The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1871, Page 6

: | 6 NEW YURKK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD|™ Pelicy of England—The Jolut High Commission—The Policy of Peace. This joint High Commission appointed to settle ihe Alabama claims, the question of the fisheries, the St. Lawrence navigation question, &¢c., marks the future policy of England as the policy of peace. Meantime the people of Great Britain are much ex- ercised in mind about their foreign and military policy. Those two old established organs of opinion, the Hdindurg and Quar- terly Reviews, have elaborate articles in their January numbers concerning the military and naval forces of the country, and their voice is clear upon the point that, practically speaking, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letier and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 25 Rrour.ixv. “et YOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE (Theatre Francais) | 22gland has no system of bome defence tha Kune Lian would enable the country to stand up for a giiRlo's GARDEN, Broadway.«Tae Srrctacte or | week against an invading army such as Ger- SALLAOKS THRATEE, Brostway ana wma stron | 2°°Y now, or Tegenerated France, perhaps, Ovns. hereafter, might direct against her. It seems LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Hunren | to be settled that the session of Parliament eet om <a TWO Lives oy Mane. Lande, just opened will be devoted to the discussion of this subject, and that the fate of Mr. Glad- stone’s administration will depend upon the manner with which it deals with this para- risnot mount subject of national defence. The press ‘On edema country, moreover, is unanimous that the whole defensive forces of the country must be reorganized and made an effective whole, instead of a jumble of regulars, militia and volunteers, as at present, without connecting links or administrative services. It is pro- bable even that, as has been suggested by the most able of English soldiers, Sir W. Mans- field, a plan will be adopted which will restore in a new form the old English rule that every man must directly contribute by the bearing of arms to the national safety. In short, England, according to all the signs, is about to make a new departure in her military policy so far as the home soil is concerned. The moment, therefore, on the threshhold of this joint High Commission, is a proper one to consider what her position and principle of action has been for the last thirty years, and how far she is likely or ought to radically modify these. There is no difficulty in pro- nouncing upon this point. Great Britain has adopted in this century a policy of peace, economy and domestic progress, commercial and political, and endeavored to set her face steadily against war, either on the part of other nations or her own. She has been busily engaged in remodelling her constitu- ency athome and in striking off fetters from GRAND OPERA HOUS! Guanp OrrRatio Can vormer of 8th av. and 234 st,— OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tae PANTOMIME OF Broneviev oF tux PERO. BOWERY THEATRE, Boura—Man anv Tr FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Barmatoca. GLOBE THEATRE: dway.—VARIETY ENTER- BAUNMENT, £0.—Gu . NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—Unrei Acosta. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- ces every afternoon and evening, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Mvow Apo ALOUT A MuncuANT OF VENICE, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSS, 201 Bowery.—Va- inry ENTERTAINMENT. i THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Comio VooaL- MBM, NEGRO Aors, a0. (SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 58 Broadway.— WxRGRo MINSTRELSY, Fanozs, BUBLESQUES, £0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 33d st, between 6th pnd 7th avs.—Nroxo Minsreztsy, Ecorntaicitigs, &c. | OOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— " Xx & Lzon's econ! ata photo HALL. corner 28th street and Broadway.— Counr’s DiokaMa OF IRELAND. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth stroct.— Gus Ring, Aczozate, £0. ike NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, — Boumnor any Arr. Mi sb dic alk DB. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— 10k AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, February 14, 1871. = = — — | her commerce. She has consolidated her CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. empire in India and endowed that country Pace. with every sort of liberty short of the repre- * g—Advertisements. sentative institutions, for which that country A Aadvertisemente. is not ripe, but which she hopes to introduce even there as soon as possible. She has lived in the faith and endeavored to prosecute the works of peace so exclusively as to deprive herself of every ally for the moment and vir- tually to surrender all direct participation at present in the remodelling of Europe. In ad- herence to this policy she has reduced herself, in spite of her overwhelming resources, to a state almost of temporary defencelessness, and, as is natural, drawn upon herself the hatred and contempt of the fighting nations, She stands charged with selfish abstinence from international struggle, and, according to the latest accounts, an Englishman is scarcely safe in the streets of humiliated France in con- sequence, Nevertheless, this policy has been neither hateful nor contemptible, although it may have been, if pushed too far, very danger- ous—as the English are now beginning to see. Nobody can doubt that, however inevitable or necessary wars may be at present between some nations, peace, and not war, is the ideal state to which the world is steadily tending. And it is quite certain that if the nations are to disuse war eventually some nation must begin by setting the example. This is the feel- ing which actuated the dead Cobden and has actuated his great friend, most illustrious of living orators, John Bright, in their steady ad- 3—News from Washington—Italy and Tunis: The Diffeulty Between King Victor Emmanuel and His Highness the Bey—The Hudson Holo- caust—Interesting from the State Capital— Obituary—Personal Intelligence—The Darien Expedition. 4—Proceedings in Congress—The Coming Carnival at Washington: Admirable Arrangements of the Committee—Criticisms of New Books— Music and the Drama--Anticipating Peace— Comfortably Clothea: A Smart Officer and a Ciever Capture—Brooklyn Common Councll— The Brooklyn Water Suppiy—Jersey Clerical Etiquette. $—Our Life Sinking Service: Remarkable Em- clency of Its System and Apparatus; How Marine Disasters Along the Coast are Rendered Oertain; Visit a HERALD Commissioner to the Jersey Beas What He Saw and Heard— Voice of the People—The Gallows Cheated— Movements of President Grant—Another Tem- rance Lecture—Methodist Preachers—Jack V's Footpath: Thousands Travelling Over the Bast Kiver on the Ice—Dominion ot Canada—Another Plea for the Foundling Hospital. @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Policy of England—The Joint High Commission—rhe Policy of Peace’—Amusement announcements. @—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—France: yerman Preparations for Entering Paris; The National Assembly; Genera} Reports—Joint Hizh Commission—Miscellaneous Cable Tele- grams— Views of th st—Business Notices. &—Murphy vs. Greeley: The History of the Present Fight in the Republican Ranks—Funerai of Two of the Victims of the Hgdson River Kail- road Accident—Proceedings in the Courts— ‘The Case of tne OfMicers of the Steamship Europa—tTerribie State of Affairs in Arizona Territory—President Bergh in Washington— Remarkable Ice Block in the Long Sault Rapids—The Late Wrestling Match. 9—Financial and Commercial Reports—Contract Labor in the Brookiyn Pentientlary—Danger- ous Diamond Dealers—Marrlages and Deaths— Advertisements, 10—The Tennessee—Amusemenis—The Westchester Wul Case—Subsidized Corporations—The Jer- sey City Charter—Telegraphic News—Meteor- ological Report—Shipping Intelligence—Ad- oe {inert vocacy of a policy of peace, at all hazards 12—Advertisements. and at any price except in the one case of a nation’s life being at stake. How truly they excepted that case is shown by the ardent and eloquent sympathy with which both these great men cheered us on in our great civil war. And there can be no doubt that the voice of John Bright, if England’s safety were at stake, would be the most powerful of all in urging all men to the front of the battle. But in the meantime they have done their best to hold their pugnacious countrymen down and bind them to the strictest lines of self-defence and self-defence alone. John Bright once spoke of the British lion in a surprising way, declaring that he wished the brute was dead. Well, he has done his best to kill him. He survives only in those illustrations in which Punch still maintains the lingering tradition of the day when England was ready and will- ing to fight all comers. But his day is gone. England is out of love with slaughter. She will fight to hold her own, no doubt, but she will not draw the sword for balances of power or dynastic objects again. After all, this is a great gain to the cause of democratic humanity. The world has had enough of war, and is sickened at the elabo- rate process by which Germany has had to strangle France. And it is clear that Eng- land will bend all her energies to such an ad- justment of international affairs aa will, if possible, prevent war hereafter. . At this point her policy becomes coincident with that idea which underlies our own history and ex- plains our own destiny. The Father of our