The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-30
From Our OWN CORRESPONDENCE



New YolsK, FRIDAY night May 70, 1883.
Some of the republican newspapers are exceedingly
wrath that Secretary Cass has ventuc assert that the
British cruisers have MOI right to visit American
sells when and how they please, for the purpose Of
cerunin9 their nationality They exhaust the little
rhetoric at their command and all the argument they
can find and invent, to show that Great Britain is quite
night IN boarding our ships and firing into them ii they
dare TO disregard 1.-THE signal Of the British cruiser,
una 10 prove that visiting American vessel to search
and examine her papers is not assertion Of the right
Of search but perfectly distinct and mcritoous pro-
ceeding .'Io deny the right, says the sapent Eve
ing vessel and inspect her papers is believe the in
venton Of this administration" If it be- the American
people are sincerely glad that they the inventors of
thoroughly dgnifcd and true doctrine and will sup
port them at the lannon's mouth against any in
frngement of their patent But it is na ''new doc
trine- beg the Evening Posts pardon for thus
fatty contIadicting what it undertakes TO say.
1T il, on the contrary, old doctrine and is nothing
but the assertion that the American flag is nyioate If
the armed vessels Of any foreign nation to have the
conceded right to stop at any vessel bearing the
stars and stripes to fire into her II she dsegardcd the sig
nal and to board and examine her other words
to force her to submit to foreign ursdicon be-
of inviolsts flag Does not the foreign Off
Ger who boards American vessel and examines her
papers exercise authority that vessel when he does
so and is not the American master Of the vessel
boarded and examined the subordinate for the time of
the invading officer Can we, Independent
ton claiming the perfect freedom Of the seas submit to
this invasion without sacrifice Of independence and
surrender % boosted freedom the ocean be-
eye that the matter admits of honest controversy
But say the negro worshippng journals .sthe Amcri-
flag is abused and borne by vessels that have no
right to IT, in order to protect their pratcal traffic
in negro slaves and it is to detect the criminals
engaged IN this Illicit trade that the benevolent British
are making such laudable exertions But suppose for
argument sake that the American flag used by slaver;
Is not the crime against the law of the United Statesmen
against that of Great Britain and unless we ask that
rl,nrita and
OF marine constable and thieatcher for what posi-
BILE right she have to insist usurping the functions
Of that authority Here in New York we complain
loudly that fclowcitizens murdered, and their
houses robbed that crime of every degree and class
almost daily committed in our midst and that the
ho of these crimes In very many instances escape de-
lection and go unpublished. Would it be justifabe,
therefore, for Great Britain to send squad of police
men under the command Of Forester the well-known
theftaker and insist permitting them to do for
us what own policemen neglected unable to
dol Secretary Cass may be assured that the American
people, with very few gnoble exceptions think rs he
does and will admit that decks less sacred
and involate than soil Wherever sbt of bunt
ing waves, is to all intents and purposes American
ground, not to be proncd by the foot of invader
with mpunity. N
OF purely local topics the swll-milk and stump tail
beef question is by far the most exciting and generally
interesting Since Frank Leslies first pictorial epo of
the swillsabes, the inhabitants of the cities of New
York and Brooklyn have been all agog and milk and
beef have been Stunned unclcan food. The mayor
and his squad arrested the mk-carers whose modesty
forbade their putting their their CARTS and here
ended his power to stop the sale of poisonous pus instead
of milk The board of health who have power to abate
all nuisances preudicial to the public health talked
about examining the cow-stabes, getting the milk
lyzed and ascertainng the ingredients of which the
sw is composed and, after several days deliberation,
made visit yesterday to several of the stables The
of these establishments for days previous of
the approaching visit Of the high dignres who guard
health made great efforts to make things look pretty
The very bad COWS which could not walk were sent
the slaughter house and became prime beef at LA
cents pound the less nfirm animals struggled
off to pastures less green, and the show
albeit many of them lacked the TAIL peculiarly which
pastoral Hibernian who present ascribed to their
English descentwere regaled with hay and other start
ling goodies in honor Of the health commissioner visit
The result of the visit not, therefore, considered
satisfactory by the public, who think that little
more promptitude and less pompous announcement Of
their visits would have been better calculated to attain
the desired object The vicinity Of slaughter house to
the stables where the Englsh bob-tas are fed and
MIXED has increased the taste for porterhousc and
tender loin steaks, and runp steaks absolutely
stunned @ 49,
The United States steam frgate Wabash left the navy
yard this morning, and anchored at quarantine,
for the Gulf to look out for the Styx Buzzard &c. and
return the visits ii necessary of the gaddng command
ers Of the above-naned British vessels.
Finance, commerce, and trade have been to-day more
than usually dull. Notwithstanding bright sun, and
lwhed Streets Wall street and its outlets where the
tables OF the money changers to be found,
sparsey fequented and caution seemed the order Of the
day. Nominally money cheap, and really album
dant but those who could get it did not want IT, and
those who did want it could not get it, The fancy stocks
have trmbled down considerably. Everything has
fallen except the best State stocks dividend, paying
railroad bonds aud bank shares, which firmly held
At the second board there little panic. The bears
made onslaught, and very successful New York
Central closed ut S2a decline of compared with
yesterdays closing price Erie at 2Os decline Of
Hudson River 2st decline of Ii Reading. 42a de-
cline of ~ ('alena and Chicago Sea decline of IL
Cleveland and Toledo 37-a decline of 81 Chicago and
Rock Island 72aa decline of IL; Michigan Southern,
22 and Mil and Miss, 27A. The tendency is still
downward.
Flour more lively this morning, but lower for
western brands Wheat In better request and unchanged
Corn more abundant and cheaper. Cotton very heavy
and trifie lower. Sugars lower and inactive
The imports of foreign dry goods at New York for the
week and the week last year have been follows
Entered at the port. ------ $s2s, 1896 $685., 0l2
Thrown market. --------- 344,4sl $50, 1872
Since january list
Entered at the port. Al, l9I ,Sll l9,27l,soS
Thrown the market "a, 408, 205 "a 408, 205
The cash transactions at the subtreasury to-day were
as follows
receipts. ,1lJ 80
Payments --.---------------------- ,682 So
balance. -------------------- All, iI3 96