The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. Goveracr Brownlow's Tennowseo mifitia ts onasing ‘trouble in the eniddie portion of the State, Several men ‘have been shot at by them, and ono was killed. A meot- tug Of citizens was held, and they decided that if Presi- dent Johnsen would uot protect them they would pro- tect themsetves, ‘The great trotting match between the two celebrated atallions, George M. Patchen, Jr., and Commodore Van- dorbilt, for $2,000, mile heats, best three in five, in har- ness, came off on tho Union Course, Long Island, yester- day, Patchen won the second, third and fourth heats, the first being a dead heat, The best time was 2:26. The Indians on the Piatte river are indulging without stint in the savage iuxury of killing white men and burn- {og ranches They are in large numbers, and, although loudly profeasing peace, they practice vigorous war. Infantry is stationed in their neighborhood, but the red men merely laugh at thom, A few citizens wore uas- sacred near Laramie station om Saturday. General Sherman was recently invited to a public re- ception on the occasion of his departure for Europe and the Holy Land by some of the prominent citizens ot Now York, but he has declined, on the ground that he will not at present make the intended tour, as the state of affairs in the Indian country demands his presence and attention Judge Kelley delivered the closing-apeech of his Southern campaign at Danville, Va, yesterday. Tho Goual crowd was assombied, with the additwon of several lady teachers of colored schools on the platform. A vote of (banks was Lendered the Judge at tho concinsien. General O'Neil, heFeniandeader, hasbeen travoting incogmte Gurenge Canada ducing the. past six weeks, and oo Mouday arrived at Prescott and oxamited che works at Fort Wetliigion, by permission of the com. mandant at thai place, He tuen covurned safely to the American sito, ‘The Mary!and Constitutional Convention has adopted aoubstitute for an article of the Bill of Rights, with reference to slavery, which claims that compensation is due for the slaves freed by the United “tates, ‘The new statue of Henry Clay was unveiled at Louts- ville yesterday. An oration was dolivered by Judgo Bullock, an ode written for the occasion by Georgo D. Prentice was sung, and an imposing procession was beld. A double tenement building foll in Norfolk, Va, yes- terday, burying several persons in the ruins. The body of one wop'an was exhumed, and nearly ail the citizens were bard at work searching for othora, A groat republican mass meoting of whites and blacks was hold ia Washington yesterday, at which Represen- tatives Ashley, Stewart and others made addresses, Resolutions of the usual complexton were adopted. The Vermont Republican Convention, at Montpelier, yesterday nominated John B. Page, of Rutland, for Governor, and Colonel Stephen Thomas for Lioutenant Governor. Our Southern letters recount the situation in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Goorgia, Alabama and Louistana, One hundred and fifty acres of ground on Hampton creek, in Virginia, bave been purchased by tho American Missionary Association, on which they propose to erect @ training school for colored teachers. Our Canadian tolegrams ay that Mr, Belleau is to be Lioutenant Governor of the new Dominton of Canada, Mr. Field, from the Birmingham Board of Trade, is in Canada agitating the question ‘among other Boards of ‘Trade of abolishing privateers during war. ‘The United States steamor Monongahela arrived at St. Croix on the 15th instant, A bill of complatnt was filed against the firm of John Frazer & Co, of Charleston, yesterday by the Dtatrict Attorney, charging them with violations of the. federal lawe in blockade running operations. ‘Ad injunction was granted reatraining Hhom from sottiag aay real cstate. . Appleton now we learn within « fow weeks all about the movements of commerce there, the political events, and even the inoideats of everyday life. What a wonderful revolution! Similar progress is taking place with and in China, that other more populous and mighty Mon- golian empire of Asia. We might almost believe that the millennium, of which the religious world has Long dreamed, ia at hand. till, as we said before, these remarkable developments aré but the beginning of the new age. The earth will be girdled ore long in every direction with the magnetic tele- graph. That laid under the Atlantic ia the precursor of others, not only beneath the waters of that ocean, but under the Pacific, the Caribbean, and other oceans and seas also. The laying of the Atlantic cable and Its suc- cessful operation have demonstrated the prac- ticability of connecting all the continents and islands of the world in the same way. Several projects ‘are already proposed