina Bonds—Marriages and Deaths, @O—Puiittcal: Phe Presidential Campaign Opened; Platrorms and Resolutions—sale of Steeds at Taylor's Stock Farms in Orange County— Seventy-first Regiment Reception—Railroad Matters—Fires--European and Havana Mar- kets—Shipping Intelligence— Advertisements, @1—Charieston Biockaded; Communication with West Virginia’s Capital Cut Off by Ice—shall Our Pockets be Picked?’—The Courts: The dumei Estate Case; Notice to the Bar; De- cision in Bankruptoy; Jurisdiction of the Court; Ingersoll in Court in @ Civil Suit; Ap- pucation for tne Custody of a Child; A Livel Sult—sewer Miasma—Journalistic Notes—City Government Proceedings— Advertisements, 12—Advertisementa. Fiest 1s tHe Firtp.—The National Re- form Labor Convention at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday nominated David Davis, of Iili- nols, for President, and Governor Joel Par- ker, of New Jersey, for the Vice Presidency. ‘After reviewing the whole political field they agreed to honor these gentlemen with their full support. We publish to-day the report of their proceedings. Szoonp IN THE Freiv—The National Pro- hibition Convention at Columbus, Ohio, yester- day. James Black, of Peansylvania, for Presi- dent, and John Russell, of Michigan, for the Nice Presidency. Temperance men, to the front! Waite Senator Buckincuam lies seriously pick some one in the Springfield Republican nominates him for the Presidency. If that does-not carry him safely through his illness what will? ee A Decistve Battie between the govern- ment forces of Juarez and those of the revolu- tionists is expected at San Luis Potosi, and from our latest special advices from that quarter General Trevifio, the revolutionary commander, with bis army of twelve thousand gen, was confident of victory. In the event of his success Juarez will probably be fleposed; in the event of Trevifio’s defeat Puarez will be secure for a few months longer. either event the war of the factions will 2 We NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. Our Relations with Eugl Reception of the English Despatch. The long expected communication from Lord Granville to our government to refer- ence to our case before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration was received yesterday by the Secretary of State. In the afternoon the English Minister called on Secretary Fish, and there was a long and amicable conference, Mr, Adams, the arbitrator selected by the American government, arrived in Washington yesterday morning, and gave the Secretary hie impressions of the ‘state of public feeling in England, We are informed that the Sec- retary, who is always prompt in his conduct of the diplomatic business, prepared last evening a draft of his proposed reply to Lord Granville, This draft will probably be con- sidered in Cabinet session to-day, and will go to Europe in to-morrow’s steamer. The note of Lord Granville is addressed to General Schenck. {tis exceedingly amicable in tone and is elaborate and profuse in the expression of the desire of the British Cabinet to preserve the treaty and establish friendly relations between the two governments, In addition to this, the burden of the communication is simply a repetition of the views expressed in the speech from the throne. England avers that the presentation of our claim for consequential or indirect damages does not come within the English understanding of the treaty. Her Majesty sees in these claims a portion of the American case that was believed to have been abandoned. She cannot consent to an arbitration that might possibly award an indemnity larger than what was ex- acted from conquered France by victorious Germany—an indemnity that could not be paid by England without involving national bank- ruptey. Even if such an award were im- probable, she cannot leave the possibility of it to any of these arbitrators, no matter by whom appointed. Until this possibility is removed, therefore, by our consent, she cannot consent to any arbitration. With this plain understanding of the English position our main care is as to the exact post- tion assumed by the American government. In the first place, we have to congratulate the country that in a crisis of this kind our foreign relations are in the hands of men as judicions and patriotic and conservative as President Grant and Secretary Fish. Mr. Fish is a statesman fully in sympathy with the American people, The country cannot forget his splendid vindication of the cause of the United States in his famous letter presenting the Alabama case, after his entrance into the State Department. Remembering that letter, we can have no fear that he will shrink from any duty imposed upon him by a due consideration of the interests and the honor of the country; that he will recede before any exhibition of the diplomacy of menace upon the part of the English gov- ernment. He knows the difference between bravery and bravado. So faras mere per- sonal fame and pride are concerned, no one has more to lose than the Secretary of State. Upon this treaty his reputation must largely rest, and certainly there could be no purer or more desirable fame than to have been the means of removing all causes of irritation between the two countries—of establishing a moral alliance between the great English- speaking nations, and of contributing to inter- national law and the peace of mankind the principle that arbitration is always to be preferred to war. If the treaty should fail, the only question for us to decide is, how far is the failure due to the action of the President and the Secretary of State? As we have shown from the outset