The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1872, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. eer JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR. \ : , All business or news letters and telegraphic espatches must be addressed Nuw Youe Plunar. Letters and packages should be properly pealed. § Rejected communicattons will not be re furned. ae THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the + Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, * OLYMPIC THEATRE, Paurmenr, \_ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, lith at. and Broadway.— Tue Vours Pauiry—Tnx Wrong Maw in THs Rigut Pace. 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Pan, 1—Advertisements, R—Advertisements—Burglarious Boatmen—Brook- lyn Atfairs—The Hotel Keepers and the Gas Supply. 3—The Political Situation: Movements of Philo- ih ireeley—Gratz Brown: The Vice Pres- ial Candidate Interviewed—Harlan: A Republican View of the Situation—Cameron: What He Knows About Colonel Forney, the Evans Fraud, “Addition, Division and Si- lence” and the Pennsylvania State Election— Pennsylvania: Internal Broils in the Repub- lican Party—Democratic Republican General Committee—Congressional Nomination in Ilinois—Greeleyotypes and Grantographs—A Feud in Mlopols, 1. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “How the Presi- dent of the United States is Elected—Not by the People—The Popular and the Electoral Vote"—Long Brancl—The Heap and Dr. Livingstone—Amusement Announcements. 5—The Aiabama Claims: British Demurrer Against the Gross Totai of the Direct Damages Bill— Cable Telegrams from England, Ireland and Austria—Items from Cuba—Speech of Senator Wilson at Wilmington, 0.—Voorhees Vecring—News from Washington—Business Notices. fudge Barnard’s Trial: Full Attendance on the Second Day's Proceedings; Interviews with the Friends and Foes of the Accused; Rufe Andrews on Barnard’s Chances of Acquittal; A Manager on His Chances of Impeachment} ‘The City Injunction and the Brie Injunctions as Pleaders on Opposite Sides—Tweed’s Trial—Gossip of the Country Yacit, ing—Pigeon Shooting—The Hot Weathe: Pauline Lucca—Madame Peschka-Leutner Street Paving and Repalring—News from the Pacific Coast—Marriages and Deaths. T—Advertisements. S—Ku Kinx Murderers Hanged: Ree! Most Bloody and Revolting Assass Record; Massacre of the West of the i family; A Smiling Iniant's Throat Cut by One ot Condemned; Arvest, Trivl, nviction and Confession of the Cuiprits; Execution of the ‘Two Ringleaaers on Friday Lust; Speeches from the Gallows—Comptroiler Green En- dorsed—Mu pal Affairs—Drowning Acct- dent at Harlem—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts. G—The Courts (Continued a Eighth Page)— Financial and Commercial: Advance in the Bank of Ungland Discount Rate; Singular In- consistency in Gold and Disappointment of the Pool; A More Active Movement on Stock Exchange—Domestic, European and Havana Markets—Meeting of the South Carolina Bond- holders—The Greenville and Columbia Kail- road Bondholders’ Meeting—Norweglan Com- memoration—New York City News—The Crops in Wisconsin—General Mott and the Egyptian Minister of War—Advertisements. £0—Fenton on Finance: The Senator's Specch on the Administration's Financial Policy; Why the Government Cannot ae} Lag oe Up to Gold Value—Saratoga Races: Fifth Day of the July Meeting; Belmont’s Stable Again tn Luck — Shipping —_ Intelligence — Advertise- ments. Everysopy Wo Wants Moygy nowadays goes to London. ll our latest railroad enter- prises are seeking capital there, and now comes the Western Union Telegraph Company as a borrower of a million anda half of dol- lars. The loan, as brought out in London, is described in our money article. Sxcretany Bovrwent mm Norra Canro- t1wa.—The Secretary of the Treasury, in his recent stump speech to the North Carolinians, might have given them something fresher than he did regarding his plans for a resump- tion of specie paymeyts. The propositions he now makes were started by the Heraup sevoral years ago, when, at the close of the war, people began to long for a specie currency again. Doubtless he thinks Hrratp thoughts, like wine, improve by age. At least he has found the Henatp a sagacious adviser of national financial policy. Last year he tried to fight the gold spcculation and gold advanced. Now he lets the ‘bulls’ and “‘bears’’ fight it out, and the market takes care of itself. Tae Porice axp trE Processtons.