The New York Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1870, Page 6

> 6 NEW YORK HERALD eee BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. . B27 AMUSEMENTS. THIS. AFTERNOON AND. EVENING. FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais)— Faou-Exou. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—Vancere ENTER. TAINMENT, 40, Matinee at 236. WALLAGK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana ih stteet.— TUM BOMOOL VOR SCANDAL. . NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bi Tuk Penavy or LimERtox. way. THR RAPPARER; on, LINA EBWIN's TI Dok FROM BELOW —FA 720 Broadway. —AMBASSA- EO JAFYIEY JENKINS, GRAND ©PERA MOUSE, corner of 8th av. and 23d at,— Les BRiganve. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Brendway.—Tue PanroMmMr oF Wee Winsik Winkir, Matinee at 2. WeOD's MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.--Perform- ances every afterneon and eveula: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe: vaReR OF PARIS—THY Logr Su! Vivoog, tae Tarer- ieee ¥, B. CONWAY'S PARK THUGATRE, Brooklya.— POL. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 4 1—GRAN GERMAN OPERA—WUDSORU EZ, pete R@OTU'S THEATRE, 25d wi.. vevweon Sth and 6tu ava.— Riv Van WINKLE. 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FLALD Special Report from Ver. | Sailies; Prussia Willing to Prtertain Fatr Pro- | positions for Peace; De Paladines’ Strategy | Understood by Von Moitke; Present | Positions of the Hostile Armies; — Seve- re irmishes in N ern France; Se- vonville—Rissia : | will Friendiy to the | ns and Cabinets Tn. | 88; Bismarck and Ger- i P ; The Cro clined Towards a Congre: fossil candidates were put upon it—real antedi- ands Maintained in | luvians, political mummies, still redolent with papyrus. and tar. | Whe Ontleok for 1872—New Kerk tho Koy- gene as Well us tho Himpire ‘State. tant change in the relative political, poailion of -the States. ‘The tradition of modern politi- {cians has been that “fax Pennsylvania goos 40 ees tho Union”-—that the Quaker Common- woalth was the keystone of ‘our political arch. ====== | "his ig like the old tradition {fiat Philadelphia, was the natural metropolis of the republic, and that. all law was-in Philadelphia lawyers; Steam and the Bric canal settled one tradition, education the other, In like manner the Key- stone crosses te darseys and, remaing with New York. i Some months ago, when the democratic fac- tions. were quarrelling at Albany over the terms ofa charter, upon which democratic supremacy in the city would depend, the Heraxp pointed out. to the sagacious leadors that in the strife'for'a few places in the city everything would be lost in the natioz, Tam- many had beew the cltadel, New York the répresentative corps of the democratic army. When’ the who'e country was submerged in one wild, hill-embracing radical waste of waters, Tammany, like tho ark. of the Deluge, floated uatil it rested upon Ararat, and, having sent Hoffman out as 4 messenger, he returned with sizna of life and vegetation, for in his mouth waa a fresbly-pluckod Governorahip, ‘The old leaders, in their mad- ness, had been swept away. Wise, Breckin- ridge, Black, Vallandigham, Gwin, Bigler, the Seymours, Bright, Soul¢, and the whole host had gene under in the deluge. They would not heed the wisdom of the prophets nor hearken to the commandments, And with them were buried all the “isms” that had brought so much scandal and confusion upon our distracted laud—State rights, squatter sovereigaty, fugitive slave lawa, the regolu- tions of 1798, Jeffersonianism — everything, in fact, except the memory of Jackson, and even that became aniediluvian, and our poli- ticians read of it very mueh as the thediegians | read of Niiirod and Methuselah, The duty devolving upon the New York democracy has been performed with patience and not without anxiety and suffering. Every- thing had to be made anew. It was so hard for the feeble-minded and the stiff-necked away down in Obio and Kentucky to be- lieve there really had been a deluge, and con- vention after convention in these rash States would insist that the party should take some remnant of the wreck and make an ‘‘o!d-fash- joned platform.” In vain the Herap pro- tested that the planks were sodden and worm- eaten; that all life and sap had oozed out; that they were covered with fungus and moss, offensive to vision from the signs of sure decay. The platform was built, with a little varnish and putty on the’ worst planks, and And when the country me iikely to Assume a Policy of Mediation; rinany; National Unity and a | N ma! Coustitution—Growling Gladiators : t How “Joe? Coburn Played ‘Bluff?’ while “Jem” Mace was Playing Faro—The Storm | fe Convenitou—Literary Mati- fon in Jersey City, | Kagiving: How the bay Will Be Celebrated; ‘ling the Poor and Lowly; the Religious | Services—Vanittes of the Fairs: Aid for the Foundimgs aud the French War Victims—Ar- rested jor Mur “Kiv’ in the Pit Agat aud Kat Balts—0: intelligeace— Lis Views on Religion | verland to Peckskili—Will | Tia Prisoner be ‘fried (—Morley Punshon in | the Lyceum—The Boy Murderer—Ex- | citing Seene in a Y re~ Battlo at Pioche, | Nevada. ! S—Lkuope: Employments of King William and | Bisinarck at Versailies; the Sieges of Paris— Proceedings in the Courts. Woman's Tri- | wuiph—The Pittsburg Clerte: | G—Hiitoriais: Leading Ariicte, “Th 1872—New York the Keystone as well as the | Kmpive State’—Amusement Announcements, | 7—Editorials rom Sixth Page)—Per- sonal Intel Telegraphic News from all | Parts of t News trom Washington— Literature Notices, | S—Diamonds: News irom the South African Dia- mond Feids; The Sparkters Shipped in Large Quattities—-ltews from Afriea—Naval and Army tvelligence—The Author of *Lothair” and His Literary Triumphs—S gious Panatiosm: A New Ji Nsted in South Afriea ~ Years: The Last of Gua Tristram—S8t. Patrick’s churen, Long Islana Otiy—Dock Department Doings—Evangelical Alliance. sscapade aud Death of a Buenos an—The Prot Health—The | : The New xploring Expeditions; and Tehuantepec Surveys+—Brook- 3—Newark’s Pair of Olivers—Mor- ooklyn—Finanetal and Conunercial tality in Reports—Real Estate Sales—Marnages and Deatis. \ 10—Crime ii the Slums: Two Tableaux. of Death | Atle oily Drunken Caronsuls—New York € New Jersey liems—A Queer Discove ear'hed at Prospect Park, Bro: naigemadon and What Game of lt— | an Boy—Suicide by Commissivnership—- dy erlise nents. ° Callfornia Express Criminal Trial in New | father Gra- | x plot Fisbing | stom of | | A Trousanp Horses A Day, it is reported, | are supplied to the butchers of Paris, and | through the butchers to the people as horse | beef, At this rate how long will it be before , Yeneral Trochu is reduced to a surrender for want of horses to move his Ilery ? A New Prerer he common ad- dendum to an advertisement of a clerk wanted—‘‘one from the country preferred’’— has given place in the West to the phrase | (when Inborers are wanted) ‘Scandinavians | preferred,” That is a handsome compliment \ to a hardy and industrious race, Troors OrpErED tO ¢ foree is to be sent into Ge preserve peace at the approaching election. The President does not intend this as an in- timidation, but as a precaulionary measure, 1A,-=A toilitary gia in order to | rendered necessary by the ungetfled condition | of affairs in that State. Risg iN tHe PRtox oF SCALPS.—In the Mexi- | can State of Sonora» the price of Indian scalps has gone up from twe hundred to three hur- | dred dollars. If the supply in Sonora will prove equal te the demand ‘the work of exter- minating the poot red man will preve profita- ble to Mexican Indian hunters. A Distineuisimy SovTm Amertoay Svt- o1pk.—We publish on another page of the Hurratp this morning the particalars of the melancholy suicide of the son of ex-President Mitre, of the Argentine Republic, who was at- tached to the Argentine Legation at Rio Janeiro. The unfortunate young man, who came to pass upon this and what the republi- red and Turkey Unmoyed aud ; Cans gave them in General Grant, with his ; Splendid war record, his nobleness and simpli- clty of character, the decision was instant leteorological Report—Ohio Wo- | @nd conclusive, into Napoleon. Ne nation can livo and grow without discipline, scieace, patience, ‘ law and wisdom. So it is with parties. All , mad whirl of the sans culotices Young Democ- | as “principles” and rebellions crop ont in The worm-eaten platform was blown into fragments by one November gale, and Tammany, rebuked and overridden— Patient, protesting, wise, unheeding 'lam- mapny—became the example and the arbiter of democracy. There is no education so perfect and splen- did as the education of adversity. ‘The French revolution began with a street riot and developed into Austerlitz and Marengo. The sane culottes of the Carmagnoles grew the fever and passion and mad careering of copperheads and young democrats and red hot leaders is of no more value in the serious business of a party than were the freaks of revolution. Cold. reason, mathematical ar- rangement of resources and ideas, the presci- ence of victory and statesmanship must come to the leaders of a party or a people before they can command success. This we see in New York. A year ago it seemed as if Tam- many