The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1872, Page 6

NEW... YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNK H 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD} wars win ine nomeerntis nerves 00? BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. “JAMES GORDON: BENNETT, fairly in the field and have chosen their leaders and taken up their positions for the ecisive battle of the Presidential campaign. RRPESTEEOM: Tho former io in an exculent state of sci bosiness or news letters telegraphic pline, with an ample supply of stores am- ” soe —_ munition, an efficient commissariat and an espatches must be addressed Naw Yoax |. crienced general at ite head. ‘The latter is Flnpay. composed of raw troops, with inefficient arms, ' etters and packages should be properly | short rations, volunteer commander to plan posted ita evolutions and eykward squads to er them. But it is animated by the hope of un- Rojectedhcommunications will not be re | trolled plunder in the event of victory; and a the desperate fighting that distinguishes an {HE DAILY HERALD, pudtished every day in the | army that has been promised the sacking of a , Four cents per copy. Annua! subscription | city in case it succeeds in capturing it is pro- rice O19. verbial, ‘The republican forces hold the | THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Frvx | citadel, and as they have strengthened ants per copy. Annual subscription price:— ~ and improved it during the term of their a $a | Ccoupancy it will necessarily require heavy me bys . 6 | artillery and practised gunners to bring down ¢ j | ite solid walls. ‘There is an immense treasure et 1s | laid up bobind its ramparts, in ‘which the ' Postage five cents per copy for three months, whole country peas yaa ar every description, also Stereo- been heretofore safely guarded general 1 oe Fee ana Up in command, and as the publio peace has been ae er ancaee preserved, the public welfare promoted and peg Nip : the laws properly enforoed under his authority, his arms are strengthened by a moral influ- h olmme KXXVIL.........:0--ceseee s+ NOs 163 ass Bat cannot fail © yeeros valuable aid r AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, in the final enghgemeént. F plachk cis ee who hath his quarrel just’’ is a maxim who [MAMAONS THRATRE, Broadway And Thirteenth | sai tath has been already wal tected PleTH THEA’ fourth street — | and established in the experience ——e emai! under whose banner the republican columns | WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— are now ranged, and it is not likely to falsify fo Bai iteelf in the present instance. But there is another element yet to come into the field; and \ . BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.<Swaur Anoxis—Yav. DusuList. he ~omesco Bs. | the question of the greatest interest at the jpoun ean Fran Dusivo tka Pins xb Areca rHm Fine, present moment relates to the probable dispo- sition to be made of the demporatjo forces. Are they to be held as neutrals, drilling in a quiet nook by themselves while the battle is raging around them, or are they te jin ee hostile ranks and to take an active ig the fighting on one side or the other? This is the problem which the politicians all over the Union are now endeavoring to solve, but which cannot be determined until the warriors of the democratic camp shall meet in council at Bal- timore on the 9th of July, after the glorious Fourth shall have passed and the annual sup- ply of squibs and powder crackers shall have been exhausted. + On the broad principle that the election of General Grant is a foregone conclusion, which nothing is likely to change, it matters very little what course the wavering democracy may eventually conclade to pursue in the Presiden- tial campaign, so far as the present prospect F is concerned. The people have failed to dis- ‘TRIPLE SHEET cover in the crusade against the President any 2 * | sound reason for withdrawing from him that "Rey Foo Teeny, Someta, cnc ih fur er oo ire the he \_ BRYANTPS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner \@ch av.—Ewouss Orsaa—l Baovatone. THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Baier Panro- \enarar Uieaer Domrry. Matinee at 2, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @veaue.—Enocu ARDEN. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Mth st. and Broad way.— ‘ecu aes ‘His Girtep pa deod LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Grorcu ‘Moere. ‘MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. ‘Tue Natap Qoxxn, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowory.— *Neano Bocunruicirizs, Boauesqua, do. Matinee at 24. SAM SHARPLEY'S MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway.— (Oru Suaaecer's Miunstaeis. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganvex LInsrevmentat OMT. PAVILION, No. 68 Broadway, near Fourth street.— by OxcuxstRs. \ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— \Pornnos anv Ant. [— ' Wnion out of thirty-three represented in the CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Electoral College, and hence the contest may already be looked upon as decided and the Presidential succession settled for four years tocome. Buta party that in 1868 polled over forty-seven per cent of the popular vote of the country has something at stake in the future, and hence it becomes important that the democrats should choose their policy prudently and wisely at this time, and take such a position as will strengthen their chances of success in 1876. They are at a crisis of their history; and in the present breaking up of old organizations they have the opportunity to decide for themselves whether they will scatter hopelessly or lay the ground- work of a powerful party that cannot fail to achieve victory at a not distant day. Some of the leaders and organs of the democracy en- tertain the belief that any abandonment of their own lines at this time and any endorse- ment of a candidate not taken from their own ranks would be a fatal mistake, and would demoralize their forces in such a manner as to prevent their reunion in the future ; but these are principally politicians of the copperhead type, who would not value a democratic vic- tory unless it brought back with it the old institution of slavery, the payment of the Con- federate debt and the expunging of all those amendments which they hold to have been illegally engrafted on the constitution. There | are others who are personally dissatisfied with the action of the Cincinnati Convention, and who are opposed to the endorsement of Greeley at Baltimore, while willing that some less objectionable outsider, such as Adams, Davis, Trumbull, Cox or Thompson, should be put forward as the standard bearer of the democracy. These advocates of com- promise and coalition with the liberals, pro- vided their own personal inclinations are studied in the selection of candidates, have, however, little argument to use in support of their peculiar views. They seek strength from the republican party to elect their ticket, yet refuse a nominee who is too republican for their di- gestion. They desire to unite with the liberal movement, yet strive to destroy the liberal movement in advance by overthrowing the ac- tion of its Convention. The nomination or endorsement of Horace Greeley at Baltimore promisés the only hope of a future to the democracy. As we have said, the election of General Grant is a moral cer- tainty, and hence such action would not be followed by present success, but it would lay the foundation of a powerful party, extending @acn. Advertisements. ®—Advertisements. 8—The Groat Boat Race: The Match Between the Atalanta and London Rowing Club Orews Contested on the Thames; Immense Assem- plage of Heap on the River Banks; The Run Mortlake to Putney; A Good Start, with & First Daah for the Americans; Sweep of the English and Steady British Triumnh to the Close; Fouls and Interruptions on the River; ‘The Victors One Hundred and Fifty Yards Ahead; Time, Twenty-one Minutes and Six Seconds ; A Wild Scene of Joyous Excitement. Congress: The Second Session of the Forty- Second Congress Adjourned Sine Die; A Feverish, Brawling Day in Both Houses; The Enforcement Amendment; Conference Com- mittees on the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill; Scene of Confusion, Gavel-! ing, potty and ent im the House; m= romise cted and Agreed To; At Nine P. a the Gas Bag Bursts—The Randall's Island lambia College—Arrest of Oar Thieves—May- hem. 5—The Washington Treaty: What Professor Mon- tague Bernard Knows of the Treaty and the Alabama Claims—The Reformed Church—The lethodist Preachers—The Workingmen’s ie: Peaceable Demonstration in Support of the Eight-Hour Systew—Phe Street Paving Contracts—A Spicy Question—Art Matters. G—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘The Last Move- ment Before the Battle—Where Will the De- mocratic Forces Gof’—Amusement An- nouncements, ‘%—Fditorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—News from Washington—The Washington Treaty: ulations in Regard to It—The War in lexico: Details of the Destruction of the Juarists in the Battle of Monterey; The Vic- torious Rebels Marching on Mier and Mata- moros; A Desperate Battle Expected—Israel and the Cross in the East: Anglo-Italian Cir- cular for the Settlement of the Roumanian Questions—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Buai- neas Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: Dulness and Le- thargy; The Markets Respond Only Faintly to the Political News; Gold Rises but a Quar- ter Per Cent on the Ultimatum to Spain; Stocks Lower and Nearly Stagnant ; Clos! got the Erte Transfer Books; A Slight “Corner” in the “Cash!’ Stock; The Erie Guarantee of Boston, Hartford and Erle Bonds Decided to be Valid; Another ‘‘Accident” to Commodore Vanderbiit—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Midnight Murder—Another Carnook Assault—The Mur- og ee Ayenue Seer er eas: and art the h of July—Fatal Result of a Street tht—A Swindler Captured—Mar- tiages and Deaths, o—Advertisements. 420—Grant and Wilson's Acceptance of the Nomt- nations—Shipping —_Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Advertisements. Ae—Advertisemen ts. Present Grant AND SENATOR WILSON ‘were yosterday formally notified. of their nomination by the Republican National Con- vention to the head of the republican ticket, Both the gentlemen accepted the proffered honor in a few remarks, Prooress oy THE Mexican Revoivrionsts,— According to the special Henatp despatches from. Matamoros which we publish this morn- ing, in the defeat of the Juarist General Corellia, at Monterey, his army was killed, ounded, captured and scattered, and he lost | ‘everything, including his trains, artillery and money chest, with its ten thousand dollars in ‘cash. In consequence of this disaster at Monterey the Juarista forces along the bor- Mer line of the Rio Grande down to Matamoros ‘pro not only in a great state of trepidation, but in a position of great danger. Trevifio and Quiroga, the revolutionary generals, encour- jed by their late successes, and materially Plrengthened by their captures of small arms, putillery, provisions and money, are pushing ack again towards the river, and from pres- font appearances the chances for their capture @ud occupation of Matamoros and the whole of North Eastern Mexico, from the mountains Pf Monterey, are yery googl, But ng nothing in modern warfare is more uncertain than the Ponflicts of these fighting factions of Mexico, {we shall not be surprised if our next news ‘om the Rio Grande shall be that of « erush- a defeat for a few days of Quiroga and ‘Tre- Wifio, Meantime, we are glad to know that a bousiderable force of mounted United States | , Aroopa “ite Gerding successfully our side of the river against M n cattle stealors, Aad 60 the war goes o; “> | all over the Union, embracing within its lines voters of all nationalities and of all complexions, and well assured of a long lease of power after tho re- publicans shall have lost the strength of Gen- | eral Grant's name and prestige as their leader. It is idle to think or talk of the adoption of any other candidate. Your Adamses and Chases and Thompsons and Trambulls are of no account in the present struggle, either for immediate availability or futute use, for the teason that the nomination of any one of them would destroy the regularity of the democratic just a8 much as would the en- dorsement of Greeley, without affording any present or prospective strength. To put for- ward a straight-out, dyed-in-the-wool demo- cratic ticket would only leave the democracy in the same position it now occupios, and when the next Presidential election comes round the work now half accomplished would have to be | done over again; provided, however, that the | republican party should not in the mean time | have settled all its difficulties, shaken hands all round and closed up its ranks in such a manner fs to render its defeat impos- and Jeff Davis desire would leave the democ- ‘The republican and liberal armies are now | racy with such a meagre vote in November 8 to destroy much of the individual character and influence the party now possess. The democsats would then be in the condition of the French after the late war, and would have to capitulate unconditionally in 1876, grateful for such terms of surrender as might be volun- tarily, accorded to them. On the other hand the endorsement of the Cincinnati nominees would confirm the breach in the republican ranks, would draw into union the democrats and liberals in Congregs as @ powerful oppo- sition to the administration, and would be followed by combinations in Congressional districts and in State governments and Legis- latures during the next four years that would pave the way fora national success in 1876. Apert from these considerations of mere policy, if any principle at all is involved in the present movement against the adminis- tration other than the selfiah principle of the spoils, it cannot certainly find a better expo- nent than Greeley. The objection urged against him by some of the demooratic politi- cians, that he has been the lifelong opponent of their