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The investigation into the cause of the death of Margaret Dale was concluded last evening, the jury bringing in a verdict at eleven o'clock that deceased | came to ber death from disease of the langs and | brain, probably hastened by the croel and inhuman | treatment of Mr.and Mrs. Conover, and severely | censoring the conduct of Dr. Conover in burying, | exhuming aod reinterring the body of deceased as | he had done. From testimony elicited yesterday it | appears that Mr. and Mrs. Conover were in the habit of boxing and palling Margaret around and treating | her in a cruel manner, and that the doctor had on one or two occasions while on the excursion, pre- vious to her death, whipped her with a stick and Kicked ber with his boot. Tue doctor's oldest son, ‘a lad 17 or 18 years old, testified that he never knew until after her death that she was a relative of his, and that they treated ber only as a servant. | A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen | was held last evening, but they did not succeed in accomplishing anything. A desultory discussion arose as to whether the members who signed the call for the special meeting ought not to be put un" | der arrest. The Board then proceeded to take ao- | tion on the resolution offered by Alderman McSpe- | don in the Board of Aldermen on Thursday evening, when it was laid on the table without a | disentient voice. The resolution of Alderman | Blunt, authorizing Messrs. Whiting and Clark to | act for the Corporation on the Lowber judgment, was | then taken up and also laid on the table. A com. | munication from Mr. Busteed, Corporation Counsel, | in answer to an inquiry relative to the constraction of the seventh section of the charter of 1857, was read, in which he gave as his opinion that said sec- tion required separate publica ion by each Board previons to passing any resolution requiring the ex- | penditure of money. The communication was or- dered to be printed on the minutes. A report in favor of appropriating $50,000 for the Central Park was taken up, but after a brief discussion the Board, withont tsking any action oa it, concluded to ad- journ to Monday evening, and then broke up into emak groupe of disputante, who coatinued for some tame rather vehemently to discuss the numerous vexed questions now disturbing the harmony of our municips’ government. yestercay from infected ports—the Volante from 8t. V. Casey from Hamacoa. ness, but were all ¢ent tothe lower Quarantine an. chorage, to be thoroughly cleaned and fumigated. | The bark Indian Queen, which has been lying seve- ral days at the lower sachorage, was permit | Walker had doubtless discovered that anything | approaching an adhesion to the terms of the | eee os NEW now in custody at the hotel, awaiting the result of | bie hostility of our Souther fire-eaters to the re- en investigation by the proprietors, Messrs. Tresd- | tention of Walker in his prevent office. Bat well, Acker & Co. Fore full account of the affair, | whether Governor Walker does or does not aspire together with seveag) other interes‘ing police oases, | t. the Presidency upon the merits of bis Kansas our readers are apferred to another column. ho Becestary of tho Mery had determined to | Blcr—thet palioy being the policy of the 93- shorten the cruises of national vessels from three ministration—his retention becomes a matter of years to two years, It is expected that by this more importance to Mr. Buchanan than all the means more efficient seamen will be induced to en- | plans and estimates of ali the aspirants for the ter the naval service. Presidency put together. ‘ Two men, named Anderson and Phillips, were ar- So long as Governor Walker ehall adhere to pe in Boston saeniey bine Ny cally of coun: | the law and the constitution, as the chief execu- notes on , of Massachusetts. Ki i Bipesarg hs pills had been palmed off tive officer of Kansas Territory, he may be He pager : pie i dou. The dulged in his eplendid but harmless visions o! ed are oubteee a satan of he fined pst of the future. However prominent the part whic whom were apprehended in this city some days since he may play in the admission of Kansas a# free State, we apprehend that the man of 1860 for passing similar counterfeits, 3 ‘Advices from La Paz, Lower California, to the | Will be identified with some other principles, measures and recommendations, looking to the Ist of June, have been received. It is stated that for some time past American speculators have been | future not Ices than to the past. The frots, how- ever, that Governor Walker considers the admis- coming into the territory, buying lands, houses and sion of Kansas as a free State inevitable, and 60 lota; “quien sabe for what reason,” says the local paper. An American had established himself n | ingicpensable to the peace of the country as to lead him from his services in this behalf to as business at La Paz, and was monopolizing the hide trade, as he bad run the price up to $3 25 when the | 5. 