The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1872, Page 6

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The Henaup special cable despatches from the Geneva Court of Arbitration are continued to-day, and keep us fully advised of the action of the tribunal and of the rumors floating about on the air of the beautiful lake city. The Court held a very brief session yesterday, as on Saturday, and no business was transacted beyond informal talk, the consideration of the important question of the protracted adjourn- ment demanded by England having been post- poned until to-morrow at two o'clock in the afternoon. General good humor prevailed among the members of the Court, and joking, laughter and courtesy seem to have been the order of the day. Whether the same happy condition of affairs is to con- tinue remains to be seen. The Awmeri- can agent and counsel, it is said, are awaiting instructions from our government. In the British Parliament Earl Granville and Mr. Gladstone respectively, in reply to ques- tions put to them, stated that the British argu- ment had not been presented to the Court in any shape, thus confirming the previous state- ment of the Heratp special correspondent. The press reports by way of London assert that the adjournment requested by England will probably be granted, and affect to believe that the treaty will be saved, but our special advices give no such hope. On Wednesday the subject of England’s application will no doubt be considered. Meanwhile, as the treaty business has become so entangled that few can understand the precise point of difficulty, and as both Mr. Fish and Lord Granville seem to be anxious not to let the public know, if, indeed, they know themselves, where the hitch is, let us seo if we can penetrate the entanglement and find the knotty point which both governments have enveloped in mystery. The mass of the people on both sides the Atlantic have the impression yet that the diffi- culty lies in the claim of the United States for consequential or indirect damages resulting from the depredations of the Alabama and her fellow privateers. This, it is true, was the difficulty. But the administration at Wash- ington, acting by the advice of the Senate—by the advice of more than two-thirds of that body—agreed to abandon the claim for conse- quential damages, and to do this through a Supplemental Treaty or by an additional article tothe Washington Treaty. This proposal to give up the position taken at the first and maintained all through was regarded by the American people as hunfiliating; but it was, at least, a frank and honest proceeding. There was no afterthought, no trickery, no intention of overreaching the British govern- ment. When the government of this great re- in the present case—should only be responsi- ble, in the event of not showing ‘due dili- gence’’ as neutral and friendly Power, for direct losses. Is this not fair? To use a com- mon colloquial expression, ‘‘what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’’ But Eng- land is not satisfled. She has fallen into her own trap. The chief object she had in view in making the treaty was exemption from the very evils we suffered at her hands. She was well aware, too, that these new, stringent rules regarding neutrals, would prove extremely embarrassing to the United States on account of our vast seaboard, the restlessness and speculative activity of our people and the sympathy they feel for the liberal side of any conflict among nations. She knew, also, that in the event of o war between herself and any other Power the American people would be apt to remember her unfriendliness in the time of their severest trial for national existence. Looking far ahead, as England always does, her great purpose in making the treaty, as has been said, was to savo herself in the future. That was the meaning of the now and exacting rules regarding neutrals which were to her the basis and life of that instrument. She had put us under bonds, We see, therefore, the cause of her present embarrassment. There has been and will be a great deal of talk about side issues, legal technicalities and forms of proceeding at Geneva, but the real issue is as we have stated it. Our govern- ment probably has seon the mistake it made in accepting the new neutral rules and the consequences likely to follow, and may not be sorry that England has given the opportunity to modify them. or set them aside. In fact, we may consider them dead, for England can hardly admit arbitration for consequential damages after the attitude she has taken, and our government is resolyed not to abandon that claim unless England consents to modification of the neutral rules so as to exclude such a claim against America hereafter should she violate the laws of neutrality. We regard it as fortunate that our government has got back, through the overreaching conduct of England, to the ground the Hzraup has taken all along on this question of future neutrality obligations. Let the past be determined by the past, and let us avoid entangling alliances. Our life and prospects as a nation are peculiar, and in time we shall be more likely to make international laws for others than have incon- venient ones imposed upon us. Ifthe Wash- ington Treaty should stand with the modified rule of neutrals proposed in the supplemental