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Year: 1871

| Contrary to the reports of the past few days,
| the insurgent National Guards of Montmartre


have not surrendered to the French authori-
tles Mildly as the situation in Paris is
described in our dispatches published this
| morning, enough is said 10 show that there is


a strong probability Of serious collision in


the city to-day between the insurgents and the


national forces. After a good deal of spur


ring on by the newspapers to the work of
crushing the ''insurrection" the French govern
ment have at length determined to enforce
obedience to their requirements. This day. a
telegram from Paris states, is the last allowed
the insurgents to return to their duty, and
consequently ''a crisis" is certain. 1t is to be
hoped that the misguided National Guards of
Montmartre will perceive the futility of


resistance and, by timely surren-
der, avert bloodshed. But it must
not be forgotten that the men who
compose the insurgent battalions belong to
the lowest or most reckless classes Of Paris
men who apparently delight in the title of
''heroes Of the barricades, and are not averse
to street fight with any regularly constituted
FSench government, no matter how great the
odds against them. While, therefore, hoping
that it will be found unnecessary to have
recourse to violence, we shall feel no surprise
if the cable brings information to-day of a
bloody conflict in the narrow streets around
the hill of Montmartre. If we can trust the
reports previously published the insurrec-
tionary element is better armed than at the
time of the first Revolution, and is, there


fore, better prepared to resist the forces of
the government In view of probable con-
fiict to-day it must be matter of deep regret
to the French authorities that the disarming
of the National Guards was not made one of
the conditions Of the surrender of Paris. 1t
would have effectually prevented even the
possibility of the re-enactment of those horrible
scenes of carnage which are to be found re-


corded in the past history Of the French capital.
Year: 1871

The Italian opera question has been dis
cussed to its fullest extent by the press, bui
the feeling of expectancy and desire for its
revival which is now at fever heat in this city
demands few additional words That the
musical taste and liberality of New York can
not be excelled in any other centre of art is
universally conceded; but this taste and libe-
rality can only be fully developed by Italian
opera. which is the recognized head of lyric
art. Attempts have been made in vain to pro-
vide German, English and French substitutes !;
they have all received fair trial and have
of the present day. is by no means palatable
to true musical ears, as it takes metaphysical
view of every subject and carefully excludes
dramatic feeling and the spirit of spontaneous


melody which alone can touch the hearts of
the people. English opera nowadays is a
weak dution of Italian and German, and the
standard works Of English and American COM
posers are ignored by those who represent this
branch of the lyric art. AS for French opera,


we have only the 6oube kind, and the public
have long since tired of that. Italian opera,


then, is the sole musical entertainment that
can fully satisfy the desires of the public


And now there is an eager desire for it which
will, no doubt, succeed in bringing around its
revival and removing the former obstacles in
the way Of its success. These obstacles, as
we have repeatedly said, are principally con-
fined to the narrow minded policy of the
stockholders of the only building in the city
where Italian opera can be properly pre-
sented-the Academy of Music. When
these gentlemen consent to relinquish
their deadhead privilege Of occupying
two hundred and fifty of the best seats in the
house and agiee to pay for them one of the
greatest obstacles in the path of Italian opera
will be removed. There is no use in attempt
ing to dodge the question They must prac-
tse this self-denial or consent to see Italian
opera perpetually banished from their boards.
Any impresariO who proposes to give opera at
the Academy without insisting upon this
point deceives either himself or the public, for
he cannot succeed. This point conceded, the
stockholders, who represent many Of the first
circles in society, should next exert their
social influence to make Italian opera a neces-
sary appendage of fashion. 1t is luxury
and cannot depend on the general public alone
for support There is a great difference
between a guinea stall at Covent Garden
and two dollars at the Irving Place Opera
House. Yet the expenses at the former are
much less than what they should be in this
city. There box at the Italian opera is in
dispensable for all who move in the charmed
Year: 1871

Capital Sentence in the Federal Courts.


