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JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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Nm XXXVI No, 348
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New York. Thursday, December 14? 1871.
COITEirg OF TO-DAY'S HERALD.
iPAOE.
t?Advertisements.
2?Advertlsemenu:.
8?Washington: Flighty Important Revelations Re
specting the Alabama Claims: Spanish Diplo
matic Intrigues wlili tiie Geneva onlereuce;
The Treaty of Washington in Danger;
Excitement at tne White House and In Cabi
net circles: War with spam Not Improbable;
Arraignment of the Administration's Poller
Toward Cuba?The Eclipse or the Sun: Suc
cessful Observation of the Phenomenon by
the Havana?The Grand Duke.
4?The Prince or Wales: History of Ihe Fever to
the 2d of December; the Party at Lord Londes
borough's and Consequences of the Visit;
Lord Chesterfield's Drain and that of Blegg,
the Groom: the Pnuce's Condition on the
Nineteenth Day?The Crumbling Hanks: The
Rottenness of National Hanks Demonstrated?
Fighting for a Miser's Gold?The Maudlin
Murderer?Destructive Fire in Paterson?The
Ontario (Canada) Legislature?Tbert of Cloth
ing Being sent to the Chicago Sufferers?In
creased Taxation in Tennessee.
5?1Congress: Lively Times in Hoth Houses; Pro
posal to Resurrect the investigating and Re
trenchment Committee; A Breeze In the
Senate; The International on Hie Floor of tbo
House: A Labor and Capital Inquiry Commis
sion Bill Introduced bv Mr. Hoar?John Ware,
the Parricide: No Further Hope of Reprieve;
He Dies To-Morrow?City and County: Attairs
at the Public Departments?Notv fork Re
formers?Toe Council or Reformers?Eieotlon
Frauds checked -The Far est?Stranded on
the Lake.
6?Editorials: Leading Article, "The Geneva Con
ference add Cuban Affairs?Anotnor sensation
at u a^tungton?Are We to Have War With
Spain" Amusement Announcements.
7?Tne prince of Wales' Illness?Russia and Ger
many?Telegrams trom England, France,
Spain and Cuba?Misccllaue us Telegrams?
Personal Intelligence?An Egyptian Horror?
Views of the Pasi?business Nonces.
8?The Doomed Reds: The Commuuist Convicts
Belore Their Execution; What the French
ITess Had to Say ou tlie Subject -counterfeit
ing Continuation of trio Trial of Minor, the
Alleged Counterfeiter?The First Colored Man
Called On to Serve as a Juror in the City of
New York?Harbor ltetorm important Ac
tion of the Shipping Interest ol New fork?
Deadheads?Fatal Oar Crushing Casualty ?Al
leged Cruelty to a Wile?Suicide of a Lady by
Hhootiug.
8? Contagious Diseases: Increase of Smallpox In
the City; Operations or the Vaccinating Corps:
Smallpox in Brooklyn?Another Railroad
Murder?City Mission and Tract Society?An
Ocean steamship short of Coal?Financial and
Commercial Reports?Domestlo and European
Markets?Marriages ana Deaths.
MO?The Whartou Ketchum Trial: Arrival and Ap
peamnoe of the Prisoner lu court: Police
Marshal Fry's Implicating Testimony?L'In
ternationale: The Committee and Governor
Hoffman?New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention?Brooklyn Yacnt club?Shipping
Intelligence?Advertisements,
on the Uroadway Railroad: Up and Down
Town In a Street car: Sketches by ihe Way
and Observations of Horse Railroad Manage
ment?Startling News trom Lower Cali
fornia?Proceedings In the Courts?An Ameri
can College lu China?Advertisements.
12? Adve i Use wen ts.
A Fikld fob tub Republicans?New
Hampshire n xt March.
General Soiiknok, our Minister at London,
lias, it appears from the Washington Chroniclr,
Informed the government of his desire to re
lam home. We may, then, soon expect to
Lear of the retirement of Mr. Fish from the
Btate Department and his appointment as
Minister to England, notwithstanding the gen
feral request of the republican Senators that
lie remain in the Cabinet.