to lay other cables between the shores of Weatern Europe and America, and we have no doubt th y be carried ont, thus ¢ peniug and onlarging commualeation be ween the two continents. A cable is cortly fo be laid between Cuba and Florida. It will not be long before biexico and all the States of Central and South Amer- ica will be in hourly communication with New York. Then we shall havea Pacific cable to enable us to communicate instantly and frecly with the hundreds of millions of Chinese, Japanese, Hindoos and other races in Asia. That is what we are coming to; that is what will surely be accomplished within a few yeara Here, then, is New York, the very centre of all thia surprising progress. With one hand we grasp Europe, and with the other Asia. The Atlantic and Pacific railroads, stretching aoress this continent, will be completed in a few JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR, MANAGER. pRoaDWAY AND ANN STRERT. Volume XXXI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVEN BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. o Last Liens, o8 Tux ELOPEMENT. near Broome SISTERS’ NEW YORK THEATRE, sic New Kork Hotel—Tax Invisisix Pauvcs—oum. 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London will cease to be the financial centre. New York is destined to have the money power which the British capital has held so long. The whole system of trade and commercial exchanges will be revolutionized, merchants buying and selling in different countries will be brought in direct communication by the magnetic tele- graph, intermediate agents will be dispensed with, and this country and city, from geo- graphical position and enterprise, must necos- sarily become the centre of trade, commerce, financial operations, news and ideas. Suoh is the grand future whioh the citizens of New York and the American people may contem- plate. Bee Amoricny, Department ta the Parse Kia- “| See York, F Friday, May Eee! net hee Tan N 2 w 8. EUROPE. ‘Ths nows report by the Atlantic cable is dated yos- Corday evening, May 30. Latonse aud painful anxiety concerning the fate of the Kmperor Maximilian prevailed in the Oid World. Lord Manley informed the English House of Commons that the Cabinet had no official information on the subject Tho Schleswig question has originated a fresh com- piloation, but its character is not defined. The Crar Alexander of Russia left St. Petersburg for Paria on Wednesday. The King of Prussia will, it is aid, be accompanied by Count Bismarck during his visit to Paris. Francis Joseph of Austria is expected to visit Napoleon on the lst of July. The Spanish Cabinet is Considering the question of the abolition of slavery in the colonies of the kingdom. Consols closed firm at 94%; for money in Lendon. Pivetwenties were at 723; in London and 77% im Frank- The Liverpool cotton market closed. at an advance of pacrideonarsc grea ha oat his wife Pre The American Pnararyy appears te: be ono-cighth of a penny, middling uplands rating at 11454, ||: ie comparatively, insignificaat amid .all the Brenteiuls Arm and mpehenent.,,.Frevisions re. Now Vork (he Contre of the World. -aplendors of the Parla Euhibitiog. ‘Noverthotess THE: CIty. Wo are aptto boast a little of-our: we.chould not ‘be surprised if it ware ound to The Board of Councilmen met yesterday. A reso- {ution was presented directing the. Street Commissioner to remove the railroad tracks which some unauthorized persona are now laying in Jay and Hudson streets. The Mayor returned the ordinance directing the Seventh ave- nus to be paved with the Stafford pavement. An amend. moat was made to it providing that the city and the Property owners sbail bear an equal share of the expense, nd the paper, as amended, was laid over, The Board of Health met yesterday, when the weekly coport of tenement house inspectors was read. The counsel for the Board read an opinion declaring the present form of marriage certificate legal and in con- formity with all religious beliefs. Dr. Stone reported rat wooden pavemouts were unhealthy. ‘The Board of Excise also met, a were revoked. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction yesterday, Fesolations were adopted establish - img ap asylum for the blind, in accordance with an act of the Legislature appropriating $20,000 for that pur- pose. y The Committee on Railroads of the Board of Council- mon mot yesterday, and heard additional complaints against the use of steam on the Eleventh avenue, A Brooklyn street cleaning contractor was fined yes- terday (or not keeping his streets clean. ta the matter of the application ef Emeline Merey, ‘siting for relief from certain acts alleged to have been committed by one Chas. H. Bertrand, an attorney of his city, arising out of the transfer to the petitiover of @ hoase and lot on Sixteenth street, and on whose af- @avit, with two others, an order to show cause was @ranted, affidavits were produced in the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, made by Emeline Merey, Elise Attenheim and Egbert Van Santen, denying that they ever made the former depomtions, A reference was or- Gorm) to cotablish the identity of the parties. The onder of arrest against Anibel Bincchi, in the suit brought against him by Francisco Mazzolent, in which the latter claimed that Biacehi had appropriated about $5,500 of the plaintiffs funds, was vacated yesterday by Mr, Justice Sutherland, at Supreme Court, Chambers. ‘The parties were co-partners in an operatic enterprise subsidized by Maximilian in the City of Moxico. Sadge Barnard bas recently rendered a decision hold- fog that the provisions of the State statute of 1862, whieh gives to the State courts power to enforce liens againat ships and vessels, are in contravention of the constitution of the Usited States and acts of Congres, which vest the power to enforce maritime claims ex- chusively in the United States Courts of Admiralty. This ocinion overturns a long settled course of proceedings in the State courts to enforce claims by seizing and sub jocting vessels to sale without the long delays atiending actions at law against the owners or agents. Io the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday, # motion was made by defendant for the removal to the United Matea Cireuit Court of the case of Wm. A. Britten vs. Benjamin F. Butler, arising out of ects doue by the lattor while in command of the Department of the Guif. The motion was granted. A motion for alimony was made in the Court of Com- mon Ploas, Chambers, yesterday, in the case of Ann Conoaughton wa Thomas Connaughton, an action for ‘@\vorce on the ground of alleged adultery. The Court Granted $15 por week pending the trial of the action. «© (n tho case of Hemry Steele, Jr., convicted of a charge of forcing a widow's pension certificate, Judge Ship- man provding, in the United States Circuit Court, yes- terday, granted motion for anew trial. The prisoner wilt in the meantime be discharged from arrest. The Judge denied the motion tor a now trial in the case of Joba H. Trapp, convicted of « charge of forging a #0l- Gier’s bounty certificate, Trapp will be Urought up this morning for sentence, ‘Tho stock market was ull and rather beavy yestor- day. Gold closed at 1972; Business continged dull yesterday, and wut little was done inf either foreign or domestic merchandive as a rule, and there were but few exceptions to the rule. Coffee was anchanged. Cotton was low active. On ‘change flour coatinued dull, and prices further dechaed 10e, 8 26c, Wheat was dull, bat firmly bela. corn opened firmer, but closed dull at previous prices, Oats wore Io @ Qc lower. Pork closed firmer. Reef ra. mained steady, while lard was duil and beavy. Freights were a ahade lower, Whiskey was steady. Petroleum continued quiet, but firm, while naval sores geueraity wore w thout important change. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Matamoros, Mexico, deapatches contain & resome Of affairs immediately preceding the fall of Queritaro, Gonoral Diaz bag released several hundred imperial pris. vers, with the understanding that their cases will be dnponed of by (he government at some otber time. Jot Davie arrived in Toronto yesterday, and was re- onived with emthosigatic choers by a large crowd asem. biod a4 the pier where he landed Gouetal Barly was with him he left 1OF Nisgars Haile ‘@ thy atverwvon. ful city of New York. And who can blamé us? We have reason to be proud. No nation before ever had such an inheritance and glorious future. Never was there a people who could contemplate such astonishing growth of their chief city. No city ever bad such a prospect of eclipsing all the mighty cities of modern or ancient times. Here, where but a short time ago, reckoning time by the history and growth of nations and cities, there was but a amall settlement of colo- nists, there is now over a million of inhabi- tants. We say over a million, because Brook- lyn and the other suburbs of New York are all parts of the metropolis, just as much as the boroughs of Southwark and Finsbury and the cities of Westminster and London form parts of the British capital. But great and wealihy and populous a8 New York has become in so short a period, the present is only the beginning of its future greatness. Geographically, financially, com- mercially and politically, it is destined to be the centre of the world. So rapidly are com- merce, communication between nations, even between those the moat distant and exclusive heretofore, and civilization progressing under the quickening power ot the electric telegraph, stoam navigation and railroads, that there