The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. _ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Vot me "XXXVI. FIFTH AVENUE, THE. ATRE, Twenty-fourth street— Mxexy Wives or Wixpsor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brondway ana Thirteenth street.—Our Asmntcan ACADEMY OF MUSI' DrERa—Don GrovaNnt. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—KinG or Car- ‘Rots. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth aveaue.—Romko anv JULIET. ROWERy carmen Bowe ry.—Pirains’ Bostic Re- ‘taxat—I. 0, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thira st, and Eighth av.—Ror Carorre, UNION teenth and equane THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- ‘ourteenth streets.—AGNxs. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—Das STIVTUNGSPEST. OLYMPIC THEATR' and Bleecker ste,—At. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bi Dixue, Aiternoon and E B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. hetween Houston DND. away, corner Thirtieth st.— ing. MRA¢ Baratoda. PARK THEATRE, opp ‘Wire or 2. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUST “Twenty-third st. (th av.—Necko MinstRELsy Lccentnicrry, ac. ‘the City Hail, Brooklyn.— corner \ WHITE'S ATMENAUM, No. 585 Broadway.—SPt eNDID ‘Vanirty or Novertixs. + TONY PASTOR'S OPERA UC Grand Vauinry ENihnrainment, E, No. 201 Bowery Matinee at 2 SAN FRANCISCO St. James Theatre, seorner of 28th st. aud Broad w: STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—SmaksPEARIAN Pieapincs—Hanter, BARNUM'S MENAGERIE AND CIRCUS, Fourteenth | Breet, near Broadw BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCU: ©! Houston street, East Riv ANB MENAGERIE, foot NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DE! y.—Granv Exuipition or Patnti: N, 28d st. and 4th \, ASSOCIATION HALL, 2d street and 4th av,—Mas, Vaxcer's Wax Works. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av gud 64th streets, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF AD RCrERCS AND ART, TRIPLE SWEET. New York, Tucsday, Nov. 19, 1872. (THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. THE ADMINI [RATION AND THE SOUTHERN STATES WV POLICY OF RECONUILIA — LEADER — Sista PAGE. DE ON STATE STREET! THE ION OF A BLOCK OF BUILDINGS [OM HOUSE THE LOSSES — SEveNtTH ENDANGERED! PagE. DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION IN BROOKLYN! AN IMM! WAREHO AND 600,000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN CON ED! SALT WATER FROM THE BA AYING THE FLAMES! LOSS AND INSURANCE—TuinD Page. SHOT DEAD ON THE STAIRS! TERRIBLE | FINALE OF A DIVORCE THE MUR DER AND ITS MTING CA AND HIS VICTIM: A TuiRrp PaGE, POLICE RAID UPON A SWINDLE ! THE PL OT Che TH WHY 1 4 TIRPATED : RAID ON CONCERT SALOON —TENTH EFFECTS OF THE EUROPE Lf FOR MENT—SE FARTHQUAK MOCKS IN NEW NEW: FROM WASHIN( NAMPSHIRE— ‘ON—WORK OF COMMISSLON— COR: SHOOT- LITIS—Firtu Pac HORSE DROPSY! MARKE THE ANIMALS: OVERW NOURISHM! $ RENDER’ ENGLAND" 'S RIGHT: EARLY TR $ JSUMEL CAS! » TRIALS FOR DU TC! it HEINRICHS AND ROSENZWEIG—Fovern PAGE. WALL STREET BUSINES QUOTATIONS! M PACIFIC MAIL. INSURANCE TROUBLI WASHINGTON POISONED—A BARONE’ Eienti PAGE. NEWARK’S FATAL CHLOROFORM C4 DICT IN THE WiIJALEN MURDE! JERSEY FIREMEN—IMPORTS IN FRENCH BOTTOMS—Firri Pacer, CLOSING SESSION OF THE METHODIST MISSION. TCY RECLAIMED— Ayornen Mcnper oy tar Srarms.—Yester- day afternoon a tragedy took place which will bear a sad comparison with the event which led to the death of Fisk in January last. The man charged with the deed, James C. King, is a dandyish person. He coolly shot his victim while going down stairs, firing three shots, one of which was | fatal, one wounding less dangerously and one having missed altogether. Beyond the , fact that there was ‘‘a woman in the case" the | resemblance with the Stokes shooting may be said toend. The murderer and the murdered had been attending a session before Judge , Sutherland, who was acting in Chambers as eferce in a divorce case, in which the victim was a witness to the cruelty of the husband, King, and the goodness of the wife. The sitting was declared concluded and tie parties arcse to depart, O'Neill, the murdered, preceding by & few steps his murderer, who then coolly shot him dead. While these men were sitting face to face at the referce’s table n moment before wos King calculating what would be the shapes of phe inaanily plea? MOVIAN MINSTRELSY. | , between 63d TOMY, 618 Broadway.— ABOUT 4 NTH PAGE. NEW YORK HEKALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. une Aagministration ana me South- orn StatesGemeral Grant's New Pol- foy of Reconciliation. The special despatch from a trustworthy source at Washington which we published yesterday, in reference to the future treatment ot the reconstructed Southern States resolved upon by General Grant, is exceedingly grati- fying. It thus appears that. the rigorous régime of the past is to be discarded for a more generous and conciliatory policy; that the President's attention is much given to the consideration of this important subject; that it is believed he fully coincides with the idea that the time, the conditions and the general results of the late national election are pro- pitious for reviving the same “era of good fecling’’ which came in with President Mon- roe’s re-election by an overwhelming popular majority similar to that which Genoral Grant