The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1871, Page 6

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New York, Saturday, November 25, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TG-DAY’S HERALD, = - Advertisements, 2—Advertisements- 3—Movements or the Grand Duke Alexis—Impor- fant from Washington—A Maniac Murderer— Miscellaneous ‘ elegrams—Amusements. 4—Manicipal Developments: The Stolen Vouchers: Hagerty and Baulch Before Judge Bedford in the General Sessions—brooklyn’s _Tribula- tons—The Smallpox—The Cholera in the Bay— The HERALD’s Advice—A “Veeskey”’ Cockiail— Thanksgiving Day in Brooklyn—Exnhibition of Chiaese Paintings—T'he Long Is!and Bible War. S—The Political Outlook: Views of Politicians and the People—Presidential Gossip—Capitalisty ad Laborers—Running Notes, Political and General—The Press in Germany: Prosecution of.an Editor for Plain Speaking About the Empercr—an Alleged Swindier Arrested— Corruption Still the Cry: Tne Hoboken Coun- cilmen in Stormy Sessicn—Mid-Ocean Storm and Kelief Suip—Colonial Annexation—Yacht- ing in China—Beecher on Death — Night Prowis ers in Jersey—Clear Out the Corner Loafers, @—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The New City Charicr—The Foundation of Municipal Re- form’'—Amusement Announcements, 7—Editortais (Continued from sixth Page)—Euro- — Cable Telegrams—\News from Mexico— rs02al Intelligence—Business Notices, S—The Gas Question—The Ship Mary Fry—Almost &@ Murder—Was this Man the Incendiary !— Railroad Requirements—Colored — Ewigra- tion to Kansas—Hogan’s Last Spree—Burned to a Crisp—The Paciilc Coast—Reiormatory for Female Juveniles—Naval Intelligence— Explosion at the New Jersey State House— Expiosion m Harper's buiiding—Large Fire in Phiuladelphia—Not an incorporator—The Chilicothe =Murder—Views of the Past— Evacuation Day—Forewn Miscellaneous Items—Foreign Personal Gossip—That Black Friday Suit; Mouon to Disuiss the Complaint Denied—Prospect Park Fair Grounds. @—Tue itevrew Element in Russia: Improved Condition of the Jews—Snow Storm on the Plains—The Diamond Fields in Airica—An Inebriate with a Fractured Skull—The Free Methodist College for Women—Financial and Commercial Keports—Obituary—Marriages and Deaths. 10—Canvaseing the City Vcte: Excitement in the Board of Canvassera—Local tntelligence— Shipping News—Advertiscments. 11-China snd Japan: HxRaLD Special Mail Re- ue from the Empires of tne Far East—A New York Bankrupt Broker Abandous His Wife—Personal Notes—Fond of Their Tea— Proceedings in the Courts. 19=Caivary Cometngy: Complaints Still the Order of the Day, and No niais Of tue Charges from the Cemetery Managers; What Catholics Have to Say About the Matier—Advertise- ments. Axorpee Mexican Derzat.—A special despatch to the Hznatp from Mexico, which we publish elsewhere, announces the defeat of the government forces in the State of Durango by the guerillas of Guerra. It is getting from bad to worse, in Mexico. Tne St. Lovis Democrat (republican) calls the passive democrats ‘thumb suckers.” The latter word is the familiar appellation of the natives of the State of Illinois, What is the domestic patronymic of the people of Missourt? Equally euphonions, no doubt. From ALexanpria, Egypt, we have a special Hzraxp telegram report of the drown- lng of seventy-five pilgrims in consequence of @ steamship collision in the harbor, The men were, in most instances, weighed down by the weight of their gold. They should have read about the money changers in the Temple before they set out on their pilgrimage. Sooiat Sratcs oy tue Ku Kivx Prison- Enrs.—Tbe Bureau of Education at Washing- ton bas just made a discovery that must prove extremely humiliating to the high-toned captains general and cyclops extraordinary of the Ku Klux Klan, The officers of the federal government charged with capturing and de- taining the menials of the Klan declare that out of several hundred prisoners not more : than eleven can read, and the ability to sign their confessions quite the exception. The great mass of them are wild, illiterate, despe- rate characters, to whom education {s utterly unknown, and among whom the lowest phases of bumanity are clearly and unbappily appa- rent, Tae Rerven or THE Prisce.—The Grand Duke Alexis and suite left Washington yester- day morning in their special train and pros ceeded to Annapolis, where they visited the United States Naval School. The Prince and the Russian Admiral manifested special inter- est in everything they saw while inspecting the different departments of the Academy, and were delighted with their visit. After the in- spection they were entertained in a handsome manner at the residence of Admiral Worden, where a number of complimentary and friendly toasts and sentiments were proposed and re- sponded to by American and Ruasian officers. The imperial party left Annapolis in the after- poon and returned to New York last evening. This morning he will visit Hell Gate and in- spect the operations there, and be entertained at Fort Hamilton and Governor's Island by General McDowell, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NUVEMBER 25, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET. The New City Charter—The Foundation of Municipal Reform. One of the most important duties that the incoming State Legislature