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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

THE HERALD's LIVINGSTONE ExPEDrTIoN.-
We now learn that the refusal of the British
government to supply from the treasury of the
nation sum Of money to aid the Royal Geo.
graphical Society in starting an expedition to
search for Dr. Livingstone was based upon
this reason The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
when appealed to for aid, thought that money
spent in the direction indicated by the Royal
Geographers was altogether unnecessary. The
new expedition he considered unfavorably.
eff the NEW YORK HERALD expedition cannot
find DIR. Livingstone" says Mr.. Lowe. ''there
is no use in the Royal Geographical Society
attempting to do So" These, or like words,
we are told, were used by the British Chan
cellor to explain why the government
did not aid the Royal Geographers with
funds. The new expedition has started
for the East, nevertheless, and we wish
it every success; but it is somewhat sur
prising, to say the least Of it, that little or
nothing was done by the Royal Geographers
looking to the relief of DR.. Livingstone until
the news that the HERALD expedition was in
the interior of Africa on that mission was
received in England.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

The Snow BLOCKADE Is RAISED on the
Union Pacific Railroad, to the joy Of thou
sands. Many with very little romance in
them have felt 1t through the pocket nerve.
Joy to the imprisoned passengers who for
twenty-seven days were left to admire
the snow drifts Of those barren regions.
Joy to the japanese whose morals
were in danger at Salt Lake City. They can
now come straight through to Washington and
learn more of the beauties of our form of gov
eminent. Joy to those watching for the mails
which for four weeks have been showed up.
Five years ago the news that there was deep
snow along the great divide Of the Continent
would not have occasioned more than passing
comment here. Now, what "a change! The
fact is that the human mind lays down it's
sensitive ligatures Of plot and passion, maxi
ing, marring and continuing beside the track Of
the iron horse, and the interruption of.
traffic on an important line becomes
as painful to the people generally
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

ONE OF THE LATEST RUMoRs concerning
the American case before the Geneva Tribunal
Of Arbitration is that proposition is under
consideration at Washington ''to offer such
explanation of our case as shall relieve the
irritation its language has given to British
pride" British fddlesticks! The case is
clear enough as it stands, and if the language
is little sharp and peppery it serves to show
that there Is to be no more humbuggng in
this business, but a square settlement. Our
case needs no explanation. II explains ITSELF
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right, and all far-seeing, intelligent men, are
impressed with the value of such &C
QUESTIONS. National pride in the ex-
pansion and grandeur Of the country has
proved to be in accordance with
its best interests. and happiness. So with
regard to Mexico; the impression is general
that the annexation Of that country is inevi-
table, and that it would prove vast source OF
wealth, prosperity and power to the United
States. This creates an irresistible impulse in
the public mind to territorial aggrandzement
and operates like the onward passage of
food of water carrying everything before it.
Mexico has to become q part of this great
republic, just as the other acquisitions named
have gravitated to it from one cause or
another, and, if we mistake not, the proper
time has arrived for the incorporation of that
country. The acquisition of Mexico would
prove far more valuable than California, or
several CALIFORNIA;; and who does not know
what blessings to this country and
the world have sprung from that rich
State? There is more mineral and
agricultural wealth in Mexico than in Cali
fornia, and there is a population of several
millions, whose labor would be turned to the
best account under the guidance and capital
of our people. The annexation of Mexico
would elevate the Mexicans themselves, in
crease the wealth and prosperity of both
countries immensely, and would do more than
anything else could to restore the shipping and
commerce of the United States. General
Grant is just now in the position to carry
this great measure If he will, and should he
be resolved to do so he can add greatly to the
lustre of his name and make his administra-
ton famous in history
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

The HORRORS OF THE COOLIE TRAFFIC
go to make up the ''terrlble subject for the
consideration Of the British Parliament just at
present. The House of Commons has always
terrible subject held in reserve for the par
ticular consideration Of the country members.
The legislative indignation of England is now
turned against Spain, Portugal and Cuba.
The story appears to be very sad one, GER
tainly-just about as bad as was ever told of
the African slave trade, and the subject of it
should be remedied by the great cvilizing
Powers of the world.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

