The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1873, Page 4

4 NEW _ YORK ‘HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1873. NEW YORK HERALD]’ * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR jo. 361 Volume XXXVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PR re THEATRE, “Broadw: between Houston nd Bleecker sts—Gasnixt Gaus. tinee at 2, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 685 Rroadway.—Vantery Enrentainment. Matinee at 2 MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Evstacux Bavpix, Matinee at 2—Tux Wickxp Woxun, THEATRE COM!QUE, aio 5i4 Broadway.—Vanierr Enyrentatnment. Matinee at 2 NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts—Oaipren 1n THR WOOD. Matinee at Lig. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—A Man or Hoxon. ‘Matinee at 135. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Biack Exep Susan. AS OENOUR a and evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th ‘street and Irving place.— Iranian Orzna Matinee at I—-Aipa. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Tue Woman in Wuite. Matinee at 1s GRAND OPERA HOU: st—Humery Dumpty 43: FIFTH AVENUE THE Paxnicipr, Matinee BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Kirn; on Tuy Anwaxsas 1HAVELLER. Matinee at 13g. GERMANIA THEATRE, 14th | street and $1 avenue,— Opera Bourrk—Les G xoRGiENNES. PARK THEATRE, Brooklva, opppsite City Hall.— Exocu AnveN. Matinee at BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Moruer Goosr.— Inptan Box Trick, Matinee at 2 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 29. BRYANT'S OPERA HOU: Sixth av.—Nx@ao MinstRx , Twen , ke. -third st, corner fatinee at 2, STEINWAY HALL, lth st, between 4th av..and Irving place.—Gnanp Concent, ARMORY, corner of lth st. and 6th ay.—Granp Promenavs Concent, THE RINK, 84 avenue and (4th street—Mznacuare axp Musrum. ' Afternoon and evening. BAIN HATiEy Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowcry.—Tux Pinceim. Matinee at ROBINSON HALL, 5 agai street—Macicat Enren- TAINMENT. Matinee at 2. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—ScieNCE AND ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Screxcz axp Arr. New York, Saturday, Dee. 27, 1873; THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ELEMENTS OF DISCORD 1N THE REPUB- LICAN PARTY! THE SOUTH AND THE GRANGERS”—LEADER—FovrTH Pack. MINISTER SICKLES’ RFSIGNATION OF THE AMERICAN MISSION TO SPAIN OFFI- CIALLY ACCEPTED! THE CARLISTS DE- FEATED, WITH HEAVY LOSS, IN VALEN- CIA! MADRID REPORT OF THAT CAR- LIST TRAP FOR MORIONES—Firrn Pace, BULD ADVANCE OF CUBAN INSURGENTS INTO PUERTO PRINCIPE! A REPULSE, WITH SEVERAL KiLLED! THEY RETREAT AFTER DESTROYING EVERYTHING WITHIN REACH—FirtH Pace. THE SANTIAGO MONSTER AGAIN AT THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE! AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THOSE WHO HOPE FOR FURTHER HUMAN SACRIFICES TO “SPANISH HONOR!” PRISONERS’ AO- COUNTS—TurmRp Pacs. EMPEROR WILLIAM MUCH BETTER—RINDER- PEST RAGING IN MAVEIRA—FIrTH Pace. A TYNE RIVER STEAMER STRIKES A SUNKEN WRECK AND SINKS IN FIVE MINUTES! THE LARGER PORTION OF THOSE ON BOARD GO DOWN TO DEATH IN HER— Fira Pace. AN INSULAR PRISON FOR FRANCE’S DEGRADED MARSHAL! BAZAINE AND THE MAN IN THE 1RON MASK—FirTH Pace. BAZAINE’S IGNOMINIOUS FATE! THE FULL SCOPE OF HIS TREASON AND ITS PUNISH- MENT! WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE COURT MARTIAL DECISION—Tuirp PaGE. THE KNIFE AND PISTOL AT WORK IN BOSTON! A MANIAC BUTCHERS HIS YOUNG ROOM- MATE! STABBING AFFRAYS IN THE CITY AND SUBURBS! A SANGUINARY CHRIST- MAS—EIGHTH PaGE. A CANADIAN FIEND GIVEN HIS JUST DESERT FOR A DOUBLE MURDER! ALL FOR A CUP OF TEA! THE SCENE aT THE SCAFFOLD— EIGHTH PaGE, GRAND STRIKE OF RAILROAD ENGINEERS! FOUR ROADS ALMOST PARALYZED! DE- TERMINED RESISTANCE TO THE TEN PER CENT REDUCTION PROPUSED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY—Firts Pace. AN INFURIATED HUSBAND PRECIPITATES HIS WIFE DOWN STAIRS AND THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF — YESTERDAY'S, SNOWFALL— Sixty PaGE. ADDITIONAL ASSETS OF THE COOKES—RAIN- FALLS AFTER BIG BATTLES—ITALIAN SLAVERY — WASHINGTON CHIT-CHAT— THIRD Pace. AN UPWARD JUMP IN GOLD! THE FINANCIAL AND COMMEROIAL FEATURES OF THE HOME MARKETS—MECHELLA DOOMED— SEVENTH PAGE. IMPORTANT TAX, MARRIAGE AND BANK- RUPTCY SUITS BEFORE THE COURTS YES- TERDAY—THE WORKINGMEN’S DEMAND FOR WORK—THE MUNICIPAL BOAKDS— SixtH Page. Restonation or Our Minister at Maprm.— Aspecial despatch to the Henanp from Madrid announces that the resignation of General Sickles has been accepted by the President. When the fact that the resignation had been tendered was first published in the Heraxy’s special report it was semi-officially denied from Washington. We now call upon Secre- tary Fish to publish all the official correspond- ence on the subject of the Virginius seizure, together with the official communications of our Minister at Madrid. Why is this impor. tant correspondence suppressed? Why does the Secretary of State fear its publication ? “Ornaons As Ang Not Oprstona.”