The New York Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1872, Page 4

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. a0 j= Advertisements, 2—Advertisementa, 3—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, bull’s New Departure; Opening of the Canvass for the Presidency »—Amusement Announce- ments, S—Special Report from Germany: The Nation Pre- ring for War and Troops Being Made eady for Action; Can France Fulfll_ Her Engagements, or Wiil She’—News From France, Austria, Belgium, England, Rome, Switzerland and Cuba—Reports from. the Dimond Fields of Africa—General Sher- man’s Tour—Washington: The Treaty and the Claims; The Controversy Within Narrow Limits; Arbitrauion, Abrogation or War; Fish Weakening—The President Will Stuck; The Labor Convention Nominees—The Snow Block- ade—Business Notices, G—Congress: Ihe French Arms Fusillade; Trum- bull’s Blunderbuss im Defence of the Liberal Republicans; What is Party 9—What 1s Prin- ciple? Morton’s Mitrailieuse on Possible Possum Presidential Candidates; The Diplo- matic Appropriation Bill Passed by the House; Voorhees on Spain in Cuba; Americans Mur- dered and Immured—Cubans Massacred by Thousands; The College of William and Mary—The Inman Line New Steamship City of Montreal—News irom South ana Central America—More Troubles in Hayti—Almost Another Holocauet—Railroad Grievance—The juarantine Investigation—Proceedings in the ew York and Brooklyn Conrts—Tnose Swindling Sirens—The Committee of Ways and Meaps—The Frear-Kilian Contested Seat, =Minanciai and Commercial ris—Domestic Markets—The Custom li suicide of @ Printer in Central Park—Tammany Hall: + Reformation and Reorganization of the New York Democracy—Marnages and Deaths— Advertisements. §—Horrible Railroad Accident: A Train of Passen- ger Cars Falls ‘Through a Bridge Into a River on the Cincinnati and Louisville Road; wo Killed and sixty Wounded; Complete List of Names and Latest Particulars—A Shocking Stvory—Music and the Drama—Our German Retormists—The Jersey City Ring—The Com- mittee of Seventy—Board of Health—Niscella- neous Telegrams—News from Jamaica—Ship- ping Intelligence—Advertisements, “Senator Trum- Tax MonarcHiaL Restoration CoNnGREss in ANTWERP is still in session, and attracting a large assemblage of strangers to the city. The Bishop of Orleans and Dukes of Rohan and Tremoille arrived at the scene of council yesterday. The Belgian people are out in street caucus, with evident symptoms of the approach of a conflict between the forces of the democracy and the tumbled-down crowns. Exciting results may ensue at any moment. Tax AMERICANS IN LoNDON SUBSCRIBING for the family of the workingman killed by their countryman, Minor, is a noble act. Minor, no doubt, was insane when he com- mitted the deed, and this benevolent move- ment of our citizens to relieve the family of his victim will produce a good effect abroad. It will show that Americans, wherever they may be, have a large-hearted liberality. GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE Pope.—Gen- eral Sherman had a prolonged audience of the Pope previous to his departure from Rome. He visited Cardinal Antonelli subsequently. The General remained in conversation with His Holiness during a space of one hour. We may infer the conversation was of a char- acter pleasing to both parties, as it is evident, from the term of the interview, that Pio Nono put aside all assumption of state ceremony on the occasion. Anornrr Fara, RarroaD CasvaLty.— We have to-day to chronicle another of those terrible accidents which have been so frequent during the present year. A train on the Cin- cinnati and Louisville Short Line Railroad, consisting of four cars, conveying about seventy paesengers, had reached the Finck bridge over the Ten Mile Creek at about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and the locomotive had just reached the shore on the Cincinnati side when the bridge gave way, and carriages and pas- sengers were precipitated into the water, twenty-five feet below. According to our despatch there were two passengers killed and about sixty wounded, whose names we publish, A Movement To Take Cane of THE Pus- 10 Lanps.—We learn trom Washington that the House Committee on Public Lands is likely to report a bill to reserve the public lands for homestead settlement. There begins to be, too, a pretty general opinion throughout the country that this precious inheritance of the American people has been most lavishly squandered upon monopolies within the last ten years, and that it is time to stop the evil, We hope the committee will introduce a com- prehensive and stringent measure to save the public lands for actual settlers—for those who will cultivate them and add to the wealth of the country. With the rapid increase of our population the time is not far distant when the available lands for homestead settlement will be scarce. At any rate, if the lands are to be sold at all, let fhe government receive the pro- beods. and not overgrown monovolies, of the party ever since impeachment. now serving his third term in the Senate. For two terms he was a rigid, imperious partisan. No Senator was more zealous for party dis- cipline, or more prompt to punish desertion ; but for three years he has been breathing the {ocense of the Presidency, and he has yielded to the sweet, delicious influence. story over again. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1872. to step across the frontier. If, however, the fall of the present government is followed by violence, or if the new government reveals such weakness as shall justify the fear that German interests are in peril, the heel of the invader will again be on the neck of France democrats expect great things of this Cin- and the last state will be worse than the first. | cinnati Convention. We suspect that Senator Tremball’s New DepartareOpen- | Mr. Trumbull is really of the opinion that there will be no nomination for the Presidency by the liberal republicans. Well, if there is to be no nomination for this office, why go to Cincinnati? Mr, Trumbull is an old enough twenty ing of the Canvass for the Presideacy. The speech of Mr. Trumbull in the Senate yesterday may be regarded as the opening of the campaign for the Presidency. The whole debate on the sale of arms has degenerated into a mere political discussion, and the leaders of the different parties are marking out their plan of campaign. There will probably be several days of continuous debate before the vote is taken, and the result of the discussion will be to clearly define the lines of action in the Presidential canvass. If any of the republican leaders inimical to President Grant have entertained the idea that he will not be renominated at Philadelphia in June recent events must dispel the im- pression. Every State in which the republi- can party has spoken at all has pronounced unequivocally in his favor. The Southern States will support him ina body, with the exception of Louisiana. There may be oppo- sition in New England, but we question whether it will have emphasis enough to affect the vote of a single State. There will be a close contest in Pennsylvania, but the friends of Governor Curtin are divided on the issue, and the vast personal strength and con- summate political tact of General Cameron will make the organization sure for Grant, If Colonel McClure had seen any opportunity of defeating Grant inside of the party he would never have gone outside to accept a nomina- tion from a band of roving political adven- turers, who cared nothing for principle and simply strove to win. We shall have a sharp contest in New York. Mr. Greeley has pne leg out of the party traces, and he may take courage from Trumbull’s speech to go out alto- gether; but Mr. Greeley and his fol- lowers will be disciplined as effec- tively in the coming Convention as they were disciplined by Mr. Conkling at Syracuse. We have no idea that Mr. Fenton will bolt the nomination. He is not a bolting man, and he has never taken any position in opposition to the President from which he could not be coaxed to recede. So that in any event we may feel sure that there will be a delegation from New York that will vote for Grant. How far will the attitude of Mr. Trumbull affect the public opinion of the republican party? Mr. Trumbull has been on the verge He is It is the old We saw it in the case of Mr, Chase, who was an extreme radical in the winter and a candidate for the demo- cratic nomination in the spring. We have seen it in the instances of Mr. Sumner, Judge Davis, Judge Field, Gratz Brown, Secretary Cox and Mr. Greeley. The moment men be- gan to discuss the propriety of running any of these men for the Presidency as a new party candidate they began to be critical and cap- tious with the old party. Mr. Trumbull is a more timid man than any of the others we name, Except when under the influ- ence of anger, or prejudice, he has always been shy and coquettish, and shrinking from responsibilities. Never a man of the people, he has lived a cold, re- served, studious life, making none of the mis- takes which are invariably made by men of rare and commanding natures. As a Presi- dent he would be as obstinate as Andrew Johnson, with more decorum and reserve and culture in his manifestations of obstinacy. He has simply made himself the reputation of being respectable and proper. We cannot assvciate the name of Lyman Trumbull with any great act of statesmanship, with any speech or declaration that has entered into history. He served the party like a partisan, accepted its honors and dignities, and would probably have drifted along into another term, some- times criticising, sometimes scolding, but inva- riably voting with the party when the time came. Now the loftier ambition has come to him; he sees that he will scarcely be named in a convention that will inevitably nominate Grant, and, like Chase and Blair and the others, he seeks elevation from the men with whom he has been at war since he began his career. The effect of this speech will be to consoli- date the elements of opposition to Grant; but we do not see that it will secure Mr. Trumbull the nomination for the Presidency, even from the anxious gathering which proposes to meet at Cincinnati. Mr. Trumbull has com- mitted bimself. He is no longer a man to be sought, for the anti-Grant leaders have him in possession. This nomination will be offered to some doubting Senator, and we may expect to see Logan and one or two others becoming heady under the incense which will be breathed upon them. But the speech of Mr. Trnmbull is conspicuous as showing the poverty of him- self and friends. A close reasoner, and skilled in all the resources of debate, he has not advanced an argument which will be en- tertained by the country; for we might as