The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TOESDAY, MARCH 11, 1873.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XAXAVITI.. NTS THIS EVEN: . Twenty-third st. and Eighth AMUSE GRAND OV ERA HO! av.—Rovcnine |r. NEW. FIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALixy MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— eck. Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No [8h Broadway.—Granv Vaniery En- TERTAINNENT, NIRLO'S GARDEN, Houston streets. —L Broadway, between Prince and AND LOTOS Broadway and 23th st.—Ben esque OreRa—La SOMNAMBULA. . Broadway, between Mouston Demrry. 2, Union square, between MunpReD Yrans Oxp. WALBACK'S THEA street.—Davip Garrick. ROOTH’ wenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.— urate. & BOWERY THE! Bowery.—Wairs or New Yore— Crearere ov Lar) GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—Mania UND MaGDALENA, THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 514 Broadway.—'93; on, Tux Mugpwe at tux Fan MRS. F. B, CONWAY BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Ampition. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSH, Twenty-third st. 6th av.—Nearo Minstretsy, &c, corner TONY PASTOR'S OPE HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanmty ENt&RTALNMENT, tinee at 2g. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- ERT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrence and Ant. New York, Tuesday, March MH, 1873. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE SOUTH! WHAT SHOULD BE THE POLICY | THE ADMINISTRATION—EDITORIAL | TH PAGE. CAPTAIN JACK SURRENDERS L CANBY! THE MODOCS TO TELY PLACED UPON A REs- | NTH PAGE. ‘ ANOTHER EFFORT FOR FREEDOM! THE COLORED MEN OF AMERICA HOLD A CONVENTION IN WASH ‘ON IN AID OF CUBA! GEN- ERAL Ba S ON THE SUBJECT—SEvENTI PaGE. ALBANY LEGISLATIVE AND LOBBY FEATURES! THAT FIFTEEN-THOUSAND GULP STILL MATTER OF INQUIRY! LOOKING AFTER | THE HARLEM AND ERIE ROADS! WHAT | ABOUT THE CHARTER ?—Taigp PAGE. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A | SLATI MANIPULATIONS OF DICTATOR! POPULAR EX- | R THE MOBILIERIZING OF RD PAGE. CABINET AND DIPLOMATIC CHANGES! CALD- TO THE FRONT AL WASHINGTON NTH PAGE. N USED!” MRS. RECEIVE t OV “NO DOUBT MONEY HAS Bi PUTNAM SAID TO $15,000 FOR HER LE DIX! MERCHANTS PROTESTING! FOS’ FRIENDS ACTIV BE. DISAFFECTION IN IN A FERM SPEECH AND TH CARLIST REVOL' BISMARCK BELLIGERENT! HAVE PROGRESS OF Tue | EVENTH PAGE. THE H PaGE. s! THY HYDROG iATING THE CONDITION OF | 10ALS! THE MEANS OF IM- | ESORTED TO—FovnrH Pace. | ON ‘CHANG MONEY RELAXED! A TREASURY RUMOR! CHA TACTICS OF THE | GOLD CLIQU STOCKS IN THE AS ING SCAL' REAL ESTATE—FIvtTuw PAGE. HOURS DR A DAY'S WORK! THE BOSS K MINE UPON A f fe! THE WORKING LY OPPOSE THE CHA SLL JURY-—E! TEN IMPORTANT WINSTON CAUSED TT OF GARVEY, ROUTE OF THE ST. PATRICK’S PROCE: MUNICIPAL PROCEED: THE L NECK “FIND’'—Fourtn PaGE. += — | Watt St was excited yesterday over a | rumor that etary of the Treasury had | decided to issue ten milliovs of the so-called | forty-four million dollars reserve of legal ten- | ders and deposit the amount in the New York | banks. Nothing transpired to verify the ramor, | which originated, doubtless, among the stock | speculators. Mr. Boutwell has it in his power | to set at rest ail this agitation and apprehension | about this disputed reserve. Let him spend it | in buying, and cancelling an equivalent of six per cent bonds an‘i he will thereby end all de- | bate as to the propriety of issuing it. For he | will not only not increase the debt, but he will save the six per cent interest on forty millions | of five-twenties. Nor a Brr Too Soon.—Some years ago the New York Central Railroad Company refused to pay an assessment of nearly halt a million dollars for internal revenue tax upon its scrip | dividends, and appealed to the highest authori- ties against the action of the local officers, | Time after time the question has been decided | against the company and the collection | ordered, int. the great wealth of the corpora- | tion has been able by one device after another to stave off final proceedings till now. At | length the Collector at Albany, failing all | other methods, has seized a number of loco- i motives, and has instructions to take others as they arrive until he has enough to satisfy the demand. Itis about time this tax, if legal, should be paid. Bang Cxancy ron a Snow Maxacen.