had lost wisdom through the suspense of waiting and catching the general feeling, had doffed its breeches and plunged into the racy at Albany. Aad we said, if this is true, then farewell to democratic ascendancy, for with such a spectacle as this to show the coun- try—“Thunderbolt” Mike and “Big Six” and their followers in a Donnybrook fair row, over as serious a business aga charter for New York—nothing remains but for General Grant to walk the Presidential track in 1872; for New York passes out of sight in democratic councils and general political calculations, and while the Empire State lies a seething, useless mags of anarchy and street mobs the Key- stone ia with Peansylvania, Ohio and Indiana, The wisdom and patience then taught and the warnings so earnestly given by the HkRALD were heeded, and to-day the political futare of the United States rests with the Empire State—imperia! in politics, as she long has been in wealth and power. The men who built the ark and remained in it are seen to have been true men, with the highest inspira- tion—men whom it will be well to follow. General Grant has no assurance of success. His party sees division and heartburaing. All manner of strange fancies are blown into life every part of the Union, In Massachusetts it is Wendell Phillips with his ideas of tem- perance and labor; in Missouri it is. Carl Schurz, with some foolish nostrum which ‘no- body accepts, which he does not belleve in himself, but which is taken up by the demo- crats in sheer mischief and to encourage mu- tiny. In Mlinois we have the Jeading republi- can journal clamoring for a ‘‘new party,” while in New York ag earnest a partisan ag Mr. Greeley cannot ran for Congress in a close district without republican protest. Mr. Wilkes justly complains that ke }was defeated by republicans, while over in Ki @ republican Congressman was lust by the enmity of Tillon and Chitten- den and local party treachery. The South, which was tobe a unit by the aid of negro votes, slips from the republican grasp. Ten- was only cighteen years of age, found life too burdensome to bear, owing to the dissipation into which he plunged, and, to rid himself of the burdens which oppressed him, he fvolistily destroyed the life whieh God had given him, nessee has gone, and with it Virginia and North Carolina and Georgia and Alabama, any the receptive, imitative intellect of Pompey and Sambo, "In Rolle slapd as donapl cious republican as Mr, Jonckes is defeated by a republican Senator like Sprague, In New York Senator’ Fonton abandons the field and fies to California, and surrenders ‘the fight becausé Mr, Murphy is Collector, and the 74i- bune approves the anerifies, ind throatens to “go to sleep” itself for “thres Se Four Fea Was thero Gver Buch a Collusion of ‘tongues since the bnildera of Babel broke tip iu wild dismay? And may it not/be-that a party which claimed in its pride and power and ambition to build a tower thet would pierce"the very heavens is punished with ‘the condemnation that came upon pride and ambition in the early days? To-day tho rays of victory gleam upon the eyes of the democratic leaders. They flashed over the November sky like the gorgeous aurora, which buat recently covered our wintry heavens. ‘The ‘republican leaders see the danger, and old-fashioned crafty pilots like Camerén and Chandler and Forney, whose business it is to read the skies, have been huddling around the White House in great alarm. Butler, the ablest and foremost repub- lican of the day, the Mirabeau of -vepublicane ism, calls for a European war. Lis desperate and audacious genius counsels war'ns tho only hope of contin ed power, The very fact that such counsel is given shows how clearly these ominous tokens have pressed upon bis’ mind and the miads of. weaker and more timid men. Can General Grant ride the storm? Can he meet a cold Senate and a discordant House with any policy that will fuse and weld the party into discipline and activity? Has he any agsnrance that the leaders in Missourl and Illinois and Indiana will not ride over his weak and crumbling Cabinet and perhaps wreat from bim the organization of the next House? Will he show that desperate courage which sometimes: makes one a ma- jerity—the couragé of Jackson, when he bent the party inte his owa way, and astonished aad capilyated the cowatry by his superb, im- perial, overriding gexi This certainly oan | be done; but will hé do Wf, and will the mea who heid up his arms second bim ia the work? | The outlook ie-day is with the democracy. New York has advocated, sirengthoned, dis- ciplined, regenerated the party. As New York goes so will go the