The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1875, Page 16

ARBITRATION Something to Interest the ' Peace Society. ENGLAND'S LAST FAILURE. Will She Be Disgusted with the Principle of Peaceable Solution? EVERY CASE DECIDED AGAINST HER, Delagoa Bay--The Claims of Eng- land and Portugal. BRITISH IMPUDENCE. Loxpox, Sept. 10, 1 The “great principle of international arbitration” is assuming a slightly ludicrous form, in view of the last instance in which it has been applied—the judgment of President MacMahon in the case of England and Por- fugal concerning the disputed possession of Delagoa Bay, in South Africa, The commendable desire evinced by Her Britannic Majesty’s goverament and people to see the principle of peaceful arbitration be- tween nations established in the thterest of universal Drotherhood cannot be too highly praised by the citi- gens of other countries, particularly our own. It is fai- possible to avoid astmile, however, at the results thas far of English efforts im that direction; and to an American residing in England the tone of subdued bewilderment and uncertainty among the people caused by the announcement of this Jast decision is positieely comical. The newspapers, too, in their ever solemn Way, state the position of af- fairs in a quiet, dry manner, which has convulsed me, at least, with merriment: One journal, publishing the decision, remarks, with the air of a puzzled philosopher who is scratching his head in a vain effort to “put this and that together,” that “every arbitration to which England has submitted during the last six years has been decided against her.’ The Times recently assumed the tone of a man who suspects that some- thing is wrong somewhere, but is not prepared to ex- press a definite opinion. It, therefore, confined itself to @ bare statement of the melancholy facts, and = sai:--"The tribunal of Geneva mulcted ws in the sum of £3,000,000. The Em- peror of Germany and his jurists were against us in the San Juan controversy; and now Marshal MacMahon gives Delagoa Bay to the Portuguese, alter their claims have been questioned by us for some fifty years.’ Beyond this assumption of an injured air, the Mimes made no expression of opinion, but proceeded to discuss the special case of Delagoa Bay with a good Batured impartiality which does it credit. THM BRITISH PUBLIC IN A BROWN STUDY, Beneath the ludicrous view of the situation, however, 8 it appears on the surface, and at the first moment, when the truth is breaking on a bewildered people, there is room for much serious reflection. Under that quiet English stolidity which has confined journalistic expression to a mere reference to the facts, there is a strong and not unnatural fecling that arbitration, Bowever conducive to the welfare of the world @ gencral, may not be so profitable to England 4m particular, The people, in their,private discussions “9f the subject, show a similar tendenoy*of thought, and At is:quite possible that this last decision, unimportant sit is in itself, may have a most’ serious effect ona cause which all true philosophers amd peace lovers have at heart. This is the more to be deplored because Eng- Mand is the only great European natren which has shown an interest in this question of international arbitration or a willingness to adopt it as a principle of diplomacy when any important question is to be decided. Ger- Many ani Russia, depending on vast standing armies and never loath to settle disputed questions at the point of the bayonet, now sec their interests in that direction only, a# England formerly did. They are willing to leave only those matters to arbitration which are most convenient!y settled in that way and are of no interna- tional importance. RESULTS OF THE ‘PBCISION. The possible results of this decision in England are altogether out of proportion to the significance of the decision itself, Comparatively small interests are in- volved, and, aside from the fact that it is one of several decisions, all against England, the people here would not give it a second thought. Indeed, the facts are such that there can hardly be two opinions as to the Justice of the French conclusion. The English neither im private nor in the press seem to challenge it as a matter of logical reasoning, and an American or a foreigner—they make this distinetion here and I there- fore use it—can hardiy see how any case for arbitra- tion could ever have arisen in the matter. If mere ab- stract justice, independent of practical interests, had been the object of the British government when this dispute first arose, its diplomatists would have yielded ati im to Delagoa Bay after a single glance at the real facts, if they were in possession of them. But we cannot ex- pect that the government of Great Britain should be more enthusiastic tn the maintenance of ideal justice than that of our ‘own or any other country. Here, as with us, and wherever a govermment large enough to boast. a ‘‘claim’’ exists, the rule of property acknowl. edged in diplomatic circles ts that of Punch in the defi- nition of meum and twum—meum, ‘all | can get ,”’ tuum, “all you can keep me from geting.” Willing as Eng- land may be to “arbitrate,” she is never inclined to “give up” anything until, for some final cause, she is obliged to do so. POSITION OF DRLAGOA BAY. The case of Delagoa Bay was submitted to the French President by England and Portugal, in articles signed at Lisbon, in September, 1872. The dispute has been \pending, as mentioned in the above quotations from the Times, for upward of fifty years. Ie the text of Marshal fg report the question at issue is described in the following passage:—“Concerning the possession of the Territories of Tembe and Mapuso, and of the Iny- ack and phant islands, situated .on the Bay of Dela- goa or Lorenzo-Marques, on the east coast of Africa.” Delagoa Bay ts about ten degrees—a little less than 700 milee—north of the southern extremity of Africa—the Cape of Good Hope. It is nearly.epposite the lower id of the Ivland of Madagascar. The Dutch rape Vaal Republic’ hes about 200 miles interior, beyond the Drakenberg Mountain chain, which Tans parallel with the eastern coast from # point 200 miles above Delagoa Bay, around the south- ern bend of the Continent to near tife western coast of Cape Colony. Between these mountaine-and the ocean, on the east side, lies Natal, and Port Natal itself is less ‘Alun 400 miles south of the disputed bay, These figures seem somewhat large on paper, bat in African distances they are small, anda glance at’ the map will show that Delagoa Bay belongs to # group of numerans colonizing points and commercial centres all closely connected with English interests in that part of the world. The technieal claim of Portugal to its ownerahip has un- doubtedly been an impediment to the proper aod natural progress of Briti#h enterprise in this direction. Since the Cae of Good Bope anti the adjacent country fell into the hdnds of the British government in the early part of this ¢entury, its right having been finally established as against the Dutch in the peace of 1816, Englia civili- zation bas heen gradnailly creqping eastward and gorth- ward, new land being acquired from time to time by treaty with native tribes. Another strong Britiah in- terest is centred at Zanzibar, which is likely to extend soulbward to meet eventually the upward movement Between Natal and Zanzibar is Mozambique, with a Por- tuguese governor, amd this official is supposed to rule a territory as indefinite as that of most Africo-European rulers tern shore, It woyld be impossible y exactly where the authority of wis ‘governor’ begins and ends; equally