The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. HE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four oeats per copy. Annual subscription price, $14. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broone * Maung eet. —Tus wy Wives or Winsor. WORRELL, SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo. site New York Hotel —Tax Exves—Cixpere.ias. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourtecath street. near aveaue.—Ristori's Faasweut Peerorman ‘Qowan ov Excianp. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irvin, 6 OF JAPANESE ARTISTS LN IRVING HALL, Irving tne wt Arp oy tax Soura—Tux Srinas or War. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway, opposi tee Metropolitan Hotel—in tum Ermiorram Eirerears. mxnta, SingivG, Dancing AND BuRLksques.—Tur BLace ‘Coon—Iurxniat. JAPaNusm TROUPE. 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SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Gnawo Vocat axp Instav- wart Concert at Steinway Haut, Fourteenth street aed Fourth avenue. TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Sunday, May 12, 1867. REMOVAL. The Naw Yore Heraxp establishment is now located in the new Heraxo Building, Broadway and Aan street. TEB NEW Ss. EUROPE. By apecial telegram through the Atiantic cable, dated 4m Londen, Athens and Berlin, we have very important news from the Ola World yesterday. z The Luxemburg adjustment treaty, perfected by the Peqoe Congress, was signed daring the day in London. 4 ia very doubeful, however, if the peace of Europe is “eecured,'' as ammounced by Lord Staniey, for we are told that France and Germany continue preparations for war; Russia is arming, and Greece is strengthening her force, naval and military, toa very large extent. fhe King of Greece has ordered the purchase of seven war vessels in the United States and England. Queen Victoria about to propose a general disarma- mont and the | assemblage of a general Peace Congress, but i ie thought the project will not be succesa(ul. ‘The Hon. Mr. Wright, United states Minister to the Court of Proseta, died im Berlin yesterday morning. The Vice Consul of Italy in San Francisco is appointed (alien Minister to Washington. ‘The death sentence passed on Captain Doran, of the Fouian army, in Ireland, has been commuted. Ear Dorby eta tes that England cannot publish the true bis- tory of Fenianism, as it might bring about ‘troubles’’ with “certain formgn governments invoived in the plow." The late vote on the Reform bili secures the official extatence of Lord Derby's Cabinet, Gonsola closed at 92 for money in London. Five- twontios were at 721 in London and 77% in Frankfort, the bonds selling at an active and excited market in frankfort. The Liverpool cotton market closed dull at a decline of ig@, with middling uplands at 1144. Breadstufis quiet. Provisions quiet. _ By the arrival of steamships at this port late last Dght we have interesting details of our cable dispatches: to the Ist of May. The newspaper reports go to show the acceptance of the neatral mediation in the Luxem- burg question by France and Prussia, but reveal the fact that there existed no great hope of peace being secured by a Congress, The Jnvalide Russe, of St. Petersburg. bas an editorial a the Eastern question, in which it is hinted im pretty plam terms that France, with at least one other of the Great Powers, secretly encourage the Sultan to despise ‘the demands of the Cretan iasurgents and disregard the counsels given in behalf of the christian people subject 40 the Porte, THE CITY. ‘The Captains of Police were notified by the Superin- tondent yesterday that they must confine their attention im the matter of closing up stores in thixj city and Brook- lyn to-day entirely to liquor selling establishments, ‘The other establishments, abont the closing ef which an order was recently promulgated, will remain open and do business at will. ‘The Howard Mission celebrated their anniversary at Stewway Hall last evening. . In the Prussian Extradition case, before Judge Ship- man yesterday, a writ of habeas corpas was demanded by the counsel of Henrick, to enable him to remove the dvcision of Commissioner White on the final hearing of hie case. An adjournment was taken until Tuesday. The stock market was dull yesterday and ciesed steady. Gold was heavy and closed at 155%. Domestic produce continued quite active, and prices for almost all the leading articles further advanced. Merchandise generally was lees active, but held firmly at Previous rates, Coffee was steady and firm. Cotton ad. vanced fully le. per b., with a fair demand. On ‘Change, flour advanced Se. 9 16c., wheat 1c, a2c., while corn MISCELLANEOUS. News from Mexico is dated at Tampico on the 6th inet. Gomez, who commanded the port, had been dis- missed by order of Juarez, and General Pavon was sent to relieve him. Gomez, however, declined