Union; and uniess the influences which have led to dhis consum- mation, through so many dangers and trials and disappointments, are checked by similar a ee a pow g NEW, YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY The Eastern Leal alt ing the day an@ evening y y, go to show that the Russo-Eastern question till presents. avery delicate subject for diplomatic treat- ment, It has not exactly attained the effer- yeagent point of provocation for war—a general war botween Russia, England and)Turkey— flor has tt yatalmniihad downto that gegree whigh will permit the, members of the royal | families. and, Cabinets, to disonas the | probabilities of a congress or eonference in @ quiet, frlendly, domestic “fireside cliat, Russia, maintatos tho equity of the principle which was enunciated in the Gortchakoff. cir- colar, The St. Petersburg government does not eppear to be in haste to insist on its vindi- cation by force of arms just at the present mo- ment, but it is quite evident that the Ozar wishes to stand intelligibly on the record, to make known. exactly what Russia requivea ; to be ‘aure thathe is right,” and so postpone the “go ahead” effort for its attestation to some tutnre day. Tho ides of an adjustment of the difficulty by means of 4 European confe- rencestill prevails, It, appeara, ‘indeed, to ‘be more than a {dea, Tt presents all the features of an opinion which has been generally. adopted alrendy—one which is. likely.te be matured to a conviction. ~Russla denies ‘that she has had any prodelermined design io reopen the East- erd question, or that ‘she has been purposely hostile to Turkey. She will not object, per- haps, (o enter @ conference. It is evident, however, that if a conference should be as- se:nbled Russia will gain her point, and thus institute a neogasity for niany other Conferences and eventually fora general European congress. The municipal bedy of St. Petersburg supports the Czar loyally. Prussia still sympathizes with Russia; but, King William will, it is said, sus- tain a peacefut solution of the point of dispute. Bismarck appoars to keep himself clear of any active diplomacy in {i ug matter, pgland remains npervons, but Tictinga fowards an arcingement by a conference. Phe Londoii Stock Exchangé was upward and breadstuffs | tendiag dowa--British symptoms, and almost infalliple, of peace; for England, as we know, has already seen, in the time of the First Bonaparte, ‘thrones to rise and fall with oats.” Turkey and [taly were calm but watech- ful. France spoke only of the past, being un- certain, itmay be, as toher own future. One of our telegrams from London sets forth a very hopeful pointin the news narrative—a point action on the part of General Grant and his friends, it is not difficult to see a democratio victory in 1872 as decided as that which made Mr. Buchanan President in 1 Tho War Siination in France. The news of to-day differs very little from that of yesterday. All is quiet along the lines, The army within Paris has made no outward movemont, no bombardment of the city has been attempted by the Germans and almost a general quiet prevails, Patadines is carrying out his plans with great caution, and the Germans in his front keep close watch on all his movements and apparently fathom his intentions. The quieinow enjoyed on both sides is the calm preceding the storm, The great struggle, possibly the final struggle, cannot now be much longer delayed. Should Paindines’ Army of the Loire be defeated in the approaching batile near Paris we think the end of the disastrous conflict between France and Prussia will be very moar a close. From the commencement of the war the Ger- mans have had it all their own way. On the French side it has been one series of disas- ters, one following the other, in quick succes- sion, and each succeding failure assuming still greater proportions than the preceding one. The successes of Garibaldi, the energy of the smail detachments in Northern France or the successful exploits of the TFrancs- tireurs can but little affect the general result. Everything is staked on Paris, The life of France is, as it were, set upon a cast, and we how awail the hazard of the di Mexico AND tHE TEMUANTEPEO RALLWAY.