44 the White House, are facts which ought to suffice to quiet the fears of our Northern aati- native merchants formerly purchased them for 50 or 75 cents. Several rich mines had been discover- slavery simpletons lest Kansas should be smug- gled into the Union as a lave State. ed, but there was no capital in the country to work them. During the fast year the territory had had eight different Governors, and the last one appointed And this is the practical conclusion at which had refused to accept. A party of revolutionists that | we arrive—that the admission of Kansas asa free had been sentenced to serve in the army in Lower | State is a sure thing, and that this solution of California rebelied against their officers. La Paz was | the controversy will enter into the successful is- for a short time the scene of a fighe with them, but | cues of the next Presidential election. they had succeeded in escaping into the interior, ‘The local authorities were under fear of some fili- buster invasion from California. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday were confined to about 600 bales, 200 of which were in transitu. We quote mid- ding uplands at }5%c , and middling Now Orloans at 1640. Flour was dull and irroguiar, and some disoriptions closed at a further deoline of about 5 cents per bbl Wheat was beavy for common and ordimary grades, while prime was unchanged. Among the sales today wee about 8,200 bushels of new fair Indiana red, reset ved by the Erie Railroad, and the first of the season from that Stato, at $145. Prime old IUinots winter red sold a’ $160 gow Seathern red $1660$167, and new while good to prime #) $176 a $15). Corn was in good re quest, with sales of Wortorn mixed at 85c. a 85ixc. Pork closed fl m, with gales of mois at $25 75. Sugars were without change of moment in prices. The sales om- braced about 1,000 bhds. and about 450 boxes, at prices given clsowhere, and 436 bags of Madagascar Aug! The Lowber Speculation—Triangular Fight Between the Common Council, Comptroller and Corporation Counsel, We published on Thursday copies of the affida- vits of Mr, Comptroller Fiagg, ex-Jadge Whiting and Surveyor Serrell, on which Judge Peabody grauted a stay of proceediags on an execation at the suit of Mr. Robert W. Lowber, levied upon the goods and chattels of the city. The property seized to satisfy this execution was to have been sold yesterday, but by virtue of the order of Judge Peabody the city is relieved from the disgrace and loss which would have attended this sale of its property, and Mr. Lowberis ordered to show cause on the 7th of September, at the special term bell + th pots c of the Supreme Court, why the judgueat acd passable a Prsserg Bedell isa bl ‘at atx | execution obtained by him against the city should months. The sales ef coffee embraced avout 900 bags pf | not be set aside, and why the action on which he Rioat Ble wees mes rane more ~ ia frieghts, | obtained judgment should not be re-opened. at 1s. Od. per 280 Ibs, Whiskey was caster, with sales of public in relation to this complictle® matter. 1,000 bbis. af 280. and 28340. First, there are Mr. Lowber and the Common Council ag one party—the allegation against Waiker'’s them being that the pussage of the ordinance di- Warner's Manas Programme for the | ting the purchase of this property, which is the When the Hon. Robert J. Walker departed | Subject of the whole difficulty, was obtained by hence to assume the practical responsibilities of fraud; or, if not 60 obtained, that at least the the thankless office of Governor of Kansas, the | Common Council was not justified in passing it prevailing presumption was that he had accepted Then there comes in Mr. Busteed, Counse! to the this perilous trust from two important considera- Corporation, who is arraigned by the Comptroller tions—first, the prospect of a new field for exten- | for favoring the cause of Mr. Lowber, permitting sive land and railroad speculations, and, second: | judgment and exccution to be obtained aguinst ly, a prospect for the Presidency. the city without notification to the Comptroller, Dropping the firet consideration for the present, | #04 for not heving availed himeelf of the right it will be seen from our special Washington des- | Of appeal within the time allowed by law. And patch in these columns that the White House is | lastly, Mr. Flagg himself is arraigned before the the paramount aspiration of Governor Walker, | Public, charged with a crotchety and unjustifia- and that he entertains a lively hope, from the | ble meddling with the matter, with libelling the commanding position in which the intermediate | fair fame of the Common Council, getting the admission of Kansas asa free State will place | city into improper [tigation, and boing alto- him before the conservative masses of the Ameri- | gether a most unmanageable official. can people of both sections of the Union. In this The history of the case is briefly relatect in one view the Governor’s programme, as laid down by | of the affidavits which we published on Thu rsday. our correspondent, is simple, consistent and re- | It appears that eome time in February, 18.56, a markably plausible Let us briefly reduce it to | petition was preeented to the Board of Courcil- the