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Bill as Far as Acted On; The Ku Kiux Act in the Senate; I ‘The Deadly Damping Movements—Tho House Mv Of Refuge Disclosures, | 4—Could-Gordon: Grand Field Day in the Supreme | Court; What Horace Greeley Knows About | the Matter; Gordon's adiet hr Recited by | Himself; Jay Gould on the Witness Stand; Astonishing Contradictory Narrations—The Satior Earl—Proceedings fn the Courts—The Sixth Avenue Shooting Affray—Fire in Wil- CLS S—Kontucky Association: Fifth Day of the Spring Meeting—Blood Horse Assoctation—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Running and Trotting in Caltfornia—Horse Notes—The Turf in England: Newmarket First Spring Meeting—Mexico: Sentence of Death on a Captured Kevolution- | ary Chief—The Edgar Stewart: Details About the Capture of the Mysterlous American Cruise: ‘he Virginius—News fr naica, | Hayti, ‘ral America and Peru—Stanley in | Africa—Singular Accident toa Third Avenue | Ratlroad Car. | 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Arguments | Abandonment of Our Case at ve Are Urged to Sacrifice Our | —Amusement Announce- | (Continued from Sixth Page)—The thanees of the Backdown Article; Senators Wavering; The Admin- orking Hard for Disgrace—Impor- ews trom Japan; The National Edicts Against Christianity Abolished by Imperial Deciee—Cuba—Miscellaneous — Telegrams— ments. G—Editorials iy Business Notices. BeLabor Keform: Successful Progress of the Eight Hour Movement; Meetings of the Carpenters, | Stairbuilders, Cabinetmakers and Brick- layers—Methodist General Conference—The rian Synod—The Institution for the | ew Y City News—The Arctic | Austrian Expedition Under cht—Yachting Notes. G—-Financlal and Commercial: A Quiet Day in the | Wail Street Markets; How the Coin Revenue nd What It Regions: Th Payer and We of the Country is Pledgea Is Worth ey Easy and n Exchange | Unchang Domestic Marke Reception at Dr. Van rman's Select hool—Alleged | falpractice—Marriages and Deaths—Adver- isements. | 10—The Anglo-American Race—Transatlantic Base | Lall—Revolt in the House of ae ee pom McCarthy—Oll on Troubled Waters— | foreign Miscellaneous Items—Sbipping Iutel- | ligence—Advertisements. fi—advortisements. @2—Advertisements. | | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Arguments in Favor of the Aban- donment of Our Case at Geneva— Why We Are Urged to Sacrifice Our National Honor. The arguments urged in favor of the abandonment of our case as originally pre- sented to the Geneva Conference may be sum- marized as follows;—1. The claims for indi- rect damages, to which England objects, ought never to have been advanced by the United States government. 2. It will be especially advantageous to us as a nation with an ex- tended sea coast, insufficiently guarded, to pre- clude by a treaty provision the presentment of any claims for consequential damages in cases similar to the escape of the Anglo-rebel priva- teers from England, in the event of England being a belligerent and the United States a neutral 3. It is essential that we save the treaty—which England threatens to destroy if we refuse to recede from our posi- tion—because the failure of the present nego- tiations would depress our securities on the London market and deprive us of the use of British capital for the prosecution of our home enterprises. 4. If the Treaty of Washington should be destroyed there can be no other attempt at negotiation for many years, and our citizens who hold | direct claims against England for the destruction of their property by the Alabama and other British built and equipped privateers will be kept out of their money. 5. We shall discourage all hope among civilized nations of averting war through the instruméntality of arbiigation if we suffer tho failure of a settle- ment that has progressed so nearly £0 comple- tion. It is not necessary now to comment on the selfish character of most of these argu- ments ; it will be enough to show their falla- ciousness, and for that puwpose we propose to examine them seriatim. 1, The claims for indirect damages ought never to- have been advanced by the United States government. The opinion prevails in many minds that it would have been generous ina rich and powerful nation to have professed itself satisfied with the expression of, regret made by Her Britannic Majesty for the escape of the rebel privateers from Eng- land, and to have declared that, in con- sideration of that virtual apology for England's past conduct, the United States would re- frain from advancing any claim for na- tional injuries suffered through her instrumen- tality during our rebellion, There are many, also, who believe that indirect or consequential damages are absurd on principle; that they could never be calculated, and hence cannot form a proper subject for arbitration. But to this it is replied that consequential damages are awarded constantly in courts of law, in suits for breaches of contracts or indirect in- juries, and given sometimes not only to plain- tiffs, but to their relatives, It is insisted upon by a large number of thinking, intelligent persons who have studied our controversy with England very thoroughly, that no com- plete and satisfactory settlement could have been made between the two nations that did not embrace in its scope the American claims