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, 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII, jo. 335 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strevts,—Lxo axp Lotos- UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway: between Thir- tecuth ‘and Fourteenth streets.—AcNes. Matinee at 1s. FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! Merry Wivxs or Winpsor, .. Twenty-fourth street. tinge at Lig. WALLACK'S THFATRE, Broadway ai ‘Thirteenth street.—Our Amzrican Cousin, Matinee Ma THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Dxap Broxe— Warkametons. Matinee e BOOTU'S THEATRE, Twei @venue.—Romro anp JULIET. nty-third street, cormer Sixth Matinee at 2, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts—Kenitworta, Matinee at 2, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pour; on, Away Dow Soura—Jacx Lona. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tax Waxperinc Durcuman, Aiternoon and Evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSF, Twenty-third st, and Eighth &v.—Rouxn tHE Crock. Matinee at 1g. 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HIS REFUSAL TO WRITE FOR THE “DIARIO” ENRAGING THE SPANISH VOLUNTEERS! HE OBTAINS HIS PASSPORT AND EM- BARKS FOR HOME—SBVENTH Page. GREAT VICTORY FOR M. THIERS IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY! LONG AND STIRRING ADDRESS BY THE AGED CHIEF OF THE REPUBLIC—S8VENTH PaGH, PEACEFUL DEATH OF MR. HORACE GREELEY ! IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN THE CHAMBER OF DEATH: SAD FINALE OF A NOBLY AMBITIOUS SPIRIT—Tarmp PAGE. SHOCKING RAILROAD DISASTER! A TRAIN THROWN FROM AN EMBANKMENT! ONE MAN KILLED, THE OTHERS INJURED— DISASTERS ON THE LAKES—Turrp Page. CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE! MADRID EXCITED OVER A VISIONARY FRENCH ARMY MENACE—SEVENTHO Pace. Lal NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! OUR RED PROTEGES: INCREASED TRADE WITH CHINA: MR. GREELEY'S DEMISE—TENTo Pag. SHIPWRECKS OFF THE SOUTH AMERICAN COAST—A BREAK IN THE JAMAIOA-AS- PINWALL CABLE LINE—MEXICO AND HER RAILROADS—SgVENTH Pace. OUR FIRST GREAT SNOW STORM! THE FALL- ING BAROMETER AND FROSTY AIR—PER SONAL NOTES—Sgventa Page, BILLIARD CHAMPION OF AMERICA! CYRILLE DION, VICTOR OVER DEERY, RETAINS THE DIAMOND CUE—ST. ANDREW'S FES- TIVAL—THIRD Pace. “WHOSO SHEDDETH MAN'S BLOOD! HANGING OF A NOTORIOUS GEORGIA NEGRO: HIS MURDEROUS WORK: SPEEDY JUSTICE— ASSASSINATION IN A GAMBLING HOUSE— Firra Pack. ALABAMA'S TWO LEGISLATURES! BODIES RECOGNIZED: A _ POLITICAL DICKER—STRANGE TENANTS FUR A CHURCH—Elanra Pac. FALL PROGRAMME OF THE LUUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB! GOOD ENTRIES AND STARTERS— HIPPOGRAPHS—LITERARY CHIT-CHAT— Fits Pacs. A SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT! A DESTRUC- TIVE FOE TO WOODEN SAIPS—RAPID TRANSIT IN BROOKLYN—NEW JERSFY AND THE NATIONAL CENTENARY—Firta PAGE. HOW A SUAVE AND “FAST? BOOKKEEPER CAME TO BE “MISSED” AND WHY—AR- RESTS BY DETECTIVES—THE REAL ESTATE MARKET—EiGutH PaGE. BEATING A WIFE TO DEATH! A SAD RESULT OF INTEMPERANCE—FATAL SHOOTING BY A BQY—O'DONOVAN ROSSA ON BURKE AND FROUDE—Eicutu Pace. POLICY SHOPS BROKEN UP! ARRESTS BY THE POLICE: ANOTHER SPASM OF OFFICIAL VIRTUE—DISASTROUS TARGET SHOOTING— Fourtn Pace. FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIM CREDITORS BE- COMING UCLAMOROUS FOR GREENBACKS: ORIGIN OF THE CLAIMS INSURANCE— NintTH PAGE. LEGAL! ALLEGED MURDER BY A SAILOR: ERIE AND THE LATE “CORNER: ROGERS THE MURDERER! RUSSIAN BONDS— Fourtn PaGs. ON ‘CHANGE! GOLD DECLINING: THE BANK OF ENGLAND DISCOUNT RATE: PACIFIC RAILROAD AND LAKE SHORE AS FEA- TURES—NINTH Pace. OUR SCHOOLHOUSES FROM A_ SANITARY BOTH STANDPOINT! WHAT THE TEACHERS AND | CHILDREN HAVE TO SUFFER: LACK OF WATER AND OF FUNDS—ELEVENTH PAGE. THE GUATEMALA DISASTER! PROBABLE LOSS OF THIRTEEN: SUFFERINGS OF THE ARIZONA’S CREW—Fovurtu Pace, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA! A CARGO OF ‘ COOLIES FOR PERU: MISSIONARY EX- PLORATIONS UP THE AMAZON—STAB- ‘+ BING—ELEVENTH Page. Swart Vexcence or THE Law mn GrorGta.