The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1871, Page 6

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W— Advertisements. 3—The Hudson Holocaust: All the Bodies Fally Identified; The Inquest Commencea—Other Railroad Accidents—News from the State Capital. 4—Washington: Heroism of the West Point Cadets at the Burning ot the Barracks; Interesung Proceedings in Congress; The Republican Court; How Cabinet Changes are Made—Incl- dents of the #ranco-Prussian War—New York State Agricultural Society—Movements of Sir John Rose. S—The Brush Parliament: Queen Victoria Opens the adjourned Session of the English Legtsla- | ture; Spectal Exhibit of the Conaition of the | British Empire—Amusements—Another Hun- dred Thousand Dollar Haul in Phuadelphia— Death Before Dishonor: Suicide of a Convict jo the Tombs Prison—Lecture by Henry Ward “Huppimess”—The Victims of e8 Of Small Ww X at St. Jonn, N. B. 6—Editvrials: ‘The Railway and Telegraph Despotism: Amusement An- nouncements. 7—Editoriais (Continned from Sixth Page)—Our Foreign Diplomacy—Negottations on the Ala- bama Claims and Fishery Question—The War in France~ Gambetta Overturown—The Peace he French Elections—General Ke- News from Central and South America and Jamaica—Business Notices, S—vVroceedings in the Courts—Dangers of “Coast- ing’—Look Out for Impostors—New Jersey Items—Smuggiing: A Purser and a Store- keeper of a buropean Steamer Charged with Smuggiing—How Two Young Girls were | Burned to Death in Brooklyn—Criticisms of | New Looks—Farmers as Produce Brokers— | The Kung of Louts Daub. Remarkable Develop- jai—New York city Items— Fire in a Williams. | ments in the New Jersey Le; W1—The Great Coal Strike—Meeting of the Board of Health: Alarmung Increase of Smaupox— Meeting of the Board of Education—A Bad TUE PERIOD, | / NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1871.-TRIPLE SHER,, The Rallway aad Telegraph Denpotinms. The great American republic is at this moment in a far more precarious condition than any of the civilized nations of Europe, because, under the mask of democratic for- mulas and boasts of liberty and equality, it is overshadowed by corporations, monopolies and oligarchies of accumulated wealth such as never existed under the universal suffrage imperialism of the Emperor Napoleon, This gigantic cause of disintegration has already grown so omnipotent that railway and telegraph corporations actually control Legis- latures and the balance of political power. The representatives of the people being the interested tools of these corporations, the people abdicate their sovereignty and are only freemen in name. In fact, they are the mere slaves of a handful of oligarchs who monopo- lize railroads, telezraphs and vast landed property, embracing a wider domain than wa: ever possessed by the feudal lords of Europe. If this condition of things is really permitted to go on and grow history will say that the Americans only abolished African slavery to erect on its ruins a apecies of slavery of far more hideous proportions, considering that its victims comprise the large body of the enlightened American peoplé and not merely a number of benighted negroes. If this state of things is allowed to go on with impunity the newly fledged African, Irish and German voters, as well as the great bulk df the native American population, will only live and toil to enjoy nominal political privilezes for the | purpose of making richer the rich corpora- tions, and thus consolidating the power of an oligarchy of wealth which threatens to become an imperium in imperio and to destroy in reality, if not in name, republican institutions. The demoralization of the public service, the demagoguery of professional politicians, the total absence of sincerity and integrity in Congressmen and office-holders, the frauds which, daily come to the surface and which are but pebbles to those not discovered, the want of ability and firmness in dealing with the international and commercial interests of the country—all these evils are to be traced to the fact that the State is over- powerd by grasping individuals, and that waile howling dervises prate about the uni- versal suffrage of the negro, the Chinaman, the Irishman and the German, the American people stand on this very day on the brink of serfdom, the abject slaves of railroad and tele- graph corporations and moneyed oligarchs. In old feudal days the serf was a serf with- out being mystified with the idea that he was a freeman. But in these modern days the arts of hypocrisy come to the assistance of oppres- sion. The American is allowed to toy with the bauble of suffrage ; but it must be exercised in favor of corporated oligarchies, as witness the orders issued to the serfs of Erie and the power exercised in this State by the Central, in New Jersey by the Camden and Amboy, in Penn- sylvania by the Cameronian railroads, more arbitrary than was ever enforced by a Euro- pean landlord. The struggling masses on the other side of the ocean come to our shores under the delusion that they will find here | liberty, education and the means of sub- | sistence; but those who come here in the future will find the public lands of the West monopolized by railway corporations, and the Legislatures upon whose action their liberties and property depend the mere tools of rings and corporations. In view of these facts the humanitarian aspirations which seemed to have animated | the champions of negro emancipation can only be regarded as a tribute which a scarred national conscience paid to the genius of hu- manity. But the platform of ‘‘moral ideas” of the abolitionists, “give universal suffrage to Cheek m Brooklyn—Real Estate Matters—Ad vertisewents. 