The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1871, Page 6

t 7 NEW YORK HERAI SROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business cr news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hear. Velame XXXYI...... jo, BF AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERWOIN AND EVEN'NG. NIBLO" Taz Bia WALLACK’S THRATR Romance and Kear LINA EDWIN's TH SArTOUES—DAVY's Lov GEAND OPERA Hors LES GEORGI: SN Bs, ARDEN, Broadway.—l'uc SPECTACLE oF LOOK. Broadway ana 13th street.— RE, 720 Broadway.—Linganp Matinee at 2, , corner of 8th ay, ana 23d st,— BOWERY . Bowery.—Pomr—Tar Crown Provox. FIFTH AVENUY THEATRE, Twenty-tourtd street.— SamaTooa. Matinee at 1. NEW YORK STADT TREATRE, 45 Bowery.—Srrpacu ax Dor UND St r GLOBE THEATRE, TAINMEDT, &C.— ATT Rroadway.—Varirry xTER THE WAR Matinee at 2g. BOOTH’S THKATRE. 2 Mvoa Avo About Nort Bi, Detwaen 5 and 6th ava,— Acoss THE Cox SAN FR Nrono Mi OPERA MOU: Nv, Matinee at Ist, betweon éth CRNTRIOLTIRG, fe. irooklyn.--HOOLEY'S AND NEW YORK CIRC THR RING, ACROBAT ‘fourteenth streat.—SOENES IN ‘0. Matince at 23. NEW YORK M UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Somer AND An 7 DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCLENOR AND AxuT. New York, Wednesda Page. L—Adveriisements, 2— Advertisements. 3—News from Washington—Imperial Court—Life in the South—the solden Impeachment—Af- fairs at ate Capital : Proceeaings of the N slature—Frightful Shipwrecks— Ww Hamburg Disaster—Miscellaneous phic News, edings in Congress—The Forty-first Con- gress: Etfect of the HEXALD’s Erposé—Pro- ceedings in the Courts—The Hudson River Ice Movement—Exteusive Burgiary—Real Estate Matters, S—Miss Generalissimo Carroll: Rave We a Female Strategist Among Us !—Congressmen, Senators aud Cabinet Oficers Say ; She Claims to Have Suppressed the Rebellion; Que Hundred Thousand Dollars Asked for Her Serviees— Financial and Commercial Reports—1' 3 Fy sD 7. Broadway.—Tar Rieariieu f( “ e NEW YORK HERALD. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1871.-TRLPLE SHEET. The Presidewt and Congress—The Probn- bilities ef an Extra Session. The prevailing desire among the members of the two houses of Congress seems to be to bring the session to a close, in order that they may go home. Having disposed of the annual appropriation bills, and having voted the needful right of way, public lands, &c., to the Southern Pacific Railroad, the last of the Pacific throagh lines, and having pro- vided a new election law and a funding sys- tem, very few, even of the republicans of the House or the Senate, can understand why they should longer be detained in Washington. The President, however, from the executive programm in hand, looks at this matter of an adjournment in a totally different light. The Joint High Commission is in session, and upon international questions of great magni- tude its action within a month or two may require the presence of the Senate. The St. | Domingo investigating Commission may within | a month return to Washinton with a report on annexation, suggesting the expediency of immediate action on the part of both houses; | and from the Darien exploring expedition we | may soon have a report so favorable touching the discovery of an interoceanic canal route as to justify some special legislation, with liberal appropriations from Congress. With rezard to the Joint High Commission, the fisheries question presses upon it for imme- diate action. The fishing season is fast approaching, and itis desirable to avoid the **Jittle unpleasantnesses” which occurred last summer between our Yankee fishermen and her Britannic Majesty’s provincials of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton island and Newfoundland, in reference to the headland rights and the privileges of baiting and drying the fish. Rather than submit any longer to the petty annoyances and the seizures, confiscations and exclusions which they suffered last summer, the fishermen of Cape Cod are “prepared to fight for their rights,” and General Butler is pledged to back them up in Congress. It is understood that tue Joint High Commission will proceed at once to the settlement of this business, and it may be settled in the form of a separate treaty upon this simple subject, in order that it may be ratified as soon as possi- ble. Here, then, is a matter which may require the presence at least of the Senate in April, Ali the other subjects with which this Joint Commission are charged will probably be adjusted early in June, and justice to our citizens concerned in those Alabama claims may require some early action from both houses on the comprehensive treaty stipula- tions which are expected and which will no doubt be adopted. ’ The St. Domingo Commission, under the resolution of Congress, are charged to inquire into the political and financial condition of the republic ef Dominica, and into the popular sentiment down there on annexation, and as to Curious Clubbing Case—The Death of Maurice | the population and the sanitary condition of Cormyn—Educational Affairs—Army Orders, G—Editorials: Leading Article, “The President and Congress—The Probabilities of an Extra Ses- sion” —Amusement Announcements, 7—Hditorial (Continued irom sixtn Page)—Per- sonal