The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1870, Page 6

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Pacx. 1—Advertisements, @—Advertizements, 3—The State Capital: The Great Thrasned Sad, but Resigned; the Democrats Working ar- i the Assembly; Progress of the lway Scheme tao Committee—Com- plimentary Dinner to Vice Commodore James Gordon Bennett, Jr.—Convention of Milk Pro- duc ‘rs at Croton Falis—Personat Inteilgence— Atusemeuts—surder at St. Alvans—Brookiyn City News—Western Lawyers, 4—Mexico: Vigorous Prosecution of the War Against the Rebels; Desperate Battle Between the Insurgents and the National Troops— © Capture’ Correspondence Relative to | Quesada—St. Domingo: The Voice of dominican People: Aimost a Unanimous ® mm Favor of Annexation to the United ‘urope: Crime and Politics in Ire- —Board of Heath—Items from Asia—The oy Hollow Tragedy—Making War on Evte—Panei Victims—New York Medical Col- lege tor Women—The Steamships Manhattan and Samaria—) rk Methodist Episcopal Conference—Assault with a Slungshot—Taree Thousand Dollar Bond Robbery—iicubie Among Actors—Marine Transfers. S—Atter the Batue 2° Tammany Braves and the v —The Democratic Trou- Dpurity of the Baliot: Yhe Brooklyn Election Frauds Investigation; Two More Convictions Yesterday; Alleged Sallot Box Impurities in Orange—The Great Whiskey Raid ; Examination by the OMcial Inquisitors Still Dragging Its Slow Length Along—Pro- ceedings in the New York City Courts— Bogus Cueck Shovers—New York City News—The Latest Trick in Legerdematn. 6~— Editorials: Leading Article oa the Albany Coup d’Ftat—Amusement Announcements, 7-—Edirorials—Telegraphic News From All Parts of the World: French Opinion of Napo- Teon’s Reform Manifesto; Henri Roche- fort's Testimony in the Bonaparte- Noir Trial—Fruitless Search for the City of Boston—The Oneida Disaster Investigation in Japan—Fires in the Ctry Yesterday—Special Political Notes—The Bos- ton, Hartford and Erte Ratlroad—Barglary and Felonious Assault—The Steamship City of Brussells—The Story of a Black Bag—Business Notices. S—Financial and Commercial Reports—Real Estate Saies—The Excise Yund—Extensive Fire to Wiittamsburg--Singular Case of Death--Mar- riages and Deaths—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements. 10—Washington: The Utah Polygamy Bill Passed by the Senate ; Message from the President on ‘the Decline of American Commerce ; No More National Aid for European Monarchiee—Army and Navy Intelligeuce—Bogus Philanthropy— Had Five Ribs Broken—Shipping Inteliigence— Advertisements, 11—Advertisements. 12—Advertisements. Epirara ON THE NEw CHARTER.— If so soon 1 was done tor, 1 wonder what I was begun for. A Crimmnat Coy.—To what Russian settle- ment should the turbnlent democratic leaders at Albany be banished ?—Wrangel! RErrain For THE JACKKNIFE Demooracy— (Altered from Watts, his hymns) :— And there'll be no more charters there, Aud there’!l beno more charters were, In the lobby above, Where all 1sn’¢ love, There’ll be no more charters there. Wesrern Immicration.—The Fort Scott (Kansas) Monitor estimates that immigrants at the rate of a thousand a day will find their way to Kansas during the next three months. But will they stay there or proceed where the “metal is more attractive’—to the gold and silver regions in the Rocky Mountains ? Poor Tom's a-CoLp.—Shakspeare must have had in his mind’s eye the recent massacre at Albany when he penned the above words. Poor Tom, the “‘silk stockings” and ‘rough and readies” of our democratic friends have got such @ chill that not all the whiskey “straight” in Manhattan can ever warm them again. Spzomen or New ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE Iyrerion New York Parers—Shovily to bo forthcoming: — Wanrep—A farm under good culttvation, with commodious dwelling and suitadle outhouses, within a short distance of churches, schoolhousss and post offices, No railroad conveniences desirable at pre- sent. Price not to exceed five thousand dollars, ©. 0.D. Address “Bunkum,” House of Representa. laves, Albany, N. Y. m—1t*, Carsterricrp 1x Arpany.—After the terri- ble coup d'état which annihilated the ‘sill stocking” and ‘rough and ready” democracy the following explanation of his course was given by one of tho famous twenty. It is worthy of Chesterfield or Dr. Johnson:—“I ain’t no party. I was a atrick dimoerat all my lifetime, and I is to-morrow.” Think of those sublime words being handed down in history! th NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. : The Albany Coup d’Eiat. It has been our habit to call the accom- plished City Chamborlain Peter Bismarck Sweeny. We never particularly intouded to compliment the great Germain master of state- craft by this, but rather to hint to the manipu- lators of city politics that they had among them a man as perceptive and acute in their realm of fact and thought as the great organ- izor of Germany was in his, Now, however, we are satisiied that we did Peter rather less than justice in giving him a namo that seems to restrict his intellectual scope, and certainly leaves out of view all the astounding effect that @ man produces