party, has no-force whatever. The whole nation has been opposed to democracy in its old follies and érrors, and bes Joft the party in a minority for the twelve years. If the hope of the democratic leaders is to revive original copperheadism, in all its intensity, under the lead of Thompson, Adams, Trum- bull or anybody else, they may rest assured that they will be doomed to disappointment. The country will not consent to any such retrogression. If, on the other hand, the great democratic party, learning wisdom from experience, has wisely determined to abandon the mistakes and prejudices of the past, and to enter upon the living issues of the present, then the best way to prove their sincerity is to accept and endorse the candidate who has been the consistent opponent of bygone errors, and thus to strike boldly for a thorough feformation and a new departure shout. Their votes for Greeley may not eleof to the Presidency, but will be accepted og the atonement for their past transgressions, and will pave the way for their political salvation. They can then open for themselves a brilliant and magnificent prospect for the future. The campaign of 1876 will bring with it the oen- tennial of American independence, and, having this year purged and purified themselves of all the old impurities of secession and disunion, the democrats can go into that fight with the names of Hancock and Adams inscribed on their banners and carry everything before them.” These old Revolutionary names will stir the patriotism of every American heart, and will cause such an excitement all over the country as has never before been witnessed, even in the days of log cabins, hard cider, Tippecanoe and Tyler too. But to make such nominations possible by the democracy in 1876 the party must this year lay their old unpatri- otic principles at the feet of Father Greeley, and by their support of a true Union man Ee that they are again worthy of the confi- mee of the people. So the true programme of the democracy is, beyond question, the present endorsement of the Cincinnati nomi- nees, a thorough union with the liberals, and @ campaign in 1876 under the stirring Revolu- tionary banner of Hancock and Adams. The Eight-Hour Movement Parade. The parade of the workingmen yester- day did not come up to the expectations formed of it, but what was wanting to the demonstration in physical power was more than made up by the dignity and order which characterized the proceedings. Rumors have constantly been spread abroad by those inimical to the working classes that they entertained ideas of enforcing their views by violence if necessary, but the action and bearing of the men yesterday are sufficient answer to these calumnies. It was impossible to look on the army of labor that defiled through our streets and not feel sym- pathy with them and their cause. There was no trace of rowdyism or defiance of the law among the mass of self-contained men who bore evidence in their persons of constant struggle with the difficulties of life. Traces of intelligence were not absent, and the charge brought against the advocates of the eight-hour movement, that they were the idle and the worthless, was fully answered by the appearance of the men themselves. It required no skill to perceive at a glance that the men in the procession were neither the dis- sipated nor the idle, but fair representatives of the laboring millions, If they were not as intelligent and as well educated as the same number of the wealthy classes they can allege, with reason, that it is the fault of the system under which they suffer and from which they wish to free themselves, With time to study and improve themselves the men who made up yesterday's demonstration would have little reason to fear comparison with the “better” classes who assume to patronize them. The workingman is the salt Pas earth. Without him there would be little to solace or elevate us, and it is only reasonable that he who is the creator should enjoy o fair share of the pro- ducts of his skill and toil. It would be o great mistake to imagine that the mass of the workingmen do not sympathize in the movement because they were absent from the procession. Many of the powerful trade organizations came to the conclusion that a parade in force might be misinterpreted by the public, and declined to take part in it for that reason. Other socie- ties, at work under the eight-hour system, thoughi that the members would be better at work than making a useless parade, and in coming to this decision they showed their good sense. They can better help the move- ment by supplying funds to maintain their comrades who are locked out than by wasting their time parading in the streets, When these various drawbacks