Country left us as his best legacy not merely his illustrious achievements and his spotless name, but that advice to which we steadily adhere not to mix ourselves up with Euro- pean complications, In the fulness of time England, from whom we spriag, is ap- proximating to that policy herself. We, even in our cradle, had werld-wide, cosmepolitan ideas in our breasts to which the sectional and national antagonisms of the Old World seemed antiquated folly, which mankind, GextraL Grant made a flying visit, incog., {fo Baltimore on Saturday, attending an or- phans’ fair at Masonic Temple and making a few private calls. He was cordially received ‘wherever his presence was made known, , Tue Frexca RELations with the Franco- Ztalian provinces are becoming complicated. Now Nice distrusts Napoleon, and fears that the nephew of his uncle intends to cozen her, and so she wants togo back to Mother Italy. Harmosy at Last is Jersey—On the proposed charter for Jersey City. It is de- nounced by the Mayor, the ex-mayors, city authorities and citizens at large, without re- gard to party, sex, color or previous condition pf servitude. Tue Unpzrcrounp Ratway Scuemes in ‘the Legislature are increasiug daily. The lobby is determined to work the underground to its utmost capacity, even if it never ures a real bona fide railroad. Another bill for one of these schemes was introduced yes- day, making at least five now before the Legislature. So far, however, none of them peem to ‘“‘par out very well.” ¥ Tse Evxeusa Hicn Commissioners EN Rovrs.—A cable despatch which we print Bhis morning informs us that the English Com- joners have set sail for these shores. is business-like, and we like it because it business-like. Let us hope that when the ‘issioners do meet in Washington their work will be short, sharp, decisive and satisfac- Rory. The promise is good, but we wait for the fruit. Pourrtos os Isp1ana.—Indiana democratic ‘papers aver that treachery is not confined to e radical camp in that State, but that ‘a demecratic Jadases are about to give the Btate over to the republicans.” This is rather ‘pn interesting matter. It is not confined to State politics alone; for in the event of Sena- Yor Morton taking a seat in General Grant's | under the inspiration of our peaceful, Dabinet his Senatorial seat may be filled by a | prosperous democracy, would speedily out- republican instead of, as has been hoped, a | grow. If England is the first of nations to @emocrat. If this should happen to eccur | adopt this more beneficent standard of inter- the democrats have nobody to blame but | national life she owes her conversion, in great Yhemselves. Their withdrawal of the State's | part, to the lessons she has learned from us fatification of the fifteenth amendment was a and the dangers to which she believes herself willy piece of business, and no doubt disgusted | to be exposed to from us. We have done poveral independent members of the party. her the enormous service of creating the most {f the democrats are not careful the same | powerful nation in the world speaking her result may follow in other States where the’| own speech, and obliging her to reckon with adoption of the fifteenth amendment has been | us and adopt our ideas of a peaceful progress withdrawn, of humanity, All her writers and thiokers declare that she cannot fight anybody while there is a danger of our being her enemy. It is very natural, therefore, that she should now wish to be our friend, and ask herself what is the good of fighting anybody any more if she can possibly avoid it. It will be a great day for the world if this idea ts allowed to produce its natural fruit and development, as we ex- pect it will from this joint High Commission. In that case the great English republic and the great British empire will unite to keep the peace of the world. The truth is that the commercial classes in England and a sober democratie policy have, under the great American influence, revolu- tionized England in this important direction— so completely revolutionized it that England is now going to have a thoroughly citizen army, and will no longer depend upon hired soldiery. We look forward with satisfaction to the pros- pect, for it amounts to a moral annexation of England to this country's objects and policy in international affairs. England cannot do better than revolve henceforward, soto speak, in our orbit. There is no question here, be it observed, of formal alliances, but of that in- voluntary and best sort of co-operation in which both parties are of the same mind and animated by the same underlyiag purpose. The liberal and commercial policy of Great Britain has been preparing the ground even in her own despite for this important consumma- tion. She now perceives the enormous folly of which her governing classes were guilty when they threw their sympathies