The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BRGADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Serene eros Volame XXXVI stteeeeseeeecere NOs 87 —————— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twonty-third aly corner Sixth av. — Ae You Lixx It. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ant 18th street. — ‘Tux VETERAN. GRAND OPERA HUUSE, corner of Sh av. and 33a sL— LatLa Roowu. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, ‘Houston ste.—La BELLE SAGE, between Prince and 8T, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-cizathstreet und Broad- wway.—MARBUIAGE. ; WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner sith st. —Performe ances afternoon and evening—LURLINS BOWERY THEATRE, Bi BurFa.o Bit. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Frou-Frou. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tiek BAULET PAN- TOMIMx oF HUMPTY DuMPTY, Matinee at % y—-HUNTING A TURTLE— MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— EA OF Tor. PARK THEATRE, opposite. Olty Hall ae BUrVALO Bit. Ri. Onpes ty Hall, Brooklyn. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Couto Vooar- 16N8, NECKO ACTS, #C.—JULIUS THE SEIZER. Matinee, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st, and Broad- ti way.—NEGKO ACTS—BORLESGUE, BALLET, ko. Matinee, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 ahead NEGRO ECOENTEICINITS, BURLESQUES, es. pirat BRYANT’S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at,, between 6th and 7th avs.—-BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET Bue—VAniRTY ENTERTAIN! ATRE, near Third ave- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 585 Broadway. — Ink SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, PAVILION, No, 683 Broadway, near Fourth st.—GganpD Conogrt. ASSOCIATION HALL, 88th street and Third avenue.— GRAND Concert. ‘NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourtsenta arr st. .-SORNRG IN THR RING, AcronaTs, £0. Matinee at NEW YORK MUSEUM O¥ ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND Arr, EET, = mn} TRIPLE SH New York, Wednesday, March 27, 1872. CONT! OF TO-DAVS HERALD. Pagn re at 1—Advertisements. - 2Q—Auveriisoments, 3—The State Capital: Lively and Exciting Debate on the Qharter; Senatorial Flings at tne Seventy Solons—Brooklyn’s Rapid ‘transit Scheme—Pigeon Shooting—Tie Jump in Erie : Fortunes Gained and Lost in One Day; ‘the Stock in Wall Street Runs Up to 63; London and Frankfort Controiling the Market of the Metropolis; Excitement in Wall Strect During the Day and at lhe Hotels by Night. 4—The Jump in Erie (continued ‘rom Third Page)— Financial and Commercial: The Great Erie Specuiation; Tho Ene See-Saw Between Lon- don and New York; Pacific Mail Clapping on San; ne Omens of the Money Market; Ad- vance in Foreign Exchange; Gold Strong; Governments Quiet—Lommissioners of Emi- gratiou—A Probable Homicide in New Jer- sey—Miscellaneous Political Notes —Smug- glers Come to Grie!. S—The Real Estate Market: Some Pertinent Sug- gestions for Legislative Reflection; Dock Im- provement and Rapid Transit Wanted; New Jersey the Rival of New York State; How Emt- granton is Sumulated; What 1s Doing tn tho the Market Here—Holy Week—A Clever Cap- ture—Music aud the Drama—The Swamp An- els: The Press on the Outlaws and HERALD Enterprise—General Anderson’s Funeral —Re- suming Hee ais on the Hudson—The Tren- ton oiler Explosion—A Card from Harry Hiil—Journalistic Notes. G—Editerials: Leadin; Arucle, “The Progress of the Last Thirty Years—What Will the Next Quarter of a Century Bring Forth +'—Amuse- ment Announcements, ‘Y—A Wail irom Texas—The War in Mexico—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Spain, italy and Tarkey— Earthquake in Californta—Jesephine McCar- thy: The Utica Murderess Arraigned in the Court of Oyer and Terminer—Miscellancous Telegrams—Business Notices. S—Filth of the Streets: The Accumulations of Months Breeding Disease All Over the City; The Dreaded Future; Smallpox and Scarlet Fever—The Judiciary Committee—A Delin- juent Doctor—Smalipox in Piainfleld—Mur- der: A Tragedy of Fifteen Years Ago Avenged ‘To-Day ; Return and Capture of the Murderer— New Jersey Legistature—The Jersey City Frauds—Woman’s Medical College—Opera- tions In Reading Stock. @—Proceetings in the New York Courts—The Geneva Watch Company—The Gray Mystery — Attempted Murder—Working the Cars— ‘Another Assauit of an OMicer—Brooklyn Af- fairs—Cnited States Circuit Court, Trenton— Tue Horrible Death in Trenton—Crime on the East Side—Marriages and Deaths—Advertise- ments, 10—News trom Wasnington—Proceedings of Cons gress—The french Arms Investigatlon—Sulp- ping Intelligence—Advertisements, 11—Aavertisements. 12—Aavertisements. Ente 65.—Such was the closing price last evening for the great speculative stock. At one time the quotation was up to 67}, but in this figure New York got ahead of London 2} per cent and quickly subsided, In the rush and whirl of the intense activity in Wall street attending this monstrous speculation only ono failure has occurred so far, and that one has not involved any serious loss, oY Ra, “Morn ConvENTIONS.