The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. _— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ARORA TOS MXMVEE,. cece eeeeeereee AMUSE ERTS THIS EVENING. RE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Jone No. . 327 ee Volume BOOTS TH aveuuc.—Rowro FOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Pursivs’ Rustic Rr neat—i. 0. U. r GRAND OPERA HOUSE, twenty-third st, and Eighth ev.—Hor Canornn. : UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth stree GERMANTA THEATRES, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—Das Stirtunasrest. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts—ALADDIN THE SKCOND, WOOD's MUSEUM, way, corner Thictieth st.— Drxus. Afternoon and Evening. FIFTH AVENUF, THEATRI, Twenty-fourth sirect.— Mxuny Wives ov Wixpson, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stree!.—[rarian Orgna—fuc Uvavenors. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Rroadway arc Thirteenth street.—Our Ansnican Cousin. STADT THEATRE, 45 aud 47 Bowery.-Mactoat, Reems SENTATIONS. TERRACE GARDEN Ti ington aud Sd ave.—Orre TRI, S8th st., between Lex- JEwess. THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Breadway.—Kinc or Car- Rors. MRS. I’. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Saratoca. PARK THEATRE, opposite the City Hall, Brooklyn.— Wire or BRYANT’S OPFRA MOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner (th av.—Nxene Mins: ¥ KocentRicrry, WHITE'S ATHED No. 585 Broadway.—Set expip Vaniety or Noveuti TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Grand Vanixty Extenrainngnt, &. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, corner of 2th st. and Broadway.—ETHioPian MINsTRELSY. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street —Suaxsrantan Reapincs—O7TuKL10, NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1872.—THIPLE SHEET. The Political Drama in Kerope what Are, the Older Nations Doing!—Ger- many and France and Thetr Troubles. Wo print this morning @ letter from our European correspondence in reference to the general aspect of Continental politics. The correspondent performs a kind of Asmodeous duty, and looks into many roofs and tells what the people are doing—Prussians, Germans opposed to Prussians, Bonapartists, friends of Henry V. and Divine Right, Josuits and Com- munists, and, in fact, boxes tho political com- pase of the Continent, and gives us his obser- vations from every querter. ‘the letter de- tives additional interest at this time from the events now transpiring in France, the occur- rence of which are foreshadowed by our far- seeing correspondent. From the tragical to the burlesque in politics is a short step, and our first feeling on read- ing this curious narrative and listening to these many views, is.as to the absurdity of the sit- uation. The poor Continent seems distracted by the multitude of counsels, the promptings of ambition, the struggles for precedence, authority and power. Every politician has his own panacea, The Jesuit sits in rapt ex- pectation of a miracle, and sees great hope in the various appearances of the Holy Virgin. He feels that God Himself is at last taking an active part in the affairs of the nations, and that ® regenerated and chastened people will take tho pious kings liko the Count de Chambord ‘and Don Carlos in their arms and gently seat them on their thrones. From this dreamy contemplation we pass to the Com- munists, who inform us that they are not all doad, but live, enfin, at Geneva. So far from being dead, they mean to return in two years to Paris and France, and begin that new dispensation which is to make the | hd calls Jesuitiom. ‘Wo confess that as an act of policy Bismarck has made @ succeastul appeal to the Protestant world. Victoria, “Defender of the Faith,” finds her title barren compared with that of William, ‘Conqueror of the Jesuits.” And it is somothing— it is really a great achievement to surround, as it were with @ fine ether, this now Empire with the influence of a religious and spiritual support. But something more than sentiment is necessary to consolidate an empiro, and there are troubles in Gormany which cannot be attributed to the Jesuits, and certainly cannot be removed by their expul- sion. ‘The Gcrmans—éo grave, so patient, so true and so disciplined in war—are running wild in matters of finance, We hear of the maddest financial schemes. The payment of the French indemnity is to make everybody rich, In Berlin there is real estate mania which surpasses anything ever seen in Chicago, Men aro becoming suddenly rich by founding companies and selling the stocks to innocent and excited buyers, as in our days of petro- leum and gold-mining excitements. Specu- lating firms are founding banks all over the Empire, one firm in