The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1870, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Fighth avenue and 234 st.—Tox TWELVE TEMPTATIONS. Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway.—New VERON oF Haxuer, Matinee at , FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth nov. Matlneo at 2, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND M GERIE, Broadway, cor- per Thirtieth st.—Matines daily, Periormanoe every evening. at. —-F ROU NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—INNIsFaLLEn; oa, ‘Tas MEN IN THE Gar, Matinee at 2 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—PuTNam—Tus GREAT AMERICAN AOTRESS, &0. Mat! an BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 s1,. between Sth and 6th ave,— Matineo—Hamier. Evening—Gur MANNERING, WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 13th street,-- Lost aT SEA. Matinee at 1g. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya.— ALINA AND HAMLET RECONSTRUCTED. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio VOoa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, 40. Matinee at 24. 514 Broadway.—Comtc Vooat- Matti t 236. BRYANT'S OPERA Tammany Building, Mth 8L—Beyani's MINSTRELS. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa ‘way.—ErTH10- PlaN MINSTRELSY, NEGuO ACTS, £0.—13 TEMPTATIONS. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETuI0- PIAN MINSTRELSEY, NEGRO ACTS, £0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EqueeTatax AND GYMNABTIO PrRFORMANCR: MARTZ'S BIJOU THEATRE, JURING TRIOKS, 40. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSR, Brooklyn.—HooLer's Minsraxie—Humrsex Dumesey, do. APOLLO HALL, corner 26th Tus New HuweRNoon. Matine ko. Matinee at 234. 0, 748 Broadway.—Con- ret and Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, tl8 Broadway.— SCIRNOK AND Axt. New York, Saturday, March 12, 1870. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, Paas. 1—Advertisements. 2Q—Advertisements. S3~Advertisemenis. 4=~Editorials: The Leading Article on the Uharter Farce at Albany; The Rough and Reaay and Silk Stocking Democracy and What They Have Done—Perils of the Sea: Forty- gine Daya on the Ocean Wave—The City of Boston—Wail Street: 'The Bulls Getting Their Horns In—Personal Inteiligence—Gram- mar Sehool Graduation—Footprints of a Murderer—Obituary—Amusement Apnounce- ments. G—Telegrapnic News from All Parts of the Worla: The Irish Land Bit! Passed to a Second Read- ing in the British House of Commons—The State Capital: The Arcade Raliway Agauin— Peace Between the Railroad Gladlatora—The Long Island Horse Thieves--The Metzler-Mortz Elopement—The Onelda Disaster—Army In- telligence—Business Notices, @—The Fullerton Case—Interesting trom Cuaba—The New Advertising Dodge—Financial and Com- mercial Reports—Marrlages and Deaths. J—Procecdings in the New York City Courts—ad- vertisements. G—Washington: Passage of the Funding Bill by the Senate—Aa Excursion to Sing Sing: A Deputy Sherif end His Four Convicts “Seas Over”—St. Domingo: Tne Vote in Favor of Anuexation— Enoch Arden in the Tombs—The Eagle Print Works Fire—Shipping Intelligence—Aadvertise- ments. Morro o¥ Tae Rovan Democracy—Silk stockings be darn’d. Tar CoppernEaD Oraan wanted to control Tammany, but it finds Tammany too many for it. Tae Sitx Srockines are worsted. The barefooted democracy walk into them rough- shod. PW An ILL AssoRTED oNx—The additional Big Six to the aristocratic dozen of the Board ot Supervisors. A PRosLEM FoR THE ARITHMETIO MAN.—If twelve Supervisors are bad to have, how much better are eighteen ? . Mr. Disragtt Supports the idea that the relation between landlord and tenant in Ireland ‘4s simply a commercial one.” He onght to know all about it. Israel has a heavy stake in real estate in Ireland just at present. The difficulty will be, however, that her children cannot become épsis Hibernia Liberniores, or “more Irish than the Irish themselves,” even if the mortgage is foreclosed. More Canons For THE ‘Boys,”—With a Coroner in the Board of Health, an increase in the number of Supervisors and the Central Park affairs in other hands than what they are at present, the boys now believe that “they are a goin’ to have a square show for them positions as is got to be filled.” Tue Inisa Lanp Biri, was debated at its second reading in the British Parliament yes- terday. Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone spoke on the occasion, The measure passed this critical stage by a vote of 422 to Il. It may thus be regarded as safe. It is an important and decisive victory for the Gladstone Cubi- net, one which the Honse of Lords will scarcely dare to attempt to mar by a clasa opposition. LA TRoIstHeME—C'zeT LA Ruse.—So, Assem- blymen or Senators, according to the Charter harlequinade, cannot hold any city or county office they previously occupicd, This is a sop to the popular Cerberus, and designed to cover the shortcomings of the precious docu- ment in other respects. A clever ruse; but in popular parlance “too thin.” Axoruen Mopet Deputy Suerirr.