test of the existing aepect of things in Kan- | men purporting to be signed by many up town sas, and the present and prospective condition of | residents, praying for the cstablishment of & our political parties. market at some place on the East river and near’ The Question of the Succession—Governor Before accepting his responsible oftice, Gov. | Fourteenth street. This movement, after various references, reports and communications, ended in the passage, about the 18th of Febrvary, 1857, ot KanrasNebraska bill would resalt in making | the following resolutions:— Ki St Besotved, That the Com; be, and he is hereby, di Kansas a free State, from the overwhelming 0 ee, wit delay, Tor tne use and wien numerical ascendency of the free State settlers in | of # markes, the of Rovert W. Lowbor, compris- the Territory. In accepting, therefore, the chart of | i aod by dix Mr. Bucbanan’s inaugural as his guide, the course | *eet, avenue Cand the East river together with tao of the Governor was at once defined—the result clewventoontn ma arene menting bees oe caeee Be in— ; contre lines of said streets as contained, for the sam of became certain—and, from its crowning advan- | findred ana iz teeusand doilare (100,000), the tages, superior to all the trials and embarrass- | Gc the taxes nod asscesments ua thoveon, in accordance tion auomitted to ments which might delay its accomplishment, The admission of Kansas as a free State, through the fairly applicd organic law of popular sove- reignty, it was evident, at the outset, would Ireak up the present relations of our political parties ; but it was equally manifest to the saga- cious observer of causes and effects, that in the dency would acerue to the conservatives ac- quiceciog in the free State solutioa of the Kansas problem. This, then, is the position of Gov. Walker. | He anticipates, as we anticipate, the disruption | of the Southern democracy from the admission of | Compi Three vessels ariived at the upper Qaarantine | Kaneas as a free State; bat from the absolute | { | annihilation of the Northera conservative de- ‘Thomas, the Lamplight@r from Triuidad, and the C. | ; mocracy, should Kansas be smuggled in a ao They brought no sick- | slave State, he sees that there is no other alter- | counsel yesterdsy to come up to the old Quarantine and dis. | be followed by a eplit in the Southern democratic ! charge her cargo. Thirty-five vessels arrived yes. terday at the upper Quarantine, of which some avven were detained. lu the acticn brought by Leonard Harden, who | the effects of this seditious movement ia the way represents himself to be # deputy jailor, against Mesars. Townshend and Galbraith, counrel for the | French railroad prisoners, for an alleged assault, answers bave been putin by both the defendants. By referring to Mr. Galbrarth’s answer, which we | publish to-day, it will be seen that, afver all the fass whioh was made about it, he did nothing but inter. | With which to keep up @ hot and crackling fire; fere to prevent # breach of the peace. ‘The mare meeting in the Park yesterday after- | noon in bebalfof the destitute filibusters proved a failure. There were but few persons present, and | only eleven dollars was obtained to relieve the poor sufferers. Another meeting will be held this even- ing The General and Deputy Superintendents of Police are busily engaged in equalizing the police force of the various wards, but had not completed their la- bors last evening. They will probably conclude to day. The investigation instituted by the General Saperintendent into the means provided on the va rious steamboats for the preservation of life in case of accident is not concluded, but is progressing fast. The Committee on Streets of the Board of Conn cilmen met yesterday to hear parties interested in the proposed extension of Leonard street. As no purties appeared, the committee adjourned till Mon day next at two o'clock. ‘The steamboats Splendid and Moses Taylor were nearly destroyed by fire yesterday morning, while | lying at Rendall & Miller's wharf, Jersey City. The ms by both vemels is estimated at about fifteen necersary reconstruction of parties the ascen- | th Comptroller by Robort W. Lowbor, uncor date of No- ye Wor 6, 1866, the property t» be conveyed by good ‘anc wufficient warraawo deod, froo and clear of all liens anc incumbrances excep) (axes aad assonamen's, bow title Go the said preniisas being approved by the to the Corporr.iton, aud the sum of $106 00y ix heroby ap- | ‘.atca {47 the parpote aforcenid, and provided the said taxe- innd ageesemen's to be assumed by the Corporation shal 4 ot exceed the sum of $2,500. | Rew lved, That ‘the sald premises when parchased shal! | be gy wet to the control and supervision of the Commis- tlone: # of ine Sakug Fund. TL ese resolutions not having been vetoed by | the A feyor, nor returned with his approval, be- | came operative. Mr. Lowber applied to the Comp Wwoller for his warrant for the cash, offer- | ing hi n in return a deed of the property. The roller refused to draw bis warrant for the and declined to accept the decd. Mr. ‘brought an action against the city for 