The scene presented in the United States
Circuit Court room yesterday, before Judge
Woodruff and a crowded auditory, was one
not often witnessed in the Federal Building.
After the Court had sentenced number Of
offenders to various terms of Imprisonment
for counterfeiting, stealing letters from the
Post Office, melting to mutiny on board ship
and perjury, man named Charles Perdue
who had been convicted of burning the ship
Robert Edwardes at sea, a out eight hundred
miles from land, was called forward
for judgment. The punishment for this
crime is death. Judge Woodruff ad-
dressed the prisoner in feeling man.
ner. A portion of the learned Judges
remarks may be very we'll regarded as fine
specimen of judicial eloquence and as touch
ing appeal to Perdue to avail himself Of the
short time now left him upon Earth for the
purpose of making his peace with God.
Fortunately the malicious burning of ships at
sea is an offence rarely known in this country ;
and it is this that makes the case Of Perdue
remarkable, and also the fact that it is several
years since there has been capital conviction
in the federal courts Of this city. Friday, the
18th Of May, has been named for Perdue's
execution; but as the jury who tried him
recommended him to mercy efforts, no doubt,
will be made to have his life spared.
Year: 1871




We publish to-day an interesting interview
which our correspondent had recently with
Senator Sumner. That statesman expressed
himself very freely on all the matters now
which he is SO intimately connected. AS to
the alleged reason for his removal-personal
unpleasantness between him and Secretary
Fish-he says that he and the Secretary were
always very cordial in their business relations,
that they consulted very freely regarding any
negotiations about which it was necessary
for them to consult but that he was
the recipient of personal indignity
at the hands of the Secretary which made it
impossible for them to remain upon footing
of sociality or personal friendship. Herein the
Senator condemns himself. It is absolutely
necessary that the head Of so important COM
mttee as that of Foreign Relations should be
upon the most intimate terms, personally
and socially, with the chief Minister of
State, and there is bound to come distrust and
lack of confidence between them in important
negotiations where this intimacy is lacking.
As to the Senator's opposition to St.
Domingo, he says that he objects to the
annexation of that island because he wants
the West Indies as q free, independent
negro republic, where the black race may work
out its redemption untroubled and unretarded
by admixture with or oppression from the
whites. In this, too, we think the Senator is
wrong. For seventy years the black race
have exercised control in st. d omingo, and a
very discouraging exhibit is shown to-day
of their ability to develop the resources
of one of the most beautiful and fertile coun-
tries on the globe. Annexation would open
up to it emigration from the colored people
here-people who are vastly superior in edu-
cation and experience to the Dominicans-and
this infusion would do more to teach them
selfgovernment than they will ever learn
otherwise in the semi-barbarous life they now
lead.
Year: 1871

II SEEMS PROBABLE that the coal miners
strike in Pennsylvania will extend to the btu
minous region. This is the coal which is used
almost exclusively west and southwest of
Pittsburg, and its transportation down the
Ohio river in coal barges and to the Western
towns on railroad trains is a very large branch
of business. The same coal, under pressure
of the present strike Of the anthracite miners,
is also being more generally used in this vcin-
ity, and the proposed movement of the btu
miDous miners will serve to limit the resources
of the poor still further
Year: 1871

circle Of nobility and fashion; here it is rich
placer for those very people on whom it
depends for assistance. There are rumors of
short season at the Academy after Lent |;
but they are 30 confused and contradictory
that no reliability can be placed on them. AT
all events the question is being agitated as
earnestly and extensively as even the myriad
projects of quick transit in the city. We trust
that the stockholders will yield to the pres
sure and to the dictates of common sense.
Year: 1871

CIRCUIT CoURT.-The case Of Kurlx rA
Shallcross was tried in the Circuit Court
Saturday. This was an action brought to
receive wages due over from defend.
ant for driving omnibus two orthrec years
ago. Defendant in troduceG u claim, as a
set OF, for trunk lost by plaintiff, as
alleged. The testimony and argument OF
counsel were fully heard, and the case
given to the jury. After celebrating a
short time verdict was rendered in favor
Of the plaintiff for the amount claimed.


This was about all Of interest that was
done in the Court, Saturday.


Adjourned until Q o'clock this morning.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, April !.


