The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1871, Page 6

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New York, Satarday, November 18, 1871. <== CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HSKALD. iF nar ¥0 Advertisements, 2Q—Advertisements. 3—The Ooilapsed City Government: Creditors Asking for Arrears of Pay; Ten Millions. in the City Treasury—Muuic:pai Re-. form: ‘The Yo Men’s Associition a Per- manent Organization—False Counting to ve Foiled—Brooklyn Reform: Looking Over the Pol Lists; Inspectors Gobbied and Held for the Grand Jary; Moeting of the Committee of Fitty—Fali of Buiidings—Dangerous Cargo. 4—St. Tammany: Past Glortes of a Defunct Poten- tate; Origin and History of the Tammany Society, itn Some Account of Its l’atron ee its coo te My Tts_ Victories, hisms an Delects—Army, of (he Cumberland Society, ve S—Prince Fred's Farewell: The Son of His Fatner On the Salt Sea Waves—Naval Intelligence— Mayor Kalbfle'sch’s Appruachtng Marriage— Desecration of a Grave in Trenton— Sirike on the New York Central Raiiroad—The Extra Session Canard: Senators and Assemblymen Interviewed on the Subjcct—Polttical Iniclil- gence—Ex-Governor Seymour and Governor Parker—Tombs Police Couri—A Model Vir- ge Mayor—Execution of a Norwegian in treal—More Reckless Dnvinz—Keilly's Rambies—Fuveral of Rey. Alfred Cookman. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, ‘The Presidential Succession—The Democraue Party, Its Plans a Prospects”—Amusement Announce al ‘7—European Cable Despatches : Special Telegrams to the HeraLp—News froin Cuva—Atexis Not Arrived—Personal Intelligence— Another Ru- mored Collapse: Reporte! Failure of the Guardian Savings Bank —Popular Vengeance : ‘The Murdercrs of the Park Family Taken from the Prison in Indiana and Hanged by a Mob— Miscellaneous i clegrams—Itaiian Opera—Lite- rary Cnit-Chat—business Notices. §—Fisk -Stokes--Manaficld: Motion to Change r Piace of Trial ait to Set Aside Stay of Pro- ceedings—Tle Cuviera at (narantine—Alleged Frauds in the Custom House—The Russian Church—The You Men's Christian Aszo- ciation—Methodist State Conventton—Mudson Church Reveliion—The Bivie in the Public Schools—Prospect Park Fatr Grounds: Grand Team Race Between Honest Alien and Mate and Kingston and Mate—Fleetwood Park— The Gas Quesuon—The Canal Boat Shooting Affray—Tne Infamous Deus of Twenty-sixti sStrect—Impolite Conductors—Hudson River State Hospital. 9—Our Mercantile Marine: The Foreign Carrying Trade Monopolized by Other Nations—The Hudson River Raiiroad and lis Management— The Third Avenue Railroad Casualty—ratai Accident in Orange County—Financial and Commercial Reports—Marriages and peaths, 10—News from Washington—Tricks of the Smug- giers—Reviving an Vid Game—Shipping Intel- Hungry City NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Presidential Successien—The Deme-| party opposed to the war. And as the | Rassla and the Gorman-Speaking frev~ cratic Party, Ite Pinus and Ite Pros prots. The democratic party, in reference to the Presidential succession, is'all adrift. Within the short space of ten months it has passed from the heights of exultation to the depths of despondency, With its unexpected suc- cess in the March election in New Hampshire its leaders and its organs cried out, “It is a revolution. Grant's administration has broken up the republican party. The great reaction has come, and the democratic party in 1872, an its platform of 1868, will sweep the coun- try!” Even Jeff Davis was inspired by the New Hampshire election to break his long self-imposed silence and to proclsim bis faith in the ultimate triumph of the ‘dost cause.” But these indiscreot rejoicings were suddenly stopped by the April Connecticut election, fought on the revived issues of the war and the boast of Jeff Davis; and tho decisive re- publican victory in Connecticut on these issues convinced the democratic leaders of the neces- sity of a ‘‘new departure.” This new departure, with the advice and consent of Chief Justice Chase, was inaugu- rated by the late Mr. Vallandizham in Ohio, and State by State it was so rapidly adopted by the Northern democracy that in a few weeks it became the law of the party, from Maine to California, to recognize the new amendments to the constitution, negro civil equality and negro suffrage included, as valid and bicding. But this sweeping surrender to radicalism served rather to weaken than to strengthen the democratic party, and to de- moralize instead of unite it, The results began to be apparent in the August elections ot North Carolina and Kentucky; and-meap- time with the astounding disclosures