196.000. The Comptroller employed to defend the suit. money Lowber the native of safety than an honest adherence to the | agreed ©. Mr. Daniel E. Sickles was the sole | organic law, though it mast favolve the lows of | referee. ‘The matter was argued before him. Mr. Kaneas to the South. But as this loss wilt surely | Fivarte appeared and argued the case for the Comptre Wer. The referee-on the 4th of June last camp, and the organization by the slavery ultras | reported in favor of Lowber; and on the same of @ purely sectional and secession party throagh- | day judg ment was entered for $199 7 & out the South, the question arises, what will be | curious ¢ ircumstance in the case is that the | Comptrol) ef, according to his statement ander of a wholesome reaction? An extreme and rabid j oath, kney 1 nothing of the entering of judgment, sectional party South will undoubtedly give in- | or of the is eof exeoution, until the 23d of Jaly, | creased vigor and activity to the Seward section- | when the le Vy wat made, and when the period | al anti-slavery party North. The two extremes | allowed by} @W for appealing from the judgment will thus supply each other the combustibles | had elapsed. Who is to be blamed here?--the Corporation « souneel, the special counsel, or Me. bat it is just here that the reserves of Governor | Flagg himseli ‘for his own remissness and negii- Walker will come into requisition, | geuce in the 1 aatter? Against these two sectional parties there will | Mr. Busteed —_, in # communication presented on arise a new and overehadowing Union party | Thursday even ing to the Common Council, defends from the inexhaustible conservative interests, | and justifies hi; '.own course, while Mr. Flagg, in a | classes and maeses of all sections. Mr. Buchanan will be out of the way; but upon the Kan- eas solution of his administration the man for the succession must stand. The old de- mocratic party of the North, cut off from all further hopes of success from the dis- ruption of the party South, will at once discover that their policy and their daty is their usion into a new party, combining the conserva- tive elements of all parties and all sections. That ® party thus actively organized will be the con- quering party ia 1560 there can be no doubt, Provided always that they hit upon the man for the hour—the hour and the man. ‘The Seward intriguers may contrive to elbow Fremont off the track; Douglas is committed to & pretty broad Southern exposure; Hanter, like communica _ tion presented at the same time, in- culpates the Co ansel, tries to shield bimeelf, attempts to sho, that Mr. Lowber had no title whatever to two thirds of the property which he undertook to sell + In this, as weil as in other, matters of fact and of opinion, Busteed and Flagg are direct ly at issue. Busteed gave & certificate of title , and in that only endorsed the + O'Conor, Noyes and others. selection of a referee, too, the ive veracity arises between ved, in his communication, opinion of Mesare In reference to the question of relat them. Mr. Bust faye : Ort of a lat of balf a gested, the Comptrolie: and arrigned as @ reaso, with Corporati m affairs which be formerly susta How does this ta doron persons whore names I so7- * gelected Danis F Sickles, Keq , 1 the familiarity of that gentleman growing out of tho official relation ined to the city, Wy with Mr. Plagg’s asser- thousand dollars. The origin of the fire is unknown, | Jefferson Davis and other Southerners of the a it being snapected to be the work of an incendiary, | same school, seem to depend entirely tion ? as there was no fire on board. The hands ou board | rete or ruin poli th Pend entirely upon the | fa reiation to the other ogy So vn Mr. Senteot's onset had quite & narrow escape of their lives. G Walk of the cccerstonist programme | Led thas Lacs not ae prised me tank bs’ bed autented roverne € fro is ie a Considerable excitement has been caused at the Abooraneg og r, then riers hi Conspicuous as- | Mr, Sickles ae referee in | seLowber case. St. Nicholas Hotel in consequence of the discovery | “ciation with the administration in the Kansas | In the case made ¢ ut before the referee, the of defalcations te amount of twenty thousand | settlement, will be brongbt into the foreground | main question preesed oa the part of the Comp dollars on the of one of entry clerks in the | before the conservatives, At all events, this esti Ner a @ Common Council could seach ti- | troller was whetter th siabie i a * attested, atd is ' mate appears t vet the secret of the implace- | lawfully coerce the E pace Department ¢ ate A reference was | YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1887. “~ - a 8 debt on which a jndgment could be obtained, and thus virtually nullify the provision in the charter of 1830 which declares that the Common Council +hall not have power to borrow money on the credit of the Corporation, exeept in antici- pation of the revenues of the year in which the loan is made, unless authorized to do so by & epecial act of the Legislature. ; But that point was overruled, and the decision, as we bave suid, rendered in favor of