The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1868, Page 6

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The case was further adjourned. The bark Sunnyside, from Philadelphia for Bre- men, with coal oil, was struck by lightning on Fri- day night. The oil exploded, which set the vessel on fire and burned ig to the water's edge. The cap- tain and crew are all badly scalded. The pilot is missing, supposed to have been viown Oyerboard, ~ The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which has been in session in Baltimore for some fime, adjourned yesterday to meet in San Francisco in September, 1 Acting Commissioner Tufts has concluded a treaty with most of the Indian tribes in Idaho and Montana Territories. THE CITY. Tommy Hadden, the Water street convert, ap- peared again in the Police courts yesterday, this time, however, a8 a practitioner, he appearing as counsel for one Pat McCafferty, who was charged with fighting and disorderly conduct. Tommy’s first effort atlaw proved unsuccessful, however, as an opinion he had expressed unprofessionally in re- gard to his client some time ago when the two were up onthe same charge induced the Judge to hold Pat in $800 bonds to keep the peace. ‘The National Labor Congress met yesterday, fixed the President's salary at $1,500, chose Pittsburg as the next place of meeting and adjourned sine die, In the case of Commissioner Rollins and others, the hearing before Commissioner Guttman was re- sumed yesterday. Two witnesses testified that cer- tain distilleries had been seized and wero released at the order of Deputy Commissioner Harland, The case was postponed unti! Monday. The examination before Judge Mansfeld, of the Essex Market Police Court, in the case of the three Seventeenth ward policemen, charged with beating, kicking and arresting inoffensive citizens and lock- ing them up in the station house all night, was con- cluded yesterday. The two who have been arrested, Sergeant McCready and private Sheehan, the third policeman stilt remaining unknown, gave bail in 21,000 each to answer at the Court of General Ses- sions, A witness was committed to answer a charge of perjury. ‘The stock market was excited and irregular yes- terday. Government securities were dull. Gold closed at 142 a 1424, With but few exceptions, the markets were ex- tremely quiet yesterday. Cotton was ingmoderately active demand and steady, closing at 2544c. for mid- dling upland. Groceries were moderately dealt in at sready prices. On ’Change flour was dull and heavy, and some sales were effected at lower prices. Wheat was dull and nominally 5c. lower. Corn was slow of sale and fuliy 1c. lower. Oats were in iight demand and heavy. Pork, beef and lard were very quiet and heavy. Naval stores were but little sought after and prices were in buyers’ fa- vor. Petroleum was in limited demand aud 3c. a le. lower, crude, in bulk, closing at 16'c. and re- fined at 3le.a3i%e. Freights, though dull, were very firm. Whiskey was quiet at $1 38 a}$1 40, free. Prominent Arrivals. Judge Martin Grover, of Auburn; Senator E. J. Ross, of Kansas; Judge Bacon, of Utica; Judge J. K. Paten and Judge Wright, of Albany, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain Baldwin, of the United States Army, is at the New York Hotel. Colonel Marshall, of the United States Army, and E. Tweedy, of Newport, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Count de Carimar, of France; General E. W. Hicks, of the United States Army; Dr. E. B. Smith, of St. Louis, and Thomas St. John, of Mobile, are at the Fitth Avenue Hotel, said, te would visit the United States. A London journal advocates the absorption of Mexico by the United States provided her debts are paid and the country kept quiet. ‘Madame Kachel’’ was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at hard jabor for her London imposture. Count Andrassy resigned the Presidency of the Hungarian Ministry. ‘The United States will be invited to sead a delegate to the European Congress in Berne. Consols, 9434 money. Five-twenties, 72% in Lon- don and 757; in Frankfort. Paris Bourse fimer. Cotton closed firmer, with middling uplands at O'%d. Breadstuffs quiet and provisions unchanged. By steamship at this port we have interesting Iai detatls of our cable telegrams to the i7th of deptember. MISCELLANEOUS. The report of the sinking of the southeast shore of Hawall, the largest of the Sandwich Islands, is contirmed, the subsidence varying in places from cight inches to four feet. Shocks of earthquake are felt four or five times a day in three of the islands, and considerable smoke is seen issuing from one of the volcanoes, At Hilo, during the continuance of the great earthquake in South