13— Advertisements. Jamaica.—By special telegram from the Herarp'’s correspondent at Kingston, Ja., we hear of the arrival there of the British North American fleet from Barbados, bring- ing General Muaroe, who, after an inspection, will make Kingston bis headquarters. The black troops are all to be removed from Jamaica and white ones substituted, John Bull not feeling confidence in the former to carry out tbe strong measures that are to be enforced against the squatters. England a long time to discover that negro troops are not always to be depended upon. Souiuswic Sri. Restive.—We are in- formed by cable telegram from Berlin that the members from Schleswig who have seats in the Prussian Parliamentary Diet prefer to resign their representation sooner than take the oath of constitutional allegiance to the imperial crowa of Germany. Schleswig and Schleswig-Holstein are difficult subjects to treat; difficult, indeed, to comprehend. The late Lord Palmerston once said to a friend :— | “f bave known only two persons in my life | who understood the Schleswig-Holstein ques- tion—another gentleman and myself. The | other man is dead; Ihave forgott The | Schleswig question contains a germ of seces- | sion, the inciting cause to a movement north | from Prassia, dangerous to the peace of Europe in the | future. Jo this view it may become | Tor British PARLIAMENT, THE QvERN AND rhe Prorte.—Queen Victoria wid open the adjourned session of the eighth Parliament of her reign to-day. Her Majesty will proceed to the House, of Lords and read her speech from the throne in person. ceremonial, which always anticipates a busy session of the English Legislature, has been wanting on the part of the Queen during the past few years. The British people were dis- pleased by the omission, Her Majesty, acting under the advice of her Ministers, has deter- mined to repair her apparent lapsus of duty. She will consequently journey to St. Stephen's in state. In view of the importance and very varied character and bearing of the subjects | which the legislators of Great Britain will be called on to debate during their sitiings, we have prepared a special exhibit of the present condition of the British empire; its means of defence and offence; its income revenue, disbursements, taxes, debts, population, emigration, and so forth. The state of the army and navy is showa forth particularly, It has taken | This part of the | all classes and let them all shift for them- selves,” has been tested again and again in history and found a flimsy failure. The mil- lions cannot shift for themselves. If not pro- tected by superior minds they must inevitably be crushed in the strong grasp of corporate pelf and injustice. The negroes were never more helpless against their masters than are the bulk of the American people against rail- way and other corporatiens. It is no use for moral idea demagogues to tell the people that they have done their duty, that a bloody civil war has settled the question of negro slavery and universal suffrage, and that now they may | be permitted to enjoy the luxury of their vic- tory and the conquest of the spoils. If it turns out that the violent abolition of slavery | in one section was a mere bait for the enslave- | ment of a -whole people in another, these abolition Girondins may prove to be but the ! forerunners of the sans culottes, and they may bear in mind that if the American people have | been goaded on to strife for the purpose of delivering from bondage a few million negroes they will not shrink from a deadlier war for the purpose of overthrowing the more gigantic bondage of corporations. This is the coming question, before which the one whether Grant is in or out or Fish and Boutwell out and Morgan and Mortoa in dwarfs into insignifi- cance, It is a question which must be met some day, and the sooner the beiter. Every day will strengthen more and more the despot- isms of corporations and rivet the chains more tightly round the neck of the toiling Inasses. | decide whether it is to be met promptly and peaceably or whether a war is to come, as it | assuredly must, against the grasping, merce- nary oligarchs who buy up Legislatures to obtain charters for all manner of corporated iniquities. | There is but one remedy. Already in England, | where public opinion is more imperative in in its command than here, the government has been compelled to take charge of the telegraph | system of the country, and notwithstanding the | obstacles thrown in the way at first the system | now works with a satisfaction and success beyond all expectation. In the next session of Parliament a bill will be introduced placing the railroads in Ireland under the direction of | the government, and this will doubtless be fol- i