of this discussion, Mr. Fish is in no way to be cen- sured for any misunderstanding that may exist in the minds of the English government. The English newspapers have all along advanced the idea that the consequential claims were a surprise to the Gladstone Cabinet. Mr. Disraeli, in his speech at the opening of Par- liament, intimated that we dealt with England in a spirit of trickery and chicane. If this were true—if there were the shadow of a sus- picion that it was true—our position would be most unfortunate; but the evidence shows the truth to be curiously the reverse of the Eng- lish averment. When the Joint High Com- missioners, in the progress of the dis- cussions, came to the Alabama claims, or, as the treaty expresses it, to what are generically known as the Alabama claims, Mr. Fish opened the debate by read- ing a carefully prepared statement of what the American Commissioners expected to de- mand. This statement appears in the printed copy of the treaty and protocols. It has been before the world for many months. There is not a point in the Geneva ‘‘case,” as prepared by the State Department, which was not an- ticipated in this statement, The English Commissioners were shrewd and able men, and knew the meaning of the Secretary’s words, More than that, as Mr. Gladstone said in the House of Commons, his govern- ment was duly informed day by day of these discussions, of every point that was presented, of every argument and inference advanced by the American Commissioners, and the English Commissioners took no step without per- mission of their government. Therefore the statement of Mr. Fish and his preliminary presentation of these consequential damages must have been in the mind of Mr. Gladstone, His government could not have overlooked them or in any way undervalued their meaning. If they were grave enough to in- duce the Prime Minister to make what Mr, Disraeli described as ‘a pilgrimage of pas- sion,” they were grave enough to have been considered at their full value at the time, So the treaty grew into shape and substance and expression with the fullest understanding between Mr. Fish and Mr. Gladstone, and when the royal word gave sanctity to the treaty the understanding was as clear and frank as was ever exchanged between the Ministers of great uations. ‘ Nor could Mr. Fisb, as a gentleman dealing with the Ambassadors of a great Power, have failed to present these claims to the Joint High Commission, and to insist upon their presentation at Geneva, What he wanted was a treaty, a full, explicit, thorough treaty, embracing every point at is- sue that would have put an end forever to every existing difference between England and the United States, Could he have done this without advancigg these clalma? Could be have ruu the risk of allowing them or any part of them to remain unsettled, or ignored, or postponed, or forgotten? Would he have been dealing frankly to have omitted them? He did not create the claims, nor could he destroy them, Could he have made an imperfect treaty, ignoring our demand for consequential damages, or permitting them to lie dormant until another race of politicians’ might, for selfish purposes, take them from their obscur- ity, give them new life and advance them as the cause of a future grievance with England? Might not English statesmen. of another gen- eration, under such circumetances—and they are far from being impossible—justly eay that Mr. Fish had deceived the English government by making a treaty which was only the pretence of a treaty? As we have said, these claims existed; they were known to the people of England and America, The Joint High Com- missioners could not determine them; for it was their province to determine nothing. They merely decided upon certain principles and established a competent tribunal and left the decision to that tribunal. Mr. Fish, therefore, as a frank and loyal and far-seeing statesman, advanced his whole case—direct and indirect damages. He probably felt, as did in fact our people generally, that the indirect damages would be overruled by the arbiters, He cared nothing about this What he craved was that they should be decided by the only tribunal competent to decide them, and buried forever with the many hideous feuds that have gone before them, no longer resting dormant for purposes of mischief and strife. Clearly, then, whatever England may do, America has nothing to regret, nothing to fear, nothing to retract or explain. If this treaty is killed the act will be the act of England. Mr. Fish has nothing in his record, so far as this nego- tiation is concerned, to give him any annoy- ance. He has made a treaty which does him great honor. He has risen above all con- siderations of passion and prejadice and politi- cal availability, and offered England the opportunity of making a just and last- ing peace. From this position he cannot withdraw, as, indeed,. he is the last man in the country to counsel withdrawal. Having done everything in his power—having ex- hausted the resources of statesmanship and diplomacy to gratify England, his duty now is to protect the honor of the United States. His answer to Lord Granville will show that the honor of the nation could not be in safer and purer hands, The Legitimist Monarchical Congress— “Divine Right? Against the Vox Popull. The Congress of European monarchical legitimists which is assembled in Antwerp promises to be an affair of much consequence, and to herald, by its proceedings, the initia- tion of a series of very important events in the Old World. The representation is almost universal, so far as Europe is concerned. There