The New York Herald Newspaper, October 18, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ; enable BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.° JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hegnap. me XXXVIL, seesereesN@e AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third stréet, corner Sixth aveuuc.—ARRAB-NA-POGUE. BOWERY THEA’ fl — Dice Tusrin ann token nee | Fane aoe GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth av.—Roi Canorte, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broad: » bet ‘Thir- teenth oa Fourteenth strects.—AanEs. roe . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Orzna Bourre—La Granpr Ducuessz GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third Qv.—Like Vaterianp Kawnst Ruawig Skin. ACADEMY OF eea—Fra Di MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—ITavian LAVOLO, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.— AGICAL REPRESENTATIONS. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— A Gauater’s Crime.’ Afternoon and Evening. THEATRE COMIQUE, 51¢ Broadway.—Earine Cirr— Agnan-na-Brocur, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diaxonns. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Btreet.—PYGMALION AND GALATEA. MRS. F, B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Diamonps. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Macnera, BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE. Twenty-third st.. corner th av.—Nzcro MinstreLsy, Eocentricity, &c. 720 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRELS.—Granp NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Present Political Situation and the Outlook of Parties im the Fu- ture. In less than three weeks from to-day the people of the United States will be called upon to perform the most important duty im- posed upon them as citizens of a republic—to make choice of their Chief Magistrate, and by this act to shape the policy of the national administration for the next four years. It would be a fortunate thing for the country if we could rest assured that this duty would be discharged conscientiously and honestly; that every man would vote in accordance with his convictions, and that the honor and welfare of the nation would alone influence the verdict tobe rendered at the polls, But the party organs have done their best to degrade the present contest into one of mere personalities, and passion rather than reason is likely to control the result. At present it appears almost certain that General Grant will be re-elected to the office he has filled for the last four years, and that the lease of life of the republican party will be nominally extended for another Presidential term, despite the recent serious secession from its ranks. The preliminary trials in the States all point to this consummation; for, notwithstanding the fact that the opposition has succeeded in carrying Indiana and has managed to cut down the Ohio majority in a marked and sig- nificant manner, its failure in the latter State and its overwhelming defeat in Pennsylvania may be considered conclusive evidence of its inability to overthrow, in the November elec- tions, the party now in power. The fact ap- pears to be that the country is not at this time prepared either for a sudden and violent change or for an experiment that may lead to a disturbance of the present financial situa- Ermorian Eccentaicirixs. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadway.—Nxcro Min- BTRELSY, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Variety Entextatkment, 4c. ST. JAMES THEATRE, corner of 28th st. and Broad- Way.—San Francisco MInstRELs IN Farce, &c. BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston street, East River. ASSOCIATION HALL, Twenty-third street and Fourth + By.—Lecrors, “Inetanp Unper Tuk Tupors aNp Stuarts.” STEINWAY HALL, PUL PEOPLE.” AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third ay., between 634 and 64th streets. CAPITOLINE GROUNDS, Brooklyn.—Tux Mexican, + ak Lasso anv THE MUSTANG. Fourteenth street.—Lecturre on NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, Oct. 18, 1872. NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ‘THE PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION AND THE OUTLOOK OF PARTIES IN THE FUTURE!” LEADING EDITORIAL—Srixtn PaGE. THE JEHUS OF THE METROPOLIS! WHAT MAY BE LAWFULLY CHARGED BY AND DE- MANDED OF THEM—FourtTH PaGE. MEXICO’S CONDITION! MINISTER NELSON’S STATEMENT OF HER POLITICAL AND FINANCIAL STATUS, HER NEEDS AND DE- MANDS—Fovrru Page. ANUTHER CUBAN EXPEDITION! FIGHTS WITH INDIANS ON THE RED AND JAMES RIV- ERS! THE NEWS FROM WASHINGTON— SEVENTH PAGE. CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPALN AND BELGIUM—SEVENTH PaGE. THE DEFENDER OF THE GREEN! FATHER TOM BURKE ANSWERS FROUDE—GENERAL VAN BUREN AT THE INSTITUTE FAIR— THIRD Pace. SMUGGLING! DISCOVERIES BY REVENUE DE- TECTIVES—NEWS FROM CUBA AND PORTO RICO—PERSNNAL AND LITERARY JOT- TINGS—SEVENTH PAGE. TROTTING, BATTING, BOWLING AND ROWING! FINE EVENTS AT PROSPECT PARK AND AT LEXINGTON, KY.: GOOD GAMES OF BASE BALL AND CRICKET—Fourtn PaGE. THE PEOPLE VERSUS “BOSS TWEED! CON- TINUED ARGUMENTS ON THE MOTION TO QUASH—LEGAL AND MUNICIPAL MAT- TERS—FIrtTH Pace. WALL STREET BUSI : FLUCTUATIONS AND QUOTATIONS 0! , STOCKS, MONEY AND EXCHANGE; NEW RAILWAY LOAN— EIGHTH PaGE. LAURA D. FAIR’S MODE OF MAKING AND SPENDING MONEY! SHE SUES HER MOTHER!