Frankfort having founded seventeen alone. These banks are now traversing the money markets with money to lend and borrow. The German who was comfortable and satisfied with his three_and_four per cent earnings, and overjoyed when the Americans paid him six and seven, now despises his English and American securities and wants fifteen or twenty out of a new stock company for plant- ing clover or transporting ico or manufactur- ing beer. Tho simplest laws of finance havo been so wantonly violated that, with all the advantages of the indemnity, Prussian credit does not compare with the credit of overbur- world happy. Labor is to have its just reward; capital is to be chained, even as the Scriptures tell us Beelzebub will be chained IRVING HALL, corner of Irving place and 15th st.— Graxp Concent, BARNUM’S MUSEUM, MENAGERIE AND CIROOS, Fourteenth street, near Broadway.—Day and Evening. RAILFY’S GREAT CIRCUS ANB MENAGERIE, foot ol Houston street, East River. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, 23d st. and 4th av.—Graxp Exutsition or Paiwtincs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF A oF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Forney AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. “New ‘Yor, 1 Friaay, Nov. 22, 1872. "HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. *THE POLITICAL DRAMA IN EUROPE—WIAT ARE THE OLDER NATIONS DOING?— GERMANY AND FRANCE AND THEIR TROUBLES—LEADER—SrixtH Pace." EMBEDDED IN SNOW! EIGHT HUNDRED RAIL- ‘TRUCTORS BLOCKADED ON A AND ST. PETER'S RAIL LIEP TRAIN 0 BURIED IN ‘UL FEARS—SEVENTH PAGE. FINANCIAL, POLITICAL, RULIGION DE! AL PROGRESS! NAPOLEON. ES: BISMARCK’S SCNEME! CH GERMAN ALLIANCE: ANCIERS SPECULATION-MAD: THE | IAN KAISER—FourtH Pace, N THE ORISIS! THINKS’ ADICTED! PROJECTS : ANTICIPATED RE- SULTS—Seventa Pace. CHEAPER MO} FOR EUROPE, AND PLENTY OF 1T! HEAVY FLOW OF BULLION TO THE BANK OF AND! CONSOLS, AMERI- CAN SECURITIES AND FRENCH RENTES ADVANCE—SEVENTH PGE. SLAVE TRADERS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN AUSTRALIA! THE TRAFFIC DECLARED MURDER—CUBAN AUTHORITIES SELLING SLAVES—THE WEST INDIES—SEVENTH Page, EUROPEAN NEWy BY CABLE! LONDON HONORS STANLEY: A CHILEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE POPE: GERMANY PUNISHING EX- COMMUNICATING CLERGY—SEVENTH PagE. ‘BTANLEY AT HOME! SOUVENIRS FROM SOV- EREIGNS AND SAVANS: KALULU INTER- VIEWED—Tairp Pace. “GRATTAN AND THE VOLUNTEERS !" FATHER BURKE AGAIN ASSAILS FROUDE'S PO- SITION: CATHOLIC PERSECUTION: IRISH- MEN IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION— THIRD Pace. LARGE AND ENTHUSIASTIC MASS MEETING OF RESIDENT CANADIANS IN FAVOR OF AN- NEXING THE NEW DOMINION! PAPINEAU'S OPINIONS—THIRD PAGE. LOSSES BY THE BOSTON CALAMITY! A COM- MITTEE OF INQUIRY: LEATHER INTER- ESTS: THE LEGISLATURE DOUM THE COLISEUM — DISPOSING OF MISSION FUNDS—THIRD PaGE. TAMMANY IN WAR PAINT! THE “BIG CHIEFS" OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE DE- NOUNCING TRAITORS: KELLY ENDORSED— MARINE NEWS—TENTH Pace. TEAM VESSELS! REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL: BOILER EXPLOSIONS: LOSSES OF LIFE AND PROPERTY: LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES: PETROLEUM—Taigp Pace. KING AND O'NEILL! A TRAGIC INQUEST! MRS. O'NEILL SOLEMNLY DENOUNCES THE MURDERER! A LOADED REVOLVER AND PHOTOGRAPH: O'NELLL’S HISTORY— EtouTH Pag. LEGAL! DIAMOND SMUGGLING: REWARDING INFORMERS: THE PUTNAM CARHOOK HOMICIDE: DIVIDING CITY FUNDS: THE ANDRE WIFE HOMICIDE—Firrn Page. TMPEACHING JUDGE PRINDLE! THE MISDE- MEANORS CHARGED : SUMMARY BY COUN- SEL FOR THE PEOPLE—Tentu Pace. @ATISFACTORY TRIAL TRIP OF THE NEW STEAM STREET CAR—REUNION OF THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND—ORDERS FROM ARMY HEADQUARTERS—Tanru Pace. ADVANCING INSURANCE RATES! MEETING OF THE BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS: ‘THE PRESENT RATES AND THE ADVANCE: THE MANSARDS AND THEIR LOCATION— E1onTs Page. HE JERSEY CITY AND BROOKLYN FIRES! FURTHER DESTRUCTION AT WOODRUFF & in the good time, and the rights of man are to supersede all priestcraft and divine rights. We are not informed as to how many bishops it will be necessary to kill and how many palaces to burn before this happy consumma- tion; but in some way or another the good time is coming, and the poor, starving sans culolles of the Commune patiently bide their time in their retirement under the Alps. Nor are we surprised to find that the friends of the fallen Emperor have something to say; and we confess the averments of the Bonapartist who gave his views to our correspondent are not without force. If there is no Bonapartist party, why is it (hat one half of the Parisian journals are eilher openly or secretly aiding the cxiled family? This is indeed a pertinent question, and