Intelligence—Paris: Herald Special Re- | ome ne ge French Capital and Ver ne th f ce— Advertisements, 41=Ady ents, 42--Advertwements, Tre Birrish Hron Commissioners attended Mrs. Grant's reception yesterday. The crush and jam of the occasion probably left them no the republican sim- Biit, allowing the party against whom divorce is granted to remarry after three years, has beon reporied in the Assembly. Iu effect it gives an unbappy married person a us of utilizing bis own infidelities. Tur Exe Dreecrory Brii, made to include the Centralaad Hudson River Railways also, was introduced in the Senate by Mr. L yesterday. It provides that at the next ¢ tion for directors in ali these roads a full board shall be ct Ben Burts the House, pe colored memb to exchange old trick: expense of the iunate, s his Senator Brapw State Sen captains a cause upon ha the Po Board. bill is to get rid of well behaved officers, of w! many, who are not enough for ib ili in ibe so that d without e to nous vole of nt intent of the and well- e bas a good d energetic position in the interest of much worse persons who can “run” a ward or a district the aim is a highly commendable one. Ex-Conc is not to have the Berlin mission. His greatest claim to it seems to bave been that his constituents have not returned him to Congress. If such reason- ing as this becomes a part of the polilical sys- tem of the administration we shall have the families of all our the republican them, because ‘* sent to Europe,’ le electioneering against f pais not elected he'll be and the ladies of all our fami- lies would rather go to Europe than Wash- | ington. ae Se Tak Press anp Ovr Lr article in auotuer column s fifty-five heavy land grant job bills were upon the Speaker's table in the House of Representa- tives early in the session, and that of these LATC only two made their way through both houses | and became laws. This unusual honesty and vigilance on the part of our Congressmen is to be attributed in a great degree, if not altogether, to the influence ef an honest and fearless press. The Heratp, early in the session, showed up the character of these swindles and a number of other intricate jobs | which no member of the He bat Mr. Dawes would have had the pati and the House could not have acted otherwise than it did in slaughtering them outright. There is great hope of honest legislation so long as we bave an honest nress, and if it is not used | ngressional candidates on | s.—An | to investigate, | | Southern democratic party. the island and its storms and earthquakes, and as to its agricultural, mineral and commercial resources, capabilities and advantages, and so on; and upon their report Congress is to act upon the question ef annexation. The Com- mission will probably return in May; for we think they will hardly remain on the island till June, and their report wiil doubtless be in favor of annexation on the general terms proposed | by President Baez, as a great bargain in one of the very richest pieces of tropical real estate that is to be found on the face of the globe. Unquestionably in this enterprise the President desires that Congress shall strike while the iron is hot, and so if the two houses are not in session with the reiura of the Com- mission from the island he may call them together. We think he will hardly hesitate, or ought to hesitate, upon this matter, if witi an enthusiastic report from honest ‘‘Old Ben Wade” he can present to Congress a glowing report from Commander Selfridge of a glorious route discovered for a cheap through-cut Darien ship canal. In this connection the magnificent island of St. Domingo, begin- ning with the mixed republic of Dominica (two-thirds of the island), will be a very cheap acquisition upon the terms suggesied. The jobs of the speculators concerned can be cut down to a reasonable margin, and ‘a8 to the dangers of war with Hayti, the coal-black end of the island, that is all moonshine. Fred Douglass, Sr., and | Dowhing, the oysterman, with a fair contin- gent fund, can settle it with those warlike | Haytien niggers in three days in favor of an- nexation. Behold, then, the magnificent Presideutial programme of General Grant embraced in » three grand ideas—the Joint High Com- , the St. Domingo Commission and the riea isthmus canal route exploring expedi- A magnificent programme, indeed, for it contemplates—first, a settlement in a solid treaty of peace of all our ontstandiug accounts against and differences with England; sec- ondly, the acquisition of the richest of all the Wes! India islasds, capable of supplying the whole population of the United States with all they want and all they may require in the prime articles of sugar, coffee, chocolate, the finest tobacco and tropical fruits and spices of all kinds; thirdly—and this is the grandest | idea of all—in connection with the half-way house of St. Domingo—a ship canal across the isthmus of Darien, which will bring the bulk of the trade of the West Indies and of Central ; and South America, and of the Pacific coast and oceans, and of the Oriental nations and slands of Asia, through the golden gate of California and New York to our wharves and piers. Upon each and all of these grand uadertak- ings, we say, there may be good reasons