The Condemned Reds.?We print elsewhere
In the Herald this morning additional par
ticulars regarding the conduct of Colonel
jRoseel previous to bis execution. The narra
Jiro, written by himself, of bis "Last Hours,"
Extracts from which we give, is exceedingly
Interesting. It is difficult to think otherwise
Ihao that President Thiers, in the exeoution of
Ihle young, brave, accomplished, though mis
guided, soldier of France, has committed a
J; rave political blunder. Rossel's dying words
Will Uve in the memory of those who think, with
S^errd, that "the time has failed us," and who,
like Crdmleux, would quite as willingly sac
rifice life, and with their dying breath shout
Five la RtpubUqut/" in deflanoe of their
jnecutioners.
A SurjBOT for the Bkitisii Embassy,
t'ERHAPs.? A letter from Fort Benton (No
ember 22) informs us of the capture by United
plates troops of a notorious smuggler and
.Whiskey trader with the Indians. His ranch
^nd some of his goods were destroyed. The
trisoner claims that he was within British
nee. Tbo public will be curious to know
grhat course the British Embassy will lake on
Ibis subject, if it bs referred to It but the
Becislon will probably be that the accused is
)fcn outlaw and not entitled to the protection of
mo/ civilised nation. This would be a good
gray ol disposing of all similar matters, and
thus relieve both the American and British
)go?eraments of the necessity of negotiating
gpoa triflsl jet disturbing, auestioa*
The Genera Coifamn u4 Cuba* Af?
ftin-AaMkw ScuuIm at Wwbi*it?B
Are We te Hare War with *pala t
The Herald's special despatches from Wash
ington this morning bring us information of
another grand and startling sensation at the
national capital. For some months past the
people of the United States hare been flatter
ing themselves with the belief that that worn
out bugbear, the Alabama question, was at last
laid happily at rept, and that nothing remained
to do except to settle in an amicable
manner the amount of damages to be
paid by the British government for the depre
dations committed on American commerce by
English-built privateers during the war of our
Southern rebellion. It now appears to
have been discovered by onr Washington
wiseacres that the British representatives on
the Joint High Commission have out-Yanlceed
the Yankee nation; that they have in every
way got the better of us in the construction of
the Board of Arbitrators created under
the Treaty of Washington, and that a
decision adverse to the position and interests
of the United States will assuredly be the
result of the Geneva Conference. The grounds
upon which these conclusions are based are
stated by our correspondent to be the astound
ing revelations, first, that only two of the five
arbitrators are friends of a republican form of
government; secondly, that two of tbem be
long to the "fallen and degenerate Latin
raoe," and, thirdly, that Lord Chief Jus
tice Cockburn, the representative of Eng
land in the Conference, cannot be sup
posed to be friendly to the interests of
the United States in the matter, influenced
as he will be by the views of his own govern
ment To be sure it may oocur to some per
sons not so profound as your Washington poli
tician that as the Conference is composed of
five members, three of whom are the repre
sentatives of monarchies?the kingdom of
England, the kingdom of Italy and the empire
of Brazil?there is nothing so very startling
after all in the disobvery that only the re
maining two?the representatives of Switzer
land and the United States?are advocates of a
republican form of government. That two
of the arbitrators are of the Latin race may
be a fearful fact to contemplate; but what
will our exoited Congressmen say when they
discover that a third member of the Con
ference, the Lord Chief Justice of England, is
himself on his mother's side, descended from
that "fallen and degenerate" stock? Although
we may be willing to set off the presumed hos
tility of Charles Francis Adams, the American
representative in the Conference, to the Eng
lish view of the Alabama question, against the
supposed hostilities of Lord Chief Justice
Cockburn, the Eaglish representative, to the
American view, we cannot forgive the British
portion of the Joint High Commission for
hoodwinking us into the folly of entrusting to
a majority of the Latin race the decision of a
controversy which has hitherto been all Greek
to most of our people, and especially for foist
ing on to the Conference thiB same Lord Chief
Justice, the son of a St. Domingo French
woman, thus cunningly beading off President
Grant in his' favorite St. Domingo policy.