impossible te say where it not beginer end, he is this ambiguity, aceord- ing to the English claim, that has given rise to all the trouble about this bay, especially as there bas been no aetual authority exercised and no actual Portu- guese possession maintained in a large part of these Shadowy dominions (the bay itself among other parts) for many years 1k ANCIENT GLORY OF PORTUGAL. et possible for us to realize in the present age that littie Portugal, hemmed in between Spain and the Atlantic Ocean, a geographical midget which school- boys become familiar with and forget before they enter Was once the greatest maritime nation of Eu- Tope; that it was the heir of Venetian glory on the ocean, and that its boil seamen are as celebrated in modern history as those of the Ph history and tradition Portagu commerce was utterly without a rival in the waters which bathe the southern shores of Asia, where English commerce {¢ ‘now all-powerful Portuyuese colonies were planted among the eastern. islands and Portuguese authority was specially extended over the eastern coast of Africa, a8 over that of South America, In the Western Continent little Portugal still retaine some of lier dneient prestige by virtue of her great and rosperous offxpring, the Empire of Brazil; but in the Bast oho has little left beyond some shulowy vestiges of authority. This successful dispute about Delagoa Bay isa rempant of her departed glory, and wo can hardly Blame her for clinging to her clear technical right, ghostly os her claim may appear from 4 practical point of view, nicians im ancient CARR FOR PORTUGAL. mH Returning now to the document im Which Marshal n the coast of India, and | | he was born and raised. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1875.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, macMahon announces his award as arbitrator, we trace the decaying power of Portugal, and see how she has gradually lost her practical hold of the disputed terri- tory. ‘the French officer, mustead of merely announcing his decision, shows both sides the courtesy, with true Gallic poltivness, of stating bis reasons in detail, This, 1 have been informed, ts the general custom when an- nouncing 4 legal decision iu France, The Bay of Del was diseovered by the Portuguese navigators in the sixteenth century. uring the next two centuries Por tugal actually occupied various parts of the bay and the islands of Inyack. In 1782 and in 1781 Portugal sup- ported her claims to the bay and neighboring territory in war against the Duteh and Al respectively, and she has never ceased to assert her claim. In 1752 her pretensions “were tacitly aceepted by Austria in conse- quence of diplomatic explanations exchanged between that Power and Portugal.”’ Furthermore, and here seems to be the special weakness of the English cause, in 1817, when Great Britain and Portugal concluded a convention for the-suppreasion of the slave trade, there was DO question raised as to Portugal's ownership, and the twelfth clause of that convention constructively designates Delagoa Bay as a part of her possessions! In 1822 the British government sent an officer, Captain Owen, to make a hydrographic survey of the bay aud tributary rivers, recommending him to the favorable attention of the Portugal government, RxQuisiTE, COOL IMPUDRNCE. At this point appears a very slight foundation on which the entire British claim reais, Captain Owen found nothing but native tribes in possession of the territory, and native chiefs in apparent authority, There were no signs about the bay of any European supremacy or colonization. The gallant Captain, fore, with atrue Britain’s readiness to pick up any loose tract of country that happens in his way, ignored the substantial claims of the very nation to whose good offices he had been recommended by his own govern- ment, He regarded the native chiefs as independent of the Crown of Poriugal, and concluded treaties with them directly. The English colonial government adopted Captain Owen’s view of the situation, or in other words, to use the slightly cool language of a Lon- don journal, “there has been a disposition in the colonial authorities to deal with the tract as belonging to tribes without the pale of the civilized world, and therefore open to British occupa. tion.” ‘There is to me something deliciously frigid and peculiarly English about this proceeding. Joo) as & cucumber’ isa term which has too much vegetable mildness to express it, The proceeding would be a little less suggestive of frozen mercury if the officer who instituted it had not been specially recommended to the kind attentions of Portugal. As the matter stands there is no character upon the stage who shows half the cool impudence shown by Captain Owen, and upon cool impadence ts based the British claim to Delagoa Bay, One is hardly surprised that Portugal failed to appre- ciate the joke—the victims of cool impudence are sel- dom amused by it, She immediately protested against these so-called treaties of 1824. Very soon after Captain Owen had departed with his ‘treaties’? the chiefs who had negotiated them ‘again recognized their depend- enee upon Portuguese authority, and themselves af- firmed that they had no power to’ contract treaty en- gagements.”’ So reads the decision before me. As if the English positions, based on the treaties thus repu- diated, were not already weak enough technically, the Marshal adds that eveu if th treaties had Rh con- cinded between responsible parties they would be void, because, as to one of them, the essential conditions had never been exeented, aud the other expired by its own limitations at a certain time and was never renewed, PRESKNT POSITION—THK It will be seen from the ubove that this case was ludicrously weak, Her onl gument was tl possible ar {there can be no national ownership of foreign dependencies except where there is actual phy- Sical possession, whatever the continuity of claim or previous ackhowledginent of right’ by other countnes, Such an urgament, applied to some of her own trackless possessions in North America, would have a startling effect, if there were any nation as mach strong Great Britain as she is stronger than Portugal to take advantage of it. As to Portugal's position, however, it is certainly that of a dog in the manger, so far as this bay and its contiguous tracts are concerned, The tendeucy of British enterprise in Southern Africa is civilizing ina high degree, and her occupation of the disputed territory would be a benetit, Portu. both to its uative tribes and her own colonists, gal, on the contrary, 18 doing nothing what the district; she neither prouts by it’ berse willing that England should do so. It is true that she could hardly have yielded to England under the cir- cumstances; but now that the question is decided fn her favor, it is to be hoped that some arrangement will be concluded, through purchase, exchange or otherwise, by which English progress on’ the eastern coast may proceed without interruption. THB PRESENT DANGER. To return for a moment to the most serious view of this last case of international arbitration—the effect it is likely to have upon the British mind in connection with the peacetul solution of disputed paints, It is really untortunate that a case of so slight importance and So absurdly weak on the British side should have been submitted to the gaine kind of tribunal as that from which so much is expected in cases that seriously involve the peaceful relations of great nations, Eng- lish Ministers for Foreign Affairs must show some dis- crimination in the cases which they submit to arbitra- tion if they wish to preserve the national