The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1860, Page 6

—— Var 6 helt ~~ rere / ee See x! covered that the Commisriorom have heen appoint: | YORK HERAL * | ing several leading politicians during the past four | ee rT, | Weeks, at the request of Thurlow Weed; anong aMES GORD ON BENN’ them Seth C. Haley, anex-member of Congress * | ‘DITOR AND PRIETROPOB from the Western part of the State. His duties are | — ‘> ruLrox srs, ‘at of a clerk; but though having been appointed for | ens’ W. CORNER OF NASSAF_ over four weeks, he bas never as yet been at his nn by manll seit be at the cash in advance. Mone received as suberription ‘sender. Postage stam mate 3 P *sooogh 1 every tutta 0k es conte | nd he soe port af root Driv A ag “thE Include ponages the £55 to ong party) © Sih and B00h of each month af ws Penis are LD on Wednesday, at four cents per UP CORK ESPONDENCE, quarter of the \y at taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not | gated communications, ¥ [ENTS renewed every cay; in | @ the Waesty Henao, Fasiy » and in the Editions. Sige a as ce nn .- No. 174 Volume XXV.... GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapv oF ‘amnmine—La Cartere Aflernoom BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Avvocare—Gow Suzx- | @ns—Roszat Micaizz—To Osuice Benson. NTRLO’S vas Lace | Orananie V. end Kvening. ‘WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bood street.— Ow PLantation. en Lal | KEENE’S THEA’ No. 6% Broadway.—Gov- Juranen Runaser. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Honsesnon Ros- @on—Forruxio—New Youx in 1860. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day and Breaing—Ovr Orn House at Home—Living CustositiEs, £0. NTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 73 Bronaway. Bee ANEY denen, Dancte ho. Wen Gows Fou Tas Hits, NIBLO’B SALOON ge. Boxes, Daxces, TEMPLE OF MAGIC, 441 Kroadway.—Prormsson Jacons. Brosdway.—Gno, Ouxutr’s Min- “Beuuesates, bo—JAraxnae RATIONAL UONUERT SALOON, National Theatre — Bones, D. Ac. amoes, Bunisngu ms, Ac. e CORNER OF THIRTEENTH STKERT AND FOURTH a "R.—Cairouxta Man agrnie. TRIPLE SHEET. | The News. ‘The news from Baltimore is the absorbing topic of the day. The proceedings of the National Con- vention yesterday are easily recapitulated. The majority report, admitting the bogus Southern | Douglas delegations, was adopted, and the South- ern States, led by Virginia and followed by Califor- | and America by the way of Greenland and Icelaad. | tions of the Excise law. post. The United States mail steamer Pocahontas, from Vera Cruz 16th inst., has arrived at New Or- leans, with important despatches for the govern- | ment. She brings no news of importance from Mexico. Mr. 0. 8. Wood, one of the oldest end most ac- complished telegraphers in the country, and who for several years has had the management of the Canadian lines of telegraph, went to Europe seve- ral months ago on business connected with hia pro- fession. During his sojourn in London, Mr. W. made many inquiries touching the prospects of the newly projected telegraph line between England ‘The results of these inquiries he sums up in the subjoined, extracted from one of his letters to a friend in this country:—''They (the new com- pany) will accomplish nothing except making surveys. We shall never see Europe and America | connected by telegraph via Greenland and Iceland. The more inquiries [ make the better am I satisfied | that we will soon bavea direct line working suc- cessfully across the Atlantic, and I hope that you may live many years after its accomplishment.” Mr. Wood strongly deprecates the difficulty which has recently sprung up between the Press of the United States and the American Telegraph Com- pany, in consequence of the extortionary measures of the latter, and predicts that the inevitable result of the quarrel will be the establishment of rival lines throughout the country. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday after- noon, and granted eleven thirty dollar licenses, Mr. Haskett informs us of his intention, as Presi- dent of the Board, to invite the Japanese Embassy, now the illustrious guests of the city, to attend one of the mectings of the Board aud behold the opera- He will also furnish them with statistical information of the amount of the | various descriptions of intoxicating liquors mana- factured in this country, the amount exported and imported, together with the leading historical facta of the manufacture and effects of liquors, and other information on the subject of a varied and interest- ing description. The Grand Jury submitted two presentments in the General Sessions yesterday, which will be found in our report of the proceedings of the court, | The first attributes the prevalence of crime and pauperiam to the liquor traffic, and denounces the proprictors of Sunday theatres in unmeasured