to be re- Meved, and as his twenty-five hundred men out+ mumbered Pavon's small force, the latter waa com- to await reinforcements. He expected the aid who was on his way ostensibly to but who, it is sald, was making com- with Gomez. In consequence of Gomez’ confiscation of receipts from customs Tampico has been suspended as a and those who pay Gomez any that other authorities will collect possible. From San Luis the dates are to ‘No confirmation of the evacuation of received, although the death of Mira- ‘The imperialists had been again om making ® sortie. The siege of Vera Cruz with vigor. Provisions were 90 scarce in the the besieged were compelied to eat horse flesh. Dias refased to guarantee life to Marquez and other imperial leaders in the event of the surrender of soar Panna correspondence ie dated May 3. 10 reply to a resolution of inquiry the Colombian Secretary of Finance hed communicated to the Chamber of Repre- sentatives that the steamer R. R, Cuyler was the private property of President Mosquera, and that he intended to others to form am Attantic line. His Cudiom House aathoritiee a Cartharena, nae ie lt i ‘Sixth (ces—Evizanetu, place.—Tar Ixpemiat ‘uzin WONDERFUL Feats. lace.—Mrs. McCavuur's Reap- of Mir- Mag it Matinee Wednesday and Saturday at 24 o'clock. xu OF Prousr—Tur Wasnixcton NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1887—TRIPLE SHERT. tendered to the Now; York owners of the Cuyler, had been protesied for non-payment. Congress bad passed @ bill over the Presideat's veto directing all vessels ia the Colombian mavy to be aold. Apother storm was brewing in consequence. The troops under Level de Goda bad rebelled against the authority of that chieftian, who had been engaged reconstructing certain States along the coast, Geda took refuge on the Rayo, formerly the RR. Cuyler, which, after threatening to bombard Santa Martha, proceeded with him to Carthagena, The Spanish frigate Navas de Tolosa followed her, all doubts of her piratical character having disappeared, and lay alongside of her im Carthagena Bay. The cap- tain of the frigate made a demand on the town and gov- ernment officials for information regarding the character of the vessel, Evasive answers wore returned, and the captain immediately disabled the Cuyler by removing parts of her machinery in euch a manner that she could not leave port, amd then notified the government at Bogota that they must prove her to be a bona fide Colom- dian vessel within forty days. It is believed that Mos- quera intends striking a desperate blow at Spanish inter- ests in the Caribbean Sea, The health of Panama was good. Commander Paulding, of the Wateree, died of 4ysontery on the 29th of April. General Sullivan, the Rew Minister to Colombia from the United States, had arrived. He will eucceed Mr. Burton, who demanded his passports some tame ago because he believed himself insulted by Mosquera, Our correspondence from Lima, Peru, is dated April 22. Another meeting of tne lowor classes was hold on the 16th to doneunce Congress, which almost resulted Tow, the ire of the crowd being directed against every one who seemed able to dress decently. A bill removing President Prado had been introduced in Congress, but it was rejected, The indications wore that Prado would declare himself dictator for another term. The revo- lutionists had been cempletely used up by successive government victories, and the rebellion was about over, Congress has declared all disagreement between Peru and Chile on account of the Spanish war removed, and that the two countries are more firmly united than ever, Advices from Central America are to the effect that ex-President Thomas Martinez, of Nicaragua, had been appointed Minister to England, with iastructions to ob- tain a aettiemont of the claims against the United States, Joff Davis took his final departure from Fortress Monroe yesterday morning under charge of Gen. Burten, and arrived at Richmond in the afternoon. A crowd of people witnessed hix departure, and another crowd wit. neased his arrival, without, however, any other demon- stration. A mounted guard received him at the Bich- mond wharf, and he was driven ina carriage by a by street rapidly to the Spottswood Hotel, where he was placed im the same suit of rooms which he occupied in 1861, On the trip up the rivor two bridal partios were aboard the same boat, and a Mrs. Davis of Richmond, died on board. Details of the prize fight between Tommy Chandler and Dooney Harris, in California, which are furaished this morning by our San Franotsco correspondent, show it to have been a sharp, short and decisive encounter. Harris was terribly punished, while Chandier was able, immediately after his victory, to act as referee in a fight between two other pugilista who fought over an hour and a half. Sonator Frifenghuysea was serenaded by the Young