—Boston lawyers are trying to “‘opinion’’ out of their positions those ladies who have been elected on the school committee in that city. Public opinion is the best criterion in such cases ; and asa legislative judiciary committee has already declared that there is no law prevent- ing the election of women to such places, the elect will probably be able to hold on to their end of the birch, Comma To THe Dreos.—The New Orleans Times affirms that it would not be atall sure prised to hear soon that “Spain has demanded a salute to the Spanish flag and the payment of @ liberal life pension to Burriel.” Alas! “ta what base uses we may return, Horatio |" Elements of Discord tm the Kepubli- ean Party—The South and the Grangers. x We have a s‘gnificant report from Washing- ton that the prominent Southern republicans feel indignant at the course of the administra- tion in the Virginius affair and that they are dissatisfied with the leaders of the party in other respects. It is said, too, that there will be an organized niovement among these dis- affected Southern republicans in order to com- bine and make their influence felt, and, pos- sibly, to unite in action with the grangers to form the party of the future. They see on one side the growing strength and activity of the grangers, who, as an agricultural class chiefly, have interests in common with the Southern people, and on the other they are disgusted with the mismanagement and extravagance of the republican. party. They express the belief that hardly one of the Southern States can be carried in future elec- tions for the present organized republican party, in consequence of the conduct of that party both in Congress and in the late elec- tions. If this be the political condition of the South it is easy to understand why prominent politicians of that section should contemplate leaving the party and forming a new combina- tions It appears, also, that the pretended civil service reform does not work to the satisfac- tion of leading men who have worked for the Party, as the claims of some of them have been ignored, while personal favorites of the admin- istration without merit have been honored and provided for regardless of the civil service law. The chief element threatening disintegration, however, is the recent political change in some; of the Southern States, and the antici- pated revolt of all, or nearly all, of them from the republican party. Shrewd politicians sel- dom fail to go with the public sentiment of their sections or States. The President seemed to have some idea of the political revolution that has commenced, or is about to take place, when he said, in his late Message to Congress, that ‘‘political par- tisanship had almost ceased to exist, espe- cially in the agricultural regions.” True, he might have implied by this that his adminis- tration or personal popularity is superior to party, and that the republican party has no real strength but what lies in himself. At least, he might have expected that inference would be drawn. Still, from his express mention of the ‘‘agricultural regions,” and thus indirectly referring to the granger move- ment, it is evident that he meant this move- ment would, probably, overshadow existing political parties, and, as a consequence, would supersede the dominant republican party. We attach considerable importance to this expression of General Grant in his Mes- sage, as it must have been made after mature consideration. It seems to have been thrown out both as a warning to the repub- lican party and with a view to ride hereafter on the popular movement. He appears to foresee that the mission of the republican party is coming to an end. It may be, too, that he who was a democrat and became a republican tor the sake of the Presi- dency is looking forward toa new departure, with the “agricultural regions,’ fora third term. Atany rate, he has thrown out a broad hint regarding the disintegration of existing parties and the political revolution that has commenced. We hardly think General Grant intended to convey the idea that political -par- tisanship was about to be obliterated abso- lutely—that is, that no other party would rise up in place of existing ones, and that the people would be content with his personal government. We cannot believe he has ad- vanced so far already on the road to Casar- ism. Doubtless he meant that the granger movement, in connection with the agricultural interests of the West, the South and the coun- try generally, would overwhelm