are those living now who will sce, probably, this metropolis the first in population v3 well a¢ in wealth and influence. We have been led to these reflections by contemplating tho effect of the telograph and steam communication as shown in the preas. For example, the pages of the Herat are filled with news day after day from all parts of the world. We spread before our readers all the important news of what is tPanspiring in every part of Europe as rapidly as events occur. It takes only a few hours to do this ; sometimes, in fact, the news is ahead of time, and we know at ten o'clock in the morning what has occurred at one or two o’clock of the same day. Truly it may be said the Atlantic telegraph is one of the marvels of this mar- vellous age. From our superior facilities for obtaining information the press of Europe has been indebied to us sometimes for the news of what had-oceurred under its nose, and the first information received has been that which was flashed back from America through the Atlantic cable, Our merchants and financial men learn hourly of the state of the markets in Europe, and those in Europe know the siate of the markets here. These and other advantages too numerous to particularize in this brief arti- ole, to commerce, to financial operations and to the progress of civilization, are the result of telegraphic communication. But steam is producing extraordinary effects also. We see this in the departure and arrival daily of numerous steamships, which spread before the public full details of what trans. pired a few days before. The people on boih sides of the ocean are learning fast all that relates to each other. The outside world ix no longer a sealed book. The people of each nation may now learn what is going on among those of every other nation. Men everywhere are becoming thoroughly educated in the affairs of the whole-world. As regards Europe and America, this has been going on some time; bat latterly we have witnessed extra- ordinary progress in other parts of the globe. For instance, we published yesterday highly interosting news from Japan up to April 28. We know what happened in that empire @ month ago, throngh the Pacific Mail steam- ships and the telegraph between San Francisco and thie clty. A year or two since the Japanese empice was almost a lerra incognilay This happened atthe ret World’s Fair in Paris, when. the grand gold medal of honor was bestowed om an Amorican reaping machine. American aupertority in agricultaral machines implements of war, has already secured Euro- pean recognition. The last letter of our Paris corre4pondent mentions two incidents which show that the American department of the Ex- hibition has attracted the special attention of the Emperor Napoleon and of the Prince of Wales. The Prince, whose first appearance aa & public patron of the fine arta was recently noticed in the Henan, expressed his pleasure at secing certain pictures by American artists with whose names and works he had become familiar during his visit to the United States, The Emperor oharacteristically reserved his admiration for two revolving cannon, which, by turning « crank, poured sand and shot into a hopper, it is said, at the rate of twenty in eight seconds. These cannon mysterioisly disap- peared from their place in tho American de- partment, and it was eacertained that they had been taken to Vincennes and tried in the pre- sence of the Emperor, who had twice visited and examined them at the Exhibition. The official catalogue of the American de- partment has just been published, and it oon- tains one thousand articles, represented by six hundred exbibitors. Of the latter Rhode Island, Georgia, Mississippi, Toxw, Aricansas, Colo- rado, Nebraska and Oregon have aach one ; Kentucky, Alatamn, West Virginia and Florida, each two; New Hampshire, Mianosota and Nevada, each three ; Virginia, four; Kansas, five; Vermont, six; Indiana, seven ;° Maine; eight; Iowa, nine; Wisconsin and Mary- land, each ten; Michigan, eleven; the Dia- trict of Columbia, fourteen ; New Jersey and Ohio, each nineteen ; Missouri, twenty; Con- necticut, twenty-five; [linois, twenty-oight ; California, thirty-three ; Louisisna, thirty-five; Pennsylvania, fifty-nine ; Massachusetts, one huadred and twenty-one, and New York two hundred and ninety-four. There are only one thousand articles on exhibition ; bat they may yet gain proportionately the largest number of high prizes. In the practical applications of science to the arts of peace and of war it is difficult to surpass the inventive genius of Americans. The foregoing lines were hardly in type when the news was received by the Atlantic cable that to an American mower had been awarded the first prize—the grand gold medal—at the Paris Exhibition. This new triumph of American skill sad