terms. The other paper alludes to an alleged abuse in the administration of the militia laws. nia and Oregon, bolted. The seceders will go on with their Convention at Richmond, while Douglas will be nominated at Baltimore. ‘There is no doubt from present appearances but that there will be six candidates for the Presidency fevthe coming contest, more by one, we believe, than ever before publicly aspired to that distin- guished station in the same campaign. Before the middle of next week we shall have:— Black republican .. «++. Abraham Lineoin, of Tl. Northern democrac Stephen A. Douglas, of Ill. ‘Sam Houston, of Texas. john Beil, of Tenn, errit Sunith, of N. ¥. Mr. Smith was nominated by an Anti-Slavery Charles P. Thompson, who was convicted on Wed- nesday of , Was sent to the State prison for three wag (4 culars of this interesting case be found here. The Baltimore Convention—Terrific Ex- Plosion of the Democratic Party. The train has been fired, and this time the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes has blown the Parliament into a mass of ruins. We refer our readers to our copious reports of the intensely interesting, exciting and revolutionary pro- ceedings of yesterday in the Baltimore Conven- tion. Dean Richmond, with his cunning devices Convention held » few weeks since in Boston, and | concocted a year ago to control the Conven- he will, doubtless, be endorsed by the grand pow- tion, has thus come to the ground. His thirty- wow which is to take place over the grave of Old | five votes, secured from his packed convention John Brown, st North Elba, on the Fourth of July | at Syracuse last September, have done the busl- next. In Congress yesterday the Senate adopted a reao- lution providing that the Secretary of the Interior, instead of the Superintendent of Printing, shall con- tract for the erection or purchase of a building for ness. Had the Wood delegation, or even half of it, representing the national democracy of New York, been admitted at Charleston, a less violent death to the party might have been & government printing office. The Post Route bill | achieved. Treacherously giving it out at Wash- was discussed, and laid aside, and the House bill ington, in advance of the Convention, that they = thus foreshadowed in our po litieal parties. and our whole political system The adherents of Mr. Douglas have professed asacred devotion to the democratic party, s# only party competent to save*the Union. ) party which, from its intestine quarrels over the federal offices and spoils. has become incompetent to save itself, may be dismissed and whistled down the wind without fear and without remorse, We are not prepared to sound the tocsin of disunion with the dissolu tion of such a party, We have some faith iv the good sense of the American people. Lin coin may be our next President; the wise, pru dent and patriotic administration of Mr. Bucha nan may be followed by @ republican adminis- tration. We anticipate, however, that s month or two of such an administration will result in the organization of a new party fully equal to the duty of saving the Union four years longer, in a bold, united and irresistible movement for a new division of the spoils. Our Trade with China—What is Required ; of Us in the Pending Wer. Now that the ficets and armies of England and France are on their way to China, to re- trieve by force of arms the disasters of the Peiho and the mistakes of their diplomacy, it becomes us to consider what is the condition of our merchants there, and what is the protec- tion we are affording them. During the past few years our trade with China has resuscitated, and is at this moment exhibiting an increase wonderful to behold. The following table, drawn from the annual re- ports of the Secretary of the Treasury, on com- merce and navigation, exhibits the average an- nual imports and exports of this trade for each decade from 1821 to 1850, and for each quin quenium from 1850 to 1860, ending on the 30th of June each year:— sar WITH CHINA. Exports. 3,674,519 1,274,902 1,765,003 2,305,093 4,4 479 9,000 ,0u0 This table presents matter for deep refleotion upon the influences that cause the prosperity or decay of forvign commerce, but we have space only to tough upon a few of the most prominent ones. It will be observed that, while the imperts from China varied but little during a period of thirty years to 1850, the exports to that country present a remarkable fluctuation. The cause of this fluctuation may be found in our own fluctuating system of tariff duties. Domestic goods form our staple of export in this trade, and the protective tariif era, which began with the decade of 1830-’40, marks the decline of export, consequent on factitiously enhanced prices of cost at home. We thus lost a large portion of our old export trade to China, which we did not begin to recover until 1857, when the new treaties began to exhibit their effects. The exports of 1859 show a total of $7,127,199, of which $4,233,016 were articles of domestic, nd $2,894,183 of foreign produc- tion. The export trade of the present closing year exhibits a large increase over that of the previous one, and we believe that our estimate of $9,000,000 will be under rather than over the fact. At the past rate of increase our mer- chante will eoon be free from the effects of a supposed adverse balance of trade, which, how- ever, we do not believe exists now, as we have a large indirect trade with that country, car- ried on from other parts of the world. ‘Wiw wus vast and rapiary growing trade, its +: 6,619,322 . 