The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1866, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87,3, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day im the yar, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price, $14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Satyruay, at Five cents per copy. Aunual subscription *)rico;— CNACOR.{cse;sctstanac sense Three Copies. Five Copies. advised the formor of ovorything that might prove of public interest. “he correspondence cannot fail to form an importans part of diplomatic history, while it affords an ingi7”\t into the policy of our governmant and that of Eland, Advices from Paris of June 7 state that Napoloon has written to Maximilian on the Mexican question Ho demands that the Mexican custom honses bo placed under French administration. as @ guarantoo for the Mexican loan. If the demand is not complied with the French troops will be immediately withdrawa. We publish this morning a circular from the Commis- sioner of Pensions containing instructions to pension agents, which explains fully the provisions of the pon- sion lawa, and which it is to the iaterest of all seeking pensions to read attentively. The list of Saratoga pleasure and health sookers is not full yet, but is rapidly increasing. The bud of fashion is AMUSEMS" ps THIS EVENING. ., WOOD'S TP"7 a TRE, Broadway, opposite the St. Nicholas Hotel ~BY jee SaM—INVISIBLE PRINCE. Yr, 2 treet, near Sixth AEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street, “route ENacism OPERA—A Nig 1x Rome. JORGE CHRISTY'S—Ouv, Scaoo. or Mivsrnetsr, een Mesicat Geus. fc.. Fifth avenue Opera louse, Nos. 2 and # West Twenty-fourta street. —Scagnurn- woKy's Boy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Sau SuAnPuer's MINSTREL AND ComBINaTION TROUPE—VOL AU Vent. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel —Brmiorian Sunaina, Dancixa, &c.— Tax NiaGanka Lear or tur Busy Fawity. BRYANT MECHANICS’ HALL, No. 472 Broadway.— Cancer Wwite's Commination Troure in 4 VaRtEty oF Licut axp Lavcuasie ENTERTAINMENTS.—THE ARABS. alts.” B CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— AL TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenue, between Fifty- Fifty-ninth streets.—Taxo. Tomas’ ORCHESTRAL ceRTS, commencing at 8 o'Clock, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermoptax Mine erngisy—Batiaps, Bunexques AND Paxtowiaes, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open from 10 A. M. ull 10 P.M. ART GALLERY, 85 Broadway.—''Fan- New York, Monday, June 25, 1866. THE NEWS. EUROPE. Tho steams! ips Germania and New York at this port, yesterday, brought news from Europe to the 13th of June, three days later. Diplomatic relations had been completely broken off between Austria and Prussia. The Austrian Minister in Borlin having obtained his passports, by his own request, was to leave the Prussian capital on the 13th inst., and the Prussian Minister in Vienna would immediately follow his example, All Europe listened for the first signal gun of a mighty war, but the general opinion was to the effect that the conflict would be severe, but short in duration and decisive im its consequences. Garibaldi had arrived at Como, full of hope and ardent with expectation of being able to pierce the Empire of the Hapsburg effec- tually. The Austrians had evacuated Holstein, and Prussia virtually ruled, with a high military hand, in Doth provinces, Napoleon had made an Imperial explanation of his intended policy in tho conference. France is peutral if her interests permit her, and seeks no territorial ag- grandizoment if other great Powers are not to be aggran- dized by a change inthe map of Europe. She will not aid Italy actively, but the Emperor thinks Austria should cede Venetia to Italy for compensation in territory in somo other quarter. England advocates the integrity of Austria after Ve- Rotia is ceded to Italy. Our miscellaneous advices are of an interesting char- acter. The Liverpool cotton market was firm with prices un- changed. June 12:h—Breadstuffs firm, provisions steady. Consol din London, June 12th, at 865% a 8655 for money. Uu.ted States Qve-twenties wore at 654 a 65%. MISCELLANEOUS. Dr. Biasoll made no report yesterday; but Dr. Swin- burne paid a visit to the hospital ship, and his stato- ments concerning affairs there are full of oncourage- ment. Thero were no admissions to the hospital yester- day and no deaths. Dr. Swinburno states that thore is not now a single case of cholera in the bay. All those on board the hospital ships who are sick have re- covered from all symptoms of the cholera, aud are only detained in the hospital by a lingering fever that often follows that disease. It {s a romarkable fact that since tho separation of the Gorman and Irish emigrants on board the steamer Union—a period of over twenty-two days—thore has not been @ single case of cholera on board that vessel. The Ger- man passengers were transferred to the Portsmouth, ‘end will remain there fora few days yet; but tho pas- sengers—about one hundred and fifty, chiefly English and Irish—who were retained on board the Union will be brought up this morning to Castle Gardow, and the steamer herself will be up in a day or two, There have been altogether fifty-eight cases received at the hospital ship from the steamer Union. Another casa of