has just received; that he is in favor of very material modifications in the Ku Klox laws of Congress a8 soon as he can be satisfied that thore is full protection for life and property in the Southern States, and that he will most probably recommend a general amnesty in his forthcoming annual message. These are indeed gratifying assurances, and they are perfectly consistent with that generous character and those conciliatory in- clinations manifested by General Grant in many things, from the surrender at Appo- mattox Court House to his humane treat- ment of the Indians, Doubtless if, instead of that remorseless Puritanical spirit of coercion which has too much controlled the logislation | of Congress in reference to the South—surely if, instead of this policy, the two houses had | been governed by the more amiable spirit of | General Grant all complaints of the inse- curity of life and property in the lately rebel- lious States would have ceased long ago. By his constitutional oath the President is bound to take care that the laws are faithfully exe- cuted; but if in their execution the laws re- lating to the ‘Ku Klux Klans,’’ for example, | are found, in his judgment, too harsh to reach the object designed, it is equally his constitu- tional duty to recommend their modification or repeal. Weare glad to learn that this is substantially his opinion, and that accord- ingly we may look to President Grant for tho inauguration of a. new line of action towards the Sonth for the establishment of law and | order—a policy embracing « complete oblit- | eration of martial law and rebel disabilities, The revival of ‘the era of good fecling’’ which distinguished the second term of the adniinistration of Monroe is a happy thought. In this case, we believe, history may so be shaped as to repeat itself with perfect security | and complete success. ‘The occasion, in all its | conditions, invites the experiment, From its op- | position to the war of 1812 the old federal party, | which had been for many years gradually de- | clining, rapidly went down, so that in 1820 it dissolved and disappeared, and in ‘‘the era of good feeling’ which followed, though a short | era, the American people were said to be “all republicans and all federalists." From its opposition to the war, the issues of the war and to the Congressional measures of South- ern reconstruction resulting from the war of 1861, the democratic party, ‘fallen from its high estate,’’ has since been steadily declining, till, from this remarkable contest of 1872, under its ‘“‘aew departure,”’ it stands substan- tially in the condition of the old federal party | in 1820, ‘without a local habitation or a name.’ There were two parties in the late coalition against General Grant, the liberal republican and the democratic party; but these two parties were so blended together that with the collapse of the coalition it may | be said, in a national sense, that both have ceased to exist. There is, in short, nothing in our political history which will so aptly compare with the second election of Colonel Monroe as this sec- ond election of General Grant. Nor can it be denied that the results of the Presidential con- test and the political situation are as favorabl to the incumbent in the latter case as they were in the former. But when we look at the | feebleness of these United States among the great nations in 1820, as compared with our | communding strength and resonrees as the | foremost nation of the earth in 1872, and when | we look et the great and beneficent measures | in our domestic and foreign relations now | within the grasp of General Grant, it will be | seen that his opportunity for a grandly suc- | cessful administration far transcends that of | Monroe, from his second election. that he has and will have no aspirations for a third term, Grant, as was Monroe, is perfectly free to act upon the idea that there is hut one political party in the country, the party of his administration, and if in the contest for | the Presidential succession in 1876 we shall have a repetition of the “scrub race’’ of 1824, Grant, like Monroe, may thank his lucky stars | that with his laurels untarnished he has with- drawn from the course. We have said that in the conditions andin the results of the late extraordinary Presi- | dential contest there is every encouragement to the administration for the new depariure of fraternal generosity towards the South. If the President has secured the endorsement of 'y Northern State, from the Atlantic to the | Pacific seaboard, he has secured the vote of confidence from a majority of the Southern States and the Southern people. ev exigencies of the situation. In the North the paramount idea in favor cf General Grant was the stability and secuvity of our financial sys- tem against the incalculable financial derange- ruents and disasters which might, perhaps, have followed the election of Mr. Greeley. In the South, on the other hand, the ruling idea | in the late canvass was Southern rights and Southern wrongs under the general govern. ment; and it is upon this question that the Southern States and the Southern people meet the administration more than half way, touch- ing a universal amnesty and the complete | obliteration of the pains and penalties and invidious distinctions of a sectional rebellion whieh, dating from April last, surrendered to the armies of