The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1873, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volgme KXXVUL,.......0:.seccsseeeeee Oe OS ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Uncie Matinee at ie "3 THEATRE, Twei avenge Davey ODows Ma GRRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth strect, near Third @venue.—Marion. BOWERY. THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack U4nsawar— Saas Conner. Ti Ti COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, nate on aire Quit Satine at 2%6 -third street, corner Sixth nee at 2, W AVENUE THEATRE, 728 ana 730 Broad- Tas Evs, Matinee at 1}g—Avixe. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corncr Thirtieth st.— Maun Cas. Afternoon and evening. ATHENERUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Vantety Enrer- TatnmENT. Matinee at2}s. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bro: Houston sts.—Taxs Scouts or OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker strects.—Humrry Dumpty. Matines at 2, way, between Prineo and nx PRatRig. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway syd Fourth ave-Cousin Jack. "Matinee at 1b, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stroet.—Daviy Garntcx. Matince at Is. MRS.:.F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Ours. BRYANT'S OPFRA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner 6th av.—Nucro Minsteeisy, &0. Matinee at2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. Vagiety Entuntaixment. Matinec at 2). BARNUM’S GREAT SHOW.—Now |, Afternoon and Night. Rink, 34 avenve and 68d street LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND, MENAGERIE, Fourth ay. and 26th st, Aiternoon and Evening, Peer HALL, 234 st. and 4th av.—Afternoon 2—SuAKsPERIAN READINGS, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF Guanv Coxcuns. .NEW YORK, MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— So1ENoR aNp Aat. TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Now York, Saturday, April 5, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. MUSIO, Montague st— To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ! “THE GREAT CRIME OF THE RECENT CALAMITY! SOME LESSONS FROM THE LOSS OF THE ATLANTIO”—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXTH * Par. RECOVERING AND BURYING THE REMAINS OF THE ATLANTIC VICTIMS! CAPTAIN WIL- LIAMS ENDEAVORS TO EXPLAIN! THE LIGHTS AND SHADES OF THE CALAMITY! THE REASONS FOR IT! CAUSES OF THE LACK OF COAL! THE CARGO AND ITS CONDITION—Tuip PAGE. GENERAL CANBY AND THE MODOCS! A PEACE CONFAB, WITHOUT RESULT! THE COMMIS- SIONERS AFRAID OF THEIR HAIR! THE ULTIMATUM OF THE UNITED STATES—Sgy- BENTH PaGE. FIRE RAVAGES FROM MAINE TO MISSOURI! PARKER’S LANDING ALMOST DESTROYED! | A LOSS OF OVER A QUARTER OF A MIL- LION OF DOLLARS! DETAILS OF THE VaA- RIOUS CALAMITIES—FourTH PacE. TRAOING OUT A MURDER! VERY INTERESTING TESTIMONY IN 1HE GOODRICH CASE! THE AMY STONE INTIMACY! NO MARRIAGE! DETECTIVE EVIDENCE—Tenta PGs. THE SHOOTING OF MAUD MERRILL! HERED- ITARY INSANITY TO BE URGED AS A DEFENCE BY BLEAKLEY’S COUNSEL! “IRREGULAR” DRAINAGE ON STATEN ISLAND! OTHER LITIGATIONS—FourTH Page. A JERSEY SENATOR ARRESTED CHARGED WITH BRIBERY! ALL OF THE LIKE COMPLEXION—Furtn Page. JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN TO BE CON- SOLIDATED! THE BILL TO UNITE THE TWO CITIES! THE QUESTION TO SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS—Futa PAGE. THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH ASSEM- BUY! THE ENGLISH PRESS AND PARLIA- MENT—GENERAL NEWS BY CABLE—SeEy- ENTH PAGE. BIDWELL IDENTIFIED BY AN AMERICAN DE- TECTIVE—NEW SOUTH WALES ENCOUR, AGING EMIGRATION—Sevenru Pace. ACTIVITY IN THE FINANCIAL EXCHANGES! GOLD QUOTED 118%! THE CLIQUE MANIP- ULATIONS IN MONEY, STOCKS, GOLD AND EXCHANGE—EicutH Pace. NATIONAL TREASURY AND THE MO) MARKET—THE REAL ESTATE MARKE’ PLENTY OF CROTON—A QUEER MURDER— Eigatu Pace, GOVERNOR JEWELL INTERVIEWS THE PRESI- DENT! THE POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRA- THE TION IN THE MONETARY CRISIS OUT. | LINED! SECRETARY RICHARDSON NOT A | “PRO TEM.” APPOINTEE! THE CONNECTI- OUT CANVASS—FouRTH PAGE. A CONVERSATION WITH MARSHAL BAZAINE! HE NARRATES THE DEFEAT AT GRAVE- LOTTE AND DISASTER AT METZ AS VIEWED BY HIMSELF AND DEFENDS HIS COURSE—Firta Pace. OST OF THE EAST RIVER BRIDGE! TESTIMONY OF THE SUPERINTENDENT—! ‘ORTANT CIRCULAR FROM MR. GREEN’S BUREAU— | ARREST OF “TUM SCOTT'S BROTHER”’— GERMAN REFORM—Firtu Page. OUR UNSAFE PIERS—DEATH OF A FAMOUS RACER—THURLOW WEED ON THE NEW CHARTER—SAVAGES IN Firta Paes. MITTING HARD! A WASHINGTON JOURNAL GIVES SOME GLIMPSES BEHIND THE SCENES IN CONGRESS! THE ITEMS COM- ING UNDER THE HEAD OF “CONTINGENT EXPENSES"—FourtH PaGe. WEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE—YACHTING AND MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC GLINTINGS— THE EVENING WIGH scHOOL—FourTa Page. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the unprecedented quantity of | our advertisements advertisers secking our columns are requested to send in their adver- early in the day. This course will their proper classification and allow to make timely arrangements for our ‘tews. Advertisements intended for our Sun- Jay issue may be sent in not later than nine » Cither at this office, our only uptown 1,265 Broadway, or at our Brooklyn office, corner of Fulton and Boerum treets, Let advertisers remember that the atlier their advertisements are in the Haratp Mico ‘the better for themselves and for us, into the market a few millions of the million reserve of greenbacks held by 20 national Treaanry. SHARP JUSTICE FOR | BE | WAR PAINT— | A Tor ro rae Waatz—The proposition to | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1873.—TRIPLE SHERT. The Great Crime of the Recent Calam- ity—Some Lessons from the Loss of the Atlantic, : We publish to-day the statement of the Cap- tain of tho unfortunate steamer Atlantic, made in an'interview with the Hxnaip correspond- ent at Halifax. Although by no means full or satisfactory, the story affords, as far as it goes, still further evidence of the criminal. neglect or incompetency which led to the terrible catastrophe of last Tuesday morning. | Cap: tain Williams pretends that he had s sufficient supply of coal when he left Liverpool, yet he admits that ‘three days of heavy weather’’ upset all such calculations ‘and left him with- out sufficient coal to enable him to reach New York without putting into Halifax. The heavy weather did not, however, delay his vessel, for he had been but eleven days out, and was about two days from New York, when his sup- ply was exhausted; so that the facts flatly con- tradict “his assertion and prove that he could not, have had sufficient coal aboard when he left Liverpool. The Captain knows not how to account for the error in reckoning the position of thé ship, except on the ground that the current had a stronger northerly set than he imagined, and so carried him out of his course. Hoadmite that he was not on deck, but was ‘‘in the chart room,”’ when tho vessel struck. The lead lines and anchors were ready, he says, but tho leads had not been used because they were not approaching a low, sandy shore ; besides, he did not think it necessary, because the night, though over- cast, was clear, and he knew that Sambro light should be seen from fifteen: to twenty miles. So, although he did not, see the light, and although, -if his own reckoning had been correct, he must, at three o'clock in the morning, have ‘been within eighteen miles of Sambro » Island, his vessel was kept steaming on at full head- way until she struck the fatal rock. ‘There can be no further doubt of the criminal neg- lect through which the calamity occurred. But when we compare other stories with tho Captain’s statement, when we find that Quar- termaster Thomas, when he cautioned the officer in charge of the deck that ho should not stand in to the land so, as tho ship had run her distance to make Sambro light, was told that he was not captain or mate, and should mind his own business; when we learn that the second officer ineffectually warned the “reposing” Captain, half an hour before the vessel struck, that the weather was getting thick, the carelessness of the com- mander and the inefficiency of his subordi- nate officers appear equal in guilt to wholesale and deliberate murder. ‘The particulars of this great calamity, now fully before us in all their ghastliness, teach some lessons which a timely word ought to impress upon the public mind. It is no con- genial task to pronounce severe judgment upon those who are officially responsible for the loss of the Atlantic’s human freight. Who- | ever they may be they must stand self- crushed and doomed to behold visions more grim and terrible than those of Clarence amid | the remorseful memories of last Monday | night. But the people should and will know + just the circumstances which led to the fatal | blunder of Captain Williams, and just how | far the responsibility of the calamity rests | Upon she managers and owners of the vessel | he commanded. Captain Williams left Liverpool at the be- ginning of the equinoctial and stormy season, when every seaman knows that he has to deal with the most dangerous and treacherous | weather. The voyage from Liverpool to New | York is, taking the year round, at least one- seventh longer than the return voyage, be- cause the westward bound mariner must not only stem the current of the Gulf Stream, but | face the terrific westerly winds which drive the water current eastward. The regular steamship passage from Liverpool to New York is fourteen days, and the return twélve days, and although in propitious gales and streaks of fine weather it has. been now and | then made in nine days, in March and April it oftener takes more than the average