The upshot of all this, we are told, is to be
the failure of the whole business of the Joint
Iligh Commission, and of its offspring, the
Geneva Conference, and the re-opening of the
Alabama dispute with redoubled bitterness.
This is not the whole, or the most wonderful
portion, of our Washington story. The Spanish
government 1b found to be at the bottom of
these new complications, and, by some mys
terious application of "logio peculiar to Wash
ington, Spain is supposed to favor England's
non-liability for the escape of the Ala
bama, because she desires to hold the
United States responsible for the escape of
Cuban privateers and for the protection
given to the Hornet and the Flor
ida. Armed with these facts, the gallant
Banks, of Massachusetts, on the one side, and,
Sunset Cox, of New York, on the other side,
are to lead off in the House of Representatives
to-day in a terrific crusade against President
Grant and Secretary Fish when the question
of the appropriation of a quarter of a million
of dollars for the expenses of the Geneva
Conference comes np In Committee of the
Whole. Herein, we imagine, lies the secret
of all these startling revelations; for we are
assured by our Washington correspond
ent that the administration is cer
tain to be crushed to powder be
tween the upper and nether millstones of
Cox and Banks. The recent Presidential im
peachment programme of Senator Sumner, on
charges ranging from usurpation of military
powers to the acceptance of a bull-pup from
Sacramento, is said to be but a trifle as com
pared with the ordeal through which the
President will have to pass in the debate over
the blunders of this Geneva Conference busi
ness. He is to be arraigned for suffering the
Joint High Commission to overreach bim on
every point, even to the wording of the
Treaty of Washington, and for leaving
the interests of the United States In
the hands of prejudiced foreigners.
Even the dinners eaten by Secretary Fish in
the company of the Joint High Commissioners
are to be made a cause of complaint, after the
fashion of the attacks upon Reverdy Johnson
for bis sociable feasts with the London bons
vivants, and the second serious attempt to
settle the Alabama controversy by treaty
stands a chance of being sacrificed to a singular
prejudice against dinner-table companionship.
There will bo no attempt to defeat the appro
priation asked for by the administration, but,
if our information be correct, the anti-Grant
combination, While voting the two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for expenses of the Con
ference, will do their best to prove that the
money will be thrown away, and that the whole
thing will end in failure. Indeed, so
wonderful is the prescience of the Washington
politicians that we are not only assured of the
disastrous termination of this arbitration, but
are Informed of the exact time the news of
the result is to reach this country. We are
to receive it in the very midst of the
next Presidential campaign, and its publica
tion is to afford hope to the democraoy
and to drive the last nail Into the political
coffin of President Grant. In this we think
we discover the Jesuitical hand of the "fallen
and degenerate Latin race;" for are not the
democracy mainly of the same religious
faith and of the same family? And is not
this foretold determination of the Geneva
Congress, to burl their unfavorable
decision upon us in the heat of our next
Presidential election, nothing more nor less
than a sobemo to defeat the republican party
and to place a democrat in the White House?
But the Joint High Commission, the Geneva
Conference, the Spanish government and the
Latin race are not to be allowed to have
things all their own way. President Grant,
as the story goes, is bent upon heading off
this cunning plot against his administration
by declaring war against Spain and striking
for the annexation of Cuba to the United
States. There has certainly been some
serious apprehension at Madrid of a hostile
movement on the part of our government, and
the Herald's special despatches have already
announced the excitement created in Spain by
the allusion to Cuban affairs in President
Grant's Message. The action of our present
administration in regard to Cuba has thus tar
been favorable to the Spanish authorities to a
degree that has seriously displeased a majority
of the American people. While the vigilanoe I
of our government has prevented the sailing
of numerous expeditions in favor of the Cuban
patriots, thirty Spanish gunboats built here
and known to be for the use of the Spanish
government against the revolutionists were,
after a brief detention, allowed to go free, and
some flfly thousand stand of arms have been
openly taken from our shores to Havana to aid
the Spanish authorises in their cruel war
against the Cubans. The people of the United
States have protested against this as a violation
of that neutrality which the government pro
fesses to maintain. If a new departure
should now really be taken ,by President Grant
on Cuban affairs, it will add greatly to the
popularity of bis administration. If the
Spanish people are excited over the
President's Message the people of the
whole civilized wo Id are exoited over the
atrocities committed by the Spaniards in
Cuba, which are a disgrace to the civilized
world. No war would be so popular
in the United States as one that
must have for its result the liberation of that
island from the barbarous and brutal rule of a
European monarchy, itself so effete as to be
compelled to put up its tinselled throne
at auction in a foreign market. It
would be a splendid stroke of policy
should General Grant resolvo to enter upon
the next campaign under the banner of Cuban
annexation or Cuban independence. Such
an issue would give life and vigor to
the election and would carry tho
President triumphantly back to the White
House. The folly and intemperance of Spain
may yet reuder a war for this object impera
tive upon the American republic.