present politi- cal parties and lead to the organization of a new one, or more than one, based upon the material interests of different classes and sections, The disintegration of the existing repub- lican party appears to be inevitable. It has no fixed policy—no principles of policy—ap- plicable to the existing state of things or wants of the country. It was originally a party of one idea—the anti-slavery idea. Upon that it came into power. The rebellion of the South, however inexcusable, was the result. The successful war for the Union, conducted by that party, and the total extinction of slavery as a consequence, perpetuated the power of the republicans. The purty con- tinued to exist and to be overwhelmingly powerful, without any platform of public policy—no policy except that mere partisan conservatism and rapidly paying the national debt for political capital. It lived upon the issues of war, and in every election loudly reiterated these in the public ear till they were exhausted and the people became wearied, The folly of the democrats in ad- hering to their anti-war ideas, which were no longer applicable, gave strength to the republicans. Then the democrats had not, any more than the republicans, prin- ciples of public policy upon which to appeal tothe country. Thus the republicans, acting upon the prestige of the past and prejudices of the people, maintained their power. Yet it ‘was a party of obsolete ideas, like that of the democrats—an incongruous party, ruled by Eastern protectionists chiefly, while the great agricultural West supported it on account of old anti-slavery and war affiliations, though its policy wag inimical to the material interests of that section. It was not in the nature of things that a party so negative in character and that was only existing upon what it had done could last, or that the vast populations of thé agricultural West and South should be dragged along forever bound to the chariot of Eastern protectionists and politicians. New England principally, assisted by her enter- prising sons who had settled in the West, and latterly by her carpet-bag offspring who over- run the South, as well as by the protectionists of Pennsylvania, has ruled the Republic since the war, ond has profited immonsely from that. But the people will not live upon husks always. A party cannot govern continuously upon mere sentiment and the dead past. A great nation of freemen like ours must have live issues. It now craves for such statesman- ship as would develop a public policy cal- culated to gratify its ambition, to promote its material interests and to give it a glorious future, But where is this to be found? ‘The President, we bellove, does not aspire to it Statesmanship is not his ambition, He likes to have an easy, ‘comfortable time with the honors of office, and has an idea that the country can take care of itself. The Secretary of State is so conservative and timid that he suffers the Republic to be humiliated. Tho Secretary of the Treasury has had but the one thought of extracting all the money possible from the people to keep his coffers full and pay the national debt at a rapid rate, Tho other Cabinet officers have been eager to keep up enormous expenditures upon sometbing like the war basis and three times as great as only fifteen yearsago, The domi- nant party in Congress has revelled in corrup- tion and extravagance, and both it and the administration have overridden the constitu- tion and done such arbitrary acts as no other constitutional government would dare to do. | This is no overdrawn picture, It is spread over the history of the last thirteen years, and hardly any citizen can be so blinded by par- tisanship as not to see it, The people are waking up at last to the facts, particularly in the West and South, and will, if we mistake not, demand a change. The democrats have not commended them- selves to the country, either by developing a policy adapted to the times and necessities of the country, or by any marked ability. Though they gained something in the last elections, and would have gained more but for the odium bronght upon the party by the New York Ring, they cannot obtain the’ confidence of a majority of the people without living po- litical issues. The experiment made by tho coalition with disaffected republicans in the last Presidential contest failed, because there was no fundamental principle of public pol- icy at bottom, because it was a mere hos- tile organization and because , the elements were more incongruous than even in the re- publican party. The greatest strength of the republicans has beeen sirce the so-called reconstruction of the South in the negro vote, and still the greater part of the Southern ne- groes are, out of gratitude, republicans. But a change, as we have seen in the late