—The Washington Chronicle gives a rumor ‘that some of the members of Congress will refuse | the increased pay voted at the close of the ses- | sion.” Now let the Chronicle publish the | names of these self-denying individuals, and fas soon as that is done let some expert show. | man select the most prominent and carry them about the country on exhibition like a jor four hundred | heritage. | repair their misfortunes. menagerie of rare animals, at so much per head. It would prove a paying speculation, Ro doubt. South=What Should Be Polley of the Administration. It was announced recently that the Presi- dont proposed to visit the Southern States as soou as business at Washington would permit his absence. The understanding was that he wuld go in the early Spring, after the inan- guration, the adjournment of the Senate and the necessary work of bis new term of office should be adjusted. Some movements were made in the South to welcome the President. Then we heard that his proposed journey had been postponed on account of official duties at the capital. We hops the President will not give up his purpose, aud we think it would be well were he tomake an extended tour through most or all of the Southern States. Let him mingle with the people of all classes and par- ties freely, and learn their views and wishes. Above all let him hear what the old Southern planters, merchants and plantation negrocs have to say, and not trust to the partisan or professional politicians, white or black. As the President of the whole Republic and the head of the party which has overwhelming power in Congress he is in 1 position either to keep the South crushed or to lift it up and give it new life and prosperity. Let him see, then, in person what the Sontherners want, and generously help them to overcome the difficulties they labor under. He would cer- tainly be well received, and wo know of no journey more agreeable in early Spring or better calculated to afford relief to his mindand health to his body. As far as he has power let him proclaim amnesty, peace and good will The the through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and | Alabama to the Gulf of Mexico, in Louisiana, and thenas he journeys back by Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee; and that would prove as beneficial to the South as commend- able in him. People generally at the North have not cog- sidered the immense valuo of the Southern States in an economical and commercial point of view. Were it not for their products the country would be hopelessly bankrupt. Our foreign commerce would be very limited. The cotton crop enables us to liquidate our debts abroad as well as to pay for the vast amount of luxuries we import, and goes further than anything else to create and stimulate the enormous wholesale and retail trade which builds up New York and other commercial cities. It gives wings to the mighty fleets of vessels that traverso the ocean and crowd our wharves. It sets myriads of spindles at work and gives employment to vast numbers of people in the United States. What do the forty to fifty millions of gold and silver raised annually, or the surplus bread- 4 stuffs and other things we export, amount to, compared with the cotton product and exporta- tion? ‘This single product of the South is of more value in foreign trade and in paying our indebtedness abroad than all other products, and is three or four times of more valuc than that of the precious metals. In addition to this, the other special productions of the South, such as tobacco, sugar and rice, are very valuable both for foreign commerce and home consumption. But the capabilities of this, the fairest, most productive and genial section of our common country, are almost unlimited. It has raised nearly all the neces- saries of life for its own population, besides a surplus of the staple products named for commerce to the amount of two hundred millions or more of dollars a year; and with proper encouragement the surplus would be augmented in a few years to three millions. No nation such a valuable What folly, then, to neglect it! What a suicidal policy, economi- cally, politically, and in every way, is that which has been pursued towards the South! The policy of neglect and repression is in- jurious to the whole country as well as to the South. Lift up that section, and all will feel the benefit. We have admired the astonishing resources before ever had | and recuperative power of France under and after the terrible war with Germany and the Commune; but the recovery of the South after our civil war is more surprising still. The country was devastated and utterly bankrupt. A thousand millions of property was swept away by the abolition of slavery. The whole system of labor was disorganized. In fact, the people bad nothing left but their lands. We know of no parallel in history to this fear- ful wreck. Yet this brave, though erring, people, when they laid down their arms, im- mediately went to work with a good will to And here we re- cognize with pleasure the good disposition and good conduct generally of the negroes in returning to labor and aiding their former masters in the work of industrial res- toration. It they ‘did not do as much work as formerly, and if some of them became demoralized under the teaching of bad men, they were, for the most part, industrions