article incorporated, all very well, but if it should fail our government ought to be care- ful to avoid the mistake it made in any treaty with England or other European nations here- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1872—TRIPLE SHEKT. The Cue of Success for Greeley—Lager and a German Barbecue. We fear that the opponents of Horace Gree- ley have made a serious mistake in imagining that he has no chance whatever of attracting the German vote. It is conceded (subject to the endorsement of the National Convention) that the Irish democratic vote will be solid for him, his cold water propensities to the con- trary notwithstanding; and, as he was able to hold the sympathies of the Colt while tickling the Teutons during the Fran- co-German war, let his enemies not underrate his ability to ride in on the German as well as the Irish horse at the Novembor election. They tempt the Fates who are cynical about Greeley and the sons of Vater- land ; they stand on the verge of an abyss, into which it only requires the turn of a tumbler to tumble them. We say this with an emphasis and depth of meaning which would be perfectly Sybilline were we not, like the “courteous ghost’’ that Shakspeare longed for, about to “blab it out.’ When that ancient philosopher of eccentric habits of dress—Socrates—had done violence to the feelings of certain pious Athenians he was condemed to drink a cup of hemlock; and there is little doubt to-day that, had he only stooped a little from his philosophic scorn of Attic usages and beliefs, the world would never have to mourn over a martyrdom. The picture of the grand old Philosopher accepting his doom with cheerfulness and resignation, and looking sublime in spite of his shocking bad suit of clothes as his snub nose emerged from the beaker of poison, is one we would not wish to see repeated in the present age. Herein also is a world of meaning. The world has grown fonder of its teachers, and rather than the hemlock of defeat should be pressed to the lips of the Socrates of to-day we chalk out a royal path of success for him, under which will be buried forever the odium of his old white hat, the whimsicality of his white coat and the belittling influence of his bad boots. The Germans are doubtful, say the friends of Horace; the Germans are irreconcilable, ‘say his enemies. Why is it so? Has he not befriended the German immigrant? —has he not fought the German battles in the paper erst- while his own? Whence, then, this doubt, this bitter enmity? Like the voice of a “brewing” storm sweeping from afar over the prairies of the West, lifting and rustling through blonde Teutonic locks and rattling the crystal in half a million of spectacles, comes in hollow tones of thunder the one word—lager. It has an angry vehemence, a gurgle of hate as of a beer cask losing its last half-pint of liquid. We have heard it and the Philosopher has heard it ‘act necessary to save his fame from the bitter- ness of Socratic failure, which, with him, means political death. Grant, through his cigar, has @ claim on every smoker in the land; Greeley himself was once partial to the Weed (Thurlow brand), but gave it up years ago and has lost considerable status ever #inee. Tobacco is very dear to the German heart, and there is no way left for the Sage to outflank the Soldier except by a rapid move- ment over the Rhine on a barrel of lager. Away, then, with milk ; it is the beverage of milksops, Away with water, except for manu- facturing beer. No more libations of West- chester hippocrene. Let the national canvass be converted into a huge tent with lager barrels everwhere under it ; the campaign cry, Vorwarts, Greeley and victory! Zwei hundert tausend lager! The Boston Jubilee. The inhabitants of Boston were yesterday startled by the first boom of Gilmore's big drum, but, so far as accounts have reached us, no serious damage was caused by the storm of sound that swept over the city. Fortunately, due notice had been given, and all the nervous people had taken the precaution of going to the seaside in order to escape the consequences which might have resulted to the delicately constituted from a musical’ shock. Indeed, none of the catastrophes which were predicted have come to pass, and the old Hub, which was expected to tremble to its foundations, by the latest accounts has not movedan inch. But the moral revolution that has been brought about in the manners and habits of the usually quiet and respectable Bostonians must be ranked among the strangest phenomena of our times. The Hub, which a few years ago was the model of propriety and Puritanism, turned into a modern pandemonium, where fiddlers, pipers, singers and organ grinders and folks of that ilk are strangely and won- derfully jumbled together, presents a scene of confusion that must make angels weep if they have any feeling whatever of the fitness of things. From every clime are gathered bands into whose composition more or less brass enters, but all bent on the common aim of blowing louder and harder than their neigh- bors, while the whilom subdued and sancti- monious Hubites shout with a mad, unrea- soning kind of joy. There is something ludi- crous in this sight of a city of Quaker quiet suddenly transformed into a monster and monstrous concert hall from which all order and harmony are absent. The prime mover