dignity. A few more failures like this tast will deal a death blow to the cause of international arbitration so far as the senti- ment of the English people is concerned, END OF A LIFE IMPRISONMENT. WYLIE WILLIAMS, IN JAIL FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, DYING. - The Philadelphia Inquirer says:—A quarter of a century ago the name of Wylie Williams was one that attracted much public attention. Its owner, the son of one of Georgia’s most eminent citizens, ig now about dying in the Eastern Penitentiary, where be hag been incarcerated for over twenty-five years, and the following bricily told history of his carcer will prove interestin, Wylie Williams, at a suitable age, was placed in the preparatury school at Yale College, but when he was there asborttime the President wrote to the father of the youth, stating that the latter was not susceptible of meutal training and regretfully intimating that bis mind Was uot entirely sane. Wylie was returned w his family, and shortly there- after a commission, appointed by one of the courts, found that his mind was affected. “There being no suit- able institution in Georgia in which to have him treated, Wylie was sent tothe Pennsylvania Hospital for the In’ sane, under the management of Dr. Kirkbride, He was quite violent, and frequently threatened that he would escape from confimement and then shoot Dr. Kirkbride, ‘a prediction which he verified by breaking out Subsequently and jodging a ball in the head of Dr. Kirkbride as the latter passed along the road under a tree, in the upper branches of which the maniac bad placed himself. Williams was arrested and tried for the attempted killing of Dr. Kirkbride, but the jury brought in @ verdict of “not guilty, by reason of iasanity.” The Judge (King) stated to the friends of Williams that he should send the latter to the Eastern Peniten tiary forsafe keeing, but that he would be discharged ass00n as hie friends were ready to take him to a place where he could do no further harm That was twenty-five years and more ago, since which time Will- jams has never been outside the walls of Cherry Hill Prison, His friends and relatives, deeming the Peni- tentiary ae suitable a place as any that could be pro- vided, paid the expenses of au extra keeper, whose sole duty it was to watch and care for the insane patient. After the breaking out of the late war, in 186i, remittances ceased and Will- jams was placed in au ordinary cell among convicts, being allowed, however, the freedom of the yard. An effort was recently made to discover whether any of his family survived him, and it was found that only a brother of bis is livi and he has been so impover. ished by the results of the war that he can contribute nothing more than sorrow for®his unfortunate brother Wylte. The family prior to the rebellion was one of the wealthiest in Georgia, but their whole wealth was Swept away in that struggle, Bf is is Bow about sixty years of age, and is almost childike. The one desire that has absorbed bim for several years is to revisit the old plantation on which It has beon his daily custom to sit in the yard, with his face turned to the South as he smoked his cigar. His health has been gradually weakening for years, but recently he was been failing Irapidly. In a short time he will exchange his present yy | tomb, where he has been buried a lifetime, for hat last resting place where he will sleep for eternity. TRAMPING FOR MONEY. The Utica Morning Herald says that on Saturday a couple of tramps applied to a lady on Hubbell street for something toeat, They were given plenty of bread and cold boiled ham. This lunch was eaten ,while the beggars sat upon the stoop. After eating one of the men said, “Where's your husband?” The lady said he had just laid down to take a nap. ‘You can’t play that,” the fellow replied; “we want mone; ‘cnough t0 take us to Albany, and must have it.” ironing at the time and had just taken a flat from the stove. Raising it over her head she aimed it at both and said, “You get away from here, or I will save you the trouble of goung to Albany,.”’ The rascals saw that they were foiled, and fled, This kind of business is getting too warm. The more kindness is shown to such fellows the more impudent and ungrateful they are. The best plan !s to refer all unknown applicants for relief to the office of the Board of Charities, ne PROSPERITY OF CHARLESTON, [From the Springfield (Mass.) Rapublican.] Southern journals are adopting the Weetern habit of printing annual reviews of the growth of their respect- ive cities in industry and trade, New Orleans ia, of course, mach depressed at the sharp competition of St, Louis and Memphis, and by her political misfortunes. The sugar crop of Louisiana, however, is large this year, and agriculture generally remunerative, Atlanta ig the most thriving city in the Southwest, having in creased immensely in population and manufactures in ten ye Charleston 18 the most prosperous commer. cial city. She is favored by a wise and liberal adminis- tration of railroad feeders, and is peculiarly fortunate in the variety and richness of the natural products of which she is the market. These are naval stores— an entirely new and growing trade—cotton, rice, lumber and phosphates. Charleston is now the third cotton port and markets eleven per Sent of the whole crop; of Carolina rice she ‘a monopoly; the trade in phos- phates, cru nd manufactured, jast year amounted to $2,000,000. Richmond, is also quite prosperous, the cheapness of labor enaifing her great iron industries to keep in operation all through the dull season and take ordora from New England and the West when Pittsburg has been idle, Colored labor proves to be @ strong ¢ lady was point, Instead of @ Weak one, im this cama, AFFAIRS IN MISSISSIPPI. BUSINESS AND CROP PROSPECTS BRIGHT, BUT POLITICS WEARING AN UGLY LOOK. Mr. George B. Pease, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Missis- sippi House of Representatives, and Mr, T. W. Car- doza, Superintendent of Education of that State, are in the city for a visit of combined business and pleasure. In answer to some queries as to affairs in Mississippi, Mr. Pease stated that matters were tranquil there, and would remain so if the disturbing element would allow quiet to continue to reign im the State, He said:—I look at matters from a republican point of view, of course, but I do not think that allow any prejudices to rule me, I have been South now some eight years, and during nearly all of that time I have been in the Legislature; I have been Sergeant- at-Arms for the past two years, having been elected by acclamation, members of both parties yoting for me. Tn regard to the riots at Vicksburg and Austin I have only to say that they were much worse than the Northern people think, The whites of the State turned out en masse for the purpose of EUWING THE COLORBD PEOPLE, nd special trains for the transportation of armed men were chartered on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rail way. The negroes were dispersed and driven into the woods, and they naturally fear a repetition of such out- rages. Ames has been a good Governor, and, although politics are somewhat muddled down there, we hope to carry the uext election, which occurs on the 2d of November. Ihave no doubt that we shall carry it if the negroes are allowed to vote, the State, by a fair count possessing, a republican majority. There will be a splendid cotton crop this fall, BUSINESS PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT, and with peace and quiet we shall soon become one of the most prosperous States in the South, The negroes, asarule, are hard-working and industrious; I kuow many of them who are worth from $5,000 to $6,000 and own, besides, the land which they cultivate and the houses in which they dwell. 