America, the sea rose and fell from three to four feet once every ten minutes. The American Minister at the sandwich Islands Officially notifies masters of American ves that they must not engaze in the coolie trade between he Sandwich Islands and other ports. District Attorney Carrington has prepared a brief | tn support of the appeal taken by the counsel for the | government from the decision of Judge Wylie in the Surratt case. Mr. Carrington contends that by the Very statute of limitations, under which the dis- charge of Surratt was ordered, the accused Was ex- | cepted from its opera because he was “a per- | kon fleeing from justice,’ and therefore his trial should have been proceeded with. The municipal election in Nashville suited yesterday in the success of the by myority. A negro man was stabb’ killed ina fracas during the day. ‘The bill recently passed by the Louisiana Legislature to secure colored persons im thelr right to travel in public vehicles and be entertained in public hotels | dus been vetoed by 6 jor Warmoti. Kes | tue ground that these rights are already secured by | the State constitution, aud the refusal of (uem can- not be made @ question for a criminal suit, but a | Besides, he it is better to let the inst¢te newly enfranch sed Wear away r than have it embittered by such | ‘Teen, rep re- ans | aad says, civil 0} legistation. In the lower house of the Georg: Legistature yese terday a repor: was received from a Committee on Sof the Republic and was almost uuani- | It recounts that Georgia com- | vernment of the | to acquiesce in the | that ahe was agreed | 1 by the President, | plan of reconstruction | fact. It | confed rac but was compe! Consequences of the civil war; to recoustruction as interpre and acknowledges that ty proposed by Congress is an accomplished asserts that she now deprecates the criminal inter- ference of irresponsible white men, vnaliied with the interests of the State, with then 1 does not propose to tnpair the rights of cit = to peace. | fully assemble, or to obstruct their engagewent of | any rights under the laws. The delegation of the Alabama Legislature to ask { federal troops in preserving order in that < arrived in Washington, but their docu- 4 not being properly authenticated they have | callled upon the President, Governor Smith, | npanies the delegation at tire the Legislature, opposes the whole affair: lie says the of the State will assist hit in prese rving order aut enforcing the jaws, and that the ald of the ald st my not yet who instance of federal troops is not only unnecessary but will be come a. \irce of til feeling, contention and disorder. ‘The oy ‘ication of the Georgia State Treasitrer for @ loan frow (he National Park Bank of New York has been declined, “owin the state of things, polttt- cal and commercial.” | The lower house gf the Oregon Legislature has | passed a bill repealing the law requiring the oath of | allegiance to be taken by parties drawing money from the State treasury. The Canadian Copyright ac! goes into effect on Monday. It imposes an ad valorem duty of 1 cent on foreign reproductions of British works ‘The Toronto Board of Agriculture have requested the New Dominion government to permi' toe in. portation of American catile after October | ‘The investigation into the Gamble alleged poison. ing case was continued at Nanuet, Rockland county, yesterday. Miss Julia Maguire was the only witness examined. She said that Mr. Gamble had treated his ‘wife badly on several occasions, once aout three weeks after their child was born, and that he threw the baby when it was only two weeks old on the floor. She believed that the child lived only about five weeks She did not know of Mrs. Gamble's @eath until she paid @ visit to her house aad was | either for the display of their we: | the city say » per | Colonel! Dennison, of the United States Army, and Robert T. Lincoln and wile, of Chicago, are at the Hoffman House. The Growth of New York=Its Present and Future Commercial Prospects. NEW YORK HERALD, contemplate when we look back through half s century of its history. Forty years ago there were but few stores to be seen even in the lower part of the city. Not half a dozen carriages represented the style and fortune of the citi- | | zens, To-day whole blocks of buildings are being erected, even in what is called the fash- fonable portion of the chy, wif avenue, where two yeard ago fot a Sc.tary house stood ; and they command exorbitant prices, In view of these facts it would be idle to make any cal- culation as to what New York will be fifty years hence. We can foresee, however, the extent to which its commercial resources must reach ere long. When the Pacific Railroad is completed to San