Where There Is a Will There Is a
Wat."?The democracy of New Hampshiro
flo not appear to have "seen It."
Ttie Prince of WbIm?Our LattM But
letiu?"A Len Unquiet Maht."
We bare an official bulletin from Sandring
bam, of yesterday's date at ten P. M., which
represents the Prince of Wales as having "a
less unquiet night" than that of the day be
fore which, we think, meanB a hopeful abate
ment of his fever. In his case it may be said
"while there is life there is hojje;" for at
bis age, and considering his physical
strength when attacked by this fever,
the elasticity of his constitution
may stiil save him. His physicians,
very properly, have from the beginning been
cautious and careful in their reports of his
condition?first, in referenoe to bis danger,
until fully convinced of it; and now, in the
apparent change in bis favor, until satisfied
that it justifies the hope of his s^covery. Ten
years ago, on this day, the 14th of
December, Prince Albert, the father of this
young man, died from a violent attack
of the same general charaoter of disease, and
in the event of the death of the son on the
same day of the month as that of the death of
the father, an event which may happen, the
consequences to Queen Victoria may well be
feared. She has never known a happy day
since the death of her husband, and brood
ing ever since npon the uncertainties
of earthly blessings and the mysteries
and sorrows of death, this 14th of December,
In reference to the Prince of Wales, will
doubtless to the Queen be the most anxious,
and, perhaps, the most dreadful and disastrous
day of her whole existenoe. In this view,
whether the Prince is from this attack to live
or to die, we hope that he will at least be
spared through this day, the day which, to his
unhappy mother, is the darkest and most
dreaded of all the days of the year.
A Pbinoelt Gift.?The Grand Duke
Alexis, through Admiral Possiet, has for
warded to William H. Aspiuwall the sum of
five thousand dollars, for distribution among
the poor of New York, "wishiag them to feel
that a visit which has afforded so much plea
sure to him has been the occasion of some
slight relief to them." Mr. Aspinwall has
very judiciously appropriated one thousand
dollars of the imperial gift to the Society for
the Relief of the Destitute Children of Seamen?
a graceful recognition of the profession to
which the Grand Duke belongs. The remain
ing four thousand dollars be has placed at the
disposal of the Society for the Improvement
of the Condition of the Poor of New York.
This liberal aot of our Imperial visitor is well
timed, and is not the least pleasing incident
of his visit as an indication that, in the midst
of the gayety that surrounds him, he does not
overlook the fact that every great city has its
full share of suffering and poverty.
The Insurrection in Cubs is on the wane,
to judge by the Havana despatch which we
publish this morning In another column.
Fifteen thousand Cubans are stated to have
surrendered during last year, and several
prominent leaders but lately in arms have
signed a document which Is rather pro
fuse in expressions of penitence and
promises of future good behavior.
This conversion seems too sudden to
be genuine. The signers of the document
may have been Induced by the Spanish
authorities to cry ptccati, and to indulge in
suoh fulsome assurances of loyalty for the
purpose of obtaining Immunity from prosecu
tion and punishment. But, nevertheless, the
surrender of so many Cubans, coupled with
the publication of their abjuration, will prob
ably have a discouraging effect upon those
remaining In armed opposition against the
Spiolsktulkodtiih
I'onirrM Yesterday The International
Society In the Houne and OS-lal Cor
ruption In the Senate.
