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6 | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1872.— NEW YORK HERALD EROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ae ei atieeatied JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIL AIMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, sOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth av—bxocn Axpes Matinoe at 14g. 1 THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Bri Les or Tax Kitcnen, UAR ate L WALLAGK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Loxpon Assurance, THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. FIFTH AVI Anions 47. Se eae ST, JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-elghth street and Broadway.—Mackvoy's Himentnicon. Matinee at 2. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th formances afternoon and evening.—On Hann, LINA EDWE rox Fautiy—W "S THEATRE, 720 Broadway. ep a Patuen, &c, Matine: at "RY THRATRE, Bowery.—Jenxy Linp—Burrna, KRWING MACHINE Gini, €c, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brondway.—Tun Barier Pan romime ov Humpry Doarry. Matinee at 2. THEATRE, near Third INK AND Prrnvcuto. THIRTY-FOURTH STRE ay.—tue StRavare—Katn MRS FOB East Lynsr. THEATRE COMIOU! isms, NecHO Acts, &C. 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PAVILION, No. 633 B1 Oncurstra, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF Sormnce ap Ant, New York, Wednesday, May 22, 1872. way, near Fourth st—Dapy ATOMY, GIS Broadway.— CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. eles Wisi Paar. 1—Advertisemen R—Advertisements 3—The Successful Strikes: Workingmen Winning and the Elght-Hour System Being Established ; The Carpenters Cot quer; Probable End To- Day of the Plumbers’ Strike; Au Uprisin the Stone Masona, Coach Painter smiths Anticipated; The Bricklayers’ Over; The Last Gathering of the Clans that Have Borne tie Heat and Burden of the Co: test Presidency—Mr, Gree ley's Tents—Rep ‘entral Committe ginia Polities—Nominations in Mat cal Not « National Game- Ship that Convo cone menical Council, Impeachinent Trial: The Court to Assem- rte Capital To-Day: The Mar ue co Barner What to Do with the Fraudutent Treaty of Washington—The Truc Policy of President Grant. Tho Henarp special cable despatch from London published to-day gives the substance of an outspoken, sensible article from the Pall Mall Gazette on the pending negotiations be- tween England and the United States which is well worth the attention of the noisy, persistent and self-interested lobbyists who are laboring with tho administration and with Congress for the endorsement of the supplemental rule to the Treaty of Washington dictated to us by the English government, and who have been so loud in their protestations that the failure of the negotiations would bo a serious injury to the United States as to in- duce a general acceptance of the assertion. Our people have been led unthinkingly to believe that the treaty renders certain the payment of all our claims against England for the depre- dations committed by tho Anglo-rebel priva- teers, except those for indirect or consequen- tial damages, and that in this and all other of its provisions it is a more satisfactory settle- ment than has ever before been offered to us by England. So far from this being true, the Treaty of Washington makes no valuable concession whatever to the United States. The payment of ovr claims for direct damages is less secure under it than under the roajected — Sohnson-Clarendon Convention, and the treaty, stripped of our right to argue the whole question of England's action during our rebellion and to decide finally the full measure of the injury her dis- criminating neutrality inflicted upon the Uaion cause, would become nothing more than a fraud upon the American people. But, inde- pendent of its value to ourselves, the treaty would miss its main professed object should it fail to remove all the differences and misunder- standings that haye so long existed between the two nations and to inaugurate a new era of confidence and friondly feeling. It is with this thought, which has already found utter- ance in the Heratp, that the Pull Mall Gazette declares that the worst thing to do with the treaty is to,save it by offence and humiliation to England or America, or to both nations. In no other manner can it now be saved, Au abandonment of our case means humiliation to us; an assent to the consideration of indirect damages means humiliation to Eng- land; an evasive, dishonest compromise, such as our Washington advices indicate is to be adopted by the Senate to-day, means humilia- tion and dishonor to both. As the | London journalist says, “Who shall eat the or Shall both eat it together? is the sole | leek, question now in controversy, and we entirely coincide with his conclusion that the only safe and peaceful way of disposing of the treaty 8—Stokes—The iment—Southern Military Day of the S Meeting; | Weather and Fine" | Conference-—The The Pr vi y Wallach to “fair Play"—Probable Murder in biooklya— Marriages and Deaths, G—Uilitorials: Leading Article, That to Do with the dulent Tre f Washington