—The saturnalia in which the dangerous classes seem to indulge this summer, and tho prevalence of incendiary party processions of late yeara, suggest the necessity of an increase of the police force to at least double the num- ber at present on the roll. town districts, especially where there are vacant lots, are 60 insufficiently guarded that | thieves and garroters have warestrained license, and the police records teem daily with outrages which one would not think possible in a great city. But in the matter of party processions the want of a sufficient police force is particu- larly apparent. Ifa small party of crazy fanatics wish to celebrate some bygone triumph of one European faction over another the entire police force must need be called out to protect them. These party processions have become an intolerable nuisance, and itis high time to put astoptothem. Thenation is nearly a century old and has a sufficient number of great events of its own to celebrate, Let all these foreign celebrations, then, be abolished and American festivals substituted for them. If the police are to be called upon to escort every ridiculous parade that may be suggested it would be well to create a special police department to take care of such matters, Then the force should be trebled, and street traffic would nee- essarily be interfered with to an extent greatly injurious to business. The only remedy is to abolish all party processions and let American citizens do honor publicly to events in Ameri- can history alone, - How the President of the United States is Bilected—Not by the People—The Popular and the Hlectoral Vote. All the powers of sovereignty in the United States rest with the sovereign people, and yet they do not elect their President or Vico Prosi- dent, They think they do, but the nearest approach the people can make under the con- stitution to an election of those officers is in the election, State by State, of the agents by whom said officers are elected ; and, taking the will of the majority of the people of the United | States as the test which should determine the choice of their President and Vice President, we see that it is only in the chapter of acci- dents that these officers are in reality the choice of the people—that a man may by the electoral colleges be elooted President with » heavy majority of the popular vote of the Union against him, and that, worse yet, a man may be constitutionally chosen President by the electors for whom not one solitary vote has been cast by the people. The national constitution provides, in the election of President and Vice President: first, that each State, as the Legislature may direct, shall appoint » number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representa- tives to which such Stato is entitled in Con- gress ; second, that those electors shall meet in their respective States (the electoral col- loges) and vote by ballot for President and Vice President; third, that they shall make distinct lists of the persons voted for and of the number of votes for each, and transmit said lists, signed and certified, to the Prosi- dent of the United States Senate ; fourth, that this presiding officer, in the presence of both houses of Congress, shall open these certifi- cates, and that the electoral votes of the several States for President shall be counted then and Many of the up- | there, and the person having the largest number of votes, if a majority of all the votes cast, shall be President. Otherwise, from the three highest persons voted for by the electoral colleges the House of Represen- tatives, by ballot, shall elect the President, each State in these elections being limited to one vote, A quorum for this purpose shall consist of o member or mom- bers from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall bo necessary to a choice. Finally, when such lection shall devolve upon the House, ‘and it shall fail to make an election in the interval to the 4th of March next follow- ing (and under oxisting arrangements these elections come before the House about the 12th of February), then the Vico President shall actas President, as in the case of death or other constitutional disability of the President. In the next place the person from the electo- ral colleges having the largest number of votes for Vice President shall be the Vice President, if his vote be a majority of the whole vote for this officer cast by the electoral colleges. Other- wise from the two highest persons on the list from said colleges the Senate shall choose tho Vice President. A quorum for this purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole num- ber of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice, These are the existing provisions of the con- stitution in reference to the election of Presi- dent and Vice President. Originally the ordi- nance was substantially that by each party in the Presidential election as represented in the electoral colleges two persons for President should be voted for, and that the person hay- ing the highest number of votes from the elec- tors should be President and the next highest Vice President. But in the Presidential eleo- tion of 1800 this plan resulted in a difficulty its recurrence, it was deemed necessary at once to amend the constitution on this subject. Hence the amendment providing that the Presi- dent and Vice President shall be each distinctly voted tor by the electors, The difficulty re- ferred to was this:—The two federal Presi- dential candidates in the election of 1800 were Adams and Pinckney; the two republican can- didates were Jefferson and Burr. In