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THE NAVY AGAIN.
yvoDt f a y, r. Horn.
Whon the Monarch dropped her anchor in
Portland harbor alongside the rickety hulks
which, aa the moat available of their class,
the Navy Department Hout to greet her, we
were the flint to cull attention to tho con
trast and to the lcasou which it tuught.
There in no uko in disguiHing the fact that,
M was the Miantonomith to the Monarch, ro
is the navy of the United States to that of
treat Uritaiii. The ratio may be the same
to other maritime powers of the Old World;
for there is now lying oil the Itattery an- iron
clad vesaol of war the child of what is culled
"decrepit Spain" which points the same
moral without the actual contrast. Since our
comments other papers less liable to a cortain
political bias have taken up the theme in a
kindred spirit; and finally Admiral Porter
and Secretary Robeson, hanging their heads
in sorrow, if not in shame (for the fault is
hardly theirs), admit that no word we uttered
is too strong. At the same time we hear that
the British Admiralty does not conceal its
pride in what, in the way of the invigoration
of the navy, it has done, and the desire,
hich will not be frustrated, that Parliament
Khali enable it to do still more. All this
while our parliament, as in its assumed om
nipotence we may describe it, is engagod in
determining, if it can, how many stripes
there bhould be on a paymaster's sleeve, and
what, according to the carpet-bagger's tariff,
is the actual price of a cadotship at Anna
polis. Then there comes to us a sad story from
the olhor side of the globe. The Oneida is
sunk by a collision with a passengor steamer
within two hours after leaving port, in sight
of land a midshipman being apparently in
charge of the deck and nearly all hands are
lost. Far, very far, be it from us to say a
word in disparagement of the vigilance or
seamanship of the gallant men who perished.
We neitker do this, nor, for the Bake of
human nature and especially that form
which never shows itself more nobly than in
rescues from the perils of the deep do we
believe one word of the story that the Bom
bay, knowing the catastrophe and hearing the
guns, hurried brutally away. No English
Bailor does this; and, if he does, our Anglo
phobists hereabouts may be sure he will be
severely punished. We shall not believe it
till it be proved judicially. But still, even
with these clear disavowals, may we not put
the question to those who have now in charge
our naval service Is there not something
painfully significant and worthy of inquiry in
Buoh a catastrophe ?
'! The telegrams tell us that the Oneida had,
in a recent typhoon, lost all her boats (how
many the original number was is not stated)
but three, one of which was destroyed by the
collision leaving but two small boats to save
A hundred and seventy-nine men. But then
the frightful account goes on to say that, the
executive officer having reported the vessel
sinking, Captain Williams' reply was, and
they were his lost words: "I know it; but
what can I do? I asked for more boats, and
they were not allowed me." Asked whom?
Not the admiral on the station, who has no
reserve of boats or timber at his command.
In fact, as every one familiar with the Asiatic
coasts knows, there more than anywhere are
they deficient. To what quarter, then, was
Captain Williams' solicitation for more boats
directed ? It could have been nowhere but
to the Navy Yard at Philadelphia whence,
we believe, he sailed or to the bureau at
Washington which is supposed to have charge
of equipment. No doubt it was the latter.
A heavy responsibility rests somewhere, and
we anxiously await the detailed report of the
survivors as to the original condition of this
ill-fated craft before we and the public de
termine exactly what and where it is.
It is, after all, the saving and the loss of
vessels and of lives which, far more than vic
tory or defeat in battle or blockade, reveal
the character and determine the merit or de
merit of a naval service. This is clearly the
case with the commercial marine. The stupid
wholesale slaughter of 1854, when the little
Vesta crushed her own bows in the side of
the Arctic, and, while tho diminutive assail
ant if we may so term hor was, by wonder
ful seamanship, taken safely into port, her
huge victim, supposed to be well equipped
and manned, was allowed, in a perfectly calm
sea and with five hours for work, to sink to
the bottom, and not a woman or child
escaped when this ocourred, followed so
soon by the unaccountable loss of a consort
ship, the commercial steam marine of our
country received a blow from which it never
entirely recovered. On the other hand stand
out in bold relief the heroic discipline of the
Birkenhead, where some were saved; the
more wonderful and successful heroism of
the Sarah Sands, where all were; and the
proud boast of the Cunord line that, while
its ships have been wrecked, it never has lost
a single life.