and chief cause of this abandonment of the respectable traditions of their fathers by the Hubites is a wild Irishman known by the patronymic of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore. This verdant-youth, before ventur- as fighting men, It was about the time the grand band of the British Imperial Grenadiers blew their best blast for peace, as they did near the same locality yesterday (June 17, 1872). id Highly Importamt Movement—The La- Joint High Commission, The labor question—or rather the move. ment of the strikers in this city—has assumed such formidable dimensions that serious apprehensions are entertained in high quar- ters in regard to its final results, Every day some new and violent element enters the field. Shops are closed, work sus- pended, the whirl of machinery is no longer heard. The “anvil chorus” by five thousand strikers takes the place of the noisiest past the Boston peace jamboree; workmen soowl,! Wives scold, children starve, while the capi- taliste close their pockets and stiut dowm tightly the lids of their cash boxes until tho disturbing demonstrations cease and the toilers of the city return again peaceably to their usual seoplermenia. Meantime our citi- zens generally, and the shopkeepers especially,! suffer from these momen interruptions va the usual channels of business, Hundreds of thousands of dollars are kept from circulation in consequence of the strikes, and, although the workingmen’s benefit and relief associa. tions may afford some partial relief, yet such relief can be regarded only as temporary and very uncertain. Now, what should be done under these try- ing circumstances in this struggle between labor and capital? Neither the business of the city nor the happiness of poor families can long withstand this Kilkenny fight between the mechanic and the employer. They both suffer as the contest progressés, and in the long run the weakest party must go to tha wall. A remedy for all this has been proposed.’ It has been suggested, in this emergency, that the capitalists employing skilled labor in tha city of New York should confer with the lead- ing spirits among the strikers, and, creating @ joint high commission of arbitration, hold a conference here like that now in progress at Geneva, Switzerland, and, by mutual forbear- ance and concession, bring about a settlement of pending difficulties. Of course the Geneva Conference, from its delays and procrastina- tion, the botheration between the governmenta of the United States and Great Byitian in regard to certain technicalities, need not ba introduced into this New York Joint High Capital and Labor Commission. Its proceed- ings need not be impeded, nor the feelings of the commissioners aroused, nor the temper of the peoples of both nations exasperated by such questions as ‘indirect claims’ or ing across the Atlantic, made, it is said, a long pilgrimage to the Blarney Stone, and so de- voutly did he pay his devoirs to the divinity of the place that there was conferred upon him the power to charm man or woman by a touch of the blarney, which renders him irresistible. Hence the Hubites were unable to resist his palavering, and in the innocence of their hearts they admitted his big drum. The grotesque element in this astonishing transformation seene is furnished by the versatile and irre- pressible Hibernian who stands out promi- nently as the foremost figure in this huge Jubilee humbug. We can picture him perched «a fer; The Presidential Game; Political Notes— ‘consequential How Grant May Save Himself from Reform Wrath—Germany: Holiday Voyages from the Fatherland to the United States—Municipal Affuirs—The Northwest Boundary: A Joint Engineering Commission to at Once Mark Out the Frontier—Brooklyn’s Polytechnic—The Jersey City Murder—Libbie Garrabrant. %—Continuance of the Strike: The Iron and Metal Workers Propose to Guide the Movement to a Successful Iesue—Boat Racing Abroad—Yacht- ing—Pigeon Shooting: Match Between Ira A. Paine and Captain Bogardus for $2,200; One Hundred Bir Each; Paine Wins by One Bird—Alleged Sawdust Swindlers Arrested— The Tammany Soclety—The Pontificate of Pope Pius IX. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Geneva Tri- bunal and Its Work—The True Motives of England’s Singular Policy”—Amusement An- nouncements. J—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims: Progress of the International after. As to the present difficulty, however it may terminate, there is little fear of peace between England and the United States being disturbed. The President has expressed the opinion that there is no cause for apprehension. The vast commercial relations between the two countries and the good sense of the people will prevent war. Time will heal existing differ- ences, and the next diplomats and statesmen who undertake to adjust unsettled matters will have more light for their guidance and will be able to avoid the errors of their predecessors. Fourth of July at until the very odor accompanying it has made him, unaccountably to himself, reel and stag- ger, as if a barrel or two of the beverage had slid down his esophagus unknown to him. The word is big with the fate of Cincinnati and of Horace. Therefore, since we cherish his hope of success, .we solemnly advise him to be warned in time. Let there be no mincing the matter. Heisa hale, well-preserved