cholera was reported at the office of the Board of Health yester- day. It wag that of a woman by the name of Margaret McCarthy, fesiding in West Forty-second street. She had been iil five days and died yesterday morning, as the attending physician said, of aggravated cholera morbus, Despite the delusive bope that a genoral lager beer opening would be celebrated yesterday in consequence of Judgo Curdozo's decision against the Excise law, the day was quietly observed and the unfavored barrooms sul- lenly kept their doors closed while Paul Falk, Geohogan, and the fortunate few reaped their rich harvest of currency, The weather was so very warm and the thirst for cooling draughts so very acute, that thousands after impatiently awaiting the open- ing of the convenient saloons gave up such hopes and emicrated to regions where the Excise law was nota stumbjing-block in the path of dealers and drinkers, Jorsey, Westchester, Morrisania and other ad- Jacent drinking grounds were crowded to excess. There wore sixty-five arrests made in the city yesterday for vi. olations of the law in keeping saloons open without an injunction, nineteen arrests for disorderly conduct and twenty seven for intoxication. No rows or serious acci- donis wore reported in connection with the anti-Excise movement, and altogether the day was passed in as or- dorly a mannor aa asual, though it wason the whole more lively and gay than any previous anti-liquor Sab- bath About twelve thousand Fenians assembled outside of Jones’ Wood yesterday and listened to a long speech from Chief Organizer James SI recived was very enthusiasti>, Latened to with considerable at . He concluded with the assurance that before the close of the present year the sunburst should be unfarled in Iroland. Fiftoon of the Fenian prisoners wero yesterday com- mitted to ja\l in Sweetsburg, Canada, to await thoir trial, the time for which will soon be announced. Colonel Crotty, of St. Louis, commander of a Fenian regimont, was arrosted in United states uniform near Montreal, and was confined in the Cornwall jail, At the St. John’s Methodist Epis torday Rov. J.D. Biain, of San ¥ serwon on temperagce in the mornin Boole on the same subject in the evenin Rev. Henry Ward Beecher deliv red « sermon yeater day evening, principally to young men, on the text, “Lead us not into temptation.” Mr Beecher seid he pal church yes », delivered a ow. WH was not one of those who believed the race was de toriorating. The congregation Was more aumerous than was comfortable; but the speaker was listened to with the most earnest attention. Dr. Barnard preached tho annual sermon before (ho graduating class of Columbia College yesterday ©. ening Tho subject was from the text of “Seok first the king dom of God, and all things shall be added therote, ” Ao inquest on the body of the young man, James 1) vn, who was killed ia tho Bouse No, 114 Centre . on Satarday ovening, was held yesterday mora- © jury found a verdict of death by hemorrhage, 5 * pistol shot wound at the haods of Charlos roprietor of the premises. olume of the diplomatic corroapondence with abmitted last December, and Wog.aning as far ber, 1964, has just been issued. Th loug fie «ich has elapsed has deprived it of mach of its fnterst. Many of the questions In controversy between tie two governments are discussed at length, and the subject of rebel privateers oocupies mich space in the Sorrespondeacs. Secretary Seward kept Minister Adains Sod! ooated ga the condiiiva of aMwirg white pho latior not expected to bloom in that garden antil after the Fourth of July. It is expected that the season already inaugurated wil! be ono of the gayest in its history. The present week is one of lively interest for the senior class of Yalo College. The ceremony of presenta- tion will be performed and the graduates will make their final adioux and pay their last respects aa students to their distinguished Alma Mater. ‘The Collego of Now Jersey, at Princetoa, will begin its Commencement exorcises to-day. Tho full particulars of the late daring robbery of the National Village Bank at Bowdoinham, Mo., are pub- lished this morning. The entire amount taken was $75,000, all the money at the time in the bank. Seve- ral persons were arrested, but wore aubsequently dis- charged. ; A rate of tariffs, the result of a compromise between the recommendations of Mir. Colwell, of the Committee, and the manufacturers of the country, has been agroed upon by the Committee of Ways and Means, and will probably be reported in Congress this morning. An interesting lot of extracts concerning the state of the present crops throughout the South and West, culled from our oxchanges, wil! be found in tho columus of the Heratp this morning. The Demoraitzation of the Prosent Con- gress—A Change Demanded. The present Congress, like the “Praise-God- Barebones Parliament” of the old English Roundheads, is destined, we fear, to leave be- hind it anything but a good reputation. It has given us all the professions and pretences of piety and patriotism of the old remorseless Puritan fanatic; but it has also betrayed his hypocrisy, deceptions and utterly selfish de- signs. The crop-haired Massachusetts conven- ticle, with that peculiar and godly nasal twang of the Pilgrim Fathers, which resolved “First, that the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; secondly, that