for | calling a special session of Congress; bat there is yet anether subject upon which General Grant is evidently resolved to bring the demo- cracy to face the music, and tbat subject is the political outrages of those mysterious H bodies of assassins, the Southern Ku Klux | Klans. In pursuance of a resolution adopted | in deference to the President's wishes a special committee of the Senate, of which Mr. Morton is chairman, has been for some weeks and is still engaged in the collection of testimony to | | | show that the Southern democracy have adopted many devices of violence and terror- ism to drive the blacks from the polls, and that the Ka Klux Klans, with all their horri- | ble atrocities, are among these devices of the It is given out that we may expect, before long, some start- ling revelations upon this subiect from Senator Morton and his committee, and that the object is to make up a case from facts, dates, names and places, upon which to pass a new law of Congress for the protection of the Southern blacks in the excrcise of their right to vote. A Washington correspondent informs us, apon this matter, that ‘Senator Morton and other prominent friends of the President, who look at it in a purely party light, areconvinced that, without further Congressional action, the South will be hopelessly: democratic in 1872,” and that, therefore, Senator Morton and his coworkers in Congress will make a vigorous fight to prolong this session until they shall have finished their investiga- tion of the Ku Klux, The President, in very significant terms, referred in his last annual Message to the defeat of the will af the people in certain Southern electious by measures of violence; and there can be no doubt that he is convinced that the Ku Klux must be regulated, or that they will regulate the Southern elections more and mor, hereafler to suit themselves, and especially in 1872. The present session, then, will probably oe extended so as to cover this business of Senator Morton's investigating committee. Otherwise there will be another added to the probabilities of an extra session under the President’s call. This Ku K!ux question seems to be a small affair in comparison with the Joint High Com- mission, the St. Domingo Commission and the Darien Expedition; but if half ora tithe that is said of these Ku Klux atrocities in the Southern elections of the last year or two is true, the sappression of such outrages against law and order and negro suffrage becomes also a question of the first magnitude. Our opinion has been, however, that we have had enough of Southern reconstruction, and that the remedies still needed in behalf of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments may be safely left to time and experience. But Senator Morton, from his investigation, may know more upon this subject than we know, and we await hisreport. Westill hold, however, that upon the three aforesaid grand ideas of General Grant’s international and commercial programme, he may find it expe- dient before the end of the summer to call an extra session of Congress, and should the occasion, in his judgment, warrant it, let him not hesitate, for the country will support bim in his call. ‘The Pope to the Sacred College. His Holiness Pius the Ninth continues active in the discharge of his Pontifical duties, not- withstanding his age, his physical infirmities and mental anxieties. We are informed to- day, by telegraph from Rome, forwarded through the Atlantic cable, that the Pontiff has just held a consistory in the Vatican, dur- ing which he delivered an allocution to the members of the Sacred College. The expres- sion is decided and, apparenily, quite ani- mated. The Pope concentrates, as it were, before the hierarchical chiefs of the Catholic Church his sentence of condemnation of the policy of the Italian government towards Rome. He rejects the idea of guarantees for the exercise of his spiritual power by the Italian Parliament, and in this he repeats his defence of the rights of his successors in the Holy ‘See, for the guardianship of which it must be said that he has been most nervously vigilant from the very first moment of Napo- leon’s negotiations through Edgar Ney, years since, with the present occupant of the chair of the Fisherman. Pope Pius the Ninth la- ments, again, the occurrence of the Franco- Prussian war, and, finally, thanks the whole Catholic worll for the religious devotion which has been exhibited in the Church and the attentions which have been paid person- ally to himself as its visible and earthly ruler. Pope Pius the Ninth is almost a sleep- less shepherd of the flock. The Movement Against Senator Sumner. The opposition which has existed in the Senate against Senator Sumner continuing at the head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ever since his heated St. Domingo speech against the administration has come up in the Senatorial caucus for the rearrangement of the committees. So far the action of the caucus is not absolutely inimical to Mr. Sum- ner, and his friends claim that the committee of the caucus is actually friendly to him. However that may be, it will not be a very gracious thing to oust him. He has served continuously in the Senate for twenty years, and