Is our naval scrvico the question is asked
neither ungenerously nor unpatrioticolly or
even tho military service as now organized,
duoated up to the standard which such emer
gencies require ? We very much doubt it;
while we do not doubt that none will encoun
ter inevitable death more heroically than
our brave sailors. Captain Luce sunk gal
lantly with the ship ho was incompetent to
pave, and it was a mere miracle by which he
was rescued. Nor, as we shall always con
tend, have the processes of such a war as we
have had improved the professional capability
that is, the seamanship proper of the
navy. Piloting iron tubs up the Tennessee
and Cumberland, and fighting forts or shell
ing baok Beauregard s advance at Pittsburg
lianuing, was all very important and neroio;
but it could have been done just as well by
any brave river navigator who knew how to
handle a piece of artillery as by that sin
gularly expert and accomplished sailor for
such in every sense he was the late
Admiral Foote. So, in a modified form,
at iew Orleans and Mobile and Vioksburg
So with the dull routine of steam blockade.
As an exception to this, and as Bhowing real,
praotical seamanship how to handle a ship
dexterously was what may be described as
the circular movement of the Wabash in the
attack on the Port lloyal forts, the execution
of which we have always beard mainlv attri
bated to a gallant officer still living amongst
us Uaymond ltogera. There was seaman
ship in the Kearsarge, and, let us admit it. in
the roving Alabama too. There was a mar
vellous lack of it when Semmes ran away
from the Brooklyn at the Balize, and escaped
the Iroquois at bt. I nomas, mere was sea
manship in olden times when Hull outma
uoeuvred the British fleet and Stewart at
night captured a double foe. There was
heroism at Copenhagen; but there was
the very genius of seamanship when
Nelson, seeing that where a ship could swing
a ship could float, piloted his fleet inside of
Jha Frenchmen at the Nile. It is this ac
complishment of the profession thin emor- I
gency skill only needed in peaceful times I
when shipwreck is imminent which we fear
is rusting out in our Pervice, and which it will
be well for those having naval education and
discipline in charge to burnish up. The loss
of tho Onoida with nearly all on board brave
fellows, who knew how to die has brought
these thoughts back mournfully to our minds,
while no professional roproaoh oan rest on
the ruemorv of the dead, if the Navy Depart
ment sent them to distant and perilous seas,
as Cnptain Williams with his dying words said
it did, unprovjded with the means of esoape.
What can I do ? I asked lor more boats,
and they were not allowed mo."
THE CLOSE OF Gil ANT'S FIRST YEAll.
From the Hi Y. Tribune.
The quotations of cold, which have been
steadily and rapidly going down during the
past fortnight, fell on Friday till the premium
reached the vicinity of 11 fluctuating the
greater part of the day a few fractions above
that point, but at one time striking a fraction
below it. The quotations of Government
bonds indicated during the day that they were
on the verge of par in gold, most of tho va
rieties being worth bat little loss than gold,
while one vuriety was at a gold promium over
its tace value.
That the day of which we are able to chroni
cle these highly favorable financial facts was
also the day that marks the termination of the
first year of President Grant's administration
of public affairs, is a circumstance which the
country will not lose sight of, and which the
friends of the President will observe with un
feigned joy.