the saints shall inherit the earth; and, thirdly and lastly, that we are the saints,” appear to have laid down the platform which the dominant party of this Congress adopted with their first preliminary caucus in December last and seem determined to die by. Thus, in the caucus organization of the two houses, a pretty broad issue was raised against President Johnson and bis Southern restora- tion policy before anything was known of the particular views, measures and recommenda- tions embodied in his annual message. When the message appeared it commanded universal respect, at home and abroad. Not even the most implacable radicals could find anything in it upon which to hang an accusation of treach- ery or bad faith against its author. While or- ganized against him at first, and in perfect-con- tempt of his labors in the way of Southern reconstruction, the radical majority still flat- tered themselves that, with skilful handling, this apparently self-willed Tennessee tailor could be more easily managed than the mild but resolute Illinois rail-splitter. But some inklings from the White House on the district negro suffrage movement first set a rough edge on the teeth of the radicals; and then the veto of that Freedmon’s Bureau bill of abomi- nations swept away their shallow pretences of conciliation and harmony. From that day to this the wrath of the radicals against Mr. John- son has been manifested on every available occasion and with still increasing bitterness, until at length, as in the late Maine Republi- can State Convention, as if the vocabulary of denunciations were exhausted, we find Presi- dent Johnson and his policy.as completely ig- nored as the administration of John Tyler. The pretence of supporting Johnson and Con- gress at the same time has simply been dropped as a game which has been played out. The violent denunciations of the radicals of this Congress, however, have done a world of mischief in the demoralization of the republi- can party in both houses, What else could be expected, when men become sufficiently demo- ralized themselves as representatives of the American people, to vilify and denounce the President in the style of “old Thad Stevens,” as a usurper who, if he had flourished in the place of Charles the First, of England, would have met the same fate; or who can deliberate- ly abuse him by the hour, after the style of In- gersoll, of Illinois, as “a traitor,” “a miser- able pretender,” “a renegade,” “a deserter to the enemy,” &c.? Nor is it surprising that from their abuse of the President (and all of it under the Speaker’s’ indulgence) they should turn to abusing each other, or the opposition mem- bers around them, or any one else happening to come in their way. Nor is it to be wondered at that these billingsgate amusements in the House should lead to such disgraceful scones of personal violence outside as ‘the affair be- tween Rousseau andGrianell. The “barbarism of slavery” before the rebellion was the scape- goat upon which were packed all the vicious habits, scenes and characters turning up in Congress. But now that slavery is gone and the “slave power” is unrepresented, how are we to account for these scandalous doings which now so frequently occur in both houses? We can furnish only this explanation: that the dominant party in Congress, like the old democratic party in the epoch of its ex!reme corruption and decline and fall, has become so far demoralized by thé spoils and public plunder and the lust for power as to be indi” ferent to the rules of official decorum, an] reck- less of the consequences of the means employed to obtain its ends, Is such a Congress as this to be respected? Are such disgraceful soenes as those which have marked this session, os pecially in the House of Reprosoniative’, to pass unrebuked by the people? It is for the people now to consider, and it will be for them to determine in the coming Northern State elec- (RA EN EEE BEGET RRS SE GE OECTA AEE eee tions, A new House of Represontatives, of new men fresh from the pple, is greatly needed to check the excesses and revolution- ary tendencies of the radicals. If we can have no change tn the prevailing radical {leas of Congress in the interval to the next Presiden- tal election, it is.very probable that after it | the people will aot be sec saab gb | em el 03 BRQuiring theie jad gift if Pefereace to the fee af ihe goveramont or the beir to the enodessioR. We inust avs a rovdtytion at the polls or wa may look for a revolution in our syetom of government, removing it beyond tho reach of the people. save at the point of tho bayone. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1866, The Salient Features of the European | Hungary and Germany, while he keeps the News. The European news by the Germania, dated to the 13th of June, which was received at this port yesterday, announces the important intel- ligence that Austria has brought her cautious and very prudent diplomacy on the German question to an end. The military acts of Prussia in Holsten had been declared a casus belli by the Vienna Cabinet, Count Karolyi, the Emperor’s ambassador in Berlin, had demanded his passports, and was to leave the Prussian capital on the 13th instant—the day the Germania sailed. Prassia was about to adopt a similar course in Vienna. The diplo- matic relations between the two countries were completely ruptured, and the Old World waited with intense anxiety for the sound of the first gun to be fired in the conflict. Garibaldi had arrived at Como, the scene of his most brilliant exploits in the cause of his country, and was, it is said, in possession of a well considered plan of a most probably effec- tive campaign against the hereditary foe of Italy. In the Duchies the Austrian General Von Gablenz, yielding to a superior force, had re- tired from Holstein, and Prussia, virtually mas- tering both provinces, ruled with a high hand, appointing all the functionaries and selecting for office the warmest adherents and most subservient tools of the King and Count Bismark. It is easy to perceive, however, that there was still a strong anti-war feeling existing in Berlin. The King of Prussia acknowledges himself “dis pleased” with the tone of some of the addresses presented to him on the subject, and we are even told that a rough-looking personage, armed with a heavy club, rushed at his Majesty, but we are not informed whether he appeared as a German “copperhead” peace advocate or an ordinary assassin, tor he was knocked down by a policeman and afforded no timo either for an introduction or action. Napoleon explained the ideas which he intended to advocate in the Congress to the French Legislature. He sought no territorial aggrandizement, and does not now seek it, pro- vided no great territorial neighboring Power is to profit by a change in the map of Europe. He thinks that Prussia should have better boundaries, that Austria should cede Venetia to Italy for other territorial compensation, and hopes France will not have to draw the sword to enforce some such arrangement. Prince Napoleon left Paris for Italy, and is to inform the King of Italy that France will not actively aid him during the war. England advocates,in her diplomacy, the sustention of the integrity of the Austrian (proper) empire as useful to Europe, but re- fuses to support her claim to hold Venetia. Should the war be commenced by the Italians to secure Vénetia, then Austria will claim the alliance of all the legitimist Powers, But should Prussia begin it by resenting the occu- pation of Holstein by the troops of the Federal Diet a3 a casus belli, then Austria will insist that Prussia has attacked the German States, and she may induce them to fight with her against the ambitious Bismark. The war ques- tion gains importance from the rumors ex- tensively circulated that Russia has made a de- fensive treaty with Austria and from the fact that one hundred thousand Russian troops are already massed upon the Austrian frontier. The foundation for the ramors in regard to this treaty is the well known anxiety of Russia to poasess the Danubian Principalities; and in the event of a general European war Russia will certainly seize this coveted territory whether she assists Austria or not. Indeed, the danger seéms so imminent that the Turkish government, at our last advices, were about to send troops into the Principalities, although England energetically protested against this movement for fear that it would precipitate a conflict, or, as Mr. Layard expressed it in Par- liament, “light up the flames of war in that part of Europe.” Hore, then, we find three distinct wars in proapect—that of Prussia against Austria and the lesser German States for the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein ; that of Italy against Aus- tria for Venetis, and that of Russia against Turkey for the Danubian Principalities. It is uncertain where the first shot will be fired; but Italy seems the most warlike of the contestants, and is very likely to lead off in the fight. So intense is the enthusiasm In Italy that the phrase “the dark cloud of war’ has been re- versed, and the Ilalians now talk of “the dark cloud of peace.” The uprising of the people is only paralleled by the grand uprising of the North when Fort Sumter was attacked. A million of Italian soldiers are now under arms and clamorous for action. The government could not avoid a war, even if the statesmen of Italy were so disposed. Any official movement towards peace would at once be followed by popular revolution. The Italian volcano will have its eruption, no mat- ter what happens afterwards. The hopes of Italian unity, adroitly excited by Napoleon for his own purposes, can no longer be suppressed. Napoleon might control the Italian govern- ment; but neither he nor the government can allay the passions of the Italian people, who threaten to revolutionize the country unless they are permitted to fight Austria. Conse- quently there would be no chance of peace, even if Prussia, at this eleventh hour, should consent to disarm. But amid all these complications the atti- tudes of France and of England are, perhaps, most remarkable. Both Powers are neutral, but each has its own kind of neutrality, That of France is politic. Napoleon has certain plans to achieve and waits to see when and where it will be best for him to strike. The neuirality of England isa necessity. She can- not afford to fight anybody, and is evidently very much alarmed lest sto sbould be drawa tas6 tho melée by som? sudden tun of evenls, Both Powers are obliged to be very cautious, Napoleon is by no means $0 safe as when ho began to stir up Prussia and [aly to war. The alliance