has been continuously chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee for eight years, and notwithstanding a factiousness and a restlessness under restraint that are to be attributed mainly to his high feeding he has been consistently faithful, untiring and American in all his Senatorial career. His course in regard to St. Domingo is the most unreasonable kink that he has ever had in his head, and the last vote upon that interesting question shows that he can be successfully ésmbated o1 that subject by the friends of the administration without any necessity for oust- ing him from his chairmanship. When it comes to a question whether the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee should be purely American, letting considerations of the good and the honor of his country stand above all other considerations, even if these other con- siderations imply war, Sumner's record on the very Alabama claims that will come before him and his committee in the shape of a treaty ere long, for final discussion, and, per- haps, for final confirmation or rejection, is the truest and soundest of any Senator's in the Senate. Eneianp’s Portoy Durinc raz Franoo- Prossian WAR.—Having demolished Austria end France, Count Bismarck is preparing to use up Great Britain. Our special corre- spondent reports, on good authority, that he will soon issue a circular reviewing the history and events of the late war, in which he will severely comment, almost to offensiveness, on the attitude of England during the struggle, characterizing the policy of the British gov- ernment as ‘‘tricky and evasive.” Will this cireular be the initiatory movement in a Ger- man-Russian crusade against the East? England will dopbtless take the castigation administered by Bismarck in a becoming spirit of meekness and resignation—at least outwardly. It will gall her, however, to re- ceive such treatment at the hands of the same Germany that she saved from political vas- salage to France little more than half a cen- tury acd The september Government ef France Congress Yestorday—The Adjouramont Quos- Called to Account. The cable telegrams which we publish this morning from France tell us that MM. Louis Blanc, Victor Hugo and others of that ilk made a demand yesterday for the detention of the members of the September government until they have given an account of their acts up to the capitulation of Paris. This move- ment of the part of those mild-minded legisla- tors serves to indicate the storm that is brew- ing inthe very midst of the radical camp. Since M. Gambetta concluded his star engagement on the stage of France in the character’ of Minister of the Interior, with almost unlimited power, he has kept quietly in the background, biding his time until the occasion présented itself for him to step forth from his solitude. As he wasa prominent member of the September govern- ment, we now expect to see him summoned to appear, and possibly answer to the charge of high treason, for, according to the demahd of M. Doelescluze, these madmen contemplate going to that exteat in their proceed- ings. M. Favre, Gencral Trocbhu and others may also expect to be remembered by this iovestigating group of irreconeilable radicals who aim to rule France at the present time, We hope they will go on with their good work, because the sooner they “‘play themselves out” the better it will be for the nation and the republic. Let them quarrel among them- selves as much as they please. There is an old adage which says that when certain peo- ple fall out certain other people get their due. This may prove also to be the case in France. These noisy, blatant demagogues who bellow loudest about liberty are them- selves the worst tyrants, and men totally unfit for government. These fellows now advertise their patriotism by calling the September gov- ernment to account for its acts. So be it. We fear very much that unless some change takes place among the French legislators they will prove themselves as incompetent in legis- lation as the generals of France have shown themselves inefficient in the field. Poor France! Discharge of Captain Peabody and Ac- auittal of Captain Grindle. We publish to-day the decision of Commis- sioner Shields, discharging Captain Peabody and his mates, Mayo and Shields, who had been accused of having cruelly and inhumanly treated a number of their colored crew on board the ship Neptune on a voyage from Liverpool to New York. This case, which has given rise to much favorable and unfavor- able comment, deserves a few words of part- ing notice, now that it is, we suppose, about to die out of the public memory. When the circumstances of the alleged brutality were first brought to light they looked exceedingly bad for the defeadants; but as time and inves- tigation went on a different aspect was given to the matter. The point sought to be established by the prosecution was that, afler the black sailors got frozen by the cold which was experienced when the vessel arrived upon the coast of America, they were sent to do work for which they were quite incapable, owing to their suffer- ing trom frostbites. If this fact remained un- explained the Captain would have been left without a leg to stand on; but it appears now, not only