for indirect damages and pass final judg- ment, one way or another, upon them. Ever since Senator Sumner, in a speech de- livered in executive session of the Senate—and deemed of so much importance as to have been authoritatively made public—instilled the idea of consequential damages into the mind of the American people, they have been so gonerally recognized as a portion of the “Alabama claims’’ that had they been ignored in our case at Geneva many would have re- fused to have accepted the judgment of the tribunal as a settlement in full, and would have felt that they had still a score laid up against England. A firebrand, capable of | kindling o dangerous conflagration, would | have remained in the hands of designing men, The Treaty of Washington has been hailed as a peace offering that was to remove forever the old jealousies and hatreds between two English-speaking nations; but how could it be expected to fulfil its mission if it left a wound | rankling in the side of either? Can England expect the treaty to insure brotherly feeling and true friendship between the two peoples when one of the conditions of its success is an outrage upon our national honor? These considerations induce the belief in many quar- ters that the advancement of the indirect claims was disereet and proper, and that Eng- land would have been wise to have accepted their reference to the Geneva Tribunal instead of-exciting the bad blood of our people by an | arrogant and obstinate opposition to them, | However this may be, the claims were included in our case, in accordance with our clear right , Tar Intervartonat Boat Ract.—The Ata- | under the treaty, and the preceding negotia- lunta’s American boat was delivered to the crew in England yesterday. It was completely ruined during the voyage across the Atlantic, having been, it is said, badly packed on this Bide. The race will come off, notwithstanding, Bs our countrymen hope to have a new boat built near the Thames before the day of con- test. The Londoners again intimated, before the accident to the American boat was made known, their confidence in an English victory, | that position. tions, and whatever differences of opinion may exist as to their character, President Grant has consistently insisted on our-right to keep them there, and the American people endorse They care nothing about a money award, but they will resolutely demand a consideration of our case as it is by the Geneva Tribunal or the abandonment of all further negotiations and the destruction of the trea 2, It will be especially advantageous to us, | with our ‘extended ‘sea coast, to dispose | of the question of consequential damages by a supplementary article to the Treaty even with British oarsmen not of first class, Teacnivte gue Preswent His Busrynas, Lord Granvilie seems to think that, so fa as the diMculty for want of constitutional power is concerned, the President might tg be yinns | of Washington. This argument seems plausi- | to submit notes to the Senate for thelr ady Would he do that?—Extract srom the Treaty respondence, Of course he would do anything to oblige so pld, tried and valued a friend to America ag England. Tar Mastresto or tue Spantsn Repvpii- - ble enough upon the surface, but it really | means nothing. The treaty already disposes of the subject by distinctly defining the | duties and responsibilities of neutrals, Besides, | those who use the plea in support of Lord Granville’s supplemental rule tell us that ans.—When is domestic trouble in Spain to | end? The Carlist insurrection has proved a complete failure, Now, however, that the | insurrection is to all intents and purposes | ended, the leaders of the republican party have | taken a step which virtually amounts to the | initiation of another rebellion. Castelar, Mengal and Figueras have issued a manifesto, in which they repudiate Amadeus and Don | Carlos alike, protest against royalty in any shape, and declare that the time has como when the republicans inust prepare for the | tombat. This is plain speaking. These men Cannot with any good grace appear again in the Cortes. If the leaders absent themselves | the rank and file must follow their example. The prospect in Spain is as dark as ever, If Light does not soon break in upon the darkness the European Powers will be under the neces- | bity of interfering and taking Spain by the | hand, helping her into the right path. It is | painful to say it, but it does seem to be a fact | that for such a people constitutional govern- , Granville’s article, | a trick to secure the abandonment of our consequential damages are absurd, and that the Geneva Tribunal would assuredly refuse to allow them. In that case the judgment of the tribunal would be an established precedent for the future, and would settle the point forever as completely as it could be settled by Lord The proposed rule is only ease, and the pretended equivalent it offers is amere sham. Ifthe claims for indirect dam- ages are just, England is the more inexcusable in her obstinate refusal to allow them to be adjudicated upon. If they are unjust and untenable, as England insists they are, then there is nonced of a supplemental treaty rule | to declare them so. 9. The treaty is essential to us because its failure would depress our securities on the London market and deprive us of