The New York Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, JAMES CORDON BENNETT, JR., MANAGER, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henatp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW BVENING. WAY THEATRE, Broadway, um PoNcunace, ethene NBW YORK THEATRE, 738 and 730 Broadway.—Tus Prenou Srr—Naval ENGAGEMENTS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Damon anp Prraias. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Anass 1x THEIR Wowprarut Paxronmances. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Oxivan Twist. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSEOM, Broadway and ‘Thirtioth street.—A Kiss iv tax Dank. TERRACZ GARDEN. Third Avenue, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets.—Tuxopoxs Tuomas’ Founta Scwpay Concmar, at §0'Clock P.M. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THBATRE, 473 Broadway.— Bator, Faxce, Pantomime, Boruxsave: Como ‘any SexrvcentaL Vocatisus, £0.— MASTER, HOOLEY'SOPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ernrortaw Mine gmatey, Bautaps and Buntesques.—Wno Can Finp Us Now! NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 6!3 Fi Heap axp Ricut Anu of Pronst—Tue W. ns—Wonvars mx NatuRAL Histor: Lxcruans Darr. Open from 8 4. Scorer iy EUROPE. The news report by the Atiantic cable is dated yeater- day evening, July 6. Ismatt Pasna, King of Egypt, arrived in London from Paris, and enjoyed a very grand reception, The King is the guest of Berl Dadley. Itis said that the French army will be reduced by thirtyM¥e thousand men, The Fenian convict Condon, condemned for treason, has been fet free through the exertions of United States Minister Adams, and will sail for America. Consois closed at 9414, for money, iu London, twenties wore at 73 in London and 77%; in Paris, In the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands tlosed at 10:44, Breadstuffs dull. Provisions and pro- duce without material change. THE CITY. Superintendent Kennedy has issued an order forbid- ding the transportation of liquor through the Metropoli- tan district on Sundays. There are no cases of contagious fever on the hoe- pital ship in the lower bay, and there has been but one doath at Qnarantine duriog the present year. The bark King Harold, from Matanzas, put in on the 4th, the captain and mate and two of the crew having died of yellow fever and tho remainder of the crow being pros- trated with over exertion and fear. They were sent to the hospital ship. We publish this morning the internal revenue returns of the principal manufacturers and wholesale dealers of tho Fifth district, New York eity, Thomas Hudson, pilot of the steamer Norwalk, was yesterday arraigned before Justice Hogan on the charge of running his vossel ‘nto a rowboat in the harbor, and thereby causing the dasth by drowning of two men, William R. Tait and Charles Stewart. Two of Tait’s children who were in the boat were rescued, and yes- terday mado statements before Justice Hogan in the matter, Hodson deciares he is not guilty, He gave Dall { $5,000 to await the result of an examination. The stock market was strong yesterday, Governments were steady. Gold closed at 139, Domestic produce was generally quit, but quite steady. Morchandise was very firm, and ina fow com- modities a fair business was done. Coffee was steady. Cotton was a shade firmer. Oa ‘Chango State and Western flour was quict but steady, Wheat ruled quiet but firm. Corn was irregular; common was in light de- mand and lower, while prime was active and firm. Oats advanced 1c. a 2c. per bushel. Pork closed firmer. Beef ruled steady, and lard dull and heavy. Freights Temained heavy, Naval stores were rather more active. Petroloum was not so firm, MISCELLANEOUS. Tho Austrian steamer Elizabeth and the United States revenue cutter Wilderness, at New Orleans, have both been ordered to Vera Crua, the former to take up any Austrians who may remain after the collapse of the em- pire, and the latter with despatchés from the State De- partment, The wife of President Juarez was to have gone on the cutter, but failed to reach New Orleans in time, It is believed that Juarez on entering the city of Mexico will immediately convoke Congress and tender his resignation as President. Despatches from the Piains state that the Sioux on the Upper Missouri have completely overawed ali the tribes disposed to be friendly, and in consequence no while man's life is safe in that portion of the country, The Osage bands, aithough perfectly hostile, are dis- posed to carry on theit war according to the regulations, and move slowly and with great precaution, keeping their pickets and scouts in every direction. Governor Crawford has dootared that the stories of agents in regard to the treatment of the Indiana by settlers are all untrue, and says that what is required is a prompt and offensive war. He further says that if Congress does not soon take matters in hand he will, The prosecution in the case of Surratt finally closed yesterday, and the case was opened for the defence ina speech by Mr. Bradley, Jr, in which he set forth the facts to be proven by thedefence, They all tend towards