well say to these men, what time will con- clusively demonstrate, that no President, especially one who has done so wisely as Grant, can be defeated by common tavern slanders; and upon sifting Trumbull’s careful declarations down to their last analysis we find nothing but tavern scandals. We are a humorous people. We like wild, wicked, rude, boister- ous wit and sarcasm. When a President is abused we prefer to bave it done in an amusing mauner, So we may talk about Grant and his brothers-in-law and his rela- tions, his horses, his dogs and his cigars. We may have our jibe about Dent and Porter and Babcock, but when we come seriously to vote the judgment of the country will be that if Grant bas done no worse than even his enemies charge upon him he is eminently a proper President. If he were a corrupt man or tolerated corruption in office; if he were an ambitious, reckless politician to know that no politicians ever assembled in this coun- try without generating a candidate for the Presidency. Here we have all manner of sentimental and practical candi- dates, with twenty more budding into life; for this hallucination of the Presidency is more widespread than. people would be apt to suppose. We shall have a candidate from the liberal republicans. Mr. Trumbull may vote for Grant in the contingency of his being thorougly reformed, but Mr. Schurz and Mr. Sumner and others are less placable. They mean to defeat Grant, and they do not mean to join the democratic party. They have a personal grievance which has grown into a passion, and this passion controls their action. In this also is the weakness of their position. Mr. Schurz and Mr. Sumner are angry; but anger is not a conviction, or a principle, and the country cannot be expected to accept it as a reason for abandoning prin- ciples, or for making war upon an adminis- tration that has served the people well. And here, as we have again and again said, is the rock upon which this anti-Grant party will split. It is a party without a principle ora leader—a party of anger, passion and disap- pointed ambition. Here we have Mr. Greeley, who was never satisfied with any administra- tion and opposed Lincoln as he opposes Grant, and Mr. Sumner, a sensitive, impatient student, and Schurz, an eager, keen, restless German, who belongs naturally to an opposition, and Trumbull following the Cincinnati incense bearers with dreams of the Presidency. And what remains? Is thisa party? Is this an alliance to command the respect and suffrages of the country, or have these men any one principle which General Grant opposes that will justify them in making an issue before the country? We see nothing of the kind. Mr. Trumbull has simply made a mistake, Instead of a statesman we finda demagogue making an ostentatious parade of political virtues which, by his own confession, are only two years old. A man who has only reformed himself within two years in the matter of political con- tinence should be lenient in his criticisms upon others. If Mr. Trumbull can find no better reasons for making war upon the ad- ministration and going to the anxious society of the disappointed politicians at Cincinnati than what we find in this speech, the country will little heed him, And as to this Presiden- tial incense, it will only bring him weariness and strife and overmastering care, and that the recently evacuated territory. has created considerable excitement, not only throughout France but in ‘all the political centres of Europe. The Impending Crisis in France--Exctte- ment at Versailles—The Germans Prepar- ing to Return and Reeccupy- We print this morning a cable despatch, special to the Heraxp, which leaves us little room to doubt that the crisis in France which has so long been foreshadowed, and which for some time has seemed inevitable, is now im- minent. Great excitement, it is said, prevails at Versailles, and no such activity bas been witnessed among the various political parties for many months past. Germany, in conse- quence, has taken alarm; the army is being put on a war footing; two picked corps are ordered to hold themselves in readiness, and generally on the German side of the frontiers things look as if a fresh invasion of France was meditated, Our special despatch in- forms us that there is every probability of an early and radical change in the French gov- ernment, and that the Prussian government reserves to itself the right, in the event of the new French government revealing any indica- tions of inability or unwillingness to observe the terms of the Traaty of Peace, to march its troops across the frontiers and reoccupy The news This piece of intelligence confirms, and more than confirms, the views which we ex- pressed yesterday. We gave it as our opinion that the anomalous state of things existing in France could not by any possibility last. Sooner almost than we had ventured to ex- pect, the words are flashed across the seas which leave us no room to doubt that poor France stands once more on the ‘‘perilous edge” ofrevolution. If anything were wanted to convince us that things are not as they ought to be at Versailles, we should find it in the fact that the Berlin authorities are thus preparing for the emergency and adopting a decided course for the conservation of their tights. To some it does seem hard that the German sword should be held so mercilessly, in terrorem, over the heads of the French