If the fall of the gold promium and the
advance of the national credit afi'eoted only
the Wall street speculators who have been
half-crazed thereby, tho matter would not be
worth much attention. But its relation to all
our business interests and to all classes of our
people to producers and consumers, to
farmers, merchants, mechanics, and laboring
men of every order is of such a nature aa to
make it of the highest consequence. For tho
last eight or nine years the business and labor
of the country have been kept in a stato of
anarchy by the wide and incalculable fluctua
tions in gold and currency. Not only have
values been deranged but our legitimate in
dustries havo been thrown into a confusion
that to many of them was destruction. There
has been no possibility of remedying these
evils until our money system was put in order
until our currency represented a fixed and
determinate value, corresponding to tho
world's standard. It is because we now see a
hope of speedily arriving at this desirable
point that we lind cause of congratulation in
the movements which have lately taken place
in our money market.
We take it of course that these movements
are not in the nature of spasmodic fluctua
tions which may go the other way on any
given day. If they were, they would be of
advantage only to the speculators, and would
continue to work the damage which tho
publo interests have already suffered from
previous fluctuations. But no one who has
observed the course of things will believe
that there is any danger in this direction, or
that there is any more likelihood of gold re
turning to ISO than there is of its returning
to 200. It has not gone down through specu
lative combinations, but through the opera
tion of general causes that are not within the
control of the Gold llootu.
The downward movement of on Friday was
accelerated by the circulation of an ex
hibit of our commercial exchanges, by which
it appeared that the balance of trade against
ub during the second half of the last year was
only about two millions of dollars. Though
we do not mean to accept tho interpretation of
this exhibit that was given by the bear ope
rators in gold though we do not admit that
they took all the eloments of calculation
into account yet its influence in Wall
street indicates one of the great forcos
affecting the gold premium and the publio
credit. We must keep our commercial
exchanges on the safe side. If our imports
are double the value of our exports, we
must moke up the difference by exporting
gold or (which is practically the samo thing)
bonds; and our heavy exports of coin during
past years have been one of the forces ope
rating to the injury of our financial condi
tion. The "street" understands this very
well, as it has shown a hundred times over.
And not to criticise here the exhibit used by
operators on i riday, it remains a fact that
our commercial exchanges are in a better state
at this time than they have been at any time
since the years before the war. In the single
item of cotton, we have an advantage in our
exports greater than we ever bad before; and
it must tell more largely in our favor here
after than it does even at tho present time.
I he things, however, for which tho admin
istration deserves the highest credit in con
nection with the improvement in our finan
cial condition are such as relate to tho carry
ing out of Grant's policy of honesty and re
trenchment. Whon, by his election, the
country and tho world received assurance that
the financial honor of the Government would
be maintained when the policy of ropudia
tion was spurned by the people, and Congress
gave its pledge to support the public credit
by paying the principal and interest of tho
debt in gold the first great steps toward
financial redemption were taken. Whon
Grant announced his brief and simple policy
for remedying tho confusion of our financial
state whon he began to carry out practically
me programme uu nau aunounceu it was evi
dent that we were about to tako a long stride
towards the settlement of our trou
bles. But a years experience of this
policy has gone fur beyond public expectation
To say that the debt has been decreased
during the year of his administration a hun
dred millions of dollars is to represont but a
small part of what bus actnally been achieved.
To say that during the first half of the current
fiscal year the revenues were increased, by
more faithful collection, at the rate of thirty
millions a year over tho previous year, does
not indicate the actual result gained for tho
public Treasury. To say that the expenses of
tho Government have been vastly reduced
and that the interest has been decreased by
the diminution of tho debt, is only to give a
hint of the retrenchment that has been oar
vied out. But those things have told with
immense effect on our financial condition,
and it is to the admirable policy and action
of the administration that we owe the im
provemcnt whiuh is now going on to its con
summation.
A Democratic paper recently took the trou-
ble to attempt to show that neither Grant nor
hiB uolicv deserved any credit for the bright
ening financial outlook. But Grant and his
volicv deserve the very highest credit. Sup
pose he had collected the revenues in the neg
Ueont manner of which we bad so much pre
vioub experience; suppose the debt had been
inoreased, b it was in the latter part of John
son's administration: suppose the wasteful
expenditures of Johnson's time had been con
tinued; suppose we were experimenting with
the greenback theory and the repudiation
fraud does anybody suppose that our bonds
would now be at or near par, or that gold
would be quoted at its present price, or that
our credit would stand where it does abroad ?
