The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1867, Page 6

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Open from , SOUENCE AND ART, 4M, Ui WP, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner of Twenty. third street and Fourth avenue,—Rxaimition oF Picivans anv ScuLeruuns BY Living Axtists. ‘ork, Wednesday, May 15, 1867. TRIPLE SHEET. New REMOVAL. ‘The New Yousx Herarp establishment is now located in the new Henan Building, Broadway and Ann street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that in order to have their advertisements properly classi- fed they ehould be sent in before half-past eight o'clock in the evening. THE NOwWsS. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- @ay, May 14 Marquis de Moustier, Foreigo Minister of France, an- pounced to the Senate that “the peace of Europe will not be disturbed.’ Toe French army reserve force is Deing disbanded. The Prussian military works on the fortifications of Luxemborg city havo been suspended, The Crown Prince of Prussia is about to set out for Parts, The sentence on Colonel Burke, I. R. A., has been com- muted to imprisoament for life at hard labor. The jodger franchise clause of the Derby Reform bill has been adopted by Parliament. ogols closed at 92 for Money in London, Five- twenties were at 724g in London. The Liverpool cotton market was active and firmer, with middl spands at Ligd a 1d. Broeadetult aiet. suns unchanged. THE CITY. The Board of Sapervisors met yesterday and passed a umber of bills for work and material on the new Court House and for Coroners’ and Sheriff's expenses, The ommittees of the Board wore then announced. The Board of Police are pot yet prepared to furnish \.cepaes to venders, hackmen, car drivers, &c., according {o the late law of the Legislature, but permits are issued a! police headquarters in lieu thereof, The storm which visited the vicinity of thie olty on Monday night ons attended with considerable desttuc- Won of property. St. Paul's church was struck by lght- ning, but no serious damage was done. A building on Thomas street was strack and fired by lightning, bet the flames were soon extinguished. Two mea were almost drowned by the sadden inundation of a sewer, In Brok- lyn several bouses were struck, and a large stone house at Red Hook Point was seriously damaged by fire, Involv- ing 8 loss probably of $80,000. A large quantity of salt- petre was in the building, and fmminent danger was Incurred by frequent explosiens, The bark Loulsa also caught Ore, and one of the eabin boys, Jamping overboard ln his fright, wae drowned. The largo railroad depot at Plainfield, N. J., was struck by lightning and completely destroyed by fre. A party of soldiers in the vicinity of the South or Hamiltos ferry engaged in a row yesterday with two policemen who attempted to arrest two of the party who wore drunk, and a desperate Oght ensued, in which one of the policemen was badly cul, Tho soldiers were getting the best of their adversaries, when « reserve re inforcement for the Intter arrived at a timely moment and arrested five of the ringleaders, Considerable ex- cltoment prevailed in the vicinity during the affray. Tweive thousand eight hundred and twenty-six steer. are passengers have arnved at New York since the lst inst, trom Europeao ports. rhe steam ram Dunderberg, the most powerfal eacine of naval warfare afloat, has boon sold to the French g\vernment for three million dollars, In the Superior Court yesterday an action was brought by Jane Mooney against the ‘Belt” city railroad com- pany and the Hudson River Railroad Company, claim- ing damages in the eum ef $10,000 for injuries recetved in 8 collision between one of the care of the former and * locomotive belonging to the Intter company on the lst 1866, at the tmtersection of Thirtieth etrect our, Case still on. The argument on the motion to eet aside the writ of peremptory mandamur issued by Judge Barnard last woek, directing (he Comptroiler to execute the lease to Abe city of Fernando Wood's promises, Now 118 and 117 Naseau street, at & rental of $18,000 per annum, took place yesterday Lefore Judge Sutberiand, at Chambers of the Supreme Court. The further hearing was adjourned Gntil to-morrow in order to allow the counsel for the Comptrolier to procure an affidavit to rebut @ similar docament introduced by Fernando Wood's counsel, and in which the relator sweare that he apptied for the writ of mandamus by advice of the Comptroller, In the case of De Beare et al va the Nope Express Company, On appeal before the General Term of the Su- preme Court yesterday, the question of the constitailon- ality of the act of Congress rendering & receipt void for want of a United States revenue stamp, was raised by the defendants, appelisate, Decision