The New York Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ’ NEW YORK j The Treaty Dificulty as Viewed iu Wash- imgton and by Ex-Secretary Seward. Simultaneously with the HeRratp’s copious special reports of the grand pageant in Lon- don over the recovery of the Prince of Wales and of the sympathy manifested by Ameri- cans, both in England and at home, with the British people on that occasion, the telegram from Washington to this paper showed that All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York H ig there was little prospect of the deadlock be- tween the United States and Great Britain Letters and packages should be properly |... the disputed point of the Alabama claims sealed. : : being removed. We are informed that the Rejected communications will not be re- | British Minister, Sir Edward Thornton, had turned. notified our government, under instructions from home, that unless the claim of the United States for consequential damages be with- drawn there can be no settlement at Geneva, or through the Geneva arbitrating convention. This, it is reported, is the tenor of Lord Gran- ville’s note on the subject. We learn at the same time that while the President and his Cabinet are seriously deliberating over the matter, and while the phraseology of the note to be sent to the British government in reply will be made as friendly and unobjec- tionable as possible, the position of our gov- ernment is unchanged. The President and Cabinet, after fully considering the matter, have conéluded that the American case as pre- pared for the Geneva arbitrators, cannot be withdrawn. Under these circumstances the President, it is said, is meditating over the policy of reiter- ating the recommendation he made to Qon- gress in 1870, for our government to pay the Alabama claimants by issuing bonds, and . i then to bold the British government a debtor way MAUELAGES | =e Twonty-etzhih street and Broad: | 6. those till some future day of settlement. ROBINSON'S HALL, 18 East Sixteenth atreet.—Faenou | In the meantime some of the claimants appear to be desirous of obtaining payment THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the rear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription orice $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY HenaLp and the European Edition. Vglume XXXVII.. "AINUSEMENTS THIS. EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— Tur NeW Deaua or Divoxor. seeeeeeNoe 6O OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—TH® Bacuet Pan. ‘TOMIME OF Humpry DuMpry, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av. — JULIUS C#8AR, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner 30th st, —Perform- ances afternoon and evening.—OUT AT SRA, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ani 13th streat. — Tos VeTeRan. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad: between Pri: Houston sts.—THk NAlAD QU ay BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Dick Tunrin—Bur- FALO Biut, Comapy—LE MEUTEIEE DE TUKODORR. ea seurs, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATRE— | directly ig the Loge — ithout the intervention o! eir own THEATRE COMIQUR, 514 Broadway.—C i wae, NEGHO AcTe &C—LMOH. Ny OOMTO VOOATe government. This the Secretary of State does not favor, though it is reported the President has no objection to such a proceed- ing. Of course this would leave the difficulty about consequential damages just where it stands at present. The President will not give up this claim until the Geneva arbitrators decide upon it or some new and acceptable proposition be made by England as a compro- mise. There is an earnest desire to maintain OTAVILION, No, 688 Broadway.—Tus Viena Lavy On. | Peace and friendship with England, but there eRe piano . will be no yielding on the question at issue. Hn RING. AOMOs I ag UTeemA siree.—SORNES IX | Should the British government continue to assume an attitude that precludes a settlement, the President, probably, will send a special Tessage to Congress on the subject, and leave the responsibility with that body. The failure of the treaty would not necessarily involve war, though it would leave an unpleasant feeling existing between the two countries. From present appearances the matter is likely to be 3 ae left to the temper and judgment of Parliament CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. and Congress. Te haveineen: Meanwhile ex-Secretary Seward reappears Par ee ete ties on the well-worn Alabama carpet, and has JobnsoneClarenton Treaty ts roe irenty ng | Something to say about the Treaty of Wash- Pantinaton; param pcs BS ele RS ington and the famous dinner table treaty of ae fiance: is Great Omussion rain'| Reverdy Johnson, As might be expected, for the "Queen's Poy natton Dgland | Mr. Seward profers the latter to the former. een Indeed, he looks upon the present troubles as the legitimate result of the rejection by the United States Senate of the Johnson- Clarendon Treaty, and evidently has the UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NEGRO AOTS—BORLESQUE, BALLET, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 B —— NEQRO EOCENTRICITINS, BURLESQUE®, £0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 284 st., and 7th avs.—BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. ere THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave- Due.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 586 Bi — THE SAN FaANolsco MineTRELe, | UU 5 Broadway NEW YORK MUS! RNGuaD kee EUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— DR, KAHN'S AN. vy - ‘Gomicw ase eer ce MUSEUM, 145 Broadway. TRIPLE New York, Thursday, February 29, 1872. SHEET. to Have Inctuded; = War = With England Impossible—The State Capital: A Sunsiitute for the Seventy’s Charter in Pros- pect; a Corner in Rapid Transit Stock; | Amendments to the Erie Classification Repeal Bull Music and the Prama—Meeung of the Brooklyn Yacut Ciub—Art Matters—New York City News—Fatal Family Feud—Tne Comp- failure of that negotiation still laid aor cadre recip Matters—Be,| up at heart. His objection to the present 4—The Co.ton Ring: The Coton Ring Fully Organ- ized: Brancn Offices in New Orieans, St. Louls and Atlanta; A Full Corps d’Armee of Lobby- ists in Washington -Utah Affairs: The Saints Want to be Adinited Into tne Union; To Cover Up the Murders of the Past Brigham Will Make Auy Concession—Savings Bauk Troubles—A Religious Revivai—Annual Commencement of the College of Physicians and Surgeons— Obituary—The Recent’ Steam Dummy Casu- alty—-Tne French Arms Contract—art Sales— Fisk's Carriages and Horses at Aucuuon—Horse Notes—Pigeon Shooungr—Aquatics—The Ger- man Hospital and Lispensary—Destructton of | & Brooklyn Carriage Factory—Fire in Craig- ville, Urange County —Scranton Coal Sale— Singular Suicide—Religion vs. Newspapers— Leap Year. GeLandmarks Passing Away: The Old North ,; Dutca Church to be Torn Down—New Jersey | Legislature: ihe Hudson Grand Jury Piead lor Jersey City—Monicipal Cnarters: ‘Ihe Future Goveroment of Jersey City—Cholera Coming: luportant Meeting of the Board of Heaith; The Filthy Condition of ine City—Ap- ications for the Hawkins’ Miie—Mr. Dexter awkins’ “Figures and Informatiou’’—Retonn 4u Richmond County—lhe German Immigra- tion Society~Arrest of a Man Eater—Sewer Gas—A Costly Spree—New Arrivals at state Prison, New Jersey. a G—Euitortais; Leading Article, “Tbe Treaty Dim- culty ax Viewed in Washington and by ex-Sec- retary Seward’’—Amusement Announcements.. ‘Y=The War ‘in Mexico: Reported Capture of San Luis Povosi by thé Kevolutionisis; The Amerl- can Steamer for Camargo Unmoiested— France: ‘The Bonaparti*t Invasion Alarm and Naval Patrol of the Brius Channel—The Aia- bama Claims—News from Russia, Austria, Germany, England, Ireland, iialy, Belgium and the West ludies—Chile on the Hampage— Misceianeous Telegrams—Business Notices. 8=Mayor Haid: Five More Jurors Obtained ; Only Que More Needed ; ‘The Putie Interest in the ing—Interesting Proceedings in | the United States, New York and Brooklyn Courts—Stokes’ Grand Jury: Opening of the Case for ie People—Free Love Advocates— An Ugly Man—A& Assault on Oiicer mode of settlement is based rather upon a sen- timentality than upon any practical consider- ations.» The Lincoln government, he says, in all their attempts at a solution of the difficulty, insisted upon a distinct apology for the Queen’s proclamation according belligerent rights to the Southern rebels, or at least upon an apologetic explaining away of the awkward feature of the controversy. He regards the Treaty of Washington as having somewhat lowered the dignity of the position here- tofore assumed- by the United States, inasmuch as it seeks a money compensation for the alleged misdeeds of the English gov- eroment during our hour of trial and suffering, instead of such an acknowledgment of wrong as might satisfy wounded national honor, if it did not benefit the national exchequer. This is certainly a patriotic theory on the part of our ex-Secretary of State; yet we recall the hard, cold, commercial provisions of the treaty which that clear-headed man of business, Lord Clarendon, palmed off upon the amiable bon vivant who then represented the United States at the Court of St. James, and we can remember no word of apology or regret that it contained. It was, in fact, a most undigni- fied, unworthy, Gradgrind-like document, in which the mere payment by the British gov- erument of the claims of those citizens who had experienced actual losses from the depre- dations of the Anglo-Coufederate privateers, after complete and satisfactory proof of their accuracy, was to be accepted by the United States asa settlement in full for all the viola- tions of international