To ask the question is to answer it, and to
is to answer
show the absurdity of tho reasoning of the
Democratio organ.
It hi not by the display of any imiiinnse
genius or of any gignntio and mysterious
"plan" that these groat results have boon
wrought. It is by the carrying out of a few
simple principles, the principles of honesty
and economy, whioh President Grant an
nounced ono year ago. There cau be no more
beneficent natural gonitis than is found in the
power to perceive and enforce those princi
ples. And having aided in the election of
Grant, it Gives us pride and joy to be able.
at tho closo of the first year of his adminis
tration, to point the country to the results
that have already been achieved to speak of
the Growth of the national welfare, as Hhown
in the consummation of the peaceful policy of
reconstruction.
AMERICA.
From the Loiuion Saturday Kevieic.
It is perhaps desirable that American
affairs should from time to time attract no
tice in England, even when thoy possess little
immediate interost, for the more important
questions which occasionally arise can only
be understood by the aid of a general fami
liarity with tho state of political parties.
There is no reason to suppose that the singu
larly unfriendly feeling of General Grant's
administration to England is for tho moment
activoly shared by the goncral community;
but Mr. Fish's last proceeding with reference
to tho Alabama controversy is not unworthy
of observation. It may be remembered that
Lord Clarendon had, in a Btndiously concilia
tory spirit, divided into two parts, consisting
of a despatch and a memorandum of tho same
date, his answer to Mr. Fish's extraordinary
invective. In the despatch Lord Clarendon
expressed in courteous terms the wish of his
Government to discover a solution of existing
difficulties, and his regret at the rejection by
the Senate of Mr. Seward's convention. The
accompanying memorandum contained a
detailed and unanswerable refutation
of Mr. Fish's assertions and arguments;
and in conformity with custom, the date and
signature were attached, not to the memo
randum itself, but to a despatch addressed to
Mr. Thornton, in which the memorandum
was enclosed. In accordance with his instruc
tions, Mr. Thornton read both papers to Mr.
Fish, and at bis request furnished him with
copies; yet in transmitting tho correspon
dence to the Senate Mr. Fish omitted the
memorandum, on tho pretext that it was not
signed or dated. Lord Clarendon, who may
ue supposed atter lorty yeais experience to
know something of diplomatic forms, has
explained to Mr. Motley that it was neither
customary nor necessary to sign or dato an
inclosuro when tho covering despatch was
signed and dated; but Mr. Fish is perfectly
consistent with himself in taking 'every op
portunity to offer an aft'ront to tho English
tjovernment, and to render a peaceable settle
ment impossible. As it is evident that Gene
ral Grunt and his Minister have determined
to keep the quarrel open, the only course re
maining to iuuglaud is deliberately to abstain
from further overtures, and to cultivate a
firm resolution to resist menace or acuression.
It is some consolation to reflect that the most
unbounded concessions would have offered
no remedy against periodical outbreaks of tho
chronic animosity which existed long before
the civil war. In some future generation
American ignorance and prejudice may per
haps imperceptibly wear away, as the
ancient antagonism between England and
Franco has disappeared within recent me
mory.