with the South, and so did their feeble best to thwart the life of the Power upon which her best moral depen- dence is to be placed and from which her best lesson in international policy needs had to be drawn. The reparation which she will have to make for that will be to her not only whole- some discipline, but a luminous lesson instruct- ing as to the meaning of her own mind and the direction of hor own destinies, She must keep the peace with us, and in securing this she will fasten herself irrevocably to the use- fuland glorious policy of promoting, as she has of late so earnestly striven to do, the peace of the world. Let her look steadily to the great West; for here is being forged the key to the destinies not only of her own peo- ple, but of all mankind. The French National Assembly. The recently elected members of the French National Assembly met for the first time yes- terday for the transaction of business. The meeting, however, was only a preliminary one, as over twenty depariments are still unheard from. The result in Paris is also unknown, as, owing to the number of candidates, the work of counting the votes is necessarily a slow operation. A second election, too, in the capital may have to be resorted to, and, if so, still further delay will be the consequence. In those depart- ments which have been heard from the repub- licans have not been successful. Gambetta, Picard, Garibaldi and a number of other well known radicals have secured seats, but there is none of that extraordinary popularity for the republican candidates which many persons no doubt believed was cherished by a large number of the French people. M. Thiers was elected in eighteen departments, General Tro- chu in seven and the veteran Changarnier in four, while Jules Favre was elected only in two, Gambetta in three and Garibaldi in one. If anything may be judged from this exhibit it looks as though the Orleanist party were going to make a very strong show in the As- sembly. Thiers is an Orleanist ; so is Trochu, and if Changarnier is not a moderate republican we think his sympathies lean to the side of the Orleanists. The despatches, however, are too meagre as yet to form a decided opinion regarding the complexion of the Assembly. The Bonapartists have kept quiet. Whatever the adherents of the fallen Emperor—and that he has many in France is not to be doubted— have done they have done it quietly, and when the proper time arrives it may turn out that they have worked not only silently but effectively. From the facts received up to this time nothing certain can be arrived at, if, indeed, we except the conclusion that so far as the radicals are concerned they may be considered behind in the race, and the choice now resolves itself between kingdom and empire. A Mrxep Commission on Cuban AFFAIRS,— As will be seen from our news of this morning General Sickles telegraphs to the State De- partment from Madrid that the negotiations for a mixed commission to consider the claims for injuries to the persons and property of American citizens done by the Spanish authori- ties during the insurrection in Cuba have been concluded, and that the messenger is on his way to Washington with the correspend- ence, Good for General Sickles, Good, too, for the whole American people. Let us have peace. But let us have peace, through pluck, with honor and dignity. +, Ir Wit Bz Noticep that in the reports of the French elections it is stated that the same candidate has been elected in several depart- ments. For instance, M. Thiers has been elected by eighteen different constituencies and Jules Favre by four. Both these gentle- men, as well as others favored ina like manner, will select the department they desire to re- present, and supplementary elections will be held in the others, It will thus be seen that the voters have yet to elect a number of mem- bers before the National Assembly will be full. Taey Have A Rapicat Governor in Georgia, and his name is Bullock. He has a “head on him,” or he ought te have, like a bull’s. He has persisted in refusing a certifi- cate of election to Mr. Nelson Tift, democratic member of Congress elect from the Georgia district, until, it is reported, the time when such certificate cam be of legal avail—thirty days after the election—has expired. In the meantime Mr. Tift receives certificate of election from competent authority, and it is referred to the Committee on Elections in the House. It is said that the point has been decided by the committee to be well taken, and that this fact makes the chances for Mr. ‘Tift to finally represent the district to be much enhanced, Ir Seems that Washington and the District of Columbia are actually to have a Territorial government, such as they have in Arizona, New Mexico and other Indian countries, They have no such scalping out there, however, a8 they have in