Republicans of Newark om Friday night, and made a speech in which he endorsed Senator Wilson's recent pledges to the South. Samuel H. Wonte, who ploadod guilty to embezzlement of funds belomging to the Baltimore Mechanics’ National Bank, bas been sentenced ¢o six years’ imprisonment, He ¢s seventy.yoars old, has a targe aumber of chiléron aod grandchiidrom, and has beon 2 prominent momber of the Church. His defalcajions amounted to $300,000, and wore carried om through a period of twenty-five years, ‘The United States atpamer Resaca wag .at, Lies, Peru, ou the 22d ult, @! pa board boing well, The Saranac, at last advices, was-ot i Union, San Salvador, WL, Tad ‘Tahoma was at Tampico on the 16th ult. ‘ Despatches from Council Bluffs aay that the St. Lous steamer Miner was captured by Indians above Sioux City, in the Missouri, recently, and all her passengers and crew massacred, except two moa, who escaped. General Sherman met General Hancock at Leaven- worth, Kansas, yesterday, and the two will depart for Fort Harker oo Monday to have another long “talk"’ with the disaffected redskins. ‘The examination in the attempted chiid murier case was continued in the Essex Market Polico Court yester- day, when both the accused parties were discharged, the prosecuting counsel acknowledging he bad no substan- tial evidence against them. General Sedgwick is on his way home to await bis final muster out of the service, He professes to have Papers showing that hie occupation of Matamoros was in obedience to orders implied if not expressed, and among them are said to be lotvers of congratulation and thanks from Juarez and others. The remains of a young lady who disappeared three months ago in Brandon, Vt., were found on Thursday op Chittenden Mountain, in a good state of preservation. The echooner James Fulton was wrecked just above Hart's Island, in Long Island Sound, on Thureday, and two of her crew were drowned. The Earepean Settioment—Is Peace Secured Our special cable telegrams of yesterday, dated in London and Athens, are not by any means assuring with regard to the perma- nency of the peace said to have been “secured” to Europe by the deliberations of the diplomatists assembled in the London Peace Congress. The war spirit evoked by the de- fiant attitude which France and Germany maintained towards each other on the Luxem- burg question for such a lengthened period has not been quieted by the prompt action of Lord Stanley. Diverted for a moment from the Rhine, it appears, by our despatches pub- lished to-day, to be tiding in the direction of the Daaube. France and Germany continue their arma- ments, and Russia and Greece are in active preparation for war. The King of Greece has ordered the purchase of seven war vessels in the United States, a heavy enrolment of seamen is being made in Athens and the ports of Greece, and thirty thousand men have been added to the King’s army. The Luxemburg treaty of arrangement was signed in London yesterday, but we are specially informed thai Queen Victoria is about to make a proposal for a general dis- armament, being most likely assured that the sturdy belligerents of the Continent and farther north and east care little for the situation of the battle field so as they can secure a fight. It was considered that her M ajesty’s proposal would not prove successful, and that the appearances indicated the near approach of war. In the news columns of the Hernan we reflect by our cable despatches the varying changes in the policy of the crowned heads and Cabinets. We had the satisfaction yesterday of laying before our readers, through our special cable despatches, fall particulars of the settlement of the Luxemburg question by the Congress of European Plenipotentiaries assembled in Lon- don. The announcement, we need not say, has created a very general feeling of gratification. The prospects of a Buropean war, though bene- ficial in some respects to us. could not on the whole be regarded as advanjageous to our interests. What we might gain by supplying the belligerents with vessels and matériel of war would be but poor compensation for the disturbance which it would bring about in our commercial relations generally, and in the damage which it must occasion to those nations which are so closely identified with the cause of civilization and progress. The bull interest in Wall street is, of course, rampant under the excitement of this news, There is no danger, even without the endorse- ment of Lord Stanley, of its questioning its accu. racy. A few weeks ago, when we published Bie bility of war, it got dreadfully scared; but, | "aver Eleffman and the Remedy for Munl- curious to say, @ the quarrel became more se- tious, it to laugh at ite alarms, aud through its orgags in the press denounced the Huratp as giving a sensational importance to & very small quarrel. Even when the refer- ence