The House was engaged yesterday on a
subject of great interest, the debate ou which
will attract attention in ?urope as well as
in this country. The quostion concerned is
that whioh is looming up in giant proportions
on both hemispheres, and threatening the
upheaval of society as at present organized?
the relations between labor and capital. The
proposition which brought this ominous ques
tion before the House was a bill, reported by
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, from the Commit
tee on Education and Labor. It is simple and
innoceat in its character, and yet it brings up
the whole subjeot for discussion and considera
tion. It merely proposes the appointment, by
the President, of three commissioners, whose
duty it shall be to investigate the subject of the
wages and hours of labor, and of the division
of the joint profits of labor and capital be
tween the laborers and the capitalists, and the
social, educational and sanitary condition of
the laboring classes of this country, and how
the same are affected by existing laws regu
lating commerce, finance and currency. It is,
according to Mr. Hoar's statement to the
House, a measure that emanates from the
labor party of Massachusetts, and that has the
approvat and support of the great Interna
tional Society of Workmen in Europe and
America, as expressed through a council of
that body held in London in October last. The
very naino of the International, as the foster
parent of this proposition, invests it with a
prestige and character which its own terms
would fail to lend to it. It drapes
it in the terrible garb of French Com
munism, free love and atheism, and brings
to the imagination the frightful picture of
Paris given over to flames, pillage and mas
sacre. We do not mean to say that the mea
sure itself contains anything which is not
proper, or at loast defensible; but we do
think that it would have occupied a better
position before the country and the world if it
had stood on its own merits and without the
questionable aid and support given to it by
the International. Mr. Hoar even went out
of his way to pronounce something like a
eulogium on the heroism of the young men
and^young women of Paris who went to their
deaths for the principles of the Commune as
cheerfully as ever bridegroom went to the
bridal feast. Perhaps Mr. Hoar is a disciple
of Fourier, or perhaps he is only an aspirant
for tho Presidency, and makes this bid for the
support of that class of the community which,
according to him, is bo powerful in this
country that it may safely apply to
itself the famous expression of the Grand
Monarch, "L'ttatc'exl moi." But, considering
the State which ho represents, the high social
position which he fills and the fact that he has
never been, like his fellow-citizen, Wendell
Phillips, an agitator and doctrinaire, the
speech that he made yesterday and the bill
that he reported and advocated are remark
able, as indicating the readiness of our public
flieu to adapt themselves to every change of
opinion and to seek personal position and
power at whatever risk to the Commonwealth.
It may also be, however, that Mr. Hoar, bo
far from being actuated by any more selfish or
unworthy motive, is simply influenced by the
prognostics of impending dangers and by a
statesmanlike desire to forestall and avert
them. In that view of the case bis bill is
even the more important.
Of course such a measure could not be
launched upon the House without inciting dis
cussion. It bad come up, however, o ily as
the business of the morning hour, and no
longer time could be given for debate. Mr.
Hoar was entitled to the whole hour for him
self, but he yielded portions of it to his col
league, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Shanks, of Indiana,
and Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. The first
immediately set to work to make political
capital out of it by expressing satirical regret
that any opposition should be made to such a
measure by democrats like Mr. Fernando
Wood, who had objected to its being made a
special order, and Mr. Kerr, of Indiana, who
had moved to lay the bill on the table. Mr.
Shanks supported the bill in a lukewarm man
ner, preferring to it one which he had himself
introduced last Monday, to establish a labor
bureau. Mr. Kelley, however, went in
for the measure with all his might
and main, declaring that it was for
the want of just such a thing
that England bad lost her national prestige
and was preparing for herself another revolu
tion that France had seen the fires of the
Commune kindled in Paris, and that Germany
was training her young men in hostility to
Church and throne. People less clairvoyant
than the pig-iron mem ber from Pennsylvania
might be inclined to attribute these national
peculiarities rather to too much than to too
little latitude enjoyed by the working classes;
but then who would think of gainsaying such
an authority Strangely enough, ho seemed
to be impervious to the conviction that the
first and chicfest step in the revolutionary
movement of labor against capital would be
to brush away all his cherished cobwebs of
protection and leavo the iron and coal
of Pennsylvania to take its chances with the
iron of Sweden and the coal of Newcastle.