lowed by a similar measure for England and Scotland. Let our government imitate the | example and take contro! of our railroad and | telegraph systems here. The handing over of such large interests to the dominion of government is not without its evils, but as between the evil of placing the | as is also the question of Irelaod—:he most difficult, perhaps, of all in the way of a peace- able and beavlicial solution for the united balun, material interesis of the people at the mercy of grasping, irresponsible individuals, as in Erie, or of increasing the central power of the It is for the American people to | trol of those interests, the Intter evil is far the less, Tho government must to some extent be responsible to public opinion, and its controlling powers can be so efficaciously hemmed in as to neutralize the danger of excessive centralization. That individuals, whether high or low, official or private, can- | not be trusted with the manipulation of mam- | moth corporate interests, ‘has been proved so abundantly in the demoralization of the finan- cial and political machinery, is so patent that | the American people must insist, sooner or later, on a total change. Let the statesman, then, who wishes to catch the question of the future and wear the | garland, stand forth. Those of our public men | who will quickly take up this question and transfer the control of our railways and tele- graphs to that of the national government will acquire claims to the gratitude of the people nd preserve our constitution from a canker A More Hopeful’ Prospect for France. Although at the present writing we have | had no intelligence concerning the elections | held in France yesterday, the despatches pub- | lished this morning are of such pacific tenor | that we feel hopeful that the voting was free and the voters unrestricted by any | arbitrary decrees. The removal or resig- nation of Gambetta and the appointment of Arago in his place, as Minister of the Interior, are significant events. They show that the Paris government is determined to enforce its authority throughout France, and, unless the Reds resort to violence to attain their ends, we are sanguine that the result of the firmness exhibited by M. Favre and his col- leagues will be beneficial to their unhappy couniry and conducive of peace. It really matters very little whether Gambetta resigned or was removed, Sufficient it is that France is rid of him as a ruler. He is a pesti- ferous demagogue, whose violence is only equalled by his lack of real administrative talent. It remains to be seen whether he and his colleagues of the Bordeaux delegation will acquiesce in the appointment of Arago and the policy of the Paris authorities. Our cor- respondent at Bordeaux, from whose special despatch we have derived a knowledge of the change of Ministers commented on, says noth- ing about the manifestation of any discontent or the outcropping of any spirit of opposition to Arago; hence we are left to infer that to the military and the people alike the retire- ment of Gambetta is a satisfactory event. With such gratifying intelligence to begin with we are prepared for the further informa- tion that the general desire in France is for peace. It may be doubted if the French are anxious for ‘‘peace at any price,” as the Lon- don Times concludes. No great nation, how- ever sorely pressed by a victorious enemy, will accept any terms rather than continue a struggle. Nevertheless we coincide in the belief that if the German terms are not abso- lutely outrageous they will be promptly ac- cepted by the French. nothing to gain and everything to lose by a resumption and prolon-ation of hostilities. She must soon be, if she is not already, pecu- niarily exhausted. Further destruction of her manufactories and continued paralyzution of her agriculture and commerce must, in a very few months longer, place her as pros- trate financially as she is physically at the present moment. Nothing, then, remains which wisdom and prudence can dictate but a speedy close of the war upon the best attaina- ble conditions. That the French people fully appreciate the gravity and the dangers of their situation our despatches, . published this morning, imply. Rabid orators in Paris, Lyons and the other cities, fit representatives of the worst classes of France, who have nothing to lose by the continuation of the war and the exten- sion of its horrors over all parts of the coun- try, make a great deal of noise, but they speak only for a faction and not for the masses. The voices of the thoughtful are for peace. The provincial press, we are told, is generally for peace. And if, as we trust was the case— as M. Favre and his colleagues declared should be, and as M. Hendle, the new Prefect of the Department du Nord, in assuming the duties of his office, reaffirmed would be, the elections held yesterday were uninfluenced by electoral disqualifications or political terror- ism, we feel satisfied that members were chosen who will give the much-needed boon to France. But how is peace to be made? It is evident that the time from the meeting of the National Assembly to the expiration of the armistice is too short for the conclusion of a treaty. M. Favre is reported to