law, treaty obligations and friendly relations of which England had been guilty during the war-of the rebellion, If the Lincoln administration really desired to hold the British goverament to an apology for the promulgation of the Queen’s proclamation, there was no attempt to secure that plaster for our wounded honor in the Jobnson- Clarendon Treaty, and hence its rejection by the Senate was justifiable, if for no other reason, on the ground that it could not have been a full and entire settlement of our dif- ferences with England, growing out of the at- titude of that government during our civil war. Mr. Seward’s résumé of the history of our international troubles, which will be found in his conversation with a Heratp reporter published to-day, is concise and interesting, although it sheds no new light upon the facts already familiar to the American people. It will serve, however, to strengthen the popu- lar feeling in favor of the position taken by President Grant, and will satisfy the doubting of the impossibility of any further concession to the demands of England on the part of the United States. The more distinctly the injucious and unfriendly character of the attitude assumed by the British government is placed before our people the more evident it becomes that we have yielded all we can ever yield in the friendly settlement we are still willing to make with our English cousins. We cannot concede that it is, as Mr. Seward sup- poses, “unbecoming the dignity and honor of the United States to demand or accept a sum of money from Great Britain as an atonemeat for political wrovg or © compensation Tully—Marniages and Deat 9—Finaicial and Commercial: “Bulls” and “Bears on the Qui Vive; Dearer Rates for Money; The “Bears” Supposed to be Locking Up Greenbacks; Gold Of to 11044; Stocks aud Goverpmenis Lower; A Littie Spurt in Erie; } ‘The Last Moments of Mariposa; Tne Funeral Fixed for To-day; Vaniel Drew Goes Into the Quicksilver Business; Wall Street Honors to St. Patrick—The Perils of the Sea—Advertise- ments, 10—Wastington: The French Musket Muss in the Senate; Sumner Coming Back to First Princi- Bes Harlan Peppertog Schurz; The “French py” in the House; Dwignt Townsend's Bright Idea; The Silk Manufacturing Interest Waut- ing Protection; Overhauling the Iron-ciads— Shipping intetligence—Auvertisemeats, 4t—Advertisements, 13—Advertisements, ‘“Tqe Duty or THE Day,” according to the Utica Herald, is the question of the ‘duty on salt.” ' Tae Conpition oF Ovr Street Cars.— We are glad to notice that the health authori- ties are taking steps toward the improvement of the sanitary condition of our city street cars. This should have been done long ago, for these cars, crowded as they are most of the time qith all sorts of people—the sick and the well, the “lame, the halt and the blind,” the cleanly as well as the fillhy—are calculated to breed disease as well as to spread contagion. The reforms proposed are demanded by the people and should be heeded by all the com- panies. Suovtp Jupor Davis Resign?—The Ger- man organ in Cincinnati, the Volksblatt, calls upon Judge Davis to resign bis seat upon the Supreme Bench in consequence of bis nomina- tion by the Labor Reform Convention as their candidate for the Presidency. The Cincinnati Enquirer, democratic, suggests that he will probably ‘imitate the example of General Grant, who held on to his position as Gen- eral-in-Chief of the Army of the United States until he was elected President,” But “circumstances may alter cases.” HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Legitimise fossil» at Avtwerp—The Church Coalition—A Chance for De Cham- bord Out West, F The Count de Chambord having, with his fossil sympathizers, set the good old Belgian city of Antwerp all agog ‘for a few days, has, at last accounts, betaken himself to a little Dutch town within ten miles of Rotterdam. What he can expect to find in this vicinity it is difficult to prognosticate, except he is in search of the great mechanical genius who constructed the famous “cork leg” for that “richest merchant in Rotterdam.” Fitted with a pair of these startling compounds of ‘clockwork and steam” he could keep up his reputation as a “gorehead” deputation-receiver all round the French frontier and perhaps beat Andy John- son’s famous railroad feat of swinging “round the circle.” The late gathering at Antwerp, exhibiting his miserable policy, which has dared only to lift the heads of its exponents on foreign soil, seems for the moment enhanced, in view of future events, by @ letter which the Pope is reported to have written to the French bishops, urging them to support this fat old son of St. Louis for the kingship of France. Thus it will be seen how intimate the connection be- tween this Divine right humbug, blinking its eyes like an owl in the nineteenth century sunshine, and the older