When the good time comes for which Mr.
Kelley was contending yesterday ws will
hare no more class legislation, and the tariffs
on pig iron and Bessemer steel will be remit
ted among the dreams of things that were.
The democrats had little chance to show
their hand in this matter, but that little was
rather in opposition to the scheme, which they
probably look upon, and with some justifica
tion, as a piece of simple demagoglsm. One
of the Pennsylvania members on that side,
however, did get an opportunity to express
his opinion, and availed himself of it to the
extent of proclaiming his adhesion to the
measure as leading in the direction of a repeal
of the tariff, the internal revenue laws and
the national banking system. He protested
that the democrats were always the peculiar
friends of the working classes, and that the
republicans were in this matter merely steal
ing democratic thunder.
No aotion was taken on the bill, which
went over till the next morning hour, and may
come up again for disoussion to-day. The re
lation of labor to capital is, as we have inti
mated, a very dangerous and delioate subjoot,
and one In whioh legislative interferenoe is apt
to do more injury than good.
The Sonata JtfMMdUuok tM> WWO utavjWfe,
tor day beyond tbeir wont That body bad
quite a lively and animated discussion on the
subject of corruption in office. The debate
was started by the introduction of a resolution,
by Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, tor the ap
pointment of a Committee of Investigation and
Retrenchment, to investigate and report on
such subjects as might be referred to it by the
Senate. To this Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois,
offered an amendment, direoting the committee
to inquire, without further instructions, into
the conduot of affairs in all departments of
the government. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio,
favored the original resolution; and Mr. Wil
son, of Massachusetts, wishing to be "all
things to all men," favored both propositions.
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, opposed the too
general and sweeping effect of Trumbull's
motion, argued that there was no necessity
for it, and, with a magnificent disregard of
public opinion and of the history of the day,
declared that, in respect to official purity, the
administration of the government for the last
three years would compare favorably with
that of George Washington himself. The re
porter does not state that that oratorical
bounce was greeted with ironical laughter or
applause; but surely even the cold formality
of the Senate Chamber could hardly re
sist a demonstration at hearing the past and
present so profanely compared. The great
speech of the day, however, was made by the
Senator from Germany, Carl Schurz, who
supported Trumbull's amendment, referred to
the numerous official defalcations of the last
four months, revived the whole story of the
frauds in the New York Custom House, under
the general order system, insinuated that the
gentleman who is being enriched by this sys
tem of plunder got the position he holds
through a letter of introduction from General
Grant, and keeps up some sort of connection
with the White House, and added that, how
ever that might be, the fact remained that
that same system of robbery was sustained
against the views of the merchants of
New York and against the judgment of
the Secretary of the Treasury. He described
the country as standing on the threshold of a
moral revolution, which bade fair to go even
beyond the overthrow of Tammany Hall,
and declared that if the Senate wished to
serve tbo country and command its confidence
it must show that it hated no party more than
it hated corruption, and that it loved no party
more than it loved good government. These
wero brave words of Master Carl, the only
drawback to them being that they covered as
much personal feeling against the administra
tion as they did high and patriotic motives.
That, at least, was the insinuation of Senator
Conkling, who followed in the debate; and wo
are rather inclined to think that, for once,
Roscoe the Magnificent was not very far
astray. After all this fine speecum.iking no
action was taken, and the matter went over
till the Senate is again in humor to take it up.
Trimming and Evasive?The platform of
the New Hampshire democracy.
Tht Now Hampshire Democracy'?Their
State Convention Yesterdny.
The democracy of New Hampshire held
their State Convection yesterday at Concord.
Some interest has been attached to the pro
ceedings of this Convention outsido the
borders of the State, for the reason that New
Hampshire is the only democratic State within
the boundaries of the six New England States.