The Trne T of President ~Peysonal | Intelligence fal of the H Huston— Hebrew’s tu Comicil—Amusement Announce: The Washington Treaty: British Press Cany the Document, the Supplemental Art I the Course and Bearing of the Neg ‘The Debate. in the Senate on Lord | He's Protocol to. Commences ‘To-Da son the Treaty ne Tele: from Washington—Business o Att ows es. 11 and Commercial: Gold 18%; a 113% celing in the Gold Market, with | uange Quiet and Firm; Specie vo Morrow — $1,000,000: Another ks: Special Excitement in | ic Mell, with the Causes Oper. | : Governments Strong, Sonth- er Securities Firm, Raflway Mo: and City Bank’ Shares ‘ompendiui of Ad mod WeMexico: Progress of the Civil War and Pros- pects of the Presidency—The Je City Frauds——The M1 lp The Tammany Ring ly Associn- tion—Shipping Mite We dvertise: IW—Aiivertiseme tonal Rife — Advertisements, Nige mY “n Ewp oy tHe Carus, Ixsurrection.—Mar- shal Serrano has, to all appearance, been com- | pletely successful in putting down the Cuarlist | insurrection. Latterly the movement was con- fined to the province of Biscay. In all the other provinces the insurrection was stamped | out. It is now authoritatively stated that in Biseay the Carlist organization has been completely annihilated. It is no longer to be denied that the King’s government is strong. We are not satisfied, however, that the Spanish people are likely soon to settle down to habits of peace and industry. Srraxce CompAntonsnmp—That of the pre- tended democratic organ here and Secretary Fish. It is remarkable that on all questions of international policy and diffieuliy—-on that with England regarding the Washington Treaty and claim for consequential damages, on Cuba, and on everything else where the y of Siate goes against and almost public sentiment—the so-called demo- is with him ond is his earnest de It assails the President, but defends Mx. They are both together in everything un-American and unpatriotic. Is this the work of the § Department lobby? Can any one account for the milk in this vocoannt ? | Tar Boxarantets any Repenracan Migr TERIALISTS IN Leotsiarive As- smmpiy hay oked quite an excitement in the Parliamentary Halli and among the people by a renewal of the discussion on the system of war contracts. M. Rouher spoke during three hours yesterday. President Thiers and M. Gambetta will address the members to-da; M. Rouher is anxious to defend Bonspart and the past. It is to be presumed that Pre: dent Thiers will tell w! he knows both the past and the present. If ‘4 France is wise it will eschew war contracts en- tirely and try to learn how to get along in the world without fighting. THE NCH mung" Tue Trxro1s Repopiican Stats CONVENTION toeets in Springfield to- Some interest is attached to its proceedings in consequence of | the dissatisfaction expressed by some of the liberal republicans of Minois at the the Cincinati Convention. Will any of them— Stanley Matthews, Judge Brinkerhoff an others who repudiated the Cincinnati nomina- tions—put in an appearance at the regntar convention to be held in Springfield to-day ? That ia the question. If they do not, and the Convention proceeds in the usual rontine way to transact. its business, all that may be ex- pected to be done will be to cleet delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, pass the usual resolutions commendatory of Gencral Grant's pAministyption, aud adionr sine die results of and the negotiations is to drop them ‘as an irremediable blunder for which the two gov- ernments are alone to blame.’’ In the present condition of the controvery, with an excited state of feeling among the people, its protrac- tion fora day is fullof danger, and in this country, at least, the popular sentiment is in favor of the course suggested by the Pull Mall Gazette. There is, indeed, nothing in the Treaty of Washington that, even under more favorable cir- cumstances, could recommend it to our people. The Johnson-Clarendon Treaty was rejecied in the Senate by the emphatic vote of 54 to 1. It provided for the submission to a commis- sion specified in the treaty of “all claims on the part of individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the government of Her Britannic Majesty, and all olaims on the part of individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, upon the government of the United States,”’ presented since February, 1853. The commissioners were to investigate and decide upon these claims in their order; to examine the evi- dence presented in relation thereto, and, if e | necessary, to hear one person on each side in | argument thereof. Provision was made for the final settlement of the sum to be awarded in each case in the of non-concurrence among the arbitrators or commissioners, and the result was to be ac- | cepted as binding upon the two governments. There was no expression of regret on the part of England at the escape of the rebel priva- teers from British ports; but the liability of that government for their depredations, so far as the losses of individual citizens of the United States are concerned, seems to have been tacitly conceded. The duties of the commissioners and arbitrators