The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1870, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S GERALD. anish Pelligerency in Washing- igorous Method of adjusting American First Step Towards Reconstructing ihe Alexander Mystery—New News—Desperate Encounter with und—Brooklyn ty News— The Cuban League—Erie Waking Up in Versey—The City Expre m Amms— The Wara’s Island ute—Ruoning a Ferry for Fan—Crowded Street Cars-~Mass Meeting of Greenpoint Property Owners—The Steam. ship Smidt: Scenes and Incidents of Her Stormy Voyage—Snocking Suicide in Jersey Olty—Murderous Assawlt~Provabie Murder, 4—C)urvoyant Constitutions: Dark Groping in the Realm of Mystery—The Long Brauch Race Course—The Newark Police Commussion— Religious Intelligenve—Proceedings in the New York Clty and Wrookiyn Courts—The Fullerton Case—Military Chit Chat—Specie Payments—Marine ‘Transfers, S—Ratuing Main of Game Cocks—The New Fire 6—Fdiiorials : Leading Article on the Situation tn Rome, te Infalupility Didiculty—Amusement Announcements. Alarm Telegraph in Newark—Financial and Dommeret: eports—!s the Income Tax Done With?—Marriages and Deaths—Advertiae- ments. ‘Y—Editorials (continued from Sixth Page)—Tele- graphic News from all Parts of the World: A Royal Dnei in Madrid and a Bourbon Prince Killed; British Opiaton of the French Note to Rome—Obituary—Capture of @ Freuch Swiad- Jer—Gold Sensations and Excitement—The Genealogical and Biographical Society—Hood- winking Juruce—S8arroom Affray~Who Robbed the Dead interprise of the Radical Organs—Business Notices. S—Advertisements. @—Advertisements. 10—Hudson River Jee Harvest: Facts and Esti. mates—Lectvre by Professor Stillman on the Yomestte Vailey—Review and Criticims of New Books—Rowdyism—Naval Inteliigence— The Fenian Imbroglio—Chess Maitera— Cricket—Harbor Master Abusca—The Central Underground Rattroad—Salpping —Intelli- gence—Advertisemems, 11—Advert\sements. 12—Advertisements. “4 {uz Boarp or Hearn Dong For.—That is a terrible reform by which the new Charter makes the Board of Health a case for the coroner. Why should the coroner be made to sit on the Board of Health? It is already a “demnition- dead body” in the eyes of our reformers, Tae CitizeNs OF Borrato are jubilant over the repeal of the canal contract system. As Buffalo is one of the cities most deeply in- terested in the success and prosperity of the canals, we may well conclude that the action of the Legislature will be popular all along the line. Tuz BLoopy JackKnire of the opponents of the ring—the virtuous weapon with which our reformers made war on corruption—is still preserved as a noble memento of the strife. The copperhead ranters do not say much about it, but it will probably be exhibited as a trophy in the office of the “practical butcher” who is to have charge of all the meat business in the name of the city. Remittina SENTENcE.—Two negroes, tried for murder and sentenced to State Prison for life, have just been pardoned by the Presi- dent, after two years incarceration, This is always the difficulty, and aiways will be the difficulty where imprisonment is substituted for capital punishment as the penalty for murder. Imprisonment for life is a penalty difficult to enforce. Authority relents, the crime is forgotten and the murderer goes free on any petition after a few ye: AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEZ.—Orders have been issued increasing the United States garrisons at Jackson and Murfreesboro, Tenn., in order to restrain the turbulent spirits in those dis- tricts. This has probably been done in con- Bideration of the late request of a negro dele- gation of visitors to the President for farther protection for themselves. If it has any effect whatever upon Mr. Butler’s proposed recon- struction of Tennessee, we: think it should be to_convince him that the power’of the United States is sufficient to proserve peace without upsetting State governments, It will be seen that Judge Hackleford, of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and Mr. Trimble, late repre- sentative from that State, both republicans, filso express disapprobation at Mr. Butler's Proposed bill, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEKI. Tho Gituation in Homo-The Infallibility | The Charter Question im Albany—Tho | Exciting Nows ffm Spala—A Royal Duel Digculty. What is the question of the hour? Who can answer? Some of our readers will say, ‘Tho currency; that is the question of the hour.” Some will say, ‘“‘It is the school difloulty— the Bible or no Bible.” Some will say, ‘‘The constitution ; is it Christian? Is it inany sense religious?” This being Sunday, and every reader of the Hegaup being more or less re- ligiously disposed and imbued more or less with catholic sentiments—we use the word catholic in its true sense—most will say, re- membering the newa of the week, “‘It is infal- libility.” After all, infallibility really is the question. Our news from Rome during the week that is gone has been more, far more than usually interesting. We have been told in a variety of ways that Von Beust has given in his ulti- matum, and that he will have