ingenuity verifies our prediction. An Improvement in the Fire Department. The Fire Commissioners have determined to make two decided improvements in the manage- ment of the department, The bells are no longer to be sounded as an alarm for fires, and the loafers who congregate about the engine houses are to be dispersed. The bell alarms are of no other service than to gather rowdies and thieves to the locality of ¢ fire, and the fire telegraph is now in such perfection ot working as to render all other notification to the depart- ment needless. The system of joating about the engine honses is getting as bad as under the old volunteer department, and it should be stopped. Those who have no other employ- ment than to hang about such places should go West and work on farms or enlist in the army. We want two thousand recruits at the present peaceful time, and cannot get them, sithough we found oo difficulty in raising ® million and a half during the war, whoo fighting was wo be dow. years. By these the travel and a valuable por- | and implements, as well as in frearms and other. | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY MAY 31, 1867.—TRIPLE Anether Presidential Tenr. President Johnsam has been invited by the municipal authorities of Richmond to visit that picturesque and historical capital of Vir- ginia, Why should he not mike Richmond a point of departure for another Presidential tour, but quite different from the one he made last year out West? Let him travel through- out the South and show himself to the whites and blacks who have lately been staring at Wilson and Kelley; but let him profit by their blunders as well as by the blunders which he made himself on his last tour. Let him reli- glously avoid speechmaking. Above all, let him refuse to allow Seward to accompany him. Seward can stay at Washington and busy himself all summer writing reply to Sumner’s interminable gpeech on Russian America. Sumner, in his turn, can pass the whole of next winter in preparing a reply to Seward’s reply. While both are thus occu- pied the national affairs will. go on without any interruption on their part. Tho country wall not miss (hom nor mourn inconsolably it they retire for a few months from their habitual prominence io the foreground of con- temporary history. Should they get tired of retirement themsslves, let them mais a joint trip to Walrussia. If not frozen to death there ‘they might write on ther return a joint ac- count of their person] adventures. To write such am account at length—and neither of them could cut it short—would keep them out of sight of the public fo- at least a year longer. As “out of sight is out of mind,” they might deem it not worth while afterwards to return to active political live. Nor is it probable that the publio would importunately demand their return, Recoustruction—The Southern Vote and the Future. Under the Attorney General's strict dofini- tion of the disfranohising power of the Re- construction act the naumber of persons excluded from the pol's in the Southern States will be comparatively small. Not more than a hundred thousand will be shut out, perhaps not near so many. Ne persons are deciared to be positively and distinctly within the mean- ing of the act but members of Congress, mem- bers of State Legislatures, judges of State Courts, and those who form the executive department in a State government. It is even doubtful whether the law operates against all who have even held these specified offices, County, township and municipal officere—the vast body of officeholders whose disfranohise- ment might obange the result of an election— are not touched at all. “None should be excluded who are not clearly within the letter and intent ” of the law ; and thus every doubt is a practicable escape. Moreover, every aman is at the iast resort the judge in his own pase; for if he can arrange it with his con- | .sotenge that he is not included in one. of “th lasoge named, by. the law, or did apt “ particl- pate ia the rebellion,” es the act means, and will take the oath, his aame must goon the Toginter. He may take the Uhanve of « pos- sible aubsequent prosecution for perjury, and the Registers may know that he is clearly in that danger, yet, if he will swear, they have no | option but to record him as @ voter. We there- fore set down one hundred thousand’ as an out- ‘side limit of the number that the law will exclude from the polls. The South will then be left with one hundred thousand votes aa its political for a new career. As the three-fifths rule hes gone out with elavery, the representation must be based upon an enumeration of the whole popu- lation, and thus the Southern States will proba- bly return with eighty or ninety members of Congress. What will be the. political com- plexion of this representation