old Philosopher, and has laid out no end of work for himself during the canvass, all of the most wearing kind. He would make five to six stump speeches per diem, preside over two or three agricultural or philanthropic societies public said it would abandon the claim for indirect damages or losses it certainly had no thought of presenting them in any insidious or underhand way. What more, then, could England want? This appeared to have been the only point of difference between the two governments. When the concession of it, through the action of the Senate, was an- nounced in England and to Parliament there was a thrill of satisfaction throughout the country. England had got what she wanted. The opposition and ministerialists in both Houses of Parliament fraternized over the result. Everybody supposed the treaty was damages," although both might assume as im portant a bearing upon the labor and capital question now agitating this country as that which Uncle Sam and John Bull have in+ augurated on account of the Alabama claims. Of course a leader for this movement is wanted, and we have one to propose. It would be a fortunate thing to see such a man as Hamilton Fish heading this new joint high labor and capital arbitration movement in this city. Hig communications with Earl Granville, of tha ' English government, on the Alabama will have brought him to an appreciative The the Stock Arbitration ana Delicate Probin; Difficulty; British Report from Geneva; The Arbitration Question in Parliament—The Fisheries Question—Cable Specials from Eng- of a New Exchange. every evening, dictate a couple of hundred let- saved, and that to complete its conditions was merely a question of forms and time. A few hours after all was changed. The A movement is on foot among the members of the Stock Exchange to enlarge the Fourth ters in the intervals to his smiling private sec- retary, and endeavor to support these hercu- like a new Quasimodo on his monster drum, walloping music into the prosaic descendants of the Puritans, his baton a stout Irish shille- of the labor question, particularly as it himself in getting up his ponderous State papers, and his Herculean efforts to make politi/ cal capital for himself will have enabled hiny to comprehend practically the capital part the matter to come under arbitgation. Herd we have it in a nutshell: —‘‘Capital agai labor—a grand joint high commission of arbitration and adjustment of all difficultied between the workingmen and employers now existing in the city of New York—Hamiltou land, Germany and Rome—The Beat-Grant Conference—Miscellaneous _Telegraph—Per- sonal Intelligence—Weather Report—Business Notices. 8—Financial and Commercial: Summery Dulness in the Street; The Gold Pool and the Prom- ised “Corner; The Stock Market Depressed ty the British Protest at Geneva; Another ‘all in Erie Shares in London and New York; One of the Pacific Mail Injunctions Dissolved ; The Boston, Hartford and Erie Transfers Closed Again; A Further Dividend to the Creditors lah. Surely this is more than Boston counted on! Was there no Cassandra in the native town of blue stockings to raise up ao warning voice telling the City Fathers how fatal Gilmore’s scheme would prove to the cherished dulness of the place? Peace once broken is fled forever, and Gilmore’s drum will certainly bring as much destruction to lean labors on Graham brown bread and iced milk. We pour a word into his ear which will obviate all this wear and tear of brain and body; let him walk into the nearest bier gar- ten, accompanied by his private secretary, and, slapping the perspiring son of Germany on the shoulder, call in his most seductive tones for zwei lager. Then let him of July holiday so as to embrace the succeed- ing two days, and thus postpone business from the evening of July 3 to the beginning of the next week. Something of a precedent for It has boen represented by the embarrassed | Such action is afforded in the adjournmery last diplomatists as a verbal difficulty arising from | year, Which made holiday of the 3d as well a difference of opinion as to the meaning of | 98 the 4th of July. sky was overcast again. The British govern- ment again became dissatisfied. There was a new difficulty. Great efforts have been made to hide the exact nature of it from the public. of the Eighth National Bank—Interesting | certain words or expressions. We have been We see in this movement the further devel- : , A : ” y (seme of in the New York and Brooklyn ld that the Briti a . | opment of the conservative tendency of the | drink it off at a draught, call for nach the manners of the Hub as did the Grecian Fish ches aruietar 0 Rib up ene com Courts—The Corrupt Officials at Paterson— | tol e British government want the lan A 7 horse to Troy. Henceforth, instead of canny, | mission on the plan of the Genova Confer- Abamrt te rag Antes iia races guage of the Supplemental Treaty to be made community, and of our business men in par- | mei, and tell the German to “hang sensible men, witha slight ama twany emo ence there might be prominent persons— 9=Stokes Once More—The Methodist Preachers— | more plain and explicit. The impression | ticular, already illustrated in the extraordinary | it up to Horace Greeley.” The news ad strikers and the striked alike—named as tha Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. number