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

ean ee eS NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, * All business or news letter and telegraphic an. must be addressed New York lara Folame XXXV...... seeecerseeessNO, 103 HY AMUSEMENTS THIS AETERNOON AND EVENING. tJ SAuMANY, Fourteenth street.—Gnanp VARIETY BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 st., betwoon Sth and 6th avs.— WALLACK'S T aa ei ea RATER. Broadway and 18th street. OLYMPIC mA yer D eATER Broaaway.—New VERSION OF *‘ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—FRoU GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and Bd Tun twaLvE TkMPTATIONS. woos Kossce AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- wer’ st. —Matines daily. Performance every evening. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Pivrin; ox, Tue Kina OF THE GOLD MINES. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe: Giyeine, Danone, £0.—La “MRS. FP. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, 7a. ‘Tur Raxr's Paocnsss, gna JEW OF SOUTHWARK— RISSe. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. Voos.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, £0. Matinee at THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadway.—Comto V. a ui, NEGRO Acre, Ao." Matines at 2g." a BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth ANTS MINSTRELS. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 55 B .-E: PIAN MINSTEELSEY, 4c. bing sis ae ae & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—CuinG- LLO HALL, corner 2th street and Broadway.— Tax New HivEeRnicon. Matineoa:2. EBT HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hooury’s ‘MINSTRELS—MasKe AND Faces. “ NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Equrst Qnv Grunaszio PERFORMANONS, 4o. Dating HIPPODROME PARISIEN, corner 34 av. and 6ith st— Equeerss1aN Ferra. Afternoon and evening. bi NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 18 Broadway.— BctENon AND ART. SHEET. —— New York, Wednesday, April 13, 1870. TRIPLE CONTENTS OF To-Days HERALD. Pacs. Advertisements. Q—Advertisements. S—Washington: Postal Telegraph Operations in Switzerland; New Mexico Knocking for Ad- mfssion as a State; The General Amnesty Proclamation Postponed—The State Capital: ms The Bill Abolishing the Boara of Supervisors Passed in Both Houses—The Perlis of Fi- mance—The Quarantine Commission—Monu- ment to Daniel O’Connell—The Methodists— Europe: The New Constitution of France De- fined by Bonaparte. 4—The McFariand Trial: Increasing Interest Mant- fested in the Proceedings; Professional Testi- mony on the Question of Sanity; Racy Free Love Correspondence; A Glance Into. the Inner Life of the New School of Social Morals; Interesting Developments—The Father- less Little Ones—American Microscopical Society—Procecdings in the City Courts—\iar- Tages and Deaths. §—Deaths (continued from fourth page) —Adver- tsemeats. @—Editorials: Leading Article on the New Depart- ment of Docks and the Great Work Before It Personal Intelligence—The Ways of Wall Street—Public School Reunion—Medical Board of the Eastern Dispensary—Amusement An- nouncements. * Y—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the Worla: Tne French Cabinet Crisis and OMcial Po- sition of Ollivier; Revolutionary Sentimant and Individual Expression Against Na- poleon; The Papal Schema and American Championship of Infalhbility; Carlism and Commotion in Spain; A Son of Santa Anna Sentenced to be Shot—New York City News—tThe Elevated Rallway—Daring High- way Robbery—Another Pavement Protest— The Yew City Government—Amusements— Lecture on the Yuron River, Alaska—A Prize Fighting Fizzle m Connecticut: Arrest of the Whole Gang by the Militla— Brooklyn Intelligence—Convention of Univer. salists—Cricket—Charter Elections in New Jersey and Albany—The Recent Malpractice - Case—Business Notices, S—Advertisements, @—Advertisements, $0—Perry’s Third Trial: Second Day’s Proceed- ings—A Fatal Quarrel—The American Colont- zation Society—Financial and Commercial Reports—Burt’s American Friends—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements. 11—Advertisements. -12—Advertisements. “AnoTaeR Famity Few'p’—the family of the young democracy. Epwin Perry's Tarp Triat is the chasm that has brought to light as evidence the dying statement of his victim which was ruled out by the Court on the last two trials. Viok Preswwent Corrax has added a re- publican voter to the census—one who, being now only a few days old, will be qualified to vote about the time-Colfax has a chance of running for the Presidency. Avnotuzr Goop ArcuMeEnr for the postal telegraph system is presented by the American Consul in Berne, Switzerland. The inves'+ ment there pays the government seven per cent of the capital invested. Tax But ABOLISHING THE Boarp oF Surervisors has passed both Houses of the Legislature and is in the hands of the Gov- ernor. Another step towards the thorough reconstruction of the city government. WuirremoreE ann Raivry (the latter colored) are candidates for the vacancy in Congress from South Carolina occasioned by the cadetship investigation in Whittemore’s case. Rainey is the best man; for he is not posted, and will be very virtuous and incor- rupt for time. Gracr0vs!