of the robberies of the Tammany ‘‘Ring” another apple of discord had been thrown into the party camp. The effects were made manifest in the September clections of Maine and Cali- fornia, and were followed up in the October elections of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, But still the idea was entertained by the democratic leaders that if, with the deadweizht of Tammany upon its back, the party could carry New York in Novembor, it might be put apon its feet again for the great battle of 1872; and from the discords among tho re- publicans over the spoils of our Cusiom House there was still reason for the hope that the democrats might save the State. Why not, when their State Convention had closed its doors against Mr. Tweed and his Tammany deleza- tion, and as far as possible had washed its hands of the robberies of the Tammany “Ring?” Why not, when it was the inclina- tion, yea, apparently the fixed purpose of the Fenton republican faction to give General Grant the cold shoulder in this election? But when the indignation of the people is roused it sacrifices all side issues to the main ques- tion, and so from this New York November election we find that not only is Tammany dis- lodged and overthrown in the city, but that the republicans have secured a two-thirds vote in both branches of the Legislature. Such is the force of the popular judgment of the city and State against Tammany, and of the popu- lar demand for reform. But this decisive New York election means something more. It means that, as matters now stand, the State is lost to the democratic party, and that as the party now stands, without New York, it has not the ghost of a cbance for the Presideatial succession. _ This fact is so widely understood and accepted by the democratic leaders and leading party journals that East and West they are casting about for another new departure. They all admit that none of the dead issues of 1868 and none of the hold-over candidates from that unfortunate campaizn will meet the neces- sities of the present emergency. But what scheme of party reorganization do they propose? We-have three schemes or plans before us, and they are as follows :— First—The plan of the St, Louls Republican, tne lead ng democratic organ of Missouri—viz., that the @emocrauc party in 1872 shall keep in the background gud perimit the disafected republicans to vominate ligence—Adveruisemeats, 41—Proceedings in the Courta—The Belden Will H Case—List of Members of the New York Legis- lature—The Indiana Tragedy: arrest of the Negro Murderers; Confession of One of the Prisoners—Ad vertisements. 12— Advertisements. an independent republican liberal Presidential tcket, and then ravk and file, bring forward the democracy in tne cuuse o/ its election. In support of this plan it 1s argaed that the disaffected republi- cans hold the balance of power, and that ia going over to them the democrats would gain the soli. advantages of the batue inthe defeat of General Grant and bis gare. Second—We have the plan of the Cincinnati En- RePuBLIOAN CALLERS AT THE CAPITAL ON | quérer, the leading democratic crgan of Onio, which New Yegar's Day—Beware of the broken ring in the Tammany cake. Tas Teor 7¥mes gives snub No. 1 to the reform democrats by saying that “small thanks are due to democrats that the State has been revolutionized.” Isn't that rather cool? Tae Storm SicNars are working admira- bly, but a large number of people are unable to interpret their meaning. Would it not be well for the goveroment to have a standiag advertisement in some of the principal papers explaining the meaning of the different signals ? Ii would not take long for our intelligent peo- ple to become as familiar with these storm signals aa they are with their A B C's. is simply the nomination of “Tom Scott,” the Penn- sylvaaia raitroad as the democratic candidate against General Grant, and the argument in favor of “Tom Scott” i that he would bring all the tre- mendous clectioneering forces of the great railway monopolies of the country to bis Sy ee Third—We have the plan of the Staats Zeitung, the organ of the powerful and intelligent Germau democratic element of this city, which 18 the aban- donment and dissolution of the democratic orgapiza- tion and the formation of @ new national party like the reform party of this city, which has so decisively Stamped out whe power and tne insolence of the Tammany ‘‘Ring.” In adopting the first of these plans it has been suggested that the democracy, in await- ing the action of the bolting republicans, will get an acceptable candidate in Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court, or Senator Sumner, or Trumbull, or Logan, or in Governor Gratz Brown, of Missourl, or some such liberal republican ; and that in the two or three hun- Tuk Hoty Farner any tae Kina oy | dred thousand anti-Grant republicans that Iraty—A Sian or Reconomation.