—A police officer yesterday discovered a deputy sheriff taking four prisoners handcuffed to the Hudson River Railroad depot, on the way to Sing Sing. ‘The deputy sheriff was so drunk he could hardly wag, and a stranger had his pis- tol. The policeman kept his eye on the party, secured the deputy’s pistol, went to Sing Sing with them and saw the prisoners safely turne d over, Whata bright lot our deputy sheriffs are if this one fs dimple, and what a farce @ conviction by our courts must 63 if this is the neual way of putting it into execution! NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1870. mand Ready and Silk Stocking Deme- cracy and What They Have Done. Our City Charter farce at Albany is becom- ing exceedingly rich. As a new version of “The Devil's Auction” it beats the original play and the “Black Crook,” ‘‘Humpty Dumpty” and “The Twelve Temptations” all rolled into one, Its rings, in their hedgings, dodgings and doublings, eclipse the rings of Wall street, and its lame ducks promise to be more numerous than those of Corbin, Fisk and Gould’s Black Friday, What the grand closing transformation scene is to be no tongue can tell; but, from what has been done 60 far, the rough and ready boys of ‘‘the flerce de- mocracie” will fill the crowning tableau and luxurlate in the spoils as they have never done to this day. The first City Charter reported by Mr. Frear was the apple of discord. It rallied the so-called young democracy of tho city and all the ‘“‘ontside barbarians” against it as a joint stock consolidation scheme of the Tammany Wigwam. These out- siders, brandishing the hatchet, raised the war whoop, and we wore threatened the bloody conflict of the Jacobins against the Girondists. Then there was an armistice, and & powwow, numerous powwows of the fight- ing factions, and a show of a treaty of peace, in the fair division of the plunder. Mean- time Citizen Harry Genet, who has the nose of a Wellington and the chin of a Napoleon, and St. Michael and the doubting Thomas of the young democracy, and even the rough and ready boys, were charmed by the silvery voice of Sammy Tilden, chief organ grinder of the silk stocking troupe, who consented to try his skill onthe Charter. His bill next makes its appear- ance, and it is lovely to behold. It provides for supplanting the big Indians of Tammany, and then exalting the silk stocking dilettanti to their places, and for various pretty little retrench- ments and reforms as sops to the taxpayers; but it does not satisfy the hard-fisted, the rough and ready boys, who run the primaries and roll up our astounding clty democratic majori- ties, The Committee on Cities of the Assembly next take the matter of this Charter, in- spired by our darling boy Sammy, in hand, and bring Tammany again into the foreground in agreeing to report that the President of the Board of Coroners, whether “butcher, baker or candlestick maker,” shall be a member of the Board of Health; that two members of the Board of Underwriters shall not be Fire Commissioners; that the officers of the present Fire Department must walk the plank; that a bureau for the inspection of food, meats, milk, and other little luxurious delicacies, shall be established, the chief of which shall be @ practical butcher. Shall we be “meek and gentle with these butchers?” The City Chamberlain shall not be docked of his commissions on moneys received into the city or county treasury, and mem- bers of the Legislature shall not be pro- hibited from holding more than one office. These are proposed as amendments to the Nor- ton or Sammy Tilden Charter, and they are equivalent to the reopening of the war by the old ring against allthe new rings committed to the silk stocking programme of Sammy Tilden. There is here no appearance of a compro- mise among the wrangling factions con- cerned, and but little promise of a new City Charter of any sort. Citizen Genet and Jupiter Norton, with the repub- licans intact, hold the balance of power in the Senate. They have shown their hands, through little Sammy Tilden, in favor of cer- tain reforms. They cannot safely back out, therefore, whatever the inducements offered. But will they risk it? This is just the point where the shoe pinches. These two Senators have made a bid for popular support in cer- tain proposed retrenchments and reforms; but we know all the time that this is green cheese and moonshine. The fight is for the spoils of this city, and not against the declared enor- mities of the original Frear Charter. That would have done very well for a beginning, and was better than anything the city is now likely to get from this cut up Legislature. We care nothing for this faction, that fac- tion or the other of the wrangling democracy. We have only to say that between the old ring and the new rings, including the silk stocking troupe, the young democracy and the rongh and ready boys, and ‘‘the hay loft and cheese press” democrats of the rural districts, all this democratic fat involved in a new City Charter will probably be thrown into the fire. The prospect in the event of the passage of a new bill is not that it will be a better bill in behalf of law and order, and