—The Pittsburg Commercial (re- publican) “hopes, for the good of New York, that Tammany’s day of grace is not yet over.” Tammany really seems to be getting popular in the provincial districts. How much more pleasant it is to have even one day of grace than whole seasons of disgrace! A Marrer or Disciptixe.—Lewis D. Campbell has introduced into the Obio Legis- lature a bill to establish a House of Discipline. He was a pretty fair disciplinarian in the army, but why didn’t he show his discipline by to‘ Mexico as American Minister when Greot Work Before It. Under our new City Charter a Department of Docks has been established, and, by appoint- ment of the Mayor, the Board of five persons charged wi.b is control are Wilson G. Hunt, William Wood, John T. Agnew, Hugh Smith and Richard M, Henry. These officers hold for five years and ‘‘shall possess such powers, perform such duties and receive such compen- sation ag shall be established and defined by the city and county Commissioners of the Sinking Fund,” and they “‘may in the perform- ence of such duties expend annually for the repair or reconstruction of the wharves, piers and slips of said city not more than three hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars,” Such is the limit under the existing law of of the powers and duties of this Department. course within the small margin of three hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars a year it can do nothing towards ‘any substantial improve- ments of the city water front on either side, The Board isa mere committee of supervision of the present rickety system of piers and wharves. There is, however, a bill awaiting the action of the Assembly, providing for a much broader field of employment for this Depart- ment of Docks. This bill, among other thinga, provides, after a general hearing of memorials, plans, &c,, from citizens interested, that “the Board shall advertise for plans for the best method for improving the water front and harbor of the city bya new system of wharves, piers, docks, basins and slips, which shall accommodate the present commerce of said city and harbor and shall provide for the future increase and expansion thereof, and for the facilitation of the transportation of freight along said water front, so as to render the whole water front of said city available to the commerce of said port.” And the time for presenting such plans—from which the Board will make their choice for the uniform im- provement of the water fronti—may be ex- tended to the first day of October, 1870, This, we understand, is part of the general programme contemplated by “the powers that be” at Albany in the architectural reconstruc- tion of the cily of New York. In this work of reconstruction, a8 we are, we are fifty years behind Paris on the land, fifty years behind London and Liverpool in our water improve- ments, and twenty-five years at least behind the growth of our own city. There is no sea- port city of half the population of this in Christendom that has such abominable strects for filth, patchwork and botchwork in pave- ments and sewers; such insufficient ways and means of egress and ingress; such an inconvenient pressure in its~ highways and byways; such miserable, shambling, dirty and crowded market places; such an expensive, offensive and indifferent quality of gas; such disgraceful sinks and slums and holes and corners for pestileuce and famine; such clumsy, unsightly, rickety, rotten, dirty and poverty-stricken piers and wharves, at low tide festering in garbage and inky bilge water, or such municipal extortions, looseness and wastefulness, with so little to show for it. Here, then, on the land and the water, are more than the labors of Hercules for our new city government. We have something to be proud of in our Croton water’ works and in our great and beautiful Park, but beyond these and its immense trade, its fine hotels and two or three theatres, and the natural advantages of our city, it has not much to bo.st of as the financial, commercial, intellec- tual and fashionable metropolis of this Con- tinent. Our public buildings are of the pro- vincial order, and we have a hundred miles of streets the houses along which are suggestive rather of provincial decay than metropolitan prosperity. The citizen says we are ground to the dust with corporation corruptions and taxes, and hence we are slow in our improve- ments, What, then, can we expect of this new city government? Wedo not expect as much