6,392,073 9,967,372 E 23, 1860.—1RIPLE The retification of the Mexican treaty moaths ago would have liberated three or four of our ships from Vera Cruz, and an energetic attitude in ovr pending questions with Spain, Peru and Chile would have left the waters of Cubs, Afri- ca, and the South Pacific, in as little need of American ships-of-war as are those of the Bri- tish Channel and the Rio de la Plata. The country wants @ revolution in Congress, the Navy Department, and the conduct of our for- eign policy, and less spending of the public time and money in political intrigue and fac- tious quarrels for office. We commend the in- terests of our commerce in the Chinese seas to the attention of the government, before a mas- sacre of our countrymen there shall involve us in the toils of Eastern diplomacy, and perbaps & China war. Opening of the Fashionable Scason—A Few Mere Remarks to Boniface. We publish this morning the first general in- voice of watering place correspondence, cou- pled with a general topographical account of the Virginia Springs, which latter document will'be found to contain some valuable informa- tion for invalids who intend to test the proper- ties of the Old Dominion’s healing waters. ‘ Our correspondents at Niagara, the White | Mountains, and elsewhere, tell, it will be seen, | the same old story. Nothing could be more desirable than the attractions which nature bas given to our summer resorts; nothing could be more detestable than the petty annoyances and small ewindles to which visiters are subjected. For example, what can be more absurdly an- noying than the practice prevalent at Niagara of dogging the footsteps of strangers, and meet- ing them at every conceivable point with de- mands for small sums of money. While some enthusiastic lover of the beautiful is standing by Table Rock for the first time, and, as he sees the mighty torrent sweeping over, almost under his feet, is thrilled with wonder and awe, how provoking to be aroused from the delicious dream by a request for the eternal quarter. We would not be at all surprised if the people of Niagara village should be found at the end of all things standing in the midst of the “ wreck of matter and the crush of worlds,” and demanding their quarters for views of the awful spectacle. We cannot perceive, either by our corres- pondence or from the tocal papers, that there is any desire on the part of the landlords to make the hotels any better than before. There may be a aingle exception to make in the case of Newport, where @ New York landlord who ¢an keep a hotel—we refer to Mr. Kerner, of the Clarendon here and the Ocean House at New- port—has stirred up the old fogies wonderfully. The new proprietor of the Atlantic House promises to carry out our idea, and if he does will find his account io it, as Mr. Kerner has. We intend to try to make the hotel keepers, particularly along the line of the Takes, at Niagara and the White Mountains, do better. Those who treat their guests decently will have good summer of it, as the opening of the Vic- toria Bridge and the visit of the Prince of Wales will attract a great stream of travel northward. We desire to warn the travelling public before- hand, so that they may do the places most no- torious for extortion as quickly as possible. Niagara is one of them. One cannot help smil- ing at the “improvements” contemplated at the Falls. “Two rooms” are tobe added to one avern, and the have GeUeTOUsTY Constiacwa S prank road frum thelr house to " SHEET. connection with her Plug Ugties, Bloodtubs, and | upon. Christianizing the Japanes will draw s other rowdy bands, is aa uneoviable as it is | moral from our remarks. universal; but it was reserved for the delegates’ ieeeeennne lana to the Democratic Convention—the elite of the |: Campaion = eguaturs—Tuk Hommreap acmocracy—to cap the climax of infamy for the ' Bu.—One of the greatest evils connected witle Monumental City, and throw the rowdyiam of our electioneering excitements isthe influence the Plug Uglies into the shade. | which they exerciae over our State und Con- pasirrnnneenant eons gressional legislation. Measures are introduced How Long Will England Rttain India!