no Syllabus and no infallibility. We have been told that Napoleon has actually rebelled, and insisted that if the Syllabus and the dogma of infalli- bility form a serious part of the Papal purpose, he must have in Rome and in the Council a lay commissioner. We have also been told that Austria and Bavaria and the other Catholic States will stand by France in this emergency. The Syllabus makes work short and sharp with all the Catholic Powers; and, indeed, with all the world, whether Catholic or Protestant. Of course, the Protestant world is wrong. But it is not less a matter of course that the Catholic world, which has foolishly and somewhat wick- edly given in to Protestant ways, is also wrong. In other words, there has been too much temporizing, too little of a foundation, too much of doubt and too little of falth.- We have got to something like solid ground. We now know what the great question is and what ii means. The Pope tells ua that Jesus Christ gave to thg world all that infallibility has ever claimed. Jesus Christ did say, ‘‘On this rock I will build my Church ;” but that great name never did say, “‘All the fools who claim My name are right.” We have watched this Rowan controversy all through. We like the pluck and spirit which it has called forth. It has seemed to us that the Pope is very nearly all right and that all the world is very nearly foolish. The Pope can- not force things. The world moves on. Daily the conditions are new, and every moment it is more and more difficult to. say which is right. “The great fact is that the world wishes to be religious, and that the world does not know how it is safest and most wise to assume that character. The Roman question has given the test. The world all over is full of faith ; it has no doubt, no difficulty, The best men in the Church say we must bow to facts. Facts are strangely and somewhat wickedly troublesome, Almost all good men say that if the Church would ask less the Church would be more and more powerful. The Pope says that his power is derived from Jesus Christ; that Jesus Christ was the incarnation of divinity and that the infallibility trouble is as nearly as possible a question as old as the Christian era. It is something worth knowing that men still think, and that even good Catholics, in their anxiety to win, place themselves in circumstances extremely’ questionable. We cannot endorse every modern platform. Von Beust and Von Bismarck, and even Napoleon, have been all at sea. The situation is so new that they do not know what they want. They think of State neces- sities. The Church thinks of necessities which will have place and power when State necessities will be of small account indeed, aud to-day we have no choice, but say that what the woffd thinks or the Church thinks, while they form part of the thought of the hour, will not seriously affect the facts of the future, If we wanted proof for what we have said, we should point to the schema. The schema covers the whole trouble. The world is sick of doubt. The Church is full of faith. The schema meets the wants of the doubting world. It tells us where faith ends and doubt begins, The Pope fully compre- hends the question, For one thousand years the minority has questioned the judgment of the Vicar of Christ. Most men have faith in the Church, and there are very few who wish to die with a sorrow or a doubt, The schema, in our judgment, settles the whole question. It reveals the weakness of Rome. It lays open the gullibility of modern life. The Pope says that for eighteen hundred years the dogma, or doctrine of infallibility, has been fully believed, and he naturally and properly asks the question why it should be doubted now. So far as wecan see the Pope is right. Infallibility is no new thing, so far as he is concerned, It is as old as St. Peter. It has never been a question refuted. It has all along, before and since the Reformation, been looked upon as a grand fact—the rallying point of Christian belief. We shall he sur- prised if the Pope is defeated, for the simple reason that the Pope represents common sense and that all this trouble means no more, no less than a tempest in ateapot. The Churches are not much better than our gold rings or our Albany rings. Peace based upon common sense is desirable. The great future for which we sigh is a little ahead. The Pope or t Primacy is only one of the troubles, Tuk Birt to Exrorck THe Firreenti AMENDMENT has been reported back from the Judiciary Committee of the House of Repre- -sentatives, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, ‘to enforce the right of citizens in the United States to vote in the several States of the Union who have hitherto been denied that right on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude,” This new bill embraces a pretty comprehensive list of fines and imprisonments’ against any officials, national or local, and any person or persons who shall directly or indirectly be proved guilly before a United States Court of prevent- ing the exercise of the right of suffrage by citi- zens of African descent; and, as the passage of such a bill may be safely