we can well see how it may be answered when we read the catalogue of triumphs and beneficent achievements attri- buted to the Bonaparte rule. If Napoleonism led. to’ Sedan, as we are informed, then we are also informed that Napoleonism could have retrieved Sedan, and that no party and no crown and no theoricsof divine rights or human rights can efface the impression made upon the heart of France by the great man who founded the house of Bonaparte. Then again, if Napoleonism is destitute of power why has President Thicrs taken such pains to exclude Plon Plon from the Republic and send him to the Swiss frontier with an official escort? And why do we have to-day a con- firmation in the news from Paris of our cor- respondent's predictions ‘that a crisis might be expected at any moment in the affairs of a republic which is accepted by many only as an interlude, and which depends for its con- tinuance, in a great measure, upon the acci- dent of M. Thiers? From the whirl of politics in France we pass to the situation in Germany. Our cor- respondent gives us both sides of a story which many of us have all along supposed to have had only one side. If any country is united it is certainly Germany. When the German Parliament voted to annex Alsace and Lorraine but one vote was in opposition; and yet few things have been done by Germany more open to criticism than this annexation. The world has been disposed to look upon the prodigious military power of Prussia as rep- resenting Germany, and to feel that its only voice was in the pen of Prince Bismarck and the sword of Count Von Moltke. But we see from intelligent German authority that behind Bismarck and Moltke—this transcendent pen and incomparable sword—there is 6 Germany which trusts and loves them not. This forms a curious study, and the developments made by our correspondent will have a deep interest to those who have felt that Prussia had succeeded in making the will of one people the voice and will of one man. We have an intelligent reason for the expulsion of the Jesuits. Those who saw in this extraordinary act of Prince Bismarck o mere whim of policy, or a fear that some harm might come to the now Empire, or a belief that the Jesuits were in the pay of France, mistake the logical character of his statesman- ship. The Kings of Prussia have long enter- tained the idea of making the house of Hohen- the head of a Church as well as the heAd of a State. If we go back to the time of Luther we shall find that the Reformation was welcomed by the North German Electors be- cause it was a demonstration against the re- ligious supremacy of France—a supremacy which Ministers like Richelieu and Ma- zarin in time made political. Frederick the Great was wont to envy the Czar his supremacy over the Greek Church, the King of England his headship of the dened and beaten I'rance. No law and no military discipline can reraedy this. As Thad- deus Stevens and his followers found in our war, when they invented a law forbidding the advance in gold, there are some things which absolute power cannot do. ‘The delicate and subtle laws of finance, which belong to tho highest branches of the science of political economy, cannot be curtailed by an edict from the all-gracious Kaisor. These laws wore never understood in Prussia or Russia. They are understood to perfection in France, And so, while France seoms to rise steadily and ride securely over the highest seas of na- tional misfortune that ever surged around a nation, Prussia is whirling upon a Niagara of financial disaster and ruin, tho result of which may be mere injurious than the defeat of Sedan to France, Under these high-vaunting seas, which sweep over the surface of the political ocean of the Continent, divine right and Bonapartism in France, Prussia and anti-Prussia in Germany, these plots and counterplots and evor-inoreas- ing perplexities, the closo observer cannot fail to see the smooth and steadily sweeping currents towards republicanism. America has shown that a republic means strength; Switzerland, that it means peace and security; France, that it means the confidence of the financial world. The Empire that will lond a Republic, or offer tolendit, from ten to fifleon thousand millions of dollars is not the Empire of the Bourbons. The nations are learning the lessons of this example. The mad, despairing frénzy of the Commune threw back republicanism—seemed to have destroyed it. But France, under M. Thiers, has redeemed all that was lost under Cluseret and Delescluse. If not promaturely interrupted in the work by the intrigues of the monarchists in the Assembly, he may succeed in implanting in the minds of Frenchmen the same enthusiasm for a republic of their own creation as they have heretofore had for an empire of their own