and helped to restore the country. Had the federal government been more liberal to the conquered Southerners and they had not beer the victims of political measures and a horde of unprincipled specu- lators from the North they would have re- covered much sooner. Still, with all the | repressive influences, their cotton fields, their tobacco, sugar and rice plantations and their | farms were nade to flourish again, and in a year or two there was a surplus production of two hundved millions or more, in addition to the necessaries of life, raised. To their rich soil and genial climate we must attribute in part this wonderful result ; but a great deal is due to the good sense, energy and industry of the people. Whatever we may think of the madness of the Southerners in plunging the country into civil war, we ought to be prond of them as citizens of this Republic, as people of the same race, language and blood, for the courage and good’ sense they manifested in overcoming such extraordinary difficulties. They have proved as heroic in this as they were in war. Eight years have passed since the war, but the sting of it remains to some extent yet. it should not be so. Tho remnants should be swept uway as far as the power of the federal goverment goes. The North can afford to be magnanimous. Besides, it is to the interest of the North to remove tho remnants of the war and to promote the welfare of the South. The greatest obstacle in the way has been partisan politics. The radical party in power was resolved to contro! the South, and the means used to that end prove disastrous. Ignorant and unscrupulous Northern adven- gent and capable mon who were natives’ of that section and most interested in its welfare were iguored or excluded from political privi- lege by the federal government. We have seen the consequences in the Ku Klux, in gencral demoralization, in the robbery of the States by needy and dishonest strangers, in the accumulation of enormous State debts and in the partial destruction of Southern credit. But the motive that led to this reprehensi- ble policy does not exist, or has not the same force as formerly. The radical party has ac- complished its object as far as that was possible. General Grant has been re- elected and has just entered upon his sec- ond term. Four years will produce a great change, probably, im the politics and parties of this country. General Grant can now, and should, act indépendently for the best interests of the South as well as of the North, regardless of party schemes or aspirations. The unfortunate Louisiana trouble arose from the same partisan purpose of keep- ing the South under radical control ; but that began before the result of the Presidential election was declared, and General Grant was installed for a second term. Were such a case to recur hereafter the action of the Presi- dent might be different. General Grant need not break from his party, but he may lead it in a more generous and encouraging policy to- ward the South, though we think he need not be careful about breaking with a party that has become so demoralized and has received such ashock from the Crédit Mobilier and other disclosures. Atall events, we recom- mend the President to go among the Southern people, to see their condition, to learn their wants and wishes, to speak words of peace and encouragement to them, and, above all, to let them govern themselves in purely local matters, without federal interference, as the people of New York and other Northern States do. Let every injurious vestige of the war be obliterated and the South be restored ta equality and harmony with the rest of the Republic, oa LEE a weet New Hampshire Election To-Day. The first annual State election for 1873 will take place to-day in New Hampshire. There are four tickets in the field, backed by regular organizations, two of which put forward no pretensions to success, The following are the names of the candidates: — Governor. R, R. Commiasioner, Republican Ezekiel A. Straw. Edw. P. Hodson. Democrat A. Weston." Henry Colony, Liberal Kepublican.Samuel K. Mason, Wm. A. Heard. Temperance ........Dr.J. Blackman. Asa Kendall, ‘Mem! Congress, First District—Rep. -William B, Small. Deni ery A. Lib. Tem G.0 Sec'd Distrlct—Rep. .. Pike. Dem - ‘Samuel N. Bell. Lib. I Josiah Fletcher. Ten M. Flotoher. Third District—Rep mon G. Grittin our Tem. . ©. The delegation in the last Congress was composed entirely of democrats, although the republican candidate for Governor was elected by over two thousand majority. President Grant’s majority at the same time was 5,744. Being the first State election since the expira- tion of the last Congress, with all its corrup- tions, no little interest is felt in regard to the election in New Hampshire, although in tho State itself the canvass has been conducted so quietly that one could scarcely realize that an event