between Russia and Austria, whether completed or ia prospect, is fraught wity danger + Rance. Agtlag with Prussia and Italy against Aus'ria alone, or evon against Austria ond the small Stales of Germany, Napoleon Tuight BE Tertaln OF sucess; but when Russia steps upon the @she with ber ieomendods forces the changes will be ail the other way. Besides this the democratic element may at aby moment be- come totally unmanageable throughout Europe, asithasin italy, Jast as Richelieu secrotly as- sisted the Protestants in Germaay while he was sapproming them in France, 80 Napoleon bas hoon latrigalng with the democracy of Polaad French democrats under the bayonet. His policy has been the same as Richelieu’s—viz, to benefit France by augmenting the domestic troubles of her neighbors. But, although the revolutionary democratic element will mingle in the European war and may possibly decide the contest, it may also break loose in France. Revolutions are contagious, The French demo- crats may undertake at home the same revolts which Napoleon encourages in Poland and Hungary. The recent speech of John Bright upon the law of primogeniture, in which he denounced the peerage in the name of the peo- ple, shows that England—also a conniver at revolutions elsewhere—will be scarcely more safe than France, if a general democratic up- rising shall be one of the features of the com- ing war. Looking over the whole field, there- fore, we conclude that few if any of the Powers of the Old World will escape damage during the conflict, and that several of them will be completely revolutionised. Thus, while this great republic, under the guidance of radical politicians, is rapidly drifting towards imperialism, the empires of Europe may soon be transformed into republican governments, The Congressional R: ais Cuddling ¥r ns. When Kossuth arrived in this country, with all the glory ofa great expatriated European repub- lican surrounding him, he was taken in charge by Seward and his radical followers as a prime instrument for making political capital. Kos- suth made a great flurry, delivered some elo- quent speeches, was féted by Congressmen and millionaires, went into Hungarian bond manu- facturing on an extensive scale, invested in the “saddle and harness making’ business, and retired from the country with a pockelfull of cash under the assumed but euphonious name of Smith. We now find the same style of cud- dling practised by radical republican leaders in Washington toward distinguished Fenian characters. Senator Wilson takes a Fenian President by the hand, and without asking How is old Ireland, and how does she stand? ushers him before dignified and venerable Senators with all the pomp and pride of show- ing up one of the greatest heroes of the age. Next the Speaker of the House takes the Irish lion in charge and presents him, with all the honors, toa sparkling array of lovely women and beautiful children at a strawberry and cream festival, at which many of the dignitaries at the seat of: government had assembled. It is the generally received opinion that Irish- men have a greater fund of blarney at com- mand than the people of any other nation. But it seems Fenian leaders have met their equals among the republican politicians at Washington, and it will be a wonder if they are not flattered out of their natural wits by civil attentions. Plymouth Rock is as much a blarney stone as any that can be found on Irish soil. But how does the matter stand? Where was the honorable Senator from Massachusetts, who has so suddenly fallen in love with the Fenians, when those bold fellows were on the border fighting and pouring out their blood for Irish liberty? Being a brigadier, why did he not buckle on his sword, march to the frontier and lead on the Brotherhood to vic- tory? Instead of doing this he remained at his ease in Washington, nursing Cuffy and drinking plain soda ata dime a glass. Where was the Speaker of the House when those he now so softly blarneys were in the gap—not the Dutch Gap—at the front, belabor- ing the foes of old Ireland? Sitting in his lux- urious arm chair as Speaker, giving aid ad- versely to the repeal of the neutrality laws, and decisions in favor of Sambo and against Biddy and Patrick. There’s where these newly found friends of Ireland were when Ireland’s champions were in the deadly breach. They may attempt to blarney them out of their votes. But it wont do entirely. The Fenians have had that game tried bofore. _ Seriously, there is more in this suddenly found regard of prominent politicians for the Fenians than meets the public eye. The old party wire-pullers know that the Fenians will wield great power in the fall and Presidential elections. They may decide sthe political fate of the State of Pennsylvania in October next as readily as they can that of the city of New York at any time, if united; and without doubt many of the Congressional districts in the country are in their hanis. They oan, if they manage properly, be strongly represented in the next Congress and have a few sympathizing State ergors and Legislatures. At all events the favor with which they are received by all political parties indicates that popular sentiment, so far as opposition to the British government is concerned, decidedly sympa- thizes with them. This should admonish Great Britain of the danger she is in