time. So furious were the gales of last Winter that | many sailing vessels, arriving at this port early in April, consumed sixty days from Liv- erpool—some as high as seventy, and one took ninety odd days. The early Winter | winds were so strong that the Britannia was thirty-two days steaming from Glasgow to New York, and the full-powered Cunard steamer, Algeria, in one westward trip, con- | sumed over twenty days. The wind and storm charts invariably designate the Atlantic Ocean in March and April as peculiarly peril- | ous and liable to the most disastrous gales of the year, It so happened last year that on the 16th of April, when on her way to New | York, the Adriatic, under Captain Murray, | made the extraordinary run, from observation | to observation, of three hundred and ninety- three miles; but he must have been on the | northern side of an Atlantic hurricane, and, | indeed, his log shows that on the 18th of April he was overtaken by the most furious northwest gale, which always follows such a storm. But this was a fortnight longer after the equinox than the late | Atlantic's trip, and Captain Murray’s was, | at best, a merely accidental run, counter- | balanced by the succeeding northwester. which | turned on the Adriatic as she neared the | American coast. Captain Williams, in his last | and ever memorable voyage, so far from mak- | ing such an extraordinary run, had his speed brought down by heavy westerly and south- | westerly galed to one hundred and eighteen miles a day. Every fact shows that, in send- ing him to sea with ten days’ supply of coal, the managers of the White Star line defied the elements of the stormiest ocean of the globe, at the stormiest season, when, as in the case of the Algeria and of other steamships, the winds alone, without accident, might have kept the | Atlantic, under a fall head of steam, for more | than twenty days, A more glaring and daring | act of negligence—for act it was—cannot be | Conceived. It is evident, therefore, that the public can have no confidence in such man- agement, and, indeed, can never be. safe till | it takes such control and imspection of all points connected with the equipment ; and seaworthiness of a ship, as are now exercised with regard to the | boiler and safety-valves of steam-driven ves- | sels. It is hardly saying too much to declare | that the steamship, in mid-ocean without coal, is as badly or worse off than without compass, | and her fuel as well as her food supply ought | to be made a matter of legal regulation, | But. not alone should wo jusist won the | adoption of such provisions as are necessary to avert such marine catastrophes as that of Tuesday morning last. Wo sorely need, in addition, more suitable equipments on board ship for the rescue of passengers after disaster occurs. When the critical moment arrives the lifeboats seem to be utterly useless for the Passengers, and before they can be hoisted and. cleared all is over, This is often and chiefly due to the absurd fash- ion of placing. the davita so near to each other that the boat must be launched narrow-wise and one end at a time, and after this delay of about ten minutes, and other hitches which inevitably occur in;the excitement, comes the fearful scramble of ‘the crew and passengers to embark. It” has’ re- cently been urged by the Nautical Magatine, of England, that this glaring outrage on naval architecture, now so universal, can be easily abated, and the lifeboats so arranged in their chocks that they need no hoisting'and can be gotten over the ship's side as quickly as a bale of cotton orany part of the, cargo is dis- charged in unloading. ‘How immeasurably little,” strikingly remarks the above paper, “a drowning man must feel who’ remembers that the lifting of a mere bale of cotton in the world he.is leaving is more studied than the lifting out of a boat.’’ Such matters.are little considered by steamship companies, but the | public ought to demand security and take the supervision and direction of them into their own hands and see that they aro properly cared for by their own and) not the companies’ officers. We earnestly trust that the present movement now going on in the British Parliament, and led by Mr. Plini- soll, may have full and wide scope and redeem nautical legislation from its present deep dis- grace. We need similar legislation here for the protection of the many thousands ‘who 50 constantly go down to the sea and are exposed to its perils, In the case of the Atlantic, in addition to the faults we have named above,’ which are common to all vessels, it appears that tho boats of the ill-fated steamer were not ina condition for immediate use, so that, they would have been unavailable even if they could have been readily loosed and launched. Quartermaster Raylance, in his statement, says that while they wore engaged: in getting one of the boats clear he found that the plugs wore not in her, and as the