The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1870, Page 6

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Nic peas 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The War in France—The Luxembourg and Eastern Questions—Amusements. 4—Proceedings in Congress—Army and Navy In- telligence—The Collision at Sea—The Presi- dency; Plotting for the Succession of 1872— Woman's Suflrage—The “Yeung” Detective. S—Miscegenation and Murder—A Dash for Lib- erty—The Building Murder—Vive La Repub- liqne Americaine—Two Music Teachers from Albany—Criticisms of New Books—The Park— An Individual Insurance Company—The Grand Indian Council—Catastrophe on the Jersey Central Railroad—A —‘Yestimonial—General News Items—Misceilaneous Foreign Jtems— Curious Domestic Drama—Newark’s Garret Mystery--For Magdalina Bay—Political Notes and Comments. @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The New German Empire in a General European War’—Amuse- Ment Announcements. 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Per- sonal Intelligence—Telegraphic News from all Parts of the World—Lectures Last Night— Obituary—Love and Lunacy—New York City Newsa—Business Notices, —The Taylor Will Case—An Over Rash Robber— Voice of the Peonle—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—The Norfolk Street Homi cide—The Seven-Thirty Bond Case—Attempted Murder—Sale of Art Paintings—The Callicot Case—Brooklyh Bother—The “Frog” Litiga- tion—The Special Censns. 9—Wall Street Wild—Financial and Commercial Intelligence—Queens County Taxes—Another Tron War—Cranky Mac—Personal Notes—Mar- riages and Deaths. 10—News from Washington—Shipping Intell gence—Advertisements. 41—Europe: Social Revolution in Alsace and Lor- raine; An Emigrant Exodus of the French Provincialists Threatened; The European War Cloud Gathering in Germany—Hayti: Its Con- dition, Commercial and Financial—Getting Rid of a Faithless Wite—Advertisements. 12—-Advertisements. GENERAL PLEASONTON CoNFIRMED—A good Christmas gift by the President, endorsed by the Senate, to the people of the United States. Now let us have proper revenue reforms. O'Barpwis, THE Bruiser, has been par- doned out of the Boston House of Correction by the Governor and his Council. Who will pardon the Governor for this? Tere 1s TRovBLE in Louisiana in regard to the distribution of the Peabody educational fund. Of course the inevitable Sambo is at the bottom of it. One Carrrat For Connecricut.—It is pro- posed in Connecticut to do away with the two Staté capital system, and have but one, which will probably be Hartford. The next thing to be done is to build a respectable State Capitol, the present concern being only fit for a country court house in some one-horse Western Territery. Owen Hanp’s Cuzistmas Box is a commu- tation of his sentence of death to imprison- ment for life, which Governor Hoffman has Just sent him. Although the latter fate looks hard enough to us who are free to walk and ride and enjoy the lusty air of this keen De- cember weather, it looks no doubt like the weetest boon of earth to the criminal who has been cowering for the last three days under the dark shadow of the scaffold. To him imprisonment for life is youth, health, wealth, resurrection from the dead. The great joy of B present escape from the mysteries of the river compresses into one little parch- offering all the good things that » wealth Christmas presents ever displayed to the ¢ belle jn the land. SeapeunarcemnegiaspeaseGiimaatcndsdies san. ;.\i5-1csdepuaeunieinnansnchommenimibaoaeeretioen umn cusiamatmasusbetoemmaaa NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUEMBER 17. 1870.-TRIPLE SHEET. The New German Empiro in a General European War. Despatches from Washington City convey very clearly the idea that the impression there entertained points to a general European war within such limits of time as will admit of the forces controlled by the various leading Powers being properly mustered and arrayed for the field. We have contended for peace and have honestly believed in it. We still find it hard te credit the idea that the states- men and the people of Europe are so utterly ingane as to rush into a general war. But the signs of the times indicate that the madness of the hour bas fallen upon them all, and that the rulers, if not the populations themselves, have gone wild with the trenzy of blood and devastation which has reigned for six months past im the fairest regions of the Old World. Prussia, and Germany at her back, are evi- dently determined to make the most of the advantages that they have obtained over France, and Russia is availing herself of the opportunity which the fates afford her to push onward the pretensions which, almost ever since the reign of Peter the Great, she has maintained with regard to the extension of her imperial do- minion and the authority of the Greek Catho- lic Church in the East. Prussia, by her very sudden and decided declaration with regard to Luxembourg, directly menaces the inde- pendence of Holland and Belgium; and, in doing