the Union seven long years \ ago. | Four years of destructive war and over seven | | years of the conqueror’s measures of political reconstruction are surely punishment enough for the rash Southern pro-slavery suicidal | adventure of the Southern Confederacy, par- ticularly when the States and people of the late Confederacy Lave accepted every condition imposed of restoration, We say accepted, os contra-distinguished from submission. In 1871 | Jef! Davis, in a public speoah at Selma, Ala. Assuming | | been already or will be affected. This popular | verdict, North and South, is justified by the | | financial obligations ; said that he accepted nothing—he only sub- mitted to the situation; and he had many supporters in this declaration. But in 1872 the Southern people, whether supporting Grant or Greeley, accepted the settlements of the war as embodied in the new amendments to the constitution and in the measures of Southern reconstruction, for this was the ‘new departure’ of the opposition conlition. If upon this test the voice of the South has been expressed in favor of General Grant, surely he has nothing to fear from the broadest policy of Southern reconciliation, but has every con- sideration inviting him to this course. We repeat that we are glad of the assurance that this is his recognition of the situation. !t is doubtless best, too, in this view, for the South, that General Grant has been re- elected; for with Mr. Greeley’s election nothing for the South was certain except conflict between Congress and the Executive or between the Senate and the House on Southern questions, and increased political embarrassments and business derangements in the Southern States. Now, with Goneral Grant as master of the field, he has only to lead, and Congress will follow in closing up the good work of wiping out politically the last vestiges of our civil war. Then we may look for the perfect restora- tion of the Union; then wo shall see that restoration of social harmony in the South and of Northern and European confidence in Southern law and order and Southern industry which are so much needed for the develop- ment of the incalculable resources of tho Southern States. General Grant owes his ro- election very largely to his immense payments of the national debt and to his increased Treasury savings from diminished taxcs; but how much of all this has resulted from Southern cotton as a balance against our En- ropean importations has never been fully acknowledged or computed. Now, let us have, bona fide, the reconstructed Southern States restored to the Union; let the President lead the way in this restoration by challenging the Southern people in his generous advances, and social and political harmony between whites and blacks will soon follow with law and order. Then capital and emigration, with general confidence, will pour into the inviting fields of the South, and within the period allotted to the living generation of her young men the eash products of the South, in cotton, nice, sugar, corn and tobacco, may be increased a hundred-fold. ‘‘Manifest destiny,’” we aro told, invites us to Cuba, St. Domingo, Mexico and to that half of this Continent over which still flies the flag of England; but manifest destiny first invites us to that perfect restora- tion of the South which will open a new Em- pire to the world’s industry, which will add millions of people to our wealth-producing classes and hundreds of millions of money to our annual resources as a nation. Here, then, lies the work which General Grant mhy make the crowning glory of his administration. The Poultry Disease. The fears which have pervaded the mind of mater familias on the Thanksgiving turkey question are not likely to be realized. The endeavors of our reporters, set forth elsewhere, to discover the facts in the case, encourage the belief that there is not much danger to the poultry after all, and that, although some fa- talities are reported from New Jersey the disease has not invaded the henroosts of Westchester county to any extent. Barnyard fowl suffer from various affections at this usually damp period of the year, and the appearance among the chickens of a single case of cold in the head would cause a world of comment about epizooty among the innocent rustics. The butchers are shrewdly suspected of being the originators of this idea of a hen and turkey fatality. A veracious informant, however, states that it has resulted among his hens from their ae allowed to peck their sus- tenance among the stable refuse of diseased horses. It is not improbable that there may | be some truth in this, and hence it would be well for all farmers and benwives to remove this dangerous accumulation out of th: ch of their poultry, ‘The eyes of the entire country are upon them. Tur Sweep or THE Srorm 1x Evrorr.