—Obio and Iowa hold their Republican Siate Conventions to-day. They will, no doubt, send undivided delega- tions to Philadelphia in favor of Grant’s renomination, Tuxas Crizs ror HEtp against the Mexi- can banditti, who have made her border the scene of thelr murders and depredations, Our special despatch from Brownsville reports the indictment by a United States Grand Jury of the robber Cortina, who now holds a high military command under the Juarez govern- ment. The specified charges presented against him and his band cannot fail to arouse deep indignation, which is enhanced by the refusal of President Juarez to remove that murderous villain from his command. Our government appears to have shown a culpable apathy in withholding so long the military protection so much needed by the Texans. But the fact that these robbers are aided and abetted by the Mexican officials shows that the evil is-tuo deeply rooted to be remedied by a simple military guard along the frontier. To do the work effectually it will be necessary to take and occupy the den of thieves. Tae Divorce Brix IN THE LEGISLATURE.— The Providence Journal characterizes the new Divorce bill before the New York Legis- lature the ‘‘Mothers-in-Law bill.” Why not? Have not mothers-in-law rights which hus- bands should be bound to respect? Seriously, the divorce laws of this State are already suf- ficiently stringent. For the protection of mar- cied women they are liberal to a degree. To extend the privilege of marital separation in behalf of wives is to weakon the bonds of mat- timony aliogether. Our people might as well become Mormons at once; or, to use the words of a noted apostle of women's rights, “allow a woman to take a husband every day” if she were so inclined, “A Lona Put sp A Srrona Put.”—~ Julius L. Strong, from Washington, 1s laboring at the republican oar ia Connecticut, -present moment might well be confounded NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAKCH 27, 1872,—TRIPLE SHEET, The Progress of the Last Thirty Youre— What Wilt the Next Quarter of a Cou- tury Bring Forth? If ‘any old resident of New York, who has been_ resting quietly in his grave for the past thirty years, could be brought back to the metropolis of to-day, his astonishment at all he would see around him would cast the expe- rience of Rip Van Winkle, after his twenty years’ sleep, into the shade, and would forever strip Irving’s pleasant story of its charms. In the last third of a century the world has moved at a more rapid pace than at any pre- vious: period of its history, and if the human ‘intellect.could have remained dormant during that time, instead of keeping pace with the combined advance of science and enterprise, the achievements of progress witnessed at the with the old arts of demonology and witch- craft, So much has been written on this sub- ject that it may be regarded as o hackneyed theme; yet it is singular how little attention is bestowed on the lessons taught by the expe- rience of the past, and how obsiinately men refuse to allow the wonderful triumphs of intellect and energy witnessed in a third of an ordinary lifetime to open their eyes to the destiny in store for the leading nation of the civilized world before the next thirty years shall have passed into history, Looking back but a little over a third of a century a New Yorker may recall how great an enterprise appeared the construction of a one-horse steam railroad between the City Hall and Harlem; how a journey to Wash- ington—for it was, indeed, a journey in those days—consumed as mach time as is now re- quired for a trip across the Atlantic to Europe; and howa pilgrimage to the far West was then an undertaking more apalling than is now a voyage to China. And what was then the ‘‘far West?” One might discover that imaginary spot within the next twenty-four hours, as it then existed in the mind of the resident of New York, only a few miles beyond Buffalo; while there is now no longer a “far West” until one finds himself resting on the beautiful slopes of the California coast and bathing his feet in the waves of the Pacific. But yesterday, as it were, a travel- ler to the Western lakes took his life as well as his valise in his hand, and prepared himself for a trial of endurance and courage, without even the slight consolation ofa policy in an accidental insurance com- pany—an institution of modern growth— while to-day the iron horse tears his way across the wholo American Continent, from ocean to ocean, except, indeed, on occasions when a snow storm fills the valleys and piles up its white mountains on the plains, or when the eccentric red man conceives tho idea of putting on his war paint and tearing up o dozen’ miles of rail, The wonders accom- plished by steam in the past thirty or forty years pale, however, before those the returned resident would behold as the result of the