Lowber. ‘The point wus frivolous in fact and inlaw. Not eo, bowever, with the question now raised, and on which Lowber’s right is contested. This is, that of the whole property for which the city has thus contracted, Lowber is entitled to not more thaa one-‘hird, the title to the remainder being really in the people of the State. It is averred that Lowber’s proprietorship only extends to the tri- engular picce of ground between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets and avenue C and Tompkins atreet; that this Tompkins strect is the legal east- erp boundary of the city at that place, and that all the reclaimed land eastward between it and the ¢ bulkhead on the East river belongs to the people of the State, the Legislature never having authorized its alienation, and the Corporation never having, in fact, undertaken to alienate it. If this be co, Mr. Lowber would be selling pro- perty to which he has no legal right, and would be receiving for the twenty lots to which his right is not questioncd, the nice little sum of $196,000. It is this question of title on which, if the case be reopened, the courts will have to decide. But the Board of Aldermen seems determined to take the decision of the question upon themselves, and have therefore passed a resolution directing the Corporation Counsel to take measures to compel the Comptroer to psy the judgment. This, however, is easier said than done, for there are no fonds in the city treasury that can be appro- priated to the purpose. In the meantime, it is to be hoped that the exposé which this little specula- tion has given rise to will have the effect of de- terring others from embarking in similar ente- rprises, to the prejudice of the city and its taxpayer ‘The Rew Steam Siocops of War—Who Is to Select the Models ? The act of Congress of the 3d of March last provided for the construction of five steamships of war. Of these the Secretary of the Navy will receive proposals, specifications and plans until the 24th instant, for the construction of one steam propeller sloop of war. The Secretary etates that the object of the Department in inviting propo- enla is to obtain the very best ship of war that the nierpantile marine can prodace, and that the pro- ¢ Will be received from shipbuilders only. This is 2 step in the right direction. One ship to the comme tial builders is certainly better than to confine th. entire five to the government yarda But in our jZdgment two would be still etter. Nor do we infe.” that the issuing of pro- posals for one necessarily ¢nfines the remaining four to the government yards; “or we understand that nothing has been decided beyond the single propeller. In bringing that within Cae range of the mercantile shipbuilders, it by no maas fol- lows that nothing farther will be done in tiit di- rection. There is nothing to prevent Secretary Toucey from giving at least another to the pri- vate yarda, There are obvious and cogent con- tiderations in favor of such a disposition of the matter. For many years—indeed since the introduction of steamsbips of war—e rival or antagonistic feel- ing has existed between the naval and mercantile marine. To some extent this condition of things has not been without its good effects, but in the upshot it has proved deleterious While it has sharpened and brought into full play the active intellect and enterprise of the com- mercial builders, and has prompted them to the exercise of their utmost skill to produce supe- riority in the models and construction of their ships, it has prevented the government, through the rival or narrow feeling in the navy yards, or among the less liberal and less progressive of the paval officers and bureaus, from availing itself of the ckill and improvements which have won for the American mercantile marine the admiration and imitation of all the maritime nations of the world. It may be said with pride that in the range of marine arcbitectare, combining beauty, etrength and speed, none excel our own; and that American sbipbuilders enjoy every- where a high and honorable reputation. Whatever msy be the character of the war steamships built in the government yards, it can- not be denied that the oftener the Navy Depart- ment avails itself of the skill, experience and emulation of the mercantile yards the greater will be the improvement in our national ships This is a natural result. In the language of the Bureau of Coustraction, “to obtain the very best sbip of war the mercantile marine can produce” will undoubtedly lead, by an easy process of com- petition, to the very best ehip of war the naval marine can prodace. The competition between the government and private yards will lead in- evitably to higher excellence in this great art, and will confirm the wisdom of our government in not confining the constructioa of our steam- ships of war exclusively to the navy yards. And thie mode of producing impsovement and > will bein some measare defeated; for tors who, however pure they may be, are eat upon the models of the steam cutters submit- ted to the Treasury Department been practical eeamen instead of naval constructors, there is little doubt