of the matier to a European Congress at- tested its gravity, and when they learned that France and Prussia were actively pushing for- ward their preparations for war, this affected skepticism was persevered in. Now that the correctness of every statement made by our Berlin and Paris correspondents has been borne out by events, we are justified in asking whether this is a fair and candid mode of dealing with s journal which makes such large sacrifices in the interest of the public. Our contemporaries, whose jealousy in- duces them to lend themselves to it, should feel pride instead of annoyance at the pre- eminence we have won over the European press. Why should our beating the European journals on their own ground excite any surprise? The cable has effected an entire revolution in the relative positions of the European and American press. Where the European jour- nals had the advantage over us in priority of news regarding diplematic matters they have not only lost it, but, owing to the cenfor- ship to which. they are subjeot, are thrown considerably in arrear of us. There is, there- fore, nothing astonishing in the fact that the Heratp, with its large command of capital and its superior organization of foreign corre- spondents, should be in possession of intelli- gence which the European journals either had not obtained or did not dare to publish. It is to the jealousy of our less enterprising con- temporaries and the Wall street interests af- fected by the news that we owe all these unfair insinuations. Hyvor since the cable commenced working we have been more or less subjected tothem. For weeks afterwards everything that we published from Europe was “ manufactured,” and every newspaper critic was a Professor Loomis. But the other journals connected with the Associated Press copied while they abused us, and thus proved their want of faith in their own amertions. There has not, in fact, been one of the special telegrams pub- lished by us from that time down to the present which has not been subsequently copied and confirmed by the European jour- nals. The famous Bismarck despatch of the llth of April appeared in their columns several days after we published it here, and was admittedly taken from us, being the first intimation which they bad had, or at least dared to publish, of the existence of the difficulty. In presence of facts se well established all this cavilling would beincomprohensible, were it.not @ feature of a long established system. Bvor..cince the Haran waa started its. lazy rivals hawe .beon ia the habit.of depreciating order to cover up their own failures, Whether it was an important piece of intelligence from India, Chioa, Japan, Africa, Brasil or any other distant part of the world, it was always “con- cocted in our office.” If all that we have been accused of under this head were correct we must have made arrangements, not with euch news purveyors as Oyrus Field and the Atlantic cable, but with Mephistopheles and his agents; for during the fast thirty years we have always been furnished with intelligence in ad- vance of our contemporaries, and it has gener- ally turned out to be correct. None are better aware of this than the Bulls and Bears of Wall street, and knowing. it, to use the words of Soripture, “Like the devils, they believe and tremble.” Little Fass and Foathers aud His Gold- headed Cane. Our American caricature of Fouché, the puffy, fussy, inflated little officer who wears the star and the button of the Metropolitan Police Superintendent, and wields a gold-headed cane, to the terror of the little children and timid old ladies of the district, has, in the language of the prize ring, been “sent to grass” by the force of public opinion and the mys- terious influence of the Herarp, He has countermanded his antiSunday lathering and lollipop law, and has washed his hands of the backslidings of the Hebrew Sabbath breakers. The bubbub and turmoil he excited by jumping upon the back of the dead-letter Biue laws, and riding roagh-shod through ‘the city, re minds us forcibly of the fable of the fy who, perched upon the horn of the mad bull, cried, “see what a dust we kick up.” His fulmina- tions, however, made a terrible commotion in the several police precincts, and put the cap- tains and the men at their wits’ ends. The edict of this moment was contradicted by the order of the next, and proclamation followed pro- clamation so closely that the force were ata loss to know what to do. The two stalwart patrolmen who are stationed opposite the Hxratp office, living specimens of Gog and Magog, and whose ordinary business it is to hand ladies across the road from the Astor House te the Heratp building, were for twenty-four hours in snch a state of bewilderment that the ladies were lett to find their way through the labyrinths of cars, stages, wagons, coaches, trucks, and other vehicles