count- ing the returns of the electors it appeared that | Jefferson and Burr had each 73 votes for Presi- dent, Adams 65, Pinckney 64, and John Jay 1. There being a tie between the two highest—Jef- ferson and Burr—the election of President was carried into the House, and then followed a struggle in that body so sharply contested and | so exciting as to throaten the government itself. | But on the sixth day of this contest in the House, and on the thirty-sixth ballot, several of the members who had been voting for | Burr withdrew their opposition to Jefferson | by voting blanks, and the result was the elec- | tion of Jefferson for President, whereby Burr became Vice President. But the narrow escape | of Jefferson in the House, although clearly indicated by the people and the electors sup- porting him as their choice for President, re- sulted in the amendment of the constitution as it now stands, as to how the constitution as amended operates, how it has operated and may operate in the election of we shall discover how far the voice of the | electoral colleges or by the House of Repro- sentatives. First, then, each State, as the Legislature may direct, shall appoint » num- | ber of electors. Next, ‘‘the Congress may deter- mine the time of choosing the electors (that is, the day of the Presidential election, as generally understood), and the day on which they (the electors) shall give their votes (the day in reality of the Presidential election), | which day shall be the same throughout the | United States.” Now, if byaccident, or through | | &common agreement among them, the Legis- latures of the several States should direct that | the electors shall be appointed by the Legisla- | | ture, or that the Legislature itself shall act | | in the capacity of electors, as that of South | | Carolina acted down to her secession from the | | Union in 1860, the whole pressure of our Presi- | dential contests would fall upon the elections for the several State Legislatures ; and from the districting of the States, local causes and splits in numerous districts upon three or four legislative candidates, our Presidential elec- tion, touching tho voiée of the people, would become completely befogged and inexplicable, of electing our Presidential electors, who elect | the President, may be adopted. But again, under the present system adopted by the States of electing their Presidential electors by the popular vote on a general ticket we have had somo strange results from 1624, generally known as our Presidential scrub race—betwoen Jackson, Adams, Orawford and Olay—the electoral vote of the Union was thus divided upon these men—for Jackson 99, for Adams 84, for Crawford 41, and for Olay 37. There being no election by the olec- tors, the three highest persons voted for—Jack- son, Adams and Crawford—went before the House for an election. The House by States, one vote for each State, on the first ballot elected Adams, who secured 13 States, against 7 for Jackson and 4 for Crawford. According to the voice of the people Jackson should have been elocted, for he hada popular majority over Adams of 50,000. The choice of Adams, however, was a fair election by the House compared with what may be done in an elec- tion of President by that body. Tor instance, let us suppose that three candidates, as in 1824, are before thé House for an election of one of them. Jones has 160 electoral votes, Smith 125, and Brown 40. Smith and Jones are be- yond the reach of a compromise, but Brown of Delaware, with a half dozen of the little States to back him, is acceptable as a last resort to the friends of Jones and Smith, of other small States, and so, with the votes of Rhode Island, Delaware, Florida and so on, till we make up the nineteen smallest States in population, Brown is elected, though the States electing him may represent less than one-third of the sovereign péople of the United States. This is what may be done in the election of a President by the House of Representatives against the voice of a majority or plurality of so serious and threatening that, to avoid | Now, then, through a very brief inquiry | President, | | who, during all the past century, have done | people has been and may be overruled by the | the popularity of local candidates, and from | Yet, under the national constitution, this plan | the popular vote; but the electoral colleges may completely disregard the popular vote and constitutionally elect a President and Vice President not voted for by even one of the people. So far, however, our Presidents, where only two candidates have been in the contest, have represented a majority of the popular vote, and where thore have been three or more candidates the persons chosen have represented the highest vote cast by the people, excepting Adams, elected by the House, in the face of on electoral and popular plurality for Jackson. But still, by the olectoral college system, John Doo, with New York and Pennsylvania, upona popular majority of one hundred, may secure fifty-nine electoral