— Henry Johnson, a notorious colored criminal, was executed at Augusta, Ga., yesterday, for the murder of an aged and enfeebled farmer near that city, on the 29th of October last. Thus, within the space of a month, the man was arrested, tried, much as the negro considered it his only salvation nobody else has a right to complain. The crime, however, was as atrocious as any on the criminal calendar, and, as set forth in | our special despatch published elsewere to- day, fully merited the terrible penalty meted pit to the culprit, sentenced and | hanged. This is swift justice truly, but inas- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Death of Horace Greeley. We have the sorrowful intelligence to com- municate to our readers this morning of tho death of Horace Greeley, late the distin- guished editor of the New York Tribune, and but yesterday, we may say, the recipient of the suffrages of millions of the American people for the highest office in their gift. The news of the sad event will profoundly impress the public mind throughout the country and the civilized world, particularly in view of the heavy domestic afflictions and political ex- citements and misfortunes with which it is associated. From day to day for a week past the announcements of Mr. Grecloy’s severe mental and physical prostration have loft this community and the country not wholly un- prepared for his dissolution; and yet we may say of him, as the expiring Indian chief Red Jacket said of himself, that the news of his death will come upon his peoplo “like the sound of the fall of a giant pine in the still- ness of the woods.” In a quiet homestead by the Hudson, with a veil of virgin snow over the face of Nature, as the evening shadows began to fall, his heart beat more and more faintly, and after a pause, broken only by feverish mutterings, he opened his lips to say, “I know that my Re- deemer liveth; it is dane,'’’ and then passed peacefully away. The details of the closing scenes of his life and a sketch of his active, industrious and re- markable career in American journalism and through all the vicissitudes of forty years of American politics, are given elsewhero in this paper. From this outline an approximate idea may be obtained of the varicty and ex- tent of his labors as journalist, lecturer, his- torian, politician, farmer, reformer and phi- lanthropist. The amount of this varied work performed since 1840 as the work of one man is amazing, but the strain upon his resources of endurance and recuperation from his self- imposed labors of the last ten years is appall- ing now to contemplate. The events of the late Presidential canvass, however, had cre- ated the general impression that, though a man of sixty-two, Mr. Greeley, as the reward of his total abstinence from intoxicating grinks and from tobacco in every form and froma, dissipations of every sort, re- tained the vigor and elasticity of the average man of fifty. Tho activity he displayed last Summer in those New England clambakes, in his adventures on foot up and down the rugged mountains of New Hampshire, and particularly in his Presiden- tial tour to the West, during which, within the brief period of two weeks, he travelled thousands of miles and made speeches at scores of public receptions, day and night, certainly indicated anything but an exhausted constitu- tion. Yet excessive labor and a thoughtless neglect of the necessities, to body and mind, of rest and relaxation and of healthful diver- sions, doas surely exact their penalties as vicious indulgences. The laws of our human nature are as inflexible as the laws of the Medes and Persians, and Mr. Greeley in this late Presidential canvass, in taxing too much his already failing resources of strength, was unequal to the heavier trials which followed. Failing when called to meet his late exhaust- ing vigils at home and his painful bereave- ments, he succumbed to the shock, and his life is the sacrifice. Thus has ended the great career of the founder and distinguished editor of the New York Tribune. He has, in a mistaken aspira- tion for a higher field of usefulness and power and glory, fallen a sacrifice to his political ambition. He had failed to appreciate the commanding position which he had secured as a leading American journalist, and in leav- ing it to pursue the ignis fatuus of the Presi- dency he dropped the substance for the shadow of a great distinction. In this we have more than the lesson taught us in the Presidential aspirations and disappointments ot Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Douglas, for the White House was the ultimatum in the line of their chosen profession. And yet, as the candidate of the Cincinnati and Balti- more Conventions, embracing republicans and democrats, widely believed at the time to represent a majority of the American people, who could have resisted the enviable distinction and the great temptation offered to Mr. Greeley? Aspiring as he honestly aspired to the governmental reforms fore- shadowed in his nomination, how could he resist it? But still the Divine authority, which assures us that ‘‘no man can serve two masters,’ was unwisely forgotten by our