are French, Germans and Italians, The ex-King pf Hanover has arrived at the place of meeting, attended by o numerous body of the supporters of his cause. There are Ultramontanists from Rome. The proceedings are, as we are informed by cable telegram, harmonious, The platform of proceeding contemplates the restoration of all the deposed monarchs, This action indicates a desire— perhaps affirms a predetermination—on the part of the advocates of the throne system of rule to throw down the gage of contest in moral battle to the new-born democracies and time-worn ‘‘reds” of Europe, It is an endeavor for the reassertion of the Divine right despite the utterance of the vox populi. It must be conceded that the moment of con- tact has been chosen judiciously in behalf of the royalties, France and Spain do not appear to thrive, either under a pure republic or a throne based on the popular franchise. The ex-King of Hanover presents an excellent representative of the cause of hereditary sovereignty, and against that of huge imperialist concentration, as he will be likely to carry with him the sympathy, at least, of his kinsfolk, the Queen and Princes of Great Britain. The Papal emissaries will urge a reunion at the aged centre of civil authority, and argue that the first disturbance which was permitted at that point in Rome has radiated thence, and with disastrous consequences to the cause of the crowns, to the most remote circumference of the civilizations of the kingdoms, Pius the Ninth may plead the experiences which en- sued from his own primal experiments for the reconciliation of radicalism to royal rule at a time when the people of the Holy City were in formal acknowledgmen‘ of their own inferiority for purposes of local administration, A know- ledge of the first conception of this movement and of its progress to maturity may have had some influence even for the restoration of a more harmonious state of relations between the Roman Pontiff and the Ozar of Russia, as set forth in our cable despatches to-day. Whether the case of the House of Bonaparte will be considered one of legiti- macy or otherwise remains to be seen, The Convention will be very likely to divide on this point, notwithstanding the fact that Napoleon, in his sovereign character, pro- claimed that he had worked the revolution to its “legitimate consequences,” and, thus, “crowned the edifice” in France. Perhaps the charity of the Church may be again invoked in bebalf of the French exile, and that the ex- Emperor will argue his brief according to the rule and in the words of Pio Nono himself when he wrote to the then powerful imperial ruler of France at the Tuileries the ominous words, “Your crown bangs suspended by the same thread which sustains the tiara.” Rome anp Russia—THE POPE AND THE Czarn.—A Church Consistory will assemble in Rome to-day. His Holiness the Pope will submit to the assembled prelates the nomina- tion of Roman Catholic bishops in Russia. This action will constitute in itself an impor- tant epoch in the history of the Christian com- munities of the world, and may tend forcibly to the completion of a reconciliation between the congregations of the Papal and Russo-Greek folds. The political condition of Poland may be influenced beneficially also. The facts which we append to our cable news telegram from Rome afford substantial grounds for these inferences, as will jo seeu by the readers of the Henan, The Approaching Crisis Frasce—The Assembly, the President and the Bour- bons. Our news of to-day, and, indeed, for some days past, powerfully strengthens the convic- tion that in France a political crisis is again imminent—such a crisis as will shake France not only to its centre, but to its most remote extremities, No nation, no people, could be in the same political condition without being in danger of violent and destructive revolution. The state of things which now exists in France could not exist in Great Britain for a day; in this country for an hour. Let the situation be looked at. What man who can make any pretensions to be an intel- ligent student of the passing events of the times will dare to say that the present gov- ernment of France is representative in ang fair and satisfactory sense of the sentiments and wishes of the French people? The reverse is notoriously the fact. In the Assembly and the President taken together France has most certainly found a new master; but the new master has about as much and as little right to respect and obedience as any of the mas- ters who have gone before, It is not to be denied that the Assembly was fairly enough elected. Its members are the chosen repre- sentatives of the: French people. It is as little to be denied that the object for which they were elected still remains unaccomplished. The war indemnity is not yet fully paid, and until the lost franc is paid it is not wholly unreasonable to claim for the present goveroment of France a certain right of existence. But, while the purpose remains, the circumstances have naturally changed. Every day France is coming under new con- ditions; but there is no constitutional power in the land sufficient either to dissolve the Assembly or to remove the President. The President, in the exercise of great mag- nanimity of spirit, may resign; but he is as powerless to dissolve the Assembly as the Assembly is powerless to remove him from office. Not taking into consideration the pos- sible good sense of the President, nothing Washingtow’s Birthday. The anniversary of the birthday ot Washington was more generally and enthu- siastically celebrated in this city and in other places yesterday