J. he process of reconstruction approaches
completion since the admission of Virginia
to the Union, and in the certainty that the
fifteenth amendment, providing for negro
suffrage, will soon be adopted by the renin
site number of States. The policy which has
been pursued by the late and by the present
Congress has secured the greater number of
Southern votes to the Republican party; but
its ultimate success will be contingent on the
disappointment of Republican expectations,
and on the practical reversal of the system of
reconstruction. At the close of the war it
might perhaps have been possible, by a geno
rouB system of confidence, to reconcile the
population of the defeated States to the re
storation ef the Union; yet it is true that
the victors were morally bound to take steps
for the protection 01 tho negroes against the
oppression which might possibly be practised
by their former masters. Tho Republican
leaders held that tho colored race could only
be secured by the possession of equal fran
chises, and they took the political aptitude of
their clients on trust. In the greater num
ber of the Southern States the negroes have
obtained a temporary supremacy, and
they have returned to Congress Senators and
Representatives belonging in a few in
stances to their own class, but for tho most
part selected from among tho Northern ad
venturers who have settled in the South in
hopes of profit, or for purposes of political
agitation, lucre is reason to believe that
the white citizens of the South are more dis
affected to their rulers than on the eve of the
war, or during its progress. Their chosen
leaders are still in many States excluded from
local und Federal otlioe; and they are gov
erned at home and represented in Congress
by an incompetent and obnoxious class. The
peoplo of Virginia, after complying with all
the harsh conditions of the act of reconstruc
tion, were contumeliously uubjecled to fur
tlier restrictions. The State of Georgia, after
formal admission to Congress, has been once
more remitted to military government, and
the general in command at present sits in
judgment on the validity of elections and the
qualifications of Representatives. Notwith
standing their traditiouul belief that
freemen ought to be governed by
their own consent, Republican legis
lators might be excused for incon
sistency if they would condescend to exercise
a prudent foresight. If the citizens of the
Southern States were likely to submit tamely
to oppression, or if the Federal Government
had the means of overpowering resistance,
it might be excusable to govern a fourth part
of the Union against the wish of all the in
telligent inhabitants. The actual problem to
be Boivod is of a different cbaructer, inas
much as the superior race will inevitably as
sert its natural predominance. The institu
tions of the United States provide no means
of maintaining an artinoial system; and it is
impossible to garrison the South with an army
amounting in the whole to twenty or thirty
inousanu. vine outrages wnicn are perpe
trated against the negroes in some of the
States are in the highest degree crimi
Dal; but they have been in some do
gree provoked by the policy of Congress,
and there is no force by which they
can uo repressed, in xennessoe, where the
rude adventurer Brownlow two or three
years since treated his political opponents as
conquered enemies, the opposite party.
having obtained possession of the State Gov
ernment, is now engagod in retaliation of the
same kind. '1 he landowners of Florida in
vite settlers, who are to pledge themselves to
hold no intercourse with negroes. The citi
zens of New Orleans protest against the cor
ruption and ; violenoe of a Legislature re
turned by a negro majority. As soon aa the
Demoorats, in the natural course of events,
acquire the control of the Federal Govern
ment, the white citizens will almost every,
whore resume tho supremacy of which they
hove been temporarily deprived. A larae
number of voters, having grown up since the
war, are exempt from the disabilities imposed
on their elders; and the sons will resent the
humiliation to whioh the fathers have been
injudiciously subjected.
MARDI GRAS.
From the tTrw Orltaru Republican.
Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday, the day
before Ash Wednesday, is upon us with its
feast oi merriment and good things. The
weather is good, yea, delightful, and every
thing gives goodly promise mat the least
that immediately precedes the fast of our
church people will be a joyful occasion to all
who enter into the festivities with a Christian
spirit. A very large number of persons from
all sections of our country have been attracted
to New Orleans this year to witness the
amusements of this day, and it is to be hoped
nothing will occur to mar the pleasure that
shonld be in store for all. In other countries
the festivities that precede Lent are observed
to a much greater degree than here, many
days being enumerated as days of enjoyment.