as best they could. The whistles of the confounded constables were unheard; the drivers abused each other to their hearts’ con- tent; the little boys who are experts at balancing themselves on the back steps of the stages and the hind rails of the coaches en- joyed their stolen rides unmolested. Every- where the police were petrified and the arm ot justice was paralyzed. We must beg the Police Commissioners to protect us from @ recurrence of such a hubble and bubble by getting rid at once of Ken- nedy and his edicts, and his fuss and his feathers and his gold-headed cane. He had the good luck to tumble into the office he holds between the squabbles of the democrats in New York and the scramble of the republicans at Albany. But he is unfit for the position, both as a very testy and passionate little man, and as a fussy, fretful, overbearing officer. ‘There are plenty of betier men ready for the place. Captains Leonard, Wilson or Speck would make efficient Superintendents, and either is deserving of the promotion. Kennedy should be tarned out at once; for if we are to have many more of his whims, caprices and offcions intermeddlings, the whole bewildered police force of the city will be fit subjects for the Utica Asylum, and the ladies will be left to brave the perils of Broadway alone, or driven to make their way over the Pons Asinorum et marck’s famous despatch showing the proba- | the Fulton street crossing. cipal Miegevernment. In his recent speech to a delegation of Ger- man liquor dealers Mayor Hoffman offered his panacea for all the evils of municipal mis- government under which the citizens of New York at present suffer. He believes that agi- tation and monster meetings—a great demon- stration of fifty thousand citizens determined to insist upon their rights—will have the effect to “rebuke the intolerant spirit” of the State Legislature and of the Excise Commissioners, and give freedom to the people of New York and Brooklyn. Of course he counsels these gatherings to be law abiding, for he has punished rioters heretofore and bas no sym- pathy with them. But although he deprecates an explosion he has no objection to set fire to the end of a torch, stuck in a barrel of gun- powder. You have been deprived of your liberties, says the Mayor, in substance, and are ground down under odious laws by oppressive usurpers. Your chosen magistrate is stripped of all power. Gather in mobs of fifty thousand to denounee this, but keep the peace and obey thelaws. Your rulers treat you with unnecessary rigor and harshness; you are singled out from all the people of the State to be stripped of your rights, and are made the victims of intolerance and bigotry. Get up monster crowds some fine afternoon and stir up men’s minds with these wrongs, but keep the peace and obey the laws, The Excise Commissioners are unreasonable and unjust, and make the perfect submission of the people the pretext for new exactions. Call together all the idle and reckless and dangerous char- acters of the city (for Mayor Hoffman knows that such meetings always contain these ele- ments), to demand their freedom; but always keep the peace and obey the laws. There is a far better and less dangerous way within the command of the people of the city of New York to secure a good, an honest and @ responsible municipal government. Monster meetings and agitation are very well in Eng- land, where they are the only weapons within the reaoh of the masses wherewith they can strike for their rights. But here we have the ballot at our command; and that, if properly used, is far more effective in correcting abuses end removing evils than any number of mob assemblages and demagogue harangues. The absurd, unpopular and op- pressive Excise law, and the ineffictent and irresponsible commissions under which many of our municipal departments have been placed, are not the only objectionable features of our city government. We have corporation “rings” preying upon our substance, corrupting the State Legislature, turning all the executive and logistative busiacas teft within their range inte profitable jobs, and swelling our local taxes to over twenty million dollars annuatly. Let the people march up by fifty shousands.to the polls at.the next olection and voto fore new organic | ¢ dew that.will.give us a thorough reform in our olty government, Let them. sweep away by thoir ballots in'November and ‘December next every veotige of a vonal corporation, and wipe out of existence the old political orzanizacions that have heretofore forced. upon them nomi- nations not fit to be mad». Monster meetings can do no practical good, and are only calculated to excite the. popu- lar passions in a dangerous degree. They are used by demagogues and designing political “ring” men to divert the minds of the people from the real evils of bad government and their remedy, by directing