mastery of electricity by the men who have given us the telegraphic wire as the me- dium of communieation all over the world, In this direction our modern Rip Van Winkle would no doubt believe himself transported back over four centuries of time, to the days when the heroes of the Arablan Nights per- formed their astonishing feats, when flying horses made their journeys through the air, when castles were built by unseen hands in a night, when magic carpets transported those who sat upon them to foreign scenes with the rapidity of thought, and when accommodating lamps, on being rubbed with a piece of cloth, beought to the ears of their owners the words and dreams of persons thousands of miles away. The key of the telegraph operator is our modern Aladdin’s lamp, and to-day it flashes over six thousand miles of wire the instant variations of Erie stock, making the pulses of the great financial cen- tres of Europe and America beat in harmony, so that the variation of one-cighth per cent is felt simultaneously in Frankfort, London, New York and San Francisco. Thirty years ago the foreign stockholders of Erle would have been for weeks in ignorance of the suc- cess of the splendid coup d'état of General Dix and of the downfall of the Grand Opera House Ring, and our own market would have been held as long again in anxious sus- pense awaiting the result of the news upon the English Stock Exchange, The American press has, above all other agencies, aided, the progress of the past quar- ter of a Geniury, and above all other interests’ kept pace with the advancement of the age. Thirty years ago the politics of the whole country, and hence the destiny of the nation, were controlled by three or four journals, The Washington Globe, the Richmond Inguirer and the Albany Argus gave the cue and the tone to the whole party press of the United States, and so brought to bear an overwhelming influence oa Congress and the White House. As the country increased in population, wealth and influence, and as the general standard of intelligence advanced among the people, independent journals began to make themselves felt and grew into a power in the land, Still, the struggle was a severe one until the rapid progress of steam and electricity burst in an instant, as it were, the chains in which the press had been bound and tumbled down the citadel of the political organs, To-day no person in the United States, from Maine to California, regards Richmond as of as much importance as Scufile- town or cares any more for Albany than for Schaghticoke, Washington is entirely ignored, 80 far-as its press is concerned, and no one would any more think of looking for informa- tion ina Washington paper than of looking for comfort and cleaniiness in a Washington hotel. ‘The great centres of commerce now control the country, and the voice of the press of New York; Chicago, St. Louis and similar places is all powerful in the nation. The rapid growth of journalism in these large cities is as wonderful: as any of the wonders of the age. Enterprise, availing itself of the utmost facilities of steam and electricity, has placed the American newspaper to- day as a medium of gencral informa tion at the head of the press of the whole world, and by this means journalism, while drooping and languishing in other countries, has in America built up fortunes and established business interests of colossal proportions, An example of this is afforded by the recent sale of a St, Louls newspaper, the Missourl Demoorat, for the sum of four hundred and seventy-five thou- Ae SR EE ERPS ES ISS AES + in ee ee sees ee eee eee ee Sta a eS sand dollars, while thirty years ago no paper in St. Louis would have been worth as many hundreds, The leading New York journals are, of course, the most valuable in the coun- try, and, at this rate, what must be the amount of capital represented by the market value of the five or six great New York dailies? Yet the New York presa has not yet nearly fu!l- filled i's mission. The march of civilization, progress and development is to the West. In the yet hidden mines of this country and of Moxico lies wealth greater than the most fer- tile imagination has conceived. Our railroad system Is yet in swaddling clothes; but with new lines running through thg Continent West and South, and with a powerful protec- torate to give. law, order, peace and security to Mexico, capital will greedily seek investment in the mining business and a new and rich field will be opened to our enterprise, The Asiatic world, hitherto nearly closed to the rest of mankind, will be thrown open, and the full tide of its commerce will turn and flow east- ward toward our shores, The United States will then become the great highway of all nations, and New York will be literally the commercial centre of the world. This is the future in store for the New York presse; for here will concentrate the news of the four quarters of the globe, and the journals of the metropolis of the United States, with their