will be called upon to perform Will be the creation of » new mu- nicipal charter for the elty of New York. Va- rious political interests are at the present moment at work framing the details of this law with a view to their own particular ob- jects, and it is evident that partisan schemes will be the great danger against which our representatives, if honestly disposed in the matter, will have to provide. Already the jealousies and conflicting aims of adverse fac- tions begin to make themselves apparent in the snarlings and bickerings of the political press, and enough is foreshadowed to indicate @ severe struggle at Albany over the spoils of the city government. A movement is on foot on the part of the administratiop republicans to fasten a series of State commissions on the | city with a view to making ex-Collector Mur- phy the President of the Board of Metro- politan Police, with supreme power over that important arm of the city government; while the German democrats, who took a prominent share in the recent political revolution, are promptly declaring against such a policy and denouncing its partisan character. The re- form democracy are quietly playing their own game and secking to make such combinations as will be likely to secure to them the control of the municipal government whenever a char- ter election may take place, while a portion of the old Tammany leaders, not yet abandoning hope, are making an effort to regain some share of power by secret alliances with those to whose action they mainly owe their late de- feat. The people of New York have little share or interest in these squabblings, plotiings and bargainings of political factions. They care nothing whether this disappointed republican led off ia the crusade against official corrup- tion, or whether that dissatisfied democrat joined the reform movement in the first or the eleventh hour. The German democratic organ may accuse the republican Custom House organ of partisan and selfish objects in its forcible raid upon the public peculators, and the assailed party may retort by question- ing the honesty of the reform professions of Messrs. Ottendorfer, Tilden and others of a like political complexion. But the people know that their own determination to effect a “change in the city administration, and their own efficient action at the ballot box, secured the result that was reached on the day of election, either side; and they do not intend that the revolution they then made shall be suffered to go backwards. those who have been called to power with the duty of reforming and reorganizing the government of the city of New York, and they are indifferent as to the exact shape the refor- mation may for the moment take. a man as John Cochrane at the head of the Board of Aldermen they would be willing that the active duties of the Chief Magistrate of the city should be confided to that officer for the next year. expedient to appoint a Mayor until 1873, instead in the no objection to entrusting Comptroller Green, independent of the politicians of They are contented to entrust With such Should it be thought charter election there will be of holding a coming spring, Park Commissioner Stebbins and Register Sigel with the selection, under the provision of article ten, section two, of the State consti- tution, which provides that “‘all city, town and village officers whose election or appoint- ment is not provided for by this constitution shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate for such pur- pose.” This temporary bridging over of the difficulties in which the city has become in- volved will excite little opposition or comment except from interested parties ; but the work of framing a charter under which the people of New York are to live for years to come and on the wise provisions of which they are to depend for their protection against such ras- calities as have been hitherto practised upon them must be undertaken by the Legislature in good faith, and be perfected independent of the influence of political cliques and witha view singly to the interests of the city. Some wise and honest citizens are at the preseat moment engazed in the preparation of the details of a new charter, aud the result of their labors will no doubt be very different from those arrived at by the politicians. A sub- division of the Committee of Seventy is invit- ing the advice and co-operation of all the lead- ing reformers, whose familiarity with city affairs entitles their judgment to consideratior, to submit toit their views and suggestions on this important subject, and the Legislature can scarcely avoid adopting the main features of such a law as this body may prepare. It is scarcely probable that the republican ma- jority will use its power to return to the rot- ten system of State-created commissions, by the corrupting influence of which all our re- cent official frands and peculations were fos- tered. The people would rise against such an abuse of the reform movement and overthrow the partisan work at the earliest opportunity. Outside of this the citizens of New York will be indifferent to the details of the charter, pro- vided the great features of a solid reform are secured to them in the new law. The simplest machinery that can be created will be the most acceptable to the