Francisco and lines of steamers anda submarine cable are established to China, New York and San Francisco will become the Alpha and Omega of American commerce, These two cities, standing on the eastern and wost- ern verge of the American Continent, and holding in fraternal embrace all the great States of the West, must become the recipi- ents of the trade of Europe and Asia, The most expensive articles of commerce, the silks, the teas, the precious woods, the finest fabrics and jewels of Asia, will find a mart with us, We will, in fact, become the commission merchants ofthe world. All the rare products of the South the government is only wise enough to adopt amounting, in imports andexports, to nearly six» hundred millions annually, from its present des- least twenty-five British steamers, while there is nota single American. steamship running to-day on the Spanish American coast. With upon American ships and shipbuilders the evil can be corrected. In speaking of the growth and future pros: pects of New York we cannot omit to notic the promises of its prospective greatness, as exhibited in the advertising columns of the Heratp. It is not’ too much to say that a very large proportion of the business of the columns, The HEKaxp is, as it were, a mirror All interests are repre- sented in our pages, and all the wants of the public are made known, and in thousands of instances are supplied through that medium. The extent of our advertising this fall has exceeded anything previously known at the same season of the year. Even during the comparatively dull months of sum- mer we were compelled to issue triple sheets two or three times a week, and now, with an al- most daily issue of triple sheets, we find our- selves reluctantly obliged to leave out a column or more of advertisements occasionally, in order to get in the amount of news which it is important to furnish to our readers, We should not be surprised ifit becomes necessary The last week in September sounds the tattoo for summer wanderers. The immediate presence of the fall and the speedy approach of winter admonish them that the season blest with the dolce far niente is over, and the labors and dissipations of city life have to be attended to. The country hotels are closing their doors. The country cottages, where the pleasant delusion of domestic comfort has been grappling with the reality of fashionable existence, are becoming deserted. We can see the change here in the relay of old faces in the Park every afternoon, in the rentrie of familiar equipages, {n the return of habitués to the theatres. The country resorts have given up their dead to the busy life of metro- politan pleasures, and we are likely to have a gayer season than ever in the city this year. One of the most remarkable features in the | history of the country is the growth of New York. What to do with our population is with us a serious problem. The increasing value of real estate can only be accounted for by the increasing wants of the people. As wealth ac- cumulates men demand more room and more opportunity to enjoy their means. People who a few years ago were content to occupy portions of houses now require fine mansions, th or for the comfort of their fumilies. A year ago there was a clamor aboyt high rents, and people | indi with what they called the property owners and landlords, sied that rents must come | down: bui we do not see that they have | de On the contrary, the | of some of the largest real estate owners in that if they had five hundred to dispose they could rent | them at bigh rates at the preseat time. were ant avarice of the and it was pr agents more house Indeed, the marvellous growth of New York | is like tim son. some of the fabulous stories of fairy | a more modern compari- ging up of the U . or, to make like the sudden sj yn | Pacific. Railroad, which, within the brief apace ot one year from now, is destined to uniie the Atlantic “with the Pacific, and the | eastern shores of Asia with the western shores | of this Continent, We do not exaggerate | when we say that the growth of this city is | Thirty years ago there was a house above Canal street. Fifty | land above that point was covered with farms and ponds and creeks, | The City Hall presented its marble front to the almost fabulous, hardly years ago all the city and turned ite brick wall back to the country. day almost every foot of Man- hattan Island ie occupied with stores and dwellings and factories, insufficient for the accommodation of the population. Like a bucket cf water over- flowing its brim the city is pouring its surplus thousands into the into Brooklyn, with its quiet streets, its cosey residences, its new Prospect Park, its delightful drives, its