passengers had by that time crowded in and lay “huddled to- gether in the bottom, crying,’’ they could not get the plugs in. This is only one of the many confirmatory proofs of the want of dis- cipline and authority that prevailed on the unfortunate vessel. There appears to have been no officer on board capable of inspiring the bewildered passengers with presence of mind or of compelling order and obedience on the part of the crew. The poor souls rushed into the boats and obstructed the only work by which a portion of them at least might have been saved. The Quartermaster unwit- tingly bears testimony as to this fact, and his account of what followed bears heavily upon the courage and efficiency of Cuptain Wil- liams. As soon as it was found that the boats could not be used the Captain, he says, “passed the order around for every one to look after himself,’ and, following his own advice, he proceeded to provide for his own safety. ‘There was no further thought for the women and children—no further caring for the lives of the passengers. Self-preServation was the Captain’s first law, and he obeyed that law faithfully in his own person. Thero have been instances in which great calamities atsea have been the occasion of developing qualities in commanders noble enough to atone, in » measure, for carelessness or errors of judgment. Actions have been performed in the moment of deadly peril which have galled forth the admiration of the world. Captain Luce went down With bis boat. The pilot of the Eric and the wheelsman of the Griffith, on Lake Erie, take rank among the world’s heroes. The conduct of the captain of the Metis is still fresh in the memory of our people. But Captain Williams will be known in history only as the commander who left a thousand dependent human beings to their fate, with the ery of “‘Sauve qui peut!’ as the man who, more careful of his own life than of the lives of others, left the vessel he had wreckedand got ashore among the earliest of the rescued, while hundreds of his passen- gers still clung to the rigging and prayed vainly for deliverance. Marshal Bazaine. The London Times, following the example of the Hrrary, has taken to interviewing the prominent men of the day. We print this morning one of its efforts in this direction. A Times correspondent sought and found Mar- shal Bazaine in his temporary prison house at Versailles. The Marshal was not unwilling to be interviewed. With much cordiality he received the representative of the press, and, with a reasonable amount of freedom of speech, h@ answered the questions put to him. The statements made by the Marshal will be read with all the more interest now that tho government has received the report of the Committee on Capitulations and has decided to proceed with his trial. Bazaine makes out a good case for himself. Itremains to be scen government. From the statements of the Marshal himself it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than that the trial will break down. Unwilling to prejudge the case, we commend to the careful consideration of our readers the Marshal's own view of it. His was certainly a most difficult position. He may have erred in judgment, but it is difficult to believe that he played the part of a traitor. ‘Tae Wasutneton Manger Jov.—Every tax- cumbered by the dilapidated Washington Mar- ket structure to a ‘‘ring’’ of greedy specula- tors for a merely nominal price. Every owner special reasons to inquire whether the ancient eyesore and prolific source of stench is to re- main breeding discomfort and disease, or is to be replaced by a proper public market worthy of New York, or whether the ground is to pass into other uses more likely to enhance the value of adjacent premises, If the locality is still to be used for market purposes there is ‘no reason why the city should fail to receive its fair value on purchase or rental, and if by any trick this is defeated the authors of the cheat will be beld to a strict acconntahilitw. what is the evidence in the possession of the | payer in New York is interested to know if | there isa plot to give the valuable ground | of real estate in the lower part of the city has | Thoughts on the Approach Doom of Hoboken, Tf, al.the approaching charter election, the citizens of Hoboken agree with ‘the citizens of Jersey City that union is best for them, then shall wo know that thenceforth Hoboken shall be no more. It is perhaps as well that Jersey City should attempt to be something, and the miserable condition of Hoboken suggests that anything will be an improve- ment on its present’ situation. Long has the war been waged and bitter the fight. There was once a millionnaire named Stevens, who looked down from astle Heights upon Hoboken, and Hoboken, as'it then was, called him its lord. Under his influence Hoboken began to grow. Tho children of Teutonia settled upon it, drank beer and prospered. In time. Stevens, who had a little