an alibi and the absence of the prisoner's name from the written agreement said to have been signed by the conspirators to do their bloody work. Beyond these points the main item of defence appears to be the dis- orediting of the testimony just givea by the prosecution, Our Washington dispatch also states that the expected attacks upon prominent public offictais will probably De forthooming as the evidence proceeds. The reported new island in the Pacific hamproved a delusion, There is no land within five hundred miles of the point designated. It is understood in New Orleans that General Sheridan had written an order yesterday removing the City Connell, but om second thoughts concluded not to issue is until be bad seen im what direction the legisiation of Congress was likely to tend. Ap investigation is at present being made into the abstraction of $300,000 worth of Louisiana Trust bonds {m New Orleans, which were said to have been wholly ia the charge of the military. Marshal Murray and three of his deputies appeared tn the Circuit Court,of Queens county yesterday, at Jamaica, I. L, and entered inte bonds for their appearance in c spmection with the alleged abduction case of Mr. Phillip © tanley. A digest of the differences existing between the Hell- ¢°'0 pilot and the steamboat owners on the Sound, r -rding navigation through that pass, will be found + vhere this morning. ) Tage for pugilistic exhibitions is by so means ‘, although the market for that species of merchaa- ‘as probably never 80 completely glutied as at & Joe Smith and Jack Adams, two young aspl- from Jersey City, mauled one another indiserimi- ~ near Hudson yesterday, the inducements being ood between them and $150 aside. Arter five according to the arte of war, they commenced an rough and tambie fight, opposed to ali reguia- atil Smith, being kicked when down, was de.* 19 winner, cquest was held yesterday st Jamaica, Long pon the body ef the colored man, George Wash- who was stabbed at that place on the Fourth of y Another colored maa gamed Elias Willmore, and tes eines died. The Coroner's Jury found Willmore guil'y, aad sent him to the county jail to await tbe sotion of the Grand Jury, ~ Jue coroner's Inquest in the case af the Winer of Five- Patrick Tormay at Newark, N, J., was continued yoator- day, and was further adjourned til! this morning. It is expected that Governor Brownlow will order the ‘arrest of all the county courts by which judges of elec- tion have recently been appointed in Tennessee. Many apparently honest citizens living along the Canadian border, it is discovered, have been extensively engaged in smuggling for several months past, by which means they have dofrauded the government out of thou- sands of dollars, The negroes of Richmond, in caucus assombied, have decided to run a colored candidate for Mayor and a ma- Jority of the Council. Four more eases of yollow fever were reported in Gal- veston yesterday. Santa Anna and Mexico. This political Mexican Barnum has at length had justice meted out to him. According to our advices, he was shot at Sisal on the morn- ing of June 25. Thus the oldest and most sturdy opponent of the progress of Mexico has disappeared from the stormy sea of Mexican politics, Throughout his whole life he was one of the most consistent of all the generals of his party; for he never undertook a campaign or issued pronunciamiento that had not for its ulterior object the crushing of the liberal sentiment of his country and the imposition of the grinding exactions of the retrograde faction. If fora moment in his career he apparently espoused ® liberal idea, it was only that he might the more effectually betray it to the interests of the Church power. He stooped to any means to obtain his ends and support the reactionary cause. Fer years past his dream, in common with that of his party, was a monarchy, and even he himself approached a royal title as near as he dared to during one of the periods of his dictatorship. Talent he un- doubtedly possessed; but it was used to set in action certain qualities of the most unprincipted type, and from his activity in the use of his ability he did more to handle the elements that have kept Mexico in « revolutionary broil since the time ot Yturbidé than any one of the Church leaders, The determination of both the late empire and the liberal party to keep him out of the country shows how low he had sunk in political honor. Santa Anna’s late movement lies at a greater depth than mere personal ambition; it was virtually the last feeble effort of the retrograde faction to make some show aga‘nst the tide of liberal progress which has at length almost blotted their party from existence. The clergy, finding that Maximilian’s star was already sinking below a bloody horizon, again brought Santa Anna to the front, with the hope that the memories that clung around his name would incite Mexico to one more revolution in their favor. The old leader, true to his principles, again hobbled into the field, and, as if fate were driving him to his death, oncs more appeared before Vera Cruz. From the decks of an American vessel he commenced issuing his revolutionary