in case of a rup- ture with the United States. ‘Ihe British rebel pirate account Is unsettled, and it would not be a very singular thing if this Fenian organ- ization should, some time 9n in some way or other, prove the means of forcing a settlement, let the politicians at Washington cuddle with or blarney whom they may. Caxaptan Cosreperation Versus ANNrxa- tion. —Our Toreato correspondence, published in yesterday's paper, furnishes some vory curi- ous facts in regard to the effect of the late Fenian raid on Canada in reference to confeder- ation and annexation. It is represented that there has been @ growing setiment among the people there in favor of annexation to the United States, but that the tide is now changed in favor of confederation. The cause of all this is set down as follows:—“The return of good crops, the dread of being saddled with a portion of our large war debt, iho repeai of the Reciprocity treaty And the threaten. ing attitude of the Fenians.” These things, and not the love of confederation, are said to have killed off the annexation party. All this may be the cause, and no doub!, ia a measure, lias created sufficient excitement to enable the con- federation party to appeal to the fears and pas- siona of the people. and thus obtain a tempo- rary triumph, A Og nel rer therg cmismheh ee te ae isting line of defence along the border a: . | flad that it will amowAl fo mfilions where nde ft a oly tho, ds; we imagine that they will then commentS to sing another tune and de- ounce tho confederation leaders in stronger tertns than they at present praise them. Since confederation only hastens this result we are inclined to the opinion that, confederation or no confederation, Canata will be ready to be annexod to this countey aa soon a4 wo want ber fiom the The New Steamship Lines of the P. Thetr Important B: Patere, By late advices from Panama we learn that the first steamer of the new line between Pana- ma and Australia, via New Zealand, will leave the former port on the 24th instant for Auck- land, to be followed monthly thereafter by a vessel of tae same class, thus shortening the distance between England and Australia eight days over the old route by way of the Isthmus of Suez. The importance of this line cannot now be properly estimated ; that it is destined to grow, and that rapidly, is a certainty; for,not only will it facilitate travel from Europe and the United States, but it will in a very short time be the means of developing the worth of the numerous islands of the South Pacific Ocean, which heretofore have remained in the dark, from the fact that they were shut out trom direct communication with civilization. It was thought when the line was first proposed that Tahiti would be the stopping point, but the miserable pittance of one hundred thousand franes per annum, offered by the French gov- ernment, was not worthy of consideration when a delay of two days at least would be oceasioned by having to make that island a half-way house. This difficulty will soon be overcome, however ; for the French government cannot fail to see the importance of having their settlement in the Pacific placed in close com munication with the rest of the world; and this once accomplished it will not be long before the other islands will become points of import- ance and the possibility of making them valu- able be seriously looked into. The opening of this line is the first serious attempt to have a steam route across the South Pacific. That its importance to commerce bas never before been discovered is strange; for how the time could be shortened and the passenger and freight business of the route made remunerative would easily have been seen had the matter received the attention it justly deserved. Heretofore the British mails to Australia, via the Isthmus of Suez, havo al- ways been irregular. Now they will be car- ried with the same punctuality as on other well regulated sea routes, and the rates of freight will be such as to send across the Isthmus of Panama that which has until now been shipped by sailing vessels from England and the United States around the Cape of Good Hope. Yan- kee energy and enterprise, although not inte- rested in this new line, will be sure to profit by it in the end, and we look with great confi- dence to the time when our own steamers will be trading between the islands of the South Paciflo, where now only a solitary whaleman or trading vessel appears, and our people be located and carrying-on business where now only the savage and cannibal are to be found. Tais most be the ultimate result, and that it will.come to pass ina few years we have not the least doubt. Together with the South Pacific line we havo the new route between San Francisco, Japan and China, which goes into operation on the first of the coming year, and for which the Pa- cific Mail Steamship Company is building soma of the largest, most powerful and best fitted steamships the world has ever seen. It is un- derstood that the Sandwich Islands will bo called at by these steamers; thus will the North Pacific be traversed by a fleet of ocean steamships unsurpassed, and very much of the products of China and Japan, that now take the tedious route around the Cape of Good Hope to New York, will find their way to the latter port vis San Francisco and the Isthmus of Panama. These two