retrenchment and reform, than the original Frear bill, but something much worse; that the rough and ready boys will be given the team and the right to use that darling Sammy as ‘‘tiger” behind the coach, so that if their reign be shért, it will be a merry one, to the confusion of the silk stocking gentry and the general demoralization of the democratic party. After a struggle of twenty odd years for the possession of the State they have it—Legisla- ture, Governor and Judiciary. The people of this city, through a mixed and irresponsi- ble local government, are overtaxed, plundered and subjected to increased ¢xtortious &nd oni rages on every side. Th6y demand and ex- pect a responsible and coherent municipal system, with retrenchment and reform. Will they get it? Not according to present appear- ances from the present democratic Legislature. What then? The overthrow of the party in our next November election, and with the loss of New York the rapid disintegration and dis- solution of the party throughout the United States. MORAL: No city government. Higher taxes. Op- pressed citizens. Disintegration and chaos. Silk stockings, the copperhead organ, Madison avenue, and the Manhattan Club the cause! Tne Anoapg Rattway Brit is again np in the Legislature, One tunnel is already in process of construction under Broadway. Will there be room for two, or is the idea merely to pass the biH and never do the work? —_—_—_—__. Tag Roven ano Reavy Demooracy had | overpowered the ailk stockings. Tue créme de ta créme could not stead the odor of rum and fobacoo, Funding Bill. The Funding bill has passed the Senate, It provides in the main for the issue of bonds at four, four and a half and five per cent, re- deemable inside of forty years, for the pur- pose of reducing the public debt. One of the most important provisions of the bill com- pels national banks to take these new bonds in return for their old ones, This the national’ banks do not want to do. They are not’ satisfied with the enormous profits ona national circulatior, which Con- gress has been foolish enough to give them, without the least consideration in return. They are insatiable, and care not who bear the burden of the debt and expenses of government if they do not. The profits on three hundred millions of circulation’ amount probably to twenty-five or thirty mil- lions, The interest on the bonds deposited for this circulation is about twenty millions in gold. Thus, by the extravagant liberality of Congress, the banks make from twelve to fifteen per cent on their capital. In short, their three hundred millions of circulation is just s clean gift of three hundred millions of dollars to these monopolists; for they draw the interest on the bonds left with the Treasury as segurity for their currency. Yet, when ft is proposed in funding the debt at a lower rate of interest to compel these banks to take bonds bearing four or four and a half per cent interest to deposit as security for their circulation, they cry out against the measure. They have been using all their vast influence in Congress and through a powerful lobby to defeat this provi- sion of Mr. Sherman's bill. It is to be hoped they will fail in the Honse as they have in the Senate. Tho profits of a national circulation belong by right to the people and ought to go into the Treasury. It is a monstrons outrage to give them to private corporations. Senator Casserly, of Cali- fornia, said well in the debate on the subject that the national banks ought to be compelled to pay @ large proportion of their enormous profits to the government. Inno other country does the government surrender such a valuable privilege to private corporations, Even the Bank of England, which renders the British government great services and performs most of such financial duties as fall upon our Trea- sury Department, pays to that government a large portion of the profits on its circulating notes, As this proposition to make the na- tional banks take bonds at a lower rate of interest seems to be the only way of reaching them or of making them pay some little for the extraordinary privileges they possess, we hope the House will follow the example of the Senate and make it a part of the Funding bill in spite of the lobby and opposition of the large number of members interested in these corporatioas. Tae Coprerngap Onraan has been trying to combine the democratic elements by talking Manhattan Club and the slums in the same breath—blowing hot and cold at once. The result is that the copperhead organ itself is blown out in the cold. Tue INoREDIBLE Brutaliry oF Caprainx Exre.—We publish 9 letter from the Ameri- can Consul at Jeddo to Andrew Stewart, of Unionville, Pa., whose son was Lieutenant Commander on board the Oneida when she went down, It will be seen that there was an eye witness—like the eye of the Almighty—to provethat young Stewart helped to load two or three of the signal of distress guns that were fired, and hailed with his own lips the scurvy monster that denies hearing either one or the other, If Eyre don’t dangle in the air for his inhumanity hemp has lost ita best uses. Tas New Exorse Birt hae finally passed the Assembly with some verbal amendments, which will only serve to return it to the Sen- ate, where they will beconcurredin. Another defeat for the kid-glove democracy, - who, while enjoying their champagne, have attempted to keep the “‘boys” out of their rum. Tae Eartuquake IN New Hampsnine.