reserved. ‘The case of the Prussian government for the exira. divon of Philip Henrich was yesterday before Joage Shipman in the United States Cireu)t Court, on a motion for a writ of babeas corpumand certiorari applied for by defendant's counsel. The motion wae fully argued vy counsel on both sides. Jedge Shipman reserved his do. vision til Monday next. In the case of Lord of ah va. Oreige, sm action in the Court of Common Pleas, previoasly reported in the ‘Hmnaty, and brought to recover the sam of $6,000 for- folture, with the of galery claimed a due, the B87 Tegetor reerned & vindlct os Noo plaints ta the sum of §5,282 The defeadant was employed by plain- cor of tho mantilta department im their establishment, and by (he terms of the agreement it was stipulated that he should forfeit $5,000 in the eventof a bieach of coutract, together with arrearages Ho loft their employ before the expiration of his torm of eerv.ce, and this action was accordlagly (ifs as mi of salary. iostituied. The jury in the cage of Anthony Mahn, charged with the murder of Stephen Cariand, yesterday returned 4 verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, Mabn will be sentenced on Friday, The stock market was frm yesterday. Gold closed in the room at 13754, but afterwards sold on the sireet at 136%. Though the general merchandise markets were quiet Yesterday, the advance in gold and the firmness in tho cotton market imparted amore buoyant tone, and, on the whole, the markets were more steady, and the mer- chants leas approhousive of trouble—financial and com- mercial—than they have receutly been. The clief items of interest were the improvement im cotton aud the in the corn market, under continued and prospective heavy receipte of common new, continued peace of Europe, Prices again declined 6c. # 10c. per bushel, under a pressure to realize. Breadstuffs were quiet but Provisions were quiet and steady, except lard, which was scarcely so frm. Freights were very quiet. Nava! stores dail and heavy. Petroloum was rather more active. Wool was oxcecd- breakdown and the certainty of the steady. Whiskey was more active, ingly quiet, and prices favored the purchaser. MISCELLANEOUS, A bloody intorruption grested Judge Kelly at Mobile while speaking on the recohstruction question last night, The crowd in front of him appeared early in the even- ing to evinee a disposition to create a disturbance, and frequently greeted the speaker with cries of “Put him down.” The Judge replied that they could not put him down, whon a rush was made and indiscriminate pistol shooting commenced on the party on the platform, among whom were several prominent citizens of the town. Three or four persons were known to be shot, and probably many more, rests are known to have been made, A large mass meeting was held in the African church at Richmond, Va., yesterday, when Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith and Judge Underwood addressed tie assemblage. The Louisiana Supreme Court have decided that notes based on Confederate money should not be patd, as that monoy is illegal; also that notes signed before the passage of the Stamp act do not require stamps to be used in evidence. The First National Bank of New Orleans has been taken posscesion of by the military authorities, and a re- ceiver will probably be appointed. ‘Thomas P, May, a millionaire of that city, has signed over all his property to the government to cover obligations incurred by him in bis transactions with the Sub-Treasury. Our correspondent with General Hancock's expedition in tho Indian country furni full details of the recent council with the chiefs of the Kiowas, a short repori of which bas already been published in the Herauo. The ship Continent, from New Orleans for Havro, sprung @ leak on the 8th inst, and was abandoned ina sinking condition on the 10:h. The crew were all saved by the bark Almira Coombs, and were carried to Boston yesterday. In the Massachusetts Legislaturo yesterday a majority report on the question of liquor licens’s was made by the Joint Commities, It recominends tho issuing of licenses to inn keepers, victuallers, apothecaries and wholosale dealers. Tho Maryland State Constitutional Convention met at Anoapolis yesterday, No business beyond organizing ‘was transacted. The Convention of Maryland radicals held forth in Baltimore yesterday. About two thousand persous were present. Genera! Dennison was chosen temporary chairman, Mr. Sanders, a colored representative, made @ speech, and a committee on credentials was appointed, A riot occurred in Brownsville, Tennessee, on Monday, during the holding ot a white and black convention of radicals, in which it is reported three negroes and two whites were shot. Reports ag to the origin