counted upon, the only course of wisdom and common sense now left to the managers of the democratig party and all others concerned is the recognition of the black man’s right to vote and the cultiva- tion of his support as the new political balance of power, There are some eight hundred thousand voters involved in this question, and if the democratic party rejects them they will vote en masse on the other side. That is all; but that will be enough, Chances of the Demeoracy. The future of the democratic party was en- trusted to the hands of the democrats of thi State at the last election, and the responsi- bility rested upon the democratic leaders in this city as to whether the opportunity should be used asa golden guerdon or thrown away like @ wornout garment, Some of the would- be leaders appear to bave made the latter choice, Three months ago people looked to the chances of a democratic succession in the Presidential chair and to the con- trol of the federal government with some pros- pect of success. But these anticipations are becoming small by degrees and beautifully less, owing to the insane quarrels in the New York democratic factions. We cannot acquit the leaders of these factions of the disaster which has befallen their party at the New Hampshire election. Thisis but a skirmish fire in the defeat that is to follow all over the country if better counsels do not prevail among the wranglers of the Empire State. The re- publican party is virtually stronger to-day, with its leader Grant directing its columns in action, than it everwas. It has a good record to show that people feel in all their closest rela- tions. Grant was great in war, but he has proved himself greater in peace, He was called @ butcher while in the field. Suppose he was, he fought it out on the line that led to peace. In war he sacrificed the arm in order that he might save the body. Now, in the days of peace, he finds that he can save both the body and the arm too; so, with calmness and judgment, he directs all his efforts to reduce the national debt to bring gold down to a quo- tation hardly above par; in short, to restore us to the condition in which we stood prece- dent to 1860, And all this by a policy remarkable for its moderation in all things— moderation even in its dealings with Spain, the weakest of foreign Powers, which might have demanded vengeance and retaliation. What a contrast does this condition of the ruling party and its leader, General Grant, present to the operations of the democratic party and its leaders to-day! Three months ago the democratic party promised to assume the proportions of a giant. It gathered like a stormcloud upon the political horizon, threat- ening to hurl a tempest upon the republican ship, and republicans in Congress vied with each other to see which of them should take the helm and command the deck in order to meet the approaching shock. Now, alas! for the democratic party. The stormcloud turns out to have been buta mirage. It has melted away before the breeze of factious folly, and Grant's vessel can sail into the wind’s eye without fear or danger from that quarter. So much for the grand old democracy, tbe time-honored and once potent party. But the democracy which aspires to give us charters and forms of government to-day is not the democracy of-old. That party had wisdom for its guide, patriotism for its inspiration and the good of the whole peo- ple for its object. It was a party of intelli- gence, and its leaders had a status far above the rough and tumble of our present political life. There was dignity and talent associated with it, It is the democracy of the slums that now would grasp the. sceptre of the Cesars and assume the toga of republican virtue only to cover the smallest vices of a degenerated democracy. Fancy Marcus Tullius Genet sweeping into the Senate Chamber wearing the cast-off robe of Cicero, and Caiua Julius Norton in the threadbare garment of the great Roman dic- tator! The young Augustus Creamer, whose calm brow needs only the laurel wreath to make a counterpart of Petrarch, stands a head and shoulders above his fellows in this discontented Triumvirate in point of intellect and judgment; and why he should be allied with the “‘hard-fisted” men can, perhaps, only be accounted for by the prevalence of weak human nature towards that ‘‘vaulting ambi- tion which o’erleaps itself.” Rumor hath it that the motto “Tria juncta in uno” no longer applies to the Senatorial Triumvirs— “that the young Augustus refuses to resign his toga and his self-respect to assume the belt and cestus of the gladiator. Herein lies trouble, and hence, no doubt, arose the reported wordy collision between Senator Creamer and Sheriff O’Brien in Albany the other night. With these divisions among the leaders of the rough and ready democracy ; with the con- flicting amendments to the latest bill for the government of the city, inthe upstairs and and downstairs caucuses of the democratic delegations, what are the prospects of getting any bill at all passed during the present ses- sion? They are infinitesimally small, indeed. The silk stocking diplomacy of our