from the Captain's testimony, but also from the admissions of the men themselves, that, while laboring under the pain caused by being frostbitten, the Captain bandaged their hands and distributed among them shirts, drawers, shoes and vests. The Captain al- leges—and this view of the case is taken by the Commissioner—that the work he sent the men to do after they were frozen was entirely from necessity, and not from choice; that all the crew, colored and white, had to be at the pumps for three days to save the vessel from sinking; in fact, that it was imperative on him to demand such service from the colored seamen as going upon the lookout, pulling ropes and taking a turn at the pumps. In a grave accusation of this character the Commissioner, who is sworn to determine ac- cording to the testimony, could pay no heed to mere statements or appeals to sympathy. But we think that the Commissioner, upon the evidence, has arrived at a just conclusion in discharging the defendants. This decision. may not please persons who have based their notious of the case upon statements, but it will certainly be acceptable to those who have read details of the facts placed before the Commissioner. The Herarp having given the fullest publicity to this case, as well as to that of Captain Grindle, of the ship Old Colony, as the statements and evidence appeared for and against, may fairly venture a word of advice. It is that the dismissal of the complaint by the Commissioner in the case of Captain Peabody and the acquittal by the jury in that of Grindle shall not be accepted as’ an assurance of impunity to encourage them in similar acts of alleged cruelty in the future; but that the narrow escape both had’ from the clutches of the law, to say nothing of the public reproba~ tion they inevitably draw down upon their nomes, will lead them to be forbearing and merciful to the poor helots ot the ocean over whom they exercise such unlimited power. Exroror THe Law would be a good maxim for genial, honest Tom Murphy to adopt in the Costom House. There seems to be awful grievances there, and especially in the ap- praisers’ department. The law governing that branch is said to be very unsatisfactory ; but Collector Murphy says that the law, such as it is, is continually abused. Then why does not the good-natured Collector, for the sake of his own peace of mind, his restless conscience, and his comfortable sleap at nights, stop the abuses of the law? That he can get the Cus- tom House out of the muddle which evidently exists there is not to be expected. A Con- gressional committee having taken the matter in hand, all hope of unravelling the thread of mystery Is, of course, departed. A Rorrran named Frank Bannen, in a quar- rel with a girl, at her mistress’ residence, No, 223 East Forty-first street, threw-a pot of hot tea at her and scalded the little child of her mistress, which she had in her arms, so fearfully that death ensued. What power is there in the law to protect society against a brute who has so little control over his tem- per? Such a man should not be allowed at « large any more thane raving maniac, toa. The concurrent resolution adopted by the House on Saturday, for the adjournment of Congress to-day, was not favorably acted upon in the Senate, but was laid upon the table. This action, we preseme, was in deference to the wish of the President, expressed to the joint committee which waited upon him to notify him that Congress was in session and ready to receive any communication he might make, that the day for final adjournment might not be fixed during the present week, as, al- though he had no message to send to Congress now, he might have oné to send next week. Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, interprets that intimation as meaning that the President in- tends to press on Congress the necessity of further legislation to prevent Ku Klux outrages in the South, whereas the generally received opinion in Washington is that the delay which the President asks for is in the interest of his St. Domingo policy. Which- ever of these constructions may be the cor- rect one, or whether it be that both subjects were in the President's mind when he made the suggestion, the Senate at least manifested a willingness to be governed by his wish in regard to the adjournment question, and laid the House resolution on the table, from which it can be tuken up at any time and amended by substituting another day for that fixed by the House. The discussion in the House yesterday on a resolution for the appointment of the regular committees indicates a very’ general deter- mination on the part of the members of that body not to take any steps that might tend towards opening up general legislation at present. The Spoaker himself showed a very decided leaning in that direction, in expressing the desire that he should not be called upon to appoint the stand- ing committees before the December session. Mr. Dawes, the leader of the House, showed himself decidedly adverse to the idea of pro- ceeding to business now, and in favor of returning to the old system, under which Con- gress did not organize until December, and the democrats chimed in with the general senti- ment. Mr. Butler alone dissented from it; but