—ARKANSAS’ RACIAL WAR— SHIPPING REGISTER—TENTH PaGE. 4 RUMPUS IMMINENT IN TAMMANY! THE CON- VENTION TO-DAY—THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION— KINGS COUNTY POLITICS—Turrp Pace. INTERESTING TESTIMONY IN THE JERSEY RIOT CASE—RICHMOND HONORS THE FIRST VIRGINIA—THIRD Pace. JERSEY CITY'S FIVE GREAT THOROUGR- FARES!—INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE—RE- UNION OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE GULF—Firru PacE. OUTLOOK IN REAL ESTATE—MONTHLY REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS— Eiguta Pace. THE Tue New Posrac Treaty Berween France AND THE Unrrep Srates, under which the rates of postage between the two countries ‘will be greatly reduced, and many new facili- ‘ties for the promotion of international com- merce afforded, has been approved by the Btate Departments of both countries. The ‘French Minister of Finance will, as was lately reported specially to the Hzratp by cable, -calculate the consequence of its operation on the Treasury income of France, and it is hoped the exchange of ratitications of the in- ptrument will take place at an early day. A healthful step in the path of the world’s prog- ross. pike bere Our Inpran Pets have been catching it ‘after a wholesome fashion on the North fork pf the Red River, where over a score of the ‘Comanches were sent to the happy hunting a in a hurry. Along the line of the jorthern Pacific Railroad a party of Sioux ked a log-cutting party anW- were driven of with a loss of three of their number. These gentlemen, whose absence from this earthly sphere a number of white old ladies will deplore, are doubtless closely re- lated to the smiling warriors we have been’ feteing at Washington and in this city. The Piatheads are about to go on a reservation and pe fed for the Winter. They will occupy their leisure in casting bullets and sharpening ives for the Spring scalping season. Cochise about to follow this laudable example with upsuly crowd, tion, and hence has made up its mind to sup- port General Grant rather than to turn over the government to Mr. Greeley and his singu- larly constituted band of supporters. There has, however, been a sufficiently pow- erful and dangerous rebellion against the existing administration to mark a serious dis- affection in the public mind toward the party in power. The strength of the opposition has been thus far astonishing, evenif it should not again rally in a threatening manner. Without any regular organization, with old parties shattered and scattered, without money or offi- cial patronage, it has forced the administration to extraordinary efforts in order to prevent it from becoming an overwhelming success. In North Carolina, at the opening of the cam- paign, it struck down the usually large repub- lican majorities and won a substantial victory for the liberals. In Ohio it seriously impaired the administration strength; in Indiana it achieved a brilliant and decisive triumph ; in Georgia it showed a strength that shook the accepted belief in the position of the Southern States. All this was accomplished, it must be remembered, in the teeth of a patronage that is becoming alarmingly in- fluential, and of a moneyed power probably unequalled since the initiation of political contests in this country. While the republi- cans have had millions of offices to draw upon for contributions to defray the expenses of the elections, and have thus been in a position to meet all claims made upon them with a liberal hand, the opposition has been driven to depend upon the meagre subscriptions of individuals, aud has been sometimes destitute of funds to cover even the most ordinary expenses of a campaign. Yet in spite of these drawbacks and disadvantages the struggle in every State, with one or two hopeless exceptions, has been vigorously maintained, and the result has shown the unsettled and dissatisfied condition of the public mind. Leaving out of sight the serious allegations of frauds against the winning party in Pennsylvania, there is sufficient evidence to satisfy every im- partial and dispassionate mind that the State elections by no means settle the question of the Presidency, although they unquestionably greatly strengthen the chances of an adminis- tration triumph in November. If, as we predict, the republicans should be successful in the now rapidly approaching battle, and General Grant should be re-elected for another Presidential term, we shall not suffer the administration to lose sight of the lesson taught by the closeness of the present contest. We shall insist that the. voice of the people, raised so