— It is said that the Mexican Congress has tacked on the Tehuantepec Railway bill, which it has just passed, such impracticable conditions as render the concession worthless. This is char- acteristic of Mexican legislation and of every- thing that Mexico does with rogard to public works. There is so much jealousy and suapi- cion of foreigners, and such a scramble among the public men.of that country for the spoils which they can wring from foreigners and out of any great undertakiog, that scarcely anything can be accomplished. The Mexicans talk well and much and promise a great deal, but are uttetly impracticable. However, it is said that President Juarez has returned to Congress the Tehuantepec Railway bill with remarks pointing out iis defects, and that the bill will probably be amended. Still we have little hope that Mexico will ever show in this, or in anything else, common sense, liberality or enterprise. Nothing important will be accom- plished in the way of oponing transit routes for commerce through Mexico till the United States takes possession of the country. Want or Cnivagry in San Franotsco.— We have given copious accounts of the as- sassination of a member of the California bar, Judge Crittenden, by a woman named Fair, But we have not, we believe, mentioned the fact that all the leading members of the San Francisco bar have declined to appear as counsel for the defence. This is not right. It exhibits a want of chivalry on the part of the San Francisco lawyers that is far from commendable, No matter how heinous the crime of the accused, the simple circumstance that she is a woman should entitle hor to a fair show upon her trial. Bing a woman she has no voice in making the laws nor in the manner of their vindication, Therefore we hold it to be the bounden duty of the bench to perempto- rily assign for the defence the best talent the bar of San Francisco affords. No one, per- haps, kaows what stinging necessity, imag inary. perhaps, impelled this wretched woman tg the perpotration of her last fatal crime. 8 we f ited 4 propor considera~ be denied that little consolation. Inrrigves ror Narongoy’s Resroratton appear to be actively going on; but afier Ba- gaine’s surrender of Metz, with his regular army of 175,000 men, France will prefer if Tammany, with an extra assessment of one per cent, cannot carry tho remainder, then we miscalculate the influence of ready money upon almest anything to Napoleon, and Napsleon will bo safer anywhere else than in France, tion before the law, and we trust she will notg! in relation to France. The despatch says :— “Downing street believes that Russia will withdraw the pretensions advanced by Gort- chakoff's note and express her willingness to refer the question at issue te a coaference, which will net be summoned until after the termmation of the present war.” Whew! Is that the way? ‘Is this the total of the whole?” as the late Mr. Joseph Hume was wont to inquire almost nightly in’ Parliament during the period of his honést, economic en- deavors to save the British people from ruinous taxation. Tne Pork aND THE Kina of IrALY— A Coo. WrLoome.—While the people of Rome are preparing for a grand reception of King Victor Emmanuel it is said that “by order of the Pope every church will be closed during the King’s presence in the city.” We can hardly believe this report. The Holy Father, we know, regards the annnexa- tion of the States of the,Church to Italy asa sacrilegeons outrage; but we know also that ho is a kind-hearted and benevolent man, and we are sure that he prays for his enemies. Granting, then, that the King of Italy is a great sinner, “which nobody’ will deay,” would it not be more consistent to open ihe churches of Rome for prayer on the arrival of the King than to shut them up, and thus shut him out as an incurable heretic? We cannot believe that the Hely Father bas resolved to sbut the doors of salvation against poor Victor Emmanuel, whose worst mistake ig that he thinks the king- dom of the Pope is not of the kingdoms of this world, but of the world to come, ‘‘where nei- ther moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break throngh and steal” in the absence of the French troops. We wait for further confirmation from Rome, A Man Bounp vo Rise.—Frank Blair, the democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1868, is 2 member elect of the Missouri Legislature. Falling from the top, he begins again at the bottom of the democratic ladder, like a hero who does not care to stand out in the cold upon his dignity. Ber.icerent Peacemakers.—It is aston- ishing how societies established for the pro- motion of peace abroad generally become in- volved in a social war among themselves, The latest instance isthe split between the Sociolo- gists, or humanitarians, who occupied Cooper Institute on Saturday, and their brethren who held forth there on Monday. Tie peace pro- ceedings of the latter occasion consisted mainly of a hostile attack upon the speakers at the former meeling—a wild defence of Louis Napoleon, a crack at Carl Soburz for “kissing King Wil- Tiam’s too” and a little spurt of skirmish firing from the ‘‘reds.” Altogether it was a most ungocial and warlike ‘‘peaee mecting.” Will not these sponters learn that talking non- sense in New York will not disband a single army corps on the soil of France, and can bave no ether effect than making thomselves notorious?