— | which, in nine cases out of ten, have either Take Care of the Missionaries. | to recommend them or are positively Most of our readers are aware that @ aub- | mischievous, Their authors have rarely any ex- murine telegraph cable is now being laid be- pectation of carrying them through, but it (ween England and India, touching st Gibral- nevertheless somtimes happens that they pass tar. The progress of this enterprise, which is | into law, through accidental combinations, oras to render Great Britain independent of | the results of party compromises. Continent of Europe in her intercourse with | The approach of every Presidential election that country, is being anxiously watched by | inundates Congress with measures more or leas the British government, and every means 18 | ofthis character. Thus, during the present ses- being employed to hasten the completion of the | gion, we have had a new Tariff bill to conciliate work. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which are com- England {s wise in thus preparing for the sidered the pivotal States in the Presidential exigencies of the future. She knows the daQ- canvass, Then wo have had Pacific Railroad gers that menace her in that quarter of the pijis for four different routes, all of. which are globe; she knows the designs of Russia with intended to affect the popular vote in regard to Constantinople and her own empire tier States of the Mississippi in India, and she is, too, aware of the growing Texng and the Pacific States. the course of her history she bas accomplished they, political effect upon the South great results, but, if we are not mistaken, she is their own merits, The Homestead bill destined to suffer equally great losses. | ly introduced im the House was s black repub- The conquest of India by Clive was an event jiogn measure, intonded to win support in the equally, if not more, extraordinary thad the | Northwest. It dealt prodigally with the public achievements of Pizarro in Peru. Botb accom- | jands, throwing them everywhere open to the plished their objects with ridiculous’y insignif- | a tual settler, subject merely to charge of six cant forces, and the results ip each case were | cents per acre to meet the expense of registra- sufficiently great to influeno% the destiny of n8- | tion. To defeat this a bill was introduced im authorizing « loan of $21,000,000, was taken up | were ready for any man acceptable to the and passed. The Legislative, Executive and Judi- | South, the Dean Richmond set were admitted cial Appropriation bill was also passed. The con- | without difficulty. From that moment, casting sideration of the Post Route bill was then resumed, disguises, the troubl tabernac! the question being on an amendment allowing the | ao — 2 the country. The general object of the ailied _ yards! What stunning liberality! Montreal and expedition to China is well known; but the plan Quebec are full of quiet English taverns, to of the war and the scene of the conflict remain | which the tourist should resort, avoiding the a secret, while the dimensions which the war | fashionable hotels. At the White Mountains the Postmaster General to provide for the transporta- tion of the California mails. Mr. Wilson proposed as & substitute an entirely new system of overland mails, dispensing with the ocean service altogether. An animated debate ensued which continued till the adjournment. ‘The House passed the $21,000,000 loan bill by a vote of 88 to 77. The bill authorizes the President at any time within twelve months to borrow, on the credit of the government, a sum not exceeding twenty-one millions, or so much thereof as in his opinion the emergencies of the service may require, ‘to be used in the redemption of Treasury notes now $1,000. Coupons may attached to the certificates, and assigned and on the books of the Treasury. by advertisement are to be in- favorable offers by responsible accepted. No stock is to be States is pledged for the redemption of But why it is that Richmond and his subordi- nates of the New York delegation did not fall back, after halting, at the critical juncture of the Convention yesterday, remains to be told. Rumors are abundant in the way of explanation: One has it that Richmond and the New York Centra) railroad jobbers were so interwoven with Douglas aifd the railroads of the North- west that the inducements to hold fast to the Tlinois candidate were stronger than the claims of the party. We presume, however, that Rich- mond himself would, in the crisis, have sold out at half price, but that he was overruled by his associates and their less flexible ideas of con- the How happy could 1 be with either ‘Were Votber dear charmer away. It is magnifying very much, however, the importance of the New York delegation to delivery of the same, instead of | suppose that they could have saved the party. Had