people. They desire that the executive power shall be concentrated in the Chief Magistrate, who, by an annual election, shall be constantly and directly responsible to them for the good conduct of the whole ad- ministration. But, above all things, recent experience bas proved the absolute necessity of complete publicity in every transaction of the city government, Whatever form the charter may take, we must have a stringent provision looking to this one important point. The receipts of every department and of every public officer, with a detailed account of every item of expenditure, must be published at least once in every two weeks, The full list of every employé in the city gov- ernment, names, residences and salaries, must be published every three months, and whenever a change or an addition is made the names of the officer removed and the person appointed must be regularly gazetted ; and no person, except such as have been thus publicly announced as in the service of the govern- ment, must be permitted to receive a salary from the city treasury. Such a provision as this will of itself, if stringently en- forced, be a perfect safeguard against fraud and corrention. If it hid been necessary to publish the accounts of Ingersoll, Garvey and Keyser before payment the wholesale plunder of the city treasury to which we have had to submit could never have been undertaken. The forgeries com- mitted upon Keyser and others would bave been at once detected. If the publication of the names of the employés in Tweed’s depart- ment had been required every three months before one of them could draw his money the people would not have been called upon to pay sinecure salaries varying from one hundred to four hundred dollars a month to a rascally gang of shoulder hitters, repeaters and thieves. Publicity is the one thing needful in every department and throughout every branch of the city gov- ernment i and with this insured there will ba but little danger of any future wholesale rob- bery of the people, The one objection to which this proposition is subjected—the expense of publication—is scarcely worthy of consideration when the great advantage to be secured by its adoption is properly under- stood. An honestly framed charter will pro- vide carefully against any future squénder- ing of the public money upon obscure sheets, printed for the sole purpose of robbing the city, or upon political organs kept alive at the expense of the taxpayers, and the cost of publishing the department accounts and lists of employés in a legitimate newspaper will be saved a hundred-fold in the economy the publicity will insure. Let us secure this one grand feature in the new charter, and the details of the law will be comparatively imma- terial, provided they give us a simple form of government, with concentrated power, direct responsibility and an annual appeal to the ballot box. The Pope’s Position im Rome—Gibraltar a Rock of Ages. We are assured by cable telegram from Rome that a Cardinal of the Church has just asserted positively that the Holy Father will not leave the Eteraal City unless he is com- pelled to do so by force and violence. As this contingency will not arise, it would appear as if the Pope is certain to remain in the Vatican to the moment of his death. On the other hand, we have a report from Madrid which states that England is disposed to restore Gibraltar to Spain after the conclusion of favorable negotiations on both sides. Placing our two despatches in juxtaposition, the contents of one may serve to explain the intelligence wiich is conveyed in the other. The Holy, Father will not be forced from Rome. Perhaps he could be coaxed to go voluntarily, and to make his future residence in Gibraltar. Here he would realize in his own person the infallibility of the promise ot the Tu es Petrus, and stand forth on a rock as the visible representation of the Church which is built on the Rock of Ages. King Amadeus of Spain could aid in the crowning work, his father, the King of Italy, be reconciled to the hierarchy by the performance of penancs, and Charity and Hope radiate from the Mediterranean all over the world. Gibraltar—the Rock. Tue Rrorous AGrration RENEWED IN BEL- GiuM.—The cable telegrams from Brussels which we publish to-diy go to show that the Belgian capital remains deeply agitated in consequence of the public opposition to a recent government appointment. Parliament was excited indoors, the pzople inflamed and almost uncontrollable, yesterday. A member of the Legislature who supported the nomina- tion of M.de Decker to the control of the Educational Board in a very prominent man- ner was mobbed in his dwelling and great damage done to the mansion. The aspect of riot was renewed and maintained in Brussels, The tocsin of municipal alarm was sounded at one moment during the day and the civic guard mustered in great force. The exist- ence of such a condition of affairs even tem- porarily must be a cause of heavy pecuniary loss to an industrial, productive and trading nation like Belgium, where labor is subdivided most minutely and the profits of individuals small. The exciting cause of all this trouble has not, perhaps, been shown on the surface with any degree of distinctness even yet, Tuners’ Lesson TO THE CHINESE.