In Rome the fast of Lent, which continues 40
days, is preceded by a feast of three days.
called the carnival. This, says an
eminent writer, is tho origin of the present
carnival or Faschings, as it is called in the
south of Germany, and which continues in
that country from the twelfth day to Ash-
Wednesday. The name carnival is derived
from the Latin words earne and tale (accord
ing to Ducango, from the Latin denomination
of the feast in the middle ages, earne cramen),
because, at that time, people took leave of
flesh. Previously to the commencement of
their long abstinence, men devoted them
selves to enjoyment, particularly during the
three lost days of the carnival. The carnival
is nothing but the saturnalia of the Christian
Romans who could not forgot their pagan fes
tivities. At least it greatly resemblos the
saturnalia, which were celebrated annually in
December, with all kinds of mirth, pleasure,
and freedom, in honor of Saturn and the
golden age, when he governed the world, and
to preserve the remembrance of liberty
and equality of men in the youth of the world.
in liome the carnival brought to view, in a
lively manner, the old saturnalia in a new
form. During the lost days of the carnival
and particularly during the day which pre
ceded the long fast, mummeries, plays, tricks,
and freedom of every kind abounded. From
Italy, the modern saturnalia passed to the
other Christian countries of Europe. The
carnival is celebrated in modern times, with
the greatest show and spii it, at Venice and
ltome. In the former placd it begins after
(Jhristmas. lho diversions of it are ehows.
masquerades, the amusements of the place of
St. Mark, and sometimes, in cose of the visit
of the great princes, a regatta or boat race,
After this there was a second carnival at
Venice, the Venetian mass, called also the
festival of the Ascension, and the Bucentaur
festival, because it commonly began on
Ascension day, and because the celebration
of the marriage of the Dogo with tho Adriatio
so a was connected with it. It continued four
teen days. jno charactor masks were worn
there, except Venetian dominos. The carni
val at Rome is occupied mostly in masque
rades and races.
The custom is an ancient and religious one
that belongs to Catholio countries. In former
years, m this city, Mardi Gras, the day that
immediately preceded the inauguration of
Lent, was celebrated in a manner becoming
a Christian people, all classes entering into
its festivities with a proper and becoming
spirit. But for some years previous to the
breaking out of the great Rebellion, the cus
torn had become much abused in this city from
the fact that bad men and women sought to
make it a day of debauchery and crime; and
during the reign of Know-Nothingism the day
was often polluted and disgraced by the acts
of men who, feeling safety in disguise, did
not hesitate to murder those who were politi
cally opposed to them. It is to be hoped
that a better day has again dawned upon New
Ui leans, and that our people will be per
mitted to again enter upon the festivities
of the day and night of Mardi Gras as of old;
that mirth, pleasure, and freedom may reign
supreme for the time in remembrance of the
youth of the world, and of their good feeling
for one another. Let their sack-cloth and
ashes be not rendered necessary to wipe out
crime, but to remind them of the time for
exercising abundantly every Bpeoies of charity
towards those less fortunate than themselves,
A NEW SOUND DUES QUESTION.
From the N. Y. Sun.
A joint resolution recently introduced by
Judge Kelley, and referred to the House
Oommittee on Foreign Relutions, calling
upon the American Government to cause all
unlawful restrictions upon the rights of free
navigation in foreign countries to be removed
through the medium of the diplomatic and
consular officers of the United States, finds a
practical application in the Black Sea and the
straits connecting it with the Mediterranean.
American shipping continues to be hampered
thtre by dues and restrictions, notwitnstand
ing this country was no party to the treaties
neutralizing these great arteries of traffic. A
prominent French journal congratulates the
American Legislature on taking auother step
as important as that which led to the ubolition
of the Sound dues, and declares the joint
resolution in question to be conceived in the
interests of civilization and ot tne untram
melled right of navigation.
Mr. Sseward had already made this ruauer
the subject of a diplomatic correspondence
with the Dowers bordering on the DiacK ea;
and, encouraged by the examplo of the
United States, other nations opened negotia
tions of a Bimilar nature, the result being to
Beeure to vessels the privilege of passing in
and out of the straits leading to the Black
Sea during the nieht. which had been hereto-
fore denied, to the detriment of merchants
and shinowners.