The TfIuaSs financial article says:
This morning the stock market was still
in the hands Of the bulls, who, as during
the past fcwweeks or months, apparently
hold power to regulate prices, and the
general tendency, is still upward.
The bears make an occasional move in n
timid and faint sort Of manner, which has
only a momentary effect, but they seem
to be lacking In the pluck necessary for q
sustained movement. Business In gold
has been limited, there being disposition
among operators on either side Of the
market to wait, Micawber.like, for some
thing to turn up before venturing heavily.
The abundance Of money offering on call
gives evidence that the story which was
current in tue street that certain great
bears were largely Withdrawing green
backs from circulation was nothing but q
bear story after all. After to-day the
movement Of currency will be in favor Of
the city banks.
Year: 1871

DAsTARDLY ACT. - Some unhung
wretch placed 3 hand.car on the track Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near the
Narrows, last Friday night. A passenger
train coming along at full speed struck
the car with tremendous force, throwing
It clear Of the track. Not the slightest
damage was done the train. The vile
creature who would thus endanger the
lives Of those against whom he could
possibly have no enmity, deserves to be
gibbeted, without the intervention Of
Judge or jury
Year: 1871

Bow IN TIE FOURTH WARD.-several
drunken Individuals got up a second
class row, Saturday night, in the Fourth
Ward. The melee commenced near the
old school house, and was continued
across the creek to the Crescent Iron
Works We hear that one o! the
owners, the manager Of the establishment,
and another party or two, were put to
flight Que or more Of tho rowdies were
caught, and will probably have Q hearing
before Judge Good this morning.
Year: 1871

CONCERT IN soUTH WHEELING.-At-
tentiOn is called to an advertisement In
another column announcing q concert in
South Wheeling, next Wednesday even.
ing. Among the names mentioned Of
those who will take part in the entertain.
ment will be found the very best musical
talent in the city, and the concert prom.
ises to be OF the very first order. Go and
hear Tor yourselves.
Year: 1871

DoS Juan Sickles, who has had the dis
tinguisked honor of representing us at the
Court of Spain, has conned Cupid's code TO
more purpose than Vattel and the telegraph
tells us that ho is suddenly and unexpected
ly married aud is on wedding tour home
to America. At the same time we are told
that the Bslizs fleet is ordered into Cuban
waters to demand satisfaction of the Cap
tain General for the murder of few score
American merchants and the miscellaneous
shooting of some of our Consuls. At this
jnncture, when q war with Spain is impend
ing through the acts of one of her Colonial
dependencies, it is pertinent to inquire
| whether General Siekles has had spare time
from his billing and cooling to refer this
warlike question to the home government
and if giving in marriage is to take oul
minister away from the Court of Amadeus
at time when, if ever, his presence there il
ell important?


As Sickles has married Spapiard and
is coming home, the gay men of Washing
ton will take no iice, remember Key, anC
not suffer the General to come his celebra
ted "set-up game" on any Of them.
Year: 1871

We give the balance Of our telegrsphic
space and time to-3ay to the Presidents
message, which accompanies this paper in
supplement form. This is the third docu-
ment of the kind that has emenated from
Grant, and like all the others is a very weak
attempt at scholarly diction and statesman
ship In this one he attempts to Justify his
military diciation in the south, and tries to
excuse his party for the failure of recon
struction. There is q weak attempt at re
view of foreign relations and . manifest
disposition to favor high taxation and op-
pressive tariffs to pay the national debt
years before it is due. The message as 8
whole is = very weak affair, and does not
even rise to the i'm portsnce of a respectable
electioneering document as is its evident
purpose.
Year: 1871

THE Lord Chesterfield whose death from
typhoid fever is announced was, in his youth
one of the leaders OF the fancy and primo
pal patrons of the Prize Ring. He Was
slso great racer and spent over $4,000
900 on the turf, encumbsring his vast es-
t4tes in Derby shire, Nottingham and North
ampt1n. He never took any interest in
politics and the only time he ever voted as q
pser was against Russell's first reform bill
He leaves one son and one daughter. q
was once master of the Queens buck
hnunds
Year: 1871