power that by virtue of its link with heaven would chain the peo- ple to their ‘‘divinely-appointed” kings. The issues in France are becoming narrowed day by day, until, before long, the republic will be brought to still another death grapple with its foes. It has been said with some truth that the French clergy are to blame for French infl- delity. In the days of the empire they served Napoleon in every way he pleased. Under the foolish Citizen King they were the most for wounded honor,” for the reason that the very payment of such damages on the part of England would be in fact an admission of the injustice of her past conduct and an apology for the wrong she has done us, The money itself has never entered into the consideration of the government or of the people in making and sanctioning the treaty settlement now held in abeyance. In claiming the right to lay before the Geneva Conference our claim to consequential damages we in fact maintain our right to arraign England before that tribunal for the commis- sion of acts unfriendly and injurious to the United States, Should the Geneva Conference maintain England's liability we should be willing to make her a present of the damages, satisfied with the recovery of a ver- dict against her fdr her past misdeeds. We regard the Treaty of Washington as more dignified and better becoming the honor and self-respect of the United States than the dinner table treaty of Reverdy Johnson, on this very account: that while the latter was a mere shopkeeper’s balance sheet, the former submits to arbitration the whole conduct of England during our rebellion and leaves the judgment in the hands of impartial men. But Mr. Seward gives us one piece of con- solation. There will be no war between Eng- land and the United States. Of that he is certain. The treaty will fail, and the Ala- bama claims will remain open, for the reason that the passions and prejudices grow- ing out of the questions ‘they in- volve are not yet sufficiently allayed to admit of a friendly settlement at the present time. We agree with Mr. Seward in the pre- diction that the peace of the two nations will not be disturbed ; for so far as the people of the United States are concerned they are in- their grandfathers did, if only for a few years. Imagination almost fails to paint the picture St. Louis, Mo., and his followers voting Bour- bon—astraight, The Hawkins Mite—Where Shall It Got The ten-dollar bill with which Brother Dexter A. Hawkins endeavored on Sunday last to purchase the favor of an employé of the Heratp, in order to secure for ‘“‘one of the most learned men of the American pulpit” the fame of a HERALD report of his sermon, still remains unappropriated. The idea of bestow- ing it upon the Union League people has been sadly shaken since a correspondent has re- called to our recollection their arraignment by Brother Greeley as ‘‘a set of narrow-minded blockneads.” We have no intention that the Hawkins mite shall fall into the hands of bigots or simpletons, Since it has left Haw- kins’ possession it shall have a different direc- tion, We publish to-day some applications that have been received for its appropriation. One suggests that it be donated to the sufferers from investment in a bubble sewing machine company, who were induced by gily persua- sions to buy stock in the concern at seventy- five cents per share. But the applicant admits that the investors believed the shares to be worth three dollars, and hence we must regard them to have been as enterprising if not as shrewd as Hawkins himself, and re- ject their claim to the ‘‘mite.” Another re- quests that the ‘‘mite” may be applied to a tion, tah “mite” different about the fate of the Treaty of Wash- | devoted of the Orleanists, and back ph Bui ni ~ ~ hich a hike ington and are satisfied to allow their claims through the kings of the Restoration PI dare neat, high-heele: ga ters, it against so solvent a debtor as England to re | they were Bourbon to the backbone, might, indeed, ‘fall on stony ground,” especi- main on their books, But we maintain that on our part we are as ready to make a friendly settlement now as we are ever likely to be, and if passion and prejudice stand in the way of the final wiping away of our past dif- ferences with the English nation they must be the product of the English heart alone. We have made the Treaty of Washington in good faith and in a brotherly spirit. Upon Shatiwe randy, Ut) Magiendy shall’ ge: rasm énonzh to tear the parchment fo pleces with her will rest the blame and the responsibility. but always the foes of the republic. It is true that they never lost their love for the monarchy. It is the form of government in which clerical intrigue can show to the best advantage—where clerical ambition can achieve most, The grand historic figure of Richelieu and even the lesser brilliance of Mazarin haunt