all that even he wanted was that Congress should pass his Ku Klux bill and then adjourn. There were some casual expressions in the debate in regard to the propriety of passing some revenue measures, such as the repeal of the income tax and of the duties on coal and salt; but these were merely buncombe allu- sions, having no real value or meaning. The upshot of it all makes it plain that Congress will adjourn very soon without entering on any general legislation, and perhaps without regard either to the President’s Dominican policy or to Mr. Butler's plan for extinguish: ing the Ku Klux Klan. Negro Testimony in Kentucky. During the war Kentucky as “a neutral State” gave more trouble than all the “rebel States” tozether. To be sure it had given birth both to Abe Lincoln and to Jeff Davis— to the President of the Southern confederacy and the President of the United States. The bitter family feuds which the war occasioned can be accounted for, if not justified. But now that the ‘‘cruel war” is over it is becom- ing insufferable that murder should any longer deter immigration and prevent the prosperity to which the soil and the climate of Kentucky alike entitle that fertile and attractive State. Why should narrow local prejudices be so much excited by the fact thata negro mail agent is employed on the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad? Why should Judge Pryor be compelled to address the Grand Jury of Frankfort county, on the 27th ult., in such language as he used in regard to the recent defiance of law by a band of armed men who had reseued the murderer of a negro from jail? Itis simply because Kentucky has not yet fairly and squarely recognized the positive facts legally attested by the fourteenth and the fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States. These amendments guarantee the civil and political rights of the enfranchised negro. Neither Kentucky nor any other “border State” can now prevent the exercise of these rights. The Louisville Courier is sound on this point; and the sooner all prejudices are dismissed and accomplished facts are acknowledged by the people of Ken- tucky the better will it be for one of the noblest States in the Union and for the Union itself. AFFAIRS IN Paris.—Although our special correspondent in Paris reports the city quict the general tenor of his despatches indicat> the existence of apprehensions of violence. The denial of a report that the government intends taking away the guns beld by the riot- ers is something eurious. We would feel more assured to hear that the report was confirmed, for it would prove that the goverament was confident in its strength and was determined to compel obedience to law. {t is to be feared that the present quiet in Paris is the result of a com- promise between the authorities and the tur- bulent elements. General De Paladines, it is true, has issued an address to the National Guards declaring that all disorders will be promptly suppressed, and it may be that he possesses the power to enforce his declaration. The disarming of the National Guards and the removal of the artillery from Montmartre would, however, do more to pacify Paris and assure order in France than all the addresses or compromises which have been or may be delivered or made. REPEAL oF THE Tax ON Bonps AND Mort- GaGrs.—We notice that a bill has been intro- duced into our Legislature to repeal the tax on bonds and mortgages. This is to be re- garded as a wise and salutary measure. The present tax on bonds and mortgages very rarely falls upon the opulent property owner or capitalist, but upon the poor man who is obliged to raiso money by mortgaging his little estate or goods and chattels. The repeal of the tax, therefore, will be great relief to the many and impose no extra bur- den upon the few. SxveraL Foreian Suirowners, anxious to receive new American registers, are taking out registers under the Dominican govern- ment so as to be turned over to us with the other property belonging to that island in the event of annexation. This is not a bad way of circumventing the suicidal policy of Con- Pict Ausual Report of Health Officer Carsochan. We are as ready to applaud the conduct of public officials when it is worthy of pratse as we are fearless in denouncing their back- slidings. Therefore we have no difficulty im turning from the consideration of Dr. Carne- chan’s action in the matter of the manure dumping nuisance, which a sense of duty com- pelled us to criticise somewhat sharply, to the annual report of that distinguished member of the medical profession as Health Officer of the port of New York. It is a document replete with interest, and instructive to a degree that must command much attention. Dr. Carnochan handles the subject of quarantine in masterly style, for he has evidently studied it, and gives in a nutshell its proper relations with the interests of commerce and the preservation of the public health. This consideratioa—one of the most vital in the whole question—is treated with force and perspicuity. The Health Officer argues for a systematic working of quarantine based on well known scientific laws. Here the right chord has been atruck, and when it is considered that until Oe gO IO ment had been so very much