appear to have maiuly been the assessment of the amount of damages to be paid in each separate case. the Treaty of Washington the liability of England to pay any damages whatever—either individual or national, direct or indirect-—is explicitly contested. ‘The words of the opon- ing article are, ‘‘Now in order to remove and adjust all complaints and claims on the part of the United States, and to provide for the speedy settlement of sich claims, which are not admitted by Her Britonnic Majesty's gov- ernment,’’ &e. It is, then, made the first duty of the Geneva Conference to decide a question not mooted in the Johnson-Clarendon ‘Treaty—to wit, whether England is liable at all for any damages done to the property of our citizens by the Anglo-rebel privateers—and should the judgment of the tribunal on this point be adverse to our government, our whole case falls to the ground. In this respect the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty was a better | settlement for the United States than that pro- posed under the Treaty of Washington through the instrumentality of the Geneya arbitration; and it is not true, as the lobbyists assert, that individual citizens are certain of the payment of their claims if the conference shall be suffered to proceed and the treaty be pre- served, From whatever point of view we look upon this treaty the idea of intentional fraud on the part of the British government forces itself more and more strongly upon us, It is no- torious (despite Sir Stafford Northcote’ tions,) that the subject of indirect damages was discussed by the Joint High Commission- ers who were the framers of the treaty, and that the intention of our government to press our claims therefor was well known to ¢ English plenipotentiaries. Indeed, we have good wuthority for the statement that when the draft of our complaint was placed before the British High Commissioners they made comments on § asser- me portions of its contents and took exceptions to other portions, while | the subject of our claims for indixect damages was passed over without protest or objection. It is notorious, too, that during the time the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty hung trembling in the Senate Chamber oux dbinistes in London, event | In | under instructions from sectefary Seward— whose memory on this point seems to fail him—submitted to Lord Clarendon an addi- tional article, conferring upon the Commission created by the treaty the consideration of “all claims made by the United States govern- ment,’’ as well as by individuals, and urged the concurrence of the English Ministry therein, on the plea that our Senate would not consent to a settlement that did not em- brace the national or ‘indirect’? damages as well as individual damages, and that the con- cession was absolutely necessary to save tho treaty. Lord Clarendon laid the proposition” before the Cabinet, but the government re- fused its assent and the treaty was rejected. It is clear, therefore, that when the English government now assume to have heard of indirect claims officially for the first time in our Geneva case, they shelter themselves be- hind a diplomatic subterfuge to conceal the whole truth. Taking these facts into con- sideration, in what light docs the conduct of England appear, when she affirms that the con- sideration of indirect claims was never con- templated by the Treaty of Washington, but was, in fact, excluded from the province of the Geneva Tribunal? After the experience of the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, and alter the in- tention of our government to claim ind damages had been published to the British High Commissioners, we are told that the words used in the treaty designating the claims to be decided upon as those ‘generically known as the Alabama Claims,” confines such claims to individual losses and damages, be-| cause England had officially known of none other under the generic title of ‘Alabama Claims.”’ This, too, in the face of the solemn declaration of the treaty that, ‘in order to remoye and adjust all ‘complaints’ and claims on the part of the United States”’—not of individual citizens thereof— “the high contracting parties agree that all the said claims ‘growing out of’ acts com- mitted by the aforesaid vessels’ shall be re- ferred to tho tribunal. Is it, under the cir- ennstances, unfair to suspect that these words were purposely used to entrap us into a belief that our claims for indirect damages were to be considered and settled, while the after designation of the claims as those ‘generically known as the Alabama Claims’’ was designed to enable the British government to resort to the diplomatic pretence that under such title they had no official knowledge of any but the direct claims of individual citizens of the United States? But why was the word ‘“generic’’ used in relation to the Alabama claims? The Eng- | lish government and writers assert that the term has a restrictive effect, and was intended to limit the authority of the Geneva tribunal to the consideration of one particular class of claims—namely, those of individual citizens | for direct damages inflicted upon them by the acts of the Anglo-Confederate _ privateers. | Without referring to any musty Latin authori- ties, let us see the plain English definition of the word as given by Webster:— “Generic, generical: 1. Pertaining to a genus or kind ; relating to the genus, as dis- tinct from species or another genus, as a gene- ric description, a generic difference, a gencric name, 2. Very comprehensive, pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their character- isties.’’ Looking further into Webster we find the definition of the word “genus” given as | | follows :—“Genus: 1, A class of objects di- | vided into several subordinate species, a class more extensive than species, &e. 2. An assemblage of species pos- sessing certain characters in common, by which they are distinguished from | all others; it is subordinate to tribe and sub- tribe; hence a single species having distinctive | characters that seem of more than specific | value may constitute a genus.” The use of the word ‘‘generic,’’ in reference to the ‘“Ala- | bama Claims,’’ in the treaty, would, therefore, | import that the term was intended to apply to ‘all the claims, direct and indirect, | out of the acts of the privateers, rather than, as the English writers con- | tend, to confine it to one particular species. |The weight of the argument, in whatever | light the case is viewed, favors the suspicion | | that England was fully sensible of the inten- tion of the American government to advance the claims for indirect, as well as for direct | damages; that Mr. Gladstone relied upon the Geneva Conference to give judgment adverse | | to such claims, and that his dilitory protest | | against their consideration grew out of a politi- cal necessity forced upon him by the Opposi- tion. The spectacle presented by the United States government is not an envinble one, whether we suppose ourselves to have been out-man- cenvred by England or blustered into an aban- donment of our rights under the treaty, There | is but one short and direct road out of the difficulty, and it is in the power of one man to tread it and to reseue us from our disgracefal embarrassment with credit to himself and a growing | | to the nation. The Pall Mall Gazette points it out as the pathway of ‘safety and | | honor, President Grant has been made | ‘the victim of an incompetent and vacil- | lating Cabinet Minister. The time-serving | | policy of Secretary Fish has brought all | this trouble upon us. If the President had been left to himself, free from the influence of | would-be diplomats, he would have told the | British government in his concise manner that | our case was before the tribunal and that we | | should not withdraw or amend it, and would | have left to England the responsibility of | breaking the treaty if she pleased to do so. It is not now too late for the President to | adopt this course and to redeem himself before | the people. The proposal of Lord Granville | is at present unofficial, and the supplemental rule is ouly before the Senate for advisement. Let President Grant withdraw it from the con- ; sideration of that body, return it to Lord Granville, with a polite refusal to accept it, | state in a few words the final determination of the United States government to insist upon | the consideration “of its case by the Geneva Tribunal as it now stands, and request Secre- | tary Fish to retire from the Cabinet as an | | earnest of the firmness and fixity of his pur- | pose. By this course alone can he save the credit of the nation and his own adininistration, The American poople are in \ | | | | | | | earnest in their opposition to the sur- render of our national honor, They admire and will support — President | | Grant as a true American and a patriot soldier, an’ the President owes it to the people to justify their judgement of his character. The present joment iA a crisis in hig politigal | | Spanish Insults to the A history. If he yields to the arrogant demands of England, under a menace of the destruc- tion of a treaty for which the people care nothing, he closes his political career. If he exhibits now the same independence and strength of will he displayed when he refused to allow the Washington politicians to inter- fere with his conduct of his military campaign he will increase his popularity all over the Union and render his triumph in November as certain as his victory over Lee's army. Result of the Labor Movement, When the eight hour agitation was inaugn- rated by the journeymen of this city a few weeks ago there appeared little chance that the men would obtain their demand. Year after year this question had been brought before the public in much the same form, but in spite of the legality of the demand capital had in nearly every case proved too strong for labor. The great difficulty of strikes is that men must live, and the working classes seldom have sufficient resources to enable them to stand a siege. However, there are moments when capital can no more afford to fight than can labor in its normal state. The merease of in- telligence and organization among the working- men enable them to recognize this, and by a proper selection of