have demanded an exten- sion of the armistice, and his demand is said to be backed by England. Bismarck should, and doubtless will, grant an extension if it will result in peace. The Assembly should be given time to deliberate and decide. And if a | majority of its members evince a spirit favor- able to an ending of the war it will be the duty of the Germans to meet them halfway on the road to renewed amity and friendship. Tho President and Collector Murphy. We have the mysterious despatch from | Washington that Collector Murpby had a long | interview with the President yesterday at the White House. A long interview? What | could it be about? It is not the season of | the year for a cosey talk between the President and the Collector on the delights of the surf, the latest arrivals of distinguished butterflies and of fast horses at Long Branch. Nor do we imagine that Murphy on this visit was called to Washington to assist in making a new Cabinet. We apprehend that the Col- | lector has had other fish to fry. We daresay | that this long interview was taken up by the | Collector in explaining the mysterious peti- | tion of those thirty-five Protestant clergymen of Brooklyn for the appointment of Mr. Silas B. Dutcher as Collector of this port. Perhaps, too, Mr. Murphy may have been called to Washington to explain why he at- tempted the foolish experiment of cuiting out Tammany Hall in the reception of the Fenian exiles, thus exposing the weakness of the ad- ministration in regard to the Jrish democratic vote. But whatever the object or subject of that long interview between the President and our hopest Collector, we have no doubt it ended to the satisfaction of Murphy in remov- ing all his fears concerning the mysterious petition of those Pro.estant parsons for overament by inyestipg jt with the cqu-; Dutcher, France has certainly | The Fishery Question and the Alabama Claime—Kaect of a Manly Foreign Policy. The settlement of our diplomatic questions with Great Britain seems to be immediately upon us, Our Washington correspondent states that the formal proposition to grant al rights to American fishermen in Canadian waters demanded by our government is now on its way here, among the despatches of a Queen’s messenger, due here in the Cunard steamer next Saturday. Full powers, it is also understood, are to be given Minister Thornton to make such representations to our government as will lead to an early and satis- | factory adjustment of the Alabama claims. ; The particulars of the latter adjustment are not touched upon, but that they will be full of concessions to the United States is evident from the spirit in which England enters upon | them. It issaid that her expressions of re- gard are so overpowering as to seriously embarrass our government in deciding upon the matter. From the nettle danger which the claims hawe heretofore engendered both | Powers have thus plucked the flower safety. | It is satisfactory to observe that, amid all the ! avalanche of diplomatic courtesy with which | | polished England has overwhelmed her ruder | | cousin, we have held stoutly to our rights and | stuck firmly to our original demands. In the | advocacy of our rights regarding the : fishery question we have, indeed, gone | rather beyond the routine etiqnetie that ! prevails in old fogy diplomacy, and, striking | into new paths of our own hewing, have | advanced our notions upon the subject, not through our bookworm of a Minister at St. | James alone, but upon the stump, in the fiery language of Ben Butler before a congregation of Gloucester fishermen, and among Congress- men in the potent official tones of the Presi- dent's Message. That diplomatic negotiations carried on in this way should have called forth | so prompt and pleasant a response from Great Britain is highly gratifying to our national pride and fully satisfactory to our national interests. It is stated that some con- cessions were asked of us in return for the full grant of rights to our fishermen, but that none would be allowed, and thereupon the concessions of England were made unconditionally. The President is about to send a message to Con- gress which will more freely explain oll the negotiations that have been carried on in the matter, and set the whole question more com- pletely before the American people. In the proposed adjustment of the Alabama claims there can be no doubt that our authorities will actas firmly amd freely as they have in the settlement of the fishery question—allowing many unimportant concessions, doubtless, to an honest and anxious debtor, but yielding no jot or tittle of right to diplomatic palayvring. The Ls lon Conterence. We print this morning a cable despatch | which informs us that the London Conference met on Tuesday last and adjourned. The ' despatci also informs us that at the meeting, which represented all the cosignatories to the | Paris Treaty of 1856, except France, the ex- | pression of feeling was such that the entire Eastern question difficulty may be regarded as settler. This is well, so far as it goes. It is im- possible, however, to close our eyes to the fact that the Eastern question is, after all, a paltry affair in presence of the graver ques- tions of the