significantly in this campaign, demands a reorganization of the Cabinet, looking to a change of policy in our foreign relations and in our financial affairs. Whether Mr. Boutwell may go to the United States Senate or to private life, we shall de- mand his removal from the position he now occupies. Whatever may become of that highly respectable citizen, Mr. Hamilton Fish, we shall press for his rétiremént from his préseht SééretaF¥ship and for the appointment of a successor who will impart a more digni- fied, a more American and a firmer tone to our foreign policy. We shall keep a sharp eye upon Congress, and shall watch jealously for a reversal of all those laws | by which the Southern States are now dis- tinguished from the Northern States and sub- jected to federal interference, direct or indi- rect, in their local governments. We shall call upon General Grant for such a broad, comprehensive, liberal treatment of the South as will effectually “blot out all remembrances between sections and races, and make us in heart as well as in name the people of the United States. It is still uncertain what may be the final verdict of the electors in Novem: ber, and it is yet possible that any indiscreet and overbearing action on the part of those in power might upset all the ex- perience of the past and reverse the results of October in the more momentous struggle.* At all events it seems certain that, with those | who may vote the straight-out ticket and those who will refrain from voting at all, a very | large portion, if not an actual majority, of the American people will withhold an actual en- dorsement of the administration and its policy. Under these circumstances we shall feel justi- fied in holding General Grant up to a strict fulfilment of his duty as President of the whole United States, and in denouncing any attempt to distort his re-election—if he should be re-elected—into a republican victory and an approval of the policy of the present domi- nant party. Above all, we desire to impress upon the op- position 4he importance of maintaining the fight to the last hour and of using all legiti- mate efforts to secure success. If defeat awaits them it is yet their interest and their duty to make their atrevgth felt at of the War of the Rebellion, all resentments j and in the Congressional districts. With the re-election of President Grant all old parties must necessarily fall to pieces. The adminis- tration accomplishes the destruction of the time-honored democracy at the same moment that it strikes the dissatisfied republicans to the earth. The defeat of Greeley annihilates the organization that endorsed and adopted him and that might have rebuilt itself under his Presidential term and succeeded him at, its close in its own original character. On the re-election of General Grant there will be nothing left but to form a new party on the combined opposition elements in Congress, and these should be made as imposing as pos- sible for that purpose. Thero will be a grand opportunity at their command before Congress meets after the November election to as- semble in caucus and determine upon a dignified, patriotic line of conduct, looking to no factious opposition to the President or his Congressional majority, but to a firm advo- cacy of all those measures of reform virtually endorsed by the people in the present cam- paign. They should resolve to press with all their united power an effective civil service reform; to insist upon.a bold, dignified, American policy in our foreign relations ; to demand full justice for the white people of the South, a complete reconciliation between the sections and equal constitutional rights for all citizens and all States of the Union. Should the administration continue to resist such just and patriotic measures the people will stand at the back of the opposition and will strengthen them year after year until the next Presidential election comes round. At the same time President Grant will enjoy an oppor- tunity such as no other Chief Magistrate has ever known to make himself in truth the Presi- dent of the whole nation and the idol of the whole people. His own political party is for- ever destroyed as a distinct organization. Losing its most brilliant lights and trusting to outside combinations, alliances and bargains for its present success, it will never exhibit power again as a republican party. In his next term of office he can cut loose from his evil advisers and stand forth as the champion of Southern freedom, of civil service reform, of American ideas in our foreign policy and of purity in the government. There is ample field for him to build up a reputation in the next four years second only to that of Washington, and to retire atthe end of his next term of office with as much love and veneration on the part of his countrymen as followed our first hero into private life. Let him do this, and the fame he wins in peace will eclipse the glory he has already gained in war. The Relations Between Engiand and Ireland—Mr. Froude’s