—Presi- dent Thiers “impressed” the members of the Chinese Embassy by his words and action during an audience which he accorded to them on Thursday evening. The truth is, as will be seen by our cable telegram, that the President of the French republic frightened the Celestials by his fervent Christian denun- ciation of the treatment which the Church missionaries of France have received in the Central Flowery Kingdom. The disciples of Confucius were confounded by the vigorous simplicity of the aged statesman. Their im- perialistic ideas were also ‘‘taken down” con- siderably by the personal animation of the head of the young republic which possesses such valuable interests near to their own ter- ritory in Asia, They have, no doubt, made @ note of the event, and will thus be ena- bled to speak of the indestructibility of the outside democracy, when they get to Pekin, Thiers does not believe in the button-order, Mandarin system of government. AUSTRIA AND THE Ci3LEITHAN CABINET,— The Austrian empire bas experienced the consequences of another ministerial change, The construction of the Cisleithan Cabinet was completed yesterday. Prince Adolph Auersperg assumes the portfolio of President of the Council. Of his colleagues in the different departments Von Plener and Herr Streymer are the only persons who are known to distinction by their political exertions and public services in the past. The others are new men. The continued existence of this dual system of Cabinet rule under executive attempts for the maintenance of imperial centralization has become exceedingly de- moralizing to the different peoples who are subject to the authority of Austria, as well as being highly detrimental to the interests of the country at large. The nationalities re- quire the fall right of self-government, and they must have it by some means or other, constitutional or otherwise. A Youna Man or Eionrzgn, crazed with the matrimonial idiocy that always infects youth of that callow age, cut his mother’s throat, in Meriden, Conn., yesterday, because she opposed his suit, and then killed himself The Illness ef the Prince of Wales. Our latest news is to tho effect that the Prince of Wales is still in a critical, if not dangerous, condition. The fever is pronounced typhoid—a fever which took away his father, and which, of all dis- eases, is, perhaps, the most puzzling and per- plexing to the medical profession. —It is a fatal disease almost beyond most other classes of disease, and, therefore, it is not wonderful that when the universal public is mado aware that the heir to the British throne is a-bed of typhoid fever, there should be a world-wide sensation. It is quite possibie that the Prince of Wales is not so dangerouzly ill as we have been led to believe, It is more than possible that the fears entertained regarding him are ex- aggerated by the knowledge of the fact that his father died of the disease which has laid him prostrate. We are willing to take a favor- able view of the case, and we ‘are all the more hopeful that the sickness may not be unto death; that the Prince is not, like. his father, determined to die rather than abandon his favorite homeopathy and its infinitesimal doses. Death, however, comes to the palace as it comes to the cottage; and as it is not impossible that the heir to the British throne may suddenly be summoned from this earthly scene, it is not unnatural to speculate on the probable results of his un- timely “taking away.” A little speculation on this head is all the more natural that the , British Crown, with its surroundings, is already a source of trouble to the British people them- selves, Should the Prince of Wales die, what would be the result? Thisis the question which, on this Continent, thinking men are putting to themselves, Will it be the ruin of the mon- archy in England? In present circumstances, it must be admitted, the death of the Prince of Wales would create a crisis which might be dangerous to, if it were not destractive of, the monarchy, The Queen isin bad health, and it is little likely that she will ever again take any prominent part in the government of the empire. Since the death of the Prince Consort the British people have been paying heavily for the maintenance of the monarchy, without any of the advantages which a mon- archy is supposed to yield in return, The patience of the people is exhausted. They have waited for the dawn of a better day; but the better day is so slow to come that impa- tience has resulted in discontent, and the discontent has become loud and imperious. The British people do not, it is claimed, grudge the expenses of a Court; but a Court they must have, if they pay for it, Circumstances seemed to be favoring the opinion that the Queen was not unwilling to retire, and that a regency under the Prince of Wales might satisfy the London shopkeepers, who, atter all, are the principal grumblers. The death of the Prince would make royalty a mere sham for many years to come, His son, now a mere child, would be the heir to the throae. A regency would have to be established in the event of the Queen’s early death or resignation. Who would be the Regent? The Dake of Cam- bridge has been mentioned ia cisatlantic papers. In our judgmeat tie Dake of Cam- bridge is not to be named in any such connec- tion. The Duke of Edinburz h is the