—The would lead offon such a man the democrats Pope has consented to consecrate the Church | would bave the assurance of success from the of St. Suaire. Llitherto be has refused to con- secrate the church, because it was the private property of King Victor Emmanuel. Are we to regard this change of purpose as a token of reconciliation? Let us hope so. There is room enough in Rome for both Pope and King. Tux Evaina Advertiser (republican) speaks its part by nominating Thomas G. Alvord for Speaker of the Assembly. But the Troy Times (same politics) gives the proposition a rap over the kuuckles by gently insinuating that it understands the next Legislature to be a “reform” body. What's the matter with Alvord? Is he identified with the Tammany Ring, the Salt Ring, the Canal Ring or any other ring? Ab, perhaps it is the emerald sing of beautiful Elmira. Conpirion or THs CuicaGo Bayxs.—We fearn from Washington that the examiner outset. We apprehend, however, that the honeymoon of such a marriage would never come off; for we remember the bolters from Jackson in bis second election, and those against Lincoln as a candidate for a second term, and how signally toey failed; because in each of these cases the man in the White House had the masses of his party at his back, as General Grant has to-day. But we shall know something more than now is known of this proposed democratic movement with the ripening of events, There is something in it; for we understand that such men as Horatio Seymour and Mr. Tilden are very much pleased with this plan. The plan of ‘Tom Scott" is simply an ab- surdity, It falls far bebind our grand idea of “Live Oak George.” A more unpopular can- didate for President than a “railway king” could not be chosen by any party outside the Tammany “Ring.” And so, with all respect * designated by ‘he Comptroller of the Currency | to Mr. Scott as an enterprising railway king, to investigaie the condition of the Chicago | we dismiss him as absolutely out of the ques- national banks since the disastrous fire reports that the losses will be much less than antici- pated, and that under the circumstances their affairs are in a good state. This is good news, tion for Presidential purposes, The plan of the Staats Zeitung is the Heratp plan, We have recommended it here- tofore in a general review of the political ficld and shows at one and the same time that much | as the best course for the bewildered demo- was saved from the calamity, and that the | cratic party. The war for the Union has left banks, like the remarkable city and people of Chicago, have a eurprising recuperative power. this party in the position of the old federal party after the war of 1812—that is, with a bad record sad repatation as the old federal party came nearer and nearer to the old republican party till it was dis- solved, so it appears it has gone and is going with the present democratic party, antil nothing is left of it but its name, It is just now in this dilemma. It must take some new sbape for 1872, or otherwise in that cam- paiga it will be killed outright, cut to pieces and scattered to the winds—as was the o:d whig party in 1852—and a new party, strong and vigorous, like this republican party, from the jump, will take the place of this old wora- out and defunct democratic party. When a political party has gone through the rough ex- perience of the old federal party, the old whig party and the present democratic party, it is politically dead; and in duo time, with or without the consent of its leaders, a new party, founded on new men, new ideas and new issues, will surely take its place, Avti-Sonttiaan—Buckeye Repudiation. The Lancaster (Ohio) Hagle (democratic), referring to Tom Scott as a candidate for the Presidency, remarks that the mention of his name in that connection is but another illu3- tration of the rapacity and grasping ambition of the gigantic corporations and monopolies that aspire to govern the country and ruth- lessly confiscate the liberties of the people. “Better an age like that of Grant’s adminis- tration,” continues the indignant Buckeye sheet, “than a fortnight of such a bundle of tyranny, ignorance and presumption as Tom Soo‘t’s administration would present,” The Cleveland Plaindeater (demo- cratic) declares that ‘“‘if the contest is to be between railroad officials, without reference