votes, while Richard Roe, with Vermont and Rhode Island, upon a popular majority of even fifty thousand, will get only nine electoral votes. In short, the existing modus operandi of our Presidential elections restricts the liberty and stifles the voice of the people in a thousand ways; and after this election of 1872, whatever may be the result, we may look for a general agitation of an amendment of the constitution upon this subject embracing a direct vote of the people for President and Vice President. General Sheridan’s Indian Policy. We can never stop the wild Indians from mur- dering and stealing until we punish them. If @ white man in. this country commits a murder we hang him. If he steais a horse we put him in the penitentiary. If an Indian commits these crimes we glye him better fare and more blankets. I think I may with reason say that under this polley the see oe of the wild red man will progress slowly. The above is from the endorsement of Gen- eral Philip Sheridan upon the report to the War Department of the murder by Indians of three persons—an aged father and mother and ahelpless child—at a ranche in Texas, only sixteen miles from Fort Griffin, and the carry- ing of the remainder of the family (three chil- dren) away as prisoners, and stealing a num- ber of animals. Scouting parties were sent after these red devils, who slew their un- offending victims with arrows, on a bright Sun- day afternoon while sitting at their door, and brutally scalped them, sticking many darts into their bodies and cutting off the ears of the venerable woman. High water in a stream to be. crossed gave the Indians three days’ start of their pursuers, and it is not likely they will be overtaken. If they were, the “peace and moral suasion policy’ alluded to by the wise and brave General would dictate that they should be gratified with prosents instead of being summarily punished. He does not endorse this policy, neither does any sensible man, who knows the facts. The wild Indians, numbering a few thousands, occupy vast tracts of the territory which white industry is rapidly invading. Civilization demands the right to cultivate these spaces and to use them in connection with the great highways which connect our communities, The scattered Indians claim the right to retain these regions unproductive and almost uscless, because their ancestors | have held them as htnting grounds. Our swarming millions claim them as the fields in which they may earn subsistence by honest labor and contribute to the comfort of humanity. These Indians have the option to adopt in- dustrious habits and be protected in all rights of property. Their stubborn refusal to do so, their constant practice of murder and theft, forfeit any claim their peculiar circumstances might raise for them. An unwise system has grown up, under which our government, by | the advice of well-intentioned but ignorant | and weak-minded philanthropists, has fed and clothed these inhuman and useless wretches, nothing for humanity. We have even fur- | nished them with rifles and ammunition with which to kill our settlers. | tend councils with our officials, make liberal | Promises, and receive gifts of all that | they value, living upon the | their “white brothers.’’ When the grass is grown so that their horses have | abundant food they amuse themselves by | | killing and scalping any unprotected travellers or settlers whom they can surprise. ishment, as a general rule, their crimes. It is full time this should be changed, and Sheridan is just the man to teach the savages that murder in- curs # certain and severe penalty. This same Indian trouble is now perplexing Canada. The | trans-continental railways. In British Colum- | bia the red men have declared war against | the railroad builders and driven them from the | line. Wherever the wild red men are found they are obstructors to the march of civilized | progress. It remains for our government to decide whether it will adopt the firm and just policy advised by General Sheridan, holding these savages responsible for their crimes, thereby either driving them from existence or toadopt honest industry, or allow them to | continue in their evil habits of murder and | theft in the summer and of cheap promises and | beggary in the winter. If we deal sternly and justly with them we may change their habits and save a portion of them. If we continue In winter they at- | bounty of | No pun- | ever follows | Dominion government has begun a system of | our people will in a few years crowd their wild tribes from the map of America. In this case justice which punishes crime is truo.morcy. General Grant on the Issues and Pros. pects of the Presidential Contest. The Presidential contest is becoming ani- mated, and promises soon to be exceedingly spirited, pungent and exciting. The views of General Grant on the leading political topics of the day, as given toa Huratp correspondent the other evening in a familiar conversation at Long Branch and as published in our issue of yesterday, sro really