from it in the same time in making a new city out of an old one as Napoleon and Baron Haussmann have done in the reconstruc- tion of Paris; but we expect something. We expect a beginning, and a good beginning is half the battle. We have the right, in behalf of the commer- cial interests of this city, and in view of the splendid future which lies before it, the right, we say, to demand the beginning of a solid reconstruction of our water front on both sides. Let us suppose, for instance, that some potent magician has passed along our North river front from the Battery to Fiftieth street and has left behind him a beautiful line of wharves built upon stone piers and arches, affording a free passageway for the tides, and that these wharves are surmounted by spacious fireproof warehouses, equal in themselves to the storage of a great city, and that from the water line back to the line of houses fronting the river there isa street one hundred feet wide, we behold the very improvements the city needs along the North river, and along the East river, too. The Legislature, then, should give the autho- rity to this new Board on Docks to make a beginning in t¥is direction. To be sure there will be a mint of money in the job to the con- tractors and jobbers; but thera is a mint of money in it also to the city. It can be made to relieve our taxpayers of half their city taxes, after paying for itself, and the work is necessary to meet the new demands of this new age of the world, The Mayor seems to have a pretty clear appreciation of this new age and its demands upon this great financial and commercial centre, Let us hope that the Legistature will at least give him and his associates in our new city government scope and verge enough for a practical beginning of the great work of architectural reconstruc- tion, including a new and substantial system of piers, wharves and warehouses. GoveRNoR SENTER, OF TENNESSEE, asks the Reconstruction Committee to give him power to raise militia, and he claims he will beable to keep his State quiet, This is a more reasonable and constitutional request than that for a wholesale reconstruction of the State, and is a fair chance for Congress to avoid the bewildering maze of reconstruction that it is liable to get into if it goes on with it, was sent? Maximilian might have been glive at this time, and poor Carlota s sane 4nd happy Princess if he had. ‘The real pline in this case was in the house of juaro®. No Corruprion.—Mayor Hall will probably offer the Board of Aldermen this week a good Price, and no doubt they will accept the yro- position. So will the Priee. ont ‘fae Now Derartmeut of Docks and the few miles of a great city like New York, where hundreds of skilled mechanics can be procured as the wants of the service may require, and where a great market affords Besides this, depend upon our private machine shops to build and works in“ the navy yards could only be used for the necessary facilities for building. bo said that private enterprise would seek New London, and that the moment a navy yard was established there these necessary ad- juncts would follow; but we should like to know what private individual would undertake to follow a navy yard with his steam works for the precarious advantage he might derive from the repairs to the machinery of a few ves- sels-of-war. Naval work is merely a help, not a support, to the machine shops of New York, The Brooklyn Navy Yard. The first necessity of a country that intends to maintain or requires a substantial navy is to have a sufficient number of navy yards, flited with all the appliances for building and repair- ing ships of war. These we have not; for although on paper we possess seven navy yards not one of them can be called first class, During the late war these yards were found to be so inadequate to the require- ments of the service that we had to resort to the private ship yards of New York to enable the Navy Department to fit out the vessels necessary to carry on naval operations. The Portsmouth (N. H.) yard is only large enough to fit out six ships at one time; Boston could perhaps equip twelve; New York, twenty; Philadelphia, six; Washington, four; Norfolk, six; Pensacola, none, as the latter was entirely destroyed, In a sudden emer- gency, then, we could equip in all these yards about fifty-four vessels, This is the state of affairs; and yet under these circumstances our legislators propose to sell the most important navy yard in the country, that of New York, worth all the others combined, without making any provision for establishing another in the vicinity of our chief city. There is a wild scheme on foot to establish a substitute for the New York yard at New Lon- don, and do away with the former altogether. This, if done, would be quite in keeping with the unwise legislation that has characterized the action of Congress