Washington, Triumphal Entry of Emperer William and the Germau Army Inte Paris. Despatches from Versailles have announced that the Emperor William and his German army will make a triumphal entry into Paris at noon on Sunday, February 19, The route of the procession has been designated, and the Prussian troops detailed for the purpose have been told off to occupy the houses along its line, and to insare the promises of the police that no untoward demonstration on the part of the populace will occur during the lunch which the Emperor is to partake at the Tuileries with his court and the general officers of the army and during the subsequent defile of the army of investment before his Majesty. Military bands will be stationed at intervals along the line of the route by which the Emperor will proceed to the Tuileries after reaching Paris by the railway from Versailles. The German national colors will be exhibited along the entire route from the railway station to the chateau, Our despatches add that all the troops before Paris have been fully reinforced to the utmost war strength, many of them having received new uniforms, to be worn on their march into Paris and on their mounting guard at all the public buildings of the city. The new draft of Prussian troops is made up for the most part of unusually fine looking young fellows, and the landwehr present a splendid appearance. It is not probable, however, that the mag- nificent triumphal display on next Sunday will awaken in the minds of the Parisians—fond as they proverbially are of military spectacles— anything like the enthusiasm with which the allied sovereigns were welcomed when they entered Paris on the 31st of March, 1814. On that memorable occasion the scene was 80 brilliant and impressive that even the sober Alison becomes eloquent in describing it. Its effect on the multitude which crowded the windows, covered the roofs and thronged the streets was so irresistible that the historian says ;—‘‘Passing from the extreme of terror to that of gratitude, the Parisians gave vent in the loudest applause to their astonishment and admiration.” The alarm excited by the red Cossacks of the Guard was dispelled by won- der at the superb array of Prussian cavalry and light horse, Austrian grenadiers, Russian and Prussian footguards, Russian cuirassiers and artillery, together with the splendidly uniformed household troops, and by eager and almost disgraceful curiosity to get a glimpse of the sovereigns, particularly of the Emperor Alexander. Savary relates that at this match- less review there were to be seen ladies, and even ladies of rank, who so far forgot the re- spect due to themselves as to give themselves up te the most shameful delirium. They threw themselves over the circle of horses which sur- rounded the Emperor of Russia. More than one of the English officers who took a part in the procession testify that they ‘* had a fair Parisian, sometimes en croupe, at others on the pummel of their saddles, at the Place Louis XV.” It is not likely that any Parisian ladies will awaken the jealousy on the part of the Empress Augusta by similar ridicalous manifestations towards the Emperor William. It remains to be seen whether the Emperor of Germany will emulate the delicacy and mag- nanimity which the Emperor Alexander evinced in his proclamations to the Parisians and the French people. Exulting—not with- out reason—that single and alone he is to reap the fruit of the unparalleled victories of the German army by entering Paris no less tri- umphantly than the allied severeigns entered it after victories won by the combined armies of Europe, Emperor William might well afford to be even more generous now toward the French than the Emperor of Russia was in 1814. The Emperor of Germany would thus deserve the gratitude of the French and win the applause of the world, The Ice Blockade on the East River. It is not often that the floating ice in the East river, even in pretty severe winters, has formed such an unpleasant blockade as we have witnessed for the past few days. The Fulton ferry, which is very rarely obstructed in this way, is the severest victim on this. occasion, On Saturday, as we know, thou- sands who expected to make the voyage from Brooklyn were disappointed. The sudden gorging of the ice immediately above the ferry afforded an opportunity for a large number of rash people to attempt a crossing onfoot. The friendly interposition of some tugboats and ferryboats upon which they clambered saved hundreds of them from an icy grave. The ice gorge just at this time can only be accounted for by the fact that the flow of ice, relieved possibly by a thaw in the Sound and forced down by the tide, met the flow from the North river, which was drifted by the west- erly wind then prevailing, and thus held the ice in both channels in suspension. The change