aro considered the comparative weakness in point of numbers of the eight-hour demonstration is explaincd. It would be a mistake, how- ever, to assume that the principle has lost any of its hold on the workingmon, If tho demonstration teaches anything it is that the success of the strike has been greater than was thought, as we suppose that nearly all the ‘workingmen who ere locked out were present. It was said that more than thirty thousand men wore idle in consequence of the strife between labor and capital, and we now consider that statement an exaggeration, for there can be little reason to doubt that the vast majority of the mon out of work through sible for thé next qiarter of a coutury. the eight-hour movement wera present in tho The Last Movement Before the Battle— | Besides, a copperhead ticket such as Voorhees | procession. Whatever effect the proceedings yesterday may produce, the workingmen deserve credit for their peaceful conduct and dignified bearing, which will go far toward procuring for them the sympathy of the public. The International Rowing Match— Londen vs. New York. Perhaps in the whole annals of American aquatics our oarsmen have never misjudged their opponents, or the work in store for them, more completely than did the four of whose performance on the Thames yesterday af- ternoon have come to us such unwelcome tidings. Undoubtedly they were much disap- pointed in not having the boat in which they had expected to row; and their chances were not improved by being forced to take, at very short notice, one different - materially from the former. But their rivals appear long ago to have concluded (and many of the first oars- men in this country will endorse their opin- ion) that Jewitt or Clasper can build about as fast © shell as floats, and it seems to us quite unfortunate, either that when they did have to order in England, they did not go to one of these men at once, or, better yet, did not go to him in the first place, and so avoid all perils of the sea, and yet more perilous | changes, late in the day, which beget anything but confidence in them or their friends. But, plainly enough, in the best outrigger that ever fidnted, that crew yesterday could not have come in first. Their boat, if somewhat inferior, never made all, or nearly all, that difference. The Atalanta crew was, as has been painfully manifest from the beginning, badly overmatched.’ They are light, small, spare men, not averaging in weight much above one hundred and forty-five pounds apiece. Their opponents weigh nearly twenty pounds a man more. Large men are not always tougher than small ones, often not so tough. But when they pave about all their lives been acors- tomed to severe and protracted muscular exertion, and for many years back to efforts of just the sort demanded for such trying work as yesterday's, it will not take long to see that twenty poynds of solid bone and sinew in a man, active, full of vigor and oft unquestioned pluck, will do him an exceflont turn when it’comes to the fourth or fifth mile of a hot, hard race, and his carrying power ia being tested in a way most unquestionably thorough. A one hun- dred and forty pound man might run a five- mile foot race and beat a rival made of equally good stuff and weighing twenty pounds more. But now fasten a forty pound knapsack on the back of each and let them try again. The big fellow makes the better cart horse and feels the load less; and the same holds good in carrying four-quarters of a boat and your eight pounds of oar. But neither did anything done by the Ata- lantas yesterday. show that, if they had matched their opponents pound for pound, and had been equally well boated, they would have been in first to the goal. Each crew may select its own method of pulling. They seem to have made each stroke they took, naturally from their own shortness of limb, brief enough, even shorter than there was any call for; and when it is remembered that for every inch they can move that part of their oar inside the rowlock, or fulcrum, the long out- side portion goes three times as far, and that they make forty of these motions a minute, it will be seen how wise it is to put on every inch of reach they can, especially as in this instance, when their antagonists notice- ably outreached them. But that to which we are looking more than boat or weight, or reach or style, as the chief clement in the recent defeat, is the marked disparagement in strength and also in experience between the two sets of men who found themselves backing up to the line side by side, ready to do the best battle that Iny in each for the country that bore and reared him. The whole impres- sion froma description of our men is that three out of the four are little more