they united with the South upon the Southern platform, and a Southern chosen candidate, the Douglas wing of par value, for which the faith of | the Convention would doubtless have bolted and repeated the revenge of Van Buren. ‘the United Principal and interest. The Legislative, Execu- | The seeds of corruption, demoralization and dis- A number of private bills were also passed. Route bill are the only public go over to the next session among the business. arrival of the overland mail, we have ews from San Francisco, to the Ist inst., and later advices from Oregon and Washington Territory. ‘The only news of importance is the socounts of the Indian difficulties in Western Utah. Several akir- miahes had taken place between the whites and ‘Indians, and « general battle at Pyramid Lake, 2 F rhere the savages had assembled in large numbers, | yras shortly expected. The most intense anxiety taas felt a0 to the result. The pony express which for, St, Louis for San Francisco on the 20th alt. | and not reached its destination; fears were enter. | tained that ft had been cut off by the Indians. ' By way of New Orleans we have advices from | Gavana to the 18th inst. ‘The sugar market was | steady, with a stock of 340,000 boxes at Havana | interest, The Legislative Council, in an address in specch of the Governor, says:—‘‘It is | great satisfaction that we learn from your | Excellency the continuance of friendly relations | another powerful country, and the probability that an amicable settlement between her Majesty's | rovermment and that of the United States will soon Femove—we trast forever—a cause of variance or | {international Litigation which has occupied their | ‘attention apon the questions connected with Van- | wouver’s laland.’’ The Police Commissioners, at their meeting yes- terday, appointed H. A. Rowlam telegraph opera- for, to be detailed at headquarters, It was also dis- : now pending, except the Tariff, and | Appropriation bill was passed. | solution were sown broadcast over the party under Van Buren’s administration, and his crushing defeat in 1840 would have been the last of the democracy but for the follies of the triumphant whig party. From the follies of the oppotition, some new sensation, the almighty nigger, and the lucky accidents of the hour, the democracy, since 1836 a lean minority in the popular vote of the Union, have managed, like a bankrupt, by the extension of his notes, to hold fast to the federal spoils, with only a failure or two, down to this day. There was @ report yesterday that Mr. Douglas had sent a despatch to Dean Richmond withdrawing his name aa a candidate, in order to save the party. The report was doubtless a feeler, which {t was discovered came too late. The lines of division and of revolt between the Douglas and anti-Douglas wings of the Conven- tion had become too tightly drawn to be any longer within the control of Mr. Douglas. He was like the necromancer who had conjured up Well, what of all thist Here is an explosion of the dominant party in the general govern- ment for the last thirty-two yearn It came in upon the glory of the battle of New Orleans, it goes ont, goes down, and goes to pieces, upon the miserable abstraction of squatter sovereign- | ty. The event marks a new epoch, a new de- parture, a new order of things, in our political affairs, For good or evil, it is the most momen- tows event in our political history since the first election of Jefferson, What ts tw foliow? The triumph of the republicans— the election of Lincoln, a republican Congrese, a republican administration—and what then? The imagines tion vainly eudeavors to compas the compre. may take can be known only by future develope- | ments. Our merchants, with their families and | their property, are established at all the treaty | ports, and they should be cared for and pro- tected to the full extent which the magnitude of their interests and the honor of the country re- quire. We fear that this is not likely to be the case, for two reasons—an insufficiency in the number of vessels, and the unadaptability to the service of those we have in the China seas. According to our latest advices from Mong Kong, the Germantown, Mississippi and Pow- hatan had been ordered on other service, and the only national vessel remaining was the Hartford. The old sloop John Adams is on her way out, and when last heard from was at Table Bay, after having re- mained for some time at Rio repairing. The Saginaw bas left San Francisco for Hong Kong, and the Niagara is about to leave here for Jeddo with the Japanese Embassy, after landing which the will be disposable for general service. ‘These are good vessels in their way, but unfor- tunately they are too large for the shallow shore and river service, and we have not a single smal] steamer or gunboat, 90 necessary, in those The British naval commander there has