to politics, let the republicans put up 4 Western railroad monarch, and may the devil take the hindmost.” Tho Akron (Obio) Times (democratic) “‘prefers defeat with any noble, patriotic democratic statesman, to victory with any man who has not stood true to the doctrines of the party.” From the above it will be seen that the nomination of the Cin- cinnati Hnguirer does not rageive. a very hearty response from its democratic brethren of the press in its own State. Has the Hnquirer (Pendleton’s old stand-by) blun- dered ? Tue SeorzTary or War insists that he will not require the troops stationed about New York Bay to make “‘sick returns” to the New York Board of Health, holding that such a proceeding would be unprecedented and mischievous, subordinating the federal author- ity to the Siat>, Tae mattegis misinterpreted by the Secretary in his zealous desire to sus- tain the prestige of this particular branch of the goverameui. The troops are certainly liabie to catch the cholera, their posts in the lower bay being greatly exposed to the fatal breezes which disseminat» the insidious poison of that disease, It is necessary that the Board of Health here sbould have information of the spread of that disease or of any other con- tagious disease from Quarantine northward ; and while there is full accord and co-operation between the Board and the commandants of these miltary posts, such information can be very readily furnished without detracting from the prestige or the dignity of the army. But bere the Secretary of War steps in with his “little horde of theories,” sacrificing our safety to a mere technicality with as little con- sideration as if our port were blockaded and we were all democratic Ku Klux. Tae First of tas Westritp Suirs, for damage growing out of the explosion on the Staten Island ferry boat last July, was tried yesterday in Brooklya, and although the ferry company entered only the frivolous plea that the plaiatiff could not recover because he vio- lated the law by travelling on Sunday, and although all the evidence plainly showed that the victim met his death by the negligence of the defendants, and although Judge Neilson charged that the defendants were liable if they used defective boilers or employed incompe- tent men, and charged, furthermore, that the Sunday plea could not hold good, the jury disagreed and had to he discharged. Three of the jurors were for the defendants; but how under any law, or rendition of the law, except that which relieves an ‘“‘itching palm,” they could have reached such a conclusion and beld to it so stubbornly is one of the in- scratable mysteries that juries alone at- tain to. St. TaMMaNy.—We publish in the Hzrap to-day a history of the St, Tammany Society, which will repay perusal. The fact that the records of this old organization are the records of the great political movements of the coun- try for over half a century is of itself sufficient to prove the prominent and important part it has played in State and national politics. Shall the society now cease to exist? Are the corruptions and miadeeds of a handful of its temporary rulers to be permitted to wipe out an institution to which so many interest- ing memories attach? Or is it, as its best members bope and believe, to share in the benefits of the great reaction in favor of po- litical reform, and to come out of the present ordeal, as it has out of many former trials, re- generated and reinvigorated, and to continue under new and reputable leaders its career of usefulness and honor ? Taz Cororep Pgorte or Norro.k, Va., yesterday proposed to hoid a mass meeting”to denounce the murder of one Wilson, a police officer, of Portsmouth, who was killed a week ago, while in the line of duty, by some Troughs; but the Mayor of Norfolk, urged by many white citizens who saw in this peace- able assembling the germ of riot and blood- shed, issued a proclamation admonishing good citizens not to assemble. The colored people accordingly refrained. Has the Old Dominion lost all her nerve? Have the war and reconstruction so shattered her constitu- tion that there is no stamina left in her? It would seem so when, to maintain the peace, she bas to refuse her citizens the time-honored constitutional right of peaceable assemblage, instead of maintaining it at all hazards by the righteous use of militiamen and the bayonet, Is Ir Nor a singular coincidence that three leading Eastern papers—the Boston Adver. tiser, the Boston Traveller and the Providence Journal—should come out simultaneously in strong leading articles in favor of the re- nomination of General Grant, the latter hitch- ing