enterprise, intelligence, wealth and indepen- dence, must take the lead of the newspapers of the rest of the world, just as certainly as the journals of our great. commercial: cities have during the past quarter of a century over- shadowed and crushed out the once influential organs in Washington, Richmond and Albany. It is for the independent American press, and especially for the powerful press of New York, to decide whether the manifest destiny ofthe nation shall be fulfilled more or less rapidly. What we now need is a bold, com- prehensive and liberal national and State policy, commencing at Washington with the protectorate. of Mexico, and here with the speedy development of the resources of New York city. The newspapers of this city can aid in insuring such a policy if they will abandon partisan views ‘and personal ends and unite in impressing upon our rulers and upon the people, who give them their power, a sense of the magnificent future that opens be- fore the country. In thia direction lies their own true interests and a success that will be more lasting and more remunerative than can be the favors and friendship of all the politi- cians that will live and flourish and die out in the next hundred years, That Ought To Be Built By the City. A viaduct railway can be built and thor- oughly equipped from Chambers street to Harlem bridge, running between First’and Second or between Second and Third avenues, between the blocks, seven miles and a half, including the purchase of right of way and of land for depots and all other necessary buildings, for $30,000,000. The estimated receipts, supposing the four- track road was not used to more than one-half of its capacity, are, for passengers, for the first year, $4,320,000. The rental of property obliged to be pur- chased, but not required for the purposes of the road, is estimated at $400,000. These estimates are admittedly low for passenger receipts and reotal, and no allow- ance is made for receipts for express and freight, which would be large. The calculations, however, as they are, show the following results :— ‘i Annual income from passengers....+. «+ $4,720,000 Inierest on thirty miluion doilars city bonds at seven per cent. ..$2, 100,000 OperauuDg EXPENBCSeesecesseeee + 1,570,000 The Railroads 3,670,000 Leaving for sinking fund per annum. ++ $1,050,000 It is thus shown by careful and experienced men that a viaduct road on the East River side of the city could be built by the city without any charge to the taxpayer, and would pay for its own construction in less than twenty-five years. The passenger fare is reckoned at ten cents average per passenger. But {f the rental of unused property is increased to eight hundred thousand dollars, and the receipts from freight and express are placed at the low estimate of one million dol~ lats per annum, the fares could be reduced to five cents for way and fen cents for through passengers—an average, say, of seven cents— and the same results secured, he reform Legislature is, nevertheless, tiokering at underground jobs in which Senators and Assemblymen are person- ally interested, and refuse to passa bill to authorize the city to build two viaduct roads, one on the North River side and the other on the East River side of the city. PENNSYLVANIA Poxitrc3.—General Hart- ranft is the candidate of a number of republican papers for the party nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania; but some damaging charges brought against him by the opponents of his nomination, it is thought, may induce him to withdraw his name from the list of aspirants for the honor. George W. Cass is most prom- inently named for the democratic nomination, The Pennsylvania Republican State Conven- tion meets in Harrisburg on the 10th of next month, and the Democratic Convention at Reading on the 80th of May, A lively contest is therefore now going on among those who are striving to be the leaders of the several hosts in the October fight, preliminary to the grand Presidential battle in November follow- ing. Kentvoxy Potrrics.—The name of Judge Russell, of Todd county, is mentioned in connection with the democratic nomination for Congress from the Kentucky Bowling like General Grant, Green district. So is that of Judge Dulaney, of Bowling Green. Plenty more of the same sort in store, Dr. Green, of Bowling Green, is reported to be the leading republican dele- gate to the Philadelphia Convention from Kentucky. General Harlan is the candidate of the Kentucky republicans for the nomina- tion for Vice President on the Grant ticket, It ia ‘‘guessed” that Kentucky is just as likely to go for ‘Grant ond Harlan” as not, With fifty thousand democratic majority against them the republicans will have a pretty severe struggle to win the State, ——epanemapaans Onty One or Tusm.