for- mally notified our own of his intention to pro- vide, during the period of approaching hostili- ties, for the protection of Canton and Shanghae, but that his resources would not permit him to station guard ships at the other open ports. Consequently, Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy and Swatow will be left for protection for some time to the casual visite of two ships—the Hart- ford and Saginaw—the John Adams being of doubtful seaworthiness. It is true that our government and our citizens are on neutral or friendly terms with the Chinese; but all foreign- ers at the open ports are settled together, and in any sudden movement of the populace it will be quite impossible for them to distinguish, and the destruction of life and property would be indiscriminate. It is but a short time since the wives and children of our countrymen at Shanghae were obliged to take shelter on board of British ships, during one of these popular outbursts, in order to escape a fate worse than death itself. It is not unreasonable to expect similar exigencies to arise at the other ports, where there will be neither British nor Ameri- can ships to fly to. It is time that our citizens and their interests abroad should not be compelled to rely for safety upon the Aeets and officers of ether na- tions. We are capable of protecting ourselves, if Congress will for a time cease to take a poli- tical and adopt @ national view of the require- ments of our navy. A little more common sense, too, might be employed in the distribution of what navy we have. The overbearing conduct of a private company makes necessary the main- tenance of a number of vessels in the harbors of Aspinwall and Panama, at a coat of @ million of dollers @ year to our government, when « a little common sense in diplomacy would settle every pending question with New Grana- | | da, and set those ships free for other service, hotels are dreadfully bad and shockingly dear. | ‘The landlords are all professors of religion, and | they practise it like the Pharisees, by making | long prayers and mortifying the flesh of their customers. The mountains cannot be done pro- perly in less than a fortnight, and three weeks is better. The farmers are always willing to entertain tourista, and give clean beds and plenty to eat, such as it is. It isnot Delmonico’s cuisine; but there is quite a difference between a Mount Washington and a Broadway appetite. Many New Yorkers are kept away from the White Mountains by the fact that the hotels are so miserable. And the same remark will apply to the Virginia springs, where the society is splendid, but the cooking is awful. Our land- lords generally would find it to their profit to adopt the European table d’hote plan, rather than the per diem. They could then tell exactly how many persons they had to provide for on the morning of each day, and govern themselves accordingly. This rule obtains at all the German watering places which have capital hotels. Under such an arrangement a man with a thin purse may graduate his bill to it, while the rich cus- tomer spends twice as much as he would under the per diem rule. One thing is certain: either the hotel keepers must change their system to suit the progress of the age, or their business will be ruined, as it has been at Nahant. At places like Niagara, where people must go, we shall see, perhaps, before many seasons, some nice amall hotels, kept by foreigners, on the plan adopted at Baden, Aix-la-Chapelle, Hom- bourg and Kissingen. Saratoga would be just the place to try the experiment, and we trust it will be done quickly. It cannot be long postponed. Too many of our people have been abroad and cut their eye teeth to be made the passive victims of avaricious hotel keepers. Tre Disosacerct, Scexes at Batrmonn— Tur Piva Uaiies Ovrvowe.—The political as- sembly at Baltimore, known as the Democratic Convention, whose object is to select a person to fill the high office of Chief Magistrate of the Tepublic, and one of whose avowed intentions it was to harmonize a quarrelling and disunited party, has presented within the past few days a dismal spectacle of rowdyism and indecency. Within that brief period scenes of violence and personal encounter have been enacted there which, in point of numbers and incidents, have outdone Congress. No less than five disgrace- ful fights, attended with more or less serious danger to the parties concerned, have taken place between the delegates at Baltimore dur- ing their short session. There was the Hooper and Hindman fight; the Yost and Brannan fight; the Whiteley and Townsend fight; the Randall and Montgomery fight, and the Clancy and Lud- low fight. In most of these cases blows were given, blood érawn, and deadly weapons ex- hibited. When the tongues of the delegates had exhausted the vocabulary of opprobrious epi- thets and vile language, they