their time to strike they compel a capitulation, ‘ It may be said that the triumph they have achieved is only temporary, and that the em- ployers will discharge them as soon as they have no further pressing need of their services. This, however, proves nothing; for exactly the same thing would occur if there never had beon a strike. No employer ever keeps a workingman one hour except for his own benefit, and the journeymen know this well. ‘The argument put forward by the instigators of the present agitation, that the eight hour principle will put it out of the power of the employers to revenge themselves, is in the main true, because it will tend to carry the work into the winter, and so avoid slack times. ‘There can be no question that whatever tends to remove the present system, with its alter- nation of busy and idle months, will contribute to the well being of the working classes. This may appear a small matter to those who look on man only as a machine, out of which as much work as possible is to be got; but the millions who toil may well be pardoned if thoy fail to accept the interest of a few thou- sand selfish men as of more importance than their own happiness. We have unquestionably entered upon a new era, when the principles of political economy at present in vogue will be trampled under foot, Though the indications at pres- ent are not very threatening, there is coming rapidly a time when labor will enfranchise itself by the means by which it has been enslaved, The influence of the masses—and they are the workingmen—begins to be felt in all free countries, and is everywhere diverted to the one object. Knowledge is felt to be the real source of power, and the people thirst to acquire it. They feel that they have been oppressed and brutalized by the old system of labor, and they seek to overthrow it. But social emancipation is always more difficult to obtain than political freedom, because so many interests grow upon abuses. The manner in which the struggle has been fought out in this city between the workers and the capitalists reflects equal credit on the | good sense of both. There have been no breaches of the peace and no violent invasions of the rights of others. The demands of the men were reasonable enough, and have the sanction of the law. It is, therefore, to’ be hoped that whatever ill feeling inay have been temporarily created by the conflict of interests | will soon disappear. As the effect of the eight- hour principle will be to increase the intelli- gence of the working classes by allowing them time for self-improvement, we cannot but de- sire its general adoption. rican Flag. ‘The government at Washington seems at last | to be awakening to some sense of the national dignity. The President avd his supple Secre- | tary may be willing to accept with good grace | snubs from aristocratic England, but they will not suffer threats of actual violence to go un- punished. It would appear that some haughty Spanish dons, viewing America by the light of our recent official action, have mistaken the bird of freedom for a goose. Acting on this misconception the commander of the Spanish war ship Borgia undertook to blockade the Edyar Stewart, an American vessel, in the port of Kingston, and even to threaten the Wyoming, an American ship-of-war, when the captain | wished to escort the blockaded yessel out of port. At our latest information from Kingston | the Wyoming and Borgia, both made ready | for action, had steamed out of that port in company with the Edgar Stewart. Consider- able anxiety is, therefore, felt as to the result; but, unless Spanish brag has something more than talk about it, we can be tolerably safe in the belief that the Wyoming will fulfil her trust in protecting the Ameri- ean flag as well as the brave little Kansas did at Aspinwoll the other day in the case of the Virginins. The details of that gallant aflair, which we publish to-day, reflect high credit on Lieutenant Com- mander White and his trusty crew. His management of the matter was marked by dignified conrtesy, a thorough sense of duty, a caution and firmness in action which is something of which the American people may be proud, particularly when com- pared with the insolence and offensive bearing of the Spaniard, ending in such miserable in- competency. Evidentlythe President thinks the Spaniards are going a little too far, and we rejoice to a | think that there is a limit beyond which the lence of foreign nations cannot safely be | | carried. ins Notwithstanding the readiness of some selfish millionnaires to sacrifice the na- tional honor to lust of gain, the great mass of the American people will always heartily honor and dignity of the nation, Vesxgzveta Apyices state that the republic will settle its difficulties with Spain amicably. A band of fevolutionists took possession of the town of Barcelona, held it during two days, stole a thousand dollars and a cargo of mer- chandise from the Custom House and then retired to the mountains. This is bringing the trade of revolution to an exact point of profit, which will pay the Venezuelan patriots preity well—that is, provided there are not too many of them, and