refreshing as a quiet diversion from the dismal platitudes and windy declamations of our noisy politicians. More than this, these observations of General Grant, as far as they go, in defining his views upon the leading questions involved, his opin- ion of Mr. Greeley and his expectations in ref- erence to the approaching elections, are valua- ble as calculated to give shape and direction to this Presidential canvass, particularly on the administration side. Wesee that he is well advised as to what his party is doing and in regard to the expectations of its leaders in North Carolina, and that he appears to enter- tain no apprehensions that a political revolu- tion is at hand. Nevertheless we think it would be a» wise thing to recall Mrs Boutwell from North Carolina and then to send him home; for he is behind the age on the stump and in the Treasury. The President knows that tsé’ National Republican Ooinmittee at Washington are hard at work, though in full confidence of success, and that they have some interesting documents ready for distribution which will be sure to have their effect—extracts from writings of Mr. Greeley, perhaps, giving what he knows about farming, and about the tariff, and about Gratz Brown, and about the democratic party, or something of that description. We know, however, that on both sides the car loads of campaign documents that are sent into all parts of the country for electioneering pur- poses are mostly turned over to the grocer as waste paper, and that the paper maker and the printer dre the only parties who derive any substantial profit from these campaign docu- ments, Thoy are certainly superfluous rub- bish in thesé days of many newspapers operating through the telegraph. But we doubt not that a brief letter rocalling our Minister from Madrid would be a good cam- paign document. In tho next place, General Grant is assured that in North Carolina the republican ticket will be successful by a good majority; that the prospects of his party are excellent in Penn- sylvania, and that even in New York not only are their chances good, but that they are morally certain of carrying the State. “You see,’’ said the General to our attentive com- missioner, “the opposition who are ‘out’ always make the loudest and largest promises— much larger than any cool observer can believe they are able or willing to fulfil—and the per- sons promised are always too ready to mistake what they wish to be for what will be;’’ and here he speaks like a philosopher. And yet General Grant may be mistaken in the idea, which is the general idea among the republi- cans, that this Presidential contest is nothing more than a struggle on the part of tho outa’’ against the ‘ins’ for the spoils. Con- ceding it to be so, it must be next conceded that, as the office-seekers are as ten to one against the office-holders, the advantages in this contest are clearly with the outside cqm- bination. Moreover, itis probable that Mr. @ish, as Secretary of State, will not do much to advance the cause of the administration in New York. Nor can we accept, without some qualify- ing grains of salt, the discouraging judgment pronounced by General Grant against Mr. Greeley. It is possible that if Mr. Greeley were actively at work in support of the General for another term the happy accord between these two eminent men ‘would be as remarkable as the impassable gulf which now divides them. General Grant may indeed believe that ‘Mr. Greeley-would have filled the civil service with all the worthless men in the country if I had let him;” but Mr. Greeley may retort that, even without his assistance, ® good many worthless men have | crept into office who ought to be removed. idea that his Secretary of State has gained an important victory over England in the Geneva Conference touching the duties of neutrals hereafter ; but upon this matter, in spite of the blunders of Mr. Fish and the blunders of Mr. Gladstone, we are indebted to the good sense of the Council of Arbitration for the compromise arrived at on these consequential damages. But who can answer for the conse- quential damages to the administration from the blunders of Mr. Secretary Tish? Execution of Ku Klux Murderers. In another part of to-day's issue we pre- sent a full account of one of the most revolt- ing cases of assassination on record. A family, consisting of the husband, wife and four children, residing in Rutherford county, North Carolina, were at their evening repast one evening, when an armed band of masked men broke into their cottage, murdered the husband and three children, horribly muti- lated the woman, first shooting, then stabbing her with knives, and cut the throat of a help- | less, smiling infant. In order to complete their villany the ruffians set fire to the place and left, doubtless with the hope that all | traces of their crime would be speedily oblite- rated. The woman recovered, however, as the fire reached her, and seizing her muti- | lated, living infant, carried it with her to | the house of a friend, to whom she | detailed ll the circumstances. During | the time the villains were in house several” of them must have dropped their masks;<for she distinctly recog- | nized three of them, At visit to the scene of the murder the following morning fully corro- ! borated all the poor woman had stated; the house had been reduced to ashes and the | bodies of those murdered charred beyond | recognition, But the law, in this case at | least, has partly avenged the bloody transac- | tion. Two of the perpetraters suffered the extreme penalty on the gallows at Henderson- ville on Friday last, and the third, respited until October, punishment their crime merits. Govan Aduir, | the elder of the two brothers executed, dis- tinctly stated he was a ‘Ku Klux,’ that he led thither seven other members of that order, time to time since 1820, In the election of | the sentimental policy the registless march of | whove names he divulged ; and that he be The President is evidently pleased with the. her | in addition to three other | accomplices in prison, will probably meet the NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY \19,\ 1872—WirH SUPPLEMENT. te rr een Rm = fieved himsclt a martyr tothe canse of this organization is apparent from the lengthy speech he made on the scaffold, more sugges- tive of the heroism of an ancient Grecian soldier than that of a cold-blooded murderer of North Carolina. The Barometers of Public Opinion. The newspaper press is emphatically the barometer of public opinion, and in that view we proceed to produce from our distant contemporaries further expressions of their views in the pending Presidential contest. As ‘all eyes are on Delaware’ it may not be amiss to quote the following from the Wilmington Commercial of the 17th instant: — “A multitude of expressions used by Mr. Greeley, in his speeches and his editorials, can be quoted to show that he had, until within a few months, a high opinion of Presi- dent Grant." His opinion is now, probably, aggregated according to the “higher law” of self-preservation—both Presidential and pru- dential. Tho anti-Groeley papers, in quoting old times sentences of the editor Greeley, only furnish themes and legends for the pro- Greeloyites in making up their rallying ories and transparencies. For example, an anti- Grecley paper publishes the following as coming from the Chappaqua philosophor’s own pen :— If ina fulland Qnal review my life and practice shall be found unworthy my principles, let due ee ae on my memory; but let none be thereby led distrust tho principles to which I proved recreant, Voltaire could scarcely have placed in words a sentiment so sublime. But is it original? Overhaul your classics, Horace, and when found make a note. This is a very true remark of the Oleveland Herald (Grant) :—‘‘To know how the Presi- dential question is running one must feel the pulse of the rural districts.’ Tho truth of the well-known line, ‘God made the country, man made the town,"’ was never more clearly proven than when, visiting our unpretentious fellow citizens in the agricultural regions, we listen to what they have to say, as bad halt in the ground they are ploughing or the corn they are hoeing, upon the political topics of the day. We would rather take as the current of public opinion the views of our really agri- cultural people than all the sententious decla- rations our city pot-house politicians can evoke. f ppenagrage oS The Salt Lake Tribune (Brigham Yonng’s organ) thinks that the republican journalists have worked up a Gresley sensation, and con- tinues: — A new phase to the case, however, has now come. Greeley is the nominee of the democratic party a8 well as the Uberal republicans, and if {t be in the range or possibility they will inevitably carry him tothe White House with an extraordivary enthu- siasm. The Boston Advertiser (Grant) declares that the republican nominations (Grant and Wil- son) “are accepted and sustained throughout New England with unanimity scarcely paral- leled in times of political excitement.’ A Greeley flag raising in Maine furnishos ma- terial for a glorification article in the Boston Post (Greeley), in the course of which it says:— The appearance on the same platform of Marcellus Emery, democratic candidate for Congress, and Colonel Godfrey, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic; of Mr. McOrillis, delegate to the Balti- more Convention, and General Boynton and such republicans as Mr. Silas Patten, is as significant an event as has been chronicied, One and all are en- listed for the war, putting aside the issnes of the past and a ay uniting to carry forward the great work before them. os Political Rowdyism Among the Blacks. The inflammatory appeals to the worst passions of an ignorant and credulous race which conscienceless carpet-baggers have been making to the colored people in the South, has borne its natural fruit in the attack made in Raleigh on Cross and Craven, because of their adhesion to the liberal republican cause. Looking on Grant and the republican party as