of travellers to Europe this year, | will spread from “bier stube” to saloon, | 00k out for gangs of blowing Bostonians, 10—News from Washingtou—Leaf Tobacco Dealers’ Association—New York City News—Brook- lyn’s Reformers—Kings County Municipal Af- fairs—Brooklyn's Expenses for Next Year— Naval Intelligence—The Street Paving Con- tracts—More Car Pickpockets—Shipping [ntel- igence—Advertisements, Al—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. His Hotrxess Porx Prvs IX. attained the twenty-sixth year of his Pontificate on Sunday. He succeeded Pope Gregory XVI. on June 16, 1846, and was crowned on the 21st of the same month. Thousands of persons, representing all the nations of the earth, presented them- selves at the Vatican and congratulated the Holy Father on the enjoyment of the anni- versary. The Pope was eighty years old on the 13th of May last. He has hada most re- markable and distinguished career as a lay- man, 0 missionary priest and supreme carihly ruler of the fold. Tux Boston Post (democratic, with Greeley proclivities), asserts that “if the democrats everywhere proceed as discreetly as they are doing in Massachusetts and New England, and resolve to take no step backward, but to press | on vigorously to union and victory, the coun- try will have cause for profound rejoicing when the smoke and dust of the contest have cleared away.”’ So far as the democracy of Massa- chusetts have benefited the national democ- racy for more than half a century the least said about the matter the better. Their pa- triotism has consisted in securing the federal loaves and fishes when the Presidential fights | ere over. = "AM@RcCAN Fisame Ricurs Unper tae Treaty oF Wy, sHOTON. — This very important subject phir ongtifes the attention of the United States and British Our report of the proceedings English Parliament during sion yesterday states Cabinet has made application to the Queen's Ministry for a provisional enjoyment by our people of the privilege of fishing in the waters of the British North American possessions during the season. Canada has, the government said, refused, but Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island have consented. This news, although brief in detail, is very important. Tt will be likely to have a very decided bear- ing on the matter of the Geneva arbitration generally. The peoples of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island have been always friendly to the citizens of the United States, governments, of the the —ses- and the feeling is reciprocal. But they come, | generally, from one source of emigrant stock in the Old World; the more modern Cana- dians, for the most part, from another. The Dominion bond of union is a rope of sand at that the American | which both governments seemed desirous of conveying was that the hitch was in the words only—a mere question of phraseology. To people of common sense it appears strange that any such difficulty should exist about words merely if there were no principle in- volved. Though both governments have been foolishly intent on disguising the fact, and, though we have not yet got at the particular form of the proposed Supplemental Treaty in- volving it, we can see that there is a great principle at the bottom of this difficulty, Enough has leaked out to show that England is not contending over the meaning of words merely, but over a question of the highest im- portance, which was with her the paramount consideration in making the Washington Treaty. We refer to the rules regarding the obliga- tions of the two Powers to each other as neu- trals in the future. These rules were the basis of the whole treaty. And in order to settle the Alabama claims they were made so far retroactive. Each Power was required to use ‘‘due diligence’ asa neutral to prevent the escape of privateers to prey upon the com- merce of the other when at war. The rules are, in other respects, extremely exacting and stringent as regards augmenting the force or war means of an enemy. The whole gist and spirit of them was to tie the hands of the United States so as to prevent England being injured in the event of war with any other nation through the resources or sympathy of this country. They were intended to exempt England from just such serious damages as the United States suffered from her in our civil war. For this important concession she admitted her liability for damages by the Alabama and other cruisers that escaped from her ports, and agreed to go to arbitration on | these damages. She said to the United States, Tf you will be bound by these rules in the future I will make them retroactive so as to | cover the damages done by the Alabama and | other privateers. The want of ‘due dili- gence’ shall apply so far to the past as well | as to the future. Upon this agreement the United States made | up its case for consequential as well as direct | damages. England demurred and refused to | go to arbitration on the question of consequen- | tial damages. Finally our government con- | the Supplemental Treaty for that purpose in- | sists upon the rule regarding the obligations of neutrals being so amended as to exclude any claim for indirect damages in the future. other words, if Alabamas shonld escape from tho United States to prey upon the commerce sented to withdraw the indirect