it is not very difficult to foresee. Republican blunderers, by their mistaken dealings with the nigger, have made a consolidated opposition of the whole white vote ; and the white vote will elect three- fourths of all the new members. These mem- bers will act with the demoorats or with the conservative republicans, as occasion may re- quire, and will thus completely nullify that crushed down every attempt to modify their defiant, unreasoning, mere party rule in Cen- gross, whose vote of two to one could at the last be whipped in for an answer to any argu- ment. Thus the Southern members will restore a balance and put Congress again in the nor- mal condition-of a deliberative body. From the reiura of these members and the restora- tion of a balance in Congress we will have to date a new distribution of parties, New points of departure will be taken in our political history, and new divisions, perhaps, upon the great financial and commercial features of our policy will develop and intensify discussion that will change the direction of party activity and give the South a chance for that rest which is the greatest necossity for its complete resto- ration. Perhaps the radical policy may bo ao tar successful in the South that in the new South. ern representation there will be halfa dozen niggers. Should this be the case it will excite the wonder snd disgust of the world. It will be justly regarded as the most remarkable and revolting spectacle of the age. It will furnish 4n argument to those who hold that a tendency” to degradation exists in institutions based upon universal suffrage, since it will seem to show that in choosing our lawmakers froma race just brought ‘from a servile condition we do not seek to be governed by the wisdom, edu- cation and intellect of the nation, but are ready to pander to the most debasing debanchorios of democratic theo: y. ‘The Right Mae in the Right Place. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Even #0 apparently profitless an undertak ing as the Indian war forms no exception to the rule. For the last two years General Meagher has been lost to public view in the wilds of Montana. He might as well have been bodily interred, only that he left himself the chance of a resurrection. This now offers itself in the Indian war, which the people of Montana undertake to quell on their own ac- count. Meagher originated the movement, and if any one can carry it toa successful issne he is the man. He is us good at a palaver as at afight, and his eloquence is just of the character to suit the Indians. He will quiet them by talking their heads off—a much less costly and more humane process than that of extermi- nating them. We wish the General had been pressed into she service sooner. His figures of specoh might have saved ua many heavy figures of oxpendiiace two-thirds majority by which the radicals have, aes “Wk ade sn ings of tho different populstions—few such SHEET. Now York nnd the Herald—The World’s Con- tre and the Ceatre of the World’s News. Yesterday morning the Hasaup published an interesting special telegraphic report from Yokohama, Japan, by way of San Francisco, and our readers who had witnessed on the previous evening the wonderful performances of the Japanese imperial troupe of jugglers, at the Academy of Music, read over their break- fast coffee the account of events, diplomatic, social and political, recently transpiring at the far away home of that remarkable race. The news thus gathered by the enterprise of the Hezratp, through its special correspondents on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, embraced the movements of the foreign Ministers accre- dited to the Court of Japan from the United States, France, England and Holland ; the con- uot of the Tycoon ; the position and destina- tion of the vessels of the American squadron ; reports of rumored murders of Americans on the Island of Formosa, and of a disastrous fire at Yokohama, in which an American missionary waa a sufferer, with other interesting domestic and commercial intelligence. We draw attention to thin Japan report only ‘to illustrate our assertion that, aa New York is to be in future the centre of the commerce of the whole world, so the Huratp is destined, before many years, to be the centre of the news of the whole world. Our famous Bismarck special telegram from Boerliv, when resent over the Atlantic cable, first informed the startled people of Europe of the imminent danger of a European war. Before long this will be @ common occurrence. Speculative news associations have proved a total failure. The Associated Press of New York, although conducted with more enterprise now than ever before, is and always has been comparatively worthless. It seldom obtains an item of news ofreal importance, and has no means