on Schuyler Colfax for Vice President as a sort of tull to the Presidential kite? inces of the Baltic. j We print this morning » Cable despatch, special to the Heratp, to the effect that the Russian government is about to take vigorous action against the Germanizing tendencies of the age. It bas for some time been matter of public alk that the unification of Germany would, in the long run, not only deprive rancis Joseph of all his German subjects and of Upper and Lower Austria, but would rob Russia of the German-speaking people on the shores of the Baltic, It is not long since the Evangelical Alliance, influenced by facts which could not be gainsaid, ventured to re- monstrate with Prince Gortchakoff on the Russianizing policoy—which, both in matters political and religious, had been commenced in the Baltic provinces. It is well known to all our readers how Prince Gortchakoff dis- missed the European and American deputa- tions of the Allisnce. To say that they were politely snubbed would be but to speak the truth, Now we have it from a most reliable source that the Russtanizing of the Baltic provinoes has been fully determined upon, and that the new policy, which is to be fully inau- gurated with the Now Year, is to be prose- cuted with energy. In these provinces Russia has hitherto tolerated the German language and the Protestant religion; for the great bulk of the people are German speaking and Luther- ans, After the Ist of January the govern- ment officials in these provinces, contrary to ancient practice, are to address the central government in the Russian language. This, however, is not all. Asif to strike down by one blow Germanism in the provinces, the University at Dorpat—a university founded in 1682 by the famous Gustavas Aldolphus, greatly encouraged by the Czar Paul I., and which in recent years has had not fewer than eighty professors and some six hundred students—is to be removed to Wilna and completely Russianized. The old College, founded as far back as 1589, is alone to be left in Dorpat. This outrage is all the more to be condemned that the Univer- sity of Dorpat was the chief school for the Protestant clergy throughout these provinces and particularly of the Reformed Synod of Wilaa, On the part of Russia this is virtually a commencement of hostilities. It is a blow at Germany which Germany must feel, and which Germany, unless we greatly mistake, will resent, It is surely too late in the world’s history for a European government to force a language and a religion upon a people. A good enough and perhaps a wise enough policy in the Middle Ages, it is not adapted to the uine- teenth century. While Austria is indulging the Poles in Galicia and permitting them to make use of their ancient tongue ia the law courts and the Universities, and while she‘is not uawilling to grant similar privileges to the Czechs of Bohemia, itis curious to see Russia adopting a policy so repressive and so cruel. After all, there is something in mani- fest destiny; and, if we at all understand the current of events, this latest move of the Rus- sian government will have the certain effect of hastening on the inevitable conflict which is to humble Russia as Austria has been hum- bled and as France has been humbled, and which is to leave Germany the undisputed mistress of Europe. In resenting this out- rage Bismarck can count heartily on the sup- port of the Swedes. Weare sorry to have to comment on facts so little complimentary to the wisdom and culture of the Russian gov- éroment, A Votok From tHe InrerioR AFTER Exrotion.—The Cooperstown (N. Y.) Journal (democratic), published at the residence of Chief Justice Nelson, of the United States Supreme Court, and supposed to represent his viewa, concludes an elaborate editorial by averring that ‘‘the leading democrats of this State not only admit that they have no hope of electing the next President under the present organization of the party, through the nomination of a democratic na- tional convention,” but that they favor a strong movement in the direction indicated in the following words :— “Let us defeat Grant with any good and able statesman available for that purpose, and break down this weak and corrupt administra- tion.” This position is said to be approved by the leading democrats of this State since the election, But how far that may be correct we are not assured. To nominate ‘an able and available statesman” may be an easy task, but to “break down this weak and cor- rupt administration” is a horse of another color. Gampgrta oN THE StaTe oF FRANOE.