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TOWBOATS.

TOWB0ATS.
NEW ORLEANS TOwBoAT ASSOCIATION.
THE UkDER8T9NED, WISHING TO ESTAB
sh equitable and uniform rate Of rovage and 20 offer
greater facilities ts the shipping entering and leaving this
DOrt, have combined the following Towbosts:
ECLIPSE LINE
Switzerland, Lsviathan. Gladiator and
Perry.
HARRY WRIGHT LIME
Barry Wright and sentinel.
LINE.
Achilles, Thos. n. Morgan, Equator. w
bash, Norman. Republic, Tseumseh
WicacO and Reliance.
number and power Of the above associated Line Of
TOwbosts guarantee that detention will either ~
the bar In this port - -
PETER MARCY, Eclipse Lima
SCHNEIDER ZUBEEBtER,
Harry Wright Lima
EDWARD A YORKE& CO., y Ina
Associated once, s. Car0ndeet street up stars.
j. c. EOROROSS,
CHAS FITzEERfTER.
Leves AgentA
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BALTIMORE
FOB BALTIEoRs AND HAVANA
rHE NEW ORLEANS, BALrIM0 ORE AND HAVANA
REGULAR sEELEOETHLY LINE OF STEAMSHIPS.
LIBERTY. .llOO .Thos. A Balm, Commands
JUBA......... .D6o tens. .Dukehsrt, Commander.
CARRYING UNITED STATES EAILR
FIRST CABIN:
Through Tickets 70 New York. Se0s
EOK BALTIEORB ANB HAVANA,
TOUCHING AT KEY wBsT-Ths splendid fast sssAnshis
Cuba,
DUKEHART. Commander,
VIII her wharf, opp site Jackson Square, WE'D
EBSDAY, July LIST, ct 7 o'clock p.
For freight passage. having unsurpassed aooommodA
tons, apply 10 wTTHERsPOON, HALsEY 4 co., Agents,
70 Carondelet street.
n B-Eo bills OF lsdng but those OF the Company will
signed Permits for freight mus. Be procured from this
once No freight fer Havana taken stsr ~ o'clock on
day Of sailing.
The LIBERTY, Capt. 7. A. Balm. viii follow.
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Smustmtnts, 1T.


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Opers; " n Troyatore." MsE MareJzcs. ooaiHr,'r-
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BRYAvr's NEw MINSTREL HAIIr Iamnany Bmld-
lrr Fomtcerllt. elopte Academy o. hur.-!.,N'
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FupoprAN CIRCUS, Tbirty-lourth-st. and Broad
vay-Ttis Afternoon 90 ari h'ti'B 40 ''o''' 'i
JAM Robinson, Jennie watson. etc
FIFTH WE ART GALLERY.-This Day-tree
Frtpitop of Jerome Ilompsoas Home Sweet Home
Krr,y & LFON's MINSTREL $40. 726 Broadway.
Thi, evening at "a - Orptee Blf.ra" r. NJ Carroll
MINER a. BARKEE's ART GALLERY, No. SO Broad
vsv-Frro Exhibition oi Modern Oh PAINTINGS
NEw-YoRK CIRCUS Fourteeuth-st:-Thi Evening
81 a. Cinlerels.' Display Of Athlete SAL MELVILLE L'seT
Conrads, SC
NEw-YORK TuFATER.-This Evening at S.-"Under
the Gs.Iight" Mrs. Coawsy.J X. Mortimer
NIBIo's GARDEN. 80 This Evening at 5. after
Dafk; or, London by Night
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening at S." Humpty
Dumrty.' g. T. FoE, Mile. ssngalL
PHRENOIOGICAL MUSEUM, No. $50 Broadway
Phrenoogy Phsoog, sud Phyonomy this Dy at u
PIXIES OPERA HOUsE-Ihis Evening at S-"Barbe
Bleue" Mile. De Rosa
PUTNAM's Art GAILERY.-This Day and Evening
Exhibition Of Bierstalts NesuviuS'
SAN FRANCIsCO MINsTRFIs, No $50 Broadway
This Eveung-Ope Bonf" Barber Brown. or the Paco spe'
STFINwAY HML-This Evening at 8.-llumorouS
Lecture Mrs Gruudy." Mr De Corlava.
THEATRE FRANCAIs.-This Evening at d., GGtGI zen
eveye Brahaut" Mile. Marie Desuzas Mile on'ane
WAIIACK's THFATER-Ehis Evening az D. ihc
Lancashire Lass" Mr. j. W. wall OK
WooD's MUSEUM AND METROPOLITAN IHEAIEdK,
broadway Tliruehfti' A0sr Don al :. Hel yr VIC 70
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companies to reform it, simply as reform
could be effected. The Legislature ought to
limit the number of passengers each boat should
be allowed to carry, and impose 4 severe pen
atty for any infracton of the law. II this were
done we should no doubt find the accOmmoda-
tons at some of the ferries insufficient at GER
tain hours of the day, and there would be
necessity for more boats and extra slips. But
the true remedy for all the trouble is the East
River Bridge, and the real crime of the Union
Ferry Company is in preventing its erection, in
order to compel the public to travel by route
which is neither safe nor convenient. This
Company, it is notorious, has got possession OF
a controlling interest in the bridge stock, for
the purpose not of building it but of defeating
the whole scheme. We think that under these
circumstances the less the Company says about
the unavoidable" dangers of ferry navigation
the bettcr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16
QUEST or PLACE.