than strip- lings, while every one of the rival crow isa man of manifest physical strength—indeed, with perhaps one exception, of decided power, and power, tdo, exactly where he wants it, and where he was delighted to find last even- ing that he had it—namely, in the very mus- cles and parts brought into play in this lung- pumping, loin-tiring business. In fact, if the reports are correct, not only the muscles used in rowing, but about all the others, seemed to show more development and power in them than in their opponents. And then in expe- rience they seem to be equally far advanced— experience not only in’ rowing, but, three of them, at least, in rowing in one boat together, and all over the same water and in the same tides and eddies that they swept over so swiftly for twenty-one minutes yesterday after- noon, Few need hesitate long in decid- ing whether this will tell. ‘Practice is nine-tenths,"’ says Emerson, and nowhere will this better hold than in crew rowing. And in one other respect might our men well envy them. Old, shrewd, wary fellows as they are, they are not too old to learn, and they showed their excellent good sense in evi- dencing it by having Mr, Clasper coach them until he doubtless weeded ont many an imper- fection, that made his tutoring well worth having. But the Americans, for some reason best known to themselves, were content to have such words of wisdom as might fall from the lips of one of their own number, whd, pound- ing away forty hard, swift strokes a minute fora quarter of an hour together, may have been well qualified just then for detecting the faults of his men, and in the right mood for correcting them, but of whom we must be per- mitted to question all this. Nor in size and weight and style and experi- ence and drill alone did the advantage lie with the countrymen of the affable, America-loving Earl Russell, but it ought to be remembered that they had no new climate to which to become used, no first listening to the roar of the throats of more than half @ million; none of the feverish excitement that comes to the coolest man, when, for the first time, three thousand miles from home, a stranger in a strange land, he tries to conduct himself even in the terrible moments of the start ina man- ner seemly and creditable to his, as well as him. But right at home, in front of the very doors of their club house, over the time-honored old course that tradition and their own expe- rience had made s0 familiar to them that one London paper well said of Mr, Gulston, their captain, who steered the boat, that ho knew it 80 well he could almost steer it with his eyes shut. Hero it seems to us that they at whose inviting to them that it seems all in all, and who, when they graduate—if that 1s the right word in such case—come down dyed apeniesiygerant > tem boat club, then we, too, will be iy Re aS who ¢ai lab about, that the great rowing universities ae gnd Cambridge are ever feeding, and row it a tight, good race, too. But we fancy that they are scarce among our countrymen who, while fit to row'as fast 96 the winners did row yesterday, can yet do their duty by their pro- fession, trade or calling. In short, when it is business or boating, it does not take the man likely to excel in either long to tell for which to decide; and we cannot say that we are very eager to 99 the time that it ever will. The Jerome Park Races Bp-Day- The fourth day of the Spring Meeting of thé American Jockey Club will be signalized by four races, commencing at three o'clock this afternoon. In the first thce, for three-year- olds, one mile and an eighth, will probably start D. J. Crouse's ch. o. Business, 103 lbs. ; D. D. Withers’ br. f. Mimi, 100 Ibs.; Hunter & Travers’ b. 0. Buckden, 103 Ibs.; John F. Chamberlain's gr. c. Brennus, 103 Ibs.; L. L. Lorillard’s,b. f. Girl of the Period, 100 Ibs. In the second race, a claiming race, two miles anda quarter, there will be J. O'Donnell’s b. c. by Asteroid, 101 lba.; T. W. Doswell’s b. m. Midday, 106 Ibs., and b. fa. Wine Sap, 100 Ibs.; J. H. Harbeck’s ch. h. Edwin, 100 Ibs. The third'race is the Post Stakes, mem- bers of the club to ride, In this race there will be probably Olimax, lel, Lord Byron, Glamour iy , The fourth and last race will be ly the mean feature, and will concentrate upon it the interest of all the habitués of Jerome Park. This race, mile heats, will introduce the following:—John Harper's b.h. Littleton, 114 Ibs.; Colonel McDaniel’s b. h. Tubman, 108 Ibs.; J. W. Hunt Reynolds’ ch. m, Metella, 111 Ibs., and Carroll & Coar's br. h. Ortolan, 114 Ibs. The indications are that the races to-day will be as brilliant as on any previous occasion, and that the attendance will be numerous and fashionable. The favor- ites last