important lines are but a beginning; they will soon cause others to springeup, until, within a few years at the most, San Francisco will become the great commercial centre, at which a fleet of steamships will concentrate from all parts of the Pacific Ocean, and her wharves will present an appearance scarcely behind those of New York. We look for the most important results from the inauguration of these two lipes, not only in a commorcial point of view, but as important assistants in bringing within the pale of civilization those parts of the world that remain as yet almost in acondition of barbarism. There is no tolling the amount of good they will do, and we shail hail with great pleasure the coming of the day that will enable us to publish the news from Australia, China and Japan by the new routes, for it will mark an important era in the pro- gressive spirit of the world. Deratcation at Mempais.—Representative Washburne, of Hilinois, on Saturday last pre- sented to the House the facts relative to the defalcation of the special Treasury agent Carl- ton, at Memphis. It appears that the govern- ment loses in this transaction some five hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars, or upwards of halfa million, The developments in differont localities bid fair to place the present period in history as the age of corruption and defal- cations. This and similar cases are the first (ruite of the Chase national bank system and the looseness with which the financial affairs of the government are transacted through those instiin os by agents of the Treasury Depart- ment. In almost every locality where circum. stances develop their work'ngs defalcations and heavy losses to the government are brought to light. As this affair of Carlton's is to be further investigated by the Banking Com- mittee of Congress we trust that they wiil recommend legislation that will put a stop to all such transactions in the future. The de- velopments which followed the failures of the national banks in the oil region of Pennsylva- nia and of the Merchants’ National Bank at Washington show the urgent necessity of Con- gress applying a remedy. Unless this is done we have only wilnessed the commencemen} of tho difficulties in this line and have falizoed only # bagatelle in the losses that the govern. ment will meet from similar causes, Jupax Neuson and THE BaykeRs’ ayo cers’ Tax.—Why is ie nae whole his decision on the bankers’ and brokers’ caseg atgued before him a few woeks since? While he holds his decision in abeyance the government is not receiving any revenue from these cases, The taxpaying community ‘re apxious to know whether ankers cod Sokork i Wal ai ater pehie HE obey the laws Of not, A number ot the cus- -omers of the bankers, who have been paying them the amount of the tax on the sales and purchases which they ordered, are also waiting or the decision, and stand ready to prosecute them for obtaining money on false protences if the claims of the bankers and brokers are sus tained ia court. Under those circumstances it looks very mach as though the deciaign wore eee withheld for the speoiai purpose of protestlag! the Wall street dealers, Somzrama Goop Ovr or Nazarera.—Ws have repeatedly had occasion to refer to the mischievous workings of the Freedmen’s Bureag. in the Southern States. We have now to mene tion an instance to the credit of the establish+ ment coming from an unexpected quarter and arising from an unexpected cause. It seems that while the system works wretchedly in Virginia and North and South Carolina, in tha State of Georgia it is not open to the same censure. What is the reason for this? The answer is that while the whole concern Is fraught with danger and social evils to the South, its miserable workings are as much attributable to the corrupt subordinate agents who control its affairs as to the bad tendencies of the system itself. In the first three named States the subordinates of the Bureau are mostly from the New England States, persons who have gone into the business for purely money making purposes; such as the running of plan- tations on their own account, the biring out of negroes to labor at their standard of premium, the levying of fines and: fees as spectat magistrates, &c. But in Georgia we find that the affairs of the Bureau are conducted by persons who aro native born, who know the character of the negro and are better qualified to supply his wants and contribute to his health and comfort than all the mercenary and cant ing negro worshfppers and fanatics that can be sent from New England. A correspondent in- forms us that out of tbree hundred and fifty thousand freedmen in Georgia only one thou- sand (wo hundred and twenty-three are de- pendent upon the government for support The policy of the assistant commissioner of the Bureau in Georgia is carried out under the laws and in conformity with the usages of the State not conflicling with the designs of the government. The sub-agents of the Bureau, two bundred in number, are appointed under powers conferred upon the assistant commis- sioner by a resolution of the State convention. They are selected for their high character for honor and uprightness, create no prejudices among the whites and act with justice toward the blacks, If this plan were adopted in all the Southern States where the Buroan is in operation, the system would certainly be leas open to serious objection than it now is. Canapian Recrprocrry.