elections and as we notice by our news from Washing- ton, is going onin that section. The white people are gaining power more and more, and many intelligent negroes begin to see their interests lie'with those of their whité fellow citizens of the South. The blacks as well as the whites of the Southern States will be led to co-operate with the West against tho East- ern protectionists who have controlled the government and republican party, for they are all interested alike in agriculture and in the strictest governmental economy. What shape the incipient revolution, already apparent, will take we cannot say; nor can wo see at present what will be the composition of the party of the future. The grangers have rather eschewed party politics up to this time, but they have controlled some elections. As they grow in number and power they must become an important element, and, probably, & controlling one, in the political affairs of the country. The best und most virtuous portion of the community is found in their ranks, and they are conscious that the substantial inter- ests of the country lie in agriculture. Re- trenchment, cheap government, such protec- tion only as may be given incidentally for the purpose of a moderate revenue, control of the railroads and cheaper transportation and other measures of reform might, and perhaps will, form’ the platform of a new and great party, and it is justsuch a one as the grangers, or as the West and South combined, could affiliate with and support. An Extraordinary Strike. The strike reported elsewhere of the railway enginegs employed on the Western lines operated by the Pennsylvania Company is one of the most extensively and accurately organ- ized movements of the kind ever known in this country, and indicates the way in which the real workmen manage their affairs, as compared with the ranting imbeciles of the so-called Committee of Satety. It is to be re- gretted, certainly, that in a difference between the engineers and their employers the inno- cent public is made to suffer by the total dis- continuance of travel on so many Western lines; but it is clear that in cases of this sort some one must suffer. The public will have no option but to consider this one of the drawbacks on the many advantages of the railways. Every engineer who thus, at noon on Friday, left his locomotive standing on the rails where the hour of noon found it violated his contract with the company, and upon the faith of that contract the public relied and counted in all its arrangements, and it is scarcely possible to estimate the mischief of such a strike. The demand of the engineers, however, is only that they should continue to receive theif present wages—they simply re- sist reduction—and it may therefore well be reasoned that it is the arrogant course of the company that has stopped the trains. Organ- izations to such enormous extent as our rail- way companies are in a igroat degree de- pendent upon their employs of the skilled classes, and they must deal moderately and fairly by them. " Corruption, Present ann Past.—A New York stockbroker, interviewed on the Ken- tucky Central Railroad the other day by a cor- respondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is alleged to have declared that ‘the mem- bers of the present Congress are more corrupt than even their immediate pre- decessors, and the country will find my words true. Their rascality is more of the unblushng kind, and they prosecute their dishonest schemes regardless of shame or fear.” A little wholesome prosecution of another kind in Washington against federal delinquents would prove a refreshing repast to the people at large these holiday times. The same people will take caro of the dis- honest Congressmen in due time, or the pres- ent majority party will erc long be sent to the dogs. Name anp Narvre.—The Cincinnati En- quirer thinks that the present postmaster in that city (Mr. Foulds) will be retained another quarter. He is said to bea favorite of the President, and folds his arms compla- cently while efforts are being made to remove him, 15. | matigpecenanitionienpemmmetnerane Correz on No Correz.