lamented contemporary in his vain struggle to harmonize the aspirations of the independent journalist with the aims and ends of the party politician. Hence the ‘irrepressible con- flicts’’ of Mr. Greeley, as a republican teacher and oracle, with rival party leaders, cliques and factions, from his dissolution of the political firm of ‘‘Seward, Weed and Greeley’’ down to his Presidential coalition with the democratic party. His fatal mistake was the sacrifice of his true vocation for the delusive fascinations of political preferment and power, and we can only lament the fatal conse- quences, Otherwise the history and the enduring re- wards of Mr. Greeley's industrious and useful career are full of encouragements to young men who, without capital, personal influence or powerful friends, have the battle of life before them. He is only one of many ex- amples of this character; but few against such obstructions have achieved so much as he in substantial and enduring honors. If he was ambitious his was that lofty ambition of gen- erous minds, whose highest aspirations are the good of their fellow men; if he had his eccentricities they were those of the genuine American republican and the ardent philan- thropist; if his political course is marked by some strange perturbations, they only bring into bolder relicf his general consistency, strength, earnestness and intrepidity of char- acter. Asa teacher of the practical, domestic economies he may well be called ‘‘our later Franklin; as a champion of equal rights he was an advanced disciple of Jefferson; as the advocate of his American system he was an advanced disciple of Henry Clay, while asa teacher of the science of agriculturo his name has become a household word in every farm- house in the country. mels of less liberal governments across the Atlantic his name lias been as potent as his verbial. When a mistaken fanaticism preached | death or almost death to the foreigner My Greeley was evyor to be found in this, as in other things, on the side of the humble and oppressed, His character as citizen, friond and neigh- bor, is ‘sans peur, sans reproche."’ As his life was admired, his death will be regretted by countless host of friends in both hemispheres, and of all creeds and races of men; and his enemies will be disarmed in striking the bal- ance between his merits and his failings. In ‘that broad field of journalism which embraces liberty to the slave, relief to the sick and unfortunate, comfort to the poor, knowledgo to the ignorant, and the general elevation of the human family, we recognize in the loss of Mr. Greeley the loss of a powerful public bene- factor. To sum up his merits in a word—he has, in the battle of life, fought a good fight— he loaves an honored namo behind him, and the high reward of an encouraging example as an American journalist and a self-made man. Germany and Rome. A very significant result has just been ob-. tained in the Prussian Diet. On Thursday, in the Lower House of tho Prussian Diet, a motion, which had for its object the admis- sion of members of ecclesiastical orders as teachers in the public schools, was rejected by anoverwhelming vote, the vote standing 242 to 83. The motion was made by a certain Herr Mallinckrodt and the speech on the govern- ment side was made by Herr Falk. Falk's speech is said to have been brilliant. Its real force, however, lay in tho fact that, in speak- ing for the government, he could say that the government was determined to wage war with the influence of Rome, We are not disposed to lay too much stress upon this vote, for all the world knows that Prussia, since the Reformation, has been a Protestant nation; and as the motion was really intended to open the doors of the pub- lic schools to the Jesuits, no other result could have been looked for. The real fight between the Imperial government and Rome must be fought in the Imperial Parliament when South as well as North Germany is repre- sented. South Germany has never abandoned the ancient Church; and although Bismarck is a determined man and bound to win if suc- cess lies within the region of the possible, it is not at all improbable that his severe anti- Romish policy may yet undo much of the work which was accomplished at Sedan. The oneliving barrier to the accomplishment of German unity and the consolidation of the Empire is the Catholicism of the South. It is not impossible that patriotism may prove stronger than religion; but we cannot help thinking that Bismarck makes a mistake in bringing the Catholics to bay. The policy of conciliation would have been wiser and per- haps more successful. The Trouble in