1 am sorry to make the statement, but the disturbances there are fostered by a class of indolent whites who will not work themselves and who seem galled by the sight of the comfort en- joyed by the industrious blacks, Many of these whites are ex-rebels, others are young men grown up since the war, who are incited and encouraged oy the older hands. They lounge around ¢ross-rouds groceries, and in their normal, half-intoxicated condition, are ripe for any mischief. ‘If there is nota rigid enforcement of the law, these things will be hot this autumn. Some of the men who were engaged in the Austin and Vicksburg Tivts have had the assurance since to pretend to be re- publicans, aud some of them have even sought office on the republican ticket, I have had negroes come to me and say, “How is this, Mass’ Pease? Dat man was A SHOOTIN’ US NIGGERS DOWN, and now he wants us to yote for him for Sheriff of this county.”” [tell you, sir, people may laugh here at the idea of sending troops South, but the time may come when they will wish that they had. The simple fact that no white men are killed in the riots down there is a pretty good indication of the truth of the matter, If the whites, as I have said, will only let the negroes alone the State debt will continue to be reduced, and this year’s crops will set us ov our legs, I may say, perbaps, that lam the ONLY CARPETBAGGER IN THE STATE, for I am very little better off than when I first went there, and you can hardly call Northern men, who own extensive plantations und raise large crops, carpet- baggers. | Men who went there from this section of the country have either failed to make life in the South a success and have removed, or they remain and are identified with its interests, The term of carpet bagger does not seem to be a suitable one to apply to such men, and yet { have heard them spoken of as such by Southern ‘ten, whose stake im the country was not one-tenth as great as thatofthe men they men- tioned so sneeringly. The residents native to the soil profess to be willing and even anxious for the coming of men and capital from the North; but Northern fam- ilies there are not visited by the Southern people, and must form little coteries by themselv In conclusion allow me to say that I hope the Heratp will watch we course of events there, up to and including the No- vember election, with its usual vigilance, for I fear that there will be trouble in regard to obtaining a fair vote. VICE PRESIDENT WILSON. HE IS NOT A CANDIDATE FOR THE NEXT PRESI- DENCY—DETERMINED AND INCESSANT MIS- CONSTRUCTION OF HIS PUBLIC ACTS—FRIEND- SHIP TO THE SOUTH. Ricnmoxp, Va., Sept. 23, 1875. A member of the Virginia press excursion to New York and other places North had the pleasure of an introduction to Vice President Wilson at the Grand Central Hotel in that city. He found that statesman to be a very agreeable and affuble gentleman, dignified, but plain and simple in his manner, A conversation took place, in the course of which Mr. Wilson said that he had never made and was not now making any efforts to secure a nomination for ‘THE NEXT PRESIDENCY, notwithstanding the rumor to that effect which has been prevalent for some time past. Since this notion has taken root, no matter where he goes nor what he does, there are busybodies ever ready to misconstrue the object of his visits and actions. If he travels about, which has been his habit and pleasure all his life, he is said to be clectionecring, and, said he, “If I were to shut myself up from now till the meeting of the next nominating conventions the same motive would be attributed to my action. It has gono abroad that I am a.candidate for the next Presidential term; and it is, therefore, impossible, I suppose, to es- cape misrepresentation and calumny. Even my presence at the bedside of a dying friend and old com- jon ip the Senate could not escape misconstraction. gems riding in a carriage in company with a friend when I observed « lady bow. I knew the face but could not recall the name. 1 ordered the carriage to be stopped and approached the lady, and found her to be Mrs, Jefferson Davis. She informed me that General Breckinridge was #0 sick that he was not expected to live through the night. Upon learning this I con- cluded to go and see him right away. 1 was treated with the utmost courtesy by this lady, and, on my ar- rival at the house of the dying man, received marked attention and cordiality from all. THE URUTALITY | exhibited by the Washington organ in its reference to this matter exceeded anything Lever saw. Now, if a man is to subdue all feeling aud spirit of manliness and human nature to subserve party, then I am a bad party man. All my old co-laborers in Congress I respect and esteem as men, and aim ever ready to extend the hand of friendship, burying the past, and willing to renew our relations as brothers of acommon country, and to put our shoulders to the wheel in the advancement of its happiness and prosperity. 1 want to see all parts of the country built up. When the war commenced and during its progress 1 was in favor of fighting it out to the last. When it ended I was for peace—lasting, en- during peace. We have had enough of mere party poli- ties, and the country is suffering from political trickery and rascality. What we want now is an order of things that will restore and perpetuate the material prosperity of the country ; that will bring bread and meat, a sufli- ciency of money and HAPPINESS TO THE MILLIONS, and that will restore to employment, in the varions branches of industry, the tens of thousands of idle but willing bands throughout the land. We must have it, for the people demand it. I want to sco all parts of our country made prosperous, and ain determined, 80 far as it is in my power, to extend help to that part which moat needs it,” It was then remarked to Mr. Wilson that the South was unmistakably that part. “Yes,” he said; “1 know it, She has suffered from mismanagement and the destructive results ef the war, and was impeded in her efforts to recuperate by man; adverse circumstances, But she will come up. With her weil Known natural advantages it is impossible for her to remain in her present paralyzed condition. She will rise from ashes with renewed rigor and strength. My efforte for her success ehall not be wanting.” After some farther interchange of opipion on other topics of no special importance Lhe press representative bade the Vice President adieu and retired, THE INFLATION QUESTION. To THe Eprror ov tie Heraty:— The leading article in the Heraxp of this morning commends the Legal Tender Club for discussing before the people the currency question; but I beg leave to take issue with that article in its assertian that the currency has been expanded instead of contracted since the panic of 1873; or, indeed, since 1865. The state of the currency October 31, 1865, at the time the Hon. Hugh McCulloch initiated the policy of contraction by withdrawing the certificates of tem, porary deposits, and against which Mr, Pliny Freeman vainly protested, may be judged from the following table of all kinds then outstanding. It is from Spauld- ing’s ‘Finance History,” page 201:— Greenback and fractional currency $454,000,000 State and national bank notes + 250,000,000 Five per cent legal tenders..... . 83,000,000 Three per cent certificates of indebted- DEBE. ss vss 56,000,000 Temporary certificates..... 0,000, 000 Seven-thirty Treasury notes, 830,000,000 Compound interest notes......... 