The resolutions of the Convention held yes
terday may bo summarized as follows
1. That tho party is pledged to the perpetuity of
the Union.
1 The protection of the right of every cittzen In
accordance with lundamental laws.
8. Opposition to every spee'es of corruption In all
departments of municipal, dtato and national gov
ernment.
4. No privileged classes, no privileged capital
6. In favor of a tariff that raises money for the
necessary expenses or the federal government, not
for the beneQt of monopolists.
The resolutions farther declare that the
establishment of martial law in the South is
unconstitutional and atrocious; advocate
reform in the civil service of the government,
and reaffirm the confidence of tho party in
Governor Weston. Governor Weston has been
renominated.
The above is, in brief, the platform of the
New Hampshire democracy. It is very good
so far as it goes. Bat it fails in an essential
point. It does not declare whether the democ
racy of New Hampshire are In favor of a coali
tion polioy or whether they are not; whether
they look to a passive or "possum" or "polly
wog" platform in the next Democratic National
Convention, or whether they will stiffen their
backbone and declare for a grand national
reform democratic policy which will, at least,
make tho democracy of tho Union respected,
although it may be defeated.
A Full Field fob tiie Republicans in
1872?The entire New England States.
The Augusta (Ga.,) Chronicle announces
tbaf an administration party has been organ
ized in Georgia. What party was Bullock at
the head of, and what party does his succes
sor, Conley, now lead?
Senator Morton's Adjournment Reso
lution.?Mr. Morton has introduced a resolu
tion in the Senate providing for the final
adjournment of this session of Congress
on the third Monday in May next.
We presume that Mr. Morton's idea in this
proposition is to fix a reasonable limit to the
session, in order that the two houses may
work up to it. The anti-Grant republicans
and the democrats, however, are opposed to
fixing a limit to the session, because there is
a prospect in keeping the two houses open,
each as a Presidential debating society, that
"something may turn up" in the distraction
and divisions of the. administration forces to
the disadvantage of General Grant. The
long session of 1859- 60 did as much to bring
about the breaking up of the democratic party
on the slavery question and the election of
Abraham Lincoln as anything else, and, gen
erally, a long session of Congress on tho
threshold of a Presidential contest, works to
the disadvantage of the party In power.
The Mobile Jtegitter, referring to tho
passive democracy, says, "It Is wiser to keep
in the way of fortune and God's blessings."
[t Is about time the democraoy commence^,
jetting In the way of the latter, for tbey hatr'e
been going to the other plaoe so long that they
loera almost to have been forgotten In
That land of pore delight
vymm mui* not auums. aveik
A "?w Inextlacnlahable Storm and DaifW
SUmal Lliht.
It ia with pleasure we oall publlo attention
to this important invention. The perfection of
their signals has long been a study of civilised
nations. From earliest historio periods ws
know of the use made by the rudest people of
the fire signal, which is still employed by our
Western Indians to give warning of an enemy's
approach. But the necessities of commerce
and science, as well as that of war, require
the most reliable and multiform signals.
The invention of whioh we speak was an.
nounced in this country a short time ago, and
might be utilized on our coaBte in the life
boat servioe, which has engaged so much
the attention of the maritime public. This
new signal is a most remarkable devioe, and
was first exhibited in England last April, at
the President's meeting of the Royal Society,
when it attracted great attention. The
peculiarities of the signal light aro
that it is self-igniting when placed
4n the water or thrown into the
sea. Contact with water being the only
means of igniting the lamp, it is inextinguish
able when once kindled, and is not at all
affected by wind or storm. The light is visible
at great distances, and is said to be so bril
liant that photographs may be taken in it, and
yet it is of great duration. Experiments
made before a number of scientific gentlemen
to determine its brilliancy as a signal show
that a lamp plunged in a bucket of water on
the top of Primrose Hill emitted a light so
intense that after the signal had been burning
twenty minutes "small newspaper print could
be distinctly read at a distance of seveuty feet,
though the night was thick and foggy." It
will burn over forty minutes, and can there
fore be used for a great variety of purposes.