resorted to the fist and the pistol, covering themselves with blood and blackguardiam. The reputatip® ~Sich Baltimore enjoys tions. Instances such ys these strikingly demon- strate the moral yower which the stronger na- ture exerts over the weaker; and there can be Reoduced from the whole roll of history no more stirring ‘examples of the superior might of Byropean civilization, and the Angle-Saxon Rage, over all others, than these. But second only to either must rank the reconquest of India at the time of the recent mutinies. It was little less than marvellous that Hin- dostan, with a native population exceeding two hundred millions, including a vast army of well trained Sepoys, armed and otherwise equipped, whose hatred of the British was of the deadliest | kind, and nearly all of whom were roused into open rebellion, should not have crushed the whole of the comparatively few white inhabit- ants there at the first step in the murderous march of fury and revenge. It was a hard fought battle, but a glorious triumph for England, when she quelled and routed the hordes of traitors that were plotting the destruction of the empire she had built up for herself at the expense of dethroned moguls and princes. Nevertheless, that desperate strug- gle of Nona Sahib and his million followers was not unprovoked. The native population, ever since their subjection, but more particularly about the time of the outbreak, had been treated harshly and with open contempt by the. British troops and other residents in India, and, what is worse, their religious prejudices had not been respected. They were ordered to rub certain grease on their carbines, and it was against the caste of the men to touch that grease, This the English officers were well aware of, but they wanted to overcome that prejudice of caste, and they insisted upon the order being carried into execution, and this was We museca cause OF th Fevolt. More- over, English missionaries, as well as some of safety becomes s matter of great importance to | the river, a distance of as much as a hundred | the army chaplains, had been endeavoring to convert them to Christianity by exposing the “errors” of the one religion and exalting the virtues of the other. Now, there is nothing in this world that of- fends a Hindostanee, of whatever caste he may be, more than interference with his religious beliefs. The insurrection, therefore, that fol- lowed, was the natural result of these com- bined offences. The unsuccessful issue of that tragic attempt to free themselves from the shackles and insults by which they felt themselves degraded was not owing to their lack of physical strength, but to the want of a proper organization, and a more competent leader than Nana Sahib proved himself to be, for he will now be remembered not as the intended emancipator of his country, but as a monster of cruelty, deserving only of execration. The storm, however, is still pending, the clouds of insurrection have not disappeared from the sky of Delhi and Cawnpore, and be- fore many years have elapsed the world will, in all human probability, hear of a more dreadful calamity than has yet lent horror to the chroni- cles of Oriental warfare. It is more then likely that this catastrophe will be has- tened by endeavors to make the Hindoos converts to Christianity, for very strenuous attempts are being made to spread the Gospel in these parts by many influential models of ex- cellence who harangue the most select and sanctified of audiences assembled in Exeter Hall ‘and elsewhere. These men are, of course, igno- rant of the mischief they are working; they are unconsciously sowing the storm to reap the whirlwind; yet they esteem themselves, without doubt, the most worthy of philanthropists in thus assisting to enlighten “the heathen” and bring them to « knowledge of the truth as taught by the Church of England. It is almost inevitable that sooner or later, perhaps very soon, Great Britain must lose pos- seasion of India entirely and forever. Many of her own most eminent statesmen are of this opinion, and all the circumstances bearing upon the two countries only tend to strengthen it; not the least important of these is the climate of that portion of the Orient, in which the Anglo- Saxon race can never permanently flourish. Notwithstanding, there is no reason why Eng- land should hasten her own fallin that distant region by promoting the cause of missionary societies, which can never by any possibility do any good, but will most assuredly work a great deal of harm. ‘The “Empress of India,” as Queen Victoria has officially proclaimed herself, only rules in that country by sufferance, and there is no knowing what an hour or a year may bring forth. The natives of the three provinces of Bengal, Bombay and Madras possess the power to sweep away from those territories the whole fabric of British government ina