— Gambetta, we are told by telegram, has arrived at St. Queutin, and that during his stay there he will make a speech on the pres- ent state of France. The ex-Dictator is no lover of President Thiers or of the policy pur- sued by the government of which he is the head. We may reasonably expect, then, that Gambetta’s address will be a severe criticism of the present order of things. The truth of the matter is the Thiers government is not giving general satisfaction among the republi- cans of France. Many of them regard him as a republican but in name, and would gladly rally under some leader whose republicanism they had confidence in. It may be that Gam- betta aims to be the Moses of this growing and digcontented party. His speech at St. Quen- tin possibly will show the current of his de- sires. Tue Onto State Dest.—The great State of Ohio, the third in the republic in popula- tion, isin a happy financial condition, The debt is a little less than nine millions of dollara—a small one for Ohio—which places that State in a very favorable light compared with other large States. Though the debt Is small comparatively it was decreased last year seven hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, Here is an example for the city and State of New York and the local governments of other States which have large debts and are augmenting them greatly and continuously. A Notorious Forarr, Catia FP .MsEir Axraur X. Brexps, with long list of aliases, was sent to the State Prison by Judge Bedford yesterday for three years and fined $15,000. ‘As be stands committed until be pays the fine, his three years term may be considered merely a probationary period in which he gots fairly ready to pass the reat of Lis existence in \Peleo ee ‘The Viaduct Railway. ‘The upsetting of Tammany scems for s time to have diverted ‘the attention of the leading directors: in the Viaduct Railroad from that important public work, and it bas conse- quently languished, At » recent meeting of the directors, however, it was determined that all the members resign and that the whole concern take a new Relieved of the deadweight with which the corpses of Tammany encumbered it, we look to see the work go on under an early reorganisation of the Board of Directors with more rapidity than ever, and, as it certainly will, with the more assured confidence of the people. There need be mo cause for delay or vacilla- tion in the changed complexion of the Legis- lature, This measure for rapid transit is one approved of by all the reform elements in thia city, and one urgently demanded by the mass of the people, It Ge ss ly chogen out of a multiplicity of plans and pro- jects, and cannot probably be improved on. It only remains for the new organization, numbering, as it will, most of the wealthy capitalists who were identified with it before, to bend with renewed energy to the work now, and in a year or two we ought to have that much-desired, long-hoped-for and pressingly- needed rapid transit up and down town. There is no use of stretching the time for its completion to five or ten years. It ought to be completed in two at thefarthest. The Pacific Railrond, with its long stretch of miles, was completed in leas than five years. There is no chance for big jobs in the Viaduct. No Court House millions can be evolved out of its capital for the building up of private fortunes, There are too many reformers in its directory and too many reformers outside of its direc- tory waiting and watching for its early and honest completion. It must be built honestly, and even the most rascally Ring jobbers in existence under that condition would acoedo to its being built rapidly. Let us, therefore, under the new dispensation, have the Viaduct built rapidly, securely and honestly. Conservatism in Politics. The Lynohburg Virginian (conservative) isin favor of a union of democrats, conser- vatives and moderate republicans upon a “moderate, respectable republican,” as the demdcratic candidate for the Presidency. “Opposition to radicalism,” it says, “should be the platform of Virginia conservatives.” “Conservatism” is all a humbug in these days of party strife. ‘He who is not for us is against us,” should be the motto in political as well as religious life. It may be well enough for party distinctions to call one party ‘“‘republican” and another party “democratic ;” but they are all republican nevertheless. Conservatism is a go-between hybrid, of no particular service to any party. When party lines are broadly drawn men must attach themselves either to one side or the other, or drop into insignificance. Hence {t is the height of folly for our Lynchburg contemporary to appeal to the ‘‘conserva- tives of Virginia” to do this, that or the other. When the Presidential campaign commences men will be either democrats or republicans, and he who avows himself any- thing else will find himself nowhere. CrurcH aNp State In Germany—A New Puask oF THE Question.