Mission. The large audience which greeted Mr. James Anthony Froude, the historian, on the oceasion of his first lecture on the relations between England and Ireland, and the equally large assemblages which are likely to hear him to the end, are evidences of the calmness and good will with which he is welcomed by the American people. His eminence in literature was sure to gain him a patient hearing; but whether his mission will have any practical result is a question entirely apart from the personal kindness which is everywhere shown him. Mr. Froude, as is natural in a stranger to the American nation, and especially in an English stranger, makes the mistake at the outset of assuming that America and England are kindred. Our people are more Irish than English, and as much German as either. The Puritan blood has evaporated, and the ma- jority of our family names would sound strangely in English ears. To a people thus constituted, and in the third and fourth generations singularly free from every feeling of kinship to which Mr. Froude appeals, this eminent student and scholar has come to make American opinion favorable to English rule in Ireland. Courteously as he has been received, and patiently as he will be heard, he is not likely to make any real progress in his mission; for he will learn before his task is ended that his hearers make up their judgment in this matter by the American and not the English standard of public policy. We are not disposed to look upon the letter of Rufus King in the light which Mr. Froude evidently regards it. It wasa singular letter for an American ambassador to write, as Mr. Froude fully admits, but it contained senti- ments so characteristic of any other than a re- publican country that we can only place it where it belongs and pronounce it a reflex of English opinion from an American mouth- piece. Mr, King’s fears were never shared by any considerable number of his countrymen. If they had been Thomas Addis Emmett and Dr. William James McNevin would not have attained the eminence in America which was accorded them in their respective professions. The one rose to be Attorney General of the State of New York, and the other was long re- garded as among the leading physicians of this country. In this connection it must not be forgotten that Mr. Charles O’Conor and many of the best and most devoted citizens of the United States are descended from the con- spirators of '98, against whose presence in America Mr. King protested. At this day we cannot but feel ashamed of the letter which the English historian has brought to light from among the state papers of Ireland, but we cannot draw from the mistake of the American minister even the charity towards the mistakes of England which he invokes. We prefer, rather, to take the old-time plea of Ireland and accuse England of Mr. King’s blunder. It was only servility to English ideas that could induce such expression of a fear on the part of an American, and, though England may taunt us with the mistake, we hold our- selves to answer, ‘‘We acknowledge our erro- neous estimate of the Irish patriots; when will you acknowledge as freely England's wrongs against Ireland ?"’ The line of Mr. Froude’s argument was protty thoroughly indicated in his first lecture. Though nominally devoted to the Norman conquest of Ireland, it was in fact the ground- work for the series. In many respects it was the old, old story, and by way of reply it will receive the old, old answer, But Mr. Froude will find the Americaa verdict rendered against him if he presses his case to a conclusiop, and mainly on his own admission, that after seven hundred years England and Ireland are still an ill-matched couple, The incompatibility of the two peoples ought to bé sifiicient reason for their divorce after so many centnries. Whether Ireland is capable of governing her- self is not @ question for England to considor Englishmen may be as widely mistaken as to the capacities of Irishmen for freedom aa was Mr. Rufus King in 1798. The question is not one merely of the relative condition of Ireland; and while it is not necessary for the English to consider the fate of the Irish in a atate of independence, it is equally unnecessary for us to consider England’s treatment of Treland. In making up an opinion on the subject we care not whether England has been the tyrant and Ireland the slave, nor do we care whether Mr. Froude’s assertions as. to the condition of Ireland are to be attributed to English or Irish causes. More prominent than anything else is the fact that for seven centuries Ireland has been unhappy and. dis- contented and panting to be free. We cannot overlook this fact, and the American judgment in a case where the two peoples are so unmis- takably irreconcilable will inevitably be in favor of the weak and dissatisfied nation. The condition of Ireland we regard as the weakest point in Mr. Froude’s plea. It gives Ireland and Ireland’s partisans the opportu- nity to reply by imputing the blame for this upon