Spain. The state of Spain is at this moment de- plorable. The government of King Amadens, while endeavoring to preserve order and ex- tend something like constitutional freedom tothe Spanish people, is beset on all sides with enemies. It has become so much the habit of parties in this distracted country to appeal on all occasions to the arbitrament of the sword that they will not be content to use the means furnished them by the constitution to remedy the abuses of which they complain. It is unfortunate that it is not in the power of any Minister, by even the most liberal policy, to conciliate the disturbing elements, The cause of this is that the grounds of difference are radical, and the party out of power can only be satisfied by the overthrow of the ex- isting government, Nothing that the govern- ment of King Amadeus can do will satisfy either the Carlista or the Alfonsistas or the extreme’ republicans. While differing upon all other questions they are agreed that the ex- istence of the King’s government is an evil that ought to be removed. This is the true solu- tion of the constantly recurring troubles in Spain, which no reform seems able to prevent, Unless this state of things can be brought toa speedy termination Spain will degenerate to the condition of Mexico and fall a prey to mili- tary adventurers. The strange feature of Spanish political life is the tenacity with which the nation asserts its right to govern Cuba at the same moment that all the world is agreed that it is incapable of governing itself. With- To the adopted citizen fresh from the tram- | wholesome advice and generosity were pro- | out a spark of national feeling in the conduct of home affairs, Spain exhibits a haughtiness bordering on insolence in the assertion of a nationality that Spaniards trample upon at home in the cause of some vicious or imbecile leader. Neither. the Oarlist nor republican party is of more impor- tance than the good mame or the well-being of the common country, but the moment 3 foreign question is involved all par- ties unite in professing an exaggerated patri- otism that in the eyes of the rest of the world seems ridiculous and absurd in view of the internal condition of Spain. The only appar- ent hope of the salvation of the country is in the triumph of the government of Amadeus; and as the army seems to be really loyal the King may in the end be more than a match for his numerous but derided enemies, wm TE eer Se I Rarm Transtr 1x Bnooxtyy.—The Brook- lyn people are bestirring themselves in the matter of rapid transit, Subscription books are open, and the committee on organization have announced that a board of directors will be elected and the work commenced as soon as the subscriptions reach the amount of half a million dollars. The road will be partly underground and partly viaduct, and will run from Fulton ferry to East New York. When the East River bridge is completed, and the two cities are united in a single corporation, this will, probably, form a portion of the grand line from Westchester county to the furthest limit of the consolidated metropolis on Long Island. It is to be hoped the Brook- lynites will push the work forward with vigor, and, in view of the future, New York capital- ists should be willing to lend them a helping hand. Ep tls Tue Savanna Advertiser states that Alex- ander H. Stephens, after visiting the capital, has returned to Liberty Hall with the prom- ise that ina few days he will give to the peo- ple of Georgia his views upon tho present political situation. If Mr. Stephens will strictly confine himself to the ‘present’ polit- | dead wood of the last quarter of a century, he may command the attention of the country and accomplish a good thing. But if he at- ; tempts to exhume the isswes loug since dead | and buried his effort will fall as worthlessly and , harmlessly a3 an Autumn leaf, ical situation, and cut adrift all the political | Peace Once More at Versailles—The Future of France. For the sake of the republican government which we enjoy, and which we believe prefer- able for all civilized people over any other form, we rejoice that our despatches from France indicate the preservation of the Repub- lic there. By a vote of three hundred and seventy against three hundred and thirty- four the Assembly has agreed to the adoption of the majority report of the committee charged with a ‘eply to the messago of President Thiers, thus removing all fear of the immediate future. When we consider what lay in the possibilities that might have resulted from this majority of thirty-six having been on the other side we are fain to admit that there