that they may make a fair division of the spoils "RIPLE - SHEKT, support the government in maintaining the | The Situation in Mexico—A Oromwel. Man Scene in the Parliament. ‘The news from Mexico, dated in tho capital of the republic on the 15th May, which we publish this morning varies the monotony of the routine report of the course of events in that country by the narration of the occur- rence of some new aud rather startling inci- dents. We have, asa matter of course, the usual detail of military operations, and of the appearance and disappearance hither and thither of some few of the chamelion- like warriors who plague the people of the nation. The insurgents have, defeated Corona in Jalisco. Rocha has captured Mazat- lan. There was talk of industrial progress being made at certain points and a repetition of the stereotyped resolve to build railroads, and so forth. The stubborn, solid facts of the moment, are of a more serious import. Juarez refused to surrender the dictatorial power with which he was invested, even after the expiration of the term of its legislative authorization, on the 30th of April. He persists in subordinating several of the States to mili- tary rule, Congress has become alarmed for the independence of the Parliament, but the oppo- sitionists retired from the House, in face of the exercise of the power of the Executive. It appears that it was almost time for them to doso. We have the tact that the galleries of the legislative building were cleared by a force of armed soldiers, pending a ‘debate, a few nights since. The member who was speaking at the moment exclaimed, ‘Those who failed to attack the French, attack the people.”” The national sympathies are being deteriorated rapidly, An incendiary has destroyed the most interesting historical memento in the country by burning the famous tree of Noche Triste, a living souvenir of the night on which Cortes captured Mexico. The modern Vandal may, perhaps, plead his patriot- ism as an excuse; but civilization will again sigh forth “Unhappy Mexico !"’ B. B. Heard From in Opposition to the Supplemental Ru A few days ago we called upon the member from Massachusetts, Ben Butler, the gentle- man who can claim the big B's to his name, to show his hand on the Washington Treaty imbroglio, and he has done so. His resolution of inquiry into the conduct of the administra- tion as represented by Sir Stafford North- | cote, which was introduced on Monday, but failed to get the necessary two-third vole, was timely and to the point,.and | his speech yesterday in the House, when | the resolution was reported back by General | Banks, showed that he had read and approved | | the Heranp’s comments on the disgraceful | proposition now befgre the Senate. Sir Stat. ford Northeote’s remarks, if correctly re- ported, require a reply from our government, They assert distinctly that a pledge was made by some person in authority at Washington to the British High Commission— of whom Sir 8. Northcote was one—that in- direct damages should not be olaimed by us before the Geneva Tribunal. Mr. Thornton, on the oceasion of the St. George’s anniversary dinner in this city last April, also stated in his speech that it was never con- templated by the High Commission that indirect damages were included in the Treaty of Washington. from Washington declares that the English | High Commissioners were made aware that | indirect damages were to be included in our | case, and that they made uo objection thereto. | We should now have what Ben Butler | demands—an official statement of the facts | | from our government. General Butler is correct in his assertion that the destruction of the Treaty of Washin‘s- Yet semi-official information | that the pretended alarm of those who desire | the success of the negotiations at any cost of national honor “in order to euable us to borrow money at usury,’’ is only assumed as a means of attaining their end. His remarks will probably help to open the eyes of Senators to the politital danger of yielding | tothe British demands, for the Washington | politiciansare fully sensible of the fact that | B. B. has unusual skill in discovering the | popular side of a question, As a supporter of | General Grant, he knows that the enemies of | the President are all hoping earnestly that the | | administration may commit the fatal blunder | of accepting the settlement dictated by the | English government. | No Necessity for § of Habeas Corpus. aspending the Right | The advocates of the bill before Congress , extending the President's power to suspend the right of habeas corpus for one year in the South begin to despair of carrying out their | pet project. A canvass of the House of Repre- sentatives shows that the majority of the members will not endorse such an insult to the rights of American citizens. ‘Chere is little hope for true reconstruction in the Southern States as long ag the yery liberties of the | people are handed over to the tender mercies | | of military satraps, and the fundaments | prin | ciples of civil rights can be torn away at the pleasure of a shoulder-strapped dictator, The power of one man to suspend the right of