this, so far awakens the susceptibilities, and, and in fact, attacks the guarantees of Great Britain, that there are rumors of the latter Power assuming a belligerent attitude. Negotiations and diplomatic interceurse are even said to have been broken off between the Courts of St. James and of Berlin, and the immediate outlook is for war. Russia is massing her ferces upon the fron- tiers of Austria and of Turkey, and we know that the most extreme activity, in military and naval preparation, has prevailed for weeks past threughout the Muscovite empire. At this moment Russia in Europe, according to the most accurate official accounts, embraces a population of 61,100,000 souls, and the grand total of people subject to her sway, in- cluding Gaucasia, Siberia, Poland, Finland and her outlying territories, is about 76,752,000. The immediate total of her active army is 809,000 men, and, add- ing to these her first and second classes of reserves, which have recently been called out, she has at her disposal for action, within three months, 1,040,000 troops. Her irregulars, to be counted with these and now available, are 178,000 men, chiefly Cossacks. Should they be needed, the Cossacks capable of bearing arms are 307,000 men. This general compu- tation would give Russia, within six months’ time, nearly 1,400,000 soldiers, of whom, we may be assured, the greater number are pro- vided with the most approved weapons of modern warfare. The navy of the Czar, so far as it is known, comprises in steam 37,000 horse power and 2,400 guns, and in sailing vessels 1,300 guns, with 300 gunboats and three immense floating batteries for harbor defence. The personnel of this force amounts, officers and men included, to 60,000. This isa tre- mendous pewer, whieh since the Crimean war has been strengthened and prepared in every conceivable way. We need not suppose that Russia, so watchful in all things, so ambitious as she is and so acutely stung by the capture of Sebastopol, has lost any opportunity or even any hint of improvement. There are some who may remember the triumphal recep- tion of the Czar at Berlin last spring, and the leng conferences held by that potentate with King William, of Prussia, and even with Count Bismarck, during the series of weeks that marked his stay at Ems. May not much of the programme which has since then amazed Europe and the world have been ar- ranged at that very time? Of course, the conferring dignitaries could not have antici- pated so stupendous a success as the Fran co- Prussian war has brought; but, that success granted, may we not now be witnessing the results of a provisory plan arranged between them? At allevents, we behold Prussia com- bining and leading all Germany, and the latter, in victorious mood, preparing to absorb all the Germanic communities, close or remote, of Europe, including Belgium, Holland, the German provinces of France, of Switzerland, of Austria and of Russia. To this operation Austria, for one, may object, and, by our late despatches, we perceive that she claims a force of nearly a million of well equipped and disciplined troops. But we must remember that of these the German portion will be drawn toward their own people by inevitable political gravitation, and that the Slavonic portion, by religion, association, tradition, nay, by in- stinct, are attracted toward Russia. There is, then, no other result probable or natural than that Austria will disappear, as a first class Power. The German Empire will attract and envelop all the Germans, and Russia will get all the Slaves. It may be that for the sake of an equipoise in the South- east the Czar would consent to an independent kingdom under his protectorate composed of the Danubian Principalities—Moldavia, Wal- lachia and the rest—but that arrangement could be but transitory. The ultimate result could only be Prussia in the West, Russia in the East—the masters and the arbiters of Europe, This distribution would either be acquiesced in er resisted by the other Powers. That it would be resisted we cannot doubt. But what is left to make the opposition? It is idle to count upon Belgium and Holland, which the Germans alone could overrun to-day. Scan- dinavia, isolated upon her peninsulas, would be an easy prey for Russia and Prussia acting together. France is already prostrated and held down. Switzerland would be glad to purchase the boon of mere independence among her mountain fastnesses by the closest neutrality and silence. Nothing, then, is left on the Continent but the opposition of Italy and Spain. The condition of the latter coun- try is so disturbed as to reduce her to help- lessness, and against the former the German press even now begins to growl in most omi- nous accents, preparatory to direct threats, to be followed by blows whenever the co- operation of Austria shall have been secured. Here, then, is the whole skeleton of a re- construction of the map of Europe, by submis- sion to the two tremendous military Powers which have so suddenly revealed themselves, or of a terrible