dear boy, Sammy J., is evidently notin affiliation with the notions of the rough and ready ‘‘boys,” for they have already tora his pet document to pieces in Assembly caucus, and with the manipulation in the Senate-and handling it is yet to go through in Committee of the Whole, it will be an emasculated creature before it reaches final legislation, if it ever gets to that goal. Meantime, what are the chances for a city government? Are the cravings of a hungry crowd of anti-law and order politicians, who are bent only upon securing the spoils, with- out any regard to the rights 6f our citizens and taxpayers, to bé allowed. to throw tho metropolis into chaos and disintegration by substituting for our present form of govern- ment—bad as it may be—a dangerous experi- ment in the shape of a Charter which only transfers the power of doing evil’ and fleecing the people, from one set of men, who, what- ever be their shortcomings, are gifted with some intelligence and experience, to a set whose highest ambition seems to be to extend license to the roughest elements of society, to retard the course of justice and make a re- spectable system of local government as im- pracjicable as possible? Yet such seems to be the condition of the Charter question at Albany. Srampina Coin.—The recent device of some city shop keepers to advertise their establish- ments-by giving silver for change has origina- ted the bad example of stamping the coin with private marks. If this is permitted to go on in this.age of advertising there will not be a coin in use by the time we come to specio payments but will be defaced by some trades- man’s announcement. If there is not a law to prevent this there ought to be, with Fatal Rosult. “The Spanish throne claims question im- broglio has culminated in an exciting event, which, although of a very sad feature in the present, may serve to precipitate its final solution, A duel, which has been threatened for some time, was fought near Madrid yesterday between the Duke de Montpensier and Prince Henri de Bourbon, a brother-in-law of the ex-Queen Isabella, Our cable telegram from Madrid, which reached us at an early hour this morn- ing, appears to indicate that the fatal result was of almost immediate effect. Generals of the army and legislators, members of the Cortes, acted as seconds and abettors in the tragedy. Madrid was deeply agitated. It is to be hoped that the sensation, although unbappily not one of unfrequent ex- perience in the Spanish capital, will attract a serious Christian-like attention to the domoral- izing intensity with which ‘the claimants’ war for this unhappy throne is being prosecuted. The neighboring great Powers may perhaps look to it. They will most likely be forced to do so in the end, Our Latest Emigration Statistics. According to the forthcoming annual report of the Commissioners of Emigration, a synopsis of which was published in Friday's Heratp, there is much to bring satisfaction to every American heart. Our country seems to be the receiving depot of the entire world; but the consignments at Castle Garden, accord- ing,to the returns of last year, exceed the most sanguine expectations of the most invet- erate Fourth of July orator, There is, first of all, an excess of forty-five thousand alien pas- sengers over the previous year, and an excess of over seventy-five thousand beyond other years, The Germans are still in the majority ; the sons and daughters of Albion have increased nearly forty per cent, amd the children of the Emerald Isle have come as thick and fast as the traditional “leaves of Vallambrosa.” The health of the arriving emigrants is better than ever, because, as the report states, steamers have been generally substituted for sailing vessels. Regarding the points of des- tination, New York, of course, takes the lead in a numerical point of view, and the West claims most of the rest. We are glad to hear of the complete arrangements (police excepted) made by the Commissioners at Castle Gar- den. They have erected new , buildings for the convenience of emigrants, and? to judge from their own statements, they have devoted all their attention and ener- gies to new comers. The police are said to be derelict in their duty, and {it is recommended that the force be increased and placed directly pnder the control of the Castle Garden autho- rities. The report gives a favorable idea of the condition of Ward’s Island, which recent events would seem to disprove. There is one thing about this report to feel proud of, and that is the immense increase of emigration. We want more people, especially skilled me- chanics, for they will find here a large tract of undeveloped country, rich in natural resources. ‘No matter what the amount of ‘exodus from Europe may be, there is room enough for all in America, and our boundless prairies, rich mining dis- tricts and illimitable water power can supply not only a competency, but even wealth, for years to come to emigrants from all quarters of the world. The more the merrier; and the larger the increase of our population the greater the facilities for developing our coun- try and clearing off our public debt. It isa boast honestly made, and one which can be proven, and no other country in the world can say the'same. Therefore we hail the increase of emigration as a positive boon, and stretch out our arms in welcome to the other nations of the earth to help us to bring forth the untold treasures heretofore hidden in our country. Tok Mix IN THE Cocoanut.