—which is, perbaps, just what they are after. et ail Ts Woman Surrraae.—The woman suffragists have inaugurated a vigorous campaign against the monopolizers of the ballot bex, and are pushing their cause ahead with com- mendable zeal and energy. A goodly number have met in solemn conclave in Cleveland, Obio, and yesterday the venerable Lucy Stene read the report of the Executive Com- mittee, showing the rapid progress woman suffrage was making throughout the Hastero and Western States, ‘The main feature of the report is the assertion that enfranchisement will give woman every right ‘subject only to the law of benevolence.” Bon Voracs! to the foolish Custom House clerk who is rolling a wheelbarrow of flour all the way to Peekskill to pay an election bet. He staked his good sense on Woodford, and lost. Now he has pulled up stakes at the Custom House and started for Peckskill behind a wheelbarrow. We wish him moro wisdom, and better, luck noxt time, NOVEMBER, 23, 1870; TRIPLI BHEET, deat Weamell aaa vag edre a} [The Mexitan Free Zone. _ We regret that wiser counsels did not pro- tvail in the Mexi¢an | when the ‘question of the abolition of free zone was brought up for consideration, . The proposal to aboliub' tt was fot only Kilted, but it was de- cided to continue and extend it. For along time ite abolition has been under the goit- Sldetatiof of thie leading minds of ho s4publio} and whem men like” Jnsrez, Romero and | other memhere of the predent Cabinet advo- cate Kis abolishment it shows at least that the subject has réceived careful thought,’ The zona libre; fairly considered; is an injury'to Mexico, It leaves the whole frontier of the States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon open to illegitimate. trade, encourages smuggling and {3 a gross, injustice to every honorable trader throtgtiout the copntry. Under the free zone system the merchandise introduced into the country through the ports of entry of the republic has not the slightest chance of competition with that which is entered through the free zone, for. the very simple reason that the former pays. duty while the other does: not, This is one of the | “beauties of ‘the zona Ubré, and this is the system which the wiseacrea of the. Mexican Congress desire, to perpetuate, extend and nourish, Were the fojastice which the free zone inflicts. confined: to Mexicans it. is very probable that the press of the United States would not trouble itself at-all on the subject ; but when the system inflicts injury on every honorable trader doing business on the Amert- can side of the Rio Grande itis time that some- thing should be done to secure its abolishment, Foreign’ goods are brought into Mexico through the free zone free of’ duty and are smuggled into the United States. This is where the American complaint comesin. It is sald that the reason for voting for the measure by the Mexican Congressmen is to express defiance to the Yankee government. Well, 86 be it. Wo have long considered iat the worst enemies tho Moxicang have are the Mexicana themselves, and it does not at all surprise us that they now attempt to qrarrél | with their best frlend—the United Sinica, Berga at His Post. Borgh did good service to humanity and the morals of the city when he broke ap that infernal den in Water street known as Kit Burn’s dog pit. The capture was complvia. Dogfighters, dogs and rats—all kindred crea- tures—were seized and carried off. The plans of the police were so well laid that the rnf- fianly crew was takon in flagrante delictu. The evidence against the whole gang, there- fore, ought to be clear enough to secure a conviction, and we only hope that, if indicted, as they ought to be, they will be sent before the City Judge for trial, He will make them squeal worsethan tho unfortunate rats who were dumped into the East river by the police. The amount of crime nurtured tu these pest houses is almost incalculable. Upon the pre- text of beiag the resor! of ‘‘sport” in its most degraded aspect they are really the haunts of thieves and abandoned women. Society has been too lenient with the Kit Burns class of fellows. It is time mow that it should protect itself against these men and their brutal avocations, Thanks to Mr. Bergh and the vigilant police force who accompanied him on Monday night an opportunity offers to bring the ringleaders to justice. Let the Police Justice, the District Attorney and the Grand Jury do their duty faithfully, and the commu- nity may be relieved of the disgrace accruing from such brutal orgies *as the so-called “sport” of the dog pit. A BorctaR in Hian Lirz.