the use of English capital. It would be a poor recom- mendation of our securities, to confess that their value depends upon the friendship of the London market, and the moneyed interests that ment is a mockery. urge this plea unon the government ag a rea- son for the surrender of our national honor are likely to do more damage than good to their property by the singular admission. It has been thought that our bonds were a secure and valuable investment, because the country is rich, powerful, prosperous and honorable, and not because they find a ready sale on the London market. But the wealthy Solons of the Chamber of Commerce, trembling at the fear of losing one or two per cent on their cap- ital, would make it appear that we are a nation dependent for the appreciation of our bonds and the carrying on of our enterprises upon the good opinion and well-filled pockets of John Bull. We tell these timid gentlemen that a cowardly surrender of our gov- ernment to the English demands vould injure our credit more than the failure of a score of treaties, If the Treaty of Washington should be destroyed the responsi- bility rests with England, and not with us, and we only return to the same position we have occupied since the cessation of the war of the rebellion, with the Alabama claims open for future settlement. Certainly it cannot make us weaker or less responsible as a nation to have a large outstanding claim against Eng- land, which must be paid, with interest, sooner or later. Our securities will be the firmer on the European markets for the firmness of the nation in this crisis; and as for our railroad and other enterprises, if we cannot prosecute them without British capital secured at the loss of our national honor, we had better abandon them altogether. But the ideas of the gentle- men of the Chamber of Commerce do not ex- tend beyond their bank books and counting houses. They cannot grasp the fact that we are a great and growing people, dependent only upon ourselves, and that the cramped and used-up nations of the Old World are only too glad to accept our securities and to regeive the liberal interest they yield. 4, If the present treaty should be destroyed our direct claimants will be kept out of their money. There is a short road by which to escape from this difficulty. Let the United States government pay all our citizens who have direct claims for damages against the Anglo-Confederate privateers and become itself the direct creditor of England. ‘The claimants will be benefited by this arrangement, for our own government is not likely to criticise thoir accounts so closely as they would be criticised by England, particularly if the claimants are careful to leave a good margin for arguments. The London papers already declare that the whole amount of property destroyed by the Shenandoah amount only to a little over one million dollars, while the ‘‘claims’’ on that rebel privateer reach above six millions. This probably accounts for the eager attempts of the lobby to prevail on the Senate to accept the supplemental infamy. ~If our government will pay these claimants, issuing bonds for that purpose, and assume all our direct claims against England, we shall in future negotia- tions be rid of this lobby pressure and be more likely to make an honorable and satisfactory settlement. 5. The failure of the Treaty of Washington now will discourage the now principle of the settlement of international differences by ar- bitration instead of by the sword. It is a pretty sentiment to desire that the Great Republic of the Western Continent should be the pioneer in the scheme of universal friendly arbitration, advocated so eloquently by the ex-Emperor of France. But we hold that we have done our part in securing its success in the instance of the Treaty of Washington, and that for its failure, if it be destined to fail, England is alone responsible. Besides, what kind of “friendly arbitration’ is that which declares, “we will submit only such points as we deem proper, and unless you make out your case just as we please we will break off our friendly arbitration altogether?’’ The very idea of such a peaceful settlement between two nations contemplates the removal of every cause of disagreement, and can only be succesful when approached in a spirit of con- cession and sincerity. The Treaty of Wash- ington would not be worth the parchment en which it is written if it should bo secured only through the humiliation of one of the signatories at the arrogant demand of the other. However undesirable may be its failure, the United States government certainly has no share in the responsibility that attaches to its destruction. We are willing to abide by its letter and spirit, and we insist that both, with all the antecedent circumstances, warrant the case we have presented for the consideration of the Geneva Tribunal. Upon that case we should stand; and if England chooses to vio- late her obligations, to withdraw from the conference and to destroy the treaty, the blame and the shame are with her alone, We again call upon the administration and the Senate for the honor of the nation as well as for their own political preservation, to re- ject the English proposition for our uncondi- tional surrender. Not a single argument apart from selfish interests can be advanced in favor of