habeas corpus has been too long a disgrace to the nation, and we trust that our representa- tives, when the bill for its extension comes before them, will promptly rebuke the inso- lence and audacity that suggested it. It is high time that the interminable cant about the issues of the war be laid aside and civil rights be respected in all parts of the country, The | South can never be brought voluntarily within the sisterhood of the States so long as military rule is to be the predominating power and idle complaints about local outrages are believed in Washington, This course has been tried and found an evil of the most agyravating kind, Let the government now turn its atten- tion to conciliatory measures. They will prove, beyond doubt, more successful. | Hayrt axp THe Usrre States rx Necorta- | ‘ttox.—The Haytien government is negotiat- ing with the Cabinet in.Washington for the restitution to the Haytiens of the guano island | of Navassa, which, it is alleged, has been worked by Americans for several years past, although Haytien national soil. The Ameri- can people have never acquired territory by fraud or violence; so if we have no claim on Navassa it is to be presumed we will make it | all vight with the Haytiens. Let the treaties | on both sides be looked up at once. Farmer Gree.ey Accerts.—It will not, probably, take the people by surprise to learn that Farmer Greclev accepts the nomination for | district, presided over its deiiberations, | on | th ton does not mean or necessitate war, and | ; | watering place near the city, In com, Prosident of the Vuiled States tendered him by the Cincinnati Convention. Hig letter stating his willingness to run, and, if elected, to transfer his hat, coat, boots and axe to the White House, will be found in the Heazanp to-day. It is, of course, well written, terse, pointed and emphatic, During General Grant's second term of office the Greeley letter, neatly printed and framed, will be an interesting ad- dition to the walls of the farmhouse at Chap- paqua, Personal Intelligence. George B, McCartee, Superintendent of the Print ing Bureau of the Treasury Department, yesterday reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Washington. Joseph Price, Treasurer of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, is at the Breyoort House, Sir Thomas Dakin, of Engiand, is at the Brevoort House, having arrived on the steamship Russia, He is to make a pleasure trip through the country. Lord Coke and the Earl of Ranfurly have cop- cluded @ tour of the country, and are about to return to Englang They yesterday reached the Brevoort House, The Rey. R. 8, Storrs, Jr., of Brooklyn, arrived from Europe by the Russia on Monday night, The doctor's return has been looked for with delight by the congregation of the Church of the Pilgrims; and, beside the formal welcome to him which has been arranged to take place this evening, in the Bunday School building attached to the church, since his arrival his apartments have been crowded with friends extending their congratulations for his re- newed vigor. REV. DR. HUSTON. His Trial for Licentious Conduct Before an Ecclesiastical Court—A Star Cham- ber Investigation—Virginia Hopkins Placed Upon the Stand—A Solemn De= claration Taken That the Reverend Gentleman Led Her Astray. LTIMORE, May 21, 1872. The case of Lorenzo Ddw Huston, late pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ta this city, was commenced to-day before the Ecolest- astical Court selected to try him, The charges against Dr. Huston have already appeared in the Herawp, and it will only be necessary to state that he is arraigned for a number of heinous and re- volting breaches of the moral code. The Court duly organized at ten o'clock in the personage of ‘Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, on Biddle street. The following gentlemen, composing this | tribunal, were present.—Revs. Nelson Head, Thomas Carson, Zimmerman, Spangler and another minis- ter whose name your reporter could not ascertain. Rey. Samuel Rodgers, the Presiding Elder of this Besides: the Court, Rev. Samuel J. Gardner, the prosecutor for the Church; D. Eldridge Monroe, counsel for Huston, and the accused, were the only persons permitted to enter the building. OPENING OF THE TRIAL. The trial was opened by an invocation of the divine blessing from Dr. Rodgers. A long discus- | sion then ensued as to the proper manuer of con- ducting the investigation and the right of the ac- cused to appear by legal counsel. As Rev. G. §. Roszell, the counsel assigned to Dr. Huaton, was prevented from appearing: by illness, Dr. Huston wished that Samuel Snowden, his attorney in the libel case against the American, should appear for him, He strenuotisty advocated his right to be thns represented; but, ufter a sharp aud wordy contest, ils application was overruled by the Court, and D. Eldvidge Monroe, a school teacher and theo- logical student, was substituted for — the Rev. Mr. Roszoll. Monroe is a young man, about } about twenty-cight years of age, full round face, Diack curly hair, dainty mustache, and demon- strated ina very brief conversation with the Har- ALD'S reporter to-night that