pure Ridgewood water, its pleasant seashore, its economical government and consequent endurable burden of taxation; to William’- burg and Greenpoint, which enjoy like ad- | vantages: to Westchester and its freedom from liquor law despotism, comfortable little | nooks like Fordliam,’Morrisania, Rye and New Rochelle; to the shores of New Jersey, where, even if one loses his franchise at ou | local elections, he escapes, as far as the tax ' of hi domicile is concerned, the rapacity of | the New York office holders and rings, That | Portion of its ‘population which New York cannot accommodate is received in all these outlying suburbs of the great metropolis, The suburbs- | that Mo | bers and even this space is | next spring to issue a quadruple sheet daily. Looking, then, at all the evidences of the growth of New York, the multiplication of its inhabitants, the advance in the value of real estate and all the rapidly developing advan- tages for the increase of commerce which are opening up everywhere throughout the coun- try, especially towards the Pacific and the Asiatic countries, we can foresee that before many years have elapsed the rate of exchange with Europe will be in our favor instead of against us, and that instead of sending millions # year to meet our indebtedness in the Old World, the balance will be the other way. The Spanish Revol The news despatches from Spain reporting the progress of the insurrectionary movement against the Queen are contlicting in statement and apparently influenced in assertion and coloring at the chief centres of transinission, Paris and ial telegrams from Madrid, dated to the evening of Friday, advise that the revolutionists had oceup several points of great strategetic and commer- cial importance on the seaboard; that the re- volted officers and troops, particularly the offi- cers of the navy, were animated by a spirit of elevated and disinterested patriotism, and that the general who waa despatched London, Our 8) royalist | against Cordova had halted within a few miles and evinced no desire to attack the | : of the ci rebel position, as he senger to headquarters asking fi ments. Pronunciamientos in tiow had stands. News t ieee: dated in London r of libera- the Bale- Amade, it was saic in yesterday r pen Isabella abdicated in favor of her son. ‘the Prince of the Asturias, and drid waited merely a signal to rise i revolution, Paris despatches, also dated ye: ernment: that the rebel message requesting her vend her son to Madrid, say- rinee should not rale over rob- assassins,” and that Catalonia was again quiet, ft appeared to be conceded that | the list general had mastered (¢ seat of the outbreak, while the official journals of Madrid proclaimed that “the movement against the government The n ry ple nl tou to abdicate and ing that ‘the Py vnd is abortive.” | Emperor Napoleon had summoned his cousin, | Napoleon—an accomplished Spanish ad popular tourist in Spain—to his ve consultation on the affairs of the kingdom, so that our next batch of telegrams | from Madrid will likely supply matter of much interest Over Fasiioxs Lerrer,—The piquant let fer on the coming and ever-varying fash | fons from our disposed to elaborate upon it. We do not know whether the ladies will be pleased or otherwise to learn that they are expected to go back to the days of Agnes Sorrel and Charles the Seventh for the throat ornament known as the corcon—something like the gorget worn by military officers half a century ago—or whether they will be charmed with the costumes of Pomptour, so prettily illustrated by Watteau and Boucher, and other antiquated atyles, united with the pagoda sleeves of Marie Antoinette. But it seems that the Princess Metternich and the Duchesse de Sesto have de- cided upon reviving this manner of toilet, and Madam Fashion cordially approves of it, speaking ex cathedia from her temple in Paris. American States will also fall into our lap, if | such a policy as may divert that valuable trade, | tination, England, whence it is conveyed by at | the removal of the present odious restrictions | the evidences of its present prosperity and | city is indirectly transacted through these | which reflects the commercial and social life | | of the community, t | thoogh they ha had despatched a mes- | r reinforce- | rt that the news from Spain is | liz, the | Paris correspondent to-day | | ways so much for itself that we are not | Condition of the Financee—Reports from Washington. The Treasury Department has let it leak out a little in advance of the official statement that there will be ‘‘another smali increase of the | national indebtedness” this month, We tse the langve.ze of the Washington telegram as to the ‘small increase,” but the