when he works in ways hidden from the sight of common observers, and handles and combines elements that were thought to be out of his reach. Bismarck is the type of one kind of great ability. He conducts with sheer mental force a game at which all the world is present, and the world admires his skill; but we lock on with something quite different from mere admiration of skill when one who is populariy regarded as dead suddenly proves that he is the only man present who is really and thoroughly alive; when one who is beaten at all points proves the victor at all points; in short, when one who is given up a3 man only fit to ‘“‘go to Europe” is found to be the only man able to stay at home, This is the quality of Peter's genuis, and in this he bears a great deal closer resemblance to another distinguished Dutchman than to Bismarck, His more acoarate antetype is Mephistopheles, That German imaginetion of power that accomplishes unlooked for and astounding results by some occult application of the most familiar means, and inspires as much awe as admiration in impressing its irresistible character, is simply a fore-vision of the victor in the great Albany struggle. For only look at it: Faust on the Brocken wanted to be in the streets of the far away city. Nothing could be more ridiculously impossible than for mere human genius to suddenly realize this wish, Yet Mephistopheles had a little game for the occasion. He twisted one of the fingers of his right hand, by the contraction of what the London doctors call “the guinea muscle,” and they were there. The gnarled old tree near by became a pump, the straight young oaks polished themselves into the pillars of spleadid edifices and the carpet of dead leaves was a pave- ment of stone. Quite as remarkable was the transformation at Albany. Democracy was in the woods, Peter B. was nowhere, He was “gone to Europe.” ‘Tammany was dead. All its pet measures of reform and change were scattered to the four winds, or, if there are any more winds, scattered to the whole of them. The ancient and respectable name of Yammany was spoken only with contempt. It was firmly believed, so far a3 men saw, that every other municipal democracy, except the young democracy, end its shadow in silk stockings, had perished from the face of the earth, Even the last man was not left to mourn it; for if there was any last man he was ashamed or afraid to admit that he had ever adhered to it, and so hurrahed for the young democracy, silk stocking Sammy, little Moses and war to the jackknife! The young demo- cracy also hurrahed for itself. Sammy hur- rahed! Moses hurrahed! and the jackknife was brandished till its greasy blade glittered in the sun like the helm of Achilles! Thus it was but now—and how is it? ‘Ere one can say it lightens” it is all the other way. The young democracy is swept out of sight, and Tammany grimly and calmly surveys the ruin of the engineers ‘‘hoist by their own petard.” Their grand schemes of law, framed to show their power, show only their impo- tence, their ridiculous inaptness to handle such machinery, and damage only themselves— AS guns that, aimed at duck or plover, Kick back and knock the owner over. All this is in the method of Mephistopheles— just done by the wave of his hand—the kink of his little finger—the contraction, perhaps, of the ‘guinea muscle.” It is also the same here as with Mephisto- pheles, in the fact that be always accomplished unlooked for results by the use of familiar agents. ‘‘Country democrats” are certainly familiar enough agents in such contrivances, and it was a happy idea that suggested their use. We see, for instance, that it has a mysterious effect. People are won- dering how this can be a victory for Mephistopheles, when all the city domo- crats voted together for the Charter and associate bills. Not only the men of the young democracy voted for their measures, but all the other city democrats voted with them—even those who are called ‘‘the crea- tures of the ring.” This makes it look as if there was no democracy but the young democracy and its silk stocking shadow—as if they swept the metropolis. Why, then, should Mephistopheles let go the city demo- crats, that it is supposed he could control, to settle the case with the rural infantry? Per- haps it was economy. Country democrats may be the cheapest article in the market. Your city democrat knows his price and has a speculative spirit. Your countryman is a straight trader on fair terms—fresh as cream and smooth as butter. Thus if a man has to buy somebody there is good reason in favor of making his purchases in the country. Another good point in the game of our Mephis- topheles is that when the blow comes from the country there is more moral force in it. It looks as if the rural mind in its innocence regarding these city sharpers of politics with healthy detestation determined to put them down once for all. No such idea would be conveyed by a blow delivered by demo- crats soiled in the political strife of this city. In fact, we consider this moral effect a crowning grace in the event at Albany. The blow came from so clear a sky, it caught the