that the choice of model would have been very different from the one selected. If, too, the models for the aloop-of-war are to be submit- ted to a board of naval constructors, it is not im- probable that they will select the one that ap- proaches most nearly to thoee they have them- celves designed and built after, as being in their judgment tne best. If, therefore, the desire of the department is te awaken a friendly spirit of emulation between the national aud the mercaa- tile naval constructors, let it not place the one to sit in judgment upon the other. For these reasons and many others that might be adduced it is to be hoped that the Secretary of the Navy, in cons'ituting the board to examine the models submitted to him, will follow the same eimple and sensible rules that guide the merchant in a similar case. Let him submit them to board cf practical seamen. Our navy list teems with names of officers eminently capah of doing this duty. It would be invidious to particularize persons, but we have officers who have made this subject a practical study for many years, and who have not only navigated every sea in steam- ships, but have circumnavigated the world in them, and have seen and competed with, in their term of service, the best steamships of other na- tions. We call, therefore, for a board of compe- tent naval officers, and not of constructo's, to sit in judgment upon the modcls to be submitted to the Navy Department by our merchant ship- builders. Tar Late Coraston on THE Sounp—Tue In- YESTIGATION A Farce.—A week has not elapsed since this community was shocked and saddened by the intelligence of @ collision on the Sound between the Fall River steamer Metropolis and the propeller J. N. Harris, resulting in the death of fifteen persons on board the latter. The col- lision occurred on a calm, bright moonlight night. Sofar, therefore, there was no possible mode of explaining the cause of the occurrence, aside from negligence, remissness or recklessness scmewhere. The excuse made was that the pilot on board the Metropolis mistook the propeller for a sailing vessel, in consequence of her being un- der canvass and of her not displaying or his not seeing the signal light showing her to be a steam- er, and that he consequently steered In the oppo- site course from that in which the sailing direc- tions governing those waters required him to steer. Before this mistake could be remedied, or the speed of the Metropolis checked, she cut down the Harris, submerging her almost instan- taneously. Well, now, even on this showing, there was blame somewhere. If the Harris did not display her signal light aloft, then her oficers were those whose negligence was the cause of this melancholy affair. ‘If the light were displayed, but was screened by the canvass, then it follows that the sailing dircctions are defective, and that there is an im- perative necessity for their being speedily and eficiently altered, so a8 that there can be Re danger in future of mistaking propeller for a sail vesecL But if neither of these euppositious ie the correct one—if the Harris did display her light, and if br canvass did not prevent that light being seen from ow board a vessel coming in the cppotite dtrection—then the oflicers on board the Metropolis are directly responsible for the collicion and for the low of life thereby occasioned. The public demands ‘o know where the fault lics, so that the remedy may be applied for the future, or that the guilty party may be properly punished. Mr. Joachimsven, Assistant United States District Attorney, undertook an investi- gation of the matter; bat we are sorry to have to say that it has been very lamely and im- potently conducted. The pilot the Metropolis was not, we understand, examined at all, although he is the person of all others the most capabie of supplying infor- mution on the subject. Instead ef his evidence Mr. Joachimesen was content with that of the captain of the Metropolis, who was asleep in his berth at the time of the collision, and who conse- quently could know notaing personally of the matter. Indeed, we are not aware that a eylla- bie of evidence has been addaced from any per- on oa board the Metropolis who was wide awake at the time of the collision, Now that will not do, That is not the way to slur over euch serious investigation as this. Tne pab- lic is well aware that reckieseness on board some of these large river and other steamers is far too mach the rule, and that it is regarded as | a necessary part of their business, if not to run | down small craft, at least to come so near doing £0 a8 to frighten thore on board. It is, there- fore, the bounden duty of the proper law officer, when such an inexensable collision as this oc- on board tupcriority in our national, as well as com- mercial veesels, will be made still more effective by increasing the number of steamships of war to be constructed in the mercantile yards—thus keeping up @ healthy and useful competition, not only between the naval and mercantile marine, but also in the commercial yards between each other, which cannot fail to be productive of prac- tical resulte of the