—It is stated that coffee in lieu of spirituous liquors and wines will be dispensed at all the official tables in Washington on New Year's Day—except at the British Legation, where, in respect to the brave British troops now fighting against the King of Ashantee, coffee will not be dispensed put dispensed with, Oar Flag at Santiago. ‘The want of firmness of our government in defending the honor of the national flag is producing its natural results. The volunteers of Santiago have compelled the American Consul to haul down his flag, and we would not be much surprised to learn that he had been driven from, the town. In tho beginning of the present insurrection another American Consul was hunted through the streets of Santiago, and was only preserved from death by taking.refuge with the British Consul. This outrage passed without punishment or reparation. The Wash- ington government was rather surprised, we believe, at the magnanimity of the mongrel mob in allowing its representa- tive to be smuggled out of the city. Now that they have gone further and tasted blood we cannot be certain where they may stop. Should Mr. Young, one of our few efficient consuls, be assassinated by the Santiago mob he will have the satisfaction of knowing that Mr. Fish will write a polite note to Castelar requesting information as to the manner of his death and suggesting that o few dollars should be given to console his widow. Ameri- can blood is cheap now, and if the volunteers should be seized with the idea of varying their national sports there is no reason why mobbing American consuls, and even shooting them, should not replace the worn out bull fights. A real live American citi- zen would not cost so much as a good bull, and as for the national flag, it is only a worthless rag to which no Spaniard need pay any atten- tion. We would strongly advise Consul Young to leave ‘Santiago without delay unless some British gunboat will stay in the harbor to pro- tect him. As for our navy, it had better be recalled from’* Cuban waters: Under the present administration it can neither com- mand respect for the national flag nor pun- ish outrages on American citizens. We would have the gallant tars spared the humiliation of seeing their flag in- sulted with impunity. The action of the Santiago mob illustrates well the temper of the ruling class in Ouba. It points out the danger of Mr. Fish’s policy, and would bea motive for extraordinary measures to a gov- ernment at all interested in the protection of its citizens. The Washington government is, however, too mych absorbed in schemes for the protection of Buchu bankers and other virtuous supporters of the administration to have any time to devote to assuring the safety of citizens or the honor of the national flag. The Necessity of a Universal Extra- dition Treaty. Although there is a school of amiable philosophers who always remind you of the Golden Rule, prove to you con- clusively that by the abolition of capital pun- ishment you abolish the flourishing institution of murder, and who vary the monotony of their lives by daily signing appeals to the executive authorities for clemency, there is also an organization in which wo all have an interest, however limited, known as society, which, however absurdly, is deeply con- cerned in the punishment and extermination of crime. When it is possible fora statesman like the honorable Senator from Harlem to change his residence and live in opulent ease in Mexico, Belgium, or Brazil, we cannot perceive that any of the demands of justice are satisfied. Neither do we understand that it is to the advantage of any of these Powers to offer an asylum to the misdemeanor com- mitting class of our fellow citizens. Belgium may find it profitable to hold out the hand of fellowship to rich criminals, but the effect on her society can hardly be of a salutary character. For the United States,-certainly, it does not improve the na- tional reputation to have “Senator” Norton, Alderman Coman and others pointed out os members of our most important legislative bodies. This is a phase of the question which the humanitarians overlook when they repeat those phrases so often uttered by re- spectable men, ‘Oh, let him go! I'm glad Genet has got off!'’ “I wouldn’t peach on Sharkey if I knew where he is!" “A man who is smart enough to run away has my sym- pathy.”’ The simple fact that there are many civilized countries where criminals can live unwhipt of justice is in itself the most power- ful incentive to violence against the peace of the people and their dignity. If every man felt that the moment the crime he had in con- templation became known he would be safely lodged behind prison bars and live there until society should be satisfied with his pun- ishment, there would be fewer defalcations, forgeries and cases of plundering the public. Our State Department, then, should instruct our easy going Ministers to conclude treaties for the extradition of criminals wherever pos- sible. Thoroughly accomplished, thia action wouid close up the utopia of crime, and every would-be offender wovzia read in advanoe, No quarter for criminals here!’ VENTILATING ConGREssIONAL Onatory.