single day. Therefore it behoves England to act cautiousl y. | positively determined the Senate excluding all but heads of families, excluding pre-emptors now on the lands, but giving them a certain time to buy at govern- ment price, conferring its provisions merely te lands remaining after a public gale, and charg- ing twenty-five cents an acre, beside the Land Office fees. A Committee of Conference was ap- pointed, and after twelve ineetings a compromise bill was agreed upon, which has finally pased both houses. It opens for homesteads one-half the surveyed public lands not yet offered at public sale, and all the lands now subject te private entry, but it retains the charge of twen- ty-five cents per acre, and excludes all but i heads of families. Pre-emptors now on the lands are to have their homesteads at sixty-two and a half cents (half the former price), and are to have ten years to pay it in. This modification of the House bill is an im provement on the original measure, and will effect a saving to the country. The government lands are public domain, and they oughf not te | be frittered away to promote the electioneering interests of political parties. If Congrew is te ' be thus made a constant vebicle for reaching the different interests involved in Presidential canvass, it is evident that by-and-by we shall have buts eorry apcount of the public property entrusted to its charge. : Tue Jaraxesk axp American InVENTIONG.— The Niagara will soon be in condition to take the Japanese Embassy to their native country, vessel, for they will return laden with a perfect mixed cargo of American inventions, which will be about as much freight as that ship cam com- ventently carry. The Japanese are an inquisl- tive and highly imitative people, as the course of their representatives now in this country manifests. During their visit here they have sup-’' | plied themselves with » variety of articles tion—quite enough to make a good shipload. All these articles will be viewed with woa- der and interest in Japan, and doubtless many of them will find faithful immitators among that highly ingenious people, as the rifle has done already. They will form the material links to bind the two countries together, and when they are reproduced in Japan, as many of them will be, they will remain forever associated in the minds of the people with the Embasyy of 1860 to the United States, which served to cement the commercial union of the great Hast and the great West. - Tax Murra Fixe Nvisance—Iurortant Paw- SENTMENT BY THE GranpJunY.—We have fre- quently called attention to the impositions preo- tised under the militia law of this State, which imposes certain fincs upon persons neglecting to serve or commute. The commutation is oaly seventy-five cents, and many persons, through forgetfulness, allow the time to pass by without paying the amount, or, as is frequently the case with foreigners, without lodging their ples of exemption. After a few weeks they receive + notification that at s court martial convened by somebody, somewhere, and composed of God knows whom, a fine was inflicted upon thea for contumacy, which, with the fees, they will have to pay bya ceriain date. Should the rece- fants fail to attend to it they receive a secoad notice, stating that if the fine and fees, new swelled to nearly four dollars, be not paid by such a day, their property will be distrained for the amount. Under this threat large sums have been annually levied, the allocation of which no one but the parties collecting them knows anything about. The Legislature has often been called upom to interfere in this matter; but having failed to de 80, it has at last been taken up in » quarter thet promises redress. The Grand Jury have just made a presentment denouncing the proceed- ings under this unconstitutional enactment asa nuisance, and calling upon the courts to puta stop to them. This will elicit’ judicial opinion as to their legality, and enable people to act upon something more certain than their own uninformed judgments, Tre Great Easrens Pao@asy on Han War at Last.—Although at advices it was mot the Great Kastera We are influenced by no ungenerous, no un- | would sail for New York on the 20th inst. (Wed- kind motives in thus speaking. We should be | nesday last), or on the 23d (to-day), yet it ap- sorry to see any such disaster occur a# that | peared a putter of certainty that her starting which we have just named; but we forewarn | would not, under any circumstances, be delayed hor of the tempest which threatens to wreat | beyond this day. In either event, then, we may from her grasp those Eastern dominions which | safely calcu! ate that sh will be fairly on her way give ber rank in the acale of nations. to-day heading towards theee shores, to display It will be well, also, if those who are bent ber gigantic form to thousands of angious and yr