— The result of the recent election in New Hampshire shows that there has been a terri- ble earthquake among the democracy of the State—an upheaval of the democratic elements that has realized “‘chaos come again” most effectually. Look at the following figures:— 1869. 1870. Loss. Republican vote.. 177 31,314 963, Democratic vote. 004 25,123 6,881 Over six thousand of the immortal demo- cracy of New Hampshire gone by the board in one brief twelvemonth! Shades of the great Isaac Hill, Levi Woodbury, Henry Hub- bard, Charles G. Atherton, Frank Pierce, Johnny Steele, and all through the long vista lined by the mouldering forms of New Hamp- shire’s departed democratic leaders, what think ye of this humiliating spectacle? Don’t it make your venerable bones rattle in their sepultures? We rather think it should. Mean- while, as the democratic rebels have done so well, may they not “pick their Flint and try it again?” Tus Turex Gotp Baris.—An act was introduced into the Legislature the gther day i Severely censuring the three gold bull gentle- men of Chatham street. Well, what do they do? They take your watch and return it when you pay back the loan and interest. What do the crowd do with the people? They take both chattels and money. It is two to one that you get something back from the gold ball estab- lishments. {It is a hundred to one if the people over get back anything. And then they don’t. Query.—Why is there nothing said about the Board of Underwriters in the Fire Depart- ment section of the pantomime Charter? They are supposed to have the greatest interest in the proceeding of the devouring element, PRESIDENT OF THE Board OF Coroyess.—~ Who, in the name of all that is past and gone, is the personage who figures in this ca- pacity, according to the new Charier? 1s it Coroner Flynn, Coroner Schirmer, Coroner Rollins or Coroner Keenan? Is the presiding officer also at the head of the Board of Dead- heads as well as dead men? Moses H., the editor of the Sixth ward Defender, should sok after this provigion in the new Charter, and take care that, fike his ‘nantBiake, he don’t die before be sees the Promised Land of \ Spoil, The Arrival of the Sumidt. The arrival of the Bremen steamer Smidt, after a long period of suspense and anxiety | eighteen, and surrounds them with very peou- respecting her safety, not only brings joy to a vast number of people interested in the suc- cess of her voyage, but encourages hopes that the City of Boston and other missing steamers | politician should manage to creep into the are still afloat and will eventually reach port. The Smidt left Bremen on the 21st of January, and, in the natural course of events, was due | worth of plunder among them—that Is, twelve here about the 4th of February. Unfortu- nately an accident in a vital part of her machinery threw her upon the re- sources of her sails, steamers, her sailing capacities were in- adequate to the occasion, and consequently she had to stand the brunt of wind and} new comers to get their diamond pins and weather, The account of her cruise, pub- lished in another column, gives very interest- ing details of her experience, and exemplifies the incidents that may occur to ocean | They have not yet been posted in the peculiar steamers, Tho City of Boston, although so long absent, may have encountered a similar mishap; and, discountenancing for tho moment the reports of the fearful ice- Like many ocean | fine point that it has become now a matter of How's Tu1s?—The new Charter increases the number of Supervisors from twelve to liar provisions, which can be made use of in a very unfortunate manner for the taxpayers in case such a terrible thing as a dishonest Board of Supervisors, Already these worthy people divide one hundred thousand dollars’ of them—but when the additional half dozen are added on what will become of us? The old hands have brought things down to such a shrewd calculation, a shrewd business trans- action, But, good gracious! how are the rings, their fast horses, their affinities and their champagne suppers unless the appropria- tions for this precious Board are doubled ? tactics of the Supervisors, and a green hand in the Board is worse than a half dozen vete- rans, Ne SS ee A Lament vor CenrraL Park.—Farewell, bergs said to have been seen in her ye drives, ye rambles, ye lovers’ walks, ye track, we still have hopes that D0 | bridle paths! Farewell, ye emerald lawns, ye greater calamity has befillenher. The lia- | ioyely shades, ye cooling fountains, ye grow- bility of ocean steamers beyond the actual ing shrubbery, ye parterres of Flora’s choicest control of their commanders is farther illus-] ying! Farewell, ye lakes, ye gondolas, ye trated in the arrival of the Beckton at the port swans, ye skating ponds, ye moonlight merry of Glasgow on the 25th of February, after a meetings on their glassy surface! Farewell, voyage of twenty-three days. The log of the yo delightful summer afternoons, with loving Smidt proves how inert a steam vessel may | hearts beating cheery time to Dodworth’s become when crippled in machinery without losing her capability of reaching port. Tue Crry CaanTer—Toz ARGUMENTUM AD HomiveM.