rejoicing fellows in such a hey-day of triumph, with the spoils actually divided in anticipation, that it looked more like a result of moral force than anything we have had lately in State poli- tics, We do not positively give up the notion that the countrymen were inspired in part by an honest detestation of the ways of our city sharpers. That may have hada share in the result, but we should have more faith in that thought if the countrymen oftener showed their horror of our vices, Although the coun- trymen may in this instance have had a keen perception of the necessity of an honest exam- ple, it is still probable that their eyes were | opened to it. Ifa hundred thousand dollars were spent it might open the eyes of a great many men in the country. Suppose there were twenty men, it would make five thousand apiece, Solon Shingle said that “fifty dollars was a good deal of money,” but what would he say to five thousand? That is a large sum in a country where farms are cheap, but it is a small price with which to secure the plunder of this city, and a still smaller one by which to inspire with awe the political mass that fears nothing but to be upoa the losing side, A Ssnator Sowina His Witp Oats.—The editor of the Raleigh (N. C.) Standard ac- knowledges the receipt of a sample of foreiga white oats from Senator Abbott, of his State. Tt was long since thought the honorable gen- tlemau had sown his native wild oats when he was Adjutant General of the State of New Hampshire, at a salary of three hundred dollars ayear. Between oats and peanuts the noble Senator is likely to become a distinguished statesman in the “Old Tar State.” The Situation in France=The Toure Trial and the Emperor’s Reforms. “Save me from my friends,” is an old but atill pithy exclamation, It bas often been used, It will, unless mankind changes greatly for the better, often be used in the times that are tocome. Noman had eyer juster cause to use it than the Emperor of the French, At critical time in his own history, in the his- tory of France, in the history of European thought and action, in the history of the world, in fact, a relative and over-zealous defender of his family has crested for bim serious trouble. Of all the enemios’ which have risen up against the Third Napoleon Prince Pierre, whatever we may think or say of his motives, has been the greatest. Con- sidering the condition of France, considering what the Emperor was doing and what he hoped to accomplish, well might he say when he heard of the Vicior Noir tragedy, ‘‘save me from my friends.” In saying this we do not pronounce our opinion on the principal charge, which is now under the cons‘deration of a court better qualified to judge than we are. We only say that excess of zeal or want of wisdom, while it has brought the Prince himself into a painful positiom, has mightily annoyed the Chief of the State and somewhat grievously discon- certed his plans. It is gratifying to notice that, in spite of the excitement which the trial of his cousin has created, tho Emperor goes on with his reforms, His letter to Prime Minister Ollivier is as with St. Aunexation in the West Indies—Tho Presl- dent and Congress, It will be seen by our correspondence from St. Domingo and the news on the subject of the treaty of annexation, published in another part of the paper, that the wish to be annexed and under the protecting flag of the United States is almost universal among the people of the island, Whorever a vote had been taken on the question an overwhelming majority was in favor of that, General Grant, too, it is evi- dent, earnestly desires the annexation of St. Domingo and the completion of the bargain the State Department made to that end. On Tuesday night the President, it is said, called Secretary Fish and Senators Carpenter, Pat- terson, Ferry, Ross, Sprague, Morrill, Pratt, Tipton, Gilbert, Cragin, Revels, Rice, Abbott, Howe and Harris to the White House to con- fer with him on the subject of the St. Domingo treaty, The same day he and a portion of the’ Cabinet, it is reported, were at the Capitol using their influence to get the treaty ratified. We know that he has been a good deal at the Capitol lately, and have no doubt that this was one of the objects that took him there. Nor is it morely because General Grant does not wish to see bis foreign policy and the acts of his administration defeated that he is so anxious about the St. Domingo treaty; he has, we believe, a larger view of the matter than that. He regards the annexation of St. Domingo as an important step to the acquisition of Cuba. To use a military simile, he thinks this would be an excellent flank movement. He is pursuing the same tactics with regard to Cuba and the West Indies gen- erally as he did when he sent General Sher- man on that stupendous raid through Georgia and South Carolina as a co-operative and flank movement on Richmond. He believes that Domingo in our possession Cuba could not long remain under Spanish rule, even if the present revolution in that island should fail, and that, in fact, it would have an important moral effect in favor of Cuban independence and annexation. In this matter, then, the President has a statesmanlike fore- sight, and is pursuing a comprehensive policy. Mr. Seward, when Secretary of State, had similar views. His expression that the islands of the West Indies were the buttresses of the American republic showed this, and his nego- tiation for the island of St. Thomas was a part of the same policy. General Grant, however, begins nearer home, and proposes to take territory that is more valuable -in itsolf and more important in a strategical point of view. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, under the control, in a great measure, of Mr. Sumner, does not seem to comprehend the policy of the President or to have any sympathy with his views. Mr. Sumner is the “Old Man of the Sea,” who has no idea of the destiny of this. country, who is opposed to its natural progress, who stands in the way of our development southward, and whose mind is narrowed down to petty local things. The difficulty about both the St. Domingo treaty, and probably about the St. Thomas treaty also, as well as concerning the recognition of opportune as it is happily conceived. We are not surprised to learn that by all parties— the “‘irrepressiblos,” of course, excepted—the letter is regarded a3 satisfactory and in the highest degree encouraging. What we have said ecain and again is thus proved to the world—the Emperor is honest in his great reform movement. There are many who will ask what any Senatus Consultum, establish- ing parliamentary government, has to do with the plebiscitum of 1852? Still it is a pretty thought, and if the Emperor can give back to the people all and much more than all they gave him eighteen years ago, and still remain the favorite and trusted ruler of France, he will have accomplished a task and achieved a vic- tory which have few parallels in history. Such a result will indeed be the ‘‘crowning of the edifice.” The trial of the Prince so faras it has gone does not throw much light on the real question at issue. It will be seen from our telegraphic columns this morning that the evidence yesterday was very much like that of the preceding days. It is conflicting and con- tradictory. Interest centred chiefly in the ex- amination of Henri Rochefort and the wife of Louis Noir, the sister-in-law of the de- ceased. Their evidence really was unimpor- tant. Madame Louis Noir’s evidence was to the effect that her brother-in-law could not have struck the Prince, because after death his gloves were found to be intact, Henri Rochefort’s evidence was of no more value. It proved no more than that the Princo was in a bad temper when he wrote the letter which led to the mission of Noir and Fonvielle, The ‘simple truth is there is no evidence. It was noteworthy yesterday that a feeling in favor of the Prince was manifestly growing. Rochefort did not fall into tho mistake of Grousset. He was pale and calm, and gave his evidence clearly and quietly. When done he took a seat reserved for him among the journalists, and many of them warmly took him by the hand. Tho friends ot Rochefort attempted a more decided demon- stration of respect, but its expression was prevented by the police. It is now clear to our mind that conviction is impossible. It may be desirable for the Prince to retire, for a time at least, from France. Sympathy with the Emperor will become stronger than ever when the trial is ended. The ‘‘reds” will be more and more despised as the disturbers of the public peace, as the enemies of genuine reform. Napoleon’s fresh concessions will iu all likelihood make him more the popular idol. The good work will go on, and France will draw the distinc- tion between selfish and unreasoning dema- gogues and true patriots and reformers. THE INDEPENDENTS.—Among the demo- cratic independents who flew the track on those bills were men bearing the suggestive | names of Barnes and Burns, and Droll (a droll fellow), and Haver and Krack, and Mooney and Murphy, and Sweet and Tighe; and so they tied up the silk stockings and the jackknives, Wantrep to Know—Whether the Bowling Green democracy can raise no more than seven thousand dollars to put up a patent job in Albany. A New Version or THE Otp Sona.—Will not some poet-politician enlarge upon the fol- lowing version of the old nursery rhyme, in order that it may be sung for the entertain- ment of the hapless democratic youths? :— The “boys” are in the lobby, Counting up their money; And Sammy's off his hobby, With nary taste of honey. Tne Cuarter Ficnt at ALBany.