of getiing at any of the great political movements and the grave and secret matters pertaining to foreign governments. Reuter’s News Agency, at Lendon, and the Havas-Bullier Com- pany, in Paris, are equally ineffective. They are mere mechanical instruments for the collection and transmission of the public movements and known events of the day. But the Heeatp news is of a very different obar- acter. At a vast expense, and through a careful and laborious selection of correspondents, we have seoured the means of obtaining reliable, momentous and original news from all foreign courts and countries, which we can publish without any tear of censorship and with entire independence of its political effect. Every- (hing in our columns will be found at first hand, whether it be a meteoric shower, a horse race, a. disclosure of Bismarck’s policy, o king's speech, the settlement of British reform, the result of a peace conference, the fall of an empire, or the latest intelligence distributing agent of the news of the whole world. * Rumered Reduction of the Froach Army— o Dees it Moan Peace? hi To our issue of yesterday we duly chronicled the information received per the Atlantic cable, that the French government had already taken steps greatly to reduce the standing army. We have ao reason to doubt the cor- rectness of the information. If asked, how- ever, whether such a movement warrants belief ine lasting European peace, we should feel compelled to reply with a greater amount of caution. i 2 Few who have made themselvos acquainted, with the turnings and windings of diplomacy, or who at all understand the feel- persons will deny that it was the Exposition, the Exposition chiefly, the Expojition ‘alone, and.not the sagacity of. Lord ley, the genins of Disraeli, nor the gracious iptervention of Queen Victoria which enved Eurepe, on the occasion of the late Luxemburg diffienity, from the horrors of war. Peac# ‘at almost any price was necessary while the Exposition lasted. Peace was secured, and although the ee Et Tespect ing ch as Napoleon and the Fretich people ‘Foul jd have wished, they were on the whole as reasonable aa, in the circumstances, was to be expeoted. The Exposition, however, will be got over, and the suppressed feelings of the French people will burst forth with greater violence than ever, The claims to the Rhine boundaries may be revived. If they are revived Germany will resist them with greater determination than before. France, on the other hand, will respond with unanimity and enthusiasm to the Emperor's call. If difficulty on this or any kindred question should arise between France and Prussia—and that such difficulty will arise before next spring is more than probable—no Exposition will prevent the combatants from entering at once into fierce aud terrible con- flict. Napoleon, though past the prime of life, is vigorous enough for snother cam- pasign; and we may depend upon it, if occasion shall offer he will not shirk the respons@pilities of war. So long ax France is to be raled by Napoleon that rite must be sanctioned by success, The sad termina- tion of the Mexican business, and the snub- bing administered by Bismarck, render it neces- sary that somothing be done to recover pres tige. In spite of these rumors about reduo- tion, we have reason to believe that the French government is in the market, making large purchases of arms. What can this moun if i does not mean that war is at least a probability in the spring of next year? Warning the Bachet The divorce case on trial in the Court of Common Pleas is of quite another stamp from those with which the public is favored when the matrimonial quarrels of Chicago, Boston or Brooklyn force themselves ifite cour’. Boston the proper, Brooklyn the pious, sal Chieago the indiscriminate, always base their divoree claims upon infidelity —and the testimony never fails to exhibit abundant reason. Indeed, the two cities of Boston and Brooklyn—ssintly places that they are—are easily able to show, whon tuey come igto cowet, Una) tele lamily . _ ST circles coveryand include'such infidelity to the marriage vow,,and such an amount of social impurity, aa stasfles the thought of the least attentive thinker on the philosophy of mar- riage. But the case before us is a New York caso; the claim is based on “alleged cruel treat ment”—men treat their wives 40 barbarously here. There were “indignities, msults and in- juries.” There were—worse yet—stepdangh- ters. They “snatched the milk and sugar away” from the stepmother at table. They disputed for seats. When the wife, in the happy calm of the private apartments, called the hus- band’s attention to the horrible state of affairs— quietly, of course—like dear Mrs. Caudle, per- baps—he jumped out of bed and used language that would clearly have