—George E. Jenks, of Concord, is announced to be the only repub- lican named for the office of Secretary of State of New Hampshire, The Personalities of the Party Press—A =e Wide Field for Reform. Many years ago Mr. Henry A. Wise, of Acféomac, in a speech in Congress, thanked | God that there was not a newspaper establish- ment in his district, Nor was this, under the circumstances, a foolish declaration. The constituency of Mr. Wise, shut in from the turbulent outside world at the land’s end be- tween the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay, were an insular people, and at that day were not much more disturbed by the political agilations going on around them than the Island of Corsica, They had their old colonial church, their patriarchal society, institutions, habits and customs; they had their negroes, their plantations of tobacco and Indian corn, boundless supplies of the finest oysters, crabs, fish and game; they had a genial climate, plenty of room for all, no crowding in of “Yankees” with their unwelcome ingovations, and they were a happy people. Their news- papers, supplied from Norfolk, Richmond and Washington by means of their fishing smacks, were not of a character to make a newspaper establishment desirable in Drummondtown, Whig and democratic, they were filled with party violence and scandalous personal abuse, strongly suggesting the idea that to establish @ newspaper in Accomac or Northampton county would be to make a bedlam of a peace- ful community. Hence the inspiration of Mr, Wise’s honest thankfulness that there was no mischief-making newspaper in his district. Coming up the seacoast from Accomac to Manbattan Island, and leaving a third of a century behind us in the voyage, we find here @ community thankful above all things for ita bountiful supply of newspapers of every de- scription. We find, however, that the party press remains as it was, not the agent of har- mony, but of discord; not the teacher of truth, peace and charity, but of falsehood, strife, malice and envy; not an example of manly strength and honorable rivalry, but of childish weakness and pitiful personal revenges, And the most deplorable fact in connection with this demoralization of the party press is the fact that the very journals which assume the loftiest pretensions have reduced toa system the meanest devices of maisrepresentation and defamation of character. They hold that tn party tactics, as in love and war, all things are fair; but they forget that en honest and intelligent public opinion rebounds against all dishonorable party expedients, Our attention has been called to the subject from the perusal of a certain card ina morning contemporary, The editor of an enterprising anti-Grant weekly, who seems to have fallen into the mistake, with many others, of a too liberal indulgence in pungent personalities, having beon called to task ina certain matter by a morning daily as measuring other peo- ple’s corn in his own bushel, comes out with an explanation which places the aforesaid morning daily and its laurels won in the cause of city reform in anything but a flatter- ing Nght, The accuser charges that the ac- cused, according to his own showing, must be a “skulking assassin,” because he has assailed the characters of other men, and has declined to prove the charges; that, again, according to his own rule, he is disgraced in attacking private reputations, and in then sheltering himself behind an alias, asin ‘‘certain attacks upon Barnard, Cardoz» and David Dudley Field, in which these men were accused of taking bribes,” &c., and that “‘the writer did not dare to publish these attacks in any quar- ter where they could be traced to him.” The accused replies that for several years, sub rosa, he was an editorial contributor to the very journal from which these charges come; that by agreement in this capacity his personality was kept in the background to the final cash settlement between the parties, an alias appearing in the account made out by theaccuser; but that the accused never used this alias for any purpose whatever, Fur- thermore this defendant says, in reference to Barnard, Cardozo and D. D. Field, “all I need say is that Ihave never heard, directly or indirectly, that any article of mine was made tho subject of judicial pursuit or inves- tigation.” Finally, he say8, “all I knew or could learn, and fifty times as much, has been brought before the Judiciary Committee with- out my aid or interference.” ... But what does all this, in the end, signify? A profitless game on both sides, We simply refer to this affair as a passing illustration of that no-quarter personal warfare which has controlled and still controls the party press of this country. We grant you that the Heratp has gone through some hot battles of this description, and that from the walls of Rome it carried the war into Africa, But having beaten its enemies, having silenced its accusers, having fairly conquered our present satisfactory position, and believing that we can hold it without further fighting, we say, “Let us have peace,” Adopting our State motto, “Excelsior,” let us strike higher, All the world is advanc- ing to higher ground; but the party press. of the United States