higheet value and importance to our national marine, For these reasons we hope soon to eee our practical ehipbailders in- steamships of war they can produce. But in order to obtain the desired result it is absolutely neceesary that the Becretary of the Navy sball take into mature consideration who he will appoint to sit in judgment upon the plans that are about to be laid before his department by the merchant builders for the new steam sloop-of-war, There are certain principles so obvious .in this question that we would urge them upon the consideration of the Secretary. When a merchant seeks plans and specifications | for a ebip, it never occurs to him to submit them to a rival shipbuilder to pronounce judgment upon them ; but if he has not the requisite prac- tical knowledge himeelf, he calls around him his enptains and experienced navigator, ‘and con- eults their opinion as to the qualities and efficiency of the propored models. They are the men who Can give a practical opinion; and it is through their knowledge and views, obtained by the handling and observing of many ehips upon the ocean, that cur mercantile marine has achieved ite present proad position. If the Navy Department should sub mit the models to be presented by the merchant builders to the naval constructors 64 Washington and elsewhere the desired aim vited to propose for another of the very best | curs, to institute a complete and rigorous investi- | gation, and to pursue it without fear, favor or | affection. We call upon the United States Dis | trict Attorney or his assistant so to discharge | his duty in the promises as to guarantee the | public from any reckless repetition of such de- | plorable events, Tre Vore ov Necro Scrraace ty Iowa.— | It ie not a little singular that the vote on that | clause of the new constitation of Iowa which placed the negroes on an equality, in point of political rights, with the whites, should have been eo decidedly negatived by the people of that State. Iowa is considered a republican State; the republican leaders in this part of the world have lately made a practice of count- ing upon it as a thing certain. Yet it seems that the republicans of Iowa do not carry their repub- | Hieanism so far as to sdmit the negroes into a community of political rights with themselves. Very few political communities of white mon have been proved willing, in the present day, to : Amit the negro to a political or a social equality with themselves. Northern men are ready enough to sympathise with tle alleged wrongs of he colored race in the South, and to make an outcry about the injustice of the holding of one human creature in bondage by another. But when these same Northern men are asked to sit at the «ame tabte, or to ride in the same oars, or to cconpy the rame apartment, of to vote side by side with these black lmman creatures, their iden of the analogy becomes materially altered In such States as Rhode island tree negro rul- frage may paes muster; but in New York and Towa, it seems, the “prejudice of color” operates to debar the colored man from the privilege We presume that, as in Now York, the people hurry back to the Seuth. We are full of com | passion here in the North ; bat black humanity, to go down with us, must be moderately gilded. sures anout Dr. Catiy.—In another columm will be found an extraordinary statement regard- ing the antecedents of Dr. Catlin, the Breoklym physician, who has turned State evidence on the indictment against Mra. Cunningham for attempt- iog to palm off as her own the child of the wo- men Anderson, with the intent to defraud the le- gitimate heirs of Dr. Burdell. Tho significant expression uttered by Mra, Canninghom in refe- rence to Catlin, that she had him “under her thumb,” and his acknowledgment of his guilty participation in her recent offence by his accept- ance ot the immunities of a State witness, have drawn upon his past career a jealous end unsper- ing research. Previous to his arrest in connee- tion with the charge on which Mrs. Coaniagbam is now confined in the Tombs, some curious ste- justified in withholding them any longer from Secret Came in New York—More Disove- ries had been afloat regarding him in Broeklys. ‘These rumors have assumed consistency from the voluntary statements of the partics whose names were mentioned in “ connection with them; and after an investigation of their probabilities we do not feel ourselves the public. If they are correct, it is importaut to the interests of justice and to the safety of the community that the facts should be tully deve- loped; if untre, it is due even to this unfortanate man that he should have an opportunity of dis- proving the reports that are afloat concerning him. We are fully aware of the risk attending the publication of unsworn statements affecting the reputation of individuals. There are crimes, however, which, though in the highest degree demoralizing and injurious to society, cannot be reached by the provisions of our statutes. These offences are generally committed through the aid of medical practitioners, and the impunity which their connivance affords them of course increases the