Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-02

Still Another British Consular Antic.-
The last mails from California tell that the
American schooner, whose master and crew
very humanely conveyed the sailors of the
Russian frigate shipwrecked in the earth
quake at Simoda, to Petropaulouski, has actu-
ally been " libelled" at San Francisco, on the
pretence that that act was a violation of our
neutrality lays! 1t cannot be otherwise than
that the proceedings against her were sugges.
ted by the British Consul at San Francisco.
1t is In exact keeping with the antics Bril-
fish officials are cutting up on our Atlantic
side. What matters it that it is as well known
at San Francisco as in New York, that from
twenty to thirty thousand tons of American
shipping have long been engaged in transport
ing troops, arms and munitions Of war to tie
Cfimes, for the allies, when there Is q sem
blance Of an excuse for cutting up such dido?
Now, it is ho infraction of the law of nations
to save, protect, aad transport the shipwreck.
ed Of any nation, at war or at peaee. Indeed,
it is higher Law Of humanity so to do, which
all civilized nations acknowledge, admitting
its superior obligation to that Of any other law
whatever. No nation, having the least claim
to character or position in the earth 3 family
Of nstions, would censure, forbid, or punish
the exercise Of just such hospitality on the
part Of its own subjects, as was proctised by
the master and crew of the American schooner
in question, even though it were extended to
the shipwrecked sailors Of a power with which
they were actually at war.
The New York Democracy The present
anomalous condition of the Democratic party
in New York, is proverbialIy mystery and
problem, eomprehended only by the initiated,
and to all "outsidsrs" scaled book. 1t 10 a.
useless to speculate about the causes of its
present distracted condition, as about those
Of the present panic in the New York stock
market. 1t is matter about which intelli-
gent men differ very widely in opinion As
We are tgaorant precisely what brought each
into its present depressed state, it is quite diff
fcult for % to say what will bring either out.
In relation to the politics of New York We
confess our profound ignorance. So far as the
Democratic party Is concerned, it is enough
for US to know that in its orgslizstiOn it is
friendly to the Administration, harmonious
with the Democratic party Of the Union, and,
beyond and above ali, that it is arraysd in
open and deadly hostility to tho swarthy CO.
horts Of the new Republican organi zation:
and that 1t is the only organization in the
State which can make head against them, and
prevent the consummation Of designs which
can only end in dissolution of the Union.
We confess that, with this end in view. We
are not disposed to look too closely into and to
eriticise too severely the particular mode of
warfare that shall be adopted by those imme-
diately interested-satisfed as we are that o
are not in condition to understand their as.
fairs,'and that those who are sn tie tcar know
altogether better than We can how it should be
conducted. The defeat of the Democratic
ticket in New York il the triumph of Black
Republicanism-its success is the knell of that
dangerous organisation in New York. and
probably IN the Union. Can any Democrat
be Indifferent to this? Can any Democrat be