—The taxpayers of New York are asked to overlook the glaring defects of the new Charter for the few petty reforms which i proposes. Thus it ordains that streets shall not bo paved before being drained and sew- ered, Taxpayers will commend this sensible provision, But why not go farther and resolve that no streets shall be paved until the people ask it or until the highway is one of heavy t neglected walks and drives, charming music. Farewell, along farewell, toyeall! And now welcome, ye dirty bootha, ye peanut stands, ye unclean stables, yoi unkempt grounds, ye gnarly trees, ye stag- nated shrubbery, ye gasping flowers, ye ye resort for loafers— Ye home of the Fretighs and ye land of the Brays, All this.and nothing more when the present admirable Park Commission becomes abolished under the proposed new City Charter. In Sratu Quo.—Another section of the travel? The jobs in paving streets way up in | pantomime Charter will take many people by the “‘deestreects” where nobody lives would | surprise, especially those blatant individuals thus bo put an end to, Tne CoprernzaAD Oraan hag always harmed its party, and never more so than when it swells up with tho idea of being inde~ pendent. It is mainly dependent on the spoils, and when it can't get them, then it is independent. oe who vaunted so much about radical changes. The office of the City Chamberlain remains untouched; the very thing that the copper- bead journal boasted so much was to be revolutionized. This will convince all that the threatened revolution is simmering down, and that the rough and ready democracy can take as kindly to the traces as ever the sili Tar Dominican ANNEXATION SonEME.— | stockings did. Our correspondent in St. Domingo writes in Tue Latest PaNTroMIME—The new Charter, the most gratifying manner of the way in | for it combines Clown, Pantaloon, Harlequin which the Dominican people express them- and Columbine in its kaleidoscopic changes, selves regarding annexation to the United | 7 may also be likened to the little joker; for States. The votes so faras received from vari- ous parts of the island show that the Domini- cans are most unanimous in their desires to come under the protecting folds of the Stars and Stripes. The Dominican treaty was also under consideration in tho Committee of For- eign Relations in Washington yesterday, and | will be brought up again next week for still further consideration. So far everything looks well for the United States in the Antilles. A Covrt Buronger.—It is proposed in the new Charter to appoint a superintendent of meats, who must be a butcher, whose duty it shall be to smell out the impure meats in the public markets and elsewhere. this be a good office for Sammy Tilden? He has nothing but bare bones to gnaw upon-now, “now you see it, and now you don’t see it.” Queer, but nevertheless true, AN ARITHMETIOAL QuERY.—Twelve into eighteen—how much? One. Eighteen into twelve—how much? None. The people, ere? Nowhere; the crowd everywhere. Tug Roven Democracy have got the upper hand and the silk stockings are out at the heel. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. W.G. Hunter, of her Britannic Majesty's Sixty- Why wouldn't | ninth regiment, Quebec, is at the Brevoort House. vaptain Joseph Tiffin and V. Redpath, of Mon- treal; Colonel A. Lawerance, of Havana; Captain G. Carrington and Captain T. Beans, of the United and he could bring certificates from every | States Army; Colonel Decker and Colonel Gillett, of member of the Manhattan Club that he is an | Troy; Colonel F. B. Prim, of Boston, and Charles W, expert at smelling out “‘ripe” meats in that in- stitution. He is also eligible on account of Tracey, of the United States Navy, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. Colonel H. R. H. Maciver, of Scotland, and Sefior his profession—for didn't he butcher the | J, de Aguilar, of Spain, are at the New York Hotel. democracy at the last National Convention, Governor Burnside, of Khode Isiand; General W. and hasn't he recently butchered a couple of | 9 Ely, of Connecticut; Dr. E. H. Champltn, of Corn- city charters Euan _ Gorn 114.—The “‘bulls” were rather jubi- lant yesterday over the reaction in the gold wall; R. H. Puryn, of Albany; S. S. L’Hommedien, of Cincinnati, and Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Watson, of the steamship Palmyra; Cap- tain Dobbins, of Buffalo, and Captain Richaras, of market and the advance to 114, A number of | Ere, are at the Hoffman House. the smaller dealers who disobeyed the Old Commodore's advice—‘‘Never sell what you haven't got”—are among the victims of this upward, turn. But the “‘bears,” who have Genera! Hodges, of the United States Army, and Surgeon ©. 