—The little difficulty in the democratic party that has ren- dered it thus far impossible for the factions to agree on @ new government for our city is simply this: all the leaders want to be Mayor in the new system. As there are a great many leaders, and we can only have one Mayor at a time, the difficulty is evidently insuperable. The elegant Senator Screamer wants to be. Mayor, and all his friends agree that he shall be Mayor. The superb wearer of a brass coat and blue buttons, George McLean, also wants to be Mayor, and his friends assent. Jimmy O’Brien wants to be Mayor. Jupiter Norton wants to be Mayer. Even the owner and brandisher of the cele- brated reform jackknife wants to be Mayor. The only man who does not want to be Mayor is John Morrissey. He wants to be City Chamberlain. This is because he has been a banker for many years, and -understands handling money. Sammy Tilden and two or three other silk stockings will find their ambition abundantly satisfied it they can only stand in the background and seem to pull the wires to which all thg rest are tied like puppets. *InsPEOTION OF MeAtT.—So we are really to have a man to inspect all the meat for sale in the city—and he must be a butcher, too. That is.very good. Inspection of meat for sale has been a proper part of the business of the Board of Health since that body has been in existence, anda great deal of diseased meat has been seized and destroyed. If a butcher is any more competent, let us have a butcher; for this is a service that the people want well done. AnoTHER RaiwRoap AcoiwENt.—One more accident on the Erio road, by which an engine and two baggage cars were thrown off the track, is recorded. This was the result of a broken rail, and of that want of thorough in- spection of tracks which is the only safety to life. The ‘Twelve Temptations” goes on very safely all the time, and has given to it all the time and half the money, apparently, that would make the lives of passengers safe on the Erie road. A Lonpon Wrrxty Reviewer, writing on the subject of the woman’s rights question in America, uses the words, ‘‘undemonstratively beneficent and mexe social theorists.” The Heratp gives the ladies till the Fourth of July next to spell out and understand all this, As many of them as have then accomplished the task may go down to the seaside and enjoy all the liberty they wish for consistent with their health and happiness, | Tho Annexation of Dominica. The Committee on Foreign Relations has now under consideration the Dominican treaty. The committee will have to act promptly in this matter, as the question must be decided, one way or the other, on or before the 29th inst, The administration has already gone so far that we hope Mr. Sumner will in this instance act as an American statesman, and, instead of retarding, endeavor to accele- rate a consummation much desired by the American people. Already have the Domini- cans expressed thegnselves on the subject of annexation, and their desire {s unanimous in its expression for annexation to the United States. Petitions from all parts of the island have been received by President Baez praying him to hasten on tho annexation scheme. A declaration so -unanimous as that recently made by the people of St. Domingo at once sets at rest tho idea that the United States has acted in any other than in a frank and honest manner with the islanders. “The advantages of this rich and fruitful province to this coun- try are manifold, and the opportunity of gain- ing them must not now be allowed to slip through our fingers by the petty quibbles of a one-idea statesman. We very well know that there are those abroad who regard with. disfavor our movements in the Antilles, and would view with anxiety and dread the American flag floating over American territory in the islands of the West Indies, Of this we had occasion to refer to before on learning of the actions of certain foreign consuls who encouraged Cabral in hia hostile intentions towards President Baez. Indeed, the presence of Admiral Poor, with his fleet, off Cape Haytien will have a wholesome effect in impressing the Dominicans with the determination of the United States in protect- ing them during the annexation negotiations now pending between their country and the American republic. We are perfectly well aware that there are a number of irrepressible pronouncers on the Haytien border who would gladly embark in any e ntorprise that might tend to embarrass Pre sidént Baez and his min{sters ; but we cannot think that Hayti, a Power with which we are on the most amicable terms, would be a party to an act which might lead to unpleasant consequences. It is true that the United States has put up with a good deal from Spain, and possibly Hayti labors under the idea that she too may follow the example that Spain has set. But there is a limit to all this kind of thing, and then forbearance ceases to bo a virtue. We hope the Committee on Foreign Relations will seo the necessity of prompt action in the matter now before it. The Dominicans have spoken, let tho Americans respond, War TO THE JAOKKNIFE.