them in their dreams when the guillotine of the revolution is not before them. And so, with Napoleonism in the army, with Orleanism and Bourbonism among the shreds and remnants of the old noblesse: and their clerical friends who lead the ignorant peas- antry, with red-hot Communism under the surface In the large cities, the moderate re- public of Thiers has fourfold foes to battle. This very multiplication of its enemies gives it, however, its greatest present strength, and if it but nerves itself to stand erect yet a little while the annealing hand of Time may teach the people they can rule themselves without phantoms at their head, whether imperial, monarchical or socialistic. But we cannot forbear returning to the comic fossils at Antwerp, with their empty titles and “‘sorehead” wrongs. Here were Henry V. and his motley crew, whose trepida- tion only forsakes them when they shake French dust from their feet. They have been Letting I dare not watt upon I would, Like the poor cat 1’ the adage, And yet there were a million, more or less, of them at Antwerp, so the cable said, and the citizens were taking cudgels to whip them, as if they were so many beggars at their gates and not the hedged-in disciples of Divine right. It would seem as though they had been but the ghosts of the followers of some other old son of St. Louis, come back with their tattered uniforms to make up for the shameful want of enthusi- asm among the French people of to-day about this latest edition of the Bourbon, ‘The trouble is,” said M. Villemessant, of the Figaro, addressing this life-long ‘‘sorehead” in last November, ‘‘the French people are not acquainted with you. Even I have come for some oil; my lamp of loyalty being growing dim.” He got the ‘‘oil,” but he has not been so successful in dispensing it, although not for want of effort on his part. There was truth indeed in Villemessant; the people had forgotten the fossil which for a quarter of a century lay buried at Frohsdorf, until the same earthquake which upset the empire unearthed the dry bones and sent them rattling round Europe. Henry was born in 1820, a few months before his father's enade. word for the Foundling Hospital. bids its acceptance. serving object. Perhaps the Rev. Dr. Clarke, worthily, The Prince of Wales and the Thanke- giving Services in Berlin. In addition to our exhaustive exbibit of the he Belg: em! ane tne Romney ack ney, thanksgiving services of yesterday, in connec- Committee. The arguments on Senator O'Brien's bill to repeal the Erie Classification act and to secure to the stockholders of the Erie Rail- road a fair election of directors are still being heard by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. The last feature of the discussion is an attempt on the part of the counsel of the Erie Ring to prove that the provision of the proposed law requiring the transfer books of the compary to be deposited with a trust company for a certain time before the day of election of directors is in conflict with the constitution. These weak and trivial resorts ofthe “Ring” to postpone action on the Repeal bill as long as possible should no longer be permitted by the committee. Indeed, the members of the committee are subjecting themselves to grave suspicions by the singular ‘manner in which their report is delayed. No person will believe that they can need any arguments to convince them of the propriety of repealing the Classi- fication act and providing for a fair election of directors of the Erie Railroad, and, these main points being admitted, the mere details of the bill can be well left to the committee of the whole Senate. The members of the Judi- ciary Committee may as well understand at once that the people will hold them to a strict accountability for their action in this matter. They have already given too much time to the advocates of the ‘‘Ring” to plead their case, and it is very well understood that the object of the opponents of the bill is to drive it to the end of the session and thus secure its defeat. Unless th& committee is waiting for a kind of argument with the use of which the present managers of Erie are familiar, the discussion will at once be closed and the bill reported to the Senate. Prince of Wales, we are pleased to notice the attention which was paid to the event in Ber- lin, The English church at Berlin has always been conspicuous among the chapels con- nected with the foreign embassies. Some of the best men in the English Church have been pleased to spend a few years in Berlin before finally settling down at home. The services, of course, are always good, and the sermon is never below par. On Tuesday, it is gratifying to know, the Emperor William and all the members of the royal family now in Berlin, together with all the Foreign Min- isters, attended divine service and publicly thanked God