—Will not somebody be kind enough to suggest at this time the observation of Sir Lucius O'Trigger—“‘A very pretty quarrel as it stands.” Ato “Gonz Wuert toe Woopsine Twineta”—The youthful democracy and their three legislative pets, the Cuban revolution, lies chiefly with this narrow-minded Senator. think that the Senate of the United States should be controlled in such important mat- ters touching the progress and interests of the hope Sen: sense, Sumner is a ¢i weight in our noble ship of state, and the best thing his colleagues can do is to throw him overboard. How humiliating to ic by this man. We ill show hereafter more and independence. Mr. er, an obstacle and a dead pati The time has come when this country is called upon to take a bold and comprehensive policy with regard to the whole of the West Indies and the Continent of America, depressed commerce can find there a vast field for development. The West Indies, particu- larly the most productive of them, as Cuba and St. Domingo, if they belonged to the United States, would do much to revive and increase our commerce, to enlarge our tonnage and employ our shipping and to add greatly to the variety of our products, the first sugar and coffee producing country of the world, as we now are the first in cotton production, besides obtaining a great number of other products of the tropics. sessions would give us, and military command of the Caribbean Sea, channels of commerce to and through the West Indies and with Central and South Ame- rica, islands, in a political, strategical and commer- cial point. of view, ought to belong to this Our We could become These pos- too, the naval the Gulf of Mexico and all the Nothing is plainer than that these mighty republic. We neglect our destiny and interests if we do not seize every opportunity to dispossess European Powers of the Antilles and to annex them to this country. Let us hope the Senate, and the House of Represen- tatives as well, ‘will sustain the President in his efforts to acquire St. Domingo and to make @ flank movement upon Cuba. Now is the time to pursue a bold and comprehensive pol- icy with regard to the West Indies and Ameri- can interests generally in this hemisphere. A Finanorat BaLtap.—Written on a green- back found in the Assembly Chamber :— It was in the Legislature, And the dollars, yea! by Heaven! They were just ahundred thousand And the votes were twenty-seven Minus seven—mark the number t Seven less than twenty-seven ; And for just @ hundred thousand We raised our hands to heaven. Though a cool five thousand dollars For a single vote ts plenty, Saith each honest country voter, In a gallant band of twenty; Yet on the rolls of muster Let us heartily thank Heaven, ‘That to share the hundred thousand ‘There were less than twenty-seven. A VavaBiz Man Fora Youna Sratz.— One Illinois paper avers that General John A. Logan has not withdrawn as a candidate for the renomination for Representative at large from the State, And another journal states that he is a candidate for United States Senator in place of Dick Yates. Why not wipe out all other Representatives from the State, and make Logan dictator and autocrat for the whole people? He has the ability if not the modesty or, vice versa, to represent the entire State. Herop Ovrpone.—The massacre of the juvenile innocents at Albany and the on- slaught made on the Assyrians by the destroy- ing angel over night has been eclipsed. Ask Kiernan, who had to quote Soripture to explain the late émeute at Albany. What Does It Mean? The following scrap of a ‘“‘pome” has been sent to us as a waif picked up from the floor of the Assembly chambor at Albany on the ad- journment of that body on Tuesday last. The Father Abraham referred to is Mayor Hall, no doubt, but the name was evidently used only because it served the purpose of tho poet in adhering to the chorus of the old song. Read :— THE IDES OF MARCH. BY A. CHEESE CURD. How the jackknife boys were routed, Though covered by ‘the ring,’? Ye “‘cheesepress-hay loft democrats” Now join with me to sing. We have got a hundred thousand, Which we might have had before, And we are wanting, Father Abraham, Two hundred thousaud more, Ye city roughs and nabobs, Who fatven on the spotis, We of “the rural districts’? Will sevtle up your broils. Shell out, and damn the ticket— Your—o!even—forty-four— ‘We must have, Father Abraham, Two hundrea thousand more. There may, perhaps, be a hundred verses of this sort behind, but the moral throughout is doubtless the same—‘‘two hundred thousand more.” The Irish Pains and Penalties Bill. Premier Gfadstone’s bill for the Enforcement ‘of the Laws in Ireland has passed the British House of Commons, The adjourned debate was resumed and continued during a few hours on Tuesday. The House then divided, when there appeared four hundred and twenty-five votes for and thirteen against the act. As this measure really suspends the habeas corpus, or, a8 it has been said, ‘places Ireland in a state of siege,” it is quite evident that the social, moral and political condition of the inhabitants of that island must be sadly demoralized and painfully out of joint. Four hundred and twenty-five members of Parlia- mept have solemnly declared that Ireland is in a state of guasé insurrection, which requires for its present suppression, if not cure, that the people, good and bad, shall be placed equally at the mercy of dragoons and police- men, of spies and informers, of terrified jorymen, of the judges, the jailors and the convict keepers. It is a sad, melan- choly international revealment, coming after six hundred years of English government. Queen Elizabeth, after the defeat of her favorite Essex in Ireland, said that “the blood of the kern smelled badly” from his