of wind to eastward, which pre- vailed yesterday, must have carried the ice of the North river out toward the sea, and hence the navigation on the ferries was easier, though by no means free from obstruction, uncertainty and delay. The navigation ef the ferries on the East river in an Arctic season like this depends almost entirely upon the direction of the winds, as the experience of the last few days fully establishes. The moral of this ice blockade on the East river, of course, is that the bridge ought to be com- pleted in the shortest possible space of time eommensarate with the interests of the con- tractors and others engaged in this immense job. It is evident, from the experience of the last week, that the Brooklyn bridge is essential to the interests of two great cities, and should be constructed without any needless delay. ToTREN AND A HatF Mittiow dellars of stock in the Erie Railroad, represented by thirty-three stockholders, ig eloquently peti- tioning the Assembly for the chance of a say in the control and use of the erratic Erie. ‘These gentlemen ask that the Directory act be repealed, so that they can at least see how their money goes. Harp to Prease.—The Boston Post is sur- prised that the President should have omitted the name of the most suitable statesman in the whole country as one of the American commissioners to settle our controversies with England—Hon. Charles Francis Adams, There was a time when the Post would not have been 80 particular about the neglect it alleges to have been shown Mr. Adams. But isn’t the Post satisted with the commission oe it stands? | Italy and Tunle—Teading to the East from Africa. The cable telegram news reports which reached us during the past few days, previous to Sunday and yesterday, from Florence and London, indicated that there existed danger of & rupture of the friendly relations which have lately existed between his Majesty the King of Italy and his Highness the Bey of Tunis. Although the contents of the different de- Spatches were to a very considerable extent contradictory, the latest, as it were, of its pre- cursor, we had intelligence which was amply sufficient to prove the fact that the exercise of avery active diplomacy was absolutely neces- sary in order to prevent an outbreak between the governments, his Excellency Hussein Bey having been forced to undertake a special mission from Tunis to Florence with this intent. The exciting cause of the agitation was the old matter of outrage on peaceful commerce by the pirates of the Riff—those insolent buccaneers of the coast line fringes of the Barbary States. At the present moment the affair might be made dangerous to the peace of Europe, as the Bey of Tunis would, if severely pressed by Italy, appeal in his suzerainty to his imperial lord and ally, the Sultan of Turkey, and thus open an Africo- Eastern question, the consequences of which would radiate from Central Europe, in Flor- ence, to Constantinople, and from the homes of ‘‘the Berbor in old Atlas’ glens” to the Par- liament houses of Britain. In view of the interest which attaches to every matter con- nected with the subject of Tunis and the Riff piracies—the American government and people being actively interested in the subject during very late years—we publish to-day a special historical exhibit of the case, accompanied by a statement of the government of Tunis, its organization, location, strength and executive resources, Another Dull Day in Congress. The Senate, with that prolixity for which it has become celebrated, maundered over the whole of yesterday’s session in a debate as to whether it should pass a special law by which Mr. Miller, Senator elect from the State of Georgia, should be allowed to take the oath prescribed for those who cannot take the iron-clad ath, and yet who do not require to be relieved from politi- cal disabilities imposed by the four- teenth constitutional amendment, At the close ofa long and uninteresting discussion the bill was passed. But it has now to go through the difficult ordeal of passage in the House, where it will require a two- thirds majority to get at it, and then, even if passed by the House, it will require the ap- proval and signature of the President; so that there is very little chance of Mr. Miller being admitted to Senatorial honors, as his term ends on the 4th of March next, and im the meantime the general bill dispensing with the iron-clad oath remains at the White House unsigned, and will probably have to become a law to- morrow or next day without the formality of the President's approval. In the House most of the day was occupied in fruitless attempts to have the rales sus- pended for the passage of various bills, in- cluding the Washington and New York Air Line Railroad bill, which failed by a vote of 111 to 74, it requiring a two-thirds ma- jority. An effort