But the present administration having
failed to follow ud Mr. Seward 8 vindication
of the Americnn nrinciple of tho freedom of
the seas, no further progress has beeu made
in that direction. Judge Kelley therefore
introduced hia resolution in order again to
urge the importance of the matter upon the
attention of the Government. It is to be
hoped that nromnt measures will be taken to
deliver commerce and navigation in Eastern
Eurone from restrictions to which this coun
trv shonld not anv longer submit. If foreign
governments choose to make treaties among
themselves, for selfish or politioal purposes
of their own, whioh violate the prinoiple of
free navigation, it is time that they should
be reminded of the incompatibility of suoh
proceedings with the interests of commerce
and civilian! inn. At any rate, it cannot be
expected that the United States, not having
been consnlted about these treaties, will cou
tinne to respect them. In the Hound dues
question our earnent agitation sncceodod in
opening those water to commerce; and a
Bimilar result wiy follow in the present in
stance if Congress and the Executive follow
up tho subject with tho energy whioh it de
serves. PROPHECY AND HISTORY.
From the A. Y. World.
We read at this season in the good book
that "propheciea fail" and "tongues cease,"
but charily never does. Under the new radi
cal disponsation, however, we have a dinerent
rnle, and, while charity is postponed or thrust
aside, prophecies are in full force and wicked
tongues wag. Witness what ocourred the
other day on tho occasion of the negro
"revel" in the Senate. Just before the deed
was consummated, Mr. Cameron, of renn
nylvania (he whom Lincoln turned out of
his Cabinot). rose in his place and solomnly
announced the important historical fact that
when Jetterson Davis, in 1MG1, vaoated ins
Beat in the Senate, he (Cameron) told him
(Davis) that, when next filled, it would be by
a negro. And then Cameron, like anoient
enmeon not isimon, who was by no means
an exemplary character, and had an eye to
the main chance uttered a nunc dimittis,
and announced that, in the induction of a
negro, he "had seen hia salvation." This is
the Cameronian version of fulfilled profthecy,
and very touching and picturesque it is.
The Newark JJauy Advertiser usually a
well-informed and always an intelligent paper
thus describes w hat we take to bo the same
incident:
Ten years aero Mr. Jefferson Davis. 8enator from
the Mate of Mississippi, denerted hia seat In the
H nate to become the President of tho Confederate
States. As he passed out of the chamber he re
marked to Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, that
tug successor would probably dp a negro, i no pro
phecy has become fuilll.rcnt. During all the inter
vening decade no senator has sat from Mlsslxstppl
until yesterday a negro took tne place vacated of
Davis. Tlio event fa ouo of historical Importance."
Here is what lawyers would call a fatal
variance not botween allegata and probata.
but among the jvrobata themselves and it is
very for from our design to reconcile it. We
prefer, for a moment, to speculate on it in
the alternative.
Jefferson Davis, on leaving the Senate, as
every one knows he did, sadly and reluctantly,
looked to the future with that presoienoe of
misery and evil which all patriotio men had,
let the contest-end as It might, lie knew
no one better from his military experience,
not morely as a soldier but as a cabinet
minister, what were the inevitabilities
of war; and however in the heat
of actual conflict, with the light of
occasional victory shining delusively upon
mm, ne may nave cnaiea mmseii, as it were,
into confidence, yet, before the contest began,
he must have felt and did feel that the cause
to which he honestly sacrificed himsolf would
be ultimately a losing one; and then, shaking
hands with Mr. Cameron, as wo believe he
did, he solemnly said: "The price of all the
blood that is about to be shed will bo, not
any great public or national benefit, but
mcrelv that a negro illiterate and brutal
shall be placed in the seat I now resign
This is verified prophecy in one view of the
facts. Mow for the other.