of the out- break are conflicting. Rev. Sereno Howe, a Baptist clergyman and a mem- ber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Abington, hasbeen found to have pursued a system of moet beastly and licentious conduct towards the youth of both sexes ender his charge as educational supervisor of the town, and has been compelled to fleo to avoid lynching. Ho did not deny the crime, or rather serics of crimes, and was so far undisturbed as to bo allowed time to hand in his resignation as a member of the Legislature, He has not since been seon, A breach of promise case is before the courts in Bos- ton, which threatens to become interesting as the details are developed. Danici Kelloy, a wealthy ship owner of Fast Boston, isthe defendant, and Mrs, Belinda Eilms, ‘a widow of uncertain age, is the plaintiff. Sho claims twenty thousand dollars damages. The testimony on ber part #0 far implicates the defendant seriously, and on his part a clear and explicit denial is set forth. ‘A large cotton and woollen mill, near Darby, Pa. was destfdyed by fire yesterday, involving a loss of $300,000, Two firemen were run over by engines on returning from the fire and killed. AThe Mississippi steamboat Lansing exploded hor boiler near Rock island, Il., on Sunday. Five persons wore killed and several others injared or missing. A powder mill, containing one thousand pounds of powder, exploded near Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday night, No one was hurt, The courts of Ocean county, New Jorsey, have granted $10,000 damages to Miss Yarnell for breach of promise of marriage on the part of a Mr. Abraham Stout, dry goods merchant, General George H. Thomas was examined as a witness in the Frazier impeachment case at Nashville yesterday. ‘The Supreme Court of Missouri bas decided that Gene- ral Frank P Blair cannot vote unless he takes the con- Btivational orth. The departments at Ottawa, Canada, are to be removed to Toronto about the Ist of July. ‘The Canadians are again agitated on the subject of a Fenian raid. Senator Wilson arrived in New Orleans yesterday. Jroa-Clade for the Sultan. Our fame is spreading far and wide. The purchase of Walrussia for cash has led the Sul- tan to believe that at least he can trade off the unprofitable island of Candia for iron-clads and small arms. Disgusted with English agents, who swarm around him with old Tower muskets to sell, the Sultan has despatched some of his officers, who will visit the United States, examine our inventions and probably make a direct trade with Secretary Seward for classic Crete. It will serve as a splendid coal- ing station for our Mediterranean fleet. A little advice to the Tarks:—Do not imitate the Japanese by transacting your business through the brokers. Go direct to our real estate agent at Washington and avold all middie men and commission outlays that bring the United Siates into such bad repute among nations. The Japanese Com- missioners now here with « view to ‘teach usa civilized mtesod of trading witha new country whose good will is of primary importance to our commercial progress, are disposed to overlook both our misforiune and theirs in their method of making their first negotiation for ships, and it is suspected are preparing the maps of several thousand small islands which thelr government owns in the Pacific and which they desire to exchange for Dreech-losders and other arms, with sufficient number of war vessels to freight them bome, So burry up, Turkey, or you will be too late in the market. It appears at length that the foreign Powers are discovering that we surpass all others in warlike inventions, as woll as those for peace- fal pursuits; that we are not jealous of the warlike display of other nations, but are dis- posed to furnish from our abundance enough for all of thom, besides keeping @ sufficient re- serve on hand to mest any national combina- tion that may arise. Judse Kelly was hurried from the platform by his friends, and a guard of soldiers was placed at the hotel where ho was stopping. No ar- The Danger to the Republican Party. inscriptions, the windows.” Then, taking possession of th slaughter of unoffendiug blacks by white ruffians, which disgraced the city of New pressible conflict? between the white ani ably arrested. From the beginning of Senator Wilson’s Southern stumping campaign at Oxange Court House, Va., and from point to point in his pro- gress down to Mobile, we have seen that his audiences have been composed of a general turnout of the enthusiastic blacks, with small sprinklings of whites, attracted more by curiosity than sympathy. It also ap- peurs that beginning st Richmond these riotous demonstrations of the Southern blacks against their exclusion from the street cars have followed these