than for many years past. American bunting floated in abundance from the public and many private edifices; the military and civic displays were all conducted in a manner remarkable for their regard for order and the public peace, the principal thoroughfares were lively with the music of the many bands, business generally was suspended, and the private celebrations were spirited and patriotic. We are glad to notice this revival in the method of commemo- rating the “Day we celebrate,” and wish there were more festal days of the kind in this country. In this respect we are far behind other and older nations, the natural spirit of enterprise and go-aheadativeness character- istic of the American people keeping them almost continually in the laborious work of money-making or attaining some difficult political goal, But it is time we surrendered a little of this ceaseless toil to that degree of relaxation which sooner or later nature demands ere she finally succumbs, and all the struggles, ambitions, riches and glories of life are ended in a premature tomb, We want more holidays. Jack a dull boy.” American character as that of any other nationality, and we hope our legislators will not lose an opportunity to make a legal holiday whenever it propriety. “All work and no play makes This is as true of the can be done with One noticeable and significant feature in the demonstration yesterday in honor of the anniversary of the birthday of Washington was the display of bunting on the shipping in the harbor and vicinity, especially upon the rigging of the Cunard, White Star, Inman, National, Anchor, Guion and other lines of English steamers, evidence that the entente cordiale between the United States and Great Britain had not been disturbed on account of the irritation in regard to the Alabama claims, This might be taken as The French Trans- atlantic line steamer St. Laurent, as well as the steamers of the Bremen and Hamburg lines, were also suffused with bunting. The same entente cordiale seems to exist between the United States and the rest of the maritime portions of mankind as with John Bull. but his death or a coup d'état or a revolution can make an end of the present régime in France, Of all governmental anomalies it is the most anomalous. Sucha state of things would be the less intolerable to a high-minded people like the French if the Assembly and the President were finding it possible to get on harmoniously together. But such is not the case. The Assembly has its views and expresses them; President Thiers has his views and expresses them; the Assembly votes the President down; the President re- signs; the Assembly, not abandoning its pur- pose or retracting its vote, but fearing revolu- tion, implores the President to come back and rule over them—such is the kind of thing which in France is now called a national gov- ernment! That the present state of things cannot much longer last is evident from many unmistakable signs. The Count de Chambord, encouraged to believe that the French people are really impatient for his return to the throne of his ancestors, leaves his retreat, finds his way to Antwerp, and there, from the hands of a certain Count Monte, receives a document or manifesto signed by some two hundred and fifty-six members of the Assembly. No doubt the Count de Chambord must have been greatly comforted by the manifesto; but the gladness of the moment must have been somewhat marred by the recollection that the French Assem- bly boasted of some seven hundred members. Two hundred and fifty-six! Where were all the others? Still it must be admitted that the manifesto was daring and sufficiently indica- tive of the fact that French political parties have not yet laid aside their differences. We have this legitimist manifesto; but we have no hope of the restoration of the heir of St. Louis, We have the Orleans Princes in the Assembly; but we have no good reason to take it for granted that the throne of France will on an early day be filled by a de- End of the Snow Blockade on the Pacific Rallroad. Concerning the late terrible snow blockade of the Pacific Railroad, or of that division of it known as the Union Pacific, which extends from Great Salt Lake eastward to Omaha, we publish a very interesting special despatch this morning from Laramie City. The Western division, extending from Salt Lake to Sacra- mento Valley, California, known as the Central Pacitic Railroad, has also suffered severely from these snow blockades, though not to the extent of the Eastern division, Laramie City is situated on the eastern flank of the great Rocky Mountain chain, and the blockades to which our correspondent refera have mainly occurred on the summit levels, or in the deep valleys, or canyons, of that vast mountainous system between Laramie and Great Salt Lake. The important fact communicated in our Laramie despatch is that the blockade is broken, and that trains are now running through from Sacramento to Omaha, or that from New York to San Francisco the way is now open. It appears from our correspondent’s state- ments that the Union Pacific Company were by no means sufficiently prepared to fight the unexpected and unusually heavy snow storms and drifts which have prevailed from the Great Plains into the Sierra Nevada Mountains this winter, and from December to the middle of February; and that, in short, the heavy losses resulting to the company from trains and time freight delayed by these snow blockades, and from engines disabled and passenger cars ruined or damaged, and from the general sus- pension of the business of the line, are losses scendant of Philippe