addresses. The only party in his favor was naiurally the remnant of the imperial retrograde faction holding that port, and the Tampico party of plunder of the Canales-Gomez stripe. Stopped, as was Ortega, from muking war under the American flag, he finally found himself in the port of Sisal, where he once more commenced opera- tions for the revolutionizing of Mexico. Al- though we do not question the right of the Mexicans to prevent a foreign vessel in their ports from being made the headquarters of a Mexican outlaw for aggressive purposes, we do question their right to insult the American flag by trampling upon it, and for this it is proper that the United States demand a prompt apology. It is now the duty of the Mexican govern- ment to assume a position that will show that she marches side by side with the other na- tions of the world; for the eyes of Christendom are upon her, and the influence which is being brought to bear on the United States from Europe is powerful in the direction of terri- torial acquisition. If she would save her frontiers intact she must open her political gates to the same sweep of progress that is marching westward and reclaiming our own wilds. In common, too, with the other Spanish- American States, she must give to the great republic that respect due to a neighbor who stands ready to assist her in her onward march. “Much threatens Mexico to-day. Upon our own territory are found hundreds and thousands of men whose veins, swelling with the rigor of manifest destiny, stand straining on the leap to make Mexico the scene of their adventurous exploits. Already a telegram announces from New Orleans that the filibus- tering cry of “Oa to the Halls of Montezuma” has been raised. We are anxious that Mexico should have a chance to prove to the world that she can govern herself; but we warn her that there is a storm brewing, and she must trim the storm staysails of her political bark to meet it. The only way for her to weather the gale is to open wide her doors to the same grand policy of advancement that guides us Her constitution of 1857 contains all the germs of a great future, and now we counsel its rigid enforcement over the whole land. The world has halted and waits for it. The task before the Mexican statesmen is a mighty one; but their sturdy defence of the republic against the imperial effort of Europe to make Mexico the great centre for the crushing of republican- ism on this continent has proven that they have much stamina left; but they must use it immediately and leap into the current of the centary. The shooting of Santa Anna we look upon as something unnecessary to Mexican recon- struction; for his name in Mexico was already fossilized, and the great mass of the Church party had aims in another direction. They had, in fact, turned their eyes on the United States, which they fondly hope will be their restorer to « greater religious Power than they can hope to enjoy under the Mexican liberal government until the old and bitter feud which they have created has died out in the march of peace. It is curious that all the great leaders of the Mexican retrograde party which has kept this country in such continuous tur moil have gone down together—Maximilian, Mejia, Miramon and Santa Anna no longer stand in the way of the progress of Mexico. If Marques follows next, then the last firebrand that the Church faction can rely upon will be removed from the Mexioan road to peace. A Fam Wanrstne to Prestpent Jonxsox.— In the House resolutions endorsing the course pursued respectively by General Sheridan, General Sickles, General Pope and General Schofield, in the administration of affairs in their several military departments. This means that these officers must not be disturbed. and that thoir acts must stand as the law ee en the Philosophy of the Amer! ivil War. Most of the so-called histories of the Ameri- can civil war are composed of excerpts from ite newspaper annals, which, it must be said, in passing, are more abundant, thanks to the en- terprise and “omnipresent espionage” of American journalism, than those of any pre- vious war. But the selection of these excerpts, and the tone of the superficial comments upon them, have usually been determined by sec- tional and partisan motives. Scarcely an attempt has been made to inquire into the com- plex original causes of the war. For the first serious attempt to accomplish this high purpose of historical study the public is indebted to Dr. Draper, one volume of whose ¥ History of the American Civil War” has just appeared. The author of this work obviously accepts the premises laid down by Buckle and other modern scientific students of history—that in the direction of human events, as in physical nature, the government of established and fixed principles must be recognized. In his opinion the national life of the American people has been influenced by uncontrollable causes, and has etrikingly exemplified the great truth that societies advance in a preordained and inevit- ablecourse. Dr. Draper was led to write about the war from this’ standpoint by seeing that both in the Northern and Southern States pub- lic men. were