was also made, but without success, to have a day set apart for the consideration of reports from the Committee of Commerce, which would include the various steamboat subsidy bills. The bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment was made the special order for to-morrow, the vote to be taken at four o’clock, thus displacing and post- poning the proposition for the repeal of the income tax. Resolutions were presented from various State Legislatures protesting against any farther grants of public lands for rail- road purpezes. The most interesting feature of the proceedings was the reading of a letter from the Secretary of the Navy intended to allay the apprehensions as to the fate of the steamer Tennessee. RoME AND THE New Crusapg.—A special HeEratp correspondent informs us that a Roman Catholic league has been formed and perfected in Belgium, and that the object of this league is to organize an armed expedition against Italy and in defence of the Papal tem- poralities. Our correspondent adds that he has the best reasons for believing that organi- zations have been established in Austria, in Spain and in some of the provinces of France. It will not be difficult for this organization to form branches in Italy, in Spain, in Portugal, in South Germany, in Ireland, in South America and even in the United States and Canada. All that is wanted is a Peter the Hermit. We know no preacher who is equal to the task. Gavazzi is not to be thought of, Hyacinthe is not on the right track for a crusade. The opening is good for some of our young American priests, We want a preacher— a Peter the Hermit—and until we find such we must be prepared for failure. In this age of sensations a new crusade for the rescue of other holy places would not be unpopular. Where is Peter the Hermit? THe Grapsio Account of the life-saving service on the Jersey coast which we publish elsewhere in our columns this morning will probably call forth some efforts on the part of the government at reform in the means and appliances for saving life now in use among the wreckers on that stormy shore. The life- boats in use at the stations are of an old pattern and are unfit for service, and but few of the modern appliances for rendering asaist- ance to wreeks ina storm are te be found at any of the stations. Toe Drarrep MEN make quite an imposing display. During 1863 and 1864 there were 34,777 of them in this State, and of all these only 3,200 had shame enough to go and bury their heads in the battle’s fiery flood at the front. The remainder, having furnished sub- stitutes or commuted, now want their money back. Gotp Down.—The Wall street speculators gotupa theory that peace in Europe was a worse thing than war and that the armistice at Paris would lead to an advance in gold. Hence everybody around the Gold Room loaded up with gold, forcing a temporary rise to 112}. The slender foundation for this theory is be- ginning to show itself in the steady downward sliding of gold to its old figures, Yesterday it got back as far aq 1112, eS ORME NSD RE HR te ARIE REM ROe RI NDA Oh EO Ne ORONO MM RR eT Pn: Ley eB Nee Loe ea Mla Re LA tie Noe Te ON aM Me tye N ES a Ma LR OMe A ‘Phe Horrers ef the Skip Neptune. ‘The dreadfal story of the cruel treatment: of & number of sailors on board the ship Neptunus by the captain and his mates, on thé voyage from Liverpool, to this port, excites at this moment great interest, and naturally great indignation, The vessel and its captain enjoy a most unenviable reputation with regard to the savage treatment which the crew and pas- sengers have been subjected to on previous voyages. Captain Peabody has once before been charged in our courts with brutal treat- ment to his crew, and, if we mistake not, with charges of worse treatment to the deck pas- sengers, and yet has escaped punishment by some legal flaw. We hope that justice will be done in this case fully and without favor be- cause of the position of the criminal or the company which employs him, It is truly a horrible story, as already published in our news columns, Six seamen, frost-bitten in the hands and feet, and rendered wholly incapable of doing ordinary seaman’s service, were forced to go aloft, Their swollen hands refused to keep a grip upon a spar or a rope. With the intensest agony they endeavored to perform the duty allotted to them, although they had besought the officers not to sead them to a work which their poor frozen limbs could not accomplish. Their remonstrances were met with blowa from marlinspikes, kicks and cuffs from the captain and the mates and other brutal treat- ment. The result was that when the ship came into this port, at the foot of Beekman street, these six unfortunate wretches were found by the police ina most abject condition hustled together in a dark hole {n the fore- castle of the vessel, without