thelr indig- nation against particular measures and indi- vidual officials. If the citizens of New York really desire to reform their local government, to do away at once, not only with the offensive Excise law, but with all our irresponsible com- missions and corporation plunderers, they must bear in mind that the means of doing so are within their own reach. If the new consti- tation shall recognize the right of the people of the city to self-government; if it shall pro- vide for the election of a Mayor in whom shall centre ail the appointing and executive power, and who shail be directly responsible to the people for the good conduct of the whole gov- ernment ; if it ehall confine the Common Coun- cil atricdy to legislative duties—it will effectu- ally remove every evil under which we suffer, and give us substantial relief. The people should not allow their minds to be diverted from this fact by any popular excitement that may be raised over the offensive Excise law or the vagaries of the puffy, fussy, fretting and bombastic Superintendent of Police. The Cor- poration and Tammany “rings” would gladly blind the eyes of the electors to the real issue with the dust of personal indignation. Let the tax- payers of the city, and all who desire to put an end to the existing corruption and anarchy, turn a deaf ear to all incendiary appeals ad- dressed to them by the desperate “rings” who already read the handwriting on the wall, and secure by their united votes in the next elec- tion a substantial reconstruction in the city and State. British Reform—Another Tory Triumph. Our special telegrams of yesterday an- nouneed among other things that the gevern- ment Reform bill had been advanced another stage. Some few nights ago certain amend- ments, including among others a lodger fran- chise, were proposed by the opposition. Ona division, which took place on the amendments, the government were left in a very consider able minority. Mr. Disraeli resolved to meet the difficulty by submitting a compromise, the debate on which came off on Friday evening: As described by our special telegram the de- bate was animated and keen and the House greatly excited. Notwithstanding the attacks of Gladstone, who seems to have been even fiercer and more slashing than usual, and the bitter denunciations of Bright, who spoke of the government measure as the “most unjust and offensive ever submitted to the Commons of England,” Disracli carried his compromise, amid loud and pro- tracted cheering, by a majority of sixty-six. It was commonly reported that in the event of defeat Lord Derby had resolved to advise a dissolution of Parliament and to make an ap- peal to the country. Members have a special horror of a dissolution, and itis not impossible that this feeling may have contributed to the strength of government. Be this as it may, Disraeli is step by step leading his party to victory, in spite of the eloquence of Gladstone, of the thunder of Bright, and the monfter de- monstrations of the Reform League. The success of the London Conference in settling the Luxemburg difficulty will do much to make ‘the’ Popular, and we shall not be if it eeanre for the lense beg weed tories a long Little Fase and Feathers and Hie Geld headed Cane. ‘The mysterious influence of the Hmnaty has again made itself felt to the practical advan- tage of the New York public. Superintendent Kennedy had forgotten himself. We believe the Superintendent to be on the whole a well Meaning sort ofs man. He would like to see the community of which he has charge more religious—more given at least to the outward observance of the Sabbath. It iso difficult thing, however, to make people religious according to any one standard. Superinten- dent standard may be very good for him; but it docs not logically follow that it must be equally good for the mass of the people of this city. The mistake which the Superintendent has made is neither unnatural nor novel. To the great misfortune and injury ot society it has often been made before. The bistéry of this mistake, which has been repeated in all ages and in all nations, has been pretty fully recorded— recorded, alas! too often in letters of blood. Religious uniformity has been « favorite dogma with greater policemen than Superintendent Kennedy, since the days of the first Constantine downwards. There are some people who think—and with them the Hera entirely agrecs—that it would have been better for mankind at large, and better for Christian- ity too, if policemen, larger and smaller, for these last eighteen hundred years, had left doctrines and dogmas alone, and allowed the precepts of Christ, without the aid of either sword or baton, to work their way to the hearts and consciences of men. This is a truth, however, which is difficult to learn, and Super- intendent Kennedy (or, as we have heard him called, “Little Fuss