Simon Cameron a pro-slavery Democrat
down to 18"6, when his personal antipathy to
Mr. Buchanan drove him to the support of
Fremont; a rich, prosperous, not an un
amiable man, who in his heart was no senti
mental Abolitionist, and who did not care
half as much for the negro, individually or in
mass, as for the Middletown Bank or the
Northern Central takes a jaunty, exultant
view of the coming strife, and shaking his
farewell finger at the retiring Southron tolls
him that "the penalty of secession will be.
not that slavery shall be abolished, or any
great social or moral or political result ensue,
m . . . . . -
Imt that Southern pride, and especially his
(Mr. Davis'), shall be humbled by putting a
negro in his place." And that done, he
exults 1 For the sake of human nature we
sincerely hope that the Newark story is the
true one, and that Davis, not Cameron, was
the prophet.
1 or our part, we take no stock in the cant
ing sentimentalism that affects to discern the
finger of a special Providence in the fact that
lie vela sits in the seat of Jefferson Davis. A
negro in the Senate of the United States is.
indeed, a phenomenon, but not quite so great
a miracle as was tne speaking oi Balaam s
ass. Without a divine interposition the ass
oould not have had the gift of human utter-
ance in what we presume was good
Hebrew ; but it surely required no
miracle to elect a negro to the Senate
by the aid of bayonets. The machinery
which elected so many carpet-baggers
required no extra oil or new wheel to enable
it to elect Revels, even though he is both a
negro and a carpet-bagger. The stupidest
plantation hand in Mississippi might have
been foisted into the Senate with equal ease
by the some military means. If Revels is
well let alone, he will immediately sink to hia
proper level. The social considera
tion due to his position, and the
social contempt certain to be paid to his
color, will make him sore and uncomfortable
with the annoying contrast between his pre
tensions ana his treatment, it ho receives
any social courtesies, it will be merely to
spite the Democrats, who will most easily
thwart such a design by not dignifying him
with any further notice. After civil govern
ment is restored and the South enjoys free
elections, it is not probable that any more
negroes or any more carpet-baggers will be
t-eiit to Congress; and meanwhile poor Revels,
if he is a man of any sensibility, will sutler,
as any man must in the company of superiors
by w horn he is slighted and despised.
ROOFING.
EADY ROOFIN O.
T his Routine is adapted to all buildinsa. It cam be
applied to
st one half the expense of tin. It ie readily put on old
Dinr.r un r i.a 1 HittirB
rtmugie wools wunout removing tne shingle, tnus avoiu-
the damaging of ceilings snd furniture while under-
1'KKtSh.fiv
iHir. I IV 11 m. niu.(l I
tVK YOUR TIN ROOFS WITH WELTON'S
I am always prepsred to Repair and Paint Roofs at short
ru.Abl lu i"Aii.
notics. A lo. PAINT i'OK BA LK by the barrel or gallon,
the best and cheapest In the market. ,,T-
17 No. 711 N. NINTH Street, above Qua tea.
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TX) OWNERS. ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS.
. AND ROOFERS. Roofs I Yes, yes. Every else and
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are selling their eelebrated paint lor TIN ROOFS, an.
for nreaervina all wood and metala. Also, their solid eoot
ulex roof eovering, the best aver offered to the publio, wits
ornenee, cans, auoseta, etc., tor tne wot a. ow Tirana,
Fire, and Water-proof 1 Light, Tight, Dnrable. Noeraok
Ing, pealing, or shrinking. No paper, gravel, or heat, iood
for all climates. Directions given for work, or food work
men supplied. Uare, promptness, earuunlrl wno snoot
Uaiii uxaminsi dnagei .,
ii.il JOSEPH LEEDS. Primripel,
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Certificate No. lt,0i3. Loan No. 84, deUd November 8,
18K7 4)tl),U0u.
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w p'porta'.ZW whRvW
. ONLY DIRECT LINE to FRANCE
gETS4j2"THE GENERAL TRANSATLANTIC!
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First Oabin 81401 Second Uabin .. . M
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nnneceesary rtake from transit by Kngliah railways and
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. No. W BROADWAY, New York.
For nasaaxra In Phll&jinhik .nni. - ih... u
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tESSE-SSg AND FLOlilDA PORTS i '
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nrBE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS
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