—The Cleveland Leader is exercised over the fact that Congress had scarcely been organized and the committees of the House announced when members began in the old way to ask permis- sion to print in the Congressional Record speeches which they wished to deliver but had not, We do not know, after all, but that this is the best method for ventilating Congres- sional oratorical buncombe. If the speeches ure delivered in the House the telegraph lines will be burdened with synopses of the same for transmission all over the land. On the other hand, if published only in the Congressional’ Record the area of victims will be confined principally to the constituencies of the honor- able gentlemen making the Punooniys speeches aforesaid. Porrtics 1x New Hampsuraz.—Political parties in New Hampshire are beginning to ‘zing out tho changes” for the March elec- tion. Samuel N. Bell is proposed as the democratic and Charles H. Bell as the repub- lican candidate for Governor. The Boston Post. thinks this would be putting both parties on their mettle, “Gomme Back” wire a Vaxcxancn.—The proposition to cause, the examination of all those now holding clerkships or other posi- tions in the departments at Washington who were appointed before the Civil Service rales were adopted is creating no little consterna- tion among incompetent incumbents. ‘They do not relish the idea of their political friends “going back” on them, literally. in thia man- nen “All Quiet on the Potomac.” Christmas passed off quietly in Washington, the only noteworthy feature of the day there being in the number of intoxicated persons on the streets, which is reported as largely in excess of the Christmas crowd of ‘jovial bummers”’ of any previous year on Pennsyl- vania avenue. But this is not surprising, considering the financial pressure at the na- tional capital, and that south of Mason and Dixon’s line Christmas day has been and con- tinues,to be celebrated more after the fashion of the “glorious Fourth” than as a religious festival. The custom was introduced by the old Cavaliers and their followers, who in Vir- ginia particularly delighted in maintaining the jolly pastimes of England under the ‘merry monarch’’ as a. plague to the sour and crusty Puritans of Massachusetts, Hence the time- honored observance of Christmas in Washing- ton in the ‘year of grace 1873. The custom still prevails, though the political causes con- nected with its introduction in the South have ceased to exist. Otherwise ‘all is quiet on the Potomac.” Tho members of the two houses of Congress are mostly at home with their families and among there constituents for the Christmas and New Year holidays, the lobby is resting upon its oars,’ there is a lull in the matter of balls and recep- tions, and the newsmongers find it an up-hill task to pick up a valuable item of news or a sensational rumor. The nomination of Attor- ney General Williams as Chief Justice awaits the return’ of the Senate to business, which will be on the 5th of January, 1874; and as President Grant has resolved to risk the haz- ards of an adverse vote upon this nomination, and as Williams intends to ‘‘stick,’’ it is prob- able that the Senate will assume the responsi- bility of rejecting him in deference to public opinion, But nous verrons. Excepting the President’s reception and general social re- unions of New Year's Day, official and unoffi- cial, which are very enjoyable in Washington, the city will be a comparatively dull place till the return of ‘Congress, and then it cannot be long before the proceedings of the two houses will command the general attention of the country. Judge Durell’s Opinion of the ministration. A report from Washington states that Judge Durell, of Louisiana notoriety, being threat- ened with impeachment for offivial miscon- duct, is willing to resign if the Prosident will appoint him to a second rate foreign mission, and is ready to take his chance of confirmation by the Senate if he should,obtain the nomina- tion. The report comes from an unreliable source, but its plausibility makes its trath probable. Judge Durell knows that the offences alleged against him have been com- mitted as a blind partisan of the administra- tion. In his official action in the Kellogg outrage he only followed the dictates of the New Orleans Custom House. |The Attorney General who endorsed his action has been rewarded with a nomination for the highest judicial office in the nation, Why should not Durell, the instrument without whose aid even the Attorney General could not have upheld the Louisiana usurpation, be rewarded with a second rate foreign mission? Certainly Du- rell as our representative abroad in the posi- tion he seeks would not be such a disgrace to the nation as the Oregon attorney at the head of the Supreme Court of the United States. But the proposition which it is said has been made directly to the authorities at Wash- ington is noteworthy os indicating the opinion of the administration held by the accommo- dating Judge: He has no idea that there is any impropriety or even indelicacy in asking the President to bestow