mixed and wank- ing in system that both the commercial com- munity and the general public were dissatis- fied with its operations, the improvements introduced last summer and those now pro- posed would seem to meet with public com- mendation. In pursuance of this specific purpose Dr. Carnochan refers to the laws which govern quarantinable diseases—for instance, their origin, period of incubation, progress and termination. In the next place, he submits the consideration, which should have a con- clusive influence on the Legislature, that the necessary facilities should be provided to carry out the system of quarantine with the facts above, so that the interests of commerce may be harmonized with the public safety, im- posing upon the former as few restraints as possible, still keeping the main object in view. It may be difficult to harmonize such autagon- isms, but with the facilities for that character of administration of quarantine which Dr. Car- nochan desires it may be effected, and, while the commerce of the port of New York will not be burdened, the health of its citizens may be assured. Warehouses in the upper and lower bays, where vessels frem infected ports can dis- charge and store their merchandise, are asked for. They are required to make up the general complement which is necessary for a perfect quarantine system. This matter should at once have attention, and the proper buildings be constructed before next summer. Without them there is a difficulty in entorcing the wise and salutary regulations of quarantine. With them New York and vicinity could be far better protected against the importation of contagious and infectious diseases, and, there- fore, mutually benefited with the merchant, as the period of detention of infected cargoes would be greatly lessened. It now remains for the Legislature to act promptly and ener- getically in providing these warehouses, as a little reflection will convince its intelligent members that the matier is one of vital im- portance, It is gratifying to note at this time that with the vigilance of the Quarantine authori- ties during the unusual season of 1870, in which 365 vessels arrived in this harbor from ports infected with yellow fever, and on which, in ports of dephrture, on the passage or in quarantine, there were 470 cases of sickness and 107 deaths of this fearful disease, “not a single case which occurred in New York or Brooklyn can be traced to vessels that com- plied with Quarantine regulations.” There are many points in the report worthy of consideration—especially the facility with which false bills of health can be procured— but these facts in themselves speak well for the good management of the Quarantine De- partment under its’new chief. Tae Duty on ExportgEp Tosacco.—Our tobacco shippers have been laboring under a grievous burden, from which they should be immediately relieved by the action of Congress. Under the present revenue laws tobacco shipped to foreign ports is allowed to pass free of duty, but the shipper has to give bonds in double the amount of the tax to fur- nish a landing certificate or proof that the arti- cle did actually arrive at the port of destina- tion. Therefore, if a cargo of tobacco be shipped from this port to Anstralia or any other foreign port, and the vessel is wrecked on the passage, the shipper bas no indemnifi- cation, and not being able, of course, to pro- dnee a landing certificate is obliged to pay the double tax, which frequently amounts to more than the value of the tobacco itself. The omission to provide for an exigency like this must have been an oversight on the part of the framers of the law; for so flagrant an act of injustice to the tobacco interest could not have been purposely intended. We learn that the subject has been placed in the hands of the Committee of Ways and Means, and it is to be hoped that a law covering the case may be passed without delay. Tue New Loay.—Not a single subscription was made in this city yesterday to the new loan. It is only fair to say, however, that the bonds have not been received from Washington as yet. The agents are not without hope, therefore, of doing a great deal when they can display the bonds in the market. Tue Srrerts are in a fair condition now for being thoroughly cleansed. The soft weather and softer rain of the last few days have done so much to break up the small mountains of snow, ice and filth that the city authorities have no exeuse for not cleaning off the débris and giving us streets which pedestrians can use with comfort, and Mr. Bergh’s adopted children—the poor horses—can travel on with- out constant daager to life and limb. There is nothing to prevent the perfect cleaning of the streets within a week. The mass of frozen dirt can be carted off easily within that time, and we may again onjoy the luxury of seeing the tes- selated variety of pavement on our streets and avenues. It appears that the question where all the mass of filth accumulated in the city can be “dumped” without danger to the pub- lic health is being agitated. A correspondent asks us to enlighten the public on that subject. We think if the farmers of Long Island and Connecticut, on both shores of the Long Island Sound. were consulted they would dispose of