universal. overwhelming war, brought on by the resistance of all the struggling Western Powers, viz:—What re- mains of France and what there is of the Iberian and Italian races, on land and sea, backed by the naval forces and the money of Great Britain, In so grand and momentous a case who shall be the umpire? Some one saturated with old- time opinions, insulting the modern day and even the intelligence of America, with the mildew of the past, has written that the peo- ple, in these impending decisions, are but as dust in the balance. Wesay no! The peo- ple already form the high ceurt of appeal. The successes of Germany in Franee have been won because the whole German nation arose to repel aggression, and because the French nation was not with the aggressor. Even Russia, recognizing this idea, will give independence to the Slaves, and will rathor make a peace with Turkey, as a neighbor, than a war against her as an Oriental nation- ality. On this platform Prussia, who has be- come the head of this great revolution, will appeal to the sense and to the interests of the Weat, as Russia will appeal to the instincts, the fancies and the faith of the East, The German empire, then, founded by the consent and common strugzle of the German people, is the people’s edifloe. The eagle of Prussia can no longer soar unless he lifts his dusky pinions amid the red and gold which, in the national flag, denote the uprising of the sun of liberty fer Fatherland, while, at the same time, it commemorates the glories of the ancient empire. The symbol, for awhile, may flutter in the van of a European war, but it will be a war at last resulting for the peo- ple. - The eagle of Russia speeding Eastward Conveys the same message, at first to the banks of the Bosphorus, and thence to the heart of Asia, that is now whispered from the Danube to the Atlantic—order and discipline, but intelligence and emancipation—restraint and law, but the Christian promise for time and for eternity. And, when both these con- quering elements, emerging from the clouds of battle, shall have reached the boundaries as- signed to their power—be it on the West or on the East—their sentinels, peering out beyond the promontory, will descry the advancing ban- ners of the great republic. The War Situation. . In a strategic point of view the situation in France presents no new features, The op- posing armies on the line of the Loire have made no material change of position, although fighting at both ends of the line is still going on. That Manteuffel is rapidly withdrawing from the neighborhood of Havre is: without denial, but the statements as to the direction he has taken are conflicting. One despatch says that he is going to Cherbourg, and another that he is moving toward Rouen. It is evident that he has covered up his tracks so completely that the French ferces, with their ill-trained corps of spies and scouts, have be- come confused as to his whereabouts, The most probable suggestion is that he is moving toward Rouen, ‘on his way to strike the flank of the force threatening Paris on the north. Paris holds out with cheerful and hopeful patience. It is stated that there are pro- visions enough inside the city to last until February. It is believed in the Prussian headquarters at Versailles that a plébiscite is proceeding in the city on the question of accepting terms of peace with the enemy. It is again reported that Bismarck suggests a national conclave of the Councils General in Paris to arrange upon some form of govern- ment with which peace can be made. The Great Battle in Wall Street. The contest of Thursday in the stock market between the ‘“‘bulls” and ‘‘bears” proves to have been only a preliminary skirmish to a struggle of immense proportions. It was a sort of picket fire which has brought on a general engagement, Yesterday the “bears” advanced to the attack in force and by a beld charge drove back the wavering lines of their enemies, The latter rallied later in the day and retook their lost ground and carried the war into Africa, The fight now surged back upon the ground of the ‘‘bulls” who were driven once more from their stronghold by the “bears” who held the disputed ground at nightfall. The battle is not by any means over, however. As the fighting progressed it developed the presence of several of our financial giants who at first were not supposed to be engaged. Thus yesterday Daniel Drew was discerned amid the generals of the “bear” army, while Commodore Vanderbilt was suspected of marshalling the hosts of the “bulls” for the reason that several of his staff officers were discovered riding about the field. In fact, one of the latter encountered the vene- rable Daniel in person on the middle of the battle field and came near engaging him then and there ina passage at arms. Wall street was a dull and stupid place a week ago. But it is now brimful of exciting interest. Senator Drake's Succrssor.