for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. Life is sweet to all, to Prince as to peasant, In the life of this young man the whole world has taken a most loving interest, Let us hope that the facts of the future will justify the kindly sympathy which in 1871-2 was extended to Albert Edward Prince of Wales. No prince in all the past has been so forgiven and so encouraged. If his future is a failure it is reasonable to conclude that the fault will be his own. Assemblyman Husted and the Erie Classi fication Act. Assemblyman Husted hastens to assure the Heratp that his bill for the repeal of the Erie Classification act has been introduced in good faith, and that he is opposed to the Classifica- tion law and voted originally against its pas- sage. He appears to be aware that the repeal of the act without a provision for a fair election of directors, based upon the bona fide ownership of stock, would be simply playing into the hands of Gould, Lane and their associates, and he states that it is his intention, when his bill shall be re- ported to the House, to perfect it in Commit- tee of the Whole. Weare willing to accept Mr. Husted’s explanation and to “give him Tue INTERNATIONAL IN SWITZERLAND.—For along time the Swiss republic bas been the favorite resort of political refugees. Royalists | assassination. When the Bourbon Charles X. credit for honesty of purpose; but and republicans alike have made it a haven to | wag overturned in the “glorious days” of he is a good parliamentarian, and which they fled for shelter in time of trouble, ‘i knows that the accumulation of bills July, 1830, he abdicated in favor of Henry, but Talleyrand preferred Louis Philippe to the boy, and induced the French people to think so too, Thenceforward Henry was a ‘‘sore- head” king. He commenced this business of receiving ‘‘sorehead” deputations as early as 1833 at Rome, and five years after we find him still at the business in London, with all the farcical pomp with which the exiled Stuarts held a mock court in France. He then retired to Italy and married into the Modena family, to which, apparently, he brought no luck, for it was destined to become a ‘‘sorehead” too. Then he went to Frohsdorf and buried himself until resurrected as aforesaid, still keeping a standing bid for the French throne over his living tomb, Last November saw him still re- ceiving the ‘‘soreheads” at Lucerne, to whom he was liberal in the supply of “‘oil.” It will take much more of it to calm the troubled French waters enough to make it safe for the leaky old royal junk to float thereon, We suppose that to all intents and purposes old Henry himself is too inveterate a ‘‘sore- head” ever to be thoroughly cured, except the French people, in a freak of fun, should some day crown him for the purpose of letting the Jacobins of the period knock off crown and head together. But for his followers we have hopes, and, what is much more, can help them. Here is a great free country, where to be a ‘‘sorehead” ‘it is not necessary to cross the frontier to meet the object of your mental adoration, We have Frenchmen here in hundreds who make excellent cooks; we have Italians who sell peanuts, Germans who play trombones and manufacture Bologna sausages. Many of these men wero princes or at least counts in their own country. But if there ts any an- cient class to which we can point with pride it is the many thousands of Irish kings who, coming among us without many valuable effects of their own, have managed to rule us since with more or less beneficial results to themselves, This should encourage the fol- lowers of the fat Hepry to emigrate, as and were never disappointed in finding there homes. The Internationalists have, like others who preceded them, made Geneva a place for rendezvous. Here ona past occasion have assembled representatives of all the European nationalities at the Congress of the Interna- tional, and at present there are numbers of this much dreaded organization in that city. Germany, like other nations, perceives in the influence which the International Society creates among the working classes some dan- ger to monarchical institutions. If report speaks truly Bismarck does not look favorably upon this gathering of Internationalists at Geneva, and has so informed the Swiss gov- ernment. So far the Internationals bave done nothing in Geneva of which Bismarck need feel any way annoyed. The Internationals in Switzerland, however, are the source of annoyance to him, if nothing more, and his hostility to them may serve as the cue to other gevernments to follow his example. of.a similar character only serves to embar- rass and delay legislation. Now, a bill for the repeal of Classification and for the election of directors of the Erie road under effective regulations—the bill long since committed to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate—has already been introduced in the Assembly and referred to the Railroad Committee of that body. Will Mr. Husted unite with others who are faithful to their reform pledges in requiring a speedy report of that bill from the committee? We believe that this action will be more likely to effect the object he has at heart than the course he now proposes to pursue. Let us have no unnecessary delay in the committee's report, and let Mr. Husted direct his well-known earnestness and ability to the exposure of any improper influences that may be at work to induce the committee to hold back the bill. Tur Caprore oF San Luis Po Tost by the revolutionists is reported by our special de- GERMAN ACCOMMODATION TO FRanok.