does not keep pace with the advancing spirit of the age. Hence the independent newspaper press has taken and holds the lead. The public opinion of this country is an enlightened public opinion, Our people think as well as read, and they are not blinded by the cobwebs and films which obscure the vision of our party journals. The old tricks of the professional politician will serve no longer, The truth, with the aid of the telegraph, is getting to be too strong and too quick for the most cunningly contrived misrepresentations of public men whose acts have secured the public approval. The recent experience of some of our lead- ing party journals ought to convey some wholesome instructions to the whole profes- sion, Here, for instance, is a journal which made a capital hit for a great name in ite energetic and persistent war on the Tammany Ring; but this journal is permitting its zeal to outrun its discretion in its indiscriminate use of such dainty terms as thieves, robbers, swindlers and rogues, And how sadly soiled and ragged, in another case, appears another great journalist in descending from his high estate deliberately to the unwholesome trade of the political gamester. The party pross may be a necessary evil; but from the time of Washington to this day the vicious personali- ties and misrepresentations of the party press hive been a public nuisance. They should now-be abandoned, having become subjects oaly of public contemot and derision, Oo . The Pilotage Laws, There ard certain classes of men representing Among these are the pilots of New York. skilled labor of a unique type in whose welfare all our citizens take a lively interest, They belong to those known to pootry and romance from the very nature of their calling. The services they render to commerce, guiding the richly laden vessels from all climes to @ snug haven, caring for life and property over the dangers of the deep, and bringing the welcome budget of news to the inbound ship after her long voyage, are things which every one who has had reason to cross the Atlantic will be grate- ful for in his list of pleasant sensations, In storm or calm, in cold or heat, the white- winged vessels with their broad numbers may be seen beating out, ay, five hundred miles from port, in the track of the incoming merchantmen, Familiar with a trade whose full knowledge requires years of constant application and a trained observation which can never cease collecting its store of facts, they are one of the most necessary adjuncts to @ great commercial port, Anything which tends to impair their efficiency or lose to the Empiro State so valuable a breed of men as these wenther-bronzed, hardy tollers of the sea, may be looked on as a blow at the inter- ests of the community. The Pilotage laws now in force are ample and protect all the best interests of those who “go down to the sea in ships,” From time to time we have resisted attempted inroads on the rights and earnings of this brave body of one hundred and seventy-five men, because we saw that the changes pfoposed were not in the public interest, but to suit the notions of a class, and always a small one at that, The rules under which the Sandy Hook pllots ply their perilous vocation are stringent, and bristle with fines, penalties and suspensions in case of carelessness, intemperance or wilful violation of the regulations, Their efficiency a8 a class may be conclusively drawn from the small number of accidents which happen in the devious channels of the bay to the vessels under their direction, Their remuneration for this exacting service, outside of the heavy ex- penses they meet in finding and keeping their fast boats—the best pilot boats in the world— is not more than with every economic care will support a family indecency. These facts, as we state them, are admitted by the under- writers and captains, and are only disputed by afew of the shipowners, who, however, do not represent the American side of the ques- tion at all, being chiefly, we understand, the foreign steamship owners and a few part owners in American bottoms. A mean-spirited bill is now before the Com- mittee on Commerce and Navigation, of the Assembly, which some of these parties are urging to a favorable report. The grievance that they complain of is their being precluded from making a choice ia pilots to suit them- selves, Their particular object is to have the following portion of the existing Pilot law of 1853 abrogated or changed in their favor :— Any pilot bringing in a vessel from sea shall, by himself or one of his boat's company, be entitled to pilot her to sea when she next leaves the port, un- less in the meantime a complaint for misconduct or, incapacity shall have been made against such pilot or one of his boat's company, and proved before the Board of Commissioners of Pilots; provided, how- ever, that if the owner of any vessel shall desire to change such pilot, then the sald Commissioners may assign any other pilot on tne same pilot poat to pilot said vessel to