towards the navy. Such a project as the one we have referred to would, if carried out, satisfy the country of the disposition of Congress to break up the navy altogether. New London is no doubt a good enough place to build a schooner or two, or fit out a navy of fishing smacks; but when we come to constructing great ships of war, where labor and material of all kinds aro required at a moment’s notice, New London would be found but a one horse place, and a small horse at that, Not a single element required for a great haval depot for building and repairing ships exists in New London. The harbor is not defensible against the iron ships of the present day, which could run by the plaything called a fort, erected in times when iron-clads were un- known, or knock it down, just as it suited them. The only trouble they would have would be in getting through the mud to the place where it is proposed to establish the navy yard—a difficulty our would experience attempt to get to sea from the navy yard. Many of our ships of war are upwards of three hundred feet in length, and a late sur- vey shows that the width of the channel where a ship can turn is but two hundred and eighty feet. navy yard, There are no facilities for fresh water or. timber docks or dry docks, and although there is some truth in the great argument in favor of a navy yard at New London—viz., that iron vessels can lie in fresh water—it is the only advantage it possesses. own vessels in they should case This at once condemns the place as a The proper place for a navy yard is within a immediate means of supplying all kinds of material. in time of war we must repair engines; for the ordinary repairs, not having It may It is the great mercantile marine that supports them, and any argument to the contrary is ridiculous. These are some of the objections toa navy yard at New London. The people of the State of New York are not going to permit one of its principal means of defence to be taken away until they aro satisfied that some place on the North or East river is to be selected where the same means of defence can be located under better circum- stances, the first place at which an enemy would aim, and without the aid of a navy yard and the naval force to be found there it would almost be at the mercy of the foe. vessels might be assembled there in time of war for the protection of the city; but where would be the navy yard for them to go to in caso In case of war New York would be It is trus that of damage received in action if it was lo ated at New London and cut off and blockaded by anenemy’s ships? For that is to be the fate of all the prominent places on our coast in case of war—that is, if our legislators take no heed of the warnings they receive through the press, which, it seems, ‘is better posted than those who have undertaken to regulate the appropria- tions for our navy. Every one knows what an easy matter it was for our wooden ships to run by or even to anchor in front of and capture as heavy forts as those which now protect our great harbor of New York; but that facility would no longer exist if we kept in our own waters a great naval depot, with its iron-clads, torpedo ves- sels and heavy rams ready to interpose and assist our land defences. What use would our heavy naval guns and war material be to New York if they were all transferred to New Lon- don? It would only be when the mischief was accomplished that the people of the State would awaken to the enormity of the offence committed against us, The gentleman who firat proposed the scheme of selling the New York Navy Yard has not as yet satisfied us that he is endeavoring to keep it within the waters of our State, while Mr. Starkweather is quite jubilant over the idea that the whole establishment will go to New London. The fact is, there is a ‘nigger in the fence” some- where, and this whole business looks more like 8 huge speculation than a plan for the national advantage. No doubt the New York Navy Yard should be moved somewhere up the Hudson—for this there are a thousand argu- ments—but before one step is taken in the matter a place on the river should be selected by the proper officers of the army and navy, preliminary to the building of wet and dry dooks, basing for iroa-glads, officers’ quarters, torship,” frequently becomes the source of ‘‘a durable government.” lies the pith and essence of the Bonaparte argument. The people constitute the souree of power; but the people cannot administer the power do this requires, according to Napoleon, a chief of State, hereditary and controlling, aggregating the public expression person and reflecting it by o beneficial admin- istration for the public good. ingenious. in France becomes alarming to the surround- ing crowns, as it really abnegates the divine right of kings and points out their power to the enfranchised European masses. In this view our report to-day will attract very general attention, State. Treasury was eaough for Massachusetts. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, TL ey (Aer ne &e., before a foot of ground is sold at tho present yard. As this affair progresses we will keep watch of it, for the Navy Yard must not be removed to the detriment of New York, The Europcan Mails=The Old World Murch Towards Democracy. The European steamships which arrived yesterday delivered mail reports in detail of our cable news telegrams dated to the 2d of April, The exhibit which we publish to-day is ample and very interesting in its scope and contents, Premier Ollivier read the exposition of the Senatus Consultum or new constitution of France to the Senate during a session which was unusually crowded and amid a scene of intense interest, some of the most distinguished personages in Paris being prosent as spectators and affected by the deepest emotion. We publish the important document almost in extenso to-day. It places the Bonaparte dynasty, its hopes and aspirations, the political science of its present chief, with his attempts to reconcile the coup d'état with the inevitable progress of true demo- cracy and the rights of man, before the Ameri- can people, and thus to a very considerable ex- tent before the world and its civilization. The Senatus Consultum is an able French State paper, drawn up with great care and, it may be, suited to France just now and under present circumstances. The Emperor passes in review the history of the democracies of the world, with the theorles which have been held against “simple” governments from the days of Aris- totle, Polybius and Benjamin Constant down to the period of the recent experiment of Jeff Davis. Democracies very frequently ‘turn to license” and then “to dicta- per sc; but democracy very In this, a8 it appears to us, beneficially for themselves. To in his The theory is Its formal legislative application Prince Pierre Bonaparte was again unfortu- nate, having lost a considerable portion of his property by fire. Spain remained in parlia- mentary agitation relative to the affairs of Cuba. Turkey was still deeply excited on the subject of the Church assumptions of Rome, Our European mail thus tends to show forth the affairs of the Old World as they progress towards equality and fraternity and the reli- gious emancipation of mankind. Rumored Changes in tho Cabinet. It is now said positively that Attorney Gen- eral Hoar {is to retire from the Cabinet, but that he will not do so till next September. We are told also that his retirement is at his own request, because he prefers private to political life, from Pennsylvania and will be appointed just at the nick of time to have an influence on the election fa that State next October. has not felt very comfortable in his place, pro- bably, since he was rejected by the Senate for the position of Judge of the Supreme Court, However amiable the President may have been to him, he saw that he was not in favor His successor, it is reported, is to be Mr. Hoar with bis party in Congress, Then it was not altogether satisfactory to have two Cabinet officers from one The position of Secretary of the General Grant was too kind-hearted and amia- ble to say to Mr. Hoar ‘‘You must go,” but there is no doubt the resignatioa of the Attor- ney General will be very acceptable to him. The same may be said with regard to some other members of the Cabinet who are not ex- actly in accord with the President in his policy. It would be well if they were to show similar delicacy and consideration for the President's situation and feclings. No intima- tion is given yet who Mr. Hcar’s successor is to be. of strong men, himself, and has large views as to the wants and destiny of the country, but he needs those around him of the same turn of mind, and who can aid him efficiently in carrying out his The President should have a Cabinet He is thoroughly practical policy. Franog Stitt Exorrep.—Napoleon stands firmly by the plebiscitum., His Cabinet is un- willing to accept it as drafted under the impe- rial inspiration and in its entirety, The Minis- terial crisis at the Tuileries continues, as shown in our cable telegrams to-day, in con- sequence, Tho legislative body of France will be asked to adjourn to-day, and the national vote on the new constitution be taken in May. The nation remains deeply agitated. A man proclaimed “vengeance” against the Emperor personally, in Paris, on Monday. He was arrested, but his expression has gone abroad. Revolutionary placards have been posted in Paris, numerous arrests have been made and the trade strikes are ex- tending, both in the capital and the rural dis- tricts, Itis evident that the French nation cannot remain as it is just now and the people Curious InoweNt.