—A curious proposition is made in republican papers in regard to the successor of Senator Drake (republican), of Missouri, who has resigned his seat to accept the more permanent position of Judge of the Court of Claims. The Legis- lature elected for the current year, whose term of office will expire on the 31st inst., is repub- lican. The Legislature last elected, and whose term commences on the 1st of January, 1871, is democratic. The proposition is that McClurg, the present republican Governor, shall convene the old Legislature in special session and have it elect Drake’s successor. This is a mean way of doing business for any purpose, and one can hardly conceive a more flagrant violation of the expressed sentiment of the people. If Governor McClurg has any regard for his future reputation he will not encourage so unwise @ proceeding. An INDEPENDENT CoLonED Party has been organized in Cincinnati. The colored people are bound to adopt all fancy political notions ; but as regards an independent political col- ored party Sambo is independent enough already, and has been 80 ever since the adop- tion of the Fifteenth amendment, PronrsiTion IN Franéz.—We have the im- portant information, per cable, that the French have prohibited the navigation of the Seine. The world has for a long time been led to be- lieve that the Prussians had prohibited the navigation of that river without asking the consent of the French» The French Prisoners at Obristmas—The Horrors of War and the Glories of Re- ligion. The unhappy Frenchmen who are held away from home as prisoners of war by the Germans have a sad, melancholy, almost blank prospect . before them for Christmas. Light hearted, joyous, and to a very great extent fervently reli- gious, both by nature and from tha early train- ing of their village pastors, those unhappy vic- tims of the passion of the ‘‘one man” ambition will feel their lot most acutely. Exiled from their simple homesand firesides the, dawn of even that glorious morning will fail to bring comfort to their mortal misery. They will experience the consequences ofa national desolation ; think only of their ruined homes, their ‘‘wo- man’s parting cry,” and the never-to-be-for- gotten prattle of their children. The Christ- mas will bea gloomy one for them, both in the prison and the hospital. Many ofthe un- fortunate brave will, we fear, not live to see it, Disease has been added to personal distress among them. A high medical authority of Great Britain assures us that the military prison hospitals of Germany are assuming the appear- ance and putting on rapidly the sickening reali- ties of lazarettos. There are one hundred and fifty thousand Frenchmen in these hospitals. A majority of them suffer from wounds; many others are ill of the various diseases which are consequent on privation after a campaign. The almoner of the French pri- soners in Ulm writes that in that place there were, just lately, one thousand sick and wounded, and that the means of aiding them were absolutely wanting. Typhus fever makes great devastation among these unhappy Frenchmen; the average number of deaths is ten daily. At Mindem there were five hun- dred prisoners ill with dysentery, typhus and smallpox, and the number is daily increasing. There is the greatest difficulty in relieving them, even in obtaining what is strictly necessary, for there is a want of everything, especially linen. Scarcely one of the fever patients located in eight halls and barracks had a shirt to change. Of clean linen, warm clothes, woollen jackets, stockings, drawers, none are to be had. The Basle charitable agency received similar distressing reports from Marienberg, Coblentz and other places, “on the truly terrible destitution which pre- vails among the prisoners.” ? Such are the more immediate results of unjustifiable war. Such the terrible effects which accrue to society at large from the national mistake made by a section of the uni- versal brotherhood in confiding the dread power of war-making to the hands of one man. It is a matter of great consolation to Chris- tianity to know that these poor and sick French prisoners are in the hands of a gallant, religious and Christmas-loving race; that they are held by practical, home- joyous Germans. Good old Santa Claus will be invoked in their behalf at the firesides of Fatherland on Christmas Eve, and the devoted mothers of Germany, as they return from their church orisons of Christmas Day dawn and proceed to light up,the Christmas tree for their own happy little ones, will not failto think kindly of and put away some little gift of comfort for the sick and wounded and dying sons of the matrons of France. The man who was wounded and left to die by the roadside was relieved by the good Samari- tan after both the priest and Levite had passed him by. The European Gonference. A cable telegram from Europe which reached us last night states that the circular invitations to the great Powers requesting their attendance at a conference to be held in London on the subject of the Treaty of Paris, the navigation of the Black Sea, or what is generally classed as the Eastern question, were issued from Downing street on Thursday. The diplomacy of Austria towards the assumption ofthe part of a central mediator, afraid of Russia and anxious for a rearrangement of existing treaties, appears to confirm the report. Russia maintains her position. The Czar has ordered the enforcement of am ample con- scription for the army. His Majesty is not the less anxious, however, for a fair discussion of the Russian claims eastward, The Muscovite emperor stands forth, indeed, pretty much in the character of the Irish geatleman in the fair. He is ready to go into a tent and treat and talk with his friends and there ‘‘spend half a crown,” and then to come out and for “‘love knock them down.” Rome Nor a CENTRE oF Po.iTIoAL Uniry.