sea. The injustice to a worthy body of sea toilers in annulling this clauso will perbaps be better made apparent by an explanation of the mode in which their earnings are divided. A certain nnmber of pilots are attached to a certain boat, which they own. They are jointly responsible for its expenses, and after these are paid from the joint earnings, the surplus is divided equally among them. Going first, then, on the ground that all our pilots are competent, the law provides some- thing which, under ordinary circumstances, seems perfectly unobjectionable—namely, that the pilot who is able to take a vessel in should take her out again, To provide, how- ever, for incompatibilities between a captain and a pilot, a compromise is allowed by which the captain cai, on complaint, obtain another pilot, with the single restriction that he be from the game boat's company to which the original pilot belongs, © ws . But there appears to be ‘ta nigger in th woodpile,” in whose bebaif all this revolution is demanded. The parties interested in the change have encouraged a few of their pet pilots to separate themselves from their breth- ren and take their outward bound vessels to Sandy Hook, returning thence to New York immediately and never running the risks that the steadfast old salts do who go far out to sea and bring the vessels in, The discrimination thus attempted to be set up would, if carried into effect, at once reduce the earnings of the offshore boats by one-half, and ultimately force them to abandon the business altogether, In breaking up the pilots of New York these selfish and crafty few would attain their object, which would be to avoid the payment, in whole or part, of pilotage fees, which protect alike the passenger and the merchant's cargo by the increased safety they insure. We cannot, therefore, do otherwise than in- sist that the Committed on Commerce and Navigation report this unjust bill adversely, The necessity for intelligent, experienced pilots is great indeed in the piping times of peace, when the wealth of all nations is ‘ar- rled to our ports to be laid in the lap of the Union, but in the event of a foreign war their value would be beyond price. From all views of the subject, then, we aay to the Legisla- ture, protect the pilot and send the grumblers about their pettifogging business, encisatisseannindaensianenbiesinds Begoner ror GRANT OX THE Evsicn Sren- BINs PLATFORM.—The Elmira (N. Y.) Adver- tiser—administration—publishes 9 report of a lecture delivered by Mr. Beecher in that city a few evenings since, in which that gentleman is alleged to have besought his hearers to ‘Join their fortunes with those of the yet un- born Cincionati infant.” But although he favored “this Cincinnati party” he said he “supported General Grant for President.” That is, in the words of Ensiga Stebbins, he “went for the Maine law, but was opposed to its enforcement.” Toe MiwavKer Wisconsin—administra- tion—declares that its first cholce for Vico President has been Senator Fenton, of New York, but it now gives way to Senator Wil- son, of Massachusotts, Sess that wind West- erly ag well ag Hastorly? PON eM eat hE Prince Biemarck and Hie Difficulties, Tt has of Inte been well known that the Great German Chancellor, Prince Bismarck, has been fighting with » sea of troubles in his own native Prussia, After Sadowa, which latd Austria prostrate, and Sedan, which left France in the dust, ft was not aonatural for Prince Bismarck, who was the victor in the one case and the other, to conclude that his country would allow him’ some rest from his. labors. What had he not done? He had made Prussla, which one hundred years ago had scarcely begun to exist, the first of tha German States; he had also made Germany, through Prussia, the first Power in Europe, All future history must admit that Sadowa made Prussia mistress of Germany, and that Sedan made Germany mistress of the Con- tinent of Europe; and it will not be denied by the faithful historian that the master ming which brought about both results was that of Prince Bismarck, It is notorious, however, that the Prince, since bis return to Berlin, has found matters even less to his taste than the toilsome work which had to be done in the brilliant and cushioned saloons of Versailles, Ona his re- turn he found things slightly chaotic. Since his return his enemies have revealed them- selves. His enemies are numerous, They -| are found among the ultramontanes, who regret the union of the German States, bee cause of the power which the Protestan¢ North must henceforth wield over the Catholic South, The ultramontanes are keen and de- termined opponents. They are found also among the separatists, who, without any re- gard to religion, feel disposed to resist the Prusslanization of Germany. In all the ane nexed States the doings of 1866 are more or less bitterly remembered. The separatists are numerous in all the States which hava lost their independence; but they are particu< larly strong in Hanover and Saxony. His