his opinion of himself was fully as good as his abiiities, THE CASE OF VIRGINIA HOPKINS, After the question of counsel had been decided & long debate followed as to which case should be first investigated by the bods. It was finally agreed that Virginia. Hopkins should be placed the stand and her case disposed of hefore proceeding with tie others, Virginia Hop- | kine is a white servant girl, who was employed by nine the ns of Huston as a domestic, and who, some months ago, preferred charges —agaiust accused of having seduced her from the pat! rectitude, In appearance she is decidedly plain, and her tres are marred by the ‘traces of smallpox. She has a fine figure and graceful carriage, but. in. cottversa- tion exhibits a lack of education and culture. Virginia Hopkins was placed upon the siand at e o'clock, She told a very simple aud unvar- nished story, and gave evidence repeatedly ot deep hiuniliation, and s distressed at being Ain such @ tr ition, Her evidence antiatly was th has already appeared the He N h i mination of hours duration by the iear comnsei for the defence, i the course of which the question was asked whether she had not been seen with @ young oman at late hour of the night on the strec her hand resting on his shontder, rhe witness replied that one occasion she had returned from Holiy Grove, a ! gentlema her sister and a young was in the act of bidding him good in tront of her house, when the Huston — passed by, and — she — supposed this was the occasion referred to, as Dr. Huston Was always jeaions of her when she was the re- cipient of attentions from other men. She declared positively that the REVEREND GENTLEMAN HAD SEDUCED ItER, and that she had never permitted any intimacy from other men, She said that she w: confused by the ed interr rapid = questions to her, and wus unavle to 4 he contd have done under more fyor IMstances. No “Star Cham: inquisition las ever been con- with more profound secrecy than has thus fi cha terized the deliberations of this religions Court. As was said above, ail persons are rigidly excinded from the parsonage, where the sessions of the court are held, and the presiding otticer politely, out positively, declined to give even the names of its membois. Dr. Ruston and his aitoruey are equaily reticent, and these facts are obtained from a diferent, but thovougily reliable sou ri The Court adjourned at seven o’clock this even- ing, and the examination of witnesses In the case of Virginia Hopkins ys. fiuston will be resumed to- morrow morning. ‘rhe community is excited over the investigation, and the feeling is heightened by the extraordinary precautions of the members of the Court against the wnloldiug of information, dueted HEBREWS IN COUNCIL. 1a} Meeting of the Board ef Detes gates of American Israelites. The annual meeting of the Hoard of Delegates of American Is held last night at the Forty fourth s gogue, betwee Sixth and Seventh avenues, p objects of the society are th in the following rales :— » Union herewith f title of the “Boar and this Board shail have permanent sucees. Loreinatter provided tor. cTioy Every congregation and incorporated rien shall be entitled to repre- ontriimte $10 annual credited de ord, pro’ ad ito tify the names of two Ac legates to ting of the Board shall take in every year, He particalar ijowrmment trom day tod shatl cont jon by adlournment from day to day THAT the" business brought betore It be duly disposed or. The chair was taken by Benjamin Hart, of New York, and the proceedings opened with prayer, by Rey, Mr. Jacobs. The Chairman, in the course of a short address, urged upon the delegates the neces- sity of co-operation with the Christian press and people, in order to prevent a repetition of the de- plorable massacres of the Jews in Roumania. He recommended that a detailed and authentic acconnt of the massacre be drawn up and hauded to the, press for publication, In the annual report the occurrence was detatier. at great length, and the appointment of a commit~ tee urged to take measures to secure the Interven- tion of Christian governments. ‘The following ex- pression of opinton was adopted relative to the p: o- posed introduction of a clause recognizing Christi« anity in the constitution of the United States ‘The agitation in favor of an amendment to the consti tion of the United States recognizing Christianity as the: religion of the land has continued during the year, and another so-cniled national convention has been held tor the purpose ping the subject before the people, The traditional peliey of the nation—a determination: to separate Church and State, to. recognize all religions. as, equal before the ‘law, to effect the and ady Principles of the “founders of Wied in the constitution—does not er of disturbanee by reason other questions, tnd it is sate to dismiss the subject from the consideration of (he Board, reserving simply the get ral suggestion that It at any tine the matter shall assume. a more substantial shape if will be the duty of the Exeett: tive Committee to take action, After the transaction of routine yisiness and the election of the old oficers for thaensning vear the meeting adiquineds