—Jimmy Fitzgerald, Trish republican, has been elected a member of the Cincinnati Common Council by the aid of negro votes, It is about as remarkable to find an Irishman who is a republican ag it is to find a negro who will vote for an Irishman under any circumstances. Jimmy aspires to a seat in Congress, This cross—negro and Irish—will create another novelty in Congres- sional annals. Szrvep Her Rieat.—The Greenpoiat ferry- boat Greenpoint was run down and sent to the bottom on Monday morning by oiie of tho Sound steamers, This is an argument why the Sound steamers should be kept above Tenth street on the East river. As for the boat that went down, it will be all the bettor. for the convenience of the public if it is found impossible to raise her, That old tub was just fit to go to the bottom. and fit for nothing elie. 4 The Department of Public Works. The most important feature of the new Charter is that which places under one head the two departments of Streets and Croton Aqueduct. The abnormal condition of affairs which for many years has made so much con- fusion in all attempts at civic improvements, while adding immensely to the costs, ought now to cease, since the opportunity is afforded to carry on our public works upon @ broad and comprehensive scale and in accord- ance with a well defined and systematic plan. Under the old system a street was not unfre- quently graded and paved only to be imme- diately torn up and excavated for a sewer. After this was done and the street restored to its former condition it was again torn up to lay the water pipes, and ina short time the same process was repeated in laying the gas mains, after which the condition of the pavement was simply abominable. Certainly any change from such » want of system is welcome. The | principal cause of all this irregularity was due to the manner in which the ordinances were passed under the authority of which the improvements were made. Very frequently two or more ordinances directed the same work to bedone; in other cases work begun under one ordinance would be extended under another, and conflicting ordinances were constantly passed, until it was almost impossible to say under what ordinance the work was belng done. This led to great confusion, expense and often- times to litigation, and in every way the city wasloser. Hereafter any improvement which is asked for should be referred to the Commis- ston of Public Works for such information and recommendation as the case may require. Tn this way a great deal of unnecessary and conflicting legislation will be avoided. The Commissioners will, of course, have the best engineering advice and assistance, and we look with confidence for the establishment of a thorough system of street improvements and effective drainage. A question of primary im- portance is that of street pavements. What is the most suitable material, and which is the best manner of laying it down? Our citizens have been heavily taxed for most wretched pave- ments, and within the past few years we have been experimented upon by every variety of patent pavement—some of them fit only for kindling wood—until the assessments for these abominations bid fair to eat up the property itaolf, Horeafter, it is to be hoped, these experiments if made at all, shall be at the ex- pense of the patentees, and that under no cir- cumstances shall any more pavements bo laid without a suitable and substantial roadbed. The conditions of s good pavement are a durable material, a firm roadbed, impervious to water, alight grade, easy tractionand a good footing for horses. In this climate it is utterly impossible for a pavement to remain intact two years ifthe water is suffered to percolate the bed on which it rests. In a great commercial city like New York, where the least obstruc- tion to travel is a serious: pecuniary loss, a good pavement is the first necossity. If pro- perly put down it ought to last twenty years without requiring repairs, whereas most of our pavements have to be repaired the year after they are laid. We trust that under the new régime this subject will meet with the attention its importance demands, Tne Nizger Frenzy. The nigger fever still rages, All sorts of fevers rage at different times, but the greater part run out in a few months or two or three years. None was ever before known so tena- cious as the nigger fever. The hen fever, the shorthorn fever, the California fever, with other fevers too numorous to mention, have burned out a certain amount of human vitality and displayed human weakness in various ways, but they are mere sparkles in “these respects to tho great blaze of this nigger fever, that set the country on fire more than a dozen years ago, and has apparently abated none of its violence yet. How long ago it seems since we heard the pitiful appeals as to whether or not the nigger was not ‘‘a man and a brother,” and what a wonderfully different attitude he assumes now! Compare