government and people. It ought not to be forgotten by such that Germany, equally with France, has rights solemnly guaranteed by the Peace Treaty. When, some months ago, France paid in advance a certain portion of the war indemnity, Germany was magnanimous enough to retire a large portion of her forces from the territory which she occupied and held as a material guarantee; but in retiring these troops the right was reserved by the German authorities to reoccupy if the remainder of the indemnity was not promptly paid, or if in any way their interests were im- perilled or seemed to be imperilled. tain circumstances, therefore, Prince Bismarck In cer- disappointed hope which maketh the heart ee has a perfect right to advise his master to or- sick, der the German army to cross the frontier and establish themselves in some of the fairest portions of France. It is natural and proper, such being the agreement, that the government The Cuban Discussion in the House. There was much to interest the public in an hour's discussion on the Consular and Diplo- matic Appropriation bill in the House of Representatives yesterday. It will be remembered that one Indiana democrat, Holman, had already availed himself of an amendment offered to that bill to lash himself into a terrific fury against Russia, which Power he stigmatized as ‘a hoary-headed despotism.” Another Indiana democrat, Voorhees, took a like opportunity yesterday, in connection with the Havana Consulate, to open the batteries of his eloquence against Spain for the atrocious manner in which that Power has been carrying on the war against the Cuban patriots, Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, whose position as chairman of the Committee on Appropriations imposes on him a prudent reserve and gives significance to what he says, deprecated all attempts to complicate this country with Great Britain or Spain or Russia, or any other nation, and deplored the con- tingency of a failure of the Alabama Treaty. ©n the other hand, Mr. Banks, of Massa- chusetts, who is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and who, therefore, speaks with still greater authority on such subjects, gave a guasi endorsement to Voorhees’ bitter speech, and promised to bring before the House soon a measure to which such a discus- sion would be more appropriate, inasmuch as it could be followed by votes. That is all very well; but our public men should take heed to the old adage, not to show your teeth when you can’t bite. Of what use is it to declaim against Spain, when, as our Secretary of the Navy acknowledges, we have not a navy on which we could rely to land five thousand men on the Island of Cuba? Bravado, under such circumstances, is simply ridiculous. Let us be prepared for war before we provoke it. The Consular and Diplomatic bill, on which this discussion sprung up, was passed by the House with amendments raising the Russian to a first class mission, the Japanese to a second class, and abolishing all the Cen- tral American missions, except one to Nica- ragua. A Word in Advance. The Commissioners appointed to superin- tend the construction of the West Side Ele- vated Railroad, will, it is stated, report at Albany, in conformity with a resolution passed on the Ist of February, on the Ist proximo. Meanwhile W. L. Scott, a relative of Colonel Scott, the coming railroad king, has been elected president of the company ; and a bill is in preparation looking to the bridging of the street now occupied by the route, thus creating a grand trunk line from the Pacific to the Battery, New York, with Colonel Scott as the controlling spirit. In virtual possession of the Union Pacific Railroad, by lease, it will be seen that, if this project is carried out, the creationof a more gigantic railroad monopoly than ever Vanderbilt or Fisk con- trolled, looms up as a fait accompli. On the other hand, if the project fails, the removal of the present libel on engineering science is imminent; and it is to be hoped that the New York press, and the property holders along the route, will bestir themselves in time to man, willing to put the nation in peril for bis own selfish ends; if his personal habits were an offence to the moral sense of the people; if his administration had been unfortunate, or in any way disastrous to the country, we could well understand why Mr. Trumbull would be justified in appealing to his friends to accompany him to Cincinnati to reform the party. For. strange as the avermeut may sound, bring about the latter consummation, de- voutly to be wished, in view of the fact that property has declined thirty per cent on one of the heaviest wholesale thoroughfares in the city, in the presence of the present crazy structure. It is understood that the Commis- sioners will favor removal and revocation of the powers vested in the company; but activity and discussion will be required to defeat the pending scheme, with which it is now aeck or nothing, of the Emperor William should preserve to- wards French affairs a watchful attitude. is all the more natural that there isa large body of men scattered over France, some of whom have places in the Assembly, who cling to the opinion, and who have never been backward to express it, that France trayed by M. Thiers and the Assembly in the matter of the Peace Treaty, that the war in- demnity should never have been paid, and that, even now, it would