173,000,000 PAA ssosees évsndoveveceseees > Qh SOWOUR O00 And Mr, Freeman, in condemning Mr. McCulloch's contraction policy, adda, “Will not the unconscious curse of the hundreds of thousands whom his policy of contraction hurled from affluence to poverty enshroud his name with ignominy forever }” Everything has beon done by overy Secretary of the Trensury since 1965 to meet the de mands of the pondholders to the sacrifice of the people’s interests and industries, ator Sherman's poisoned chalice of contraction (the act of January 16, 1875), hangs like a nightmare over the country, and the banks in this city have lately with- drawn some millions of their circulation, redeemed it at Washington and received back their bonds, fearing Fs Boy not be in a position in 1879 to redeem ir notes in gold, Contraction of the various forms of credits as given in the figGres above has destroyed the uses of money, and therefore money is hoarded and unemployed, Asa high tide of business with our pres- ent amount of currency would only result in a panic there is no desire to engage in new enterprises. Mr. Pendleton, in a recent speech in Ohio, quoted from the United States Auditor's report to show that the amount of government and national bank credits used as money 1865 was over $2,100,000,000, and the amount of government credits, greenbacks and national bank notes in cireulation in 1875 about $70,000,000, Coutraction of the currency means stagnation and Stagnation means putretaction. Have we not waited long enough for specie payments and are we not re- ceding from them, while the threat of forced resump- tion paralyzes all industries, for no one will do business or buy on a ngs | market? Only the greedy money- lenders prosper. They complapantiy abide their time, like wreckers waiting on a igerous coast till the storm be past and the ships be foundered, or like vul- tures lazily hovering till Death pre} their feast, Thanks for the kind consideration of the Henan. New York, Sept. 26, 1875, EUGENE BEEBE. POLITICAL NOTES. Ohio and Iowa hold elections on the 12t h of October. Senator Dawes is going to help the republican cause in Ohio, " The Mussachusetts prohibitionists will hold their con- vention on October 6. . Mr. Sanborn wrote tho liberal republican address to Massachusetts voters. Carl Schurz will speak in Cleveland on the evening of Saturday, the 2d of October. ‘The democratic ticket in New York State is properly called the “‘suecotash ticket,’ The German vote of Illinois, according to the Chicago Tribune, is solid for solid money. One-half the candidates for superintendents of public instruction in Ohio are women, ‘The Massachusetts Republican State Convention will be held to-day, the day of the eclipse. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, thinks he never saw a people aroused as the Mississippians are, And now it appears (hat St. Geghan, who began the Catholic onslaught in Ohio, eats meat on Fridays. Ohio democrats are in favor of reducing Grant's salary to the same figure as that of General Jackson. * Henry Wilson is requested by the Springfield Repub- lican to remain in Massachusetts while giving his polit- teal opinions, A vote taken in Ohio among the passengers on the railroad between Uhrichsville and Coshocton gave Hayes, republican, 807, aud Allen, democrat, 102. The Massachusetts papers are explaining that the publication of the letter of Charles Francis Adams was alla mistake. It was not written on the Presidential question at all, but simply in answer to a request that he should write a political history of the United States. The latest republican argument against John Bigelow, democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New York, is that, while he was editor of the New York Times, he assisted Corbin and Fisk to get up the Black Friday panic, Yet Mr. Bigelow’s position on that point was oxplained long ago. ‘The next clection in Connecticut will take place on the 4th of October, when town officers are to be chosen; also two constitutional amendments are to be voted on—one providing for the gengral election jn November and the other giving the General Assembly power to re- store the privileges of an elector that have been forfeited by reason of crime. Estimating the gubernatorial chances in Massachu- setts, the Boston Globe publishes the following:—Lust night’s caucuses sent the Loring column ahead with a bound, and this morning we report the following satis- factory table of totals:— OUTSIDE OF BOSTON. Loring. Rice... Adains. Uninstructed and doubtful seeeees 139 INCLUDING BOSTON. Loring... . . 183 Rice 178 Adams: 10 seeeee 130 Charles Francis Adams and Alexander W. Rice have had their war records examined by the voluntary zeal of Frank W. Bird) Mr. Bird professes to discover that in Congress, in 1861, upon the passage by the House of a resolution—first, recognizing slavery as it existed; second, recognizing slaves as property; third, request- ing States to revise their statutes so as to secure the rights of travelling slave owners in their slaves—both Mr, Adams and Mr, Rice voted in favor of it. He finds also that, upon the offering of an amendment to the constitution prohibiting Congress from having power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any State, both Mr. Adams and Mr. Rice voted in the affirmative, That is neither of these men represented the radical pur- poses and sentiments of the republican party just before the outbreak of hostilities. ‘ Of the Chicago Collectorship the Znter-Ocean, of the 20th inst., says:—“It is understood that the resignation by the Hon, N. B, Judd of the office of Customs Collec- tor of this Port, forwarded to Washington on Friday last, was long since determined upon. The extensive business enterprise which Mr. Judd has undertaken requires his constant _per- sonal supervision. Accordingly, having sent in his resignation, he immediately left the city for the scene of his future labors, On Saturday last the Hon. Charies B. Farwell telegraphed to Secretary firis- tow recommending the appointment of Mr. Adolph Schoeninger to be Collector at the Port of Chicago, vice the Hon. N. B. Judd, resigned.”” Pinchback made a wrathful specch in the New Or- leans Boara of Education a few days ago on the appoint- ment of the colored teacher Edmunds to a chair in the Central High School. “It had been done,” he said, “by the Board to test the sincerity of the Southern people in their oft-repeated assertions from the pulpit, the rostrum and through the press, that they accepted the civil and political equality of all men before the law. They agreed to and did yote his election, which was unanimous, If this man, ‘worthy and well qualified,’ is to be driven from his post, we cannot escape the conclusion that this profession of friendship and ac- ceptance of the new order of things by our white fellow citizens is but ‘sounding brags and tinkling cymbals,’ ”? Congressman Charles P. Thompson, General Butler's successor im the Lowell district, in Massachusetts, has had little public mention since his acquirement of the office, He has recently made a speech, in which he tersely said:—‘T stand now as no partisan. I am not the servant of the democratic party; I am not the ser- vant of the republican party. I shall advocate those measures and only those measures that I believe to be fer thecommon good. I shall never advocate a prin- ciple upon party grounds. I shall be unworthy of the confidence that has been placed in me if I misunder- stood what the democratic party meant when they put me in nomination, which was that I should carry out the principles which I belleved to be right—that I should serve my country first, and, by serving my country, I know that I can best serve my party. In this canvass there are some important ques- tions, One of them is the financial question. I know that my republican friends who voted for me did go be- cause Iwas sound upon that question. You may ask me if Lam in favor of the colored man. I answer, yes, 1 am in favor of the white man and colored man, I be- lieve they are both entitled to equal rights under the constitution. I believe in an equality of rights and an equality of duties, 1 would not go for a law that would discriminate in favor of a white man ora black man, I want the same law for all.’ Secretary of War Belknap, it seems, is working for the United States Senatorebip in Iowa with a will, ‘The Des Moines correspondent of the Dubuque Herald, under date of September 15, writes: — We now have the announcement that President Grant will be here with his Secretary of War Belknap to attend the reunion of the Army of the Tennessee the last of this month. This reunion, while all right and proper, is understood to worry some of the leading republican politicians, who, while willing to haee the party helped’ by the same are very much afraid the regnion will some way or other be managed so a8 to give Belknap a boost toward the United States Senate. It is understood the ‘great war Governor,’ Kirkwood himself, is afraid there is something of this kind going on. One of the initiated, who has recently received his reward in the shape of a paying office, says that a xpoech made by Belknap at one of these reunions made him Secretary of War, and this being the caso he logically arguos why should not his presence and specch at this coming reunion make him United States Senator from Iowa, especially when it ig known he is President Granv’s candidate for that position? He thinks it will, and has been, and is shaping his course in that direction, and many more will do likewise, McCrary, Congressman from the First district, is now stumping the State, with an eye upon the Senate, and some think he is the coming man for the place.’ The Register this morning gives hima huge pull, as about the ablest man in the House, not only from Towa, but from the West. This is pretty strong and shows the Register’s leanings tobe toward McCrary. But there will be no fight between these two Keokuk men—Belk. hap and McCrary, As written you before, if it is seen Belknap can carry the most outside votes, McCrary will gracefully retire ‘and throw all his strength in favor of the former, and trust to Providence and President Grant for his reward for so doing, having a distinct un- derstanding beforehand of what kind of provision that providence will provide for him, ENGLAND'S PRIYCE IN INDIA. How the Shahzadeh Will Be Received. imperial Festivities and Imposing Pa- geants Await Him. |The Prince’s Squadron and Suite. THE PROGRAMME IN INDIA. Tiger Hunting and Fear of the Dola. Reminiseences of the Duke of Edinburgh's Visit to the Rast. The departure of the vessels that are to convey the Prince of Wales and his suite on a visit to India that is to continue over four months may be considered a noteworthy event, English dominion in Hindostan has not been established more than a century, and during that comparatively brief period the British goy- ernment has consolidated its power over a most exten- sive, populous and rich empire, The Prince of Wales is almost certain some day to rule oyer this vast terri- tory, the possession and integrity of which is now con- sidered essential to the greatness and prosperity of England, To impress the native princes and their fol- lowers with the strength and grandear of Great Britain is ostensibly the object of the present journey of the heir apparent, and itis claimed that the people will gain a wider knowledge of the resources of India by the at- tention that will necessarily be directed to the country in consequence of the royal visit, The proposition when first made was not looked favorably upon by the public, A large appropriation of money was necessary to defray the expenses of the journey, and there were some sus- picions that a portion of it would be used for other pur- poses than those intended by Parliament. However, when news of the proposed trip reached India the en- thusiasm of all classes in its favor was described as remarkable, Natives vied with Europeans, it is said, in expressing the satisfaction with which they looked forward to the visit. Meetings were held at Calcutta and Bombay, and arrangements made for illuminations, processions, &c., on a grand gcale. The Indian Treasury made an appropriation to” defray a portion of the Prinve’s expenses, and in a short time all became recoti- ciled to his distant journey, with the hope that it will “result in some sort of benefit which just now cannot exactly be discerned. The preliminaries caused much debate. The neces- sity of the journey was denied. Whether the Prince of Wales was to go incog., or to overslaugh the Viceroy, or be the Viceroy’s guest; whether he was to pay his own bills or be treated as more humble guests are by hospitable hosts, were matters for graye consideration, But it is all settled now, He is to go en grande tenue, with plenty of money in his pockets, and all the possi- ble pomp and circumstance that can be got together todo him honor. ‘*The wealth of Ormuz and of Ind” will be poured out belore him, and never since the famous visit of the Queen of Sheba has history recorded a royal progress which will equal this due in magnificence. The Duke of Edinburgh went partially over the same ground in the spring of 1870, but his was merely a flying visit, and though he got royally treated and monarchs and Ministers flocked to meet him, it was originally intended that he should appear merely as the Post Captain of the frigate which he commanded. But the Prince of Wales goes asthe premier peer of Eng- land to view his inheritance, the most valuable, if now brightest, jewel in the crown he will, perhaps, some day wear. THE PRINCE'S SUITE. The Prince will be attended during hia journey by a numerous suite, part of which las been selected by himself and part by the government, The Duke of Sutherland, who goes in no official capacity, it is be- lieved will prove a most valuable and prudent guide, He has on former occasions rendered good service to the Prince in affairs where the advice and assistance of a circumspect friend were much needed, Lord Alfred Paget and Sir Bartle Frere will be tem- porarily attached to His Royal Highness. The other members of the suite are as follows:—Lord in Waiting, Lord Suffield; Equerries in Waiting, Major General Probyn and Lieutenant Colonel A. Ellis; Aides-de-Camp, Captain Lord Carrington, Royal Horse Guards; Lord Charles Beresford, Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant A. Fitgeorge, Ritle Brigade; Extra Equerries, Earl of Aylesford and Colonel Owen Williams, Royal Horse Guards; Dr, Fayner, Medical Officer; Chaplain, Rey. Canon Duckworth; Private Secretaries to the Prince, Messrs, Francis Knollys and William H. Russell (the latter acting also as correspondent for the London Times). In addition, a taxidermist, botanist and other sclentific men are to form part of the suite, Mr, Isaac- son, of the India office, goes out in charge of the presents. While in India the following officers of the Tudian Army will be attached to the Prince:—Major General S. Browne, Chief of Staff; Major Henderson, Political Officer, and Captain Grant, Quartermaster Gen- eral of the'Camp. Special correspondents of several leading English newspapers also accompany the Prince, THE ROYAL SQUADRON, The Serapis and the royal paddle yacht Osborne—the two