a foreign mission on a judicial officer who resigns from the Bench only to save himself from impeachment. In- deed, he evidently considers that he is offering a bargain profitable to the administration. Unpleasant secrets may be brought to light in the course of impeach- ment proceedings which he no doubt believes may be judiciously concealed from the world by such @ compromise as he proposes. As to the Senate, he is quite willing to take his chances there. Kellogg wasa United States Senator, and Durell is familiar with the stuff of which Senators are nowadays composed. He sees no difficulty in arranging his little affair satisfactorily with a Crédit Mobilier back-pay Senate, provided hecan make it all right with President Grant. His confidence may not be misplaced ; but we believe that he will find his estimate of the President’s char- acter an erroneous one. President Grant in his ignorance of law may see no impropriety in rewarding such a friend as the Attorney General with the Chief Justiceship, but he will scarcely care to bestow a foreign mission on a Durell. The Three Tailors of Tooley Street. As the famous three tailors began their ad- dress with, “‘wo, tuo pope f England,’ so the three aeaceseelia'ss es the Committee of Safety adopt a style which seems to imply an equal incapacity to comprehend their personal insignificance, It scems that this Committee of Safety was appointed at Cooper Institute December 11, 1873, ‘by four thousand people,” and that it has an English secretary, ands German secretary and a French secretary, and this trio now peremptorily makes its de- mands of the municipal government. It di- rects tho Commissioner of Public Works to abrogate all contracts immediately and give the running of his department over to them, or else to give a reason for his refusal “in writing’’—for they evidently want to have a case against him, written by himself, by the time they get their guillotine ready. It is no new thing for the peoplo of this city to see impudent vagabonds, who never worked a day in their, lives, and ridiculous adven- turers of all posturing in the name of tho workingma: y itis rather uncommon to seo paraded such a threat as that implied in the designation of this committee, which ap- parently promises itself a repetition of the career of the Paris Committee of '93, and gloats in the thought that it may yet chop off the head of every man addicted to clean linen. ‘We see no harm, however, in the prosent antios of these mooning boobies other than their impertinence, for the workingmen are too familiar with this sort of agitution to be fooled by it. In Paris the workmen are inno- cent, confiding, inflammable and incredibly ignorant; and these characteristics have made them the victims of agitators who sought, of course, only their own advantage, and out of agitation so excited have grown such facts as the combat ot the Commune, Ad- rnp tae et eens pis apd But our workingmen are of another sort. They are too clear headed to be used for taking other people’s chestnuts ont of the fire. They have their grievarces sometimes, and they know how to remedy them for them- selves without calling in English, German or French secretaries, or other tailors of Tooley street. They know that this is a working. man’s country, and that there is no. other land where the workingman is so well off ‘as here ; and, if we understand them, they would be the first to crack the skulls like walnuts of these three tailors in case they should succeed in provoking the disturbances they aim at. Bazaine in Seclusion, In the story of the closing scene of Marsha), Bazaine’s trial will be found ‘the material. for future historians to draw a fine’ historie picture of treachery avenged. ‘As graphically described in another portion of the Hrnau» this scenc will not fail to impress, This Mar. shal of France, in the sight of the-common soldiers of the guard, touched’ on. the shoulder and bade to come a, plain Monsieur, is as suggestive of dogradation as if his corpse were lying at Satory with thd’ insignia ot rank hacked from his uniform’ anil) the bandsot the regiments playing a lively tune to the march past of the garrison of Paris. And now we learn by cable that Bazaine, degraded, but spared . from \ignominious death, has started on his journey to’ the Isle de Sainte Marguerite there to oom-. mence serving his terms’ of twenty years’ “seclusion.” This is a mild word, and’ we have no doubt that pains will be taken by the present French government to make his resi- dence on the island as comfortable as possible. The'moral of the commutation -is that it:is better for one’s self to treacherously surrender a French army than to be suspected of burns ing a French palace. Tur Canust ‘Oamparan would sein to be taking a lively shape once more, | The retreat