in- fluence ‘at ‘Trenton, © induced” the ‘ Legis- lature to cut off Hoboken’s water front on the Hudson River for him, and call it Weehawken, though everybody, knew. that Weehawken \proper was up the ‘river, The Hoboken Land Improvement Company came tobe a terror to Hobokenites. ‘The streets could not be opened down to the river, and it was evident that Hoboken must either die of inanition or‘ annex: itself, Several: times in this ‘session’ even it attempted ‘at ‘Tren- ton to force its way down to the North River, but the Land Improvement Company always, managed to, defeat.the scheme, Despair mounted with livid lips upon Hoboken’s aspi- rations, ‘and its representative at Trenton said to himself;—‘“Jersey City or annihilation.” Years ago Hoboken had rejected, the embrace of Jersey City. Since then it has rejoiced that it was independent of tho, city’ that owned’ a Bumstead: © Now, | however, it cries,’ Better Bumstead, better any- thing, than euthanasia. under, Wee- hawken’s lords. The Hoboken representative introduced the bill, and it was passed by the Legislature as the best joke of the session. He saw tho point of it, however. Jersey City and Hoboken once consolidated the united forces could move down upon the water-front absorbers and wrench the prize from their grasp. Hoboken would be only the Seventh ward of Jersey City, but prosperous. Before she blots herself out let us just ponder what a sentimental loss Hoboken as an entity will be. It is almost seventy years since the busy, plotting Aaron Burr and the dignified statesman Alexander Hamilton went out one July morning to the Fields and set- tled their political differences over pistols and coffee. Hamilton was killed, and Burr might just as well have been. Over this ground, in- deed, was it that many another duel was fought. But duelling moved further South, and occasionally the civilized prize fight took its place. The dog fight, too, had its day there. Signs of better times for Hoboken were looming up. New York was grow- ing into the monster that it is, and in the interval between the time when the Battery was the Rotten Row of Now York and the epoch marked by the opening of Central Park Hoboken was the place for promenades. Who that gan look back for thirty years wil} not remember many a pleasant afternoon spent in strollings by the river side and over the Elysian Fields, or to the Sibyl’s Cave and the dropping wells? Soft nothings were whispered, and as the sun went down and the moon rose young hearts beat in unison along the rustic paths. For many years it enjoyed its sentimental prosperity. On Sundays what crowds emigrated from New York to Hoboken totake in the fresh breeze! There went to live Louis Napoleon in his poor days, before his imperial crown looked a probability. He left behind him, it is said, a souvenir in the sha] of an unpaid lodging bill, The great foglich cricketers came ‘Over and played thers, and there on the fine afternoons New York developed the muscle of its youth in base ball. The evil days were hastening on. King Stevens was anxious to build up and settle the wastes, The mild demon of lager beer began his rule over Hoboken. It was rapidly becoming what New York once was, a Dutch town. As every- body came to Hoboken, and nearly everybody was thirsty, the Germans proposed to offer lager beer in cataracts. Every resident was con- cerned in the beer trade, more or less, and fine poetry fled from that side of the Hudson. The gatherings that traversed the Elysian Fields were henceforth anything but select. The cheerful pienic was giving place to the after- noon’s swilling. Crime set its red foot on the green fields. Murders startled New York from what once was Elysium, and 4 free fight was the constant report from its bosky places. Darker suspicions flitted over the Fields. The beer trade was thriving and Hoboken growing, but the ever-vanishing Fields were obtaining a worse and worse reputa- tion, It was thought to be a con- clusive' sign of Hoboken’s demoralization when a Methodist church was dispossessed by the Corporation. It has ever since been thought that the chief cause of opposition to it was that it was not attached to a brewery. People, notwithstanding this questionable character, began to make Hoboken their resi- dence as rents advanced in New York. About six yeatd ago an event happened which made it more beery than ever. The Excise law which shut the front doors of the liquor stores in New York on Sundays did not inter. fere with the ferries, and Hoboken reaped a glorious harvest. The lager beer men there were wild with delight; Jersey lightning played around the heads of the thirsty and oceans of lnger were guzzled. It was a satur- nalia of beer swilling at five cents a glass, and Elysium became Infernum at a leap. It was the Alsatia of thieves and robbers, and a mur- derous assault was expected weekly from Ho- boken. Highway robbery was revived. The watchman at