—If ever there was « people bound to give another credit for good faith and generosity it is the Canadians, in our regard. We owed them a bad grudge, for they had behaved shamefully towards us in our po- litical embarrassment ; but when dangers of a formidable character threatened them we forgot it all and threw over them the shield of our protection. How are they proving thelr gratitude? Let the recent disgraceful scone ia the Canadian House of Assembly answer the question. One of its members, an unquestion- able patriot and a maa of great influence, dared to give utterance to sentiments favorable to this country, and an effort was made to hoot him down. We tell these Canadian logisla- tors and office holders that if they want to make a serious matter of their prejudices they are ina fair way todo it. Very little would suffice to convert the sentiment of generosity to which they owe their security from Fenian domination into a very angry and dangerous feeling on the part of our people. If they doubt this let them look to what is taking place in Congress in regard to the modification of the neutrality law. Very little more provooa- tion on their part will suffice to throw the decision of this matter into the hands of the politicians. Once the qnoation becomes a party ong the realization of the predictions of thelr Ci prophet will be nearer at hand than they anticipate. Pol al News. The issue between the President and Congress having been clearly defined by the passage of the Constitutional Amendment, the people are accepting it and ranging themselves for the contest to come 1n all the primary meotings now taking place throughout the country local interests seem to be for the moss part put aside, and there can be oo doubt that the decisive voting day will discover large defeotions from the radical wing of what was known during the war as the Republican Union party. The reports from @ fow States where elections have beon recently hold indt- cate that the radicals are going under the wave of popa- lar opinion, This is the case in Nebraska and Oregoa In Washington Territory they have boon defeated, and Some of the radical journals acknowledge that their party is imperilied in Nevada, Colorado and doa- tana. The contest is now waging with great excitement and bitterness im Missouri, Generals Frank P. Blair and Jobn A, MoClernand are stumping the State enorgotically in behalf of conservative principles. On the other. side Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, and Governor Stone, of Towa, have been called in to help stay tho change ta opinion which these two generals, who uaderstand for what they fought, are surely working. Texas Exactioy.—The State election in Toxas somes off to-day, June 25. it is reported that the conservative ticket, headed by James Throckmorton for Governor, will undoubtedly be elected by a large majority, The new constitution, placing freedmen on an equality with whites before the law, will also bs voted upon. Seoonp New Hamrsume Diataict.—The friends of General A. F. Stevens, of Nashua, are urging bim foe the republican nomination in the Second Congressional district of New Hampahire, now reprossuted by B. & Rollins. Pusxpueton ror Covonaaa.—It is reported that Goo M Pendieton is to be run for Congress tn Obro. Tue Fest Mixwesora District. —Mr, Windom is under. stood to be a candidate for a renomination by the repub. licans for Congress, while ox United States Senator Wilk- inson, Governor Armstrong, J. V. Daniela, G. EB. Cola, Cotonel H. G, Rogers, and sevoral other aspirants, aro ta the . Extra Sesiow of tas Ono Lecistatvas.—Governor Cox, of Ohio, will not, it i# said, call an extra session of the Legislature to consider the constitutional aménd- ment watil after the Republican State Convention haa met, if at all, o_o = Vingrxta Poutics.—According toa Richmond lotter, (there are three political Parties in that State, The radi- cals, undog the lopd of Judge Underwood, Joun Minor Botts and Governor Piorpoint, are the smallest of the threo. The national Unionists—men who afe willing to follow the lend of Alexander Rives, L. H. Chandler, Joseph Segurand Robert Ridgeway—are more numer- ous, but not well organized. The third and iargost party ig the democratic, which comprises most of the men whe active t ‘and acknowledges thg jopd of A.B Max, Sake jdwin and Henry A. Wise,” Kextocey Powis, ~i it having anotnee State convention Tes pate The call is issued for the radicals to meet at Coviugioa om the 10th of July. Se ms Kanrina ALVA Ssoresios Patecnrim. —The Sta’ Jour. nil of Alexandria, Va., to satisfied that a deeply laid plaa orists to keep alive the hopes, purposes and organication ris late secession movement in Virginws and the South, one mers being to keep control of the land and another to rota. the setilement of Nortueraory in the country. ‘Weecowsiw. —It 18 reported that Governor Fairchild, of Wisconsin, will not eal! an extra session of the Logie tare of that State uniess there is unan!mity of setion ta all the States. Vermont Usitan States Swvatoe —A Montpelier tot. tor says Senator Kamins will proiably ty reclocted Uaited States Senator for Vormoat without opposition, but Mr, Morrill i¢ kelp to gain the sont now aooupted bv We Poiana, EE