hour. Af the first meeting of the Conference, if report speaks trath, Lord Gran- ville had his revenge upon Prince Gortcha- koff. At the suggestion of Lord Granville all the Powers represented signed a note expressly repudiating the right of any single Power to retreat from the treaty without the previous consent of the cosignatories or a majority of them. This note is sufficient re- buke to the Russian bounce and sufficient vindication of international morality. Gort- chakoff may swallow his leek, and Granville may enjoy his triumph, just as they please. As we said above, new questions make the Black Sea question very small indeed. France is in a chaotic state—so chaotic that Bismarck may require some help before he can afford to allow his master to return in triumph to Berlin. The restoring of France to herself and the rectification of boundaries make up a task too big for Germany alone to dispose of. Then there is the Papal difficulty. Europe cannot have peace until Pio Nono and his Minister, Antonelli, are satisfied. All the Catholics all te world over are prepared to undertake another crusade rather than that the Holy See shall be despoiled of its patri- mony. In addition to all this it must be re- membered that France is still, amid all her misfortunes, a great European unit, and that the werk of this Conference cannot be con- sidered finished until France finds her place and expresses her opinion. We take it, there- tore, that the London Conference has much work yet before it. If it shout be insisted upon that the London Conference must dis- solve when the Black Sea question is settled the necessity is created for another conference in London or elsewhere to consider and solve the other outstanding questions. The year 1871 revives the memory of 1814. We shall not be sorry if the great Powers agree, and secure for the world a peace as enduring as that which followed the Vienna conferences of 1614-1815, Tne EXTENsion OF THE AtTMISTICg.—The news of this morning goes to show that France cannot go through an election crisis, hold her Assembly and discuss peace terms in the time prescribed by the armistice. More time must be had. It is not our opinion that Count Bismarck will object to an extension of the armistice term. France is gradually recover- ing herreason, and if a request is preferred in ®& proper way the Germans will only be too glad to extend the armistice, so as to bring about a peace settlement which all the world, Germany and France not excepted, ardently desire, Js Baron Bevsr Premmr of Austria?— The press news despatches from Vienna, by the cable, leave us in doubt whether Baron Beust is really Premier of Austria, whether the Emperor Francis Joseph has changed his Cabinet, or whether the ministerial reorgan- ization, which has evidently taken place, applies merely to the Austro-Hungarian Coun- cil in Pesth. The subject is one of great iutportance just at present, and should be | Alated with vrecisions General Grauc and the New German Empire—A Capital Hit. The President, in a special message to Con- gress, has recommended that the salaries of our Minister and Secretary of Legation at Berlin be respectively increased to the same amounts allowed to those at London and Paris, or, in other words, that we officially recognize the new empire of Germany as a first class Power, ranking with England and France. The fact is fixed, the case is very clear, and in our diplomatic recognition henceforth of Berlin we can give that im- perial capital no secondary place. So we entertain no doubt of the increase of Minister Bancroft’s salary as a logical necessity result- ing from the unification of Germany. His present salary as Minister to the kingdom of | Prussia is twelve thousand dollars; his fulure salary ag Minister to the empire of Germany must be seventeen thousand five hundred dol- | lars—a clear gain to our Minister's pocket of five thousand five hundred dollars from the increased dignities and responsibilities of his position, Mr. Bancroft, as a logical historian, will thoroughly comprehend the convincing argu- | ment of General Grant in favor of this pro- posed addition of five thousand five hundred dollars to Mr. Bancroft’s salary. According to the real position of united Germany among | the great Powers his salary ought to be raised | to at least twenty thousand dollars ; but still, in advancing it to that of our Ministers respec- tively at London and Paris, it simplifies the diplomatic question, and it will do. And mark the convincing argument of General Grant on the subject. He says that this union of the German States, in many respects re- sembling our Union, ‘‘cannot fail to touch deeply the sympathies of the people of the United States ;” that this German union is due “to the long continued and persistent efforts of | the German people of twenty-four States ;” | that the local governments of the States are preserved and that the empire strengthens them all against their enemies; that the aspiration cherished for ages among the unnaturally divided German family is now happily attained in the new confederation of thirty-four mil- lions of Germans, and that ‘the bringing of great masses of thoughtful and free people under a single government