—This great public fact, startling and sad as it may be, is made fully apparent by a special telegram from the Holy City which we publish to-day. The mob is in riot at the very gates of the Vatican. Law and order are set at naught by the members of the ‘‘dangerous classes,” acting under the direction of a mur- derous lead. The Papal troops endeavored to control these outbreaks, but at great risk to the lives of the soldiers and officers who still serve his Holiness. King Vietor Emmanuel must “hurry up” and show us Italy really united and the ‘‘edifice crowned,” in fact and truth, in the city of the Cwsars. Politics cannot supersede religion with safety to the social structure, Tne Catiicor Case still occupies the attention of Judge Woodruff’s court in Brook- lyn. Callicot refuses to accept the President’s pardon, holding that his conviction was ille- gal, and he now demands that he be released ona writ of habeas corpus. As itis at the best a legal quibble on which he grounds his motion, Mr. Callivot appears rather hard to please. He served his two years very quietly and uncomplainingly, and to commence rais- ing a great outcry at the reception of a pardon isa refinement of sensibility that must have been a great drawback to Mr. Callicot during his political career. Tae Horrmrz Tare or MurpEr that we have from Pittsylvania Court House, Va., dis- closes a case wherein hanging is too good for the murderer, A negro man who had married a white woman, a widow, with a son five years old, kills the boy merely to gratify that savage malice that so frequently bursts forth among the newly enfranchised and long op- pressed negroes of the South. The boy’s mother lay sick in the house, and near the door, where she was within hearing of his screams for help, the fiend knocks his little victim down and stamps upon his abdomen with his feet until the hoy’s gtomach buxgta, _ Congress Yesterday—Missouri Politics in the Sonate. The second act of the excessively stupid comedy, which might have for title “The Muddy Politics of Missouri,” was played out in the Senate chamber yesterday. The doleful Drake was on the stage, and recited his part in a style which would do credit to many a pro- fessional tragedian, but which was rather serious for the occasion—a little too much in the manner of Mrs. Haller, in “The Stranger.” The whole melancholy history of the last elec- tion in Missouri was recounted, and the man- ner in which Master Carl Schurz betrayed the republican party in that State was feelingly portrayed. Finally the actor made his bow, after delivering a sort of farewell address, which was intended to be pathetic, but was only ludicrous. Then the epilogue was spoken by Master Schurz, the curtain fell upon the comedy, the galleries were emptied of a large audience that had been almost lulled into stu- pefaction by the drowsiness of the piece, and the Senate went into executive session, as if to busy itself about something practical, but really only to give the spectators time to dis- perse before the senatorial robes -were laid aside. Seriously speaking, the spectacle of the last two days has not been creditable to the Senate, That body has high and important duties to perform, great national questions to discuss and consider, and its time is entirely too valu- able to be consumed in listening to the twaddle of two egotistical politicians over some mere local bone of contention. What matters it to the Senate that the patronage of the administration was not given to the fac- tion headed by Mr. Schurz, or that it was given to the faction headed by Mr. Drake? If these gentlemen have personal woes to relate, they should find some other place than the Senate chamber in which to give them vent. Ifsuch a bad precedent is to be tolerated, the next thing we may expect is the appearance in similar characters of Senators Fenton ‘and Conkling, and a rehearsal of how places in the New York Custom House and Post Office were taken from the friends of the one and given to the friends of the other. It might be amusing, but it is not legislative, and we beg to remind the Senate that the session is short and that business of importanc net Ope Tn The Theatrical Farce and Feckter Fanfa- ronade in Boston. When Macready, an English actor, attempted to play in the Astor Place Opera House in this city some years ago, it was averred that