selection—an Empire of the French, and not of France—and may hand down the government in peace to his suc- cessor in the Presidency. The nationalities of the older world are slowly, silently, surely vindicating the wisdom of the great men who founded this federation of States and of the great men who preserved it, and the genera- tion which has welcomed and achieved eman- ‘the hydra-headed power" ‘of cipation on the Continent of America may seé republican institutions in all their fulness and beauty on the Continent of Europe. Eight Hundred Men Threatened with Destruction in Minnesota. The continued snow blockades on the Pa- Cific railroads last Winter, and the consequent inconvenience and suffering to travelling humanity so graphically depicted subse- quently, seem destined to be altogether shaded by the horrible suffering already reported dur- ing the present season. We publish elsewhere to-day a despatch showing that on Tuesday week, owing to a want of foresight on the part ofa party of constructors on the Winona and St, Peter Railroad in Minnesota, more than eight hundred employés have been overtaken by a November snow storm at least a hundred miles from any telegraph constructing train and completely cut off from civilization. Why they should expect the recent splendid Autumn weather would outlast November is not stated, but certain it is that no means were provided in case such a calamity as that which now threatens should occur. The intelligence of their awful condition was by some means conveyed to Sleepy Eye, the nearest white settlement, and from there sent on to the General Superintendent at Winona. The Superintendent immediately started a train to their relief, but, notwithstanding he had attached two locomotives to the cars, up to Saturday morning he had only Episcopate, and the Sultan his successorship of Mohammed. These Kings were not only po- litical Kings within their own dominions, but religious Kings wherever their faith was pre- served, And if France was not the actual head of the Roman Church, the King was always, as ‘“‘eldest son of the Church,’’ virtu- ‘ROBINSON'S STORES: LOSSES AT THE TO- » BACCO WAREHOUSE—Eramvn Pace. SHALL STREET BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS! MONEY STRINGENT: THE GOLD CLIQUE - THREATEN A “SQUEEZE:” A NORTH- WESTERN “CORNER: THE PRIZE RING— Nints Pace. WPEAY'S DISAPPEARANCE—DIRE WIFE BEAT- ING—HARLEM’S HIGHWAYMEN—PROBA- BLE MURDER—Eieut# Pace. REAL ESTATE OPERATIONS: STATUS OF THE MARKET—LIBERIA'S CITIZENS—MON- ARCHS OF THE OCEAN—SCHOONER LAUNCH—DEAD ON THE TRACK~ELEVENTH Page. ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL— THE NEW YORK CANVASS—KINGS COUNTY OFFICIAL VOTE—NEW STATEN ISLAND FERRY—Firzu Page. ally its political head. Frederick the Great, free-thinker and pupil of Voltaire, as he con- tinued through life, was nover as strong as when the English Treasury paid him subsidies and the English people burned bonfires in his honor as ‘The Protestant King.'’ Prince Bismarck follows the Frederick legend, and means to consolidate his new Empire by at- tracting to it the sympathy of the Protestant world. There will not be a Protestant congregation which will not have its prayers for the statesmen who made this war upon the Pontificate; andalready | blocked in. we see the enthusiastic Garibaldi, who fought against Bismarck in the field, denouncing | or any sustenance forwarded. And, as if to Thiers as unworthy of respect, and honoring | make the situation still more horrifying the German Gbancelior for siriking what | aud the lessom more impressive, the gale de- been able to reach Ulms. Here two other lo- comotives were attached to the train, provisions for thirty days anda hundred and fifty men and materials were taken aboard; but inas- much as the snowdrifts of eight and ten feet in thickness had become frozen almost as solid as ice on the Hudson in the depth of Winter, and that every foot of progress had to be achieved by the pickaxe and shovel, it will surprise no one tolearn that the train up to Sunday evening had gone but twenty-five miles. The storm in the meanwhile continued to rage furiously, the intense cold causing the snow to freeze almost as soon as it settled, and the hope of reaching the unfortunate constructors becoming propor- tionately less. On Tuesday night the train had reached point forty miles west of the white settlement whence the news was first received. Here the gallant relieving party also became Eighty miles had yet to be traced before the suffering laborers could be reached molishéd the telegraph wires wost of Bk Peter, thus completely cutting off furth*T commu- nication with that place. The cons.uctors had been working considerably in advance of tho government surveyors, far into a wild and comparatively