be more noble for France to unsheathe the sword and spill her best blood, if need be, than pay another franc to the insatiable German. thy that the latest attempt made by the French government to raise a loan for the purpose of paying the remainder of the war indemnity, and thus ridding the country at once of the presence of the hated German, has been but reason that there are hundreds of thou- sands in France who believe that there is an- other and more satisfactory way of arriving at the same end, case, it is not permitted us to wonder that the shifling scenes at Versailles and the move- ments of the actors on the political stage should be so attentively observed by the gov- ernment leaders at Berlin. It was be- It is notewor- feebly encouraged, for the Such being the state of the It would certainly be most humiliating for France if the Prussian hosts should again cross the Rhine and declare themselves mas- ters of some of her fairest provinces. Humil- iating as it would be, it is not by any means to be regarded as one of the impossibilities of the not distant future. Prince Bismarck feels that the circumstances justify it, the second invasion will be made without the slightest regard to the feelings of the French government and people, and, in- deed, without any regard to the public feeling of mankind. What are the chances that such Most assuredly, if circumstances will present themselves? This question will best be answered by looking at the present condition of the political parties in France. It is reasonable, we think, to say that, should the government of President Thiers fail, the result would be the republic, probably with Gambetta at its head, or the monarchy in some form, headed, possibly, for a time by the Duc d’Aumale, or the restored empire, witha regency. It is by no means certain that any one of these could be estab- lished without insurrection in some shape. It is undeniable that every one of the political parties is determined to do its best to win. We cannot think of the monarchy being established without encountering the fierce opposition of the Bonapartists, and even of the entire republican party. As little can we think of the triumph of the ex- treme republicans under Gambetta without a revolution which might let loose the army and plunge France into anarchy. If Mac- Mahon holds the army in the interest of the Bonapartes the restoration of the empire might be attended with the least violence of all. MacMahon, however, fs not publicly’ com- mitted, and speculation on this head is dan- gerous, Itis not our opinion that the Ger- mans will invade France to oppose the French people in the matter of deciding upon a form of government. It isno secret that the gov- ernment at Berlin does not favor the republic. Itis well known that the restoration of the empire would be more agreeable to Emperor William and his advisers than the re-establish- ment of the monarchy. But if the republic or the monarchy or the empire can be established without violence or prolonged misrule, there is no good reason for concluding that a single additional German soldier would be allowed It will gladden the hearts of thousands to find thet France can change her form of govern- ment without the accompanying fiorrors of a bloody revolution. Would that we could say that such was the sure and certain prospect! Bloodless or bloody, the crisis is at hand. We are willing to hope and pray that our worst fears may not be realized, and we shall rejoice if in this fresh hour of trial France shall so conduct herself as to disarm ber foes and command the respect of her friends. Her destinies are in her own hands. She can save herself if she will. The Presidential Question—‘ignificaut Move. ments of the Labor Reformers—The Tem- perance Mom, the Outside Republicans, and the Democratic Party. We are on the verge of another Presidential contest, and from the active agitation already commenced among the conflicting sections and outside factions, and between the two great political parties of the country, the bat- tle will be hotly and fiercely contested. Such, indeed, are the processes of transformation going on, from old issues to new issues, and such are the discords and confusion among the clashing reformers and new departure leaders, cliques and factions of the day, such are the demoralizations of the democratic party, and such are the dissensions in the republican camp, that we cannot resist the impression that if General Grant were to be suddenly cut off it would be difficult to estimate the disas- trous consequences, If Bismarck is a neces- sity to the consolidation of the German em- pire; if Thiers, at present, is the only safe- guard against another threatened Jacobin French revolution; so, from all the political movements around us, is General Grant, at this crisis, our only security against political con- fusion, a financial convulsion, a collapse of the national debt and credit, and universal bank- ruptey. And yet thera is manifestly a league of hos- tile forces in process of formation against General Grant which promises an opposition campaign of unexampled bitterness, ferocity and desperation. For instance, the new Political party of labor reformers have in a national convention declared their principles and their ticket for the succession. Their platform, which is of India rubber, may be stretched or shortened by the democracy to suit