8, Stewart, of the United States Navy, are at the Coleman House. Ex-Governor J. E. English, of New Haven; Dr. Francia F. Willis, of Richmond, and Henry Keyes, of longer purses, are quite indifferent about such } vermont, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. a reaction, and are making ‘‘averages” by sell- Senator J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire, and ing as ‘‘she goes up.” They struck it late in Captain Lawless, of Rhode laland, are at toe Astor the day, when gold again declined to 1123. Tar SumMine Up.—What's the summing up of the Charter harlequinade at Albany? That House. GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATION. The graduating exercises of the senior class in the female department of Grammar School No. 66, on the rough and readys have got all the fat | Righteenth atreet, near Ninth avenue, took place pickings, just as brave old Ready” did at Buena Vista, leaving Sammy Tilden, stockings, like Santa Anna, with his wooden leg, hobbling a hasty retreat for safe quarters. In other words, while the rough and readys are smacking their lips and pocketing the swag, poor Sammy Tilden is left all alone, gnawing a bare bone and affirming that there “shall be no more dog after to-night.” Tug Largest rrom Rome—Tak Souzma.— From a cable despatch which we publish to- day it willbe seen that there is but small chance of the Holy Father yielding in the matter of infallibility. It appears that a schema has just been distributed which gives the arguments in favor of infallibility, Tt was { ae the gift of ou Lord to St, Pane establishtd shi justified by history. It has always been held. It is, therefore, inculcated as dogma of the Church. According to the schema the Infaltibility of the Pope extends over the same matter as the infallibility of the Church, The last sentence is strong :—‘“‘If any should dare—which God forbid—to contro- vert the present definition let him know that he departs from the true faith.” How will the German bishops reply to this? Tur New Cuartes AND THE CoRONERS.— Ia there not a sinister design concealed in the proposition to make the presiding officer of “Rough and | yesterday afternoon detore # large, fashionable and refined attendance. Miss Mary A. Simms, the prin- cipal, dressed in azulipe blue silk and wearing her with his broken Charter and his silk { beauttiul blonde nair in wavy braids, presided at the piano, The Seite ait jJadies graduated: — Fannie J. Algeo, Amelia Boiles, Eliza P. Clark, Anna IL. Coe, Sarah ©. Duncan, Eleanor E. Hamje, Mary 'T. Kelly, Ella Kissam, Jane W. McElheuny, Jennie B. Merrill, Mary #. L. Pell, Mary J, Purdy, Susan Reehill, Wilhelmina Struss, Sophia L. Seybel, Mima Ward, Mary McManus and Annie M. Conkling. Commissioner S, A. Lewis presided. Mr. Henry Kiddle, Assistant Superintendent, made the pre- sentation of diplomas, and the presentation of the Kelly medals was made by Neison J. Waterbury. The solo of ‘Castles in the Air,” by Miss Jennie B. Merrill, was a very pretty affair and was warmly ap- plauded. All the pieces were weil rendered by the young lady graduates, each of whom was dressed in white and had flowers trained through her hair, The venerable Mr. Delamater was around, a3 usual, and ‘was the rectpient of many kind congratuistions, OBITUARY, a. G. Bratt. Tae Rey. J. ©. Prats, of Jersey City, died yester- day at his residence, at the advanced age of ninety It haa been | years. ‘the aegganéd had been member of the Methodist Chureh upwards of ixty-sWo yetl® and was aiso s member of the Irish Wesleyan Go" Sicude up to the time of his death. He was born in Queens county, Ireland. He never formaily entered the Churen In this country, but he has been connected with St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church for many years, aad as a member won for himself goldea Opinions. Hts loss wiil therefore be deeply regretted by a large circie of friends. His life eaesed awa: quietly, and he retained full possession of nis nit leciual faculties until the last. Deceased was sup- posed to be the oldest clergyman in this country. THE RECENT BLASTING CASUALTY. Coroner Rollins yesterday mofhing commenced an investigation in the case of Mr. Samuel T. Lippin- cott, who was killed In Thirty-fiftn street, between ‘Tenth and’ Eléventh avenues, on the afternoon of the 2d inat., by being struck on the head with a stone the Board of Coroners et officio a member of | “irown from a Diast exploded in tue biock above. the Board of Health? Suppose business should run dull with the gentlemen whose ‘The investigation showed that the blast from which the faial missilo came was iimproperiy secured, but 1¢ may be dificult to fix the blame where it properly belongs, Owing to the apsence of occupation would be gone were there no dead | Witnesses the further investigation waa adjourned men, The temptation to provide the requisite “demnition damp” corpaes for crowner's quests might swerve acoroner in bis duties In the Board of Health and lead him to the sugges- tion, if not the perpetration, of horrible plans to keep up the supply, ‘We'll none of it.” Tog Rveat Mempers would not go into caucus with the city