Southern initial puwty movements of the Northern republicans. It is remarkable, in this connection, that while under the reign of African slavery in the South, whites and blacks could be seen at any time riding together in the same public con- slavery the local authorities of Southern cities establishing the rule of the total or partial ex- clusion of blacks from the street cars, This, however, though remarkable, is not surprising, when we remember that it was only a few years ago that in this city of New York an occasional street car allotted to the blacks bora this inscription:—“Colored pvople al- lowed to ride in this car.” But this special permission, and many other things in the North, bore the ear-marks of African slavery in the South, and some of them still exist, although our street cars have been adapted to the Civil Rights bill. But ail these distinctions throughout the United States of race and color, in the matter of citizens’ civil and political rights, which grew out of and were dependent upon the in- stitution of negro slavery, ceased to have any sense or purpose in them with the abolition of slavery. The local authorities of the South, therefore, are looking backward to slavery, which is gone, instead of looking at things as they exist, in establishing these street car ex- clusions against the negroes. They are thus contributing very effectively to make a dis- tinct and hostile political party of the blacks, when the paramount political ob- ject of the Southern whites ought to be to fuse the two races into a com- mon political party, on the ground of common political interests. The raling South- ern white class, too, are playing a childish and foolish game in their frequent public manif:s- tations of devotion to their “lost cause,” and of hatred to “the detested Yankees’ in their social regulations, In all these things the Southern blacks see that by their late masters and mistresses “the Yankees” are hated as the enemies of slavery and all its distinctions, In the outset to the reconstruction of political parties in the South itis but natural, therefore, that the blacks should instinctively join the Northern party, to which they are directly indebied for their freedom, the free dinners of the Freedmen’s Bureau, their civil rights and the ballot box. General Wade Hampton fore- saw all this with the final passage of the recon- struction laws of Congress, and at once at- tempted a masterly flank movement to head off the republicans from the Southern black vote, and the movement has failed only because he was not promptly and proporly supported by the Southern landowners and leading poli- ticians, From the developments of Senator Wilson’s Southern tour it appears that the blacks, from the Potomac to the Gulf, are, with few exceptions, fusing with the republicans, while the Southern whites appear to be all adrift. Array the two races against each other, and the whites in all the ten excluded States, except South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, are in the majority, 80 that upon this reorganization of Southern parties in these States the republicans will have only three States against seven, with some of the heavy cotton districts in Georgia and Ala- bama and perhaps the German sections of Texas. But all other dangers to both races in the South and to the republican party are trifles compared with the dangers threatené® from Soutbern political white party against a hostile Southern party of blacks. Republican leaders and stump orators in their threats and hints of confiscation and free farms to the blacks, are sowing the wind from which, if they do not take care, they will reap the whirlwind, in this bold and clashing array of the two races South against each other. Tho history of eman- cipation in St Domingo is full of instruction. We are thus warned to be exceeding prudent in our promises and hints to a powerfal body of ignorant blacks suddenly transformed from slaves to freemen. The republican orators now stamping the South are too fast. They are drifting to a war of races. The blacks are becoming bold and defiant, with these orators before them and the United States military forces behind, and the whites are becoming despondent and in some cases ready for desperate measures, Wiser counsels mast guide the dominant Southern white class and these republican missionaries down South, or the work of Southern recom revolution will follow next in order. ‘The Danderbverg. failed to close e bargain which she had made owners to wait until they telegraphed to ef the Southern Blucks— In New Orleans, on Saturday last, there was @ republican mass meeting, at which some five thousand persons were present, five-sixihs of whom were negroes. ‘The speakers were Mayor Meath, Hon, Mr. Kelley