correspondent says “it may possibly reach two million five hundred thousand dollars”—that is, at the rate of thirty millions a year. This does not strike us asa smallincrease. We should not besur- prised, however, if the sum named were to | be below the figure when the official statement is published. It is said that this increase is owing principally to the unusual heavy expen- ditures of the War Department in carrying out the radical measures of reconstruction. We learn at the same time that the receipts from internal revenue are surprisingly small and that the cash in the Treasury has been pretty well reduced. This is anything but a flattering prospect of our national finances, and goes to prove what we have said all along—that under the stupid legislation of Congress and mismanagement of Mr. McCulloch we should find an increase of the debt and an empty Treasury before the end of the fiscal year, How could it be otherwise ? The expenditures of the government continue | to be enormous. They are war expendi- tures in amount, though the country is at peace and has been for more than three | years past, The heaviest is for the War De- | partment in carrying out the reconstruction measures of Congress. It would be better to | say, however, that this vast expense has been | for keeping the South ina disorganized and | disturbed condition, for that is what this’ so- | called reconstruction amounts to. Then the | enormous appropriations by Congress for all ‘ sorts of schemes, bounties, Freedmen’s Bu- | reau and private enterprises must soon drain he Treasury dry when the income is falling off. The stupendous frauds in the internal revenue and the demoralization of that de- partment through the deadlock between Com- missioner Rollins and Mr. McCulloch and the | President threaten to reduce the income from | that source far below the estimates. A hun- dred millions of taxation were taken off for the benefit of a few New England and other manu- facturers, while the expenditures and appro- priations remained on the largest scale. We see this extraordinary anomaly in the condi- tion of the country, that while the crops are most abundant and general prosperity prevails the debt is being increased and the Treasury approaching bankruptcy. This lamentable state of things with regard to the national finances is to be attributed entirely to the ignorance and reckless extravagance of Con- gress on the one hand and to the utter in- capacity and mismanagement of Mr. McCulloch on the other. Surely it is time there was a change both in the character of our national legislators and in the administration of the Treasury Department. Frank Blair on Woman Satfrage and Negro Suffrage. At the great democratic mass meeting at Indianapolis the other day the distinguishing feature of the proceedings was the carefully prepared, learned, thoughtful, profound and unique speech of General Frank Blair on woman suffrage and negro suffrage. The speech was read from the manuscripts, 80 that the radical newspapers could not imisrepresent it. Itis a terrible speech against the suffrage policy of the radicals—that of universal suf- General | frage to negro men and the universal disfran- chisemeat of white women. Says General Blair :— Ai who believe in u this d bsolute in antena’ the slightest motion in favor of this grand religious idea that rose with them above all” party poiit assuinption of selfish 1 to manhood Has this radical Have the eight years they haye not bine their suftrag herote, welieciual quard? i} i AD YASS be e lee | at the polls, in Judicial forums and : When the bist) ap. peal of = arm necessary then the spirit of true mani inthe gallant displ p softer a6 a defence of t ‘This was the the beginning the South for the rights of hima | the rights of either man or woman in that desot | region? Have they restored the Union? Have the } States thetr original governments, with constitutions iret, ax members of itt Are the men, tivenship restored, — left w © their own laws an owas their parole? Or are the women in their privilege of having their hust | and brothers to represent th nite and in ai! the politteal capac: to, ther | as guardians o: their fre: No; the | fhteligent rice of the South, women Las men, are stripper of ail security for the rights pledged by act of Congress daring the war ane in tie capitulae tion coneiudin at ra desires, 1 1 and laws wouen, Hist the | anim | thelr undisturbed pledged hand other conditions so avsvlute as to Una! n irreversible by the future sufirage ofa majority f the people. And this ts the good faith of the r universal equality suiirage | party! | Upon this text, from the history of the negro | makes out a strong case against negro suffrage, while