— The Danish and Prussian governments con- tinue to receive official reports of the damages which have ensued on sea, along the coast and | on land, in consequence of the terrible storm which visited the more northern portions of Europe during the later days of the past week. The accounts are of very melancholy import. The amount of wreck and ruin which has been caused in the Danish territory is | quite enormous when viewed in a money value point of view. The losses sustained by the inhabitants of the Island of Falstein, known as the Orchard of Denmark, already exceed the amount of a million of rix dollars. Prus- sia is still told of devastation in the Pome- ranian provinces. Schleswig and Holstein mourn at their firesides for lost friends and | the prospect of commercial and agricultural bankruptcy, and it may be allyved with great truth that there is scarcely «un industrial or financial interest in North Europe but has The King and Queen of Denmark are promptly active | in their efforts for the relief and consolation of their stricken subjects. They are ably seconded by the members of the Cabinet in Copenhagen. Berlin will not, of course, lag behind in the charitable undertaking, and, in this respect even, the news of Prince Bismarck's restora- SpectaL Szssrox Lecistature.—The Legislature of Massachusetts, to con-ider what action should be taken in reference to | the late conflagration in Boston, will com- mence to-day. Th principal points of deliberation will probably comprise tending the time for the maturity of their the widening and straightening of the narrow ways conveniently wide and making straight the many crooked ways in the burned | | distriet—in grading and drainage; in the erec- | tion of entirely fireproof editices in lien of the elegant Mansard roofs, and in otherwise improving and beautifying the city in its business locali- | | ties. No doubt the Legislature will act promptly in the premises and assist the mer- chant princes of Boston in restoring their dry goods and other commercial palaces to more than their wonted tasteful, capacioaus aud sub- stantial proportions, | porary as | ponent | ayi— i " } tion to health comes at an opportune moment. | would say:—The trath isiwe went to get out or te Massacuvserts | special session of tke | be spectators than belligerents; but it would | to insult and outrage them, and so make them such | matters as affording relief to sufferers by ox- | streets—making the | | regarded as a natural sequel to the return of Rus- The Canadian Tempest in a Teapot— Plain but Unpalatable Truths. The English journals are working them- selves into unnecessary fury over an article which recently appeared in the London Times on the subject of the provisions and settle- ments under the Treaiy of Washington, and especially over certain plain but unpalatable truths uttered by that leading organ of British opinion for the advantage of the Canadians. The position taken by the London Times is not flattering to the success of English diplo- macy. From first to last the treaty is regarded as disastrous to the interests of the United Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada; asa settlement of outstanding difficulties in which England concedes everything and America nothing, and in which Canada is unscrupu- lously sacrificed between the two. No attempt is made to conceal the extent of the supposed injury to the interests of the Province in- flicted by the acts of the Joint High Commis- sion. The indictment is put into the mouths of the Canadians in strong language. They are told that they may say to the British gov- ernment, ‘You have muddled away our in- terests without obtaining for us aught that we desired. You have abandoned our fisheries; you have sacrificed our frontier; you have not given us open trade with the States; you have not secured any satisfaction of our claims for wanton injuries;’’ and the charges are ad- mitted to be well founded. The Canadians are reminded that their own Legislature gave its assent to the Treaty of Washington in con- sideration of a bribe of two millions and a half sterling guaranteed by the British govern- ment; but it is nevertheless conceded that under its operation they have lost all that they had to lose and been denied all that they had aright to expect. For the past the faults of England frankly confessed. ‘It is true we have failed; we did our best; but we had to keep one eye on ourselves and another eye on you, and all the time to watch the temper and meaning of the American Commissicnsts, with very little intelligence to guide our inter- pretation of their words; and if the result is not satisfactory to you, neither is it to our- selves,” For the future the Canadians are offered some blunt advice: —‘‘From this time forth look after your own business yourselves; you are big enough, you are strong enough, you are intelligent enough, and if there were any deficiency in any of these points it would be supplied by the education of self-reliance. We aro both now in a false position, and the time has arrived when we should be relieved from it. Take up your freedom; your days of apprenticeship are over.’’ These last words constitute the offence which, in the eyes of the rest of the English press, the London Times has committed against manhood, honor and decency. There is almost universal concurrence in the unflattering pic- ture which the great organ has drawn of the Treaty of Washington. ‘The condemnation of that instrument in the light of its results is almost as unanimous and extravagant as were the laudations showered upon it before the de- cisions it invited were rendered by the arbitra- tors against the wishes and expectations of Englishmen. It is conceded on all sides that the Canadians have been made to bear the cost of England’s conciliation of the United States. ‘When our government agreed not to press the claims of Canada for satisfaction on ac- count of the ‘wanton injuries’ committed on her soil by raiders from America,” says the London Morning Post; “when they gave up to the Americans what they desired as regards the Canadian fisheries, and when they yielded to the United States Commissioners on the point of submitting an unlimited reference to | the Emperor of Germany on the San Juan boundary question, they simply bargained away the interests and rights of others for the | supposed advantage of England."’ The Pall Mall Gazette declares that the treaty is justly regarded as an outrage by Canada. “What the general opinion is in England,”’ it says, “about the achievements of Her Majesty's Commissioners and Her Majesty's government we know; but, damnatory as it is, it cannot be so hostile, so angry as public feeling in Canada, and the Canadians have an equal right to judge of the matter, as well as equal claims to just and rational views of it. In their eyes—we know it by official despatches | sent long ago from their government to ours— the treaty seemed insulting and injurious before it came into operation."’ But at the same time that these admissions are made the | London Times is fiercely assailed for bidding the Canadians in future rid themselves of a connection which brings all these supposed grievances upon them, and, trusting to their own manhood, ‘take their freedom’’ into their | own hands. The Morning Post brands the advice as ‘‘un-English, ungenerous and insult- ing.” It declares that “the government that dared first to injure and then to cast off a loyal | colony would speedily be driven from office | by the voice of the country.” The Pall Mall | Gazette regards the language of its contem- coarse, and, coming from a newspaper accepted as an accurate ex- of English opinion, as ‘a deep disgrace and misfortune for England.” The Saurday Review characteristically | speaks of (he ‘‘coarseness and brntality’’ of | the advice and pronounces the policy recom- ; mended “as futile and absurd as it is pusil- lanimous and dishonorable."’ In the eyes of | | this jaundiced organ the London Times has not frankly spoken all its mind. ‘If the | writer spoke without reserve,”’ it declares, “he of all entanglements in America. If the United States attack Canada we would rather hardly do to throw over the Canadians under a threat of war. Let us try while there is time | throw us off.’ The Saturday Review sees a serious danger in this very proposition to al- low a British colony to set up in business for itself. It prophesies:—‘The effacement of England will now be considered to be com- plete. This anxiety to shake off Canada will be sia to the Black Sea and the transfer of the key of British Columbia to the United States. Put- ting honor and honesty out of the question, it but dangerous timber-constructed | is just possible that a policy of eager and com- placent surrender may not be found to be the best security for a peaceful and quiet life.” The first difficulty arises from the fact that the premises of the London Times and of all the other English papers are wrong. They take it for granted that the Treaty of Wash- ington was an injury and an injustice to | position or for new connections. | the Canadians. | ascended the Canada, while the reverse is the truth, It will be universally conceded that war hotween England and America would be disastrous to Canada in a greater degree than any other possible event. No one can deny that the situation of affairs before the Washington Treaty seriously endangered the peaceful rela- tions of the two nations. The Alabama claims, the fisheries, the San Juan boundary were all fraught with danger, aud Canada was especially concerned in their amicable settle- ment, The treaty rules by which tho Alabama claims were adjudged are binding on the United States for the future, and they are of inestimable value to Canada. Without them, and with England's action during our rebellion unatoned, Canada might have been a serious sufferer from the acts of privateers in the event of a European war involving the mother country. In the fisheries ques- tion the obligations of the United States will be honorably kept, and Canada is well rid of that threatening complication with her powerful neighbor. The San Juan boundary dispute has been de- cided on its merits, by an impartial arbitrator, to whom it was voluntarily referred, and no honorable contestant should deplore the result evon if adverse to his wishes. If Canada wero to-day independent of Great Britain—a friendly Republic in alliance with the United States, or a portion of the United States by voluntary annexation—the San Juan boundary would not be worthy of a thought. As it is, the idea that the coveted island of San Juan can be rendered dangerous to the line of inter-communication between Vancouver's Island, Manitoba and the eastern provinces, is little more than a bugbear raised by English jealousy and distrust of the Republic. The rejection by the Joint High Commission of the consideration of damages for Fenian raids was a matter of course. Such raids were checked as promptly as possible by our own authorities, whose energetic action deserves the gratitude of the Canadians. Had the British authorities seized ang garried back into their own ports the Confederate cruisers sent out to’ ‘prey upor our commerce as soon as their real character was known, weshould have had no Alabama difficulty with that government. We hold, then, that