of Peansyivania, and Messra, Hamlin and Conway, The various negro ward clubs marehed to the meeting in procession, with all the accessories of bands of music, banners, transparencies, motioes and “No disturbance occurred,” as the facetious Tribune reporter has it, un'il about midnight, “when the negroes stopped a ear in St. Charles street and cleared it of its white oceupanis by shoving thelr clubs throuzb car, they compelled the driver to go ahead. This, it may be answored, was a trifling act of retaliation compared with the terrible Orleans in July last. But still,in the organiza- tion South of the republican party, it is one of those manifestations which point to “an irre- bhkick races, and a cooflict which may lead to the most fearful consequences unless season- veyanoe, we find only since the abolition of struction will become “ confasion worse con- founded,” and a Northern political reaction and The fron-clad trade is very brisk and nations outbid each other. On the 13th instant Chile for the Dunderberg. French agents got the France, and the bargain was closed immedi- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1867.~TRIPLE SHEET. price. This does not look much like peace in Europe; the wonderful activity of the French dockyards, the rapid launching of armor-plated vessels and the hurried purchase just made here, savor of war, and that quickly. England—Mer Position and Her Statesmen. The work accomplished by the Conference of the great Powers in preserving the peace of Europe for the present has placed England again in a prominent position. To her, un- doubtediy, the erelit of having settled the Luxemburg difficully is chiefly due. Averse to war, and badly prepared for it, particularly in view of her financial condition and the politi- cal agitation for reform, she saw (he danger of a terrible and general war in Europe if France and Prussia had drawn the sword. Although she assumed a negative position at firs', she was forced to abandon that in fear of the con- sequences of euch a war to hersclf. Her wis- dom in proposing a conference and mediation of the great Powers redounds to her honor. Having been successful in preventing war, she takes the posilion she formerly occupied as a foremost Power in the family of European nations—a position which she was fast losing, and which she would have lost forever, proba- bly, had she continued a policy of exclusion and abstention. Great credit is given to Queen Victoria for the happy and successful stroke of policy that has calmed the fears of Europe. But we know that the British, by a sort of ingenious eomplimentary fiction, attribute such things to the sovereign, when in reality they are the work of the ministry. Lord Stanley repre- sented Great Britain in the Conference, and was the President. As the member of the British Cabinet taking the most active part in that body, he is supposed, therefore, to have been the leading spirit in the movement from the first. Without having the least disposition to detract from the fine talents or merits of this nobleman, we believe another and an abler member of the Cabinet had most to do with it. Benjamin Disraeli is the controlling statesman in the government, and was the prime mover, doubtless, in the policy which led to the Coa- ference and to peace, though the functions of plenipoientiary naturally devolved more on Lord Stanley. A Jew controls the destiny of England! A Jew bas restored to that proud nation the pres- tige and position she was fast losing turough the imbecility of her aristocracy and-the timid- ity of her capitalists! What a revolution in the sentiments of the aristocracy and people of Great Brilain to admit this! A short time ago a Jew was not permitted to sit in Parliament, and it is not a long time since the despised Jews were proscribed, robbed and trodden upon by that haughty nobility which now takes one of them for its leider. How proud tuis Israelite must be! How delighted the Jews everywhere must be! This fact is one of the marve's of this wonderful age. Disraeli has realized in himself the Jewish hero of his novel (“Coningsby”), who pulled the wires that controlled the destiny of nations. This work of fiction—this dream of romance—has become fact in the actual position of the author. Here it may be sail, indeed, that “truth is more strange than fiction.” Did Disraeli foresee the important réle he was going to play when he wrote Coningsby? Or was it the earnest desire to bring honor to his des- pised race, or the force of his own ambition that carried him up to his present eminence? The Jewish hero of his romance had no nation- ality, in the true patriotic sense of that word. He wasa citizen of the world, full of ambition, exercising vast power in a secret manner, much