England, and even to go further and accuse the English of inventing the machinery and fostering the system by which the Irish are repressed and degraded. Nor can we forget that Mr. Froude’s own pictures of the condition of England are quite as painful a6 ‘those which he draws of Ireland and the Irish. It is a very superficial view of the rights and duties of nations to argue from any such standpoint and an equally superficial view of the capacities for freedom of men ardently desiring to be free, The Norman conquest of Treland has no more legitimate bearing upon Ireland's subjection to England than the Nor- man conquest of England upon England's subjection to Ireland. Everything except the seven centuries of discontent is out of the case, and this will stand as the condemnation of England till Ireland is free. Mr. Froude’s mission, in so far as it isa mission, cannot but end in a failure. His visit to this country will prove, we earnestly believe, a pleasant and agreeable experience. He will not find among us much of that kin- ship of which both people sometimes speak, but we trust he will find us more hospitable than kinsmen usually show themselves. He will find us differing from hisown estimate of the merits of the quarrel between England and Ireland, but he will not find us indulging in any discourtesy towards a guest or treating his opinions with disdain. In all things we shall behave as a free people receiving a dis- tinguished visitor, so that when he returns to his own country he may carry back with him many pleasing memories of the newer world he is now seeing for the first time. An “International Fund” for the Abo- lition of the African Slave Trade. The following note from a philanthropic “American,”’ with his admirable propositions for a universal movement in the name and the cause of civilization and humanity, looking to the abolition of African slavery, or the slave trade in Africa, we cheerfully submit to the special atgention of our readers throughout the world. We do so because we believe that we have here a hint or two which, if actively fol- lowed up in the line suggested, will surely result in one of the most glorious and beneficent triumphs of modern civilization: — New York, Oct. 16, 1872, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— DeEaR Sin—I glanced at your editorial in the HERALD of this date, “African Slavery,” and admired its spirit, &c. As you say, Why should not America take the lead in destroying this last ves! of slavery from song, the nations of the world? a- land would join her. Circulate a petition, signed men of the country calling upon Congress or sident Grant to make a move in the matter, and start ‘“‘an international fund” or collection in this city and extend it at the same time to all cities in the world. This would create a ny of emulation between different cities, and thus help the good cause along by rapidity and strength in contributions. I have no doubt by the publicity, through your paper, and the above you could enlist the moral support. tle the material) ofthe different Powers, and the money collected Would be sufficient to fit out a force ample enough to destroy this last blot on the escutcheon of the nineteenth century. I will head the list with ($25) twenty-five dollars, and enclose my check for same. I don’t want youto know me in the transaction; 80 you can say, ‘Received from an American, $25." With success to the cause I remain youre At GAN, Let us briefly consider these suggestions. The idea of petitions to Congress and the President fora move in the matter is a good one. In fact, it is the first essential required to give a practical shape and direction to the great enterprise in view. If we could get a recommendation to Congress from the Presi- dent, in his annual message of December next, for an act approving the movement, we are sure that he would gladly undertake the pleasing task of getting together at Washing- ton a High Joint Commission, embracing representatives from all the great Powers of Europe, and from Spain, Portugal and Tur- key, and from Egypt and other countries directly concerned, for the purposes of a gen- eral treaty, embracing the complete abolition of African slavery and the African slave trade in both hemispheres. With the general adoption of such treaty the only serious difficulties against its enforce- ment will be among the slave hunters and traders of the African Continent, and here, under the protection of the treaty, the private contributions of the people of Christendom will no doubt be needed in the support of mis- sionaries and other agents specially assigned to the duty of policemen and magistrates against the slave hunters and slave catchers in the various districts of Africa where this traffic has become systematic and profitable. True, with the co-operation of Turkey and Egypt, the great Powers of Christendom, including the United States, might compass the object contemplated in a treaty similar to that under which the joint police squadron of war