and Feathers”), for one, has not learned it. Much as the American people prize the general and uniform observ- ance of the Sabbath day, and no people on the face of the earth prize it more, there is one thing which they prize still more—and that is liberty. On this one thing they are all agreed that neither Superintendent Kennedy, with or without his gold-headed cane, nor any other would-be despot, larger or smaller, shall rob them of thelr rights, We saw that the course of the Superintendent, if not checked, threatened the liberty of the subject. It was for this reason we denounced his conduct. We are glad to learn that be has since bethought himself and 60 explained away his obnoxious edicts that, in a eense, they may now be eaid to have coased to exist. The public is delivered from the terror inspired by Little Fuss and Feathers and his gold-headed cane, and the mysterious influence of the Hratp is to be credited: with. the resalt, Wesbail be glad to see the Sab- ath faithfally and uniformly observed, but we Tolographs to Spastes America. Xa the great telegraphic exctiemont whiok | has existed, as the resuit ef our successful: communication with Europe, we appear to have ignored entirely the fact that half of the Wentera continent is still, in point of time, almost as far removed from us as China and Japan. “It is the old story retold, of our neglect of all the Spanish American countrive. By this neglect we have allowed forelgn in- fluencd at eup very doers, to absorb all the trade, to damage American interests; to ham- per the development of our industry, to crush American enterprise, and to get a control over all the Spanish American States; which control is already so strongly fastened that it has be- come almost impossible for any American to compete with a foreigner in any of those coun- tries. Rapid communication, secure and cheap mail facilities, and government protection to steamship interests, have hitherto given the advantage to France and England in our friendly and generous commercial rivalry with those nations. The day, however, is past whea we as a nation can afford to throw away any of the great advantages which our geograpbi- cal position confers upon us. We must stand between Spanish America and Europe, as we now stand between the European and Asiatic nations. Happy in a great central commercial position, we must not be slow in making it con- tribute to our prosperity. To-day South America is the vassal of the Old World, while Mexico, bordering our own country, is commercially in its hands, Were we to extend our telegraphic communications to the southward the whole of Europe would communicate through us with them, and, in consequence, we should dominate the position. A land communication from Brownsville, Texas, down through the heart of Mexico, and from there, striking all the commercial ports of the Pacific coast as far south as Valparaiso, thence crossing the Cordillera and Pampas to Buenos Ayres, thence to Montevideo and Rio Janeiro, would place all the great commercial centres of Spanish America in immediate connection with us, and they, instead of being from thirty to fifty days behind the world, would march with it, live with it, and consequently be in- fused with new life. Telegraphic communication among ail those countries would, moreover, have a ten- dency to harmonize and prevent the working of the revolutionary elements which for so many years have held them in a chronic state of misery. Mexico especially, where the post- age on @ letter is twenty-five cents, silver, would find « telegraph, which would enab! her to live in the world, to be of immense ad- vantage, while hundreds of enterprises which now lie dormant on account of the uncertain and long communication, would spring into activity. The line to Cuba might be connected with Panama and thus down the South American coast by the route indicated. At ali events our merchants should take quick action upon this subject, and not forget that the commercial people which have the most rapid communi- cation with other countries will absorb the larger part of the trade with those countries, Indlecrect Demonstrations in the South. We hear from time to time of the Southerners making demonstrations in honor of the rebel dead and their rebel living heroes. The last items of news with regard to this custom or habit inform us that the ladies of the Memorial Association, of Spottsylvania county, Virginia, propose to hold a meeting at the Court House on the 21st inst., the anniversary of the dedica- tion of the rebel cemetery, at which there will be & picnic, speeches, and memorial observ- ances. We learn also that Robert Ould aad i roe om Friday bearing bouquets and other _| presents to Jeff Davis. Now all such demon- sirations at this time are very indiscreet, fodixsh, and in bad taste We can understand and mtske some allowance