he had no friends in America, To judge from the amount of bricks and rocks thrown into the theatre that night, it was presumable he had no friends in this country except in the Seventh regiment. Mr. Fechter, a Dutchman, comes to this coun- try, and, after immaterial success in this city and elsewhere, he is persuaded to locate himself in permanent business as manager of a theatre in Boston. That theatre was called the Globe—a modest submission in a little affair commonly called ‘‘the Hub of the Universe.” Mr. Fechter engaged his company and arranged his theatrical campaign. He selected some of our best native actors and actresses as his principal performers, Of course, there were no jealousies. Whoever heard anything of the kind behind the curtain om an American or any ’ other theatrical stage? Nebody. Fechter went ahead. Yet Fechter was aot Blucher. His fight in Boston was not a Waterloo for his enemies, and Fechter was obliged to cry “peccavi” and vamose from the American Athens, Now, here comes a little insight into this scene of theatrical blood and comedy. There is an outstanding fight. Jim Wallack raises @ question of personal responsibility. He casts the first glove, but Fechter treats him as an inferior. Throwing up his contract, Wal- lack desires to meet Fechter as his equal upon any field—say Boston Common or Long Branch—near about the same thing so far as fighting goes, barring latitude. And now in comes our old friend ‘Mose,” well known in Olympiad cireles—Frank Chan- frau—who, in langnage given et literatum et punctuatum et spellatum, writes or means to write to Mr. Fechter as follows :— VERBATIM LETTER FROM MR. CHANFRAU TO MR, FECHTER. 8-a-Y! OLD FELLER—I know somethin’ about this merchine. You've abused ’Lize, and, by what's his name, I'll mark yer mug. Name time and place. Sooner so much the better. Name yer man and [’ll tell Sykesey to “take de butt.’” This is a real copy of the letter Mr. Chan- frau intended to write to Mr. Fechter, the proper interpretation of which our contempo- rary of the Boston Traveller seems to have innocently miscomprehended. What will be the result? Jim Wallack has been playing under an engagement, which: seems to have been om his part unnecessarily broken off; Frank Chanfrau has got into a row, and the great Dutch actor, Fechter, seems to be making arrangements for another Macready rumpus. We trust there will be no necessity for call- ing out the Seventh regiment when Mr. Fechter reappears in the city. Tue BrookLyN WATER COMMISSIONERS are just now occupied with the idea of retrenching the expenditures of their department. The public have been somewhat excited by the ex- travagance of this branch of the city govern- ment. The number of jobs in sewerage and the blundering manner in which they have been conducted, to the severe cost and inter- minable annoyance of the residents where this work is going on, have provoked a good deal of discontent, The Water Commissioners, acting under the pressure of public reproba- tion, have hit upon a small piece of economy as a kind of sop to popular dissatisfaction. They have abolished the Bureau of Inspectors of Hydrants, and have succeeded in obtaining the service of the police patrolmen in looking after leaky hydrants. Of course the po- lice can observe during their easy stroll from hour to hour along the street, whether a hy- drant is out of order and report the fact to headquarters. There are many duties of this kind which the police might attend to that are now nominally performed by officials drawing pay from the Treasury. Why may not the example of the Brooklyn Water Commission- ers be followed here? Cannot we utilize our police a little more in the service of publiic economy ? General Grast, Carl Schurz and the Mis- seurl Dimiculty. The Carl Schurz and Gratz Brown bolt from the republican party in Missouri has almost monopolized the attention of the United States Senate for the last two days. According to Schurz, he is all right in this business and the President is all wrong. But what are the real facts in the case? Schurz, a dashing Ger- man red republican politician, casting about the country for the main chance, “after the war,” discovered a fine opening in Missouri, and there squatted. As an active German radical he soon did such good service for the Missouri republicans that they, partly in re- cognition of his services und abilities, but more as a compliment to the Germans, made him a United States Senator. He immediately thought himeelf cock of the walk, or “the big Indian,” and so he simply demanded of Gene- ral Grant a larger batch of the Missouri federal offices and spoils than Grant could afford to give him. Gratz Brown, meantime, had been cast aside by the republicans to accommodate Schurz. ‘hus both these men were ready for a bolt on the first opportunity. Secondly, the Missouri Republican State Convention of last summer furnished the op- portunity, and Brown, Schurz and Company bolted, on the independent platform of ‘‘uni- versal amnesty, free trade and civil service