There is something Of military severity in
the orders which tho President elect is said to
have given 10 his secretary, Gen. Badeau.
| There is no reason why gentleman in Gen,
Grants position should be mcrcilcssly and. it
may be- fatally bored before his time and in
the stringent measures which he has taken to
protect his life, we recognize a kind Of drum
head court martial, which is sometimes the
only remedy for peryading nusances If it
were necessary to save the country that appli-
cations for Office should be instantly cOnsid
cred, regardless of consequences, no doubt Gen.
Badeau would read and write himself into his
grave, and Gen. Grant would cheeriully ponder
himself into the sepulcher. But no such mortal
promptness Is required. Meanwhile il is
proper TO consider the real nature of office
holding-a subject, we need not say, which
will engage the principal attention of the
country for the next four or five months. An
opinion generally prevails which we are in
clincd To consider slightly erroneous. 1t is
thought, whereas certain men are needy and
certain other men are greedy, that govern
ments are instituted for the sole purpose of
clothing the naked and of feeding the hungry.
During the perlls and passions of Prcsiden-
immense number of things which are supposed
To be extremely beneficial TO the country.
They make speeches.. They assist in National,
State, District, County, and Town Conventions.
They carry nominations for this person or that.
They also carry elections for this candidate or
the other. Sometimes they have their heads
broken at the polls sometimes they have their
noses fractured or their eyes blackcned
in primary meetings; sometimes they damage
the heads or the orbs of many warriors upon
the other side sometimes they so neglect
their own for the public business that they
fall into a lamentable insolvency; but as all
these suflcrings are undergone for the benefit
of the country, one does not readily see why,
if they are patriots, their labors should not be
their own exceeding great reward. They all
professed, during the storm of the battle, to
be working solely for the salvation of the
Republic but when the victory has been Won
they bring in their bills. They go to Wash
ington, and they establish themselves upon
the field. They have bushels of recommends
tions in their pockets. They haunt Hobbies.
They pervade vestibules. They button-hole
honorable members. They borrow money in
little sums or in large They are so well
known that Senators and Representatives and
Secretaries bar their doors against them and
flee from their presence. They nre an ac-
knowledged nuisance, and yot they are a
nuisance which it seems impossible TO abate
Is il necessary, this quadrennial scrambling7
The Government unqucstonably wants Col
lector OF Customs i'm New ork, and it also
wants Postmaster in Baldwinsyille. Now
the main point is not the eminent services Of
some NOW Yorker. OF the distinguished sa.ier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16
TIE HOVL1ND WILL CASE.