as the Grand Master of the Jesuits used to do, an1 moved monarchs, ministers of State and the affairs of nations like puppets. Was this hero of Benjamin Di:rael’s brain the model of her Majesty’s present Cabinet Minis- ter? Is Disracli acting out the character his imagination created? Up to this time Disracli has done well for England, as we have seen in the matter of the Peace Conference, and is doing well for the party of which he is the leader, simply in a strict party sense; but it has to be seen whether be has more ambition than patriot- ism, and whether he will be a safe leader and minister in the future. In this country the native born citizens of the Jewish race become iden- tified with the interests of the republic, though they maintain a sort of nationality among themselves. They have all the privileges of otber citizens, and they have every incentive to patriotism. They have no remembrances here of past disabilities or persecution to separate them from the great body of their fellow citizens or to weaken their love of the countsy, In Europe, althoagh their disabili- ties have generally been removed, they are separated, in a measure, and in feeling a good deal, from the people among whom they live. They have there a more distinct nationality among themselves. This is the case in England, as well as in other countries, and perhaps more so there than in France. Mr. Disracli un- doubtedly represents the feelings and charac- teristics of his race, though he might be un- willing to admit it. This, we think, is clearly shown in bis work to which we have referred. The question arises here, then, does he possess the conservative patriotism of the Anglo Saxon people in all that relates to England? How- ever petted and used by the aristocracy, and however much trusted by the sovereign, it is nataral to suppose he would be biased by his peeuliar feelings and sentiments, and that his ambition would be greater than his love of England or of the people who are not of his race. In speaking of race we do not neces sarily mean the religion a man may profess, and Mr. Disraeli may be » good High Church Protestant, for all we know; we refer only to the characteristics of the natare and affilia- tions of people of different races, and of the Jews in particular. Is Disraeli, then, a safe guide, whatever may be his notions or bow- ever great his talents, for England ? Should the revolution which underlies society in Europe, and which begins to rock a safe person at the helm of Statet Poor Louis XVI. called Necker, a sort of Swiss Jew, to be the Finance Minister of France ats critical ately, the French government paying cost Pit or affiliation with the old Lome “ om aristocracy of England beyon at which his political ambition creates for the time, The Staaleys, the Russells aad the other representatives of the old aristocracy, might defend their order and privileges, or the honor of England, to the lastextremity, at the cost of their lives even, but we should not expect that in this speculative, romancing statesman, of a race that claims to have a sort of a nationality of its own, separate and distinct from the rest of the world. We regard the elevation of Dis- raeli to the high and controlling position he occupies ag one of the remarkable sigus of this revolutionary age, His futuro career will be an interesting study for the philosoph:r or historian. We shall watch events in England with the deepest interest, now that she has laid aside her old aristocratic leaders and placed her destiny in the hands of a Jew. The Indian War and the Pew-wew Tactics. The dress parade excursion of a part of our United States forces through the Indian coun- iry still continues. The troops have halted for a time, probably, to send to Chicago for corn for the cavalry horses, which it appears has given out, The men also require a little rest; for, after fatiguing marches of from ten to fifteen miles per day, under a heavy load, it cannot be expected that they are in a condi- tion to pursue the lively redskins, who, from the surrounding hills, are looking at them and wondering what this new exploring expedition of the regular army can mean. It appears also that our military men have made the discovery—which they annually reach by practical demonstration—that the Indian will not wait to be overtaken ; they have therefore opened the old pow-wow system of tactics, and our poetical pets are to be talked into submission. Qa the Ist inst, General Hancock had a talk with the Kiowas, and they very kindly promised to use their influence with other tribes. There is real ‘strategic genius in this talking business—it may lead to ‘8 peace of two or three months and some fat contracts for Indian supplies, At least the halt incident to it will enable