enemies, in consequence of an education question, to which we will immediately refer,, include what are called the pietists of the Prussian Kingdom—a class with which the Emperor William and the Empress August deeply sympathize. With these enemies, from. thelr numbers and from their influence, Prineg: Bismarck has found it hard to. fight. The man, however, who gave to his country the glory of Sadowa and the glory of Sedan wag not to be easily beat; and the presumption now is that he has won a third victory greater than either of the two which went before, It was found by Prince Bismarck that im the Catholic provinces everything was being done which could be done by the ultramony tanes to make the schools a medium through which to encourage disunion. The Prince’g first move was to take the schools under the charge of the government. But Prussia is land of religions equality. What is done with the schools of one sect of Christians must be done with the schools of all others, The bill for placing the inspection of schools in that State in the hands of State officials and taking itout.of the hands of the clergy was fiercely ree sisted in the lower house of the Prussian, Parliament, but it was ultimately carried after, hard fighting by a majority of twenty. Now; however, began Bismarck’s greatest trouble, Would the upper house sustain him? If the upper house did not sustain him, would the Emperor-King desert him? What could thé King do if:the vote was against him? He could, as in England, and as was effectively threatened by Earl Grey in the first reform struggle, sanction the creation of as mang peers as would give the government the vics tory. Whether the King would do so was for a time doubtful; for the Queen was in the hands of the pietists, and her influence wad immense; but the King’s consent has been ob-) tained, and Bismarck is now master of th situation. Bismarck’s position in regard to the Catholic Church has so often and so grossly been misrepresented that we choose to give his own words used in the debate in the lower house:— “Be as Romanist as you please’—this was the great theme on which he harped over and over again—“as infallibilist or anything else in that direc«, tion as you like to be, solong as you are true to the German empire, and do not care so much for Roma that you postpone your country to her political in- trigues., Follow the example of the Frencn Papists, who are never 80 Papist but what tuey are belora all things French, and { will make no sort of objec- tion, Butif tromany motive whatever, ecclesias- ticat of otherwise, you plot for the restoration of Poland and tee resteration of Hanover, and the rape ture of the federal union betwee South aud Nort Germany, then my government must interiere, And itis in order to prevent this that we assume tha power Snape the school inspectors of tne ele- mentary schools for ourselves, aud leave it na longer to the clergy.” There {s nothing in these words which hins ders us from expressing the hope that Prince Bismarck may come forth from this fresh struggle triumphant. Sadowa and Sedan havé made this school question fight a necessity. Wher we add that defeat on this question would imply the sacrifice of the fruits of thosd two great victories we have said enough ta show that Prince Bismarck must again carry the day: Prussia cannot yet spare him, and’ to Germany he is indispensable. Wuoset Fuxerat 1s Tu1s?—The Chicago’ Tribune—quasi administration—avers that “the democratic party, as a whote, has made up its mind’to lay dowa its life, and, relieving its members of their supposed allegiance, enable them to make such political affiliations as may seem to them the most advisable.” When the Zridune is so ready to ring the knell of one departed party will it not have the kindness to inform its readers whose funeral among its own friends it is seorctly inclined to attend ? Personal Intelligence. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, is at the Brevoort House. General Jonn ©, Fremont ts quartered at tua Ularendon Hotel, Juage Henry H. Brown, of Chicago, ts temporarily residing at the St. Denis Hocel. Ex-State Senator Smith M, Weed, of Plattsburg,, {3 sojourming at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Judge R. Hitchcock, of Uhio, has rooms at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Major Worth, of the United States Army, ts at met Sturtevant House. Colonel D. W. Flagler, of the United States Army,’ ig staying at the Giennam Hotel. Colonel C. M. Lowe, of Georgia, has arrived at Earle’s Hotel. Professor E. Loomis, of Yale Voliege, 1s domiciled at the Alpemarie Hotel. Ex-Governor T. M, Bowen, of Arkansas, yesterday, arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel, General Benjamin F. Butler arrived at the Astor Tlouse from Boston yesterday morning, During tha’ day he was at tho United States Court asthe counsel of Miss Wilkinson, in her sult for preach of promisa against “Brick” Pomeroy, Lu tba evoning tke Gen- erai departed for Wastin’ . |