man who in such an emergency would command the en- tire confidence of all ranks and classes of the people. Should the Duke of Edinburg be unwilling to undertake the responsibility— which is little likely—there is Prince Arthur to fall back upon, and after him there is the Princess Alexandra, a universal favorite, and the mother of the “kings that are to be.” Unless we greatly mistake, the royalists—should the Prince of Wales die and should the Queen retire—will still be so strong that Messrs. Bradlaugh and Odger and Dilke and the rest will find that their opportunity has not yet come. Reveclutions, such as those which are now associated with the history of France, are impossible in England, for the simple and satisfactory reason that in England Parliament rules, In other words, the British Parliament, which is so fairly representative of all ranks and classes, furnishes such a safety valve to discontent that violent revolution is impossi- ble. At the same time it is not to be denied that protracted regency might so damage the throne and so strengthen the popular cause that the transition toa republic might be at once easy and desirable. There is another view of the case which we cannot overlook, The Prince of Wales may not die, Should he come forth from this ill- ness it is possible that he may be a wiser man, and the presumption is that his failings, which, after all, are only the failings of youth, will be forgiven. The hesitating judgment of the Queen may be determined, and the Prince of Wales, as Regent of the Empire, may rally around the throne once more the sympathy and support of all ranks and classes of the people. The name of Prince Albert is more venerated now than it was during his life- time, the Queen is universally beloved for her personal worth, and if the Prince of Wales— supposing him to be restored to health and strength—should know how to make use of his opportunities as the son of Queen Vic- toria and of ‘‘Albert the Good.” the British monarchy, through him, may find a new lease of life, As mutters now stand the situation is interesting, but speculation, though pleasing, is vain. For his own sake, and because of the sympathy which we owe toa brother man in trouble, we shall be rejoiced to learn that this sickness is not unto death. A Youne Lapy in San Francisco has sued arich Mexican banker for two hundred thou- sand dollars for having blighted her affections and injured her prospects by a breach of prom- ise, The amount demanded shows at least that the young lady has a good opinion of herself; bat, as young ladies are a scarce commodity on the Pacific Coast, probably her valuation is not too high. Genera Sonorie.p has directed that the Apache Indiana on the Pacific slope must go on reservations or risk extermination by the military. He proposes to treat them well if they are peaceable, or kill them if they are otherwise. Over Sprcia Lerrers From OnINA AND Jaran by mail contain a very interesting and valuable elaboration of the latest news tele- grams received from the Asiatic empires, The communications appear in our columns to-dav. The New Party of Labor Reformere—A * National’ Convention Called. From the manifestoes on the subject which we publish from Washington to-day it ap- pears that there are in this country a general organization of workingmen of the Trade Unions, known as the National Labor Union, and another organization known as the Labor Reform party; that the first named orzaniza- tion has for its object the protection of its members in their various branches of labor, without regard to party politics, and that the other is a political party, We infer from the National Labor Union manifesto that the labor reformers, in issuing a call for a general labor convention at Washington on the 5th of Decem- ber, not only did so without authority of the Labor Union League, but for the purpose of drawing it into the party politics of the day; and we infer from the manifesto of the labor reformers that while they abandon their con- vention, which they had called to meet in De- cember, they intend to be present at the Labor Union Convention of February, at Columbus, Ohio, in order to see if they cannot make it face the music of an independent Presidential movement, _ Thus speak the executive officers in behalf of the labor reformers; They advise their friends to give up their proposed December Convention and “‘to defer action in the prem- ises until the third Wednesday in February, 1872, and to meet then in Columbus, Ohio, and organiza and co-operate with the aforesaid officers and members of the National Labor Union, if found practicable, in constructing a platform of principles suitable to the important occasion, and inselecting standard-bearers for the next Presidential campaign, and to take such further action as circumstances may seem to require to sustain our cause,” &c. Thus the National Labor Union will be put to the test at Columbus whether it shall or shall not assume the new idle of a political party. The Trade Unions of the United States represent some three hundred thousand men, nearly all voters. If they could move together asa new political party they could undoubt- edly wield the balance of power in the elec- tion, But they canaot move together, for half of them politically believe in the democratic