The decision Of the United States Circuit
Court in Boston in the celebrated Rowland
will case will disappoint great many persons
who expected it to settle one of the most
curious and interesting points of evidence ever
brought before an American bench. Miss Syl-
via Ann Rowland of New Bedford died in 1865,
leaving property valued at about $22OO,OOO. and
n will in which she bequeathed half of it to her
niece, Miss Hctty Robinson (now Mrs. Edward
II. Grecn), and the other half to various friends,
servants and public charities. Miss Robinson
thereupon produced an earlier will, under which
she would have obtained the whole estate, and
demanded that the later one should be set aside,
on the ground that 10 was IN violation OF a
contract entered into between herself and her
aunt. BY this contract, Miss Rowland and Miss
Robinson, it was avcrrcd. had made a mutual
agreement touching their respective wills, the
aunt to leave all her property to the niece, ana
the niece all her own amounting to several
hundred thousand doas) to her heirs, or fail
ing heirs, to public charities The object of
this bargain was to keep all the money of both
ladies' out Of the hands OF Miss RObnsOn's
father. The suit was brought IN the form of a
complaint by Miss Robinson against the resi-
duary lcgatecs; and tho answer of the respond
EMS was, first, that no such contract as she al
alleged had ever been made; and secondly
that material part of the will which she pro-
duccd was forgery.
II was upon this second point that the prn-
cipal interest OF tie trial depended, the argu-
mcnt of the respondents being not that the
signature to the page Of the viii in question
\ / Inf itpt V.ug
marvellously ike the signature to the other
page to have been produced in any other way
than forgery by tracng The evidence on this
question was exhaustive. The signatures were
indeed shown TO be precisely alike, and not
only were all the best known experts ex-
amncd az 20 the uuprccedcntednesS OF such n
resemblance, but a most interesting exposi-
ton of tie theory OF probabilities was OBJ
tanned from distinguished Mathematician
a rare instance of the application of the
higher mathematics TO tie proceedings Of
courts of law. The Court has taken year
to determine the case, aud now decides that
there was no contract such "A Miss Robinson
AYERS, and her complaint consequently falls TO
the ground, forgery or no forgery. The second
part of the respondents answer is conse-
qucn'ly passed over, and the commences Of
the disputed document is left unsettled.
Apart from the peculiaritics which we have
mentioned, the case has also attracted "A great
deal of notice on account Of the wealth aud
eccentric habits OF the complainant. Having a
large fortune of her own, aud over 100000
from the admitted will OF her aunt, and being
married 20 n gentleman whose fortune is said
to be $jCOO,OO0 or $G,COO,OOO, she is in no i'm
mediate danger of starvation and AL accounts
agree that she is not likely 10 waste any of
the millions that the Circuit Court has left her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The United States of Colombia are once
more in the midst of civil war The Con-
federation at present consists of nine States
Of which three are in the hands of the Con-
servatives, and the others, as we'll as the
Federal Government, in the hands of Liberals
In July an election took place In the State of
Panama, and 1t appeared to result in a victory
Of the Conservatives, when the Liberals, by
an instruction for which not even decent
pretext could be adduced, made themselves
masters of the Government. The Liberals Of
Panama, by their lawless conduct, have made
themselves odious TO all true Liberals in
foreign countries and by their heavy demands
upon the foreign residents have provoked an
emphatic protest on the part of the foreign
Consuls. The Conservatives in the other parts
Of the Republic seem TO have been induced,
by this laWleas act Of their opponents in
Panama, 70 attempt a similar revolution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The State of Mississippi alone among the
States which have voted on their respective
Constitutions framed under the Reconstruction
acts Of Congress, gave a majority Of votes
against ratifying the instrument. But it i5
reported that recount of the votes has just
been made by the proper authority, and that
it now appears that a majority of the
legal votes cast were IN JdrOr of ratify-
ing: so the State will soon be freed from
Military rule and restored to self-govern-
ment and to representation in Congress. In
fact, we presume that the defeat Of Seymour
and Blair has rendered it no longer desirable,
in the eyes of her former aristocracy, that she
should remain out of the Union: so we judge
that she is coming in 10y general acqucscence
if not by the affirmative and hearty action Of
those who 50 stoutly dssented when the vote
was taken.
Virginia and Texas are all that remain
sullen, and their new Constitutions are COM
pleted and ready to be voted on. We hope to
see every State sclf-gOyerned and represented
in Congress at furthest by the day on which
Gen. Grants first Message as President is sent
in to the two Houses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The Charleston 6. c. charter election took
place on Wednesday last The excitement ran
very high, and when the counting of the votes
was completed, which was not till the following
day, it bad mounted to n dangerous pitch. Inc
result was in favor of the Republican candidate
Pillsbury, by majority of 10 in a poll OF 10000
The defeated Democracy, of course, at once
resolved to contest so slight a majority, and
action was taken in the Courts. To-day we
have a dispatch from the Associated Press
agent, saying that the Republicans propose to
"instau their Mayor by force" 1t Is clear
that the Rebel Democracy are working them
selves ND for riotous outbreak against the
lawfully elected government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