the disgraceful abandonment of our case; and we warn the trembling merchants, mil- | lionnaires and bondholders who are so terrified at the bugbear of the London market, that they are injuring the nation’s crodit by their | timid policy. Let them bear in mind, too, that a Senate willing to sacrifice the national honor for mercenary considerations would not be likely to hesitate at repudiation if the national debt, about which they are now so solicitous, should ever become troublesome, | The Austrian Expedition to the Arciic Regions, Preparations for the fitting out of the expe- dition to proceed to the Arctic regions are go- ing forward with commendable despatch at Vienna. For the past six or nine months the subject has been agitated in scientific circles abroad, and the most hopeful opinions regard- ing the prospects of the explorers are expressed on every side, The leaders of the expedition, Messrs. Payer and Weyprecht, who are both young men, full of daring and ambition, have the endorsement of Dr. Petermann, whose pro- vious attempts to solve the Arctic problem in- vest his approval of the present, undertaking with importance. The cost of the expedition will, in all probability, amount to about one hundred and seventy-five thousand florins, a large portion of which has already been subscribed, and little doubt is entertained but that the remainder will be forthcoming before it is needed, The German as well as the Austrian press have spoken in high terms of the expedition. The explorers, who are shortly to set out on their perilous undertaking to the frozen North, have all the advantages to pe derived fom a tharonch knowledge and close study of those who have gone before them intent upon the same object. The explo- rations of Dr. Petermann and Captains Osborn, Koldewey and Rosenthal, as well as the expe- ditions which, for the last ten years, have gone forth from France, Russia and Sweden, have each helped to throw new light on the dangerous navigation in the Arctic waters which must prove of incalculable advantage to the present explorers. The intention of Messrs. Payer and Weyprecht’s expedition is given in a letter from Vienna, published in another page. Sumner’s Presidential Problem=—Big G and Little g—Where is B. B.? Mr. Sumner is a man of letters in every sense of the word. Scholastically he is far ahead of the good little boy who knew only two letters, namely:—Let her be and let her tip. He has gotas faras letter G, and has made the astounding discovery that of the Presidential genus there are two distinct spe- cies—namely, the big G and the little g. How far his astute mind may have been put on the track which led up to this great fact by the light Schoolboy Fish threw on the subject in his quotations from the Latin dictionary, when wrangling with his master, Granville, as to what the term ‘generically’? meant, we can- not say. At any rate, he takes Greeley and Grant, and inflates the first until he is big G and compresses the latter until he is little g. This process is highly defensible in politics and remarkably easy. Tomake this clear to the eye observe the following recipe:—Having placed Horace on the top of the Franklin statue and Ulysses on the top of the Custom House, pro- cure Professor Thatcher's telescope; then take an’ observation of Horace according to the regular method. When you are assured that he looks as big as the United States and his white hat about the size of the White House reverse the telescope and observe Ulysses. He will be found, to your entire satisfaction, to look about the size of a lonely sparrow on the house top, with the lighted end of his hugo cigar dwindled to the apparent size of a star of the seventy-third magnitude. Those who prefer the fruit of the Appomattox apple tree to the cabbages of Chappaqua may reverse the process, and it will then be observed that Grant is the big G, and Greeley the little g. We understand, however, that Mr. Sumner, with his accustomed gravity and rare erudition, has set about applying his discovery to mathe- matics in a novel way. Well versed in the mysteries of algebra, he has, on the big G and little g basis, resolved the whole question of the Presidental succession into an algebraic problem. Big G and little g suggested themselves at once as the ‘unknown quan- tities.” Keeping these well under his Sena- torial eye, he reasoned as follows:—Horace is a good square old man; therefore he will stand for the square of big G. Added to him we can put Mr. Tweed, who still counts as Big Six, plus three millions of democrats, North and South; from the foregoing deduct little g and the square radix of the republican party, which will give big G fifty thousand majority, and the whole White House for a homestead. What the chances are that this will be worked out as the reverend Senator puts it, no one better than the Senator knows, depends on the people who will meet at Baltimore in the predict. Grant, it is understood, has ordered a cartload of chalk, and with the party slate in his lap intends to work it out to his own satis- faction, ‘‘if it takes all summer,’’ as it un- doubtedly will. ‘We fear, however, that another very great “unknown quantity’’ has been entirely over- looked—namely, B. B. We shall not make this mistake; but the perversity with which it has been keeping out of the way of late has puzzled us very much, Need we say that we mean the Hon. Benjamin Butler, sacred to Cape Cod? Vague hints have been thrown out that he was at the bottom of the California earthquake, although he himself has not been known to believe in ‘shakes.’’ It was also whispered that he was the author of the Open Polar Sea excitement, which was to be granted in fee simple to the Gloucester fishermen as an offset to the fishery clause. The grounds on which he was reported to have set his peculiar eye upon it were that it looked “very like a whale’ in pros- pective. A sinister rumor said that he had secretly brought about the persecution of the Roumanian Jews in order to make public capital by championing them and obtain the lasting help of the. Rothschild interest. All these were unfounded, as well as the report that he was coquetting for the colored vote by agreeing to paint the Goddess of Liberty on the Capitol a shade between coffee color and chrome yellow. He is said, however, to have been pointing out to the culled bredren the significant fact that Greeley invidiously wears a white hat, leaving them to draw their own conclusions. His action in the House about the Ku Klux business shows his animus on the matter. His opinion on the Supplemental Treaty is adverse to Fish, Thus much is known positively, He would like to own Fish, as the memories of Fisher and the care of the fisheries are already his ; he is sorry he cannot haul on the one net with him, Let the alge- | braic calculators on the Presidency, therefore, look well out for B. B., as his ‘unknown quan- tity” will take positive shape between this and next November, and somebody will be hurt, The Case of the Steamer Edgar Stewart. Our advices from Kingston, Jamaica, of the 10th, furnish us with the particulars of the case of the American steamer Edgar Stewart, which is now in the custody of the United States war vessel Wyoming. The Stewart, it appears, had business of that pecriliar charac- ter on the Cuban coast which it is the mis- sion of Spanish cruisers to prevent. All went well on board the steamer from the time she cleared at New London, Connecticut, for Key West, until the second night she was off the coast of Cuba, On board were munitions which were not to be found in her clearance papers. By plans arranged before sailing the commander of the vessel was to effect a landing on the Cuban coast at. a point to be designated by one of the Cubans on board, and be made under the cover of night. The point was gained and ten armed men were landed, but as they did not return and day- light was approaching the steamer put to sea again. The next night the same point was again reached to look out for those who landed on the previous evening, The men not appearing the steamer again put to sea. A mutiny shortly after this, it would appear, broke out. The Cubans rose dog days. It is at best deemed hazardous to- appearance of a Spanish man-of-war brought the excitable Cubans to a sense of their approaching danger, and the captain resumed charge of the ship, The Edgar Stewart, fortunately for those on board, was a- fast sailer, and her captain, pointing her head for Kingston, made that port in safety, where he reported his vessel in distress. The captain no sooner got ashore than he charged those on board with ‘anutiny and piracy,” while they in turn charge the captain with filibustering. The declarations of both parties are in the hands of the Governor of Jamaica and the United States Consul, and the Edgar Stewart, after escaping capture by a Spanish cruiser, misfortune at the hands of mutineers, destruc- tion from the guns of the English steamer Plover, whose guns were trained on her for a day and a night, is now in the custody of the Wyoming, whose captain has taken charge of her with the intention of conveying her to Key West. * The Cause of Christianity in Japan— Imperial Decree Abolishing the Edicts Against Foreign Churches, The members of the Japanese Embassy in America are in receipt of government de:patches which announce the most important news which has been communicated to the Christian churches from the East since the days of the travel of Marco Polo and the receipt of his first letters from Asia. An imperial Japanese decree, issued in the month of April last, abolished all the national edicts against Christianity, which have been in force for more than three centuries, The decree was made public by the Cabinet of the Tenno, speaking in the name of the youthful emperor. It was accepted with respect by the people. The Buddhist priests, acting in the spirit of their professional ecclesiastical ¢orpo- rate exclusiveism, attempted to resist it, They endeavored to force its repeal. With this view a body of clerics tried to make their way into the palace, moved by the resolve of overawing the civil ruler and his advisers. They were resisted by the military guards and cut down by the sword of the law. The fact of this oc- currence gave rise to the exciting report of an attempted assassination of the sovereign of Japan, which’ reached us some short time since in our news despatches from Yokohama. It was the men who attempted to strangle the returning aspiration of liberty of consciehce who were put to death, not those who defended the act of toleration. Christen- dom will breathe more freely on