night at the Club House were, Busi- ness in the first race, Doswell’s entries in the second, Climax and Lochiel in the third and Tubman in the last race. of young Congress—Exciting Closing Scenes of the Session. The closing scenes of a long session of Con- gress are always exciting and frequently dis- graceful. Before the war, from the fiery disputes and still increasing heat of the slavery agitation, from year to year, till it culminated in our great rebellion, violent personal alter- cations, extended to ludicrous feats of pugil- ism on the floor of the House, and sometimes to fierce belligerent demonstrations on the floor of the Senate, seldom failed to enliven the closing scenes of the session; and, as 4 last resort, there were still occasional appeals to the bloody ground of Bladensburg. With the war, however, there was a revolution in these matters, from which we had hoped that our national House of Representatives would soon become at least as distinguished for par- liamentary decorum as the disorderly British House of Commons, But in yesterday's pro- ceedings in both houses we had some break- ings out of party spirit and some spiteful per- sonalities, which show that not a little still remains of the combustible elements which so frequently made a bear garden of the lower House and a Pewter Mug of the Senate Cham- ber in ‘the good old ante-bellum times.’’ First, in the Senate esterday, Mr, Chandler, of Michiga, “& wales condeript father, who seems to take a special delight in dabblii ip hot water, roused up the dozing democrats by plumply declaring that ‘the time of the Senate had been wasted throughout the session in pursuance of an agreement made early in November last, at a hotel in New York, between @ prominent ‘Senator (formerly ® republican) and a prominent democratic Senator and Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, and other democrats, whom he could namé, to the effect that & iidw arly should be organ: called. the Reform party ; that during the session the democrats should kéép quiet and let the discontented republicans do the talking, and that a certain republican Senator should be the nominee of the new party for the Presidency ; and I wish,” said Mr, Chandler, “to compliment my friends on the other side of the house (the democrats) for the fidelity with which they have carried out their part of the arrangement.’’ As the Senator, however, could not persuaded to disclose the names of the Senators concerned in this aforesnid arrangement, he excited an inquiring spirit of curiosity only to disappoint it, And we may dismiss the subject with the passing remark that if the administration republicans of the Senate knew at the beginning of the session the arrangements of the trap set for them they were silly birds to be caught in it, In the House, where the democrats had been vigorously fighting an amendment of the Sen- ate to an appropriation bill providing for the substantial continuance of the Congressional election and Ku Klux laws, Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, raised quite a breeze by the declarations that there was nothing in the Senate amend- ment which was not now on the statute book in reference to cities of over a hundred thou- sand population, and that ‘the resistance to this amendment on the pretence of unconstitu- tionality was the inauguration in this hall of a treason as disreputable, a4 dishonorable, as ‘anconstitutional and as damning as that tred= son which, twelve years ago, was inaugurated by the bayonet.’ It is hardly ‘surprising that this sweeping accusation fired up Gend eral Morgan (demoorat), of Ohio, to thé fighting Laced the asa calumny and a lie; but it is gratifying know that from = to “pistols and coffee for two.'’ Tn thesg things there is a great improvement in Con- gress after all. . Still, we congratulate the country that this long session of 1871-72, of profitless : investigating committees and tedious party spéeches and clap-trab resolutions, is cat ‘Upon these superfiuities much time has been wasted; but the session, nevertheless, haa been productive of some good fruit, especially in the killing of the railwey land grabbers, and in the Tariff and Tax bill, passed on the’ basis of a ten per cent reduction, and in tha final compromise, jn the last hours of the Bed~ sion wrested from the majority, in reference to! Exeoutive intervention in our political eleo-' tions. For further” particulars 8 to the billy’ Passed, § and the measures. which have failed, ‘Wé6 refer our ‘readers: to our Congressional re ports. : . The Persecutions of the Jews in’ Rou iiamia—A Proposed European Conte ence. Nee) Spi We print this morning » most important cable despatch, special tothe Hznirp, relax tive to the