of the kind was pending. It is not likely that the vote will be a large one, the roads in some parts of the country and moun- tainous districts being still in an almost im- passable condition. Imprisonment in Civil Actions. New York State long ago removed the legal monstrosity of imprisonment for debt. Yet, un- der our statutes, a restraint of liberty is allowed in all actions for tort or injuries to the person or property of another, such as assault, tres- pass or libel ; as well as when it appears that adebtor intends to abscond, or that fraud entered into the contracting of the debt. By virtue of these reservations in the abolition of imprisonment for debt the Ludlow Street County Jail has always many tenants who are confined on civil suits. One of these prison- ers in an action of libel has called the atten- tion of the Constitutional Commission to what he considers the hardship and injustice of cases like his own. It certainly appears reasonable that provision should be made for requiring something more authoritative than the ex parte oath of a complainant to keep a defendant in prison for months. In many cases the publication of a libel is amenable to: no other penalty than confine- ment in jail; but the prosecutor should be compelled to proceed at once with his action, that the punishment may be upon the finding ofa jury or a judicial decision, and not on the mere commencement of an action. In the case we refer to the complainant sets his damages at two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, Bail therein has been fixed at forty thousand dollars, requiring sureties to justify in one hundred and sixty thousand dollars’ worth of real estate. Such an amount of bail is not to be had even by every honest or innocent man for the wishing, and for the lack of it the de- fendant must stay in jail. We would not re- lax the full responsibility of every man for his utter’nces; but there should be some means by which an innocent man may hasten his de- fence and compel a complainant to substan- tiate his charges. Very dangerous and vexa- tious is the power by which a complainant can, by his simple affidavit, take away the liberty of a fellow-citizen. It is safe to say that this matter will receive the careful consid@ration of the Constitutional Commission, whose members have been chosen from among the best lawyers and the most practical business men of the State, men representing all shades of politics and understanding thoroughly the wants and interests of all classes of our population. Germany AND Francey—Tne Fortress oF Betront.—On Sunday morning we printed a despatch, special to the London Times from Berlin, to the effect that Germany was about to accept the financial guarantees offered by the French government, and that tho evacua- tion of French territory would be the result of the new arrangement. A later despatch from the same to the same informs us that Ger- many refuses to evacuate Belfort*until the payment of the war indemnity is completed by France. Does Bismarck intend to play the game of Schleswig-Holstein over again? If he does it will this time bea most dangerous game. We do not believe he docs. France is stronger than Denmark, and he knows it. Belfort is most desirable for Germany and for German purposes ; but Bismarck is pledged. Belfort, it France vays in time, must be turers ruled the South. The most intolli- ‘ surrendercd, The “Smiicr” and the “Giant’=—Two Pathetic Retirements from the P. R. Misfortune has the reputation of making strange bedfellows. So does good fortune, for the matter of that. That the indignant ery of Ned O’Baldwin, from the recesses of Steu- benville jail, should mingle with the agonized wail of Schuyler Colfax, from the South Bend Court House, is certainly suggestive of ao curious but not unnatural fellowship. Each, according to himself, is the victim of circum- stances. In the prevaricating Vice President and the pommelling pugilist Justice recog- nized objects for punishment. The first escaped trial by a very narrow chance; the second was summarily convicted and works out his ten days like a man. They both belong to classes that rely on cheerfulness as a fino point in getting up a professional reputation. O’Baldwin bas nothing in his record that so tickles his self-appreciation as those scenes wheroof is written:—‘‘The Giant's smeller was spread out like a big mushroom; his right peeper was rapidly closing ; his potato trap was like the mush- masticator of a Congo nigger ; but at the call of ‘time’ he came up smiling.” We all remember when Schuyler was receiving heavy “punishment’’ from Oakes Ames how loving chroniclers delighted to record that, spite of bruised reputation, battered honor and swollen ‘‘cheek,”” he smiled ond smiled, and not only came up, but went down smiling. Disgusted, disappointed, weary and cantan- kerous at heart, the ox-pugilist and the ex- Vice