party, and the other half are stanch republi- cans. The labor reformers, on the other hand, are already a political organization. Last spring, as an independent party, by taking away from the republicans in New Hampshire two or three thousand votes, they gave tha, State to the democrats; but in the late elec- tion in Massachusetts, where it was supposed they might do something, they only polled for. their candidate for Governor some six thou- sand votes out of two hundred thousand in the State; and this, too, ‘with all the aid given them by Wendell Phillips, General Butler and the women’s rights women. Outside of New England this labor reform party has shown no signs of existence, aud we do not suppose that without the aid of the Trade Unions these peddling labor reform politicians will attempt anything in the Presidential contest west or south of Massnchusetts, Their great object is to rope in the trade unions and to use them in the buying and selling of politi- cal offices; but in this enterprise, for the reasons we have suggested, we predict the complete failure of these so-called labor re- formers. The first thing they demanded after they had turned over New Hampshire to the democrats, on account of radical dissatisfac- tions on the Sumner aud St, Domingo questions, was the lion’s share of the paltry offices se- cured, and, failing to get them, we suspect that the disgusted labor reformers concerned will go back to the republicans next spring. Such a faction of petty hucksters for Presi- dential purposes is of no account. But let us wait and see. The Newspaper Press in Germany. An important case was discussed before the Frankfort-on-the-Main law courts at the commencement of the present month, The Prussian government was the complainant, and the responsible editor of the Frankfort Zeitung was the defendant. The bill of in- dictment against the offending editor charged him with criticising the merits of General Manteuffel and of drawing His Majesty the Emperor into a circle of discussion and in- fluencing judgment in a way insulting to the dignity of the latter. According to the jour- nalist’s estimate of Manteuffel, who is credited with pursuing in the German army a course somewhat similar to that of General Caballeros de Rodas in the Spanish army, he was a great favorite at court, and to this fa- voritism was his elevation over the heads of able generals, such as Von Falkenstein and Von Steinmetz, due, The Emperor had a high opinion of Manteuffel, which Moltke and Bis- marck could not and would not endorse, Manteuffel was a courtier, not a soldier, This was the treason which the editor, who, per- ceiving none of that divinity which “doth hedge a king,” uttered in the plainest kind of language. The State Attorney conducted the prosecution, and made most of the material at his disposal, The journalist, however, was equal to the task, and contended that he was doing a patriotic duty tn she course he pursued, He believed in his right to criticise even the Kaiser, who is human and is liable to err. His Majesty is not infallible, and the Court, endorsing these sentiments, the editor was de- clared free. This verdict is an evidence of the growth of liberel sentiment in Prussia, The decision of the Frankfort Court is unmistak- able, The Emperor, bis ministers or generals are not above the criticism of the press, In State affairs, as well as in Church matters, it would appear that the people are gradually beginning to regard infallible declarations in a somewhat different light from what they were wont to consider them in former times. ‘The king can do no wrong” was the old proverb; but in modern days law courts and people think differently, Tue ALBANY Journal (republican) does not seem to like the idea of a coalition of all the anti-administration elements at the next Prest- dential election, and denounces political coa- litions in general. If it had not been for the free soil and democratic coalition in Massa- chusetts in 1850 and 1852, which brought Ben Buller, Senator Wilson, Governor Banks, Secretary Boutwell, Senator Sumner, Anson Burlingame and others of that class of poll- ticians to the political surface, there would never have been a republican party as it Ie “of France which were hostaged to Germany at now recognized in this day and generation, Is it not o little singular that some of the names of these old coalition-mongera should be mentioned in connection with the present movement ? STNG SRT. Re eee’ Prussia’e Military Preparations—Europeaa Anticipation of War. A Hearn special telegram from Berlin which appears in our columns to-day supplies matter for anxious comment, not only on the subject of the existing state of the relations of North Germany towards France, but equally as to the prospeot of the speedy initiation of another war in Europe, Prince Bismarck is the. directing, if not the controlling, power which moves the vast national leverage of his country in the direc- tion of military conflict. We are assured that the German Premier engages himself in advo- cating a continuance of the preparations for war in the Prussian capital. The recent Par- Namentary vote for the according to the Prussian government a prolongation of the war budget estimate for the space of three years, without legislative supervision as to