our troops to bring uo the long and comfortable baggage trains, loaded with ‘all those little luxuries so necessary for a soldier who sacrifices hia love of quiet to the rade life incident to a march upon our Western praities, or in the rough cafions of our Rocky Mountain slope. We sympathize deeply with the officers of the expedition, who are forced from the quiet of their cosy quarters and sent by the cruel order of onr War Department upon these far-off tours, where they are exposed, according to official report, to insults of the gravest nature from savage foes who, just out of rifie range, make the rudest and most unciv- ilized gestures at the gilt mounted gentlemen who creep through their territory. Trac, the offi- cers have the satisfaction of knowing that they. can go through a battalion and brigade drill in front of thes? rude sons of our Westera wilds, and that, if their tormentors would only stop, mass themselves in regular organization and give battle, they could take signal vengeance upon them for their radeness. There is no common sense in these Indian tactics, and our officers are not to blame if the Indians will not fight according to the rules taught at West Point. If the veteran Austrian generals com- plained that the first Napoleon set aside all rules of warfare, surely we should not condemn our military men if they make the same com- plaint about savages who have no education, and who have never been taught the rules of modern tactics. Would it not be a good idea, in view of these things, to stipulate, in some of our periodical Indian treaties, that the sons of some of the leading Indian army officers or politicians shall be appointed as cade's to our Military Academy? It will be a splendid piece of strategy, and even Indian astut-new will not be able to see throngh it, Then the copper-colored heathens ‘will organies their forces in such a manner that we can get at them and teach them that they are no longer to desolate our fron‘ier, hang along the line of march of our best regular troops and make sport of som: of our best military men. In the old colonial history of our country we read of great deeds of Indian fighting per- formed by the semi-civilized colonists, who, untatored in military science, adopied, for want of something better, the tactics of the Indians themselves. Of course we cannot ex- pect this in modern days; it would be contrary to rule, The necessities of such warfare demand a heavily armed trooper, with heavy ammunition, a well filled knapsack of com- fortable clothing, heavily accoutred horses fed on corn and oats to catch a Mexican bare- backed mustang fed on prairie grass, and a long train of army wagons to carry supplies and camp equipage, that when dread night comes the animals may be corralled inside the circle formed by the train, and thus saved from the prowling marauders who nightly threaten to leave the cavalry on foot, This grent Indian war will result in much good to us, We shall have the pleasure of knowing that the enormous outlays of the War Department are for some purpose, while the experience to our officers and men in Indian campaigning will be invaluable. Mach as we are behind the times, we should like to sce a new trial of tactics—an imitation of the Indien. We would look with pleasure upon the organization of a force that would live as the Indians live, fight as they fight, feed ‘as they feed, be ag tireless in pursuit as they are in retreat, and make war with as much keenness of strategic cunning as they wage it. Our frontiers then might be less subject to the revolting massacres that desolate them from time to tims. Our great West would then Teapect instead of deride the efforis of our government to protect them, and the expenses of keeping the Indian tribes under control would be reduced ninety per cent pany will despatch for New Archangel and Sitka on the Ist of Jane, being the first steamer of « regular line. So mueh for Yankee enterprise. The purchase has been scarcely concluded before we com- mence its civilization. In less than six months we shall have several blubber-eating repre- sentatives, and two Senators clothed in walrus hite, representing Walrussia in. Congress. ‘They will then be able to compare notes with the black Congressmen the Southern from z meat and traip ofl for hog and hominy. Onr driyfng countrymen of tbe I hd eS PETES ET ot aida eI \ will soon make Walrussia to them what New- foundland is to us; and within a few years we shall even expect to hear that their Osheries surpass any in the known world. The whole interior of the country is, from the most relis- ble accounts, teeming with natural wealth— immense forests and mineral deposits. The government will have to bestir iiself with more than usual rapidity, or the