vessels designed to convey the Prince and his suite to India—have been fitted out ina magnificent manner and entirely regardless of expense, They are grand floating palaces, provided with every imaginable luxurious appointment. They are both painted white on the exterior, with two lines of blue and lines of gold encircling the ships below the bulwarks. The arms of the Order of the Star of India are at the prow of éach vessel. The beauty of the Osborne is much enhanced by the scarlet of her paddle wheels and dark blue of her boats Both ships have ail their available accommoda- tion taken up by the necessary suite and guests, The Prince will embark at Brindisi on the Osborne, and it is uncertain whether he goes from her to the Serapis as soon as the depth of water allows the approach of the latter ship, or whether he will proceed in the Osborne to Corfu, where he is to meet the King of Greece instead of at Athens as at first arranged. THR PERILS OF THE JOURNEY. The wisdom of the Prince of Wales visiting India at all has been seriously questioned in many quarters, It is well known that the Queen has all along entertained serious objections to the trip, feartal that some mig- chance will happen to the heir apparent during his stay in Hindostan, But Mr. Disraeli appears to have satis- fied himself that the presence of the Prince in India will be productive of an incalculable amount of politi- eal, social and commercial good, and consequently the journey should be undertaken, Kuropeans of rank aro liable to become victims to the assassin’s dagger, and the treacherous nature of the climate exposes the visitor to the greatest peril. Among ‘the fanatics, who are numerons in the country, itis not impossible that there may be one who would consider his passport to the highest heaven of his faith secured could he but send his knife through the heart of the great Mahara- nee’s son. The murderers of the Chief Justice of Bengal and Lord Mayo, the Viceroy, afew years since do not hold a jow place in the Mussulman category of saints, however much the followers of Islam may deprecate their dead to Christian officiale, and a name on earth forever willbe the future of the man who by a bold stroke helps the cause of the crescent against tle cross, Only a fanatic would aspire to this distinction, but in India favatics are many, and it cannot be denied that the Prince will encounter a daily risk during bis Eastern tour, This circumstance is alono sufficient to account forthe Queen’s dislike to the intended Journey, A TRRRIBLE VISITATION, According to a London journal (the Eeaminer) the Toyal visit will be like a flight of locusts over certain districts, The orders will be stringent that the poorest shall be paid for the grain or other provender required for the camps, and accounts will be kept; but, never- theless, the peasant will suffer as ho would during ® Pestilence or famine, for only God and the contractors will know where the moncy paid for the things taken from him goes, Tens of thousands of rupees will be Spent for expenses of the toar throughout the country, but not one rupee of this amount will benofit the poor hewer of wood and drawer of water, He will be told t the country the Prince shi in 's will should | tothe progress and he will piously acknowledge that be done, « : THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IN INDIA. The visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to India in 1869 70, while in command of the Galatea, was a very suc- cessful affair, He was received by all classes—native and European—with great-cordiality, He made an ex- tensive tour of the country and spent some ume in each of the principal cities, Many of the native parece assembled at Caloutta to pay their respects, and e was visited aorag Se tour by several of the inost owerful rajabs, ¢ Duke visited Benares, Agra, Delhi, Umballa and Lucknow, He engaged in boar hunting, travelled in — Style on the back of ele- Phants, was invested with the Order of the Star of In- dia by the Viceroy and gave and attended numerous balls. But there was no political or other significance attached to his visit, He was merely on @ cruise with his ship and he was known to have bo power or voice in shaping the policy of the country. The matter is en- tirely different wits the Prince of Wales, Who. goes out as heir apparent. and who, in the course of time, wilk become Emperor of India. A DISAGRERABLE UtTCH in the programme of the tour was disclosed a few weeks since, and which at first camo like a bombshell in the India Office in London, It was telegraphed from Calcutta that the Nizam of Hyderabad, the most pow- erful chief in Hindostan, had declined to meet tha Prince on his arrival, The report was soon after con- tradicted, but the facts as given later show that there Was some ground for the statement. The inhabitants ot Hyderabad are of the most fanatical caste of Mo- hammedans in India. They are turbulent and fierce in their hatred of the Christian, No Europeun official of high rank is sate among them. Consequently the Prince of Wales or his advisers arranged his route so ag to avoid this dangerous ground, just as the Duke of Edinburgh in 1870 took care to remain beyond its con- fines. But it was proposed or expected that the Nizam, who has received inany marks of distinction from the Crown, would travel a distance of 860 miles from hia own capital to meet the heir apparent, This the Indian ruler, who is represented as a delicate and excitable’ youth, declined: to do, and a spokesman on his behalf’ declared that there were many other parts of the country where the population was more fanatical, and perhaps more bitter against Europeans, than in Hyderabad. It is thought the matter can be arranged in some satisfactory way, but no one expect that the Prince, under any circumstances, will venture among the Nizam’s subjects, This incident had rather adampening effect on the project, for it was congig-, ered unfortunate that such a question should arise gy. as to interfere with impressing on the most powerful of the Indian. chiefs a sense of the grandeur and great- negs of the British Empire and of its rulers. THE PROGRAMME IN INDIA, After passing through the Isthmus of Suez and pro- ceeding down the Red Sea the royal visitor will make his first appearaice in India at Bombay, where will be the guest of Sir Philip Wodehouse. He will be welcomed in that city by Lord Nortubrook the Vice- roy. Several native princes, including the young Guik~ war of Baroda, will come to Bombay during the stay of the Prince, and will be introduced to him there. After a stay of eight or ten days at the capital of the Westerm Presidency, during which time there is to be an almost endless round of festivities, illuminations, prosaasignty bulls, receptions, &e., the visitor goes down the coast to Baypore, the Viceroy meantime returning to Cal- cutta, From Baypore the party will proceed to Com- batore, and thence across the country to Seringapatam and Bangalore. Madras is to be reached early in Decem- ber, After a stay of two days the royal yacht Osborne will proceed to Ceylon, where their stay will be short {about a week), as the Prince is due at Calcutta Decem- ber 23, Christmas and New Year's Day will be spent fit ‘the capital, He will set out for the northpest about the 3d of January, ‘Taking Benares, Cayapore and Lucknow on the Way, he will get to 'Deliii about the 1th, where a large body of troops will be encamped. ‘The business of the camp of exercise will occupy about ten days, atter which the Prince will go to Lahore, re- turning to Agra on the 6th of Webruary. A TIGER HUNT. Although the time of year is not