There is town in Massachusetts called Aver pre-
snmsbly after Dr. J. C. Aver the wcll-known maker
of medicines At any rate, the Doctor proposed to
give the new town the of S10,5OO, the interest
thereof to be devoted annually to educational pur-
poses Well the benevolent donor, instead OF being
thanked cordially by the inhabitants has aroused
tea pot tempest in town-meeting. Some Objectors
did not like the conditions of the gift; others
growled because it was not big enough; and finally
Committee of three was appointed to cali upon Or.
Aver and endeavor to get this money or morS with
out the conditions without guessing precisely Ow
the propositions of the Committee will be received,
we must be allowed to say that this is about the
coolest proceeding which has to knowledge.
We have heard of looking gift horses in the mouth,
but this is sQunt down the entire throat and into
the stomach of the animal. One would think Dr.
Aver to be the obliged party instead of the town
which is called by his name. We have long per-
ceived liberal tendency among the men of wealth
in Massachusetts; but we did not know before that
it had become so difficult in that State to give away
ones money.
Year: 1871

The Democratic Reform Party made three
excellent nominations last night. Those Of
Geo. C. Barrett for Supreme Judge, and Chas.
P. DAILY as Judge of the Common Pleas, will
command respect and influence; that of Gen.
Sige for Register is sarecognitiOn of the conspcu-
Dus value of the German element in the move
ment among Democrats for municipal reform,
as well as of the fact that men who ask for
Republican support must make some con-
ression to the party whose votes they depend
upon for success. This last consideration has
the merit of novelty in Union Democratic
movements in this city.
Year: 1871

The Episcopal Convention, as we anticipated
it would, has set about its perilous and del
icate task of reconciling the apparently irrecon-
a spirit of charity and concession, and keen
sighted discrimination between essentials and
trifes altogether admirable. In their work,
and in the forbearing, courteous manner in
which the work has been done, the Christian
teachers who compose this council have 80
far been faithful witnesses for their Master.
The, greater part of the difficult questions
which they have had given them to adjust
concern church doctrine and polity, and in
terest only Episcopalians; but in one or two
instances they have grappled with proble
which underlie all the social life Of this gen.
GRAFTON. The case most notably in point Is
the resolution offered last week, that an en-
lightened, practical plan should be adopted
for the training, support, and organization of
women free to engage in work outside OF
their homes, as nurses, teachers, and domestic
missionaries" :" such women not to be bound
"by irrevocable vows, and to be able to return
to the house where they were trained. when
disabled, with the assurance of comfortable
support through ife."


Christianity, after all, is nothing il it Is not
the practical application Of the divine truth
which Jesus taught of love to God and our
brother to the new phases and exigencies Of
each succeeding age. The disease which cank-
ers deepest into our social and domestic life
now is the forced inaction and morbid uarest
Year: 1871

years hence, and those children win practically
remain In bondage twenty-one years longer
Until the last slave has been set FREQ we may
expect the question Of emancipation to dis
turb the politics Of the empire. Nor will such
bill satisfy the bondmen, whose clamor for
their rights has already created no slight
alarm. The recent insurrection in the prov
ince Of Minas Geraes was menace which the
Brazilian conservatives dare not disregard, aud
they have blundered fearfully IL they imagine
they have met it by the deceptive and halt
ing measure whose leading points we have
just recapitulated
Year: 1871

the chief Official Of q precinct Is objectionable
under any strict and proper system of police,
and would warrant under the more per-
feet London, Paris, or st. Petersburg
systems, the instant dismissal of the
guilty captain. He cannot be true
protector Of the peace who permits the de-
liberate growth Of such establishments in the
region under his care, and when he 30 neglects
his duty it is time to send him to less re-
sponSiblo position in some private station.
There is some excuse for ignorance of the
details by the superintendent particularly
when faithless subordinates fail to report the
facts; but can he plead any for hesitation or
omission to call those shown to be guilty to
summary and sharp sccounti An account Of
affairs in Capt. Walsh's precinct Is printed on
our second page.
Year: 1871