We have neither room nor taste for the new
controversy now raging as To the authorship
of the spirited verses improperly designated
THE Planting Lie We can only say that
we have ever understood and believed that
they were written by the late Gen. Charles G.
IIalpine. Mr. VIM. GLAND Bourne--who now
claims the authorship us with copy
of note which he says he wrote us duung
Gen. IIalpine's life (Feb. %, 1864, distinctly
making such claim. We can only say that we
have no recollection of receiving any such note
and did not know, up to last month, that Mr.,
b. claimed the authorship of those verses If
he be indeed the author, then Gen. Halpine
lived aud died under halucnation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

We have been asked to publish call for a
National Convention Of Union men, 10 meet
in Washington City, Dee 9th, then and there
to consider what legislative or other action
is needed to protect the lives, liberty, and
property, of loyal citizens in the late Rebel
States.
We decline TO print the call because it il
not responsibly signed. and because we trust
no such Convention is required. The better
part of those at the South who supported
Seymour and Blair in our late struggle seem
now desirous TO unite in efforts TO secure
Peace and Prosperity 10 the South and to the
whole country. We trust those efforts, heartily
seconded by those Of Gen. Grant and his sup
porters, will prevail. AT all events, let Us
wait and note carefully the effect produced at
the South by Gen. Grants election. Congress
will need no prompting TO do what is right
Let US not provoke further turbulence and
outrage by needessly anticipating them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

Count Won der Goltz, for many years Prus-
sian Embassador in Paris, Is regarded as one
of the abest PrlsSian statesmen, and has
sometimes been pointed ont as the probable
successor of Count Bismarck, if the latter from
failing health, or some other cause, should
resign the Premiership. An incurable disease
of the eyes, from which Count Won der Gotz has
long and severely suffered, has now led him to
resign. lie is followed by the Baron Won
Werther, hitherto Prussian ambassador IN
Vienna. In the war OF 1866, the Count Won der
Goltz and the Baron Won Nerthcr held at the
Courts of Paris and Vienna positions of great
responsibility, but both discharged their duties
to the entire satisfaction Of their Governments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The choice Of Speaker for the new Assembly
of our State is already canyassed with interest.
Among the names of members suggested for
this post we find that Of M ). II. SELNRLc
of Tompllins County, who voted last Winter
against the infamous City and County Tax
Levics whereby the Taxpayers of this Empo-
rum were swindled out Of not less than Five
Millions of Dollars, whcrewith the State was
sNindled out of her vote for Grant and Coltax,
aud a tool of the Tammany Ring swindled into
the Chair which has been hOnored by the oc-
cupancy of John Jay, George Clinton, Daniel
d. Tompkins and their Illustrions Successors
Unless some competitor shall exhibit record
equally clear, We hope MI Sclkrcg may be
Snn1ker
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16
THE NATURALIZATION PROBLEM

To The Editor or The rribune.
SIR: The late elections have demonstrated to
all honest men that there must DO radical change made
by Congress In Naturalization laws, or our elections
this great ana increasing evil il TO require residence OF
two years by the voter after naturalization; dispense
with the first papers and give him ful citizenship nc tho
end three years residence in country ortwo You
please land that shoud prefer In this way you at
once dispose OF all Copperhead committees just before
election hunting the hedges and bitches to nd men to
the papers made 20 order and two years probation
longer credit than any o. these climbs or Tanmany poll
tlcians will be willing 20 give. HAWKINS TAILOR.
A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

A correspondent Informs us that the late
Democratic Legislature of Ohio having enacted
that no device of any kind should be printed
on the understanding but the bare names of
candidates and the offices for which they were
supported-and the Democrats of Monroe
County having headed their ballots "The
white Mans Government the State Can
vassers have been constrained to reject them
ALL returning the Republican candidates as
elected in that Democratic stronghold
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The pcrplexity with which the contradictory
news from London has surrounded the ques-
tjon of our disputes with England gets an
additional ENHANCEMENT this morning, IN
dispatch from Washington announcing that
Great Britain has relinquished her claim to
tbe island of San Juan. This is gratifying
if true ; but the San Juan question, Tile London
Times assured us in its account of the negotla-
tions between Lord Stanley and Mr.. Reyerdy
johnson, was to be referred to the arbitration
Of Switzerland. The Times, however, Is not
good authority, and our Washington CORE
spondent is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16
TIE FERRY ACCIDENT