—We are familiar with the saying that the profligacy of the son often brings the father’s gray hairs in sorrew to the grave, The Lexington ave- nue burglary has some features about it that might well realize the pfoverb. Tho confes- sion of the prisoner, young Kelly, shows that not only was he a most depraved criminal, but that, with a heactlessaess unparalleled in the most abandoned characters, he dragged ‘the good name of his respectable father into disrepute ‘by secreting the stolen property in the house of this wealthy and much respected citizen, Surely, this young fellow is ‘not only the most villanous of burglars, but, accord- ing to the police accounts of his habits of life, he must be a most debauched wretch. The condemnation of the whole comanunity which is accorded to this bad son will be only eqialled by tho sympathy feit for the father. Lt is a bad story altogether, German Consouipation.—Count Bismarck’s work is all but done. We take it for granted, of course, that Paris must surrender, But aside from that the Germany of the future must credit him with its consolidation. Tho latest news is to the effect that Baden and Hesse enter the Confederation uncondl- tionally, Wurtemberg making immaterial> re- servations, Bavaria retaining only ber control of her military organization. Bismarck be- lieving, as he does, in forse and inthe inevita- ble march of events, is not too exacting. It is now, however, safe to conclude that Germany is a unit and that King William a few weoks hence is to be Emperor of Germany. Tuk Nxaroin the United States is neither dying out nor being bleached out. Partial re- turns of the census show an aggregate increase of negroes in the Southern States since 1860, notwithstanding the thinning of their rauks by emigration, disease and the war. Georgia, Texas, Delaware and the District of Columbia show considerable increase, while the decrease is most marked in Virginia and South Carolina. Although Sambo has managed to hold his own in the last decade, he has not made any fearful inroads upon the white population ; consequently there is no immediate danger of “negro supremacy.” Dirnor Inoagration to tHe Souri.—A movement is on foot to send immigrants direct. from Denmark, Sweden atid Norway to Mobile, and thence to their appointed destination, Tennessee and other Southern papers ere courage the project, and it will probably be carried out, A Cats on Genera Burier.—The Tribune wants to know whether General Butler sticks to his war platform on the Alabama claims, or gives it up. For the sake of quieting tho fears of all the old women in the country we also call upon the General on thig interesting quos- tlon—peace or war? i ——————— of the “Unlied States. The Tonuace | We have received a copy of the annual re port made’by Mr. award Xoung, Ohict.of the Bureau of Statistics at Wasbingion, to the Seeretary of the Treasury, in which we find @ table showing the number and tonnage of ves- sels owned in the various sea, river and lake j Ports of the United States, The total aumbor } of vessels employed in our oocan and interior trado iy 26,198, of an Serogate tonnage of 846,149 fons, Of that mumber there aro 16,095 sailing, vossols, with a tonnage ce \ a ong posal ts lpg with a ton- } * , Wien. sels—such as canal SE i 795,805. Tere are therefore over five times as many sailing vessels as ther’ are steamers, and the comparative tonnage of the two classes is a little more’ than two to one, “On” the coast. of Maine the proportion of salling vossels to steamers is as sixty-five to one— 2,973 to 46—and the: comparative tonnage as twenty-nine to one—498,764 to. 17,535. Tata “disparity in favor of the sailing vessels’ ta owing to tho fishing fleots of that coast, whi are exolusively propelled by sail. ° * Oi the Massachusetts conat the disproportion, fy lessened by about one-half—2,795 sailing’ vessels to 89.steamers. The chief fishing port of Massachusetts is Gloucester, where there are 560 sailing vessels owned, of an aggre- gate tonnage of 28,647 tons, and but one little steam tugboat of 13 tons. New Bedford, ‘the great whaling port, has 268 sailing vessels, of 59,641 tons—half the number but twice the tonnage of Gloucestem veh’ in Boston, which has considerable foreign trade, the pro- portion of sailing vessels and steamers is as’ thirteen to'one—817 to 63—and