uninhabited tract of country, where, in fact, but a fow squatters and Indians eke out an existence, and the horrible thought is suggested that, as no provisions are known to be accessible to them, they may starve to death before food or aid can reach the place where they are blockaded. ‘Thus the poor creatures remain out on the prairie, while all the ingenuity of their would-be rescuors fails in the attempts at relief. Should the worst be realized, and the calamity ond as disas- trously as the despatch intimates, a terrible responsibility will reat on those whose duty it was at this advanced season to make arrange- ments rendering such a calamity simply im- possible, Solleitade in the Republican Ranki— The Spoils in Danger. The Chronicle (a republican organ in Wash- ington) compliments the Hrraxp upon its po- litical speculations and suggestions. It declares it to be the “pot project of the Hunatp to set the President and his friends by the ears ;"* that “it manifesta a patronising disposition, and seems disposed to constitute itself a special organ to protect the President from his party frien and adds:—‘It remains to be seen whether the prospect of having the enterprising and indefatigable Husanp as his champion is a sufficient inducement for the President to turn hia back upon a republican Congress.’” Now, with due respect to the views of our ‘Washington contemporary, we confess our ina- bility to discover why a republican Congress should turn against General Grant because the independent press of the country determined to extend him an earnest and disinterested support. What tne next Congress has to fear is the overshadowing influence of strictly partisan papers. The Washington Chronicle, backed by ex-Senator Harlan and other émi- nent politicians, who demand as their inalién- able prerogative the right to be the dispensers of the patronage of a government they claim to have elected, is naturally anxious to retain that political hold upon the President which will insure a continuance of the power and influence of its party friends. Now, we hold that the time has gone by for strict party rule, and the result of the recent election, the gen- eral breaking down of all old party lines, and the splendid success of General Grant by the votes of the people independent of political divisions, prove that we are right. Neither Congress nor the President need apprehend danger from the support of the inde- pendent press of the country; on the con- trary, the new Congress, coming in with the new administration of General Grant, will be freo from the embarrassment that weighed so heavily against certain party measures in the last Congress, and will be in a condition to court rather than repel advances on the part of untrammelled journals. Besides, there are other reasons why the President should not be obliged to ‘turn his back upon a republican Congress” nor a republican Congress upon the President, no matter what party manipulators may say. We are promised om the part of the late opposition a generous support of all good measuros, and if Congress wilt work harmo- niously with the President in favor of South- ern reconciliation, civil service reform and a firm, American policy in our foreign relations, there is a prospect of a sort of political mil- lennium.. Already a long list of leading and influential journals have adopted: the principle upon witich the Heraip was established and built up into the leading newspaper of the world, and have announced their indepen- dence. Among/ them are such well-known papers as the Chicago Tribune and Times, the Springfield Republican, the New York Tribune and Sun, the New Orleans Picayune and Times and the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Richmond Enquirer, although not avowing entire inde- pendence, signifies its readiness to support President Grant in all good and wise measures of his administration. So here we have papers from all sections—North and South, East and West, secession and loyal, republican and democratic—casting off party trammels and professing a determination to stand by the President and Congress in all that is worthy of support, irrespective of party considerations or of former sentiments. The effect can be seen already on prominent leaders, who, like ex-President Andy Johnson, are beginning to announce themselves as discriminating friends of the next national administration. A jour- nal so intelligent as the Washington Chronicle should understand the signs of the times, and, instead of objecting to the course of the Heraup as the disinterested adviser of the President, should aid us in urging upon hima popular policy and in inciting the re- publicans in Congress to extend to his recom- mendations an honest and earnest support. But whatever may be