persecuted Jews in Roumanide: Earl Granville has, it seems, with the concuré rence particularly of the government of Italy,, addressed a note to the various European gov, z advising that'a General of all the Powers be held for the purpose of considering the wrongs endured by the Jews) standing, ag to at ¢ foh of Earl Granville that, in view of thé don stantly recurring outbursts of feeling’ the Jews in Roumania—outbursts of [ which we have no choice but to pronounce barbarous—direct pressure should be brought to bear upon the Roumanian government; compulsion should be threatened, if neces sary, to prevent the recurrence of acta of vio« lence, which are a disgrace, not only ta Europe, but to modern civilization. ‘ Prince Gortechakoff, it appears, while he i¢ full of sympathy with the suffering saved Principalities, takes a slightly different view of; the general question. The Foreign of the Czar does not seem to entertain any und kindly feclings towards the Jews, but he is apy prehensive that a European Conference, sucly a8 that which Lord Granville suggests, might excite bad any. ogcined the great Powers ang possibly revive the dreaded Eastern question, in most questionable shape. He is, therefore,’ not willing to lend any encouragement to idea Conference, In liew neh Meteo that o "dat nale ghd ba all the great Powers, should be addressed the government of Prince Charles, explanations and insisting upon guarant that those offensive outrages shall not be rev peated. It is the opinion of Gortschakoff that this course is quite as likely as any other ta bring the Roumanian government to its sensess, The Prince adds that if this course of should fail he will be prepared to insist on fulfilment of the terms of the Convention 1858, and to exert all the power at his comy have not as yet answered the Granville note; but Prussia is said to be of one mind wit Russia; and for the moment the feeling prea yails that the Gortschakoff proposal will be adopted. We are glad that at last the great Powers of Europe feel that they owe a duty to the perse~ cuted descendants of Israel in the Danubian Principalities, For generattons the Jews havé revealed an affection for the countries which lie along the shores of the Danube. In Pod land, in Southern Russia, in the eastern por- tions of Austria and in those sections of - Key which lie to the west of the Black Sea ani to the south of the line of the Danube tha Jews have always been numerous. Troubleg’ in Poland and in Russia, age after age, hava driven them nearer the great, river, and from various causes which cannot now be explai Moldavia and Wallachia have hecome—wisely, or unwisely, so far as they themgelyos are con: cerned—favorite Jewish centres. The result of the Orimean war was an immediate gain to’ the Jews, The Treaty of 1856 and the subse-, quént additional treaty signed by the Conven. tion of 1858 made full provision for the relig- ious liberty of ali the European subjects of the Sultan. Article 46 of the Convention of 1868 guarantees equal liberty to all Christian’ creeds, with the privilege of legislative exten- sion to all other rites. In 1870, such were the encouragements given in Roumania, the Israel~ ites had increased to the number of four hun/ dred thousand, and the synagogues at the same date numbered one hundred ad seventy-six. It is said that in F about that period the Jewa did not in sivimbef oie hundyed 1 and that in the three finisinha 7g ak eed Scotland and Ireland there were not over forty-fiye thousand of that unmixed race: In 1858 Moldavia and Wallachia wore united under the common name of Roumania, and ina Tap inches of he Jew population the united Princtpalities, with their fc “8 and growing prosperity, became a source of trouble to the government of Prince Charles! The trouble, as all the world knows, has con- tinued until this day. In no part of the world havo the sons and daughters of Israel in recent years been so persecuted as they have been in Roumania. Since 1870 the condition of the’ Jews in the Danubian Principalities has com- manded attention as one of the chronic troubles of the world, 2 y Remonstrances have frequently boon made.' Our own government has remonstrated. So has that of Great Britain. Remonstrance hitherto has failed. This action of Lord Granville promises to bring about a final solution of the difficulty. 1t is only a few days ago that, dealing with the general question of the Jews in Roumania,: we advised o European protectorate of the Principalities. Lord Granville seems ta have laid hold of the same thought. We do not blame Prince Gortchakoff for being afraid! of reviving the Eastern question. It is im- material whether the Granville proposal or tho Gortehukoff suggestion be adovted. as tha