President meet each other and embrace upon the unappreciative nature of the world generally in their regard. Each swears that the P. R. is for him no more. ‘I abandon forever the prize ring,’ says tho “Irish Giant.” “Farewell the Pacific Ring, the postal ring, the political ring and all the pomp and humbug of Congressional war, Schuyler’s occupation’s gone," is the echo from South Bend. They talk to each other of the vicious world that did them such wrong as to send the one to jail and the other howling homeward. The unburdening of the mind with such wronged individuals has a soothing effect. Their sorrows wear themselves out by rubbing against each other. Here is how they manage it. Says the ‘Giant’’ to the Smiler:— “I went forward to lift my man, and was ina stooping position, when Riley and Geoghegan rushed at me and struck me at the same mo- ment, and a scoundrel named Murphy struck me two terrible blows with the head of a re- volver, which cut my head fearfully and stunned me to such an extent that I fell on my face in the ring, and while lying prostrate the said three scoundrels kicked me on the head and body to such an extent that they must have felt satisfied that they had accomplished their murderous design.” It would draw tears from a stone fence to listen to this recital, and the Smiler weeps with the Giant tear for tear to the following effect: — “The same malicious enemies tortured and perverted and misrepresented the explanation, determined, if possible, that the reputation of the man they hated should be destroyed, and as, day by day, they thus poisoned the public mind, they rejoiced almost with shouts of ex- ultation at having effected, as they hoped, their work of ruin. The frank exposure of all my financial affairs did no good. The dis- closure of the sacred confidence of the dead only gave fresh opportunities for cavil and falsification. The testimony of my step- father and sister, unimpeachable as you here so well know them to be, was denounced as unworthy of belief. These enemies were de- termined on having their victim.”” ‘But,’’ says the ex-pugilist, with a leer, ‘they didn’t quite effect their murderous design on me; for I'm serving my time out in good health and tolerable spirits.’’ The Smiler smiles a cunning grin and whispers, ‘Well, they didn’t quite make a victim of me, though they came very near it, for I'm here at South Bend, and can’t be tried now." It is a memorable dialogue, and one that deserves wide notice. The ‘Giant’? may not be a very lovely object after Messrs. Riley, Geoghegan and Murphy had worked a portion of their fierce will upon his raw-beef tinted features; but will he not compare quite favor- ably with the awfully used-up “Christian statesman’’ whose moral disfigurements are hidden beneath a mask anda cloak? Manya gushing eye has been made watery and many a sympathetic chord has been struck in sensi- tive bosoms by the recital of the buffetings and the retirement of Schuyler Colfax, late P. R. On moral and psychological grounds we humbly claim that the same eyes shall redden and weep and that the catgut of the same finely strung natures shall vibrate as sadly over the deep pathos of the skull-crack- ing and imprisonment which fell to the lot of the unfortunate O' Baldwin. Ciype Sarrenurprma..—During the last half of January and first half of February the ship- yards of the Clyde launched fourteen steam vessels, with an aggregate of thirty thou- sand tons burden, and with engines whose combined nominal strength exceeds forty-six hundred horse power. All were screws except one. They are intended to navigate every ocean and sea of magnitude on the globe. Except three they are each of more than one thousand tons burden, the largest being the City of Richmond, of four thousand seven hundred tons, for the Liverpool and New York Inman line. Three of the steamers were for trade with the United States, making near one-third of the whole in size. While British enterprise is thus profitably employing many men and a large amount of capital in the construction of steamers to carry the Cross of St. George on all waters where paying cargoes are to be found, American shipyards are silent and the star-spangled flag is almost an unknown ensign in the chief resorts of commerce. For this we may thank the want of practical sense in Congress. Canprvat Cunien has denounced the Irish University bill. This is all we know. Ina pastoral the Cardinal has denounced Mr, Gladstone's grand measure, the object of which is to remove from Ireland all complaint against England and the imperial government. Mr. Gladstone's bill is a good bill. It is well- meaning and it covers much. But it is not Cardinal Cullen's measure. Cardinal Cullen asks too much ; and, much as we sympathize with the Irish people in their demands for reform, we must say that in our judgment Cardinal Cullen ought to be pleased with