accusing each other with bitter- ness, each throwing the odium of responsibility on his antagonist, as if the war had not been connected with past influences and had no past history. The fact seemed to be forgotten that the origin of the war dates before any of those who have been the ehief actors in it were born. “Now, when we appreciate,” says the author, “how much the actions of men are controlled by the deeds of their predecessors, and are do- termined by climate and other natural circum- stances, our animosilies lose much of their asperity, and the return of kind feelings is hastened.” The desire to aid in promoting such a consummation is surely commendable. The direct object of Dr. Draper's first volume is to show how division and antagonism have arisen among a people once thought to be bhomogeneous—in a word, to seek out and dis- close the origin of the American civil war. Dr. Draper believes that nature exerls a far more important influence on the constitutions and actions of men than is commonly supposed; and at the same time tha! a proper study of nature will at length enable us to prevail over her to such an extent as to bring within reach of human control the difficuliies arising from opposing conditions which originate in physical causes that can be understood. He, therefore, begins with a brief description of the physical peculiarities of the United States, de- ducing the necessity of national unity. H» shows how in the face of this necessity for union race-diversity has been produced by different climates and topographical conditions among the inhabitants of this vast country ; and also fow to such natural causes of dis- turbance have been added certain artificial or inciden‘al ones, arising from the circumstances of our national life and particularly from the institution of slavery. The points presented for consideration in this volume are thus summed up:—Physical characteristics of North America; the topography and meteorology of the republic ; the character of the colonial and subsequent population ; the tendency to antagonism impressed upon that population by climate and other causes ; the gradual develop- mont of two geographical parties, the North and the South; their struggles for supremacy in the Union, and the rupture between them. The chapter devoted to “ihe special climate effects on man” is particniarly interesting from its bearing upon both the past and the probable future history of the American people. “In the same manner that climate affects plants, it likewise affects human beings, pro- ducing modified men. It controls their com- plexion, their bodily construction, their dura- tion of life, their actions, their thoughts. It has given rise in the Atlantic region to two distinctly marked populations, and in the Pacific region will hereafter originate many others, the counterparts of nations now occur- ring in Asia.” Such is the argument of this chapter. And elsewhere the author predicts that asthe conditions which brought on the recent conflict between the two sections, North and South, of the Atlantic region, still exist in other directions, future equivalents to those ephemeral disturbing causes, slavery and aboli- tion, will in due time under other forms exert their deleterious power. “Varied climate and opposing interests will tend to renew these contests hereafter. If this has been the issue between the North Atlantic and the Gulf States, what may not be expected trom the rivalries ot the dwellers in the Great Basin, those of the Pacific slope, those of the Columbian North- west, the Germany of America? The imperi:] republic, shortly to be made manifest, has a Per- sia, an India, a Palestine, a Tartary of its own. To bind together so many diverse people, to co- ordinate their conflicting rights, to concentrate into one nation men who, though all of Ameri- can birth, are in one place representatives of the fair Earopean, in another of the turbaned Asiatic, in another of the dusky African, will demand a siatesmansbip that recognizes as its animating principle justice to all.” This is the moral to be inferred from a philosophical study of the causes of the American civil war. Drap: Our Watering Places. Our watering places this summot appear to be unusually dull. We do not wonder at it. Europe this year is reaping the barvest which in ordinary years is reaped by the watering places of the North. It is not every year, however, that we have a grand Convention in Rome and an Exposition in Paris. Our friends who suffer this year must live in hope of better things to come. In another year things will have come back to somewhat of their normal condition. With a reconstructed South, and our people spending their money at home, Newport, Saratoga, Long Branch, Cape May and the rest will soon attain all their former greatness and surpass even their former splendor. A Joy Jory.—It will be read in the future as a very queer incident in this last Surratt trial, that the jary went on a picnic and enjoyed the Fourth under the green trees. This might, indeed, seem rather s loose style of proceed- ings to persons who consider that this jury is charged with the immediate and serious duty of trying © man for ‘his life, especially as the rambles under the trees perhaps afforded e fine for the active defence to get hold Mb of @ juryman hore and there. _ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1867.