account of the news, and the star of Faith which illu- mines the Christian altars be made to glisten still more brightly by the sparkle of Hope and Charity. The first progress of Christianity in Japan was almost miraculous ; its repulse, reverses and sufferings under the application of a lay penal code, mournful, yet of attractive in- terest. After Europe had been told of the vast empire of Japan and its people by Marco Polo and by the Portuguese, who travelled towards Asia in the path of Vasco de Gama, Christian Church missionaries followed rapidly on the footsteps of the men of commerce. In the year 1549 Japan was visited by the celebrated Apostle of the Indies, Francis Xavier. He was well received. at first, and converted vast numbers of the natives to Christianity, Three of the most powerful of the no- bles—the Princes of Bungo, Avima and Omura—were among the converts. In 1582 the Japanese Christians despatchcd an em- bassy, bearing letters and presents, to Rome, to do honor to the Pope and assure him of their submission to the Church. In the ten years following, 1591-92 it is said that twelve thousand Japanese were baptized. After some time Taiko-Sama, jealous of foreign influence, asked the Portu- guese Ambassador, ‘How is it that your king possesses himself of half the world?’? The Portuguese, in his vanity and indiscretion, replied, ‘He sends priests to win the people; his trodps then are sent to join the native Christians, and the conquest is easy.’ This reply made a deep impression on the Japanese government. In the year 1587 Taiko issued aries; it was renewed by his successor, and | in 1597 twenty-three priests were executed at Nagasaki. The native Christians retaliated against the idol temples. This induced a terrible persecution, and in the years 1612 and 1614 thousands of Japanese converts were put to death, their churches and schools destroyed, and the Christian faith declared, “infamous and rebellious.” This system has an edict for the banishment of the mission- | ~Germa: waa = France=Negotiations Progressing for an Early Evacua< tion of French Territory, A cable despatch which we print this morn- ing informs us that the negotiations which for some time past have been going on between the governments of Berlin and Versailles, with a view to a final payment on the part of France and & complete withdrawal of her troops from French soil on the part of Ger- many, are progressing favorably. We shall be glad to learn that the fair soil of France is frea from the foot of the invader, and that the war which has been 80 much of a gain to Ger- many and so much of a loss to France is finally ended. With the evacuation of French territory comes the commencement of a new era forthe French people. With the com. mencement of the new era must come the de- mand for the settlement of certain all-impor- tant questions which make it extremely difficult to say what is to be the immediate future of France. The arrangement made at Bordeaux at the close of the war— an arrangement which has been so faithfully kept by all parties, and which has made the position of President Thiers a position of com- parative ease and comfort—will cease to be binding; and it will be the duty of President Thiers and of the Assembly to resign to the French people the powers which the French people temporarily confided to their care, Provision must be made fora general election of members to the Assembly, or provision must be made for a plébiscite. Trance, in fact, must be called upon to decide what is to be the future form of her government—whether the republic is to continue and to take a more solid shape; whether the monarchy is to ba restored under one or other of the branches of: the House of Bourbon, or whether the empire is to be re-established. These difficulties will immediately present themselves after the evacuation is completed, and hence the ime portance which attaches itself to the progress of these negotiations. During the last twelve or fourteen months France has given us good reason to believe that sho can dispense with kings and emperors. We shall be sorry to seo her go back on the good record which she has made, Bouquet Johnny, the Flower of Modern Chivalry. There is no telling what may may eventually become of mankind. Darwin assures us that we are the respectable descendants of worthy apes, and oftentimes when we look round we are almost forced into the belief that the worthy philosopher has suffered some great injury at the hands of the monkey tribe, which he wishes to avenge by proving their connec- tion with man, The libel must certainly be very galling to the feelings of on intelligent chimpanzee, and the little ring-tailed monkeys must give an additional twist of disdain to their posterior appendage when they hear of the presumption of man. The justness of their contempt for the lord of creation is made clear enough by such scenes as that exhibited in the Bowery the other night. ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, and no one must imagine that we are unduly disposed to favor the monkeys in the controversy if we exhibit a specimen of a tribe of men becoming unpleas- antly numerous among us. Our subject ig heroic, and we thought of stealing Virgil's line, “arma virumque ;'’ but here a hitch came in, caused by the editorial we. Our theme is heroic, but of the modern kind. Burke was right when he said that the age of chivalry was past; but we are glad to see that in the breast of some of the ladies the ancient fire burns as brightly as in the old Amazonian times. No modern Juno snatches up the object of her ire and dashes the wretch ‘in scapula acute,”’ a warning to all future sinners; but the cowhide is found an admirable sub- stitute in the ‘gentle’ hands. We take it that the appearance of an avenging angel in the mildest form must be rather an unpleasant | interruption to social mirth ; but when the “angel” appears in the shape of a good look- ing, but infuriate little woman, we fear the | victim must be pardoned if he thinks her the devil. Certainly the lady who interrupted tha | social glee of the Bowery party astonished the natives by the vigorous use of the cowhide | on the shoulders of the doomed George | Brower. This gentleman with the euphonious name is better known by tho sou- | briquet of ‘Bouquet Johnny.” But, in | spite of this pretiy name, in person | he is lank and lean, and most uninviting to | look upon. In trath, George is not a beauty, | When the irate Madame Pigott burst like @ | fury. on the votaries of lager, smiting been maintained with more or less intensity, against every form of Christianity since, al- though the records of the Vatican go to show that there have always existed Roman Catholic congregations, numbering thousands of wor- shippers in, the interior of Japan. English and American missionaries have been very successful in forwarding the work of the Gospel in Japan during many years past, They have also suffered much for the faith, The Japanese havo right and left the horrid man, the as- sistants stood amazed. The victim fled— the avenger followed. “Police !’” shouted the gal, lant George as the stinging strokes rained. upon him, but echo only replied and the loud | mocking langh of the people who enjoyed the fun, Fear is a great quickener of motion, and length of leg is invaluable in hasty retreats. Aided by both George made good his escape. | Had he been wise in his genération he would | have esteemed himself happy and have recently alleged against some few of our Amer- | scratched his back in private; but, smarting ican preachers that they adulterated the Gospel under the sense of cowhide, he sought the aid by the pursuit of gain to a very considerable | of the law. extent. Ithas appeared, indeed, in the Hxnsxp The law, however, has no_ terrors 1 for a pretiy woman while so gallant a gentle- | news reports just lately to hand, as if the | man as Judge Shandley acts for the blind system of money changing in the Temple had _ goddess. George was shown to be a low, been renewed away out in the Far East by men | sneaking fellow, in spite of his pretty sobri- in surplice and cassock, and practised in a | quot, Not content with making the lady the | form just as repulsive to a trae Christian heart | victim of some sharp practice in business, he } a9 it was eightcen hundred years since, before | attacked her fair fame, and, as the law affords its rebuke ly the Great High Priest himself. no protection from slander, the lady appealed , It is to be hoped that the present effort of the | to the virtues of cowhide to avenge her wrongs. Japanese government will be received in a be- | coming spirit by the outside Christian world, | | and that the fold of the Church in Asia will be | | purged of the black sheep and restored to the | | simple form and saintly routine of its pristine management. sad a ions a Tae Patmen New York Crry Cranter Not Approvep.—Governor Hoffman has decided not to give his approval to the charter for the city of New York passed at the end of the legislative session, and the reasons he gives | were published in the Hinaxp of yesterday. | The Governor is very clear in his argument, | | and, we suppose, no fair-minded person will | differ with him. We called upon him to veto | | this Palmér charter on the ground he has taken, a8 we did that monstrous abortion, the | former charter passed by this Logislature, | which he had the good sense to yeto, We need not recapitulate the arguments used, as they aro known to our readers, but must say that Governor Hoffman merits in this, as in many Againgt the captain and assrmed control ‘The other things, the commendation of the nublia, Our sympathies are naturally with the fair sex, | even when they may happen to be a little too vivacious, but with the facts before us the only verdict we can pass in the case of ‘Bouquet Johnny" is—served him right. The Street-Cleaning Contract—New Pow ers and Dutics of the Police Board. | ‘The Legislature, which has adjourned after a performance so barren in results of what it set about, has left us one enactment, at least, which was in substance demanded of them. We refer to the law under which the old do-- nothing Street Cleaning Commission was swept out of existence, and its duties vested in the Police Board, with increased powers. Under the law we may expect the blessing of clean streets and a cessation of the thousand and ove sméils which have made New York stink in the nostrils of the milliom or so of humanity residing on Manhattan Is- land, ‘Tho contractor, who has hitherto per formed only part of his contract to the letter— namely, reoviying the money, will hencefortla ——————