Mr. Gladstone's liberal policy. Like the Bourbons, the Irish Cardinal will not learn. He cannot, or rather be will note The Press and the Senate. An absurd attompt to pervert the voice of the press is exposed in our Washington de- spatches published in the Hrnaup yesterday. To secure reports, trimmed and shaped to meot the views and servo tho interests of Mesars. Conkling, Chandler and Carpenter, an agent of the Associated Press isto be intro- duced upon the floor of the Sonate, where these self-appointed censors can dictate his reports. All journre'sts not known as partisans of theso fountains of wisdom and originators of honest legislation are to be shut out from the Senate galleries, lest the people who aro their masters should learn too much of the doings of the republican Solons. If prudent, these leaders of the pure and triumphant party will find their advantage in eschewing all such in- trigues for muzzling the press. No clique has power to hide the truth from the intelligent and vigilant agents of independent journals, whose only interest it is to tell their readers facts without favor to any party and fearless of all. An effort to conceal from the searching inquest of popular scrutiny the acts of a legis- lative caucus, indicates that they will not bear scrutiny, and any attempt to tamper with the press reports will only excite interest and at- tract attention. Ifthe Senatorial cabal wish to concentrate upon their deliberations an unusnal amount of newspaper regard they will adopt the course suggested for overreach- ing the press. Quite Off the Track. An alarming sermon about the debasing tendency of republican institutions is preached by the London Standard upon the text of the scandalous connection between the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Crédit Mobilier and Congress, If the tory organ would overhaul its geography and its files of American news- papers, it might discover that the railway whose contiguity to the southerly bounds of the New Dominion, in forty-nino degrees of north latitude, it esteems so great a detriment to the prospects of the Canadian Pacific line, crosses the Continent from three hundred to six hundred miles further south, and is known among us as_ the Union Pacific line—a road already several years finished and doing a heavy business. The Royal Geographical Society might serve the British public in general and lay the edi- tors of the Standard under special obligations by issuing a map of America which will clearly indicate that the United States has ample room for half a dozen trunk railway lines connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, while, from the Lake of the Woods westerly (thanks to a too liberal treaty as- sented to by our government some years ago), British enterprise is free to open as many lines as may be needed between the parallel of forty-nine and the Pole. Genera, Lonastrzer “Gora Back’? on His Oxp Farenps.—Some of the Southern papers do not appear to like the course of ex-Confederate General Longstreet during the recent disturbances in New Orleans, For example, the Lynchburg (Va.) Republican judges that, “if the General had been given rope, he would have fired into the very men who followed him through many bloody cam- paigns.”” It was, perhaps, because some of these very followers had not been ‘given tope’’ during the war that so many were left to be fired into in these days of peace. It should be distinctly understood that General Longstreet is not at this time performing the role of a Confederate officer, and if any of his old friends think he has ‘gone back’’ on them they should remember that the situa- tion is slightly changed between now and then. Revorcep as Wz Auways ABE at the progress of religious revivals at this season of the year, we must protest against the revival in another line of business among people who, while they are continually preying upon other people, are past praying for themselves. We refer to the sudden increase in the number of female pickpockets who now infest our street cars, omnibuses, ferryboats, theatrical and musical matinées, and all public places where such scamps of the feminine gender can ply their vocation. They have selected this par- ticular time because it is the one in which ladies generally do their spring shopping, and are expected to carry pretty well lined wallets and purses for the purpose. We caution our city lady travellers # beware of these female pickpockets whenever they are obliged to mingle in promiscuous assemblages. Tur Question or Courch aND Starz mn Genmany.