claims, and in | | will care to run much risk unless they are well In | People are beginning to understand the im- portance of health and to esteem it accord- ingly. The reaction against a too protracted and devoted pursuit of wealth is a healthy sign in the body politic and social. It is avery logical and natural one, too. Take England, for instance, where the secular holi- days are outnumbered by the religious festivals and holy days bequeathed from the Catholic Church, and who will believe that the island does one pound less of business in the year for the prolonged celebrations of Christmas, New Year's, Whit Monday, Holy Week, Easter Week and Corpus Christi? It is cer- tain that the same volume of business will be transacted in the year, whether its holidays be a few more or a few less. Could the matter be decided in some positive way we might be tempted even to wager that the brokers in Wall street by granting themselves the pro- posed holiday would discover next New Year's Day that their books would show not a penny decrease in cash and debit a heavy income of health and good humor. A petition has been signed already by several hundred of the Board, and ought to be acted upon favorably by the Governors. The Farragut Monument. The announcement made in a contem- porary’s special despatch from Washington yesterday, that Congress had resolved to throw open the Farragut monument to com- petition, will give general satisfaction to the artistic world. It isa step in the right direc- tion, from which the best results may be looked for. It is now some months since wo called upon Congress to do this act of justice to American sculptors, and it only remains for the proper authorities to issue circulars giving full information about the conditions of com- petition. The sum voted for the erection of the memorial is twenty thousand dollars, but this is only one item of the information necessary to the artist. The models ought to be of uniform size, that a just comparison of their merits and demerits may be made by the committee appointed to make the selection. Unless a uniform scale is insisted on it will be impossible to judge cor- rectly of the effects of the different works, and as the getting up of models in plaster 1s attended with considerable expense few artists 80 assured that their designs will receive fair and impartial consideration. In order, there- fore, to induce the greatest possible number of artists to enter the lists the conditions of the competition should be made public without of England when she is at war, our government should not be bound to do more than England delay, as the time appointed for sending in the designs—1st January, 1873—~is very short, from saloon to ‘garten’’ on the wings of the wind; the glass out of which the amber fluid rolled riotously round his philosophic palate will be carried in the next procession in the hand of the girl who represents Die Wacht am Rhein, and Greeley for Germania will echo through theland. And the Philosopher? Elate at his feat and feeling the cheering in- fluence of the lager invigorating him, he will take in every beer house on the route to the Liberal headquarters, repeating the perform- ance at the first. Arriving at the headquarters he will give the bushels of papers awaiting his attention a contemptuous kick, and, amid the cheers of the committee, order a ten gallon cask of lager to be broached on the Secretary's armchair and then invite the crowd to drink. No more speeches; no more agricultural and philanthropic chairmanships; no more acres of foolscap for his indefatigable secretary to cover; no more Sphinxitic enigmas for printers to decipher! The first grand German ratifi- cation of the ticket will bea barbecue, with pretzels, Bologna sausages and lager for the multitude. The Philosopher will signify his adhesion to German ideas by drinking with everybody that asks him, by the increasing rotundity of his proportions, and a good deep lager-toned chest note in his articulation, instead of his usual tremulous treble, as he calls some rash Grant man on the grounds a villain and a liar. The headquar- ters will be moved to Jones’ Wood and. the campaign banners will bear the noble linea- ments of Greeley in the garb of Gambri- nus. Horace, of old Rome, with his iter ad Brandusium and his draughts of Fa- lernian, will not hold a candle in history to our Horace stumping the States and copi- ously quaffing lager beer. Horace, we have said, is well preserved ; he has never ruined his constitution by early addiction to whiskey; therefore the lager will do him no harm. The “peerless spring’ at Chappaqua will be run into a cattle trough to indicate that the lower anithals cannot enjoy lager, and over that future assemble to curry favor with the Sage in the interval before his inaugu~ | ration, a signpost will greet their eyes directing them to the nearest lager beer saloon, where he will select his Cabinet, Min- isters and Consuls according to their beer- holding capacity. The idea is:so simple and its success so patent that we wonder it has never been thought of before. Mr. Greeley will, we are sure, be convinced of the hopelessness of his fight unless he decides on it. He has done many noble and numberless queer things in hig time; let Lim pow dq an accommodating sacred ypot, when the -office-seckers of the | to