— The German goyernment has notified France that the Emperor William will accept an anticipatory payment of 410,000,000 francs of the war indemnity, allowing a discount of five per cent off for cash. The French will psy the amount immediately, and thus save twenty million francs. This is the true prin- ciple of the science of finance; prompt payments and the profits of honesty. France will liberate herself from debt and begin anew. gence received by way of Tampico. If the re- port can be depended upon General Rocha, the best military leader of the Juarez government, who had about four thousand men under his command, has either surrendered or abandoned the city to the revolutionists under Trevillo. President Juarez has of late sustained many defeats, but the fall of San Luis Potosi is the most fatal and disastrous blow to his power. He has no forces to cope with the overwhelming numbers of the revolutionists under Trevifio, who is now free to carry out his threatened march on the city of Mexico, While affairs in the interior of the ‘‘sister” re- public are taking a more uncertain turn than ever there comes a report from Brownsville that the Texan stock raisers have been goaded to despair by the depredations of Mexican desperadoes, and threaten reprisals by ‘‘carry- ing the war into Africa”—committing depreda- tions in return on the inhabitants of Mexican territory. Truly ® most unsatisfactory state of affaira, this of Mexico, Tne KitiaN-Frear Cask.—The majority of the Assembly Committee on Privileges and Elections has made a report in favor of giving the seat now occupied by Alexander Frear to Frederick Kilian, As we predicted Frear is to be the tub to the whale ; but will the Reform Legislature now attend to the cases of Tweed and Fields? Or is the rumor true that their former associations with tbe ‘‘Boss” are of a cbaracter to preclude them from braving his displeasure? of H. de Chambord running for Alderman of Sunday school at Morrisania; but Hawkins might regard. this as a sectarian uppropria- A poor teacher, who belongs ‘‘to no society of religious sects,” wants the ten-dollar bill for new boots, of which she stands sadly ally if they should be used for a Sunday prom- A fourth correspondent speaks a good This, cer- tainly, is not a sectarian purpose; but the very argument used in favor of ‘the suggestion for- So we hold the ‘“Haw- kins mite” subject to the claim of a really de- of Boston, can aid us in disposing of it tion with the restoration to health of the. spatch from Matamoros, based upon intelli- | Congress Xesterday—The Senate matince— ‘The House Miscellany. The entertainment furnished by the Senate to the residents and visitors at Washington continues to draw crowded houses. Hamlin, of Maine, whom Parson Brownlow used to describe as a “free negro,” was ungallant enough yesterday to interpose an objection to the admission of ladies to the orchestra seats, and, consequently, those future voters and politicians were forced to squeeze their way into the galleries or to wander over to the deserted galleries of the House. Mr. Sumner took the leading réle yesterday, and acquitted himeelf very creditably. He denied that, in introducing the resolution, he was actuated by political motives or intended any effect on the Presidential election, and protested that in this matter, as in all other acts of bis pub- lic life, he was governed by a love of truth and justice. He declared that he spoke for the good name of the American people and for purity of government, which must be saved from scandal. He alluded to the general de- moralization in public life, instancing the case of the Tammany Ring, and the abuses and corruptions ih that other Tammany—the Gus- tom House of this city—and said that when he heard of the abuses in the Ordnance Depart- ment, in connection with the sale of arms to France, it seemed to him as if the neutral duties of this government had been put inte the hands of mere money-seekers and official jobbers; and, therefore, he felt that, as the thing became known and was a universal scandal, it was time that something should be done to arrest the suspicion cast upon our of- ficials, and