d’Ezalité. We have the Bonapartists intriguing in high largely due to the bad management of the places and in low; but the French company and the incompetency or want of dis- 3 cipline of its servants in charge of the road and its trains. We have the same complaints from other quarters, and, unless the company can produce a satisfactory defence the judg- ment of the public will be according to the prevailing evidence on the subject. To the public, in any event, a statement is due from the company as to the why and wherefore of these detentions of passengers and freight from these snow blookades, army, it would seem, begins to be of opinion that energy is as much wanting on the part of the Bonapartes as on the part of either branch of the Bourbons. We have a republic de facto, but what with wranglings in the Assembly, with the ever-recurring executions of Communists, with laws against the press ever increasing in number and severity, and with a most unmistakable absence of progress in the right direction, it is most difficult to pre- dict when we shall have a republic de jure. Among many doubtful things two things are certain—the immediate future lies between the republic and the empire, and the majority of the army is in favor of the empire. The presumption is that for the special benefit of the French people the sword must once more cut the Gordian knot. Prestpent Bazz ov St. Domingo, according to a despatch, proposes to take a trip to Europe. At the same time the appointment ofa Dominican Minister to Germany is re- ported. Put this and that together, and it looks very much like an intrigue to sell St. Domingo to Germany. It is well known that the wily and unscrupulous Baez expected to realize a snug sum by the annexation of the country to the United States. That project having failed, he is once more in the market. Germany has now a greal deal of spare cash on hand and has for some time coveted a colony for her commerce and her rising navy. When the peace negotiations with France were going on there was @ persistent report that Bismarck bad asked for the French colony of Pondicherry, not without some founda- tion, The acquisition of St. Domingo would exactly suit Prince Bismarck’s boundless ambition; but it would by no means suit the United States. Boru Hovsks oF THE PENNSYLVANIA Leais- LATURE have adjourned until the 28th instant. The old maxim, ‘“‘It is sweet and pleasant to die for one’s country,” seems to have a new interpretation in the Keystone State. There Senators die to make a deadlock in the Legis~ lature. Tur Wasminaton Chronicle states that it is understood Richard Peterson and William McMichael are applicants for the Collectorship of the port of Philadelphia, Why should there be any contest for the Collectorship-of a port that is almost inaccessible one-dourth of the year, and not of much account, for the rest of ine Side shows of a Presidential Campaign. As the period for the quadrennial ad- vent of the Presidential circus begins to approach the side shows are putting in an appearance, and with the aid of clap-trap and buffoonery are amusing the people until the grand performances, the regular ground and lofty tumbling, commence, are variously designated by tho titles of the Theee side shows “National Labor Reform Convention,” ‘Na- tional Temperance Convention,” ‘‘Woman’s Suffrage National Convention,” ‘Free Trade National Convention,” ‘Protection to Ameri- can Industry National Convention,” and so on to the end of the programme. These shows pop up like Jack in the box, the managers take a look at the audience, and, espying the party likely to have the most cash to distribute, sell out to the highest bidder all their trappings, men, principles, canvas, clowns and pantaloons, and are not heard of until another four years expire and their harlequinade {s to be done over again. The old liberty party under Bir- ney, in 1844, was about the only political side show that ever amounted to much in a Presi- dential campaign, laying the foundation, as it did, of what is now the powerful republican party. But, as a general thing, these shows are catch-penny affairs, and those who engage in them with a sincere purpose are pretty likely to be humbugged finally by the demagogues who pull the wires for their own selfir) and sordid ends, Bounp To Have It.—The delegation from the District of Columbia to the Philadelphia Convention—some white men and some black men—have been instructed to go for Grant and Colfax and Mr. Sumner’s Civil Rights bill—that is, ‘‘equal rights for colored folks with white folks,” in public schools, railway cars, steamboats, &o. The republicans may dodge this thing with the amnesty question in Congress, but they will have to face it at Philadelphia, or seven hundred thousand co- Jored voters “will know the reason why.” Rents. * ceralng With the’ near approach of the period of annual flitting, the people of this city are again engaged jn the discussion of the rent’ question, The interest felt in this subject is, perhaps, the most universal of any that at the present time furnishes matter for Popular surmise, for at this period the city is divided into two great classes that may be said to include the entire population, both of which have a direct and important stake in the issues involved. We are each of us—‘“Saxon, Norman or Dane,” Jew or Gem tile, German, Irish or American, at other times—landlord or tenant now. At this time can be heard on all sides violent denuncia-' tions of the absurd and distressing custom of & general hegira, from those very persons who are a party to such absurdity, but whe regard themselves as