their purposes, while the labor reform ticket of Judge Davis, of Illinois, and Gov- ernor Parker, of New Jersey, has the look of a preconcerted arrangement with the anti-Grant republicans and the democratic party. We are rather inclined to think, however, that the leaders of these labor reformers in this ticket are in the market for a good bid from the democratic convention, and that they will be apt to get it. They must not be confounded with the trades unions of the country; for the labor reformers are purely a political organiza- tion, and their only visible strength, as far as developed, lies in a few thousand votes in each of the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. But as some seventeen States were represented in this Columbus Conven- tion the party may be considered as an organ- ization in at least seventeen States, Assum- ing that a hundred thousand votes can be commanded by this labor reform movement, surely the democrats will fish for it; for, being short of fish, ‘everything is fish which comes into their net.” Next, on the same day with the labor re- formers—Washington’s Birthday—and in the same city—Columbus, Ohio—the radical tem- perance men, in what they style a National Prohibition Convention, defined their position asa political party. There were one hun- dred and ninety-four delegates present from nine States. The convention adopted a platform embracing many liberal crotch- ets; but are the shops and liquor selling, except upon a doc- tor’s prescription, and equal suffrage to all races and colors and to both sexes. Cold water and woman suffrage are the temperance party platform, and their Presidential ticket is James Black, of Pennsylvania, and Joho Rus- sell, of Michigan. Among the other names submitted were Judge Davis, Chief Justice Chase, General Butler, Gerritt Smith and Horace Greeley. We are sorry the Conven- tion did not adopt Mr. Greeley for President, for his nomination would have made him a happy man, and in its support he would have soon become a tower of strength to the tem- perance cause. We suppose it was Mr. Gree- ley’s hostility to woman suffrage that settled him, and that General Butler’s peculiar tem- perance notions were not acceptable, though he is sound as a cocoanut on woman’s rights. Having no other feelings but those of scorn and contempt for the servile submission of the republican and democratic parties to the rum- sellers, and boldly taking the field for liquor prohibition and women’s rights, it is not likely that this temperance party, on any terms which can be offered, will coalesce with the “free and easy” democracy. But, on the other hand, if these temperance teetotallers make a vigorous fight they may take, perhaps, as many as fifty thousand votes from the repub- licans, which otherwise would be cast for General Grant. We say republicans, for it would be as difficult to find a temperance democrat who would desert his party to sup- port a temperance party ticket as it would be to find a woolly-headed Indian or a white crow. Hence this liquor prohibition and woman's rights Presidential party in propor- tion to its strength will be a loss to the repub- licans and a gain to the democrats, And now we come to the Cincinnati liberal, reform, anti-Grant republican National Con- vention, appointed for the 20th of June next. In connection, no doubt, with this movement, the Democratic State Central Committee of Ohio held a meeting on the 22d, at Columbus, and adjourned until June 13, without giving any date for their State Convention. And again, on the 22d instant, the Democratic Cen- tral Committee of Illinois met in caucus, voted down all motions appointing » day for a State Convention, and adjourned to the 8th of May, which will be two days after the assembling of the Cincinnati Convention, At the same time the National Democratic Committee. of which its two distinguishing planks absolute prohibition of grog- Mr. August Belmont is chairman, and which is clothed with the authority to appoint the time and place for the national party convent. @, remains silent, We conclude, therefore, and we think it may be safely assumed, that the there is an understanding between the democratic leaders and Governor Grats Brown and Mr. Carl Schurz, the Missouri managers of the anti-Grant republicans, to the effect that the Cincinnati Convention shall nominate a mixed ticket and platform accept able to the democracy, and that the demoorats are to wait for it. Next, it is generally under- stood that the Democratic National Conven- tion will be held back to take any advantages that may be offered against the ticket or plat- form of the regular Republican Convention, which meets at Philadelphia on the Sth of June. Here, then, is the joint stock opposition programme for the deteat of Goneral Grant. The labor reformers have taken the field, and for a fusion with the democrats; the demo- crats are holding back for a fusion with the anti-Grant republicans, and the ultra temper- ance and woman’s rights men have organized asa guerilla party, to pick up all the loose materials from the other parties in the contest, not forgetting a little trading and swapping of horses on the way. Meanwhile the New Hampshire election approaches, and the tem- perance men and labor reformers, and Mr. Sumner’s special friends, all working to the same end, may give the State tothe democrats this year, as they did last year; and they may do the same good turn for the democracy in Connecticut. Mr, Sumner, Mr. Schurz and Mr. Trumbull have been making speeches in the Senate for this purpose, and it is said they are working well among the New Hampshire radicals of the old school of our earlier Franklin; and “our later Franklin” is putting in his oar, too, right lustily in the good work, Taking all these hostile move- ments and all these odds and ends together, there is some prospect of a powerful coalition and a desperate and most exciting struggle for the defeat of General Grant; but for him or against him, as things now appear, much will depend upon the first gun from New Hampshire. Britisa SeveRiry 1s InpIA.