the course of the pro- fessional politicians, the four years of General Grant's next administration will in all prob- ability present » marked contrast with the four years of the past. New men, new meas- ures, new ideas, a more vigorous foreign policy and reconciliation will animate its councils and inspire it with re- forms commensurate with the progressive spirit of the age. President Grant is now practically out of party clutches and shackles, and isin a position to rise loftily above all party feeling and affiliations. It has been said during the past four years that he was simply a puppet in the hands of a few wire- pullers, and that he had no independence of character or mind of his own. He was re- garded asa “King Log’’ by ltis own parti- sans, and treated accordingly. But next March the curtain will rise upon a new order Pane oe w= Porpetuating the Repub- we are gratified beyond measure to author- itatively announce that the statement circu- Jated here respecting the alleged resignation of President Thiers and the appointment of a triumvirate, with MacMahon at ‘its head, is false in every particular. France is in the midst of a genuine crisis, and the fact that anything seems possible at such atime will @ccount for tho anxiety this canard created among those who hope for the preservation of the Republic in France and the progress of republicanism in Europe. In our cable de- spatches will be found the old material out of which the new and baseless sensation was manufactured, Of great consequence in this connection will be found the various plans put forward in earnestness to place the Republic ona firm foundation. It is recognized on every hand that the present position cannot last. ‘The Bonapartiste, Orleanista and Bourbons de- rive their hopes of success from this palpable instability, and nothing but the gulf of revolution into which all might be tumbled restrains each from laying hands on the government in a struggle for the mastery. This is the trump card which M. Thiers lays down each time he threatens to resign: The Left Centre is the party in the National As- sembly from which he receives the most useful support, as it is tho party of conserva- tive republicans. Although he receives the vote of the Extreme Loft, or radicals, on all questions touching the fundamental form of the government, and can generally count on the vote of the Right Centre or more advanced of the monarchists, the majoritios he has gained have been all founded on the spirit of com- promise, which means a timid acquiescence by numbers in what they have the desire but not the courage to oppose, As this has put the Left Centre in the position of being the only positive party in the Assembly voting on its absolute convictions, their plan deserves consideration. Its first provision is the appointment of a committee of thirty to draw up organic laws. The ne- cessity of this is obvious, for before any step can be made the basis of law must be firm on which they tread. The most important fea- tures, however, in view of the status quo, are the proposals to prolong the term of M. Thiers for four years and to nominate a Vice Presi- dent. The intention in this is firstly to let well alone in the person of the Executive for four years longer and to provide against the danger of disorganization which might follow the demise of an infirm old man on whom all now so: pre- cariously depends. The creation of a second Chamber, probably on a plan somewhat simi- lar to the United States Senate, is their next Proposition, and one on which conservatism in all well-regulated governments relies for preventing rash and hasty legislation. Of the mode of election to this Upper Chamber we are not informed. The foregoing prop- ositions are those on which they pro- pose frustrating the plans of Napoleon- ists and Communists alike. They pro- vide for an easy and gradual transition to settled government. The two parties which lie at the extremes would hope everything in & period-of sudden change. The next propo- sition, which is meant to meet the vehemence of the radicals, provides for a partial or complete renewal of the Assembly; and, lastly, a pledge is. throw out of minis- terial responsibility to- the people at large. The monarchists are already disheartened in their cause. In contrast with this we ob- serve that the extreme Left endorse the declaration of Gambetta, who says that the dissolution of the Assembly is the sole remedy for the present difficulties. The radicals, emboldened. by the republican successes at the late elections, believe that a new Assembly would be still more strongly republican, and the indications are that they are right. The respectable old gentlemen of the Right, whose heads are in the past quarter of a century or @ century