is something provi- dential for the land of the Gaul in the circum- stance. Across the frontier—nay, on its own soil—tho German armies were ready to be gathered at a moment’s notice to defend their conquest and compel the beaten nation to pay the last sou of the heavy war indemnity. We are aware with the German victors that one motive outweighs all others in their position towards France, This is countenancing whatever rule favors the security of the newly acquired territory, in Alsace and Lorraine, and which is most con- ducive to allowing the payment of the remain- ing milliard. But beyond that it is certain Prince Bismarck looks with a fear common to all apostles of absolutism in Europe on the rise of a republic in France, So far the Republic of M. Thiers has fulfilled the two conditions which Germany demands and has given no opportunity for armed interference, The defeat of the propo- sition of M. Dufaure would have been followed by the resignation of M. Thiers and a frantic appeal to the barricades by the red republicans, who would believe themselves once more about to be placed under the heel of an absolutism they fear, or an old seigneur monarchy, which they despise. It is not probable that the Bonapartists would be idle, and not impossible that the army, freed for the moment from the firm hand of government, would place its bayonets at their disposal. The German Kaiser, then, from his strongholds at Metz and Strasburg, could pour his overwhelming forces through the passes of the Vosges and the country of Champagne and once more become the arbiter of the destinies of France. There is little chance to doubt that such an irruption would be the end of republicanism in Europe for many a day. Thrones must have other thrones as well as bayonets to support them, and with a power- ful nation like France it would not be safe to leave a gap in the line of regal governments on that side when opportunity offered to have it otherwise. Then, indeed, would France suffer degradation a thousand times more deep than that which came from her defeat in the field of honorable war. The monarchy or the Empire would be proclaimed according to which party bid fairest to the German view, and a government of force detested by the riled would arise, to fall, as its predeces- sors have done, amid more blood, material retrogression and national disgrace, The history of France in the days of the first revolution and during the Consulate and the first Empire can never be repeated. That marvellous stretch of twenty years, from 1792 to 1812, during which she successfully fought all Europe combined, can never be re-enacted. The brooding shadows of 1814 and 1815 tell how even then the gorgeous glory-ray was quenched in the blood of France, and how mercifully the sovereigns of Europe dealt with the popular will by reinstating a monarchy whose sup- porters came back in the rear of the in- vaders. It is a repetition of this fate which the majority to President Thiers has averted. It would be futile to measure the hopes on which the wild socialistic republicans would base their belief in final success. The Republic of 1792, which gave birth to Napo- leon Bonaparte, swept Europe because it seized the time and found the man. There are immense armies now, whose powers and organization have been amply tested, with the telegraph to inform them and railroads to transport them, A campaign in Italy or Germany and another elsewhere is no longer possible for any coun- try to-day. The system of a soldier nation which the first Republic taught, and the Empire, over-perfected, has been success- fully applied by absolutism since. It is notin that field that France will write her name on the roll of honor. The triumph of President Thiers has been accompanied with a declaration on his part which deserves special attention. He said yesterday, in his review of the situation, after admitting that he was in favor of a constitutional monarchy:—‘“The mon- archy is impossible. We have a repub- lic now; let us make it conservative."’ This knowledge from the history of the aged statesman with a monarchical record, more or less of forty years’ standing, anda doubt that he held the latter view, have been at the bottont of the fepubligan discontent with a government having him at its head. On his record, too, the ‘Orleanists, who are tho stronger of the monarchical sections, happily divided, hung their hopes of his leading them back to the throne and the privileges of caste, His utterance, given as it undoubtedly is against the strain of his prejudices, marks very strongly that the question of power lies between the people and imperialism. It must not be forgotten in viewing this that the Empire boasts its descent from the people, although never was people so blinded in choosing the first Empire and gagged in hav- ing the second thrust upon them. It was this popular lection, reversing the old, worm- eaten dogma of divine right, which made the First Napoleon so terrible a monster in the eyes of royal Europe, and which, as much as his genius and ambition, contributed to the wars waged by coalition after coalition upon him and accepted by him on the slightest provocation. President Thiers, in laying down this opinion before the Assembly, has said that in France the people must rule. Its acceptance by the people is shown in the an- nouncement that Paris, Marseilles and Lyons are tranquil and satisfied, and the very notable fact that specie is again flowing into the Bank of France. As the French people have now tided over the danger which seemed imminent, they will have reason to reflect upon what they have escaped. Wo bavo expressed, our belief hith. erto that retaining the present Republic means the permanency of republicanism in France. As the rural population feel that it means peace and prosperity they will extend to it increas- ing support, for the reason that all intelligent people wish to be part of the living present rather than cling to a past not only dead, but, on the careful opinion of M. Thiers, impossi- ble to resurrect. Beyond this, too, they will learn more quickly the direct results of self- government, and every stride they make in this dizection is one towards the grave, equally deep as that of the monarchy, where Napo- leonism and absolutism will be buried. Government of the people by the people is no Utopia, where mad dreams can be realized. It requires the careful and persistent scrutiny and unremit- ting vigilance of a whole nation. In cultivat- ing this, balancing needs against resources, mental and material, the French people can make their present Republic real and lasting. In this task, those who have helped them on the way will have the full sympathy of the American people, Froude and Burke—0’Donovan Rossa’s Letter, Mr. O'Donovan Rossa sends to the Heranp a temperate letter on the views of Mr. Froude and Father Burke on the question of Irish independence, As might be inferred, he difs fers from them and with them in all their opinions germane to the issue, advocating revolution as the only way by which the free- dom of Ircland can be secured. Mr. Rossa goes further, and shows that neither the histo- rian nor the priest has touched upon the in carceration of the fifty-two political prisoners now undergoing punishment in British prisons for daring to strike a blow for Ireland. In all this there is food for thought. In spite of everything which the learned advo- cates of England and Ireland have drawn from the storeroom of Irish annals, they have not reached the vital points at issue, and we can only regard them as astute historians, marshalling fact against fact and wrong against wrong, but never showing a deep and thorough political philosophy. This talk of the past is so many idle words, calculated to embitter sentiment and prejudice, but not to lead to the discovery of the healing herb which the English historian came to America to find. The failure of the Greek repub- lics does not prove that the present govern- ment in France must succumb to imperialism or absolutism. Roman degeneracy does not make American degeneracy inevitable. Ire- land’s past can have little bearing on Ireland’s future. It is pleasant enough to study history with scholars like these, but history will not make ill-matched couples happy or misgoy- erned nations contented. These discussions have had too much of the historical and too little of the practical. Whether Pope Adrian's bull was genuine authority for English con- quest makes little difference. The wars of the early Irish kings are matters equally unimpor- tant. The aspersions or the defence of the United Irishmen of '98 cannot justify English domination nor prove the profitableness of revolution. While it is at all times possible to read a nation’s history ina nation’s eyes his- tory proves nothing except the good or evil of the past. It is the present and the future which concern us most, Mr. Froude may point to Ireland’s past to prove that Ireland is not fit to be free; but even he is more liberal than Father Burke, who finds that past full of the proofs of Ireland’s fitness for freedom, but would deny to Ireland’s children the sacred right of revolution. Throughout this contro- versy there has been too much of the crimination and