doing ample justice to the claims of white women as illustrated in the remarkable powers of varions queens and empresses of | differentages vad nations, The summing up ‘ of the General's argument amounts to this— | that ia this convtry the suffrage is debased by | giving it to the negro; that the negro on a footing of equality, in fact, cannot continue long to live in the same community with the white race, and that for the sake of peace the blacks of the United States, en masse, ought to be colonized in some other country. There are some convincing facts and conclusions in this remarkable speech looking to this end ; but on the women’s rights question (white wo- men’s rights) General Blair becomes as chiv~ alrous as a red cross knight of the feudal ages. What a pity he had not delivered this speech in behalf of women’s rights against negro suffrage in the late Democratic National Convention, instead of the Brodhead Letter, as his platform! Now we are afraid this stirring and powerful speech comes too late to help the General's NDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Ex-Secretary Stanton in the Field. Edwin M. Stanton, late Secretary of War, delivered a tremendous campaign speech at Steubenville, Ohio, on Friday evening last, in support of General Grant and his platform for jms Presidential succession, Mr, Stanton, it appear, had declined several 1 invitations to speak during the canvass, but yielded at last tothe earnest exitroaties of the people of his native county to give them his opinions on the great issues of the day; and a@ trenchant stump speech he gave them, It is, for cam- paigning purposes, a well compacted historical speech, covering the conspirators, the causes and the objects of the rebellion, the varying fortunes of the war, until the second great triumph of Abraham Lincoln, the measures of Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, the public faith and credit, the war and recon- struction measures of Congress, skipping over the impeachment and the siege of Gene- ral Lorenzo Thomas against said Stanton in the War Office, and enlarging upon the merits, claims and qualifications of Grant and Colfax for the offices for which they are contesting the country’ against Seymour and Blair, and dwelling upon the weak points of the Demo- cratic National Convention, ticket and plat- form, and showing up the financial policy of the democratic party as the policy of repudia- tion in the interests of the Southern oligarchy and a new rebellion. Here are abundant materials in the hands of a keen lawyer, a zealous partisan, and ex- perienced official such as Stanton for a telling campaign harangue, and from the published report, though evidently an abridgment, the speech was a rouser. Of course, it is libe- rally garnished with the usual claptrap and eloquence of the stump; but the masses at a political meeting require from their caterers a plentiful seasoning of cayenne, mustard, vine- gar, black pepper and salt, and Stanton thor- oughly understands it, The only wonder is that the republican managers have permitted him so long to hide his light under a bushel. But now we gness they will bring him out and put him on the track of Pendleton and Frank Blair in the West or after Seymour in New York. If the indomitable and irrepressible ex-Secre- tary of War were to come to New York, upon the announcement of his purpose to deliver &@ speech in Cooper Institute on the late impeachment drama behind the scenes, and how it resulted in making General Grant the in the Old World and the New, General Blair | champion of the republicans, and Chief Jus- tice Chase for a time the hope of the demo- cracy, he would draw a prodigious audience, and would perhaps throw some newlight on the policy of Andy Johnson. Ocean Steamship Lines—How and Why They Succeed. We have published at different times com- munications on the subject of establishing Amorican steamship lines to Europe, and have endeavored to stimulate enterprise in the mat- ter. We have pointed to the surprising suc- cess of the British, German and French lines, and asked why a portion at least of the vast trade they do with this country should not be done in American steamships. The letter we publish to-day in another part of the paper under the head of ‘Transatlantic Steamers,” with an extract from the Glasgow Jleraid, throws some light on the subject. Not only do British capitalists who enter into the steam- ship business go to the Clyde for their vessels, but foreigners do the same, because they can get finer and cheaper ones there than at homme. There aré few of the vast fleet of fine steam- ships traversing the Atlantic in the German and Freach lines, as well as in the British | Cunard