the ferry was murdered and thrown into the river. The knife and the pistol flashed and cracked triumphantly. The ocean steamers were making the water front their wharfing place. The city behind was growing, and all Hoboken’s poetry was squeezed to death between bricks and mortar on one side and lager beer barrels on the other. Its respectable memory is only a name, and there need be little wonder that it wishes to efface its later notoriety by falling into the arms of Jersey City. Hoboken has suffered from its relation to New York. There is, we believe, nothing ab- solutely demoralizing in the place itself. Henry Hudson found the Indians who lived there two hundred and sixty-four years ago a very guperior class of people; but New York wasthon Manhattan only; the river was called tho Suatemue gud tho Qaholataten aud the redskins did not drink lager beer or apple- jack. If the Hobokenites vote themselves into Jersey City they will add some twenty- five thousand to the latter. subarb of New York, and make a total for future Bumsteads to work upon of one hundred and twenty-five thousand, souls., Wo can consent freely to the sacrifice, for if there is little for Hoboken to gain:in character, there is certainly nothing to loge. Farewell, old Hoboken; commit suicide, and be happy: The Presidency of the French Assembly. Tho National Assembly of France proceeded to elect a President of the Assembly in succes- sion to M. Gaevy, yesterday, M. Louis Joseph Buffet was chosen’ by three hundred and: four votes, against two -hundred and eighty-five, which were cast for M’ Martel M. Baffet’ is He is very wealthy, exceedingly. influential and’quite ‘independent both in’ manner and address. He succeeded M. Magne as Minister of. Finance. He belongs to the, party of the Right; and was, years sinoe,’one of the. leaders in the Corps Ligislatif. He retired temporarily from public life after: the perpetration of the coup-d'état—an act which excited his Geapest’ dotestation—and, on his reappearance in the’ ¢lecioral arena, de- feated.one of Napoleon's chosen candidates for a seat in the Legislature ‘after o very violent contest. -M. Buffet’s. election con- atitutes an important parliamentary event for France. The ‘end of the Provisional Govern- ment is almost in sight, Tho national territory will soon be ‘liberated from foreign military occupation. 'The present) Assembly must remit its power to the people at.an early day. A Constituent Assembly ‘wilf followi The complexion of .its representation cannot be divined, but “it is certait ‘that .M. «Louis Joseph Buffet will exercise a very decided 'in- fluence in the striking of the tint. The Munstcr Meniber from’ Munster: A few weeks ago there passed through this city on his homeward transatlantic way a young man who represents an Irish borough in the English Parliament, He had come here to broaden . his .ideas...He studied the country, the institutions and, the people, and went home mentally broadened and refreshed. His namo is Munster, and his borough is in Munster, He arrived in London too late to as- sist in the killing of the Irish University bill, but his brief American: education pointed out how he could, névertheless, ‘produce ‘a sensa- tion. The Pall Mall Gazelte, in an article on the part the Irish ultramontanes played in the matter, had attributed their opposition to a fear that the bill’s passage would ‘cut the ground from under their Fenian agitations and their traffic in noisy disloyalty.’ Mr. Munster, in.a long speech, complained of this attack on his loyalty, and thought it deserving of the censure of the House as a breach of privilege. Mr. Disraeli thought it was merely an attack on ultramontanes, and said it was first desirable to find out who the ultra- montanes were. Then a great many mémbers spoke and fumed about their loyalty and thought it wae no joke. One member thought Distacli’s joke a splendid thing for the Ir Home Rulers, and altogether Mr. Munster raised a respectable’ rumpus over the para- graph in the Pall Mall. Mr. Gladstone at length came down and spread his wings over Munster and the Gazette, and appealed to the former to withdraw his motion. Many a young member of Parliament might envy this easy prominence of young Mr. Munster; but if they would only spend a few months in the United States they could be furnished with a whole bagful of similar sensational expedi- ents. Then, too, the Pall Mall hes apologized, and Munster’s triumph is complete. Amid all this Parliamentary stir in London, where a sensation is created by crying ‘Fenian,”’ it is worth asking whether there is not more than noisy disloyalty in Ireland, and whether shrewd conspirators are not laughing in their sleeves while Munster is fuming and Disraeli joking in the House. Tae Mopoc Drericunty is evidently ap- proaching an end. Our special correspondent at the headquarters of General Canby seems to have little hope of a peaceful settlement. The