the time when the fanatic Garrison was barely saved from hanging ot the hands of a Boston mob because of his nigger notions with the time when the House of Representa- tives of the United States votes the use of its hallfor a rhetorical breakdown to celebrate Sambo’s accession to citizenship—for only by a comparison of these periods can any one rightly judge of the extravagance of the delirium induced by this nigger fever. The fever must burn out soon; for surely it is at its height, with a nigger in the Senate and oyster- man Downing installed as one of the political magnates of the capital. In Grant’s inaugural we hada happy piece of political philosophy to the effect that the best way to insure the repeal of an obnoxious law was to rigidly en- force it. This applies generally as well as in law, and there is no more certain way to disgust the country and awaken a reaction against the nigger than the glorifying course assumed by his fanatic admirers. Tux Gotp Fizzie.—It was a sorry attempt the gold ‘‘bulls” made the other day to get the precious metal out of its decline and elevate it once more to speculative activity. The quota- tion 114, after 110} had been once reached, seemed so large a price that all who had gold rushed to sell it, to the utter demoralization of the “bulls” and their market, Gold is a “‘cock that won’t fight” in Wall street just now. The speculators should devote their attention to some more susceptible commodit; CoutectoR oF THE Port.—All the talk about the resignation or removal of Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, Collector of the Port of New York, emanates from one very small source, and is the offspring of jealousy. General Grant knew what he was about when he ap- pointed Mr. Grinnell to the office, He was acquainted with the man, and was no stranger to his integrity and qualifications, Let it be understood, therefore, that Mr. Grinnell has no intention of resigning, and that General Grant will not permit him to be removed, A Brorat Exursition in the shape of a prize fight was frustrated in Connecticut yes- terday by the stern Puritan militia of that good oldland of steady habits, Three hun- dred of the volunteer yeomanry of the State, under arms, made a descent on the party and bagged the whole of thom. Good for Qon- nectioutt ann meet ee asaiehateneatmemantenetiaty” [ Congress—The Goorgia Bill—Agother Yenld atana Contested Election. Tho main discussion in the Sonate yesterday was of the Georgia bill. The interminable talk was enlivened by nothing more cheerful or fresh than a notice of an amendment constl- tuting Goorgla the Third Military District again. After a while this Georgia question will become a riddle as insoluble as the Schleswig-Holstein affair. As it is we are not entirely certain that Georgia is a State ora Territory or only a military district, or that Bullock or Terry is Governor. All that seems to be plain in the matter is that Congress makes laws for it, such as they are, Instead of the Legislature. The House devoted itself to settling the question of the contested election between Sheldon and Hunt, of Louisiana, with as much earnestness as if the decision were a matter of great doubt, whereas Sheldon, being the re- publican member, and having possession of the seat, it is, according tg all precedent, al- ready settled. Outside of the merits of the case Sheldon is one of the genteelest of all the carpet-baggers, and having served as colo- nel of an Ohio regiment all through the State from 1868 until the close of the war, he pro- bably has as much right to be considered a . bona fide citizen of the State he represents aq Senator Ames, of Mississippi, was decided to be, The Honlth Officer and the Quarantino Commicsiouers. In another column will be found the opinion of the legal adviser of the Board of Quarantine Commissioners as to the nature of the powers vested in that body and in the Health Officer of the port respectively. It is held that the Quarantine Commission is not in any sense analogous to the several executive commis- sions that our republican legislators inflicted upon the city as substitutes for various execu. tive departments. On the contrary, the Qua- ranting Commission does not displace the Health Officer from even the least of his exe- cutive powers, and is simply a board of trus- tees charged with the custody of the Quaran- tine property, not with the execution of quarantine duties. The Health Officer has now, as always, the “entire sanitary control of the Quarantine establishment” and the general power of appointment of subordinates. We believe this definition of the limits of power was necessary, and we are glad the powers are so distinct that there can be no possible collision, and that the Health Officer may be quite unembarrassed in taking what- ever action he may deem necessary in the performance of his functions. Papat INFALLIBILITY AND THE SOHEMA.