—TRIPLE ‘Women’s Rights Women. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other women’s rights women have certainly made out a strong case against Horace Greeley and his brother radicals in the Constitutional Con- vention who have so coolly set aside the claims of the women in favor of those of negroes in general and Southern nogroes in particular. Mrs. Stanton may well impeach Greeley for his desertion of her cause. She might also com- plain of the strange silence of Charles Sumner, who has not ventured to echo even the voice of John Stuart Mill. She might call upon Henry Ward Beecher to account for his absence from the love feast on the Fourth of July at Waccabuc lake, near Golden’s station, in West- chester county. Of all the radicals Wendell Phillips, who has just endorsed the eulogy of Cesar on the old German habit of “making woman man’s fellow and comrade everywhere,” and of “taking counsel with women in all grave matters,” is alone constant to women’s rights women. “Among the faithless, faithful only he.” The trath is, the radicals think that they can easily manage the “niggers ;” but with more modesty than we might suspect them of, they begin to have misgivings about their being able to bamboozle and control refined and intellectual women. They slink away abashed by the searching glance of a woman’s clear, bright eye. Her quick intuitions of right and wrong penetrate the disguises with which they would fain mask their real motives. Both her heart and her mind are ready to espouse the interests of the country on a broader scale than is contemplated by their narrow plans of partisanship. In a word, they despair of managing her, and tear themselves from her embrace to rush into Sambo’s arms. Shall tho women or the “niggers” vote? This is one of the most curious questions that has arisen from the complications of our civil war. None who are not blinded by fanaticism can fail to see how utterly unfit the negroos are to exercise the right of suffrage. A few rare exceptions only prove the rule. To vot» is virtually to govern. A thoughtful repub- lican (not a radical), who has recently pub- lished @ pamphlet on “Universal Suffrage,” maintains that if there bo any natural right to govern it must be founded on nothing else than the natural ability to govern wisely and well. He cannot see why “the work of gov- ernment, with its infinite and complicated interests, its constant danger of doing too much, its often danger of doing too little—a work demanding the wisest head, the most evenly balanced judgmen's, tho lessons of the past, the best culture of the prosen',” should be thrown open to tho “utterly unskilled hands of ignorant negroes, just released from cen- turies of bondage.” Even General Butler is ‘reported in the Tribune as having said:— ‘Universal, impartial suffrage, alliod to univer- sal ignorance, will only add to the danger— giving to the masses the club of Hercules to be wielded with the strength of the blind Samson, after ho has been a slave grinding in the prison house of the Philistines.” The pamphleteor to whom we have alluded sug- gests that if there is to be a trial of universal negro suffrage, let it be in these Northern Siates, where the negroes are fewer in number, better educated and more intelligent than in the South, and let the States which are most in favor of it try it first. If 1t works well on trial it can easily be extended; for it is much easier to grant the suffrage than to take itaway. At the same time he cites the letter of a Tribune correspondent to show that in Jamaica “tho elective franchise represents to the ignorant blacks two shillings and as much rum as they choose to drink on election day at the expense of the candidates. The longest purse would be sure of a majority.” Ina note it is said to be “very noticeable that the whites of Jamaica have recently procured the abolition of the principle of self-government in that island, pre‘erring to be governed bya council appointed by the crown rather than by the representatives of a horde of ignorant negroes. Thus the extension of the suffrage to the negroes of Jamaica has naturally led to the abolition of popular gov- ernment in that island.” Few that are familiar with the facts of the case will assert that the negroes of the South are better qualified for the elective franchise than those of Jamaica. On the other hand it would be superfluous to set forth the infinitely superior qualifications of educated white women, when it cannot be denied that any one of them is more capable of voting wisely and well than are all the plantation darkies throughout the South. Recent Picture Sales ia Paris. The sale of the Pommersfelden collection and that of the Salamanca collection have been so completely successful as to derange all the traditional tariffs ot amateurs and col- lectors, The return of peace and the presence in Paris of an extraordinary number of titled