—The war against Tammany and in the name of reform was an- nounced as “‘war to the knife.” It was evi- dently a very harmless: sort of knife. It seems to have hurt nobody very much. We suspect it must have been one of Sammy Til- den’s old jackknives, and so the blade has been shut down with a very soft snap, and the knife, like everything else that figures in city politics, has been put in somebody's pocket. Effects of Advertising iu the Herald. We observe that considerable excitement prevails in ex-Congressman Whittemore’s dis- trict in South Carolina; that the old rebel feeling has been aroused against his re-elec- tion; that he-has been insulted, burnod in effigy in nearly every town, and a popular song sung with this refrain :— Old Whittem re. he is dead and damned— Dead and damned, &c. : But the darkies swear that if ‘the is dead, ho shall rise again.” What a great hubbub a little three line advertisement in the ‘‘Personal” column of the New York Heraxp about cadetships has produced! It has created a sensation all over the nation, driven the members of Congress from their seats, if not from public life, made others tremble in their arm chairs, furnished a text for debates in the countils of the natiun for a month, caused a Congressman to be burned in effigy and nearly mobbed, and raised perhaps almost an insurrection among the blackies in one of the Southern States. And the end is not yet. Hence, it will bo seen that whether for the purpose of exposing official corruption, or private peculation and villany, or for sustaining the cause of virtue and in- tegrity, as well as for business purposes generally, the advertising columns of the HERALD are equally invaluable. How To Make THE Taine CompLeTe.—’ The proposition to abolish the Central Park Commission is imperfect. To make the thing complete to the taste of the rough and ready boys, squatter sovereignty, or the right of the citizen to set. up his shanty and his grogshop in the Park, must be granted; and the right to have and hold therein his goats, chickens, ducks and pigpen; and the right to uso the holes and hollows of said Park as dumping places, and the hills thereof for fat rendering aud bone boiling purposes; and the right to cut away the trees and shrubbery of said Park; and the summer bowers thereof for hig shanty and for fuel; and, finnlly, the pre- emption right to the ground claim which he shall have staked off, and upon which he shall have built and occupied for two or three years his shanty, &c. Put the thing in this shape and the rough and ready boys will un- derstand it and carry it through with a regular hurroo, Tae Warp’s IstaNp INVESTIGATION was continued yesterday by the Legislative Com- mittee, and some additional facts damaging to the employ¢s of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion were disclosed. It seems that the work upon the island is let out to a contractor, who is permitted to avail himself of the unpaid labor of the emigrants, and consequently we should imagine makes a big thing out of his contract. “To Greece We Give Ovr Sninine Brapgs.”—The worst war of which there is any record was the jackknife war that the, siik stocking democracy waged for city reform, There never was such a fiasco in war or peace. The silk stocking Charter, with the commenta- ries and improvements of the boys, is the funniest piece of political reform—the lamest end of a war to the knife—the world ever saw. This comes of old noodles trying to dabble in politics, and of sharpers crying out for hon- aaty. $$ Highly Important te m2rdware Dealers, The copperhead organ Is after & now Cook- ing stove. Its writers discussed the question of the price of stoves in a combination editorial yesterday. The gist of the article is to be found in the matter of the difference between a six anda nine dollar stove, They would like to have what they term a “six hole stove.” They thus adroitly leave the infer- ence that there are six editors, and that they want a hole for a kettle or spajls fleshpot each. The “‘six hole stove” costs nine dollars, however, and this plain fact stands in the way. They got a stove for six dollars in the year 1860, As the members of the rough and ready democracy of New York will get a new stove, every manof them, under their own new city Charter, and that, too, regardleas of expense, it is to be hoped that some good Samaritan among them—somebody who vene- rates the Papal schema, as lately revised— will donate his old one to the office of the copperhead organ as a charity gift. They do not want a ‘“‘six hole stove,” however. A two hole will do—one hole for Sammy Tilden’s kettle, the other for the Mantilini- Manhattan-Club saucepan, The copperhead editors are becoming ambitions, A nice “come up,” indeed—a ‘‘six hole stove!” The Dutch Taking