While the corOner'5 inquest is in progress, it
is hardly worth while to speculate much upon
the cause of the shocking accident at the Full
ton Ferry on Saturday morning; although wo
may say that none of the reasons assigned by
the employees of the Company to show that
nobody on either of the boats was to blame
are likely to satisfy tho public We have very
little doubt that the disaster was caused sim
ply by bad pilotage, the boat having too great
Roadway when she entered the slip but this
is point which the inquest, if it is as search
ing "a it should be. ought to clear up,
and ii the man at the wheel prove
TO have been careless, we beg he
may bo severely dealt with. The disaster has
its lesson, however, not only for pilots and
ferry companies but for ourselves. 1t illus
trates tho danger of the ridiculous habit in
which nne-tenths of the male passengers in
dulge, of crowding TO tho forward end of the
boat, in the halluclnaton, we suppose, that by
30 doing they are making progress in their
journey. For the sake of getting ashore, say
thirty seconds sooner, they are content to leopard
life and lirb They will risk the loss of leg
sooner than the loss of an omnibus. Tie
ferry companies might in measure prevent
this by suitable regulations and gates and
chains Oh the boat but 1t could be prevented
altogether by the exercise OF little common
sense on the part of the public
The abuse of ovel-crowding is a very gross
one. but We entirely despair VI Inducing Lhe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

Mr.. Reverdy Johnson has written an extra,
ordinary letter TO the agents of Texas Land
and Fmioyotion Company in London, giving
Texas a frst-class recommendation "' !! 70
full and orderly State, and delendins n.S
friends the Rebels from the charge %
ontrages and murders which we all know 10 po
rife there, but which Mr.. johnson has the
offroptery to deny ont and out. We are gl'u
70 perceive that The Daily Ners has very
neatly and respectfully snubbed him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

Tie Sunday NercuB-the most impudent OF
the rascally journals which infeSt and infect
our City groggerics-thus attempts to brazen
ont the yllainies whereby the vote Of Our State
WAS stolen from Grant and Colf,N
TIE GRAND JpRY AND TIVE RADICAL BALLorSrUUERs:
1T g. admitted by every Impartial hat the Il-' or
suhruge this cIi and elsewhere converted info
udtcrous election by the Radical bal
ot stufs who had charge ~ the po eud tile host Of
rcpcatcrs who ready 60 swamp any Democratic
majority by continuous voting In ordcrt0 divert public
coucoCt ina inary rluds ln naturalization an % which
ended smoke. Now, however, there - brilliant
opportunity for Grand Jury o The people impanncied
In Judge Bnruards Court, 90 make rigd examination ot
the Of every Radical bal0tsulrr od rcncatcr and
20 present them Tor speedy trial While they
are engaged In tins work. the LOyaiiNagucrs
who have rIlscd money tO ufucacc tie
elections should claim nrge amount OF their COusdera
for their action involves outrage all the
qulrcmcH o law ald dcccncy Tiny should be indicted
forthwith and arrested: aud their boil should be- made
sufficiently high 20 prevent the possibility ~ their escape
Is conng aud they have been seized with panic caused
by the apprehension that they he the inmates
OF a ail. Let them not be disappointed The doors Of
the Prison have been left by the repcatcrs
doned by Fcnt0n and they avian their presence.
Their pturc and imprisonment would be of more prlc
the ballot which the peace and prosperity or tho Re
public rest than the incarceration OF army Of burgars
There are rather more lies than lines in
the above paragraph; yet we hail it IA In
intimation that the bllot-stuileis mean to show
fight They shall have their fill of it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

The latest news from the seat of war in Para
quay is favorable to the Paraguayans. Presi-
dent Lopez claims to have gained decided
victory over the Allies, and Brazilian accounts
admit that bis present position is considered to
ha unaseailahla
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

met and treated with this year are keeping
faith and have gone or are on their way to the
reservations provided for them. The war ut
present existing is with some 5000 Indians
whom the Government has disappointed IN not
fulfilling The treaties made last year. Cot zap
pan believes more firmly than ever That a poi-
icy of kindness, justice, and inyiolate In'"
on the part of the Government win do away
with all Indian wars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-16

Cen. Prim has addressed a circular 10 the
Captain Generals of the Spanish Provinces.
stating that an increase of troops in the Prov
inces for which several Of the Captain Gener-
ais had asked was beyond the resources Of the
country. Gen. Prim acts wisely in expressing
30 great confidence in the public opinion, for
If public opinion is not strong enough to support
the new order Of things bayonets will avail
uotbn0