and Inman lines, that were not built oa the Clyde, and simply because that was the | best place to go to for them. The companies went to the best market without any regard to the nationality of the builders or where the ma- i Once constructed and afloat, e vessela become French or German, as ve, and have nothing of a British t them. [f they could build steamships as cheap and good in France or Germany they would construct them there, no doubt; but finding they cannot they have sense enough to get them from the Clyde and give Js came from, them a French or German nationality after- wards. Here, then, isa great disadvantage Ameri- | under, and one of the principal are not able to rival the British, | Freach and Germans in Atlantic steamship In the attempt to protect a few | shipbuilders through the law registers foreign — built destroying the maritime interests and progress of the nation. This cans labor prohibiting to vessels we are narrow-minded and short-sighted policy gives | the vast carrying trade between this snd Europe to foreigners. row country Out of the nume- fleets of steamships crossing the Atlay- sowe of which are arriving at and leaving our ports daily, there is not one bearing the American tlag. Nor is there one to the South American States on either side of the Conti nent, though they are our near neighbors, and though England and other European countries have probably as many as fifty run ning to and from the different ports of South and Central America, What a vast amount of wealth is thus drawn to Europe, aad to England principally, from us and our neigh- bors which ought to remain in the United | States! The stupid Registry law does not pro- mote shipbuilding and is fast destroying the maritime interests and character of our coun- try. With greater natural advantages than any other country, with an extraordinary stream of emigration coming all the time, with thousands of Americans continually crossing and recrossing the Atlantie and supplying the largest amount of materials for commerce, we are still nowhere in the race of ocean steamship navigation. Nor will any effort to build up steamship lines or enterprise by government subsidies prove successful. It might enrich a particu- lar company, but it would prevent rivalry. It would create a monopoly and prevent other shipping capitalists from entering into the business. It would be unfair and contrary to the spirit of our institutions. Special legisla- tion in favor of particular individuals or com- panies is wrong and tends to injure rather than promote the general interests of the commu- cause; but for all that it shows that General Blair is a deep thiriker and a philosopher material prosperity of the city itaolt and its | Of Course our ladies must bow subwissively | on the negro quostion of the Jeffersonian surroundings is gomething wonderful to to the dictum. school. nity with regard to either the shipping or any other business, Incidentally and generally everything possible should be done ta encour- mail contracts and by taking off taxes that bear heavily upon shipbuilders; but thes should be subsidies and no loans of the pubs lic credit to favored individuals. Let us got’ our steamships from the Clyde, or anywhera else, af the cheapest rate and give them American cssisters, That is the way to ~ Tes, and i by doing this Up: anaes wealth of the country wou. 2 be increased and our commerce extended. With ‘2¢ Forts of the country and increase of wealth 0, othe mines and manufactories would be develo, and in the course of a few years we might be able to rival England in shipbuilding, Let us not lose present opportunities and see out mercantile marine depressed for the sake of @ narrow and foolish policy of protection which is neither in accordance with our institutiona nor the spirit of the age. Minister Johnson’s Commissions. Mr. Reverdy Johnson presented his creden- tials as United States Minister near the Court of Great Britain to Queen Victoria at Windeog Castle a few days since. The assurances of addresses of personal felicitation and national congratulation and compliment usually inter- changed between a new Minister and the Sov~ ereign appear to have been omitted on the occasion, The Queen, who had just returned from her trip to Switzerland, was engaged at the moment in preparing for a run to Soot- land, so it may have been that she was either too much fatigued or slightly excited by the anticipation of coming enjoyment in the High- lands to either listen to or speak the words of diplomacy. From whatever cause we have’ no record of the language held on either side’ during the official presentation and reception ;' 80 neither the Queen nor our Minister stand im: any way committed