favorable to shooting big game, some efforts will be made to start a Uger or two, A shooting expedition to the Serai will begiw about the 14th and last three weeks. In Bengal fie jungle is So heavy in cold weather that very little exe- ution can be done; but later, in February, the tiger, the rhinoceros and other large beasts swarm in meen ests, but the chase after them is by fo means free fron: danger, At the conclusion of the lunt the Prince goes to Bombay, where he will embark for Eogland about tha middie of March. THE DOLA. What the political effect of the visit will be has en- gaged considerable attention, The Ministry have prom- ised great results aud have asked and obtained large; appropriations from Parliameat. No doubt the Prince will be received everywhere he visits with public out~ bursts of welcome, fireworks plenty of lip loyalty; but he will run the risk of a my rer being always neak) him, He must be lavish in his gifts, but the poor wit benefit nothing by the bestowal of presents or the out- lay of money during his trayely. The chiefs are reckoning: upon some addition to their fespiiies, ranging from @ gun or two to the ribbon of the Star of India’ Amon, the masses of the Hindoos these royal visits are n¢ looked upon with favor. When a great prince appears! among them other than on a hostile mission they think, the Dola is to be rev‘sed—one of the most offensive ex- actions of the mogul emperors—when they required! the rajahs to send their fairest daughters to the m-/ perial harem, More than this, the Dola being an insult, Which rouses the Rayport blood to boiling heat, haa) always in the popular belief been considered the pre-' cursor of war and bloodshed. It may be easy to re- move such an impression from the minds of intelligent natives, but with the masses the thing is difficult. The Duke of Edinburgh, in 1870, suffered from this prejudice. It is believed that no formal Durba will be held durit it, as the relative positions of the heir ay eran aud Viceroy could not be easily understood; but. thal Prince will hold private receptions of the nobles of tho, Punjaub, Rajpootana and Ondx, at Lahore, Agra and) Lucknow respectively, Etiquette will prevent tha’ visitor being present at any gathering except those im the Government House. ASSASSINATION OF LORD MAYO. The murder of Lord Mayo, the Viceroy, in iat has} been brought prominently to notice in view of the possible danger to which the Prince ay Seerpoessy during his Eastern journey. In February of the year’ mentioned Lord Mayo visited the Andaman Islands, situate on the east side of the py of Bengal, where a penal settlement had been established for the retention of native convicts, many of whom were of the worst! |. class. Some reports of difficulties and abuses in the! management of this institution had attracted atten- tion and the Viceroy deemed it advisable to visit the place in person. He moyed about almost unguarded’ and without any special precautions in the dark of a) tropical ning close to the huts where convicté, assembled, among native prisoners at large and) attendants closely following his footsteps. This seemed, extremely careless, especially when it was remembered! that the Chief Justice of Bengal had been only a few: months before struck down in open day by an assassin. While Lord Mayo was walking along a wharf Shere All, aconvict, broke through his guards and with a com mon knife stabbed the unfortunate nobleman over the, left shoulder and a second time under the right shoulder: je before any one could interfere. Shere Ali hadi been convicted in 1867 of. the murder of a relative, whom who had, in accordance with the ‘“biood feud,” resolved: Ww kill, and was condemned to death. This was a year’ before Lord Mayo’s arrival in the country. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life, ‘as there was presumption that the actual blow was struck by a comrade.”? Shere Ali when bg i as to his mo- tives for the assassination of the Viceroy said: wi his fate; he had committed the act by ‘order of God.’ ‘Such fanatics it is well known are numerous all over India, and much circumspection will have to be used so as to shield the Prince of Wales from possible asgault at their hands, i THE OYSTER WAR. A RAID UPON NEW XORK OYSTERMEN OFF POINT’ NO-POINT—FIVE BOATS CAPTURED, {From the Bridgeport Farmer, Sept. 22.] The “oyster war’’ upon the invading oystermen from out of the Stato was renewed again this morning by, the seizure of five New York boats, which were dredg- ing off Point-no-Point, The raid was made through, the instrumentality of the Oyster association of this, county, under the immediate direction of Captaim Charles Nash and Mr. Henry Sturdovant of this city, the prosecuting committee of the association, and Mr,! 1. M. Bullock, their attorney. Deputy Sheriffs New- man, of Stamford, and Pike, of Southport, were the | officials engaged in the affair, These parties, with a posse of eight Bridgeport men, took the tug Kate Miller this morning and surprised a fleet of several New York boats off Point-no-Point, The crews of fourt of the boats offered no resistance to the authorities,” aud two of the sherif™ men were placed on board of each to see that they did not escape The boat Henrietta Scott, however, tried to get awa: but after an exciting chase was overhauled off Sout port, and together with the four other boats wag! rought into the harbor and taken above the lower bridge. The captains and crews were brought to the office of Sheriff Lewis, but as it was not designed to’ prosecute them, but the owners of the vessels, they were soon after released. This evening arrangement will be made tor the trial of the cases against tho, owners. Following are tne names of the boats cap-’ tured, their owners and the crews:—Boat Lelie Terry, of Port Washington, L. I; Thomas R. Allen, owner, and James Baker, captain; 'crow, Thomas Fay, George Baker, Thonmias H. Allen 'and Henry Barker’ Boat J. D. Stevenson; Port Washington, L. 1, Isang Hultz, captain; crew, W. Haley, Frank Armatrong, H. K. Hultz; owners, William Post, Now York, and Janes Udell and Thomas Eldon, of Great Neck, L.’L Boat D. W: Smith, owned by 8. D. Smith, of Port Washington, L. 1; H. J, Smith, captain; crew, Robert Smith and Thomas Fox. Boat Three Brothers, of Whitestone, L. 1.; captain and owner, J. Webster;' crew, George Web. stor, Boat Henrietta Scott, of Port Washington owned by Henry Scott; captain, 'W. H. Reynolds; crow Je Reynolds, All these boats will be held to await ‘tho disposition of the prosecutions against their owners, Other New York boats than those ptured were at work around Point-no-Point; but as all could not well be taken charge of ‘at one time, a second raid will probably be made in a day or two. The Oyster Association say they aro” bound to keep up active hostilities ‘until the Intrading oystermen are driven off or their boats are in custody, ‘The fact that under a recent statute no warrant is quired for the seizure of a boat illegally engaged in o tering very much facilitates the carrying on of suc! campaign, as it enables the authorities to act promptly, and effectively. The schooner Henrietta Scott was cap.’ tured off this city about three. yeams ago, and the cagq against hor owner is still pending in the United States District Court of New York, It will Probably go from this tribunal to the United States Supreme Court, whero the questions involved in the oyster controversy will be. by the taxgatherer or some other official in authority over Lim tat it is God’s will that he should contribute Settled. As all the boata were more or less loaded with. ovaters, their cargoes will probably Ye gold by auction.