—Prince Bismarck addressed the Prussian Diet yesterday on the subject of the legislation which he deems it wise to pursue in opposition to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church in the German Em- pire. His effort was very powerful in support of the ministerial policy. The main points of the Cabinet plea are set forth in the Hznaxp. The Roman Catholic prelates of Posen and Cologne, speaking in the name of their eccle- siastical brethren and for their congregations, have submitted to the German Crown a pas- toral memorandum, of which we give the essentials, on the same matter, so that the Ppolitico-polemical war is likely to be brought to a very decisive point of issue in Germany. Tae German Navy.—Prince Bismarck has done much for Germany, more than any man who ever lived before him. What he has done all the world knows. He has made Gérmany almost a unit; ond although the unit is not yet complete Germany through him has become the mistress of the European Con- tinent. In Europe Germany is already the pivotal Power. Prince Bismarck, however, is not satisfied. Germany, before his work is done, must become the great central Power of the nations, Without great power on the high seas this is impossible. Hence the late vote of eighty million thalers by the German government for the construction of ships and shipyards. How far Bismarck’s high seas policy may succeed is as yet doubtful. It is hard to build up 9 navy. bis Deep-Sea Soundings. ‘We published a letter the other day from our correspondent at Boston about the deep- sea soundings upon which the United States steamer Juniata is about to go, and therein are noticed the different appliances for this work. Now, it appears to us, in these days of elec- tricity, that a properly insulated wire and bat- tery might be used for this work instead of the old, imperfect line or rope, with which is nc- companied all the doubt of depth obtained, @ad which roallv leaves tha subject of denth of such sounding obtained with the specimen from the bottom a myth, and is even then not probably correct by from three hundred to six hundred fathoms, so much does the under- current sway the hemp line about. We urge the Navy Departmont, under whose direction the deep-sea sounding is to be done, to adopt some means to make this work a success. Let soundings be taken from the Juniata, and also from a raft properly pre- pared. From the ship the insulated wire should be used with a battery, so that when the weight, or sinker, strikes the bottom the circuit will be complete and a bell will be sounded on the ship, giving the signal that the bottom is reached, and the fact can thus be recorded with absolute certainty. In the interest of ofr commerce we should have our American lines of sounding entirely across the Atlantic by several routes, so that when the enterprise of our citizens guides them to lay cables the Navy Department will stand ready to furnish them all the desired informa- tion for the work. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General R. ©. Drum, of the United States Army, is at the Sturtevant House. Ben Butler is in Boston working for Boutwell fer the United States Senatorship. Captain G. V. Fox, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is at the Everett House. It is said that the Crédit Mobilier has killed of at least a dozen Presidential aspirants, Colonel C. M. Hughes, of the United States Army, {s in quarters at the Sturtevant House. Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United Statea Coast Survey, is at the Brevoort House. To-day the Legislature of Massachusetts will, in part, choose @ United States Senator in place of Vice President Henry Wilson, who has held the Position since 1855, with the exception of the short. time he was on General McClellan’s staff during the rebellion. Charles Chambers, the last of the sizaers of the first constitution of Kentucky, dicu last week at Burlington. It is in his honor that Kentuckians have so many chambers in their shooting irons to the present day. 4 Wisconsin editor records the demise of a fel- low citizen, and concludes by saying that if his executors will pay the last two years’ subscription to his paper he will donate the $17 duc on a game of seven up towards paying for a headstone. THE HERALD AND ITS ENTERPRISE. [From the Slaterville (N.C.) Intelligencer, March 8.} On last Tuesday, a8 on several previous occa- sions, we failed to recelve our exchange copy of the daily HERALD. Such a mishap always creates avoid inthe valuable matter which comes to our table which 1s especially felt. The HERALD has grown to be an institution, and whoever would keep up with the history of the daily doings of the world cannot afford to do without it. There were those who feared that the death of its distin- guished and remarkable founder would be fol- lowed by a falling off in the energy and skill of the HERALD management. But, so far from this having been the case, we can truly say, without any disparagement of its past ability, that the present conductors of that journal are far ex- celling in enterprise, skill, tact and power, any- thing ever heretofore exhibited by that or any other journal in America, or