of General Moriones, with fourteen thou+ sand men, from San _. Sebastian, ..lookd as though the republicans had , spe. tained a severe check, although the’ im- punity with which the twelve thousand were allowed to embark and depart shows that the thirty thousand Qarlists are, not provided with the proper means’ for carrying on anything like a regular siege. It would seem that the three thousand republican sol- diers remaining behind’ \the works at San Sebastian are thought sufficient, . with the aid of the townsmen, to re pel the poorly armed miountaineers. The fourteen thousand troops, whose retreat may be termed a strategic movement, as steps of a similarly lively nature have been termed heretofore, were ‘landed: at Santona, about seventy miles off, but their future is. in doubt. No Mong Taxation. —Now that our Senators and Representatives have been home on # flying visit to their constituents they may probably have been given to understand that the people see no need for additional taxation and do not desire to be taxed unnecessarily in order to keep up the pet policy ofa rapid decrease in the public debt. The country is in a prosperous condition and is. growing richer and richer every day. Values ara rapidly recovering from the temporary de- pression of the commercial crisis, and while we may still hear of caution and rotrench- ment in business. our revenues will speedily increase with increasing commerce. Let Mr. Richardson be patient, and he will soon have money enough in the Treasury. Meanwhile, if Congress will put a stop to jobbery, while encouraging all legitimate enterprises and aiding in a liberal development of our mag- nificent resources, we shall do very well without rushing in a panic to the extreme measure of taxation to make up @ temporary deficiency in our revenues. “Finst or THE Sxason.’’—Lieutenant Gov- ernor Romonaldo Pacheco will become Gov- ernor of California by the election of Governor Booth to the United States Senate. Ho isa native Californian, and will be the first who has occupied the gubernatorial chair of the State. Give him a chance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Archdeacon Balch, of London, Ontario, has ar- rived at the Everett House. Ex-Congressman Dennis McCarthy, of Syracuse, is again at the Gilsey House, Captain Moodie, of the steamship Cuba, is ree. istered at the New York Hotel, Ex-Congressman B. T. Biggs, of Delaware, is hae istered at the Sturtevant House, Ex-President Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yale Ool- lege, is staying at the Everett House, William Lane Booker, British Consul at San Francisco, is living at the Clarendon Hotel. Cotonel Joseph ©. Audenried, of General Sher- man’s staff, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Robert U. Foster, one of the oldest lawyers im the South, died at Florence, Ala., a few days ago. Professor O. M. Mead, of Andover Theological 80 | Seminary, is temporarily realding at ‘the Everott Tous? Captain Marine Corps, is Hotel. Professor Max Muller thinks that the Christian religion would cease to exist if it ceased to be mia- sionary. Collector James F. Casey, of ‘New Orleans, ar rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning from Washington, Secretary of State Henry 0, Kelsey and ex-Gov. ernor Randoiph are among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. ‘ The Princess Louise, of Lorne, has been chosen president of the National Union for Improving the Education of Women. A wife in Chillicothe, Onto, demands a divorce because her brutal husband “put her to soak ina Tain water barrel.” Alonzo P, Strong has been appointed by Governor Dix District Attorney for Schenectady county, vice Austin A. Yates, resigned, Viscount Milton and family, who arrived from England in the steamship Ouba yesterday, have apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday from Philadelphia, W. N. Edwards, ex-Congrossman, died in Warren county, N. C., on the 18th, at the age of 80 years. He presided over the secession convention of 1861. A. M. Holbrook, one of the oarly proprietors of the New Orleans Picayune, has resumed the man- agement of that paper, under ite new arrange- ments, It 1s reported In Augusta, Me., that General J. 0. Caldwell, of Ellsworth, is to be appointed sucoca- sor to J, L. Stevens, United States Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay. George B. Richmond, of New Bedford, has been Nominated for Police Commissioner of Massachu- setts, and will be confirmed by the Executive Coun- cH, He is a confirmed prohihitionist, Join PF. Langworthy, son of the Deputy Comp. troller of the Treasury at Washington, bas just wedded, at Glens Falls, this State, Miss Addio M. qames Forney, of the United States qnarcred-at-the Fifth Aveaue Morgan, daughter of Carlos Morgan, of that piace.