for the feelings of the Southern people, but must say that in their present political and social situation, and with the present temper of the dominant political party which holds their destiny in its handa, they are acting very unwisely in showoring bouquets on Jeff Davis and in singing peans to the rebel dead. The Fashions. The sprightly letter from our special Paris correspondent which we publish to-day gives a vivid picture of life in the world’s metropolis. Always gay and brilliant, Paris is gayer and more brilliant than ever, now that the stimulus of the Exposition is superadded to all its usual excitements, Our correspondent is almost tempted to complain of an excess of fashion- able gayety. “Everything has been over- done.” There have been too many parties too swift a whirl of pleasure. Every single night has been crowded with entertainments which, if properly distributed, would have suf ficed for the entire week. Mile. Patti and) hor farewell at the Italiens, Mile. Nilsson, at the Marchioness d’Aoust’s, Mme. Rosa Caillag, at the Salle Herz, and the new violinist Léonard everywhere, have disputed with the concerts of Pasdeloup and the most expressive gutturals of Thérdse in her song of the “ Goose Tender,” the enthusiasm of the musical public. The an- nual exhibition of Fine Aris at the Champs Elysées has been opened. High life has bee kept on the qui vive by the arrival and de- parture and anticipated visits of princely and royal personages, from the Duke of Edinburg, the brother of the King of Sweden, and the brother of the Tycoon of Japan, to the King and Queen of Portugal and the King of Prussis. Nothing need prevent the latter trom visiting Paris now that the Luxemburg question has beon settled. The Empress Engénie is said to _pay long visits to the Exposition. And im alluding to the dust as the only serious draw- back to the Exposition, our correspondent atates a fact that might well serye for a hint to our New York ladiesgon Broadway. The former “is a place where full dress is perfeouy unknown,” and surely the latter should be. The March winds and April shewers which have intruded into almost the middle of our our Iadies, as weil as the stress of weather, have diminished the ridiculous overdreasing |. which used’ to-atrike the eye of a foreigner om iy | tempt the passer-by to tread on them. We may also add that, thanks to the Atlantic cable, the ladies may ere long expect the newest Paris fashions to be immediately knowa and initiated or improved upon in New York. One of these days, perhaps, New York may even set the fasbions for Paris, which will never only the programme in advance, but the an- nouncement of another great aquatic contest— the oce»n sweepstake—which is to come off on the 11th of July. This shows on the part of the New York Yacht Club a determination to keep up the character for vigor and enterprise which it gained by the Atlantic yacht race. is members are not satisfied to rest upon their laurels. Like Alexander, they are looking about for new empires to win. Where they will ulti- mately bring up in their daring exploits it would be difficult to say. The June Regatta, though a fixed annual event, will present some new features of | interest this year. Hitherto it has been a mare clavsum to yachts ot large tonnage, from the obstacles opposed to their success by a fixed difference in time between them and their smaller competitors. In smooth water the smaller yachts, with this advantage in their favor, were always certain to win. By an alteration in the sailing regulations of the Club, which admits of a sliding scale in regard to time, all the yachts, large and small, are placed on terms of equality. This will of course increase greatly the interest of the con- test. It was the only thing necessary to render our June Regatta as thoroughly enjoyable to yachtmen themselves as to the general public. We are glad to find that it has been deter- mined to open the grand ocean sweepstake to English yachts. We have no doubt that some of them will be induced to come over and take part in it. Their presence would give increased imterest to an event which is already creating considerable excitement. But it is not merely in view of this that their visit would be desirable. We should not be surprised if it resulted in a race acrogs the Atlantic between the rival yachts of the two countries, which would take them over in time to enable them to participate in the Cherbourg Regatta. If our yachts were to win the victory in this great ocean race, as no doubt they would, it would compensate us for the mortifi- cation of our failures in the Exhibition. The stillness of the hour is the stillned of a dead calm at \d Phetps wrote in his book “Tne Suil Hour,”” Several hundred copies were printed and Remerous other visitors reached Fortress Mon- | sold in which the word ‘‘colm” bocame ‘olam." |