boots. Oliver Cromwell praised the Lord, who ‘delivered the inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford to his sword.” An English clerical intolerant of the time of Elizabeth sot forth in the pulpit that, when Beelzebub was permitted to tempt the Saviour by ‘showing unto Him the kingdoms of the earth, he did not show Him Ireland, for Satan had reserved that island to himself for his own special pur- poses to ye end of time.” George the First had his penallaws. Lord Lyndhurst told the House of Lords that ‘the Irish are aliens in language, in creed and in blood.” ’Ninety- eight and ’Forty-eight were bad. The late Sir Robert Peel said he had a ‘‘cure” for Ireland; but his lamented, sudden death prevenied him writing out the prescription. Gladstone has a ‘Pains and’ Penalties bill.” And his Irish Secretary says'they ship nothing but “malcontents” to America, Yet Ire- land and England have had many pleasant, glorious recollections on the battle field and in the ballroom. Where does the neutralizing agency come from? Must we have recourse to science for the reply, and say that it arises from the unalterable law of the ethnological differences of race and peoples? It may be. To-day Premier Morser Goose Jusmant.—This genial old lady, passing round the corner of Beekman street and Park row yesterday, was. heard chanting: — Sing-song of sixpence, ‘Arpooket full of ryet Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a ple. When the ple was opened, ‘The birds began to ging. ‘Wasn't that a dainty disa To set before the ring? History Repeats Irsety.—In the beginning of the troubles of the French in St. Domingo the mulattoes were the disturbing force. The French accordingly proceeded to treat with the mulattoes, but when they imagined that peace was within their graspa new and power- ful element, overlooked by the other parties, rose up in arms and threw the whole island into the direst confusion. This was the: black element, and we know what followed. We have had something of this sort at Albany in the overlooking by the other parties concerned of the “hayloft and cheesepress democracy.” It is the St. Domingo. feud on a small scale over again. - Wantzp at ALBANY—One or two. of John Mitchell’s “‘good, fat niggers,” to sew up the breaches among the democratic leaders. Iv a New Cnaracter—The dreadful Sweeny. His rile was that of Bismarck—then he loomed up among the small fry as Peter the Great. Now he 1s said to be playing Mephistopheles—everywhere felt, but nowhere to be seen. They will believe next that, like the original gentleman in red, he can draw fire from a keg of lager. Tne Rient3 oF THE PxzopLe.—The silk stockings of the Green Turtle Club and the model patriots of the young democracy, a month ago, were indignant at the assumptions and presumptions of “the ring” and eloquent on the rights and wrongs of the people. We knew it was ell moonshine from the beginning ; but where ar they now? Porty MoLean.—The splendid Street Com- missioner, who turns out at the Americus ball with half an acre of white waistcoat, is generally regarded as a ‘putty boy,” but it is to be seen if ke is not putty in another sense, He is, it ia said, to ‘remove Tweed,” or has removed him already from the Street Depart- ment. In this case McLean takes the shape suggested by the fingers of the young demo- cracy. Under other pressure he will take quite another shape, Wuert Are We Now?—After the rapid demolition of the ginger-pop politicians a strange inquiry was instituted. Reeling under this sudden knock-down blow from an experi- enced fist, it is said that the ambitious juve- niles went to bed and slept. Awaking in the morning a simultaneous cry was heard— “Where aro we now?” The police were not salled, rT The Condition of the Niwy. The same difficulty exists in the English Parliament as in the American Congress regarding naval estimates, only in the former the question is in regard to building twenty thousand tons of naval ships annually, so a8 to bring the navy up to the required standard, while with us the questionis, shall we have any navy at all? The subjectis much more intelli- gently discussed in the British Parliament than in Congress; for in the former the Lords of the Admiralty are on the floor with their budgeta, prepared at every point to defond their estimates, and they generally carry their points by convincing the House that the vessels proposed to be fitted out aro necessary to secure British supremacy on tbe ocean, With us there is no one to explain the necessity of a navy, or, in fact, to show that it is of any use. The members of Congress who are appointed on the different committees—navy and appropriation—are, nine times out of ten, persons totally unacquainted with naval matters, Sometimes they are Western men, who, having, as they think, no interest in the maintenance of a navy, are unwilling to vote a dollar for the building of ships, and if they had their way would break up the service altogether. . Up to the present time the people of the i United States have been made to believe that : we had a navy equal to any emergency, and not until Secretary Robeson