Canada has been a gainer instead of a sufferer by the Treaty of Washington. Indeed, we are disposed to believe that the admissions of the London Times in regard to | the injuries inflicted on the Dominion are ironical ; that they are intended to teach those Canadians who feel disposed to grumble at the settlement of the difficulties between England and America the solid value of the treaty to their own interests, and that the advice which has called forth such indignant protest from the rest of the English press is a hint to the colonists that, if they think. they can do bet- ter for themselves than the English High Commissioners have done for them, they are welcome to try the experiment. So far as relates to the actual proposition of the London Times, that the Canadians should throw off dependence on a distant govern- ment, take up their freedom and vindicate their manhood and self-reliance, we fail to see anything degrading or humiliating in it, either to England or her colony. Canada is now too full grown to hang to the apron string of her British mother. The solid interests of the people of the Dominion draw them towards the neighboring Republic, and not towards England. They may love the old nation, her laws and habits, asa sentiment; but as they grow stronger and more populous, as children born on the soil spring up into active life, as prejudices become softened and past associa- tions weakened by the unfailing influence of time, they will be found more and more will- ing to study their material interests and better and better prepared for an independent humiliation is to be found in the position of those English journals which insist that Can- | ada shall continue to hang on to England as a dependent or which doubt the courage of Canadians to stand alone on the soil they have chosen as their home. To suppose that the people of the Dominion will feel chagrined or incensed at the advice tendered them by the London Times is to imagine that they tremble at the prospect of independence and self- reliance. Such fear is not characteristic of Severed from England, both countries would really be more free than now from the danger of a collision with the United States; but apart from this, when the Can- adians desire separation they will not shrink from accepting all its responsibilities, and if that time should be hastened by the advice of the London Times the great journal will have deserved the gratitude both of England and her colony. Legislative Excitement im France with President Thiers on the Tribune. The session of the French National Assem- bly at Versailles yesterday evolved one of those scenes of intra-legislative-politico ex- citement which have become so frequent of late during the discussions of the Parliamen- tary representatives of the Republic, and which appear to produce nothing beyond an effervescent waste of patriotic energy which might be wisely diverted to purposes of enduring benefit for the nation. Deputy Changarnier offered a motion of censure against M. Gambetta for words spoken during his late tour in the provinces, characterizing his language as ‘inflammatory, audacious and of socialistic’ tendency. The utterance of M. Changarnier caused great excitement | among the members, and the speaker was called to order by the President. Gambetta would not reply, even under the urgent provocation ot the members of the Right. The radical orator merely shrugged his shoulders in dis- dain or indifference. President Thiers tribune in defence of the government. His personality appeared in a@ moment. He protested against ‘being brought to the bar as a criminal,’’ and demanded a vote of confidence from the house. This was opposed. Motions and counter-motions and divisions followed, and finally the confidence ‘vote was adopted by 267 against 117 voices, Half of the Deputies ab- stained from voting, so that it is, just at pres- ent, questionable if President Thiers has gained much from this latest exercise of executive strategy in the Assembly. Nonr Canotwa Laarstatorr.—The North Carolina Legislature met in Raleigh yesterday. | The interest attached to its proceedings is not world-wide, yet there is probably no other State in the Union in which its own people take so lively an interest in legislative action The real | We as the citizens of the Old North State. hepe the present session will prove a good one for all, irrespective of party. France—The Church and the National Assembly. Sunday last was a great day in Paris, and, indeed, throughout France, In.all tho cathe- drals from one end of the land to the other special prayers were offered up to Almighty God invoking His blessing on the National Assembly and its proceedings, Government officials attended the services escorted by de- tails of troops as guards of honor. In Paria it was observed that the congregations at all the churches were unusually large. For many reasons it is impossible for us to refuse to ad- mit that such a display of public sentiment in such a direction is justly entitled to be re- garded as a most striking sign of the times. Since the Revolution of 1789, and, indeed, since a period which antedates the Revolution, the French people have not been distinguished for the strength of their religious belief or for thelt church-going habits. The first French Revolution was quite as much an uprising against the Church as it was against the throne and the titled aristocracy. Before the fierce breath of the tempest of popular feeling Church and throne and noblesse were all swept to destruction. Not only was Christianity abolished; the Sabbath—the one day’s rest im seven—ceased, as it seemed by common consent as well as by Parliamentary decree, to be a French institution; and, as if to mock all the higher instincts of, humanity, a degraded womai was set up aa the Goddess of Reason, and France, under the direction of Robespierre, celebrated with much pomp and solemnity ‘The Feast of the Supreme Being.’’ It is true that Franco was grateful to the First Napoleon for the re-estab- lishment of the Christian religion and for the restoration of the Sabbath; but religious in’ the true sense the French people generally, but particularly the inhabitants of the large cities, have never been since those terrible and disastrous times. It is not more true that the Fpneee eee throne has never mayen sean ath ifs stabi ty that the noblesse have sighed in vain for an- cient place and power than it is that the Church has never regained her hold on tho hearts of the French people. It is only a few days since the French pa pers gave an account of a conversation between Mr. Charles Sumner and M. Leon Gambetta. Mr. Sumner is reported to have said to the ex- Dictator that the great misfortune of France was its want of religion. Has President Thiers taken the hint and brought about this religious display, or has a happy change come over the minds of the French people? What- ever the reason, it must be admitted that France under Thiers contrasts favorably with France under Robespierre, and that the Re- public of 1872 is a great gain on the Republic of 1794, Aside from the contrast, however, it is no¥ unreasonable, we think, to take it for granted that the French people are becoming serious and deeply concerned about the future gov- ernment of the country. It is to be noted that the special prayers of the Church on Sunday were offered for the Assembly. It was not for the Republic, or for the Monarchy, or for the Empire, that the voice of the Church was raised: it was that Divine wisdom might guide the members of the legislative body in the work which lay before them. What is to be the future form of governmont it is still difficult to say. According to President Thiers the Republic exists: it isthe legal form of government; any attempt to establish any other form of government would result in disastrous revolution; but notwithstanding these admissions he hesitates to take decisive action. It may be that President Thiers has the best of reasons for maintaining the present state of things. It may be that no other than a compromise government is possible. But there are many things which seem to imply that a* little more decisive action on the part | of the Executive in the direction of the Re- public would be acceptable to the French people. It is a fact which deserves to be | noted that at all the elections which have 4aken place since June, 1871, the republicans have carried the majority of the candidates. On the 2d of July, 1871, there were one hun- dred and twelve seats vacant, and of these one hundred and twelve one hundred were carried by the Republicans. In January, 1872, there were more elections, and this time fourteen republicans were successful and only one royalist. In June there were three elections and three Republican triumphs. In October thera were seven elections and six out of the seven Deputies returned belonged to the republican, party. These facts speak volumes a3 to the’ tendency of public feeling. Then, again, there is the wonderful success which has attended the Republic in the payment of the war in- demnity. In eighteen months one-half of the thousand million dollars has been paid to Ger- many. No nation in such circumstances ever did so nobly. All the glory of these last’ eighteen months belongs to the Republic, It will be strange indeed if the French people retrace their steps and so allow either & monarchy or an empire to grow out of the ruins of the Republic. Looking over the whole situation we cannot refuse to admit that the signs are hopeful for the continuance and permanence of the republican form of government in France ; but it must also be admitted that so long as President Thiers hesitates and refuses to take some decided step there is reason for much doubt and fear. In this view of the case we wonder not that the French people should, on Sunday last, have sought the house of God and presented to the Throne of Grace earnest prayers for Divine wisdom and guidance. Boston 1s INDEBTED To THE PnEsmENT OF tae Faencn Rervnuic for a subscription of one thousand francs to the sufferers by the late conflagration. The people of the United States outside of Boston will not forget this timely action of M. ‘Thiers. Voltaire once said, when reproached with the poverty of the French language:—‘‘C’est une pauurelé qué donne Cauméne @ tout le monde.” France in her misfortunes would seem fairly to merit for herself what the satirist said of her tongue. She can even now give alms to the world, Gueat Free ww Bnooxryy.—A fire, which consumed an immense block of grain storc- houses in Brooklyn, on tho East River frout, inflicting a loss of at least half a million dollars, broke out yesterday afternoon. All efforts to save the building were futile, It is said to have originated