to a speedy settloment of the Alabaina claims or the endorsement of a’ bond of eternal friendship between the coun- tries. Away down from Windsor, however, among the hardware men of Sheffield and the broadcloth’ weavers of Leeds, Minister Johnson has beew pleasingly fluent and wonderfully reassuring ¢ 80 much go, indeed, that the London journalé regard the Alabama claims question, with other ~ little mattera existing between the countries, ad fully settled, and proclaim “‘that if he who knows the whole case is certain of an adjust~’ ment of the differences pending between Great Britain and the United States the public may, be sure of it.” All this tends to create thel impression that Minister’ Johnson has had two sets of instruction given him in Washington—| one on paper to guide him at court, the other, oral and for use in the English manufacturing; districts. Before the British people make “gure of it” they should inquire of Seoretary Seward which is the binding one. The Jews in America. We have already in these pages called at- tention to the fact that our Jewish fellow citizens have for some days past been engaged in the religious and social festivities connected with their New Year season. Yesterday, w6 believe, was the tenth and last day of the season properly connected with the New Year! It was the great day of atonoment—the most sacred day with them, not only of this season, but of the entire year. It is interesting to notice how completely at home the Jews seem to feel themselves in this community. To them this is not the land of the stranger but their own land. It is a curi- ous and noteworthy circumstance that for some years past, and particularly since Jewa in anything like large numbers began to flock to this country, the desire to return to the land’ of thoir fathers has been considerably lessened’ So much has this been the case that with a large section of that people the restoration te Palesiine and the re-establishment of the kiag- dom of David have ceased to be objects of prayer in their weekly religious assemblies. We do not much wonder at this. In a coun- try like this, or with a country like this, making thein welcome, why should they desire a better? The Jews are a practical and they know that the hillk sides of Syria and the valley of the Jordan present miserable attractions com- pared to those which are offered by every State in the Union. This is tho true Promised Land—the land flowing with milk and honey. Here plenty reigns; here thoir passion for jewels and gold finds ample en- couragement as well as a large field for its ex- efcise ; and here their civil and religious righte are absolutely secured. In all, or almost all, the great cities of Europe, of North Africa and Asia there are Jewish quarters, and they are generally in the most crowded and unhealthy localities. If there is any such huddling to- gether of Jewish flesh and blood here it is not because it isa necessity, but because of the old and not unnatural law of human nature, people, | that ‘like draws to like.” The mag- nificent mansions and the templelike synagogues with which the Jews are adorning all our great cities must be con- sidered as furnishing one of many proof@ | that in the United States the sons and daugh ters of Abraham have found a congenial home. Our laws, in so far as they bear upon civil and religious liberty, in so far as they relate to the enfranchisement of foreigners, are all that could be wished. Pity it is that while we are far ahead of the most advanced nations of the Old World in that twofold direction we should lag behind the most backward nations of the Old World in all our legislation that relates to foreign trade and commerce. Our commercial and maritime laws, our commercial and maritime legislation, up to the present moment, are a standing insult to our intelligence and common sense. We have all canse to deplore the pres- ent condition of our mercantile marine. Our legislators cannot or will not see the obstruct- ing causes, With a perversity which is totally inexplicable they maintain restrictions where restrictions are known to be a curse, and they offer subsidies whore subsidies are wholly un- necessary. What we want is simply this— the same spirit of freedom pervading all out commercial laws that is seen and felt in our civil and religious policy. The New College of Music. On Thursday next the new College of Music, under the direction of Madame Gazzanign and Signori Ronconi and Albites, is announced to open at the building in Fourteenth street, The object of this institution, as its name in a measure implies, is to give thorough instrac- age steamship enterprise, suchas by giving { Hon in the art of singing and « sound preparae