— The last chapter of the first Schema of the Papal infallibility dogma was to be voted in the Coun- cil in Rome yesterday. There is little doubt that this portion of the Syllabus will be adopted almost by acclamation. The world and Christianity may prepare for the conse quences. The American Archbishop of Balti- more has come out as a direct champion of infallibility, in a letter setting forth a sharp reply to the dissident arguments of the famous Bishop of Orleans, France, This action is in itself extraordinary. It can only be explained by the Papal theory that the Church is “over new and always being baptized” in a healthy infancy. Baltimore sends forth the officiating priest of the nineteenth century. “MusTRRED Ovr"—The Anti-Slavery So- clety. It has been a “mussy” concern for thirty-five years past. er eae PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prominent Arrivals in This City Yesterday. Captain Stone, of Philadelphia; E. P. Ross, of Aus burn; James Roy, of Watervilet, and General Hay- den, of Ricbmond, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. O. B. Matteson, of Utica; E, Brown, of San Fran- cisco; H. Trowbridge, of Connecticut; Cantain Har- rison, of the United States Navy; Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia, and Captain Mason, of Rhode Island, are at the Astor Heusé, ‘W. R. Mercur, of Pennsylvania; R. W. Haynes, of the British Army; 8. D. Caldwell, of Buffalo, and B. Thompson Gale are at the Hoffman House. Colonel Sitgraves, of Washington; H. W. Sargent, of Fishkill, N. Y., and H. L, Rosevelt, of Skeneateles, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel H. Lawrence, of Connecticut, and W. W. ‘Whitney, of Genessee, are at the St. Charica Hotel. A. Cobb, of Ohio; E. W. Edwards, of Ohicagog George Sterling and W. Ciark, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Prowtnent Departures. Judge T. L. Jewett, for Onto; H. W. Hathorn, for Saratoga; W. 8. Kimball, for Providence, and 0. J. Morrell, for Boston. THE WAYS OF WALL STREET. In the case of Van Saun & Oo., brokers, againat Samuel ©. Barr, which was argued in the Superior Court, Judge Spencer has given his opinion upon the application of the defendant to vacate the order of arrest previously issued, and refused to int the motion. The Judge says:—“The affie davits of the parties on this motion are voluminoud and conficting, and the conclusion that wilful pers jury has been committed by some of the parties ta inevitable.” Judge Spencer further states that the cage Was & er one for @ jury, and that in view of the rule, “that when the factatconstituting the cause of action and those authorizing the arrest are iden- tical the order will not ve vacated on motion unless the defendant clearly makes out such 9 case would justify the judge presiding at the trial to non-sulé the plaintiff or direct a verdict for the defendant,”? he denied the motion, without, however, “express ing or intending to express an opinion upon the merits of this action.”” “pusLic SCHOOL REUHICN. The quarterly reunton of the ‘Old Ninth Ciass, Public School No. 3," was heldjat Delmonico's, Fifth avenue, last evening. A large number of the gradu- ates of the class assembled and a number of proml- nent citizens were present as guests, including James W. Gerard, J. W. Farr, Charles S. Wright, Thomas F. Harrison and Bernard Smyth. After am hour of formal proceedings reiating to the perfecting of the association and an eloquent eulogy by Mr. Meighan, of the £xpress, upon the late Kobert D. Hames, the assemblage repaired to an adjacent’ apartment, where an elegant collation was spread. Justice having been done the viands, spirited ad- dresses were deliverea by Mr. Smyth, of the Board of Education; James W. Gerard, and Mr, Harrison, Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools, anc oe and at a late hour the happy party ad- Journed. ———— MEDICAL BOARD OF THE EASTERN DISPENSARY. About a score of the members of this association assembled yesterday at the Trustees! Hall, corner of Grand and Essex streets, to hear a paper read by Dr. H. L. B. Hartt on “Albuminuria,” and one by Dr. Henry Raphael on ‘The Dry Bronchitis of Calia~ hood.” Dr. Sullivan, President of the Board, eccu- pied the chair. The first paper was an elaborate analysis of the dangerous disease to which women are subject while in a delicate condition. After the reading of the paper remarks were made on the gudject by Doctors Garish, Schif, Raphael and the chairman, ‘The second paper gave & lenghty quotation from Professor Stiner’s diagnosis of a case of a child Who has underwent a most severe attack of tho dry bronchitis, fter some diacussion by the members prosent, the chairman announced that ot tho next mectiag Dr. J. P, Lotnes would read a paper on “Vaccina- tion,” tilustrating tt by fifty chikayon who would bq present.