ships for the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade on the West Coast of Africa was main- taingd for many years. In any event, to give a practical direction to the great object indicated, our philanthropic “American’’ has placed in our keeping his subscription of twenty-five dollars, and, as the first contribution in this great cause, we have an idea that for our unknown ‘‘American’’ there will be a great reward. The New York Heap, in consideration of its full commit- ment to the general objects involved in the Stanley expedition in search of Livingstone and in our up-Nile expedition, hereby sets aside the sum of one thousand dollars for the ‘4nternational fund’’ for the aboli- tion of African slavery and of the slave trade in Africa. We want first, however, a base of operations and a definite plan of action, To secure these essentials we want some action from Congress anda helping hand from the President, for which petitions to the President and Congress are first in order. the polls | as ecainst Ireland's desire ip the matter, | Now. as oll our Christian chyrobes—Rrot. “may be. the work can be so easily done. There are men living who remember the time when both England and the United States were engaged in the African slave trade, at the time when the Dey of Algiers sold his prisoners captured in war as slaves, regardless of raco or color. France, in the course of her great Revolution of 1789, gave the first bloody impulse in St. Domingo to universal liberty; England, some thirty odd years later, bought the emancipation of her West Indian . slaves. Next France, im the con- quest and occupation of Algeria, settled the slavery question in that quarter. Next came the great acts of white emancipation in Russia and black emancipation in the United States, and next the emancipation acts of Brazil. From Florida down to her remotest conquests in South America, Spain, with her occupation, had established slavery; but now all that are left of these vast possessions are the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and in these two islands, we may say, we have all that is left in this hemisphere of African slavery and the slave trade, for Brazil is in the active process of emancipation, and her African slave trade is suppressed. The work, therefore, still remaining to be done to complete the extinguishment of Afri- can slavery and the slave trade is compara- tively a bagatelle, and the improved facilities and spirit for the work pervade the civilized world. Let the people of the United States, then, of all creeds and races, call upon the President and Congress for some active meas- ures for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in Africa, and let especially the four mil- lions of our emancipated blacks put their shoulders to the wheel, and Africa will soon be redeemed, Our Cab and Hack System. A subject has been brought to the surface of late which all who are interested on one side have regarded as hopeless. Need we say it is the system of hackney carriages which afflicts New York? We have certain city ordinances formulated and passed for the protection (?) of the public, but any well-ordered hackman who has ever been known to care the crack of awhip for them would bea curiosity, fit for asideshow attraction to the Mayor's Office. Money could be made by exhibiting him ata handsome sum per head. We do not mean to say that in this genteel class there are not numbers of deserving men, who do as hon- estlyas their opportunities for doing other- wise will admit; but with them, even, it is the force of individual honesty and early piety, for the legal restraint is a fiction. In point of fact, the person who desires to hire a coupé or a clarence enters it with the conviction that until he has heavily ransomed himself he is in the power of a despot with a lash on the end of his sceptre and at needs another on the end of his tongue. In other words, with indifferent accommodation he is absolutely at the caprice of the driver as to what his fare Americans who went abroad to travel have been heard to wonder that cabs in their various European forms were under police control, and that if they only took the trouble to inquire into the rates of hack hire no extortion would take place. The genus hackman is eminently knowing and discrimi- nating, and although in London or Paris a verdant foreigner will be overcharged, as he will anywhere else, the smallest twinkle of in- formation by the traveller upon the rates of fare will meet with an astonishingly quick abatement of cabby’s pretensions. such an era may dawn in New York we fer- vently hope; what is more, we are deter- mined to pay some attention to the matter That until a real instead of an imaginary system of regulations is in force. A resolution has been brought before the Board of Assistant Aldermen to repeal a section of the present city ordinance which forbids drivers leaving their vehicles to solicit or “tout” for fares. ‘The law, as it stands now, is almost a dead letter, for