must tend to make goveroments what alone they should bo—the representatives of the will and the organiza- tions of the power of the people.” All this is very good; but General Grant has something more to say in his warm admi- ration of Germany and the Germans. He says “‘that the relations of the United States with Germany are intimate and cordial ;” that the commercial intercourse between the two countries is extensive and increasing, and that “the large number of residents and citizens ia the United States of German extraction, and | the continued flow of emigration thence into this country have produced an intimacy of personal and political intercourse approaching, if not equal to, that with the country from | which the founders of our government derived their origin.” From all these considerations General Grant thinks our Minister at Berlin should stand as high in his official boots as our Minister at London. And we think so too. Nor can we suppose that there will be any difficulty in Congress in adding, for the reasons assigned, five thousand five hundred dollars | to the compensation of Mr. Bancroft. It will be doing the handsome thing ata very small expense after all. According to the scale upon which Tammany does the handsome | thing for her high dignitaries fifty thonsand | dollars to Bancroft, and a big diamond and ao service of plate of ten thousand dollars in value would, be about the figure for a band- some official recognition of the new empire of Germany. But as Congress bestows all its big plums, rich perquisites and fat jobs upon the rail- way land-grabbers, claim agents such as Chorpenning and other lobby jobbers, while our federal, government officials who are honest are half starved, we don’t ask more than the proposed addition of five thousand five hundred to the salary of our Minister at Berlin. And we think the simple proposition from: General Grant to Congress would have been enough without the stump speech em- bodied in his recommendation. Why, then, this stump speech? We suspect it is designed as a flank movement upon Carl Schurz and other republican bolters who have been and are tampering with the German vote out West to the prejudice of General Grant, looking to the next Presidency. And we tuink this mes- sage a good move to head off Schurz and these other Western bolters and to rally our Ger- manic fellow citizens around General Grant's administration. We suspect that, having vainly tried through Collector Murphy to get round to the blind side of our Irish citizens in our last November election, General Grant has resolved upon holding fast to the Germans, no matter what our Irish lovers of France may think of his admiration of the German empire. Democratic critics may say that this message very plainly shows that General Grant is up for another term, and that when he makes a good hit for Buncombe he intends to make it. But what can they do against such a capital hit as this, in view of the fact that the Ger- mans, more than ever heretofore, are hence- forth going to be iu this country, as at home, a power to berespected? That is the question. i Sourn America anv THE IstHmvs.—By telegram from Kingston we heve two days’ later intelligence, forwarded by the Heratp’s special correspondent at Panama. The revo- lution in Colombia is making rapid atrides, the insurgent forces having been successful in the State of Boyaca. The prospect of war be- tween Peru and Bolivia becomes stronger, and the former government is taking active mea- sures for defence. The revolution in Bolivia is over, its closing scene being a hard-fought battle, with great slaughter. The’ President escaped to Pera. Hayri.—The Herarp's telegram from its correspondent at Jamaica describes the speeches at a reception given by the President of Hayti in celebration of the sixty-eighth anniversary of their independence, Mr. Bas- sett, the United States Minister, spoke on behalf of the diplomatic corps, and then the President replied and said any amount of sweet things about our conntry. This is pleasant in view of the prospect of annexing St. Domingo, which little affair will be sure to end by swallowing Havti wis Congress Nogro Equality in Oommen Schesls—Theo Brooklyn Navy Yard—Na+ tlopal Education. The Senate had before it yesterday a bill for the establishment of » common school system of education in the District of Colum- | bia, in which bill there is a provision that there shall be no distinction made on account of race, color or previous condition of servi- tude, in the admission of children to the schools or in their mode of education or treat- ment. Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, a member of the District Committee, and him- self the president of an educational institution, moved to strike out that provision, as one which would only produce the failure of the whole system; but Mr. Sumner, cariug nothing for consequences, and stimulated, only by his theories of negro equality, resisted the proposition, and had for an ally the colored Senator ‘from Missiasippi, who avowed | naively that he had no prejudice against the white race, and that, consequently, there should be no prejudice against the blacks. As there are public schools in the District of Columbia specially set apart for colored chil- dren we cannot see the propriety of endeavor- ing to break up that arrangement and to put in practice a compulsory system of equality between white and colored children, which can only result in driving the former entirely from’ the public schools, No decision on the question was reached yesterday. In the House a bill for the removal of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs, and was dis- cussed during the morning hour. Amend- ments were offered, and are still pending, extending its application to the navy yarda of Charlestown, Mass., and Kittery, Me., and also making it applicable to all the navy yards in the United States. The arguments against the maintenance of navy yards are that ex- perience in this country, and in England and France, has proved that ships can be built cheaper, better and quicker at private ship yards, under contract, than they can be at the navy yards; that, in this country, mechanics are employed or dismissed at the navy yarda for political reasons, and that the best way to encourage the shipbuilding interest is to bave the work of the government performed at private yards, under contract. These rea- sons have great weight, and will probably result in the passage of the bill. The chairman of the Committee on Appro- priations, apparently stimulated by his suo- cess in exposing and defeating the Chorpen- ning fraud, has made another move against the Postmaster General, in procuring authority for his committee to send for persons and papers and to prosecute an inguiry into the facts connected with the cancellation of Demsey & O’Toole’s contract for supplying stamps and envelopes to the Post Office Department. It is charged that the contract was cancelled without just cause, and for the purpose of allowing higher rates to other parties, : A bill for the organization of bands of Texan Rangers, to guard the frontiers of that State against Indian depredations, was briefly dis- cussed in the House and was summarily dis- posed of by being laid upon the table, its oppo- nents representing that the objects were to furnish employment to some of the estimable | youths of that region who had nothing else to ; do; also to involve the United Stateg ina war with Mexico; and that the quiet people there would have more to apprehend from the Rangers than from the Indians. The House passed a joint resolution, intro- duced by Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit duties on imported articles of merchaa- dise donated and actually sold in fairs for the benefit of the destitute and wounded citizens of France. We presume that, in conformity with the principle established in the resolution providing for national vessels to carry supplies for the destitute people of both France and Germany, this resolution will be amended in the Senate by making it apply also to goods donated by German fairs, Several hours of yesterday's session in the House were consumed in the debate on the bill to establish a system of national educa- tion. It went over till to-day without action. The Late Outrageous Doings at Polat and at Harvard. Massachusetts sets itself up pre-eminently as the State where law and order are main- tained with the utmost strictness, Let it, then, give an example to all other States by at once and forever repressing such violations of the common law as the late outrageous doings at Harvard University, which the college faculty seem to be unable or unwilling to -puniso. We published yesterday a full account of atrocities committed by undiscovered under- graduates of Harvard, who have carried the barbarous practice of ‘hazing” to an undenia- bly criminal degree, notwithstanding the mild decision of President Eliot, who pronounces their act ‘‘a reckless college prank,” adding :— “The perpetrators had no intention of really hurting anybody or doing any harm to the building. They committed a wanton, stupid outrage, but not a crime.” Nevertheless, their attempt to blow up with gunpowder one of the college buildings, wherein four Freshmen were sleeping, comes directly within the provisions of a statute which, as President Eliot himself admits, makes the blowing up of an inhabited building a special offence, and the legal penalty may be very Severe--even twenty years in the State Prison. We are glad to be assured that “the whole college condemned the act.” We are fully aware of the extensive obligations which the community owes to the high moral and intellectual influences of the ancieat seat of learning at Cambridge. But when we hear of such outrageous doings as those to which we have alluded we cannot refrain from express- ing the universal public opimion that if the college faculty is impotent either to discover or to punish the guilty perpetrators, the Logis- lature of Massachusetts is. bound, as we have intimated, to give to the Legislature of every other State the example of direct and effective interference for the purpose of rendering the inmates of all colleges as amenable to the common law as everybody is outside of col- lege walls. For simifar reasons we hold that if the pro. fessors at "West Point are ‘incompetent to en- forge the discipline which lone can prevent West ag