members on the new Charter, They evidently had mock auctions, bogus jewelry aad other alty tricks tn their minds’ eye. ull next Tuesday. BARSOOM FPACAS, About nine o’clock last night Charies Gerald and James Dalton quarreled about somé family matters in which both men were interested, at the liquor store kept by the former at the corner of Centre street and Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn. During the dispute Gerald seized an tron poker and struck Dalton with it on the head, inflicting @ severe and probably fatal wound, The injured man was con- veyed to his residence in Fifteenth street, near Fifin venue. Officer Carson, who was summoned, ar- iy the liquor dealer and took him to the Forty- hird sub-precinct stattou house, where he was locked up to await examination on charge of felont- ous assatll. SE EE The Obarter Farce at Albany—The Rough | Tho Nutlonal Baak Monepolists aud the PERILS OF THE SEA. FORTY-NINE DAYS ON THE OCEAN WAVE. The Smidt Arrives in Port Safe and Sound—She Sails South of the Bermudas—Accident to Her Engines—All Hands and the Cook Saved. pa WS Columbus & Co., when they touched these shores, after a stormy and ragged passage, in 1492, did not feet happier than the voyagers on board the Bremen steamer Siniat (2,400 tons), which anchored off the Battery yesterday afternoon at five o'clock. The news of the Smidt’s fate thickened the atmosphere; Joy was abroad on every breeze; the Battery was crowded with anxious people, and those who had large mouths were emptying into every ear. Inteill- gence of the arrival sped like the Might of rifled pro- Jectiles up every avenue and streams of gladness dis charged about the sides of the vessel in multitudes of friends and relatives boarding the Smidt. A HERALD reporter was early at the Battery. Chartering a small vessel he made down tho bay, leaped the side of the steamer, dove into the cabin and stood before the captain. ‘There was leas than @ thousand reporters present. Al! hands captured the first oMcer in a remote cavity, near the stern, and caused him to disembody what he knew—the pas sage, its scenes and incidents. Here it is boiled down. Smidt left Bremen Jana- ary 21, having cleared the 20th. She steamed out to sea, and for six days, in heavy weather, on- countered strong westerly gales blowing right in her tecth. These winds had stolen a maroh; they should have been the’eastern trades; then all would have been well, Six days out she reached 44 north latitude, 27 west longitude. Here the ‘follower on the piston broke in the cylinder. I¢ was an ugly accident. Located 1n the intestines of the macuinery the follower is @ Vital point—tne lungs of te en- grne. For two days the vessel made Jittle headway. Then she turned ber head to southward, and with brisk westerly breeze on her beam, under tuil took @ meridian of longitude for her course. Her machinery was still disabled. Ten days from port and the ship unaoie to use her Syne, the pasgen- gers became terror stricken, and amid the violence Of the sea began to despair. Now was the time of reatest irigbt ‘Ihe people on board, in mang itferent ways, paid their respecte w this world and made preparations tor the other, ‘They became weak in »the knees, uncertain on the stomach, pale in the face, Things were growing serious, The scenos and incidents were solemn and impressive; yet there was little danger. Prayers were trequent and tong drawn out, and the poor emigrants, wedged betweon two continents, felt like discharging their phantoins, The Smidt, under trustworthy canvas, sped on, Repairs went forward on the perverse piston fol- lower. It took eleven days to get the engines again In service, and then the Smidt was on the edge of the tropics, in 24 north Jatitude, 27 weac longitude, Westerly gales had continued. She now steered que west under steam. She increased her longitude to 13 degrees west, on the same parallel of lacitude; then steaming about norch-northwest she mad Uhis port yesterday at twelve o'clock, alter a tedious Interval of forty-nine days, ‘There were no disasters on board but two births. On the 20th pit. the bark Everhard Eling was spoken, bound fer New York. The Smidt was provisioned for seventy days, hud 800 tons of coal (200 remain! unconsumed), 294 passengers, sixteca seamen eight light hands. A vote of thanks was given to the captain and his officers. Fruitiess attempts were made to interview the passengers. They were mam. REPORTER—How was the pissage, ait? ULouDY Monagcu—Vat you vant, hey? REPORTER—Any facts o1 interest? CLoupy Monarcu—You go avay, dam | ‘The reporter went. ‘(he passenger seemed embar- ragsed With some vaiuable secret. There 18 nothiog like royal cheek. Tne Smidt is tiptop food for a brace of novelists. & gallant and hardy officer, re- 18 4t0 of February a three-masted steamer steering east-oorthease, in latitude 41 n longitude 30 west, On the Sth a terrible hurrt view from the west, lasting thirty-six hours. Tae great storm broke out on January 29, contnumg thirteen days. The southern course was pursued by the Saita%, and she entered the Gulf Stream in latitude 30 north, She was