—The Bavarian representative in the Federal Cuuncil of the German empire has introduced a Bill to permit and to provide for the legal prosecution of clergymen engaged in unpatriotic intrigues. It is & not unimportant sign of the times that this motion should come from the representa- tive of Catholic Bavaria. It is a blow at Rome, and particularly at infallibility. Itisa law in Bavaria that no decree of Rome sball be published without the consent of the gov- ernment. In Bavaria this law bas been violated by several of the bishops. Bavaria and Prussia have both stood by the excom- manicated clergy and refused to dispossess them of their livings. This new bill aims at dispossessing the infallibilists, one and all. It is a new and interesting phase of a great question, We shall anxiously watch its further development. Grant aND His Renomination.—The Bos- ton Advertiser (republican), referring to the next Presidency, makes no question that there is opposition to President Grant’s re- nomination, earnest and determined, but not formidable, ‘It is nothing,” it says, ‘‘but opposition. It has no affirmative side. It represents no separate policy,.no common purpose, no recogaized candidate or hope of one. Itisno rash prophecy to predict that the National Conventloa In June will nominate General Grant again with very little opposi- tion.” The Advertiser takes it for granted that the Republican National Convention will be held in Boston, and that Senator Schurz and the Tennessee reconstructionists will attend. As old Father Ritchie would say, nous verrons. Tae Aor ror THE Rewiey oy VereRrans of the war of 1812 requires that such vet- erans on receiving their pensions shall be re- quired to “gupport the Constitution of the United States and the*widows of such officers and soldiers,” é&c., which makes it rather hard on the veterans, a pension of eight dollars a month being entirely inadequate to the support of even one of those widows after the veteran has supplied his owa natural wants. Tue Hagsor oy Havana was made the scene yesterday of a series of international aquatic contests, in which Spaniards, Englishmen and Americans took part. The contestants were men-of-wars men and mer- chant sailors. They tugged at the oar and trimmed the sail during the strife. The Spaniards performed splendidly. Fraternity, liberty and good feeling should ever prevail in the waters of the Antilles, Somn oF THE Fravps in the Custom House, in the way of abetracting valuables from cases of imported goods, are ‘‘shown up” in the Hirarp to-day. The extent to which petty rascalities such as these have been car- ried is astonishing, and the Collector ought at once put a stop to them. Tur Boston Traveller, which has been shaking in the wind lately, has resumed its course on the regular republican tack, and is out in favor of the renomination of General Grant, believing that his re-election is beyond ‘ peradventure, Gctence tm Amerion, In recent isgue of » widely known Bagti¢h, eclentific journal we find some striking pas- Sages on this topic, The editor of this cation, the eminent astronomer, J. Norman Lockyer, says:—‘‘We have on various ovea- slons alluded to the large amount of k tifc men in Amerion paid for carrying investigations and preparing reports various subjects of great practical for the welfare of the country would almost bear comparison with the oumber 1 fe i Ui teloadl inprovoaatle® ‘ia See eulogy for an Engligh savant to ‘ American relations,” as “he wane Q conclusively shows that, in a country where, from time immemorial, all that was doue ia America was belittled, criticised and hushed ai | branches of learning, we have led our English relations into new fields, ripe with the harvest of science, and they have availed themselves of our work and entered into our labors, The spirit of our institutions demands that whatever is done by the government shall be done, not for the good and glory of any indi- vidual or class, but for the common benefit, pro bono publico. It is for this reason thas our scientific and national institutions enter at once into the wishes and wants of the people, and make themselves practically and power- fally uset Look at the splendid labors our coast survey, which has given our mariners a clear and almost photographic chart of the sang and atu: 94 oar, {fmmense coast, was ath yy two oveans and