published his exhibit of the actual condition of our naval service did any of our people have an idea that the navy was so insignificant in size. On the 4th of March, 1869, when General Grant. took the Presidential chair, there was not one ship that could be got to sea under five months, Mr. Secretary Welles, after spending four hundred and eighty millions of dollars, left the navy without one ship fit to send to sea, although, as appears from his reports, he did’ make an attempt to induce Congress to appro- priate money to preserve those vessels that were laid up, the response to which appeal was to cut down the appropriations more than one-half, That was not a wise move on the: part of a republican Congress, notwithstand- ing they had no confidence in Sinbad the Sailor; for the result was to positively cripple the incoming administration, which has had to work hard to place what litile we have of 8 navy on its legs again. The first rush made at President Grant by the agitators was for the immediate acknow- ledgment of Cuban independence, or, at least, for a recognition of belligerent rights on the part of the insurgents; and there may be a solution of his indisposition to take any steps in the matter in his discovery that we could get no ships to sea under five months, He found also that one entire fleet was so rotten that the ships had to be sold abroad for fear of risking the lives of the officers and men in sending them home; and the entire West India fleet had to return home in midsummer on account of the sickness of the crews and the ungeaworthiness of the vessels. It has since been shown that every vessel of the navy had to undergo thorough repair for the want of that appropriation asked for by Mr. Welles previous to his retirement. If the “Old Man of the Sea” did sleep away seven years of his time in office, he awoke at last to the propriety of leaving his successor something wherewith to run the navy. Without doubt the sympathies of President Grant were all with the Cubans; but he com- prehended that we were in no position then to undertake a war with Spain, that had eighty- six naval ships in Cuban waters, mounting six hundred heavy guns, to oppose to our four small vessels and twenty-five guns. Desirable as was the recognition of the Cubans at that time both to the President and the American people, it would have brought with it a terrible humili- ation. In one week our entire coast could have been threatened by nearly a hundred Spanish men-of-war, and our people would have been crying out for the navy when there was no navy to be had, and we should have been obliged to take the back track and hide our diminished heads. We all know the treacherous character of the Spaniards, and that they do not hesitate to attack unprotected towns and coasts, and the result of a war with Spain would have been anything but pleasant to contemplate. Had we possessed even an ordinary navy we could have long since demanded that the Cu- bans should be treated as human beings; and it is hoped that the time is not far distant when our legislators will awake to the fact that the reason why we do not interfore in the cause of humanity is because Congress will not give the means to enable us to do so. The last Army and Navy Gazette of the United Kingdom declares that it was entirely unprepared for the exhibit of our navy, as set: forth in the Secretary’s annual report, and con- fesses to rise from its perusal with feelings not. only of contentment, but of delighted satisfac- tion and rejoicing that our “‘navy, commerce. and flag are rapidly disappearing from the: ocean.” This is the feeling that animates the hearts of all those opposed to republican insti+ tutions, and it would delight beyond measure the monarchies of Europe to hear of our hu- miliation, This will be our lot some of these days if Congress does: no grant the supplies necessary to. keep up a respectable navy. Thirty-five vessels are all that can be kept afloat, because Congress has even limited the number of men to eight thousand five hundred, which allows only short crews to some of our ships. Congress reduces the number of sailors in the navy to one-fourth that in the French navy and to one-eighth that in the English, while the crews of the Spanish vessels-of-war now in Cuban waters number thirteen thousand three hundred sailors and, marines—four thousand eight hundred more than our whole navy. The first duty a nation owes is protection to its citizens abroad, and its commerce has a right to the shelter of ita country’s flag. No wonder our citizens in Cuba have to fly to the protection of British ships when what little navy we do possess has to be scattered hither and yonder, looking after the different interesta of the country, and are so few in number that they cannot perform their legitimate services. At the very time our citizens are crying out | for protection and the Navy Department is using all its means to equip what vessela it can, Congress not only cuts down the appro- priations, but sweeps back into the Treasury an amount of money already appropriated, which the Secretary of the Navy asked leave to usq