their only protection against their former masters, the colored people regard as rene- gades those of their race who follow the Greeley standard. From their point of view, and with their limited vision, this is logical enough, and so long as they have recourse only to moral means to enforce their opinions no objection can be made. As soon, however, as they threaten to enforce their opinions by violence, it becomes the duty of the indepen- dent press to warn them of the danger they incur. If ever there was a moment when the colored race should give evidence of their re- spect for the law it is now. All parties have agreed to bury the bitter memories of the past and accept impartial suffrage, with the full rights of citizens secured to men of all condi- tions and colors. It is not the interest of the blacks at such a moment to’ awaken the hos- tility of a powerful section of the community by acts which must be disapproved by the best friends of equal rights. Only by the protection of the law and tho sympathy of the vast white population can the black element hope to enjoy peace and the full rights of citizenship. It is, therefore, madness on their part to inaugurate a struggle of race, in which the result could not fora moment be dotbtful. The people of the North are desirous of protecting the negro from any thing that smacks of oppression. We have given some of our noblest blood in order that the blot of slavery should be washed from the nation’s flag. Even now, when all can calmly count the price, we do not regret the sac- rifices we have made; but we have no intention to foster in the South a black or hybrid tyranny to oppress our own flesh and blood. We struck to secure liberty and equal rights for all, and we will not tamely stand by while ignomnce and selfishness seek to build up a despotism as hateful as the one we struck down. This is what the colored population of terrible reaction in the Northern mind. We do not much blame the ignorant dupes, who, after all, are only the tools of the un- scruptlons carpet-baggors, who enjoy power by encouraging prejudice and hate between the races in thé South, It may be as useless to feeling of these men as it would be to address ourselves to the intelligence of the freedmen ; but the leaders of the administration party | must learn that the country will hold them re- | sponsible for the evil work of their agents and cipient violence checked, lest the just in- | dignation of the people should be thor- oughly roused, We want peace, and the only way to sccuro it is by | scrupulous respect for the rights of all men. The disposition to violence mani- fested by the North Carolina blacks must be suppressed at once, and the colored supporters ot Greeley be protected from insult or outrage, appeal to the sense of honesty or honorable } | & small matter, supporters, To them we look to have this in- | ey Boones wach ad wore enacted in Raleigh will not be suffered from any party, and-we call upon the Carolina authorities to deal and decisively with the authors of this outrage on Cross and Oraven. Nothing is more calou- lated to injure the chances of President Grant's re-election than acts of violence committed by his supporters. The sympathy of the North- ern people is already strongly enlisted on the side of the penitent rebels, and the desire to see & real restoration of the Union is all but universal. Woe cannot afford to make the South the Poland of America, or to adopt the repulsive doctrine of an eternal vengeance om our misguided brothers of the South. frankly accept the new situation, which hag resulted from the war, and wish to come back into the Union on the terms wo offer them, and, whoever the people choose for President, the Southern policy must be changed. In view of this decision of the people the colored race will find their best interest in avoiding any act caloulated to provoke hostility between the white and black races, They must leara to respect the liborty of all men if they wish to be protected in the enjoyment of their owa, The Alabama Claims Arbitration tm Geneva, We are informed by telogram from Goneva that the agent having ohargo of the conduct of the case of Her Majesty Victoria before the Alabama Claims Arbitration Court hos already assailed the American bill for compensation for direct damages in @ very sweeping and formidable manner. Ho has placed before the arbitrators what he terms a demurrer against many of the items as furnished under the Treaty of Washington. He asks that the demands for satisfaction for the criminal work alleged against seven of the most notorious—after the Alabama— of the Anglo-Oonfederate privateers shall be ex- punged. This would reduce our present gross total by the sum of $78,502,743. This English movement brings the proceedings of settle- ment of the difficulty to a very interesting point. Having hdd tho indirect claims case excluded, the Queen's lawyers are nowaboutto strike a heavy blow, if nota great discourage- ment, against the solid array ,of the columns of tho direct account. An Irish drumfner was engaged in the discharge of the dis-, agreeable duty of flogging a fellow soldier under sentence of an English court martial. The culprit, after he had re- ceived a numbor of lashes, moaned out, “Strike higher.” It was done, Thon again he cried, “Strike lower.’