recrimination of _his- tory and too little generous and open- handed discussion of living issues. Mr. Froude is Protestant and Father Burke Catholic, and both have somehow mixed their religion with their sense of Ireland's needs. Appealing to Americans to arbitrate in this matter, they should have remembered that with us religion is a personal right with which governments are not to interfere. If they had given us less of history and less of personal, and consequently restrained, opinion, they might better have shown us the actual condition of Ireland and the remedies of Ireland’s miseries, Until they do this neither of them will approve himself a statesman who can point out the proper policy for England to pursue with her discontented Irish subjects. It was the task of the statesman which they undertook, and in this both of them have failed in the eyes of the American people. Mr. Froude will to-night reply to his assailants on the question of his accuracy asa historian. There is little doubt that he can sustain himself so far as the facts are concerned ; but if he could add to them an enunciation of principles which would be just to Ireland and acceptable to England it would be a greater triumph even than the establishment of his historical accuracy. Luoxy Rascars.—Two convicts were par- doned by the Governor of Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day, according to custom, The fortunate januitus WudSe cages were thus thrown open had been imprisoned, the one thirteen years and the other seven years, The first was a life sentence for arson, the other a twenty years’ term for burglary. It must have come hard on the Boston people just now to pardon an incendiary; but both the lucky criminals are still young men, and it is to be hoped that the lesson of their long incarceration and the circumstances of their release may serve to make them good citizens and honest men for the balance of their lives. Quarrermastzr Genenan Mercs Reports that the examination and settlement of the accounts of the war have at length been com- pleted and the business brought tip to date, The vastness of the labor may be inferred from the fact that it-has taken seven or eight years to perform. It is matter of congratula- tion that the books are balanced at last. Tur Sr. Lovts Republican (independent), after arguing the question of General Grant and the republican party, arrives at the con- clusion that the President will have no easy task before him, and that if Congressional leaders unite to thwart and baffle him, as they did last Winter, he will have to ap- peal to the country for aid. He might even be placed in a position to need the support which the feeble opposition in Con- gress could give, If so, the opposition in Congress and the people would have no choice but to uphold him in the righteous course he proposes-—that, tn regard to the civil service. I‘ sic sdinnnsdiaacice aeiaiah ee —z Report of the Mexican Sorder Come mission. Some of the important points in the report of the Mexican Border Commission, which were published in our Washingtom corre- spondence yesterday, having become known, or suspected, among members of the Mexican Legation considerable unoasiness has been manifested. Mexicans, and particularly Mex- ican officials, ara apt to be very sensitive and to make a fuss, whether there be much foundation for it or not; but in this matter, where there is the prospect of having to pay a large sum of money for raids and plunder- ing our citizens along the border, they are naturally much disqnieted. Great efforts are mado by the Legation to weaken the evidenca collected and presented by the United States Commission relative to the depredations in ‘Texas and to make it appear that the new government under President Lerdo de Tejada is capable and honest and will do all in ite power both to protect the border and to estab- lish a conciliatory policy toward this coun- try. The Legation, it is reported, want another Commission, on the ground that the Commissioners authorized by Congress at its last session and appointed by the President were sent to the Rio Grande border with a view ‘‘to convict’? or mulot Mexico in damages. Such special pleading is an ingult to our government and the Commis- sioners, There is no wish to make the caso appear worse than it is, eithor on the part of the administration or the Commissioners. This country has been most forbearing and kind to Mexico under its difficulties, both dur- ing the French invasion and civil war, and is disposed to give the present excellent and able President, Lerdo de Tejada, all the encourage. ment possible in establishing