whom Barnum may not hope to bea cir- cumstance. Gilmore has captured the town, and, like a modern Kolus, he commands the storm; at his will cataclysms of sound rush down on the Hub, overturning and carrying away all the ancient landmarks. In the future we shall know Boston as the birthplace of monster jubilees and storms of sound and fury signifying nothing, The old town has fallen into the hands of. the musical Barnum of the age, and we can only lament over its decadence and folly. The City of Sages turned into the gathering place of windbags is a sorry sight. If it were not that the projectors knew humbug to be eternal, and that the bigger the humbug the more popular it would be likely to become, they would never have attempted to get up such a row as. now gives to: Boston something of the air of Donnybrook Fair in its palmiest days, minus the shillelah ac- companiment. Since the South Sea bubble there has been nothing comparable for audacity to this huge Celtic joke at the ex- pense of the staid and sober Bostonians. Since the building of Babel was, abandoned there has not been known such a din as Gil- more will continue to inflict on Boston until the Fourth of July. We venture to predict that never was that glorious morn looked for- ward to with half the longing, or its arrival hailed with half the joy, that will be felt by the Hubites this year, because it will free them from the plague of Gilmore's bellowing bands. How delighted the natives will be when they can once more distinguish the sweet music of their own nasal twang, which is just now in- audible in the present general blowing of heterogeneous horns! But amid the din may be heard. the constant rustle of greenbacks, and this, no doubt, will in some measure compen- sate the Hub for any loss of dignity or peace. Whatever people of ssthetic tastes may think, those distinguished citizens who keep hotels. are likely to declare the monstrous jubilee o magnificent suceess. To them the horrible discord will doubtless prove the sweetest music ; for, though they may not care much about unisons or harmonies, they will have a keen and lasting delight in the flood of green- backs that will be floated as if by magic on streams of melody into their strong boxes. We shrewdly suspect that this accompaniment will be the feature of the Jubilee, which will have | the greatest charm for the citizens of the Hub, notwithstanding their professed love of music and admiration for the musical Knight of Blarney. ieee te Niwery-seven Years Aco—June 17, 1775— the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. The British then learned for the first time that the counterpart of Count Sclopis, who appears at Geneva on behalf of the King of Italy; of Baron d’Itajuba, who appears for the Emperor of Brazil; Citizen Jacob Staempfli, who ap- pears for the republic of Switzerland; Sir Alexander Cockburn, who appears for the Queen of Great Britain, and Charles Francis Adams, who appears on behalf of the republic of the United States. For counsel, advisers, hangers-on, clerks and so on, to keep up the resemblance to Geneva, plenty of material can be found floating around the City Hall, the New Court House, old Tammany Hall, Apollo Hall and the headquarters of the. strikers, all of which can be furnished at the shortest notice. Even Earl Granville, Mr. Gladstone or Lord Tenterden might be induced to take a hand in the exercises ; or, if they should not like the sport, they might take a look at our races, go.to Jerome Park or Long Branch, or: “hunt the wild buffalo on the distant prairie.’’ We cannot promise to get up for:them a show on the grand scale of the Paris Commune,, but they might be introduced! to some nobia fellows,among the Internationals, who would as lief go into a scrimmage as they would eat their suppers, and to some. ‘‘grinding capital. ists,’’ who would sooner drink their champagne than shake the honest hand of a workingmen’ or acknowledge that the latter had any right which the capitalist was bound to respect. At any rate, let us. have “The High Join Labor and Capital Commission of Arbitration, and: Adjustment,’’ with Hamilton Fish , at tus head and any other fish at the tail. jal Picture Gal- ern lery. There seems to be imminent danger of‘ the gallery of gubernatorial portraits that so long have graced the walls. of the Governor's Room in the City Hall.passing from the possession of the city. Simply losing possession of these portraits is not, however, the worst feature in, the case. An. emissary of the Sheriff, under: the flaunting folds of his odious red) flag, is to. knock them down to. the highest bidder. It appears that some time since Mr. John L, Brower obtained a judgment for $5,600 against the city. The judgment was regularly obtained in a regular judicihi pro- ceeding, and no question was raised as, to its validity. Mr. Green, the Comptrolltr,. would, not, however, pay the araount of the judgment. An execution was thergupon issued against the city and the Sheriff instructed to levy upon some of the city property. The apparatus of Fire Engine Company No. 7 was first selected to be levied upon, when, to prevent such step being taken, the interposition of the courts was The City’s sought and a stay of proceedings granted. American militiamen wore not to be despised | Judge Brady, of tho Supreme Court, granted { ;