Sam Francisco newspapers will publish the accounts of explorations by their own private citizens which will make all dats gathered by the red tape explorers of very litile value. The Approaching Yachting Season. The sporting world is on the gui vive im regard to the programme of the New York Yacht Club for the coming season. Satishe- tory as have been the performances of the Club in the past, they bid fair to be eclipsed by ite doings in the present, First we are to have the usual June regatta, with several new fea- tures, the most important of which is the equalization of the disparity between the larger and smaller yachts in point of time. This will bring into the contest not only s greater number of vessels, but the largest and finest of the Club. The ocean sweepstake which is to come offom the 11th of July will, however, be the grand affair of the season. It will offer, perhaps, as fair a test of the sea-going qualities of the vesvels entered as the Atlantic race, the only difference being that the one will be a course of, two hundred, while the other was s rum of bree thousand miles, It will tess the speed of the different classes of yachts equally with the longer race, such vessels as the Widgeon and. Phantom having as fair a chance in it as their larger competitors. As the English yachts will be allowed to compete, we shall,, in all probabilly, have o fair number of foreign entries. This, in addition to the crowd of American yachts which will be entered, will make up a list euch as no other contest of the same kind either here or abroad has perhaps presented. ‘ We are glad of the introduction of foreign rivalry in these races. We have always beatem the English yachte whenever we have becm brought into competition with them in their own waters. Latterly, they claim that they build vessels which can whip ours, and we should like to have the thing tried. We shall give them every opportunity that hospitality 4 and fair play call tor, and we shall be ready to embrace the same chances when they offer them to us, There is nothing that wo should more desire to establish than a frequent inter- change of these visits and couriesies beiwoem the yachtmen of different countries. Why ; should not the English yachtmen, who make voyages up the Mediterranean and even to points in the Arct’c Ocean, make the trip across the Atlantic as a matier of regular summer enjoyment? We have demonstrated how safely it can be done at the worst period of the year. Sarely they will imitate our example, now that they see that there is so little ris» attending it. We should like to see yachting become with us not merely a national sport, but, as with the English, 9 means of family enjoyment We see no reason why those who patronize such places as Newport and Saratoga should aot prefer spending the money which they sqiander there, at the expense of health and comfort, on the waters of the Sound or in cosst ing our shores. We can promise them that they will not only pass their time more healthfully, but in regard to actual comfort, more to their taste. Our yachts are not what they were a dozen years ago. Instead of sixty tons, which was then considered ® ‘large size, they are now built of a tonnage which would almggt enable them to mike a voyage round the world. A family on board one of these boats will find itself as comfortably, nay, almost as luxuriously accommodated asin ite own home. The first. disagreable ordeal of sickness passed, they will acquire a taste for the sea which will endure while they live ang which will unquestionably conduce to proloag their lives, In anticipating the arrival of English yachtmen during the summer it will be sald we are over sanguine, seeing that our challenge cup, which bas been so long offered to foreign competition, has not as yet excited their ambition. Last year this would have been a sufficient reason for discouraging the Americans, like to be beaten on their own element. They will not forgive us the oceam ’ yacht race until they have demonstrated that they can do as well if not better. This is our guarantee that they will come. Let us unite to give theme right royal—no, a right repubili- can reception. ‘Trouble Among the National Banke. We learn by a special from New Orleans to the Hanatp that commissioners from Washington had arrived in that olty “te. inquire into the affairs of the national banks and the Sub-Treasury, respecting which there” is some trouble.” The correspondent that “nothing will be lost by the government, however, and will recover every dollar.” We learn also from Washington “that 5 i < a iff ft ! i : i g : i i ig i E - art iii as to the real character of the system. Having the Of law apd some connection with the aFe led ta truse te corporations, bet beve are ns cre