frequency of their occurrence. In such cases, the law being ineffectual, it is the duty of the journalist to step in, in order that he may being the weight of public opinion to bear upom prac- tices which undermine the peace and happiness of so many families. From circumstances that daily transpire, we are afraid that the thrilling incidomts narrated im another column are but the repetition of many dreadful sufferings of the same sort to which the sinning daughters of Eve are subjected by the cupidity of needy medical practitionera. The opportunities enjoyed by the latter, through the confidence reposed in them by female patients, cannot but offer irresistible temptations to the depraved and unscrupalons. That they are but too frequently profited by may be inferred from the readiness with which Mrs. Cunningham im- duced one medical man to become her cenfede- rate and the little hesitation which ebe felt in ad- dressing herself to another. Let it not be understood, however, that in whaé we have just stated we mean to cast any reflec- tion on the medical profession generally. We ielieve that amongst them is to be found a more than average amount of honesty and disinterest- ednse: But as their opportunities for evil are great, and the inducements held out to them pro- portiowate, it is not surprising that there should be found amongst them many whose virtue is not proof against temptation. THE LATEST NEWS. Interesifwg from Washington. , KANSAS—@OV WASKES AND THW NEXT PROMDENOT § —I8 BK IN FOR IT/—1I8 FLAN AND CALOULAs ) TIONS— THE FAK & HONReT PURrOsES OF MR, BUCHANAY—THE ISTHMUS ROUTBS AND OUR PO- L'CY WITH ¥RPRRENCR THBRETO—THB UTAD MAIL COWTRACT—TSB FORT SNELLING LAND BALE AND TH KaW INDIAN POSSESSIONS—RBRFORMS IN THE Navi, BIC., BTC. Wasnnctow, August 21, 1867. ‘The Kaveas policy of Robert J. Walker hae reotived the particular attention of the New Yorx Hmmarp, and your devence of bia course ip connection with the adminiswatiom has not failed of ite good effects in tho rightquarters The Fimmaty has aleo binted om several cocastons that Walker ts an aspirant for the Presidency, and that the affairs of Kaneas aro the trump cards which he is trying to play oo fs to win the sweepstakes of 1960, From @ recent conversation with an iniimate friesd of Waiker, Ihave reason to believe that the Governor hap seriously fixed his attentions upon the White Hoase, and that ont of Kansas he expects to achieve wonders — wndersiand that to thieend hie wishes and his intentions are to make Kansas a free State through the eaforcemens of tho terms of the Kaneas-Nobraska bill, and thet with thie contummation he expects the reconstruction of partie indicated by the Hxearp, and that the now party of aa tional conservatives, opposed to both Northern and Southern stavery agitators, will find im Robert J. Walker and bis dotpgs in Kansas the very man and the very p'atform they detire, especially as Mr. Buchanan will be out of tho way, and probably Col. Fremont. Should thie be #0, Governor Walker will only have such mon as Dovgias, Gunter, Seward, Joi. Davia, and such to contend against, and sock aa those It Is thought 1 will not be very hard to beat, Hones we are told the Southern ultra bos aad ory against Walker and the ferce demand for hishoad. Hie asworacoe must be paniabed, and there may be something tm this, As for the President, be will ‘see the inws faith” fully executed."’ I leave the consequences +> the people’ Ho will be ont of the next canvas, and will leave ihe politicians to take care of themselves. Ho has no anotated hotr for the sucosesion, and does not intend to enter into Any tuch entangting alliasce. He wishes to give ae em honest and satisfactory adminisiration, and to leave reat \o the country, He wishes nothing more. For tome months past questions pertinent to the several transit routot morose the American isthmus have boom urged upon the attention of the government and ooouple® fo small share of the public press. Trought op and die. cussed in thelr individual right, Panama, Nicaragua, Bow dures and Tehuantepeo have each codtributed their pro- portion to the agitation ‘of public opinion, and sttomente and riows as coniicting aa the varied interssta of opposing commodores and companica have been made and re. iterated until the whole subject seems to be involved in the mpenetrable fog of well established doubt. ‘Toe numerous parties and interests that aro striving to cmablish their own claims demonstrate how widely oom. nectod these questions are with the ifdividual interests of tho country, "ts It ts from the Concourse of the latter to the geographical potnts im question that the seversi compa. nies and commodores expect to derive their tage in case they can obtain of thom, however great may be tho present concourse of our trade and travel to those routes, * le nothing jn comparieon to what it will be in no very distant foture, and hemos the noecesity of ana- lysing the canses of oor present difficulties and disputes, pon and will be unhesttatingly parveed. In order that thie policy may be fully comprehended, we must first loot ‘at the tens canse of the oils which now srround, to @