The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-29


Our inside pages to-day cont IN Tie reply Of Mr..
Hanson 70 =" st. Clair," o .acerning Rev. Eeaser i
and the Bour DON guest on; the Spiritual
the ,ther side of the Doughty case;
coroners lnquesP Commercial, Police, Court, and
Theatrical In" 1lngence; Marriages and Deaths; and
over hteer columns of advertisements, relating
70 ousir .ess Of every description.
>ur New York Appointments-The Pist
Thickcns-Trouhlc Ahead!
Our dispatches from Washington Of last night
indicate that the long agony" over our Col
lector is not yet quite over-not quite 1t ap-
pears that Marcy has been making dead stand,
with his colors nailed to the masthead. against
Augustus Schell. Anything but Schell for Col
lector. But. on the other hand, the friends Of
Schell-the city hard shells have just as sternly
insisted on nothing but Schell for Collector.
Thus stands the battle. But movement has
been made for a compromise. Mr.. Ausburn
Brdsall, of Batavia, one of the rural districts"
was yesterday sent in to the Senate as Navy
Agent for this port This appointment, it is
said, was intended as feeler with the hard
sheils-for, be it remembered. that Mr.. Birdsall
is the son-inlaw of Mr.. Dickinson, and that
ought to 90 great way with the hard shells.
We are sorry to say, however, that, accer-
ding to eur advices, this thing won't do.
Mr.. Birdsail we learn, declines to become
a party to any compromise which will
superseSe Mr.. Schell for the Collector
ship. If that is his ground, we can appreciate
the difficulty of any compromise at all between
the Premier and the hard shells; for surely Mr..
Birdsall would not decline the Navy Agency
without the advice and consent of Daniel S.
Dickinson The issue then, is, besegeen Dick
iuscn and Marcy, whether Schell 'shall be or
skall not be Collector.
Mr. Heman J. Redfield is however, named Is
iectorship. he is lawyer, of Batavia, Gene
see county. where be has long resided, and kas
held various offices, among others, we believe,
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas He
entered public life more than thirty years eiace,
and in 1922, was elected one of the four State
Senators FROM the Eighth district, being the
first election held under The constitution of
1922. Silas Wright was one of his col
leagues in the Senate, being elected from
the Fourth district, in 1923. Both Redfeld
and Wright were among the noted " Sc
venteen " Senators who refused to give
the choice of Presidential electors to the people
at the legislative session of 1924. and both Of
these Senators voted to remove De Witt Gin
ton from the Office Of Canal Commissioner. So
unpopular did Mr.. Redfeld become on account
Of these acts that he was burnt in efigy in the
section Of the State which he represented. He
was, however, sustained by Mr.. Van Buren, and
the Albany Regency, SO called. He has been
successful as alawyer. and has an interesting
family. For his second wife he married
daughter of Ephraim Bodies, Esq. of Newark,
New Jersey.
Mr.. Redfeld, we should think, is over sixty
years of age, and has fair talents and good
business habits. In politics he is soft shell
democrat, and is, as he has been for the last
thirty years, political and personal friend of
Secretary Marcy.
We are afraid there is trouble ahead. The
old doctrine of "fair play" is good thing for
politicians; but they will not adhere to it. The
soft shells having got the Premier, everybody
thought that they and he would have cheerfully
consented to give the hard shells the Collector.
And if the hards adhere to that issue, as we be-
lieve they will, Mr.. Redfeld will not harmonic
the family in Tammany Hall. There is very
fair prospect Il row on this question. fSchell
is overslaughed there will be mutiny, rank mu-
tiny, in the coalhole. and trouble in the cabinet,
between this time and the dogdays Squally
times. these
ANOTHER SPANISH OUTRAGE ON AN AMERI
CAN VEssEL.-It would seem either that the
Spanish officials in Cuba are madly determin-
ed to test our patience to the utmost, or that
the officers OF their cruisers must be badly on
for pay and rations, when they resort to the
hazardous but miserable expedient Of stopping
and levying black mail on the American mer-
chant vessels they fall in with. But yesterday
we called attention to the recent outrage on
the schooner Manchester, committed by Span
ish brig of war. To-day we have to add to the
reckoning yet to be settled the following case,
said to have occurred to the brig Broome =
BRIG BRooMR, T. n FULTON, MASTER.
We learn from reliable source that the brig
Broome, of Robbinston, Il. M. Fulton master on her
late passage from Matanzas to New Orleans, deeply
laden with molasses, fell in with Spanish man-of-
war brig, between MatanZas and Havana, which
fired shot across the bow of the B. The colors OF
the Broone were Immediately set, and the vessel
hove to, when the man-ofwar sent boat alongside,
and demanded five dollars for the expense OF the
shot. This the captain OF the b. refused to pay but
after being detained some time, and the Spanish
officer insisting upon his demand, the captain reluc
family handed over the amount.
This took place on the 9Th Of February last. On
the return Of the Broome to Matanzas, the American
Consul, Mr.. Rodney, hearing Of the circumstances,
called on Capt. f. and requested him TO furnish the
Office with written statement of the facts that he
might lay the same before the Captain General; but
Capt. +. being chartered by the year, between this
and New Orleans. declined fearing the Spanish
authorities would be down upon him.
We do not vouch for the truth Of the facts
contained in the foregoing. We do not even