ago, will find less and less place in the representative councils of a great live nation as France is to-day. But the virtue of caution should not be disregarded, and where the success of the republican idea is assured the radicals would do well not to push matters too swiftly at the beck of their able, but hot- headed leader, Gambetta. Meanwhile, we learn that the jury bill has been passed by an immense majority, which is. very satisfactory. The motion to restore the configcated estates to the Orleans family will bring out the strength of the royalists and perhaps air their pretensions a little. It looks as though they feared that even this boon was as much as any ‘‘family’’ could expect from a State so rapidly settling into republicanism. Let France persevere in her course of guarded republicanism, avoiding the violent changes which give the elements of evil a chance, and she may soon in safety look back over the days from the fall of the Bastile to the fall of Sedan as the checkered time in which full liberty and government by the people were nursed rarely in friendly arms, but which reached perfected growth in spite of all. Ove Sprcran Caste Report from London gives the latest aspect of the English money market and narrates the improved feeling pre- vailing therein as reflected in the stronger condition of both the Bank of England and the numerous joint stock banks this week as compared with last. The enterprise of the Henatp in giving the London bank statement, just as it doos that of the association of banks in this city, every week, will be duly appreci- ated by the business community. A large gain in the specie of the Bank of England is good news to our cotton factors and wheat exporting of things. Instead of a ‘King Log’’ we be-, lieve the republican managers, who are 60 eager to reap and garner the fresh crop of spoils after the harvest of four years is ox- hausted, will find they have a ‘King Stork’ to deal with, and that, backed by the inde- pendent press of the Republic, General Grant will be President in fact as well as in name during his next administration. Evidently there is a great deal of solicitude in the ranks of republican managers in regard to the dis- tribution of the spoils of the next administra- tion, The shoe begins to pine. Tus Sarery or tax Antzona, announced from San Diego, will set at rest a foreboding which had begun to spread. We have had lately a terrible list of steamboat catastrophes, and would fain hope to be long spared any additions to the catalogue. merchants, as it implies brisker trade and a more active movement of these staples from this side. The Paris telegrams are also assur- ing as to monetary matters in that centre. Tar Recewr Ixptan Powwow in the Indian Territory seems to have been followed by sharper discussion. Some few days after the pipe of peace was smoked and the braves had departed with the benisons of their Quaker friends, General McKenzie fell foul of a strong force of the cutthroats within sixty miles of the council grounds and thrashed them soundly. We have had no detailed account of the engagement, but it would appear to have been no slight affair. The General of the Army has honorably mentioned the officers, i eS aaaeeee oe who particularly distinguished them- pl im the fight, ental Posttion im France | The Carnival of Vice—Shall Law Be her namo the balance” ;yrould have fallen from her paralyzed hand. Ohrist,nity and Justice! Dare thinking souls look ng ,.nother in the face and boast of our civilization: after the combination of tragedy and farce that made last Saturday night hideous? It is «.nable spectacle that we now recall—so noblé}. lo worthy of the nineteenth contury thaf-we adk the readors of the Hxgatp to con with our eyes and swell the chorus of “‘Shamef?” that should resound from press ag bey 8 Aor Finst—Scene First.—A concert = the great thoroughfare of our most Christian city. Gaslight does its best to illuminate vies; > mirrors and lascivious pictures do their best to reflect it. A stage, before which a wretched orchestra is playing more wretched musio. At the upper end of tho saloon a bar, at which degraded men and women are drinking liquor vilor tham themselves. Opposite the stage, a staircase leading to dens of infamy. In the hall-are two hundred men and thirty-five women—the former pursuing an’ amusement, the latter‘a business, The women aro disreputably dressed, and, by drinking, are keeping them- selves down to the level of the devilish work exacted from them by their patrons. Scene Second.—The descent of officers of the law, who declare all present to be under arrest. Musicians grasp their instruments, women rush into corners, men grow white or become scarlet, gray-haired fathers of families tremble with dismay. Scene Third.