perhaps in the whele world, No corner of the world is too remote to be penetrated; no enterprise in search of authentic news of current events too costly or too hazardous to be undertaken by its daring correspondents. Witness the expedition to discover the discoverer, Livingstene; the jaunt to Cuba Libre by O'Kelly, in spite of Spanish threats er hindrances; and more recently the ride into the lava beds to talk with Captain Jack and his Modocs, as well as other enterprises which our space does not permit us to mention. Whocan calculate the aid to the cause of truth, sound judgment and right think- ing which is given by the radiant light of facts which this independent journal thus pours upen every subject of interest? Truly impartial and lofty in tone, and honorable and beneficent in aim, as we perceive it to be, and with immense re- sources at command, the BERALD Is fast becoming @ power in the world. Asa journalist and an American we feel proud of it. Its motto, as com- ared with its own past, as well as all contempo- rary newspapers, might well be “paulo majyora canamus.”” THE HERALD ALMANAO, [Buffalo (N. Y.) Daily Courier.) * The HERALD compilation is considerably buikter, and branches into fields hitherto untrodden by the class of publication to which it belongs. Thus, besides the regular election statistics, we have a complete mariner’s guide, including cyclone and hurricane charts and marine information for all parts of the world; elaborate statistics of finance, trade, agriculture and the cotton market; a table of missing heirs, running back for thirty-five years; statistics of foreign governments, of the postal de- partment, of yachts and yacht clubs, &c., &c. The work must have cost a Vast amount of labor, and will be useful to almost every elass ef the com; munity. It would be dificult for the journalist— not to speak of other professions and pursuits—to tell ae greatly he is the debtor of these invaluable annual {Portiand (Me.) Enquirer.) The HERALD newspaper gives everything worth knowing, and one can see at aglance that the “HERALD Almanac” pursues the same policy. It ia not surprising that the demand for this Almanac continues till late in the year, for the great bulk of the information contained in its two hundred and more pages is equally valuable for reference all the year round. The record of the gold, stock, United States bond, flour and cotton markets for every day of 1872 is one of the specialtics. The Mariner's guide, hurricane and cyclone charts, and muck Other’ practical information for seamen, renders the Almanac of special value to all concerned im navigation. We find the political record remark- ably full and accurate, while fereign governments, mall and postal department, &c., receive complete and careful attention. It certainly gives more in- formation for the money than anything else wa have ever seen in the almanac line. OBITUARY. James Savage. James Savage, distinguished citizen of Massa- chusetts, died in Boston onthe 8th inst., at the age of ninety years, one of the last, if not the last. relic of the old régimein New England. He was pro. dest living graduate of Harvard College. ey one of the founders of the Massachusetts Provident Institution of Savings, to which he gave his time and talent without remuneration during a riod which would be a lifetime to most men. As dent of the Massachusetts Historical Society he succeeded the Hon. John Q. Adams. His ‘Life of Winthrop” and the more stupendous work, the History of New Engiand,’’ place hina as the first of American antiquariaus. He was the [hme friend os the cn a * re who have long passe: Way, ani elon| a gencra- Hon that has utterly departed. Queen Pauline, of Wurtemberg. By telegram from Germany we are informed that Her ex-Majesty Pauline, Queen of Wurtemberg, mother of King Charles Frederick Alexander L., died yesterday. She was in the seventy-third year ot her age, ing been born on the 4th of Septem~- ber, in the year 1500. Pauline Theresa Louisa, the deceased, Was the daughter of the late Duke Louis Frederick Alexander. She was married to King William, of Wurtemberg, on the 15th of April, in the year 1820, Her husband died on the 25th of June, 186d. ra THE MAINE TOWN ELECTIONS. BELrast, March 10, 1873, Mr. Wiliiam C. Marshall was to-day elected to the third term as Mayor, with nearly the same munici- pal officers as last year. BanGor, March 10, 1873. At the municipal election Mr. Joseph P. B: who was nominated by the Citizens’ Caucus an supported also by the democrats, was elected Mayor, receiving 1,475 votes to 1,069 for Mr. Gidding, the regular republican nomine Avausta, March 1 pos city on ony Mr. James publican) was elec layor without tion. The democrats made mm ‘nominetions aad did not vote. The we was very bo -# wr. IDDRFORD, March 10, exit, ontion to-day was hot contested.’ It re for of Mx, J. ullan (repablicand (or Mavor.