troops are now in the lava beds and within a few miles of Captain Jack's position, so that, in the event of the failure of the Peace Commissioners in their pow wow with the Indians, the Boys in Blue will be prepared to settle the valiant warriors’ land claim case in a summary man- ner. We may, therefore, shortly expect to hear of the collapse of the Modoc rebellion and the despatch of the braves to the happy huating grounds or some other Indian reser- vation. Tae Serra Avenve Prorenty Honpers op- pose the introduction of the elevated railway on their street, because, as they say, it will depreciate the value of renl estate. The same plea, if admitted in this case, would exclude the improvement from each and all the other streets in the city. Where, then, are we to es- tablish any line for rapid transit between Har- lem and the Battery? Perhaps our Sixth ave- nue property holders can tell us. Loox Out Now vor Oun Cry Cuanren.— Among the callers upon President Grant yesterday at the Fifth Avente Hotel was the venerable Peter Cooper.* There will be thunder soon all round the’ sky at Albany, Wuo Covi Butimeve Ir?—It appears that our Street Cleaning Bureau for the week end- ing March 29 removed 17,705 cart loads of dirt and 16,489 loads of ashes and garbage. That's something; yet, after all, 17,705 cart- loads of dirt removed in one week, against 25,000 loads collecting in the streets, is not much headway. Within six months we shall be swamped in mud at this rate. Brzaxtex Was Insane, they say, when he killed Maud Merrill, and his counsel ask for time to send over to Ireland to prove it. | Would not Australia, by way of Capo Horn, serve Mr, Bleakley just as well? In a Buazz oy Guony.—The late stormy session of the Jersey Legislature closed with a lively game of fisticuffs in the lobby. Why can’t we havé the stupid proceedings at Albany over our city charter varied by some- thing of this kind? ‘Where are our men of progress ? ‘Tae Cororep Vorrns in Philsdelphia have organized for a political purpose. They de- clare that they must have a fair share of the sogils ox thoy will abandgn the senublican party, If they sewing into the democratic party they will have a sumptuous foast 6o far as federal or State offices in Pennsylvania are concerned. The Question of a Spuyten Duyvil Canal Before the Chamber of Com=< merece. Occasionally the: Chamber of Commeres shows some practical views with regard to the neceggities and future of New York, At tho last regular monthly meeting of that body, om Thursday, a report was presented for memo- wrializing the Legislature to provide. for the enlargement of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, in order to establish clear navigation between the East and North rivers, and asking for am appropriation of five hundred thousand dol- lars fromthe State for the purpose. On the suggestion of Mr. Ruggles the matter ‘was re- ferred to the Committee on Canals, with im- structions to report at a special meeting om the’ 17th of April. “We hope the Chamber of Commerce will not-look at this proposition in | tty ‘narrow or ‘tiné-serving| manner’ when it.comes up for consideration, -but will takee ‘Comprehensive view of it. There ought to bean | jromhense ‘ship canal, with the’ best ‘docks, ‘wharves and: warehouses, ali the way from the ‘East River to the Noxth River, and a concen- tration of ‘all the railroads at that: point, so that produce and merchandise could be dis- charged atid ‘shipped or reshipped at the small- est.cost, The canal boats and cars.and ocean vessels might. then come close toand discharge into each other,’or from ‘and’ into warehouses that would. rise from the water edge, aa those at the docks'of London and Liverpool do, ‘The saving of time and expense would be' immense, and’ no other city in the United States could then with New York in the cheap chandise,, But the work must’ be on a grand scale; having in: view the wonderful future Of ‘this commercial metropolis and the Republic, /Wé ‘recommend, the Chamber ot Commerce: to look: at. the question im thie broad light and prepare for'the future accord- ingly. X ‘ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Wrangel, the oldest Prusaian Marshal, is parae lyzeds a Fissé'aé'a candidate proved a fizzle at the tate election in st: Louls, Congressman bL. P. Poland, of Vermont, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge A..H, Bailey, of Rome, N. Y., is staying a& the St. Nicholas) Hotel. De Witt 0. Littlejohn, of Oswego, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. 