ventilation or light, suffering terrible torments and crying piteously for help. The captain and his officers had meantime gone coolly ashore without paying any attention to the unhappy seamen. For- tunately in this case there is the evidence of the police officers to prove the facts. It too often happens that in cases of this kind the only evidence is that of the seamen them- selves, which can be easily set aside by the influence of the parties interested on the side of the shipowner. Here is a different case; we have the positive evidence of the police records, and of the officers employed in con« veying the victims to the hospital, so that there can be no mistake as to the eruelty exer« cised by Captain Peabody and the officers act. ing under his authority. If they can clear themselves from the charges so much the bet- ter for them and for the reputation of the lina which employs them. Regarding this simply as an isolated case of brutality on the part of commanders of ships it is bad enough; bat we know that it is not. Singular instances of cruelty or barbarity aré common in the merchant service, and therefora it is necessary that some measures should be adopted to put a stop to this hideous reign of terror which rules the decks of our merchant ships, making life a torture to all who have the misfortune to be on board of them. The case against Captain Peabody appears to be clear enough. The District Attorney has evi- dence in his hands sufficient to make a case for indictment, we have no doubt. We want a good, strong example to prove to captains of vessels that although they are despots at sea, and can indulge in all kinds of brutality, they are amenable to the law when they put their feet on land. The New York Republican Muddlew Murphy versus Greeley. The republican muddle in this city to the Georgia carpet-bagger is about as incompre- hensible as the Schleswig-Holstein entangle- ment. We think, however, that the general reader will be considerably illuminated touching, the case of Murphy vs. Greeley from the hear. ing which we give to both sides in another part of this paper. The whole difficulty complained ef by Murphy, is briefly, the difficulty of har- monizing the republican party, while men are admitted into its primary councils who are in the pay and in the service of Tammany Hall. It is the policy of General Grant, as the recog- nized head of the republican party of the nation, to make asquare fight with the enemy, and to avoid all corrupting affiliations with him. Collector Murphy, us a loyal supporter of General Grant, has been and is endeavor- ing to carry out this programme in this city, In the last November campaign he tried the experiment of weeding out of the Custom House a good lot of those dubious eustomers known as Tammany republicans; but the re- publican cliques and factions of the city inte« rested in the fat pickings and rich marrow bones from the Wigwam laughed at the folly of Murphy, and continued to assist in the repub- lican primaries while they continued to pocket their perquisites from the Tammany secret service fund. Murphy, however, was not the man to give it up so. He has persevered in his good fight until he has brought the case of these Tam- many republicans to an issue between the State Central Committee and the General Committee of-this city, of which Greeley is chairman. The Tammany republicans, in getting under the protecting wing of Greeley, felt as comfortable as a brood of stray chicks under the sheltering wings of a motherly old hen. Nor has Greeley failed to do his duty towardj these trusting brethren. The State Committee not long ago came down upon him with a long string of specifications touching the corrupting affiliations of Tammany with numerous republican managers under the care of Greeley. The confounded philosopher laid these specifications before his General Com- mittee, and great was the virtuous indignation of the members thereof; but Greeley and his committee nevertheless have been hedging, and dodging, and postpening, and putting off a settlement to this day. But Murphy is still after the hedging philosopher with sharp stick, and, as Botts said of Captain Tyler, so says Murphy of Greeley—‘‘ We will head him or die.” Murphy is on the strong side, because, as a supporter of General Grant, he is on the right side in this business, in his resolution to purge his party of these Tammany republicans. He does not believe that even Greeley can serve two such conflicting masters on general principles as General Grant and “Boss Tweed,” but that in attempting this difficult feat either ‘‘the General” or the ‘‘Boss” will be cheated by the philosopher; and Murphy is afraid it will be ‘‘the General.” We are half inclined to this impression, because it isin the evidence that Greeley is not an admirer of General Grant. Hed Tammany nominated