and wealthy foreigners, attracted chiefly by the great Exposition, have aggravated the growing tendency of the times towards an abnormal and capricious estimate of the pew cunfary value of works of art. At the Sala manca sale, for example, two pictures, “La Mort de Sainte Claire,” by Murillo, and “La Vierge,” by Giovanni Bellini, brought about twenty thousand francs more than each had been sold for two years ago. The former had then bee told for seventy-Ave thousand francs, ap@ it now brought ninety-five thousand; the latter for forty thousand, and now for sixty- two thousand. At this rate within two years, these pictures would be worth more than a million francs im fifty years. In a certain sense it is quite true that les belles choses sont sans priz; but, after all, objects of art, as articles of merchandise, must have some other standard than that which caprice and vanity seem now slone to determine. At the Pom- mersfelden sale four negro heads, by Rubens, within « single frame, brought thirty-five thousand francs. Bold, vigorous and espe- cially curious as this sketch is, it is not worth intrinsically @ tithe of the value of the same artist’s superb picture, “Saint Francois,” which was knocked off at the same sale for only ten thousand francs more. The Salamanca collec- tion offered a rare opportunity, which amateurs could not lose, for securing some of the finest and most euthentic pictures by Murillo, Ve- lasques, Ribera, Zarburan and other renowned artists, The competition was naturally very great, and even Lord Hertford himself was distanced by an obstinate “man of guineas,” a Mr. Cook, who paid ninety-eight thousand francs for a female portrait by Velasques, and eighty-five thousand for the “Zingara.” Mr. Cook, who also purchased “La Mort de Sainte Claire,” spent, either for himsclf or for the British National Gallery, more than four bun. SHEET. The total. product of this sale amounted to sixteen hundred thousand francs. Paris Fashions. Even the experienced eye of our spetial Paris correspondent begins to be bewildered by the prevailing anarchy in so-called Paris fashions, Almost at a loss for a simile, our cor- respondent likens womankind—when dressed all in brown and Bismarcks, and flocking to their rendezvous at the Exposition, and utter- ing little cries of surprise and admiration as they pass the forbidden magnificence in the section devoted to female attire—to flurried partridges. The exquisite treasures displayed in yonder glass cases have turned many & woman’s brain, and the extravagance pro- voked by a desire for what is unattainable in toilets suggests commiseration for husbands, and other solemn emotions and reflections. But now muslins suddenly appear, although distanced in the race for favor by costly Cham- berys. All the new shades are revealed at once, and the same lady on the same day flits by resplendently, like a gay soubrette, in faunt- ing demi-monde style, under tissues on which delicate exotics, bright birds, masses of foliage and brocaded groups are artistically marked, or paces with the sobriety of a nun or & Quakeress under faultlessly fitting dove-tinted silks and lawns. Our correspondent. is not pleased at having to record that some dresses are so heavily loaded with passementerie as to look as if made by upholsterers rather than by needlewomen ; but he looks more favorably at the laces worn in péplum style, and at the Marie Antoinette capes of Mechlin and Brus- sels exhibited at a wedding in the Church of the Magdalen. The bonnets on that occasion were all fanchons, and were called pretty, although worn just as the Welsh peasants wear their coal-scuttle sun-bonnets, in a way which, in the latter case, is pronounced barbarous, Gelic, anything primeval. Our correspondent groans over the ethno- logical and historical erudition which is requisite in order to write a fashions letter, now that Paris fashions, inappropriately so styled, consist of a confused conglomeration in every drawing room of Indian muslins and Asiatic tissues, Chinese silks and, in a word, of the typical varieties of dress in every age and country. The letter closes with dissolving views of white foulard Garibaldis, with printed muz:lin skirts, white foulard walking jackets, pretty Bismarck wreaths with gilt cherry balls, and cameos driving cristal de rocha out of fashion. At Paris the influx of strangers from all parts of the earth has caused a kaleidoscope whirl of variety, and in Virgil’s “Woman's a Weathercock’’? and Tom Moore’s “Life’s a Whirligig” there now seems to be as much truth as poetry. A New Advertising Dodge. When Mr. George Peabody respectfully declined the honor of knighthood proffered to him by Queen Victoria, he conformed to the old traditional American feeling with reference to foreign titles of nobility. But this feeling must have become obsolete, at least with those Yankee patentees of improvements in pianos and sewing machines and other inven- tions, who have just been created Knights of the Legion of Honor by the Emperor Napoleon. They will not fail to make the most of it as a new advertising dodge. “Legion of Honor” already figures in capital letters at the