the compara~ tive tonnage as twelve to one—259,804 to 22,020, ; When we come ‘to examine the figures for New York we find the number of sailing vos- sels owned in this customa district to be 2,460, with an aggregate tonnage of 473,451 tons; the number of steqntors to be 655, with a ton- nagé of 311,890, and the number of unrigged vessels—canal boats and barges—to be 1,487, With a ignnage of 183,586. In other words, the sailing vesiais are nearly four times as bomerous as the steamers, while their tonnage is only as eight te five; and the vessela en- gaged in the canal and river trade are more than twice as numerous as the steamers, with a tonnage ia the proportion of three to five. On the Western rivers, exclusive of the New Orleans district, the number of steam vessels owned is 725, with a tonnage of 206,189, and the bumber of unrigged vessels {s 843, with a tonnage of 120,288. There are no sailing vessels reported. In the New Orleans district the number of sailing vessels owned is 400, with a tonnage of 14,252, and the nnmber of steam vessels 170, with a tonnage of 41,788; so that while in number the sailing vessels outstrip the steamers in the proportion of two and a half to one, in tonnage the steamers out- strip the sailing. vessels in the proporiion of three to one. The commerce of the great lakos ‘employs 1,548 sailing vessels, with a tonnage of 252,453; 64h steam vessels, with a tonnage of 142,474, and 8,154 unrigged vessels, with a tonnage of 285,535—the total number of ves- sels employed being 5,343, with an aggregate tonnage of 680, 162. The Pacific trade employs 802 sailing ves- gels, with a tonnage of 88,946 tons, and 197 sieum vessels, with a tounage of 53,088 tons, The entire tonnage of the United States, engaged in ocean, lake and river trade, is. as foliowa :— ; Vesseta, Tons. Saillog vessels. 2,135,268 Stdam vessels 1,015,075 Unriggea vesse! 795,805 Yotal.. 3,046,140 This shows a very serious falling off in our tonnage within the last ten years. The report for 1860 gave the tonnage of sailing vessels at 1 4,435,951 and of steam vessels at 867,937 —am aggregate of 5,353,868 tons. Tho loss, there- fore, in the last ten years is 1,407,719 tons— equal to over twenty-six per cent. Part of this loss is undoubtedly to be attributed to the competition of land lines of commerce—rail- roads—which have attracted much of the in- ternal carrying trade that was formerly done by water, and part also.to the competition of foreign vessels which have absorbed most of the foreign ocean commerce which used to bo done in American ships. The first mentioned. cause of decay of the shipping trade is one in the regular order of things, and for which a remedy is neither possible nor desirable. The trade that is lost in one way is gained in another, But the loss of our foreign commerce is one for which there is no corresponding advantage, and is to be attributed to the stupid and suicidal policy which prevents American merchants from purchasing ships abroad, where they can be obtained for one-fourth leas price than they can be built for here. The consequence of persisting in this folly is ‘the disappearance of the American flag from all foreign ports and the loss of the large profits to be derived from foreign commerce, while the object for which that policy is adopted— the encouragement of the home shipbuilding trade—is not. attained, but, on the contrary, is defeated. We hope that Congress will, at its appreaching session, lose no time in taking up this question of American commerce, and will, before the opening of the new year, place the merchants and ship owners of tho United States on an equality at least with those of other countries in competition for the ocean commerce of the world, There is no use in any half-way measures. There muat be either free ein ships or we must ex- pect the falling off in our tonnage to be as great in the next decade as it has been in the Inst. | “From THE NetrL& DANGER PLUCKING THR Frowgr Sarery.”—The war cloud of a general conflict in Europe has so far done more towards the probable restoration of peace between Pruasia and France than the many sanguinary battles that have fer the last three months crimgoned the soil of what was once styled le belle nation, Joun CuiwaMaN a Faturk as A Ratt ROAD LAvorER.—The Rome (Ga.) Daily says that the thousand Chinamen who are working on the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad do not give satisfaction, 4nd the experiment is not likely to be rofeated in that section, Probably railroad labor is @ kind of employ- ment the “heathen Chinge” are not accua- tomed 9; fer railroads. wa holiave, are