THE TORIES in the British House of Lords
have abstained from attacking the Gladstone
government on the american case" prefer
ring to await the answer to Lord Granville's
letter to the government at Washington. This
looks like discretion, and wise discretion on
this american case" is needed now in Eng
land by both wings and tories for the English
republican elements, active and powerful, are
watching them, and are eager for war in
view of their own purposes as third party in
the fight.
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government in dealing with Germany; yet not
one word was said about Germany or France,
or single phase of the unwse and untimely
resolution of Senator Sumner. Instead, this
irrepressible ''sorehead," for this is the COM
mon phrase, read carefully prepared address,
embracing column after column of quotations
from obscure country newspapers, mainly
denouncing General Grant and adding
his own meaningless invective upon the
removal of Mr.. Sumner from the Committee
on Foreign Affairs And so the Senator con-
tinued until the close of the session, and we
may have an appendix on Monday. There
was not the slightest alluson to the question
and grievance and a much-enduring
Senate at his mercy, and under the
shadow of villanous custom, which
makes Senator imperial and uncontrolled
when he is on the floor, he dived
into his bilge- water rhetoric plunging hither
and thither, bespattering the President the
Cabinet and the Senate with offensive phrases,
and making one of those speeches which are
never heard without pain from the lips Of an
American Senator. We do not expect too
much from the Senate at best. We know that
even Upton must subserve an inscrutable pur-
pose. But we complain that we have Senate
where such things are possible. In the House
of Commons, that sterling and sensible body
of legislators, Mr.. Upton would have been
coughed and shufled down in ten minutes.
But our Senate endures it, and there is no
remedy.
There is no relief from this saturnala Of
imbecility and incapacity but in public
opinion. The nation ia coming to see that it
is at the mercy Of small men, who feel that as
Senators and legislators their highest mission
is to crafty their vanity and ambition at the
expense of the public welfare. AS there is no
apparent escape from the caprices Of Senators
like Morton and Upton, we can only hope to
make them an example to our statesmen by
putting them in the pillory of public scorn,
and promising to do as much by any others
who like them may wantonly paralyze the
public business. bring contumely upon Con-
| gress aud the Senate, and in 80 doing out
| rage the good sense of the country.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

ssCAN SUCH THINGS BE?"-It is given
out that committee of the Florida Legisla-
ture has made report to the Governor of the
State embracing the startling statement that
In Jackson county alone over one hundred
and eighty-four murders-some of the victims
women and children-are charged against
band of Ku Klux, with similar outrages of the
Khan in other parts of the State. Martial law
is recommended, aud, under the circumstances,
if correctly reported, the only wonder is that
the recommendation comes in only after one
hundred and eighty -four men, women and
children, in a single county, have been MUIR
dered.
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President Theirs and the Approaching
Crisis In France.
President

President Theirs and the Approaching
Crisis In France.
The situation in France daily becomes more
interesting. The Right has formally decided
not to join the Orleanists. 1t has done more
it has sent delegation to Antwerp to submit
to the Count de Chambord its programme Of
action. Meanwhile the conviction grows that
the cause of the House of Orleans and the
cause of the legi.imlsts are equally desperate,
and that the re-establishment of the monarchy
has become an impossibillty. One Of our
latest items of news is to the effect that the
Bonapartists are busily intriguing, and that
the workingmen of Belleville and Vilette, so
recently the hotbeds of Communism, are sigh
ing for the restoration of the empire.
1t is only few days since France narrowly
escaped from falling into the arms of revolu-
ton. If the Assembly had not humbled itself,
and if M. Theirs had not changed his mind,
France would most certainly have fallen once
more under the heel of the military power.
It is well known that the monarchists on that
occasion lost their opportunity because they
WCIC HVt PtOPoACus ~ 10 90 VOAA nnoWh ouoV
MacMahon, to whom an appeal was made to
assume supreme authority, hesitated to take a
step which would have left him without a
rival in France. In few days more the situa-
ton will be repeated. The Army Reorganiza-
ton bill will come up for discussion, and M.
Theirs has distinctly told his friends that on
the Army bill he will have no compromise.
What will happen2 If the President does not
change his views it is certain that he will be
out of harmony with the Assembly. Another
deadlock and another resignation are almost
certain.
All parties in France are now looking for
ward to the Army BILL and making prepara-
tons for the crisis which they consider GER
tain. 1t is difficult to see how the monarch
lists in their present divided state can make
capital out of the situation. But it is not diff
cult to see how MacMahon may make himself
master of the destinies of France, and do for
the Bonapartes what General Monk did for the
Stuarts. Come what may, crisis is certain !;
and it is not unreasonable to conclude that the
present unsatisfactory state of things is about
to be ended.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

THE LABOR REFORM PARTY will meet in
National Convention at Columbus, Ohio, on the
2lst inst. The Missouri delegates have been
instructed to labor to bring the party out on
an independent Presidential ticket, and to
oppose all bargains for compromising or mix
ing up the labor reformers as political party
with any of the other parties Of the day.
Those Missouraus are certainly taking the
lead in all the outside party movements of the
day, active and passive, excepting the tenn
perauce party. This exception is due to the
fact, we suppose, that the temperance move
ment has hardly got out vet al far as Missouri.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17
The British Case in the Alabama Claims
Question.