Holland=The Arrival ot the Steamer Smidt. Tho announcement that “the Dutch had taken Holland” should have created no greater sen- sation than the announcement that the Dutch emigrant steamship Smidt had arrived at this port after the, to her, not at all remarkable passage of fifty days from Deutchland. As an evidence that her commander thought very little apprehensions aboot her safety would be felt here, it is stated that when he landed and was accosted by a newsboy, ‘‘Here’s the Evening Telegram—all about the safe arrival of the Smidt!” he stopped the urchin and asked, ‘‘Vat's dat you say about der Smidt ?” “She's got in all safe, Nobody drownded. Take a paper, sir?” ‘Yaw; but vot der tuy- vel’s der matter? Ah, ha! yaas, I hafes it. . I made der passage too quick. Py tam! I go right 'vay to der agencies and makes apolo- gize.” And he started off in so great a’ hurry as to forget to pay the newsboy for the paper he had taken, Seriously it is a matter of astonishment that the public could be alarmed about the safety of this vessel. A reference to last year's file of the New York Shipping List will show that the Smidt made the winter before a passage from Bremen to this port in about sixty days, At that time she put into London in distress, and subsequently made the run to this port in about thirty-six days, which is about equal to the time of her last passage from Bremen. The underwriters and owners abroad and agents here have not been alarmed about her safety, well knowing the poor sail- ing and steaming qualities of ‘the vessel, With characteristic Dutch foresight she was provisioned for a long cruise, and as for fuel, she could hardly be expected to get out of it, as she rolled under sail most of the time. Tho horrible motion of the ship, too, kept the pas- sengers seasick half the time; hence the drafts upon the “‘harness cask” were proportionately diminished. But slow and tubby as the Smidt usually is, she is at this season of the year not even on an equal footing with any sailing vessel. Her model is of the Shanghae rooster kind, brig rigged, carrying sail that would have hardly propelled the craft of the ‘‘three men of Gotham who went to seain a tub,” with engines of the enormous amount of ono hun- dred horse power to propel a ponderous hulk of twenty-four hundred tons burden! What a burlesque and a sham upon steam naviga- tion to style such a vessel a’steamship! But here is where the severest pinch comes. Most of the poor, ignorant emigrants, who have paid their steamship fare, labor under the false impression that they are to take pas- sage in one of those fine North German Lloyd steamers, and that the voyage across the ocean will last about fourteen days. But as soon as they have left their fatherland they find that they have been imposed upon, and that a sailing vessel, charging only about half the rate of passage, wonld have been prefer- able, far more comfortable and equally as speedy, Nothing can be said against the seamanship of the captain of the Smidt, He has exhibited great skill, resolution and bravery under the circumstances; and, having brought the vea- sel safely into port, treated the poor emi- grants kindly, and received expressions of confidence and congratulation from his owners and agents, he is eminently worthy of com- manding a real, first class steamship, and not one ia name like the ricketty old-oly-poly Smidt. AnoTnER Proposep ConstiTUTIONAL AMENDMENT—TuHE Jews Exorrep.—It will be recollected that at a “Christian convention” held lately ot Pittsburg it was resolved to urge the adoption of an amendment to the constitution recognizing Christianity as the fountain and basis of our moral and political being. The Jews are, 18 a matter of course, opposed to this, as will be seen by extracts from two of their journals published in another column, But, strange to say, while the Jewish Times, the organ of the liberals, or radical re- formers, is violent in tone, hurls defiance at the movement and speaks of St, Bartholomew maasacres, the TZebreiw Leader, which leans partially to the orthodox side, treats the matter somewhat facetionsly, and rather langhs at the “old ghost of Puritanism,” Enough is indi- cated, however, to show that if the Pittsburg proposition be persisted in the country may expect serious religious commotions, Sinver on THE BorpER.—While we are just rejoicing over the return of silver pieces to our legitimate currency the Canadians are rejoio- ing over the prospect of an early riddance of all they have got. American silver has long been qniled a nuisance in Canada. Strenuous efforts have been made by the merchants there to getrid of it as acirculating medium by resolutions and all other kinds of informal enactments, A Montreal priest recently an- nounced from the altar, according to report, that fees for masses would be taken in Ameri- can ‘silver only at @ discount of twenty per cent, and fifally the Ottawa Parliament has enacted that twenty per cent should be the legal discount npon it, the half dollar passing * for forty cents and the other coins proportion- ately, We may, then, soon expect that our aaccaaaeiaisiecee a j