head of advertisements of hair dyes. Even Drake’s Plantation Bitters might acquire additional publicity from the same expedient. Why didn’t Barnum think of it in time and forward to the great Paris Expo- sition a woolly horse or Fejee mermaid, or some other monstrosity from his museum, so as to put in a claim himself for the cross and red ribbon ? Whatever may be said in favor of conferring on victors in the industrial arena rewards originally bestowed upon valor on the battlo field, the indiscriminate distribution of such prizes must be regarded as an abuse. Our Specini Cable Despatches and the Fourth of July. Time was, and not long since, either, when Washington, Philadelphia and Boston were, in regard to news, further removed from us than, at the presént day, are London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Berne or Rome. Our fathers were contented to learn on the second or third day how the glorious Fourth had been spent in Boston; and the Bostonians experienced simi- lar delay in learning how it had been spent in New York. How different now! For the first time in the history ot American journalism we print, two days afterwards, detailed accounts as to how the Fourth had been honored by Americans in almost all the capitals of Europe. It will not surprise us if in another year we hasten the intelligence by an entire day, and include in our list not only all the European centres of life and industry, but many of the Asiatic centres besides. Pekin, Calcutta and Yeddo will at no distant day be as near New ¥ork for purposes of intelligence as either London or Paris; and the ubiquitous character of American enterprise promises to make the capitals of the East centres of American in- terest, scarcely second to the capitals of the West, : Chae Disgracefal Spectacte. What were the authorities of New Brunswick about when they permitted the scene which was described in our report of the execution of the negro Williams, in New Jersey, on Friday? The brutality exhibited by the mob on the occa- sion has had no parallel in this country for many years past. It is common enough at English executions, but bappily is now of rare oceurrence in this conntry. It is incredible that so near the metropolis a scene should have been permitted which would disgrace even those outlying regions where lynch law prevails. Sumvgr Snvssap AGam—In the United States Senate on Friday last, betwoen Senator Sumner, who desired to have a full margin for & bill providing universal suffrage in all the States, and for various other things, and Sena- tor Anthony, who had brought in a resolution limiting the business of this session to recon- struction, there was lengthy and animated discussion, ending in the adoption of Mr. Anthony’s resolution—yeas 23, nays 9. This is, we guess, @ pretty fair indication of Sum- ner’s strength in the Senate with his extra and ultra radical schemes, ————————— THE YELLOW FEVER IN GALVESTON. Texas, Inga eee oral mliiuary doatha have AFFAIRS IN BEW ORLEANS, SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALG. val of the City Coun. Into the Ab- jew Onians, July 6, 1867, 9 o'Clock I. M. The city has been much excited to-day over rum that the Genera! Commanding had issued an removing many members of the City Council. ful inquiries fail to confirm this report, but it is prett well established that the order was prepared I night and ready to be issued, when the com: changed bis mind and decided to await the legislation Governor Flanders leaves to-night for Washington. The abstraction of three hundred thousand dollars of Louisiana trust bonds, which it is alleged was whol in the possession of the military, is under investig: and some damaging revelations are promised. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Sorveror or raz Port,—he following isan ofthe business transacted in the office of Surveyor the Port during the month of June, 1867:—The nu of vessels which arrived in port and were éxamined 86, of which 42 were steamships and 44 wore saifi vessels. average length of by steamers w: 13 16-24 days; of sailing vessels, ‘Tho number of ib was 39,078, of which! over eight years of ‘and'§,665 were under that There were Lit aeathson the pe - Baygrourt Coort.—The f it ruptey were filed yesterday :— Edward Krolipfeitier, New! York ; John A. Kamping, New York; Nicholas F. Butea- schon, New York. rs Tar Portic Scxoons or Tax TweLrTa Wanp.—A spe-| cial meeting of the school oMoers* of the Twelfth ward) was held yesterday, Mr. John Straiton, chairman, whee a) vote of thanks was tonderod to Mr. William H. Stephens, | Warden of Randall’s Island, for the very creditable appearance of the boys and girls of the Island at thecel-, ebration held on the 4th instant, at Mount Morris square, Harlem. At this celebration, for the first time, tne! children of tho public schools of the Twelfth ward’ par- ticipated to the number of between three and four hun-| dred, The orphan childron from Leake and Watts Asylum also icipated, and all «ore entertained with a repast. The interest shown in the children of our public by the citizens and school officers of the Twelfth ward ia, worthy of imitation. Tas Lars Governors Crrtexpen anp Letoure.