interpeietrated by many deep and wide seas. The gigantic undertaking of triangu- lating this whole country and giving us an orographic delineation of all its su model or mould of the land io all te undule- tions—is not a task too grand for our national science, because it is a work which the people in every part of the country can utilize, in building railroads and turnpikes, in constract- ing canals and in all the trigonometrical eur- veys of the different States. If we look at our Naval Observatory, the Hydrographic Office, the Smithsonian Iastitu- tion, the Storm Signal Bureau, we see rapid, practical and splendid results from the inves- tigations of our government laborers—resulta which tend to advance all the material intere esta aot bome and enhance the national credit and glory abroad. The distinguished astrono- mer of whom we at first spoke tells us that “when men of culture and science in this country attempt to advocate the claims of science to national support from the govern- ment, ono of the arguments most relied on by their opponents is that such a course would have the effect of checking private scientific enterprise.” Mr. Lockyer adds that “we should like these objectors to look over the American publications now lying before us (issued by private scientific societies), and we think, if they were able to derive any lesson from it, it might have a tendency to modify their opinion,” When the inventor of the telezraph applied for means to lay down a small line from Balti- more to Washington, under a past régimein this country, he obtained“it with difficulty. The day for such extravagant economy has bappily passed away, and, it is to be hoped, we shall never emulate the parsimony of the British government in all its bearings to science, of which Mr. Lockyer so justly com- plains. Our scientific and national institutions cost but little or nothing compared with the immense necessity that exists for them and the work they do, This remark most emphatl- cally applies to all of the bureaus of which we have spoken; and in America the people, ever keen to sustain and cheer forward every traly progressive movement, will tolerate no legis- lation that embarrasses science or stifles ite efforts for research and investigation. When Captain Hall’s North Polar expedition was sent out one or two individuals asked the ques- tion, Cus bono? But the press and the peo- ple deemed such a question an impertinence, and the explorer went to sea with the good will and applause of the country, Instead of asking or petitioning the government to re trench its expenditures for science, the Baglich editor will be pleased to hear that the Ameri- can people are continually pressing their law- makers to extend the useful mission of our scientific bureaus, and usually show them- selves ab our Congress in their appre- ciation of the great discoveries and investiga- tions of the day. The national scientific offices of this country have given an intense stimulus to private ind viduals and societies and furnished them with the data for the most invaluable researches and deductions. The labors of the Observa- tory and Hydrographic Office have been of world-wide utility and fame. The Smithso- nian is an authority among the oldest societies of Europe. The Agricultural Bureau extends its offices to every part of the country, The Signal Servico has so far progressed, in the” brief time since it was Inaagurated, that the same London contemporary just quoted says “the meteorological system now in operation in the States already excels ours in many points,” and a recent movement has been set on foot in the West and South to ask for the extenston of its reports. Our private observa- tories and societies have made rapid strides within a few years, and the historian will have much of deép scientific interest to record for this period of our history. We have every reason to be proud of “science in America.” “Revver Unto Casan.”—The members ot the German Parliament in Berlin are engaged in discussingthe provisions of the new national coinage bill, A legislative proposition wae made yesterday to render the money of im- perial uniformity in its impress, by stamping each coin with the head of Emperor William, instead of the profile of the diffweent princes of the different countries which go to make up the nation. The resolve was negatived by a large majority. The Germans are very pa- triotic, but they do not—all of them, at least— care for an imperial Cesarism, They will do their duty according to the Scriptural maxim, and “reader” unto the different princes thoir monetary aud mint rights, at least ~