not able after the accl- (ation use her engines to their original working Ga pacity. Captain Shweers saw wrecked spars, deck planks, &c., near the Azores, but thinks they could not have been frou the City of Boston, The vessel satied south of the Bermudas. We are indebted to Captain Shweers for 1ull particulars. THE REPORTED MISSING BROTON. It ia not true, as stated, that the steamer Becton, of the Avchor line, wuich left New York for Glas- gow, Is missing. She arrived outon the 25th alt., alter @ siormy passage of twenty-two days. THES “CITY OF BOSTON.» A gentleman well posted in nautical affairs in @ lengthy description of a terrtvle voyage he made across the Atlantic in @ first class iron steamship some time ago, and referring to the probable loss of the City of Boston by foundering, closes his letter to the HERALD with the following suggestions:— Nearly if not all the transatiantic steamers have saloon or flush decks, on the top of which, aft, and dire.tly over the rudder, ts placed the wheel house and steering gear. This after or flush deck 13 no protection to the men at the wheel in @ much less so when new rudder chains have to be rigged to a complicated steer- ing gear, The .wheel and gear should oe where it now 1s, and with it an auxiliary wheel and steering gear on the main deck, right under the other wheel. Without a double steering appa- ratus no large steamer leaving this or any other pors has @ right to proceed to sea, f in a bur- ricane in an iron ship 38 feet in length, with lives ‘and property Govanting pen the strength of @ sin- gle chain, which, with the relieving tackle, can only manipulated on an upper flush deck at the mo- mentary peril of all hands being swept overboard while using it, or, if broken, Iu attempting to repair ol is too serious a Matter to be passed over tn ai- lence, WALL STREET. The Bulls Getting Their Horns In—Demoraliza- tion Among the Bears—Gold Going Up. Gold yesterday advanced to 114, closing at 113%. The scenea in the Gold Room throughout the day were very exciting, owing \o the enormous transac- tions, the spirit of specnlation almost equalling thas Of last September, There was of course nothing like &@ panic as the Nuctuations were steady and confinea to fractions of a cent; but every one became in- fected with the speculating mania and bought and sold immense sums of gold with every change in the dial, The gallery overlooking the dealers was densely crowded with spectators, and the street operators were in great commotion, betting upom the chances of gold maing or falling an eighth The bulis were unusually jubilant. The steady decline in the precious metal from 120 to 120g had made havoc among them, and there now seemed tobe an opportunity for them to recover some of their losses and take a little revenge upoa their enemies, There was every Indication of a con- certed bull movement, and there 13 no doubt that = combination has been formed to put gold up as far avd as fast as possible; but the bears wera last night atill confident of keeping prices down, and re- gardea the present advanced quolations as being temporary. It was reported that cotton exporters ~—., “rely represented tn the bull movement, He? arn pifterea heavily bv the decline, ’ th athe comme ve WG “- sa Sue aggMNON 10 BAPBCE" UD" Aas contimes, much beyond *14 aithoneh fhe manifestations o4 the part of tne bulls mage their opponenté quite cantious in their operations, and gave some ground for apprehension. among them that gold might to-day touch 115. it was generally consid- ered that the advance woulda be temporary, and that the price might within a day or two fall again even to tho lowest figure yet reached. Neither party shows any disposition to launch out in a grand effort like that of September, and the reliable men of the Gold Room are of the opinion that gold will nos again be up and down with such temerity a8 has heretofore characterized its manipulations. Wall street apparently has made up its mind to limit itself to moderate fluctuations in the gold pre- mium for the present, and there ta little probability of the excitement of the Gold Room extending beyoud tis present limits very soon, if at all, again. FOOTPRINTS OF A MURDERER, The Rye Neck Tragedy Rovived—Ramored Clue to tho Assassin, ‘rhe brutal and mysterious murder of Gilbert H. Robinson, in his jewelry store at Rye Neck, Weust- chester county, on the night of April 26, 1860 (of which full particulars appeared in the HERALD at the time), bas, up to the present, defled ail attempts at solution, or for the discovery of any motive for she shocking crime. Among the community at the Place named there is at present @ revival of the tragic occurrence, with which a relative of the mar- dered man 1s openly connected and opinions ex~ pee of his having already been arrested and jodged in the White Piatns jail. Tno latter surmise, however, proves to ve erroneous, as it has been as. certained from the jatl authorities that although the supposed gulity party has not yet been secured a warrant hag been tssued for lis arrest and an oflcer despatchea to a distant city to etfect thar object.