victims, and all others as responsible for the evil they help to swell. We have much sympathy with these unfor- tunates, and will be glad, for their sakes, when the time comes—on this side of the grave, we hope—that the landlord shall cease from troubling and the tenant be at rest. But judging from the latest observations we cannot give them any consoling assurance that such a millennial period is even near at hand. We advise them, however, to possess their souls in patience, with the reflection that the ills they are called upon to bear in this connection are inevitable consequences of a residence in New York city and evidences of its increasing prosperity, and in order that they may acquire the requisite philosophy to suffer and be strong in the disagreeable cir- cumstances in which they are placed we refer them to an article on another page, entitled ‘*A Chapter on Rents.” From this it will be learned that the nomadic habit imposed apon our people, both in re- spect to their dwelling houses and places of business, is simply a condition of that law of development which rules in all new settle- ‘ments, the more apparent in New York from its limitation to one direction. We must not lose sight of the fact that this city, although marvellous in its growth, great in its wealth, grand in its opportunities and imperial in its influence, is still a young city, and cannot be said to have passed the ado- lescent period when change is the natu- ral condition of its existence. Thus the frequent shifting of business centres and the constant movement of trade are but a means to maturity, when, the possibilities of the city’s expansion having been learned, each branch of commercial activity will settle itself per- manently in such location as may be best suited for its growth and requirements, The changes now in progress, it will be seen, are numerous, including a further movement up town of the wholesale dry goods trade to the neighborhood of Broome street and the conse- quent movement behind it of the entire whole- sale trade of the city, diverted wholly from the east tothe west side. The influence of these changes upon real estate rental value ts readily apparent. if One of the most important results of the movement of business across Broadway from the east side is the opening up of a new tene- ment house district in the overcrowded lower section of the city. We learn with satisfac- tion of contemplated alterations in the build- ings on Water and Front streets, which will give this increased accommodation for poor families compelled to reside down town, con- venient to the docks and shipping. It will be seen Wall street does not offer any prospects of much movement or change of rental values. The agitation for a removal of the Stock Exchange has quite died out; but there is ample office room in the vicinity for all who do business there. There is a promise of saperflueus accommodation of this kind in the neighborhood of the City Hall, and the suggestion is made that many of the upper floors of the buildings now cut up into offices might be profitably altered into apartments, somewhat similar to the French’ flats, ata more reasonable rental. Inthe matter of dwelling houses it is too early to determine the course of values this year. Certainly no appreciation is looked for, and in the case of high-priced houses a con- siderable abatement of rent will be necessary to secure their occupancy. The outlook favors the anticipation of cheaper rents in the future, in proportion as the movement uptown is continued and the present waste places of the island are turned to use. This movement gains increased impetus each year, and in its completion presents the only prospect of the abolition of the present disagreeable necessity of yearly removals. Prince BisMarokK AND His Woup-BE As SA8sIN.—Prince Bismarck, as will be seen from this morning’s news, has, to all appear- ances, narrowly escaped from the stroke of the assassin. A fanatical Pole, it seems, had made up his mind to make an end of the Ger- man statesman. It is well, we think, that the Pole was captured in time, and few will be other than willing to rejoice that Prince Bis-. marck still lives. It is lamentable that assas- sination should find any place in these enlight- ened times; but men, when burdened with a great sorrow or goaded by a grievous wrong, are very much the same in all ages. There are those who think that Bismarck has de- ceived as well as wronged the Poles. Most certainly one of his recent speeches was most irritating. For some time past he has been the hope of Poland. If this hope has been turned to ashes the Poles will not forgive him, Itis dangerous to trifle with a national sentiment, A Nationa, TemperaNogk Crvsapg.—The National Standard—whilom the anti-slavery organ par excellence—advocates a grand crusade in favor of temperance by making it, like anti-slavery, a national movement, with a common purpose—the utter extirpation of the traffic in all intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage—to be kept steadily in view as the objective point ultimately to be gained. The best places at which to inaugurate such a movements would be in the Capitol at Wasb- ington and in the State Legislatures. Once enlist the influence of ‘Congressmen and State legislators in behalf of such a measure and it will, no doubt, spread like wildfire, But the misfortune is that there are so many members who have become habituated to the use of their ‘old Monongahela” that it would be difficult to get even a corporal’s guard to stand by the National Standard in its contemplated national temperance crusade,