1 Colonel George Reed, of the United States Army, is at the Grand Oentral Hotel. Speaker A.'B, Cornell reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Albany last evening. The last scion of the celebrated Hungarian House of Gyula{ recently died in Vienna. United States Senator P. W. Hitchcock, of Ne- braska, is at the Fith Avenue Hotel. Captain John Kennedy, of the steamship City ot Montréal, is at the’New York Hotel. Senater Sumner gains his strength very slowly. He will not return to Massachusetts until June. E/C. Banfleld, Solicitor of.the Treasury Depart ment at Washington, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-United States Attorney General B. H. Bris- tow, of Loulsvific, Ky., is staying at tho Fitth Ave. nue Hotel, _ wens eT age Pére Hyacinthe and the Bishop of Poictiers are eaeh trying to abate the other in Geneva, Swits- erland. 4 Dr. William Gilfillan, the Brooklyn Heights, goes by the St, Laurent this morning, with his family, to Europe. A six months’ tour is intended. John L. Sanborn, a native of New Hampshire, and an able contributor to the daily and weekly press, died in St. Louis on the 30th ultimo. The ancient habitation in Raleigh, N. C., in which ex-President Andrew Johnson was born, has just been torn down to give place to local improve- ments. Local polities in Cinet nati must, aa Sa & Righiiut condition When the édilors he: eir articles with such belligerent alliterations as “Guns, Gallows, Guillotines, Garote.”’ Colone) W. H. Jenifer, of the army of the Kheaive of Egypt, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. He has been for several weeks visiting his former home in Baltimore, and is now on his return to Egypt. Mr, Wm. E. Robinson should be invited to de- liver his lecture some evening soon in the Cooper Institute. In this lecture he states that almost all the descendants of Benjamin Franklin, who are very numerous and embrace, by intermarriage, the distinguished American families of Bache, Markoe, Dallas, Duane, Miflin, Patterson, Irwin, Emery, Abert, Wainwright, McLane, Walker (Robert J.), &c., have Irish blood in their veins, some of them doubly Irish by descent. He alao shows that all the leading denominations of re- ligion—Presbyterian and Methodist, as well as Catholio—were founded in the United States by Irishmen and their sons. The press, the pulpit, the bar, the army, the navy, the stage, science, art and education in the United States, all have had their chief ornaments from the Irish element. Let us- have a thorough investigation on the matter. THE PRESIDENT. Movements of General Grant Yestere day—Mrs. Grant 1UJ—Miss Nellic Grant Receiving Visitors. The corridors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where President Grant is stopping, were yesterday a | Mttle more thronged than usual. There were sight- seers from the country, who would have con- sidered it a matter of dreadful consequence not to be able to relate to their neighbors how they caught a glimpse of the President during their explorations of New York, But there were also denizens of the metropolis who were actuated by equally absurd motives— men who had been hangers-on in the throng that surges about St, James’, and had copiously show- ered five-franc pieces upon couriers and guides to get aglimpse of continental royalty. These men who had lived at the Langham and tne Grand hotels, had never visited Washington, and they were ANXIOUS TO SEE A PRESIDENT of America, Besides these were the lieutenants of prominent political chiefs of New York—men who were anxious to measure each wave that might float them on to posterity. Altogether the gathering was a third larger than usual, At ten o'clock President Grant leit the hotel to call upon a few personal and political friends. He Teturned at noon, and about one o'clock he came down the eee staircase, attended by General Babcock, his Secretary; Mr. Tom Murphy, Colonel J. P. Kendall and Colonel A. G. Gear, of Boston. The party descended to the basement of the hotel, where a very curious machine js in opération. It is an automatic stone cutter, operated by steam power, which turns out in a very few minutes work that weuld occupy @ clever artisan for days, The inyentor being ‘AN OLD FRIEND OF THE PRESIDENT won from him the most thorengh attention; ana when the operator had placed in General Grant's nands apiece of marble exquisitely chiselled the aiamond-polpted arm of the automaton evi the proverbi Stoical face relaxed its musvles, and the President ejaculated, “Wonderfuls The most wonderful machine Iever saw!" The fied remained here less than an hour. Later the roa dent received visitors in his parlors. AMONG THOSR WHO CALLED were Commodore Leroy, Secretary Fish, Thurlow Weed, Oliver Fisk, United States Marshal; Johu Hoey, Dr. B. F. Crane and others. Mrs, Grant was indisposed during the day and re- cetved no visitors. Miss Nellie Grant received for both her mother and herself and had many callers. At haif-past five o'clock the President au ede eral Babcock leit the hotel ina carriage to dine with a friend and did not retura tll @ late hour ta the evening. This morning the President and party will leave the Fifth Avenue Hotel ior Poun- evan Anh, are to aah until Mouday ab Ow residence ofa Mrend near Phifadelphty and then (a fetgicn ta the Gapi lai,