peace and good government in our neighboring Republic. But the first duty of the administration and Con- gress is to our own citizens, Texas has been invaded continually by robbers and murderers from Mexico, and the government of that country must be held responsible. System- atized robbery had become a regular business, and to such an extent, as the report shows, that a regular and an extensive trade in hides taken from the stolen cattle in Texas has been carried onin Mexico. Whether the damage done be three millions or thirty millions, the claim must be enforced and the Mexican government must pay. A great nation is bound to protect ita citizens and territory and to obtain com- pensation for wrongs committed. If Mexico is unable to pay in money we might accept a portion of territory, which is sparsely settled and unprofitable to her, on the northern border, as an adjustment. And if the Mex- ican government should be powerless to pre- vent incursions on our soil and to maintain peace on the border, we must insist upon the right of pursuing offenders across the Rio Grande. With a sincere desire to see the Mexicans establish a republican government of their own and to be prosperous, the United States cannot permit the continued and organized invasion of Texas and the rob- bery and murder of our citizens there. Nor can this country be at the expense of main- taining a large military force to protect American citizens and soil, ora host of civil employés to prevent smuggling and frauds upon its revenue, In short, should Mexico not be able to perform the duties of an adjoins ing and friendly nation, there will be no alters native but an American protectorate over that country, or the right of exercising military control over Mexican territory along the border line, with such compensation as might be provided for by a treaty between the two Republics. ‘ Tae Srreer Cuzantnc DepanTwent.—As the Winter comes on the work of the Street Cleaning Department increases. Last week, in two hundred and sixty miles of streets, over thirteen thousand loads of ashes and over eight thousand loads of dirt were carted away, or about twenty-two thousand loads in all. When the new department com- menced work the carting was even greater than this, owing to the fact that the streets had not been cleaned at all under the old con- tract and were ina terribly filthy condition. The expenses then were about fourteen thou- sand dollars a week. But in the Summer months, after the streets had been well cleaned, the loads decreased materially and the weekly expense fell to eight thousand dollars. We want clean streets this Winter and a quick clearance of the snow and slush. If we get these the people will not study the cost. i ‘Tae Monat or THE Noatawrstern Corver, as of all Wall street corners, is, “Never sell what you do not possess." If aman buys a house for a hundred thousand dollars and sells it for fifty thousand, he knows his loss; but when a man sells at a certain price and agreea to deliver railroad stock that he does not own, he knows not how much he may be compelled to sacrifice in order to make good his engage- ment, 3 i rome Accrprnts at Tanger Suoomme are getting to bé of ddfimon occurrence. A party of lads were engaged at practice with revolvers on Thursday last, when one of them was shot through the body. “This is a sorry after- noon’s work !’’ he exclaimed as he fell to the earth, and immediately afterward he expired. No inexpert marksman should take part in such amusement, Asa general rule with our target excursion crowds the target is about the safest of the company. A Goop Pracz ror a Grnznat.—General Horace Porter has accepted the Vice Presidency of the Pullman Palace Oar Company, with the actual control of the company's affairs, aa Mr. Pullman, the President, contemplates a protracted business visit to Europe. Of course General Porter's acceptance of the comforta- ble and well-paid position necessitates his re- tirement from the post of Secretary to Presi- dent Grant. The public will be gratified to learn that the President has not deprived the Palace Car Company of the general’s valuable services, Tue Coxprrton or Arras on THE Linz oF Tar Rro Granpe remains agitated and very deeply excited, as wilt be seen by our Matamo- ros despatch in the Hrranp this morning, A row between soldiers and citizens ended fa- tally to the lives of a number of persons, and the Customs Tariff question of the Free Zone ia still a cause of anxiety to the mercantile cam« munity. Tan Wreck or tar Stramsute GuateMana AND THE AccrpenT To THE Artzona--two oc- ourrences of a very disastrous and exciting