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prosches this diAisuly not.only with the high
est Christian purpose. but with sound common
sense. The idle, needy, pious woman, ut
present loose thread in the body polite, 10
10 be woven into the web; given, first, an
honorable means of earning her own bread
and butter, afterward home, companions,
security for old age, and exercise in Ohrists
service for ell the skill or talent which
He has given her. She forms, too,
link, now very much wanted, between
the ready charity of the wealthy class
and the poor. We should be glad to find
other Protestant churches following the ex-
ample of the Episcopalians in this matter.
Women in religious bodies heretofore who
wished to devote themselves to work for Christ
have been sent (at their church's expense)
only on er-ands to the far-oR heathen OF, to
say the least, doubtful expediency or sue
cess. Any woman with the true missionary
spirit can find work for heather IN her own
kitchen or back alley, but the difficulty is that
it lacks the attraction which danger, novelty,
and picturesque scenery lend to japan or
India's coral strand. If our EpiscOpalan
brethren render this home work more at
tractiye to the romance loving sex, by COM
bining them in so-called sisterhoOds, they will
have founded their work not only on Christian
principle, but on o shrewd knowledge of the
demands of human nature


There ia another matter which we would
briefly suggest presents itself now to the con-
sideration of every religious body in the coun-
try more urgently than questions of hymnals
or rubrics, as it underlies the whole physical
and moral health of the nation. We mean
the more enlightened view which gains ground
among us but too slowly as to the treatment
and cure of intemperance While tWo-thrds
of the inmates of our prisons and victims OF
the gallows are sent there by liquor, ana one
half of the active diseases of the country arc
outgrowths from the same cause, we kno" Ii"
subject more worthy the careful and WISE con-
alteration of our best men. Inc dImculty III
the way of reform lies, as we believe, In tne
fact that Intemperance has hitherto been ap-
preached as o crime, and not dlseaSe'
Its prevention is to be found not IN frantic
appeals to the will and moral sense OF
the drunkard, when both are enfeebled
by physical means, but in the clear, intelligent
comprehension by the people, especially parents,
that the thirst for alcohol is an hereditary
disease, to be combated warded of, and cured
as scrofula or consumption would be. The
Episcopal Convention, body of men pre-
eminent for their moderation and love OF
truth stripped of fanaticism, can find no social
evil more terrible in its exigence than this;
no matter in which they can render their
church and the world more service by well
considered verdict Their sect is composed for
the most part of that cultured and influential
class, under the direction of their pastors to
an exceptional degree, whose every forward
movement in reform has weight. A few
simple authoritative words of warning on this
matter, or the endowment of all lnebriate
Asylum by the Convention, would be work
for humanity whose heathful effect cannot be
estimated in words.
Year: 1871

Prince Napoleon has gone to Corsica, where
the BOnapartists are alleged to be planning
dreadful things against the Republic. Warned
BY historic example, the French Government
has ordered the coast guard to look out for
suspicious vessels and any possible descent of
Bonapartist expedition; but, though history
does repeat itself, there seems to be little
probability that any representative of the line
Of the Real Napoleon will land at a French
port and march on Paris with Moniteur mark
ing his progress with varying gradations from
Frejus to the capital and from "monster
IN the Emperor
Year: 1871

It is no doubt through clerical bunder that the
Presidents proclamation suspending the writ Of
haheas corpus in certain portions of South Carolina
includes the County of Marion and omits the County
Of Union. Marion hos always been peaceable, be-
cause tho blacks are in so largo majority that the
whites do not venture to disturb them. Union, on
the contrary is probably the worst KuKlux infested
County, after spartansburg in the State. 1t was in
Union that the wholesale daughter Of the negroes
confined in the Jail took place last March, and the
poor blacks m that County have been terribly har-
assed by whippings and murders since then not
withstandng the presence OF the County seat Of
United States troops sent for their protection.
Year: 1871

At last there il Q sensible move which shows


little intelligence at least brought to bear upon the
Labor Question. Some Of the manufacturing COR
porations Of Lowell have adopted the system OF pay
ing workmen by the hour, allowing each one TO
decide how many hours he will work beyond the
regular time. Whenever corporations may require
extra work, if the workmen decline to engage in IT,
as they will have perfect right to do Ii will not DO
difficult to find substitutes. Now 10 not this better
than to pass a law compelling man or @Oman to
work only eight hours per diem. whatever may be
his or her wishesi