In case of shipwreck a few of the lamps
(which are very simple and inexpensive in
their manufacture) can be thrown upon the
sea, and their illumination of the entire soene,
it is claimed, would enable assistance to be
promptly and most efficiently rendered to
those in distress. For the rocket liue apparatus
it is equally valuable, as, bursting into
a brilliant flume on touching the water, it
would indicate the exact position of the rocket
line. As regards its attachment to life buoys,
it would be a mark to a drowning sailor, and iu
lifeboat service it would greatly facilitate the
rescue. Last year we had the horrible lesson
of the Hudson River Railroad disaster to learu.
Such a signal as this is described to be, in the
hands of railroad men might prove available
and of great utility; and it is certainly worth
a trial by our marine, railway and storm-signal
service organizations.
The chemical preparation contained in the
lamp is a hard solid, and non-explosive and
not affected by heat, and the lamp is so made
that when once used it can be entirely thrown
away. A London scientific journal says "the
difficulties of preparing the chemical com
pound have beou entirely overcome by the
contractors for the manufacture of the lamp
for the patentee." A little patient pursuit and
trial of such inventions on the part of officials
responsible for the public safety might an
nually save hundreds of lives.
Tub First Blast for the democracy in 1872
has fl ished in the pan by the ilal platform of
the New Hampshire democracy.
Tlie Czarovltch Alexander and the German
Auibawtador.
According to a despatch which appeared yes
terday in the London Standard, and which we
publish this morning, St. Petersburg has found
a fresh sensation. The Czarevitch Alexander,
the eldest living son of the Emperor, became
involved in a privato dispute with tho Prince
de Reuss, the German Ambassador. Both, it
seems, lost their temper; and the Czarovitch
so far forgot himself as to make a personal as
sault on the Ambassador. As might hare
been expected, the affair has occasioned tre
mendous excitement. It Is feared that conse
quences of a grave character may result. As
the dispute related to private matters, it is not
supposed that the affair will at all interrupt the
friendly relations existing between Russia and
Germany. This is not the first time that the
Romanoffs have revealed a shoulder-hitting
propensity. It will be remembered that many
years ago a similar encounter took place be
tween the Emperor Nicholas and the Count of
Brandenburg. The Prussian government dis
covered that Russia and Austria and Franoe
had agreed to make csrlaiu territorial appro
priations. France was to get the Rhenish
Provinces, Austria was to take Silesia and
Posen was to fall to the lot of Russia. The
Count of Brandenburg, the undo of the pres
ent Rmperor of Germany, w?s hurried off to
St. Petersburg to prevent the execution of tho
plan. The Emperor Nicholas, it is said, waxed
so furious that he struck Count Brandenburg
with violence. The Count was so humiliated
by the affront that, on bis return to Berlin, be
shot himself. Shoulder-hitting seoms to be,
after all, qulto as much a propensity with
princes as with Tammany politicians. It is
not a pretty affair as it stands.
Art in America.?Mr. White's collection of
paintings realized about ninety thousand
dollars. We have here the strongest proof
bow firmly art taste is taking root among us.
That such a large amount of money ahonld be
realized at a time when trade is notoriously
depressed would show how deep is the in
terest taken in art subjects but the most
pleasing feature of this generous patronage was
the excellent judgment displayed by the pur
chasers. Just in proportion to the merit
of the works was tho desire to possess them,
and all the skill of the auctioneer was not suf
ficed to draw the purchasers beyond what they
knew to bo the real value of the paintings.
In a few years more New York will bo as im
portant to the artists of the world as it is to
the merchants, and under the generous
patronage which our citizens extend to ark.
we may reasonably expect to see a natiyW
school developed that will not be unwortby^/f
our future.
Bank Troubles.?The lailure of the'Obeaa
Bank has been followed by the suspebskin of
two small concerns up town, the *Eighth
National and the Union Squars National;
Banks. The latter, after standing airun on It
for two days, was hurriedly thrown Into the
hands of a receiver yosterday afternboa. The
trail of the "Ring" serpent is, Iraq*) mors Qf
jess olsarlr imtU iQiteaoMb