The British Case in the Alabama Claims
Question.
The English government has placed before
the members of the House of Commons the
complete case which its representatives in
Geneva submitted to the members of the Ar
bitration Court in the matter of reply to the
Alabama claims demand of the United States.
A synopsis of the points of the statement
reached us by cable telegram last night. The
despatch is published in the columns Of the
HERALD. The British executive argument
appears to be cOllated and briefed from all the
public statements, legal, of the press and by
amateur jurists, which were set forth in the
United Kingdom in defence of the action of
the Queens government just subsequent to
the infiction of the terrible damage which
our commerce sustained from the operations
of the Alabama and other privateers during
the war. Mr.. Gladstone asserts that the
American claim is indefinite, "that the British
government did not really violate rule two of
article six of the Treaty Of Washington with
reference to having made the ports or waters
of Britain base of naval operations for
either 'belligerent;' or for the augumenta-
ton or renewal of military supplies or arms,
or the recruitment of men. This rule, it is
alleged, does not really prohibit the sale of
arms or of munitions of war to belligerents by a
neutral in the ordinary course of COM
merce. The tribunal of arbitration
must determine, did "Great Britain fail
in her international duty?" If it decide
eyes," it must name gross sum for damages,
or submit a rule for an equitable assessment
thereof. The remaining points are, to great
extent, technical. Mr. Gadstone's explana-
ton corroborates the facts which have been
already set forward in the HERALD special
kilograms from London and Geneva on the
same subject England comedies that she is
bound to and must pay an American bill of
damages She wishes the United States
government to fix sum in lump, for which
she will obtain discharge from our national
bond on her treasury. This is really
important point in the matter. Secretary
Fish's reply to Earl Granville's despatch
on the Alabama claims case is looked for
anxiously in London. Premier Gladstone was
questioned on the subject in the House of
Commons yesterday evening. He replied that
the Queens government had received nothing
official from the United States, but that Minis
ter Schenck thought the reply of the American
government would reach London about the
lst of March. An eventful moment in the
history of two great nations-the one in which
the long-pendng Alabama controversy will
come to point Of exact issue for solution
The English lease" is concluded by an appea
| for justice and declaration Of placid acqui
| escence to the decision of the Geneva Boart
on the part of the British government, even
aggrieved thereby, as it is limited, by infer
ence, that it will be If heavy cash compen
sation shou Id be transferred from the pocket
of Brother John Bull to the Treasury o
Brother Jonathan.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

The PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HoUsE.-The
resignation of Colonel Forney has resulted in
. regular scramble among the big fish and
small fry politicians for the desirable plum.
And such are the principles of all our polti-
cal parties-''the five loaves and the two
fishes" What, then, is this hue and cry of
''reform?" Bosh! spoils and plunder-the
outs against the ins. That's all.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

JoNArHAN's BILL OF DAMAGES AGAINST
JOHN BULL is creating quite Stir abroad.
The latest files of the English and Continental
papers discuss the question at great length.
From the English, German and French news
papers we make extracts which will enable
our readers to form an idea Of what is thought
of our cease" at the other side of the Atlantic.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

The PARIS RADICALS AND "REDs" remain
excited against the monarchical idea and
indignant against the Bonapartes, as will be
seen by our report of the scene which occurred
near the Pere la Chaise Cemetery yesterday.
M. Rouher had a new, but not enjoyable,
excitement
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-17