—Squads of miserable, half- clad, shivering women marching through the cold and snow of Broadway, led by policemen and followed by a curious crowd of ‘“roughs’’ and “lovers.”” Scene Fourth.—The interior of w potice station. Women from fourteen to forty, weeping, fainting, blaspheming—all, ever the most hardened, fecling most humiliated. Scene Fifth.—One by one the women ate called upon to give their names. Ail lie. None are so lost to pride as to make public their own shame and that of the mothers who bore them. One by one they are conveyed to cells, to pass the night in cold and misery. As numbers lessen those remaining become more agitated, and, weeping and wailing, appeal in vain for mercy. Aor Sxoonp—Scene First.—The Tombs:Po- lice Court, Sunday morning. A demoralized mob gazing at hungry, shivering female pris- oners, who, with swollen eyes and choked ut- terance, answer to their names. A few pro- prietors of concert halls on. being arraigned: specdily give bail and are released, The: women are again locked up in prison. Scene Second.—Before leaving. the bench-the: magistrate discharges several women wi" ‘are: ill or have little children at home. , { Now, in the name of decency, ti Wekaahe of humanity, in the name of womanhood, we ask whether this disgraceful spectacle shall be repeated? In the name of morality, we ask what good has: been attained? In:the name of justice, we ask how dare the law visit its rigor and every possiblo indignity upon the unfortunate women, while their tempters, the proprietors of concert saloons,. can be bailéd for five hundred dollars or less andthe men who by their patronage keep alive the beastly traffic are allowed to go free? If this be law, then is law the work of the devil, and the sooner justice takes its place the better for our fame. Which, wo ask, is worse?—the young girl who, reared in poverty and vice, sells her soul for the sake of keeping alive her body for a few. miserable years, or the man who, able to gain an honest. living, prefers to make a fortune by paying girls for their prostitution? Again, which .is worse ?—the lowborn proprietor of a concert saloon who: trades in vice- or the-better born. patron who seeks it for the gratification of de- praved passion? Yet the greater the extenua- tion the less leniency; and that class whichis: weakest, which needs all the charity that Christ gave it of old.and would. give it to-day, is dragged through. public mire only to, be rendered the more hopeless, the more hsr- dened, the more corrupt. Among. older women with bloated countenances—for few are the women who can bear the horcora of an impure life without the per. petual stimulant of liquor—sat girls overcome by their abandoned situation. One gokden- haired, blue-eyed girl of sixteen moaned as if her heart would break. Another-rofused to be comforted. Will these unfortunates be made better by the brand burned inte their souls on Saturday night? Do you call them abandoned? Amid the wreck of womanhood one spark of divinity is still left—the spark that redeemed Nancy Sykes. Hardly one among them but turned despairingly to the man she loved and for whom, in many cases, she erred. The woman capable of loving, though it be a Bill Sykea, is mot lost; the woman plying a bad career, who never neg- lects her children, is still 1 woman. And; | shall women be treated like beasts of prey? | If they are treated as such will they not be- come such? ‘Why don’t they arrest the pra prietors and let us alone?’ exclaimed one woman in desperation. ‘If they were put aut of the way,” cried another, ‘there would; be no places in which to entangle us.” A little girl shook her small fist in the face ot hor:pro- prietor, saying, ‘Were it not for you I should not be here to-night. You first enticed;me to work in your saloon.’’ And the destroyer of this child’s innocence coolly smoked.a cigar, | knowing that his ill-gotten gains would soon | seoure his release, and that it little, mattered what became of his victims when porerty and ignorance were always ready to faxnish fresh materials for seduction. Is Broadway any purer for this degradation ; of womanhood? Aro the flaunting signs of ina famous dens taken down? Are the proprie- tors bound over to assume avirtue though they have it not? Are the women given an opportunity of making an honest instead of a dishonest living? No, not one of these things has been accomplished. The police, acting under an excess of zeal, from which they suffer spasmodic attacks once or twice a year, bave temporarily shut up a few saloons, have made themselves and their victims notorious,| have made law a monster of injustice, have done nothing whatever to remove plague spots dofiling the principal fare of America’s groateat city. Now, shall bo dono to ont aa ond to this carnival