* “Arroh faith," said the obliging but fatigited operator, ‘Strike you where f will the devil a Ons 9’ mo can plaze you.” So it is with Her Majesty's Capipes and the American bill in the Alabama a The French Evacuation Treaty. Our European exchanges are full of the new treaty concluded between France and Ger- many. As is not unnatural in the circum- stances the European press is much divided on the merits of the treaty: Some of the journals speak of the new treaty as a disgrace to Germany and as the certain ruin of France. Other journals, while they do not blame Ger- many for exacting the last farthing, praise France for the self-sacrificing spirit which the nation has so nobly exhibited. Never, per- haps, in the whole history of the world did two neighboring nations sustain to each other relations so painful as those which now oxist between France and Germany. For two hun- dred years, making slight allowances for periods of national misfortune, France has enjoyed supremacy among the nations of Europe. Now France is humbled by a people whom formerly she despised. Within nine months France will have to pay over to Germany four hundred millions of dollars; and when she has done this her departments will still remain in the hands of the conquering army. The third milliard, which has to be paid before France is free, may be held over, if deemed advisable, untid March, 1875; but the treaty provides for the payment, if convenient, in March, 1874. The terms are hard for France. It doesseem, how- ever, as if France was going to prove herself equal to the occasion. The republic in France is working well, and it is not at all impossible that the Germans may have to repent the severe treatment which they have dealt out to the French people. LONG BRANCH, The Season at Its Hetght—Everything Pleasant and Cool—A Delicious Ocean Breeze and Delightfal Bathing—The President Entertaining His Friends. Lona Branco, July 18, 1872. The Branch 1s growing more and more lively every day. It is alinost in the zenith of its livell- ness just now. Everything and everybody are gay and in good humor. The hotels are filling fast, und some of them are almost full, Commodore Stockton tele graphed to secure & suit of rooms at the West End to-day for his family; but the proprietors were re- luctantly compelled to decline the honor of entere taining the distinguished and, aristocratic New Jerseyan, their family suits being already engaged and occupied. The hot sun hid his fiery face from Long Branch durin g the greater portion of this day, and a lively and invigorating breeze kept blowing in from the ocean, making one feel as though he were enjoying the delicious temperature of the pleasantogt day of ah Indian summer, instead of sweltering in the midsummer heat with which TI faney you are just now heing afilcted in New York. Up to lunch hour in the morning the rolling waves along the beach were alive with happy bathers of both sexes, who fairly revelled for hours to the salt water luxury, while the bands In front of the hotels discoursed most exceilont music (of course, no band ever ‘“dig- courses" anything else). On the whole, the Branch just now is exceedingly tempting, and those who t | Intend to onjoy it when it is most enjoyable ought | the South must learn, unless they wish to see a | to hurry up with their trunk packing. ‘Tho President spent a very quiet day, though he had several visitors who made short calls. Among them were General Rufus Ingalls, Senator Carpen- ter, George Dawson Coleman, the great “iron man’? of Pennsylvania, and lady; J. G. Fell and lady, of, Pennsylvania; General McDowell and some otherm of minor note, whom the President entertained a& dinner. THE HERALD AND DR. LIVINGSTONE, (From the Indianapolis News, July 16.] The HERALD did not send an expedition to Ujyt for the mere finding of Dr. Livingstone. That wae Dr. Livingstone lost is a precions boon to speculative humanity, but Livingstone | found is very much the common person that Rogue, Riderhood alive was. To reconcile the public to theiry Joss in this finding, and at the same time magnify his oltice, Mr. Stanloy tells some pleasing little stories, which, the HERALD tells ua,, sound “aimost’? like’ fables. He tells of “ivory” vetug so cheap and plentiful as to be used for door posts, of & skilful manufacture of fue gras cloth, rivalling that of India; of a people nearly white and extremely handsome, whom he sup-) poses to be descendants of ancient Bgyptians; of. copper mines at Katauga, which have been worked ~ for ages, and of dociie and friendly people.” Thia’ getting lost, it appears, Was not such # distressing» matter, and if the Doctor did marry a native, which Mr. Stanley does not adinit, alo wasn’t sd Coal black after qll,