drivers and their ranners can and do-annoy and impor- tune people to hiro them as much as they please. The fact that drivers are found who conspire to make the passage through a num- ber of them equal to running the gauntlet, as recited of medimval times, is no reason why the luxury of this special annoyance should be clothed, as the Assistant Alderman's resolution would provide, with a legal right. We are assured that the great body of virtuous hack drivers do not desire any such privilege ; that it is only sought in the interest of the “night owls’ and other dark-visaged birds of prey who haunt the steamboat landings, the railroad depots and the other portions of the great town which open special, opportunities for their double trade of hackman and thief. We are glad to find such spirit extant as that possessed by the Hack Drivers’ Association, and are sure that this body will hail with satisfaction a stringent application of the rules already supposed to be in force. It would be hard work to eradicate from the entire profes- sion the villains who will rob a dranken fare or perform any other scoundrelly piece of business of which extortion is the smallest ; for cabmen are only human, after all, and, thera is frequently ‘‘a deal of inhumanity al @ man.” another colump of the Hungup we guh- rate set down for conveying a single passen- _ ger one mile is fifty cents, although we be- lieve a might be offered in vain ordinance rejects the mileage divides the island into ten lateral and charges one dollar for a drive without stoppage within any one of the dis- tricts in a two-horse vehicle, and seventy-five’ conts for a one-horse vehicle. These districts are about a mile each in length, their breadth being that of the island from cast to west. what « hackman will at present demand. Driving by the hour should not cost more than one dollar. ‘There are for this service in New York some matters among Americans who ride in hacks is the main cause of the continuance of the abuses we have pointed out; but there is a large class who are debarred from this form of tapid transit by chronic extortions, yet who would be glad to avail themselves of it if placed at a reasonable rate and withal a fairly profitable one to the hack owners. But not only on the ground of economy should the system be changed. While keeping the rates of fare within proper bounds when we choose to ride, we insist that the hack and the driver be prevented from being a bore and a nui- sance when we do not. The Sultan and the Prince of Mon. tenegro. For some time past it has seemed as if trou~ ble would arise in the East through the un- wise conduct of the people of Montenegro. . Some short time since Ey al position is almost indefinable. singular stubbornness refused to rege as subordinate to any foreign Power taineers, like the Scottish Highlaw/ have a strong liking forindependew 5, At same time, in consequence of thes maliness of great Powers, they have found it necessary to lean on one or other ot the Powe 1s, capable at once of protecting them or © ¢ doing them wrong. For some generations. @ jey were under’ the protection of Austria; later they were com- pelled to submit tothe authow! ty of the Sultan, but for Some years the annual ribute due tothe Ottoman Porte has been paiv j by the Russian government, and with this¢ Mon. tenegro has been really und or the protection of the Czar. Montenegro b rings Turkey and Russia into direct contw +t, For the present this little threatened trou! Je is over. Tuer Dean RiceMoxm Exprosiom.—Accord- ing to the report of t® .¢ Inspectors who con- duoted the recent exav jination in the case of the steamer Dean B ,chmond the were censurable in ¢ ilowing her to take pas- sengers without @* preliminary test of her boilers. She had be en inspected nearly a year before; then, after: running a few weeks, she lay still through ¢ he Winter. In the Spring she was.run @ shy rt time, then again laid up till brought out ¢ »n the day before the acci- dent, when, with out any new inspection, she was put in cov amission’ and, thronged with helpless passen gers, exploded a flue while on the first trip. Witnesses swore that the Rich- mond’s boiler 3 were old and patched and the iron at the; point which gave way was very thin. Rust eats faster in boilers out of use than in tho se at work. The public will con- cur with 1 verdict of the Inspectors that the steamboa!, owners should have tested these most ris) cy boilers, after their long disuse, be- fore the, lives of hundreds of passengers were put in jeopardy; and the order of the depart- ment for the more frequent inspection of steamers will be approved by those whose lives are frequently risked by old, worn-out or imperfect boilers. No care can be too con- stant or too minute which tends to save life. Our passenger carriers make immense sums from the travelling public and certainly owe it at least a frequent testing of the soundness of their steam boilers, from which danges copstantly threatens the Uyes of all, . e é foe FEEL