it should be done so thoroughly that neither at home nor abroad should there be any imputation of whitewash, This speech of Mr. Sumner’s must have been a disappolat- ment to those who expected to hear an angry political harangue from him. It seems to have been the most dignified and creditable speech made in the whole course of this Senate de- bate. It would have been well if Mr. Harlan, who followed him on behalf of the administra- tion, had taken a lesson in moderation and good sense from the speech of the Massachu- setts Senator. It was unfortunate, wo think, that such a man, whose own official integrity does not stand very high in public estimation, should have been put forward as the defender of the admlnistration in this matter. We suffi- ciently indicate the tone and substance of his speech when we say that he undertook to de- fend the general order abominations in this city and to say that the outcry against them proceeds from foreign manufacturers, There seems to be some prospect of this long debate coming toa close within a few days. A vote was taken yesterday on reconsidering the vote adopting Conkling’s amendment extending the proposed inquiry so far as to ascertain whether any United States Senator has been in collusion with any agent of the French gov- ernment in this matter ; but the Senate re- fused to reconsider it—yeas 19, nays 28. If the Senate does not hurry up with the investigation, if it is to have one—which ap- pears at present rather unlikely—the wiod will be taken out of its sails by the House, one of whose committees entera to-day upon the inquiry into the sale of these arms and ord- nance stores to France. Mr. Lynch, of Maine, rather indiscreetly proposed a resolution yes- terday looking to an investigation of Messrs, Schurz and Sumner’s supposed relations with the French and Prussian governments, but upon being called upon by Mr. Dawes to state the ground of his charge he offered to withdraw that part of the resolution. Mr. Hoopvr, of Massachusetts, objected to the reception of the resolution at all. Mr. Dwight Townsend, of this city, made a brilliant attempt to distinguish himself by a ridiculous proposition to refer the American claim for consequential damages to John Bright; but Mr. Roberts, of this city, put a quietus on that by a prompt and decided ob- jection, in which he was backed by Mr. Dawes, The bill to facilitate bank Clearing House exchanges was discussed briefly and witha general comprehension of its points, and waa recommitted to the Committee on Banking and Currency, which is the last that will be heard of it at this session, There was another clearing made of the business on the Speaker's table, and some fili- bustering over the renewal of a land grant bill for a railroad in Wisconsin. The final vote was staved off, but will be taken to-day, and will result in the passage of the bill. The Commercial Policy and Tarif Difle culties of France. The European Powers which have commer. cial treaties with France are about to forward to Versailles a joint protest against the passage of any French parliamentary measure impos- ing a tax on articles of raw material to be used in manufacture, This statement reaches us from London and Paris by cable telegram, England and Belgium are the Powers which will be affected directly, immediately and unprofitably, should the government of the Ftench republic be enabled to carry out suc- cessfully its idea of a return to or towards the protectionist tariff system of the country as it presented previous to the negotiation of the Cobden-Bonaparte treaty of trade. England may remonstrate, or, with her sympathizing friends in Belgium and elsewhere, protest, Should she do so her action will initiate a period of uneasy difficulty for President Thiers. The French people are vastly divided in opinion on the subject of commercial tariff dues and for the necessity of a nice discrimi- nation on the part of the Versailles legislators in imposing them. These facts were made patent during the recent debate which occurred in the Assembly on the question of the adop- tion of a committee report in favor of “‘renun~ ciation” of the treaties if they were not modi- fied. An official correspondence has taken place between the English Foreign Office and the French Minister, Rémusat, on the subject. The main points of the Cabinet arguments on both sides are published in the Heratp to-day, Toe Faotsry with which the checks of the Erie Railroad Company were passed over to Wilcox on vouchers for ‘‘advertising” and “law expenses” affords som» clue to the man~ ner in which State Legislatures have been heretofore managed by the Erie ‘‘Ring.” I€ the reportof the Senate Judiciary Committee on Senator O'Brien's bill be delayed much longer we may look to see a large increase in the vouchers for ‘‘construction agcounw” ex. penditures of the Brie Railroads