SENATOR WILSON, Of Massachusetts,, has
for the Vice Presidential nomination on the
ticket with General Grant. Very good. Who
speaks next?
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NEW YORK HERALD
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PROPR lETOR.
Volume XXXvII............ As
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EUROPEAN hIrPoTnEATRIcAL COMPANY. Matinee at Q
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ances afternoon and svenins-DARiIsa.
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Tux NEW DRAMA OF DIvogcr. Matinee at IN
MRS. r. B. CONwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
The DUKES MOTTO Matinee at q
THEATRE coMIouE 81 sroadwa,-couIe VOCAL
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UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Fourteenth st. and Broad
way.-NHsRo AoTs-bUnLrsouE, BALLET, 60 Matinee.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. No. aol Bowery =
NEGRO EooENTRIcITIEs BURLIBoUEs &C. Matinee.
BRYANTS NEW OPERA HOUSE, AL at. between 9Th
THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave.
nue.-VARIETY ENTrRTAINMENT.
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IHH SAN FRANCIsOO MINsTRRLs.
PAVILION, No. 6Ss Broadway.-TuK VIENNA LADY Or
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NEW YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth strest.-SoENRs IN
TIE RING, AoRoBATs, &c. Matinee at ~.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. sls Broadway
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EUROPEAN hIPPoTHEATRIcAL COMPANY. Matinee at q
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ces afternoon and evening.-DARLING.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth sireet.-ENGLIsH
OPHRA-Aatinee-DoN JUAN. Evening-FRA DIAvoLo
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NlBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and
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OreaCn OF patrlOtlC uuIy Anu IL Jul CouueLnud-
ton must be severe upon Sumner and Schurz,
as men who have behaved unworthily, what
shall we say of Senator Morton, OF Indiana,
and this Wild incoherent person called Upton,
who seems really to be Senator from Ne
braska? Mr.. Morton came forward as the cham
pion of the administration. He made logical,
calm, dispassionate speech for a part Of the
time. Although rude and not always clear
speaker, he showed, so strong was his case,
that he was more than match for the expert
and accomplished Senator Schurz. Having
made his case, instead of submitting to vote
of the Senate, he swung away from the ques-
| ton to intrude q stump speech in favor OF
General Grants denomination and reelection.
We agree with Mr.. Morton, that the reelection
of General Grant is necessary and proper
duty. AS things 60 now, With the record
the President has made, We shall prob
ably aid the Senator in that work. But,
in heavens name, what had such speech as
this to do with the question before the Senate?
Why should public business be postponed and
the decision of necessary question be avoided
anu Tue tlue Vi Tue Deuate auu the patience OF
the country be wasted because Mr.. Morton
desired to say in rude and clumsy
way, and simply TO fatter the Presi-
dent, what everybody knows, that he favors
the denomination Of General Grant? We GER
tainly expected better things of Senator Nor
ton. He has been too many years in public
life; he knows too well the value of tn,
nations time; he has on occasions showr
himself to be too much of a statesman I,
thrust upon the Senate speech that nigh
have just as well been reserved for some cor
ner grocery in Indiana during the canvas
for the Presidency.
and, of course, with this famous example
was natural that the wild Upton, who, as W
have said, is really Senator from Nebraska
should make speech against the renomina
ton of General Grant. The question befor
the Senate was about the good faith of th
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BOwERY THEATRE, Bowery-Matinee- EAsT LYNNE.
Evening-BOY DETECTIVE.
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States, and though not always willing to &C
knowledge it, the Mexicans feel in their pres
ent difficulty the same dependence on and
hope from this country.
Whether President Juarez has appealed for
support or not to the United States, or
whether General Grant has expressed his
intention to intervene or not to sustain the
established government of Mexico, there can
be no doubt that the interposition of our gov
eminent is necessary to save that country
from ruin. Policy, humanity, the protection
| of our own people on the border, the interests
of commerce and many other considerations,
| call upon the United States for Intervention.
In what manner our government should inter-
vene is question that ought to be well con-
sdered But if the policy and necessity Of
that be admitted, the proper way will soon be
found. Nothing short of absolute control of
ton, should be thought Of Annexation
would be best, undoubtedly, both for the
| people of Mexico and the United States. As
a protectorate might lead to complications and
difficulties, and as that must result ultimately
in annexation, would it not be better to annex
Mexico at once 1t is a question, therefore,
I whether our government should support either
of the parties in the war now raging, or should
take possession of the country for the sake
of humanity, civilization and the protection OF
our own border, without forming an alliance
with one or the other. This, however, as we
said, is question Of policy. The best means
| to reach the end desred-the annexation OF
Mexico-should be adopted.
Some of our citizens might oppose annex
alton There have always been those SO ex.
cessively conservative and timid as to resist
every proposition for national expansion. II
was so in the case of the acquisition of Louisi-
ana, Texas and California. But the mass Of
the people, whose instincts are almost always
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WALLACK's THEATRE, Broadway ant 18Th street.