—The last Legislature of Kentucky pa:sed a resolution appre- priating $3,000 for the monuments of the late Governors J. J. Crittenden and Robert P. Letcher, at the samo time fr ge commissioners to see that the resolution was duly. into effect, with directions algo to issue notices for proposals, which was accordingly done. Several beautiful pians were submitted to the commis- sioners on the Ist of July last, and the one of Mr. R. E Launitz, of New York city, met the unanimous approval of the commissioners; thereupon this artist was unanimously chosen and accepted as the contractor. The monuments above roferred to are being procceded witb, and will be fine representations of the Governors | above named. ! Fata Case or Soxsrnoxs.—A man named Valentine Sclever, who resided at No, 313 Ninth street, waseun- struex on the corner of the Bowery and Seventh street} yesterday afternoon. He was conveyed to bis residence, ‘where he died soon afterwards. Drowntna Acorpent,—Lizzie Fick, a gir! aged twelve years, while playing on the dock pier, foot of Forty- fourth street yesterday morning, accidentally feil off the wharf and was drowned, The body was not recovered. Roy Over anv Kitisp,—About four o'clock yesterday afternoon a boy named Morris Downey, eleven years of ‘age, and residing at No. 74 West Broadway, was run over and killed by stage No. 14 of the Fourth avenue line, in State street, near Bridge. The driver, Patrick Donohue, of No, 622 East Thirteenth street, was ar- rested and taken to the First precinct station houss, where the body of the decoased was also conveyed. The Coroner was notified. Avorner Surcron, —About half-past one o’clock yester- day afternoon, as one of the fetry boats of the Catharine street ferry line was crossing the river, a young girl attired in a pink dress, and apparently about eighteen years of age, jumped into the river and.waa drowned before assistance could be rendered her. The body waa not recovered. Apnest OF ALLEGED Buro.ars.—Two men, said to be noted burglars, whose names are Michael Weaver, alias — Collins, and George Wilson, alias Albert Nelson, alias Taylor, were arrested by two officers of the Twenty- ninth precinet. They were caught coming out of No. East Thirty-third street, the residents of which house aro at present in the country, with a quantity of jewelry and other y. Some skeleton keys and other burglars’ implements were found in their possession. They were brought to the Twenty-ninth precinct and locked up for the night. Snoormna Arrray.—Officer Reilly, of the Sixteenth precinct, learned last night that man named Timothy Murphy, residing at 201 West Twenty-sixth street, wos in the liquor store of D. Early, southwest corner of Twenty-sixth street and Seventh avenue, about cloven o'clock on the evening of the 4th inst., and that on coming out he was assaulted by three or fourmen. Im the melée that ensued Murphy was sbot through the right shoulder and also wounded in the head by a pistol ball, which glanced off, doing him but slight injury. Ax Ory Dovag—As an errand boy, named Charles Ackerly, in the employ of the firm of Fowler & Smith, No, 22 White strect and No 3 Park row, was passing up Broadway, yesterday afternoon, he was stoppod by a man, who, taking from him a | containing linen shirts, asked him to deliver a le! to a certain piace, while he would await his return. The boy, on returning, of course, fogpd that the man had disappeared with the shirta, Waar’s or?—Suporintendent Kennedy issued a tele- graphic order to the various precincts last night, com- manding the off platoons to be on reserve to-day, and that the sergeants on duty at eny time acl cannon may be called upon for “emergent duty’’ should accom- pany them. Rosery sy 4 Bor.—Mr. Martin Grossmann, @ cabinet- maker doing business at No. 88 Clinton street, sent a boy, who is in his employ, with $500 to be deposited im abank. The lad, upto a late hour iast evening, had not been heard from, and the money had not been de- posited. Tusvneo sy a Borcusr’s Hoox.—A boy named Isase Hasnett, living at No 585 Second avenue, was seriously injured by being caught by a hook which was attached to a butcher's cart, and bad his hand badly burt He ‘ting on barrels at the time the acot- dent occurred. He was taken to the Bellevue Hoxpitad by one of the officers of tho Twenty-first precinct. THE PARK CONCEAT. Toore was an immense assemblage around ‘he pacode piece, It is a light melodious work, written in the plest vein of the celebrated song composer, the finals, in which there is a cleverly worked fugue, being par- Gung!'s droamy waltzes, “Uver Land und Meer," a com- panion to the weil known ‘Dreams on the Ocean," came next, and waq succeeded by the Turney March, by Yo. Thea fath, a march com; in Germany. came & overture, “*; ” ‘written with: ie i Hi it ; [ i [5 i if z i i | g of i ser i 5 z Fy & z £ i j 4 ef i ‘3 | [ i : : gf i g2 5 1 tt et 32 | i fi } At the Broadway Miss Lacille Western gave hor powerful rendering of the triple leading character in the Child Stealer,.e performance which will rank next to her Nancy Sykes, She will play on Monday night im ;