the application of the money, renders Bismarck a sort of Jupiter Tonans in Europe, in addition to his being the first councillor of the Kaiser's Cabinet, Prussia is to have an army of regu- lar troops numbering nearly half a million of men, The bolt may’ be hurled * against France. The French demucracy may have to eadure still farther the penalties which attach to the sins of a former imperialism, combined with the anticipatory infliction of a chastise- ment intended as a warning to the members of the International in the surrounding coun- tries, Bismarck, as we are told, contemplates a military reoccupation of the six departments the close of the late war. People inferred that the Prince has become convinced that Thiers’ tenure of Presidential power in France is of a very precarious nature. Perhaps he is well informed on the subject. He may thus be anxious to pit his power against the Euro- pean democracy at its most hopeful centre. A Bonapartist demonstration has just taken place in the streets of Paris, with- out let or hindrance from the authori- ties. This must be watched also, The mam who inherits even the “gloom of the glory” of Jena and Austerlitz may become dangerous again. Hence Bismarck remains watchful; watchful of France; anxious concerning the propagandism of the radicals in Europe. President Taiers is, perhaps, provident in originating the project of a new French loan, He may require all the four hundred millions of francs, and many more hundreds of mil- lions, for the preservation of the very life of the renewed republic of France, or he may want them for the purpose of checking Russi- fication in the Baltic. General Schenck Superseded as British Minister—A’ Silver Mining Project. Our Washington despatehes bring the in« formation that General Robert Schenck is to be superseded by Hamilton Fish as Minister at the Court of St. James. We presume that the retirement from diplomatic life is voluntary, as the name of the Minister appears appended tos flaming advertisement, in the Londoa Hzono- mist, of a silver mining company, and it is spe- cially mentioned in the prospectus that Gene- ral Schenck has, on account of the character of the undertaking, consented to act as one of the directors. Possibly this may be an excel- lent enterprise, and the mine may be a very good one. As to that we have nothing to ¥ say. There are, however, @ great many mining companies, with the names of promi- nent mento them and strongly endorsed by scientific men, of a very doubtful character. | In fact, whenever there is a great parade of any proposed enterprise, with the names of prominent men attached, there is more reason to suspect it is a grand stock-jobbing scheme than when the business is conducted quietly by a few capitalists. Wo hope for the credit of the country and of General Schenck that this is aJegitimate and an unexceptionable en- terprise. But, in any case, the representa- tives of the United States abroad, particularly the Minister at London, could have nothing to do with stock or mining companies, Atleast no Minister would permit his name to be used for the purpose of giving character to such come panies and disposing of their stock. General Schenck’s connection with the company, and his name being flaunted in the advertise- ’ ment, may have impressed the Court circle * of London, probably, with the idea that the Minister was using his position for speculative purposes, Tho high-toned and fastidious courtiers and statesmen of England will be apt to talk quietly of General Schenck’s con- duct in this matter as Yankee-like and undig- nifled. As, however, General Schenck is about to retire, the credit of the nation will be saved, no matter what may become of the credit of the silver mining company. ~~ 6 The Herald’s Ship News Reports—Valac of the Steam Yachts. To show the value of the Henaxp’s ship Dews reports to our merchants, we may say that in the last three days the following arri: vals have been reported ahead of those jour- nals which claim to be commercial exclu- sively :—Ship Chancellor, from Liverpool ; the ship British Viceroy, from Calcutta; the ship General McClellan, from Liverpool ; the bark Carleton, from Cadiz; the bark Mia Madre, from Marseilles; the brigs Callaja and R. B. Gove, both from Havana; the brig A. M. B., from Cape Breton, and the brig Alpha, from ' the West Indies, Can anything be plainer from this exhibit than that the HeraLp possesses more value to those whoare interested in ship- ping than any other paper? We tbink not. ‘And it has been the case for years past—since the present organization of our ship news de~ partment—that our marine reports have been fuller and much more reliable than those of any paper in the country, When an arrival is reported in the Heratp it can be depended . upon, @ur steam yachts take nothing for granted, as is often done by those who profess to be accurate marine reporters, They do not return vessels as having arrived because they have been spoken hundreds of miles off shore, They do their work thoroughly. They go to + sea forthat purpose, and when they bring tho news to the city that a vessel is below, the owner or consignee may believe it to be so when reading the Heat's marine column. As we reported the arrival of the Russian frleate Svetlana twenty-four hours ahead of