reform,”—‘‘a good enough Morgan till after the election,” —Brown being nominated on this platform for Governor. Then the democrats, in an active coalition with Brown and Company against the demoralized administration repub- licans, swept the State in the election. In other words, Brown and Schurz carried over to the democrats the balance of power, and so swamped the regular republican ticket sup- ported by the President. Now, Schurz, in the United States Senate, claims that he repre- sented truly the republican party in this Mis- souri election, and that General Grant was the bolter from the principles of the party, and that when the time comes Grant will find out what Schurz can do with a new party, Compressed within the limits of a nutshell, this is the case of Schurz. He has quarrelled with the President about the spoils, he has bolted (the old story) and he is on a ‘new tack. Mr. Drake, the other Missouri Senator, who devoted several hours yesterday to the overhauling of Schurz, unquestion- ably represents General Grant in this debate. The Senator’s appointment the other day as Chief Justice of the Court of Claims is proof sufficient upon this point, and was evidently intended to define the President’s position. What next? There is some talk out West of running Gratz Brown asa third party candi- date for the next Presidency on the free trade platform. If so Schurz will doubtless ‘fetch up” in that party. Meanwhile he will per- haps find some comfort in comparing notes with Sumner, Fenton, Trumbull and other Senatorial soreheads, who are convinced that General Grant is a failure in failing to meet their wishes and to follow their instructions, General Jackson, however, had a hard lot of such customers to deal with in his day, and his effective way with them was to cut them adrift, General Grant must be master of his position or he will fail. He must play the part of Old Hickory if he would escape the fate of Andy Johnson, , The President on the Revival of Commerce. The news comes from Washington that the President is about to send a special message to Congress on the subject of our foreign com- merce and to recommend some action for its reviyal. Very good. The President could do nothing better. It has been intimated that he will refer especially to the importance of increasing our trade with the South American | and Central American States and the West | Indies. we are nearer to these countries than other This trade should be ours, because | commercial nations and have a political affinity with most of them, and because their destiny is connected with that of the great American republic. Though we have had these and other advantages England has held the greater portion of the trade. Nor can thia be wrested from her easily. We must have a comprehensive and liberal policy, both politi- cally and commercially, to bind the different countries of North and South America to us, Lately we have been showing more regard for European rule and despotism in this hemisphere than for liberty, republican prin- ciples and the native American populations. Such a course can never secure the friendship and trade of the other American republics and people. Then to extend our commerce we must have more ships—steamships and others of the most approved modern character. But these we cannot get unless the registry and navigation laws be modified. Letus get ships where they can be had cheapest. The owner- ship and flag will give them a national charac- ter. Should there be a general war in Europe, as is expected, or even @ continuance of war over a part of the Old World, we might restore to a great extent our former maritime great- ness. Had the registry law been repealed last summer, when the President called upon Congress at the last. hours of the session te act, our tonnage would have been vastly in- creased by this time. It may not be too late now. Indeed, should the war in Europe ex- tend, there will be the finest opportunity to | build up our shipping and enlarge our com- merce. Shall we lose that? We hope the) President will take a comprehensive view of the whole subject and that Congress will con- sider the maritime aad commercial greatness | of the country of far more importance than the supposed interests of a few shipbuilders or of any particular class or locality. Timety Caution.—Fatrs for the relief of French and German sick and wounded are. being gotten up in all parts of the country. It would be well to ascertain whether responsible parties are connected with these truly humani- tarian projects. Mayor Hat's Pavement Veroxs.—The Mayor has made a terrible swoop on the patent wooden pavements authorized to be constructed by the Board of Assistant Alder- men in eleven avenues and streets in the Twelfth ward. He vetoes them all on the ground that in many of the streets no sewers have yet been made—in some not even the gas mains laid—so that the pavement would have to be taken up again, perhaps many times. Property owners understand what the effoc! of thig would be upon their tax bills and