disgraced our army im Flanders. To cap the climax some one “made mouths.” Thus through the whole category of the little miseries and meannesses of human life the testimony in court drags its way, and thus under the influence of bad temper and worse advice an incongenial tarily circle pa- rades its quarrels. - And on such facts as these is based a suit of divorce for “cruel and intmmen treatment.” Fatal facility of coerts and iawyers. But evi- dentiy it is complimentary to the husbands of the city. They use their wives eo well that the worst that can be alleged is “making mouths;” and that passes for cruelty, Asylum for the 1 There are a great many crazy peeple at large, and there are a great many people whe are not crazy, that somehow or other get shut up in lunatic asylums. It is noteworthy that but few of this latter class ever manage to escape, while raging madmen often elude the supposed vigilance of their keepers, The reason of this is plain enough. For the safe cu tody of the one the keepers of lunatic asylums are paid highly by interested relatives, while for the retention of the other they reocive merely the ordinary allowance. The murder which was committed at Poughkeepsie the other day is no isolated proof of the justice of these remarks. All over the country we hear of similar things happsning without comment, it being only the peculiar circumstances of this case which have drawn a:tentlon to it. There are few of our public institutions which more urgently call for reform, and which receive leas of the consideration of our legia- latora than the asylums for the oare of the insane. The mismanagement and corruption that prevail in them are notorious. It requires but the liberal employment of money to get persons of weak mind, but otherwise harmless, shut up in them. Where persons of this claas are in possession of or entitled to property the inducement to thus dispose of them is of course very great. In nine cases out of ten the grounds om which they ase consigned to the courts; but as, unfortunately, those who ne. are not heard of again until they are liberated from their sufferings by death. This is a terrl- ble power to exercise, jand oughtmot to be tele- rated fora moment. When we have super. added to it the fact that the more dangerous a madman is the more liberty he is allowed by his keepers, we think'it time that there should be an overhauling ‘of the entire system. Cer tainly, as, they ace at present conducted, there ‘can’ be no greater discredit to our boasted civilisation and love.of progress than the coa- dition of these institutions. Amerioan Enterprise and British Blundore te , China. A correspondent of the Hxxatp, who calle attention to the progress the Americans arq making with the Chinese, seems to think that them valuable grants for navigating rivers and constructing telegraphs. We have no doubt that our correspondent ie corréct in supposing that we have got the start of England in the opening commerce of China, and that we know enough to keep the advan- tage we have gained. The acquisition of Rus- sian America is important,in- this view, as weil as in the opportunity it affords us of establish- ing a successful rivalry of the Hudson Bay Company. The sympathies of the Chinese will naturally be with the United States, and'it will be to Yankee enterprise -that they will owe those great improvements which will open their eyes to the folly of shutting themselves out of & progressive world. Before long lines of rail- road will be built ali over the Flowery King- dom by American engineers, snd locomotives will be ran and trains conducted by Ameri- cans. Telegraph lines will be erected by Yaus kees from Bombay to Shanghae, end from Pekin to6t. Petersburg, and Yankee operators will be sending messages for the astounded Celestials and flashing back replies with o rapidity that will make their pigtails stand on end with astonishment. Dividends on Chines railroad and telegraph bonds will be paid in Wall street. Shares in Kaifung and Woshung Joint Stock Tea Growing and Importing Com- panies will be sold in Wall street. Wall stroes brokers will fight for directorships in the Com tral China Railroad corporation, and “make corners” on the stock as soon as they obtain control of its management. Then the Hrrano will publish daily reports of the imperial edicts of the Hoang-ti; of the interesting condition of the health of the Hoaig-hoi; of battles with the rebels; together with all other news from Canton, Hong Kong and Nankin, and all points of interest in the great msi SINKING OF A STEAMBOAT WNT " m7 CUMBERLAND RIVER. ~~ Nasevrae, May 30, 1867. The steamboat Coneral Sigel was snagged to-day, forty miles above hore, and sunk ia seven fect of water, She was heavily loaded with tobacco and cura, & steamer bow been gent Wo hor coer