—In pursuing a policy of stern severity toward rebellious factions in India English officials pursue a course which, to say the least of it, is ques- tionable. Blowing mutinous subjects from the cannon’s mouth is terrible vengeance, well calculated to inspire the rebelliously tnclined natives. The fruit of such barbarity and the teaching of such an example may have a different effect upon the ignorant and fanatical Indians than that they are intended to inspire. The bloody taking off of Lord Mayo points a moral. The treatment of the three hundred Kookas who rebelled, attacked a British fort and killed two English soldiers in the encounter, was terribly severe. Forty of the rebels were executed—sixteen of these without the semblance of a triel—while the remainder of the party were hunted down like wild beasts. The means of punishment em- ployed in this instance does not justify the wholesale slaughter of the Kookas, even if they are rebellious, cruel and bloodthirsty. Tue Reien oF THE JERSEY OxicaRony is drawing toa close. One by one the members of the junta which set aside the fundamental principles of self-government in Jersey City are falling into the clutches of the law. The crime of robbing a municipality like Jersey City of several millions of dollars within the space of eight months is one which will not cry in vain for judgment in Jersey. The work of the Grand Jury is not yet completed. The question now arises, Will the Legislature allow men to bold possession of the public treasury who have been indicted for fraud? Tue ALBANY Journal refers to the “demos cratic dead weights.” Why should not a “dead party” have a dead weight? But sup- pose the “labor reform” party should prove a dead weight to the republicans—what then? Personal Intelligence. W. L. Soott, Mayor of Erle, Pa., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Mayor George Innis, of Poughkeepsie, is at the Astor House. General H. B. Clitz, of the United States Army, has taken quarters at the Glenham Hote. Samuel L. Clemens (‘Mark Twain”), is sojourning at the St. James Hotel, Congressman William R. Roberts 1s registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor 8. J. Albright, of Idaho. has quar- ters at the Austin House. Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticus, is domiciled at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General James McQuade, of Utica, is at the Gilsey House. General McQuade was commander of the Fourteenth regiment of New York volunteers during the war, and 18 now Inspector General on the staf of Governor Hoffman. General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, has ar- rived at the St. James Hotel. Congressman Joho Rogers, of Black Rock, N. Y., is among the most recent arrivals at the Metro- politan Hotel. Major J. M. Hadley, of the United States army, has temporary quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Colonel Jono M. B. Lovell, of Savannah, Ga., is stopping at the New York Hotel. General ‘ben’ Butler yesterday arrived as the Fifth Avenue Hovel. He is enroute trom Washinge ton to his home, Hiram Barney is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mr. Barney was Coilector of this port for a ume during the Presidency of Mr. Tincoin. General J. M. Polk, of Texas, is registered at che Grand Central Hotel. George W. Childs, proprietor of the edger, and A. J. Drexel, the banker, of Philadelphia, have apartments at the St. Nicholas Howl. H R. Pierson, of Aloany, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Plerson 1s well known throughout the country from his connection, as superintendent, with various railroads and his zeal in the cause of education. During his residence in Brooklyn he was one of the most esteemed members of the Board of Edacation. General J. L. Clingman, of North Carolina, ts at the St Nicholas Hotel. General Clingman was a memoer of the United States Senate previous to the war, but that fact is probably less well remem. bered than is his encounter in Raleigh. about a year ago, witn Josiah Turner, editor of one of the papera of that city, in which, although the assailaat, he ‘was not eminently successful. - Governor J. W. Stewart, of Vermont, is tempor. arily residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General J. R. Hawley, of New Haven, is at the Hoffman House. The General is an ex-Governor of Connecticut, and was presiding oMcer or the Na« tional Republican Convention of 1863, te is now the editor of one of the New Haven newspapers, It will be remembered that it was with General Haws ley that Ben Butler, during his canvass tor the Gu: bernatorial nomination, had a controversy whose ‘ reenit, was not oarticulariy favorable to himaelt,