The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1867, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR. JAMES GQRDON BENNETT, JR,, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw York Heracp, I ctters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned. No. 207 AMUSEMENTS THIS KVENLNG. BROADWAY TH®ATR Broadway, near Broome street.—Nupka—JeaLous Wire. WORRELL SISTERS' NEW YORK THEATRE, oppo. -— i York HoteL—Tuz Wonoka—Asrony anv Cigo- ATA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae Fast -Covumnus Rucowstavoren, BOWERY THEATRE. 1s Or tur Stone Cross—Gane Hanoy Axor. THEATRE FRANCAIS, Fourteenth street and Sixtle avenue.—Tux lionusns. BANVARD'S NEW YORK MUSECM. Broadway and Thirtioth sireet.—Cuniosmms of Nature snp Aky,— Tue Macaw livaur. TERRACE GARDEN, Third Avenuo. Fifiv-eighth and PFilty-vinth streets, copore Tuoxas’ Vorcian Con unis, Ut 8 O'Clock F Maxs— Neicunor’s Wire—Dog ok OF Tits WiLDSBNESS— BUTLER'S AME. Batcer, Farce, Courc Asp Senrimens BROADWAY OPERA f Gworais MinsteRLs Lx SCENES Rive, & ‘0. 600 Brondway.— ou SourmmRN Pras: HOOLEY'SOPERA NOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratortaw Mie gevevey, Battaos and Bumuusgoes,—Tae IPRoGnrss OF 4 ATION. NEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 613 Rrondway.— Krav avo Riowr AM oF Pronst—Tur Wasuincrow Twrns—Wonpers my NaToRAG Hisrony, Scurycr anv ARB Tactonns Daicx. Open from 8 A.M. Will WP. M. LERD'S ART GAT . 4 819 Broadway.— Exncrtow or Or Pa Now York, Fridny, July 26, 1867. ——— =< —— 2#anpna ae eres ees Ww s. EUROPE. Tho news report by the Atlantio cablo is dated yesler- day evoning, July 25. The French budget has been approved and the legis- Iativo session adjourned, Omar Pasha reports that the war iu Candia is ended by his supprossion of the ta- gurrection. The English authorities have an American gun on trial against the trou armor of their war vea- ols, Consots closed at 941g for money in London. The Baak of England reduced the rate of discount to two per cont. Five-twentios were at 72 13-16 in London. Tho Liverpool cotton market was buoyant at the close, with middling uplands at 10¢4. Breadstufis dull. Pro- vistons gonorally unchanged, Our special’ European correspondence by tho Persia embraces a translation of a very interesting biographical sketch of Maximilian, published ia Vienna, with an Aus- trian account of the Mexican expedition; a statement of tho political grievances of Ireland, with the proposition ofa plan of cure and the latest mail yachting reporis from France, England aad Lreland. THE CITY. At tho meeting of the Board of Counciimon yesterday P resolution was adopted direoting the obatructions to be removed from Battery place within five days, and another allowing the Second Avenue Railroad Company to lay atrack im Sixty-third street between Tirst and Third avenues, At a meeting of the Board of Health yesterday a com- ‘munication was received from Dr. Harris concerning gholera in tho West. He says the disease has not become epidemic this summer at avy point cast of the Alle- ghamies or north of the Ohto, but is speading ina fatal mannor woat of the Missiesippi upon the great routes of travol. In the Board of Excise yesterday, the license of Jacob Filtze was revoked by a unanimous vote for inviting his friends to drink lager at his place‘on Sundays under the pew “olub’’ system. The Pioncer Grant Cluo, of Brooklyn, was organized last evening by the election of KF Page as President. Dr. Willtam Shine, a tloman well known in tho First ward, was recently arrested for having in his pos- session, and intending to dispose of them, two bonds of the aggrogate value of $6,000, which wero stolen ip Doocomber last from the Royal Insurance Company's office in Wall street, In the absence of material wii- nesses (or the defence, the Doctor was held to bail in $10,000, Mr. MacDonald, agent of the insurance com~- pany, in giving evidence stated that he had received from one ‘Jack Tierney’ the sum of $75,000 ia the missiog bonds, for the return ot which he had given Tierney one per cont. bs The argument in the case of Bolles, receiver, &o,, v8. Duff, for the removal of Duff and the appointment of a receiver of the rents, &c., of the Olympic theatre, was concluded yesterday in the Supreme Court, Chambers. Phe Court appointed Duff receiver upon his own bond Cor $25,000 for the faithful performance of bis daty. A decree of divorce, on the ground of the adultery of the defoudant, was granted in the Supreme Court yes- fterday by Mr, Justice Leonard, ia the case of Sarah Catharine Schlotter va, Franz Schlotter, Custody of Grildren awarded to plaintiff. The Genoral Transatiantic Company's steamship Europs, Captain Lemarie, will leave pier 60 North river, ‘At twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Brest and Havre. \ The maila for France will close at the Post Office at half. past ten o'clock. ‘The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Virginia, Captain Prowse, will sail from pier 47 North iver at noom to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, touch- fing at Quoonstown to land passengers. ‘The steamship Allemannia, Captain Moir, of the Ham- burg Amorican line, will sail to-morrow (Maturday) at twelve M. from Hobokea for Southampton ani Ham- burg. The mails for the German States will close at the Post Office at haif-past ten o'clock. ‘The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Govern- qnonts were dail. Gold closed at 1305. @ There was but little activity ia commercial circles, Phough a good business was consummated in some kinds bf domestic produce, Merchandise was quiet, but ponerally steady. Coffee was moderately active and gtendy. Cotton was less active and fower, except for middling, which was steady at previous prices, On PChaoge four was quiet, but prices were not materially ranges, Wheat was dull and 6c. #100 lower, Corn and oats were in fair demand and firm. Pork was in ac. five demand and higher. Beef and lard were unchanged, white whiskey and freights remained dul! at unchanged Naval stores were rather more active. Pe. im was but little sought after, and nominally flower. v8. Our Moxico city correspondence, daied July 9, gives fen sccount of the manner in which tho Fourth of Baty was celebrated by the Americans there, Our Yorn Oras correspondence of July 15 con- @nins an sccount of the enthusiastic § ro- feption of Madame Juarez on her arrival at (bat She and her party intended to start soon for the gapital. It was rumored that no foreign ministers or consuls would be recognized except those of the United It was considered probable that Juarez's momi- ana candidate for re-election would be woeni- nous. In the Constitational Convention yesterday, the con- fideration of the report of the Suffrage Committee being The special order of the day, the report of the Commitee ‘of the Whole on it was read, The resolution extending @uffrage to women was again cailed up and again de- foatod, A motion to preface section one by « preampie Geotaring that the State has alone the right to regulate the franchise among ber own citizens, ‘Without inter. ference or control from any other authority whatever, swan offered and occasioned some argument, but was lost by a vote of 601001. An amendment to disfranchise {Pl those who have defrauded the government of the ‘Stato of the Vatted States was adopted, and the Conven- Yon adjourned. In the Surrats trial yesterday rebutting testimony for . the prosecution was continued, Several New Yorkers ‘Lestified that the character of .Dr. Blavell for truth wee Ses. fre to cams saa wim 91.000 Vofore be cams aga witpees, Considerable discussion ensued on a proposition from the deience to close the case without argument, but the prosecution would not consout, and a recess was -thousand white voters. The blacks have de- taken anti! this morning. imprisonment for such an offence or 8 heavier punish- mnity. to settlers the duties and taxes their stock, implements, furniture and provisions free, aud gives land and money to each able bodied settler, Geueral Grant is still enjoying bimself at Long Branch, and the reception and complimentary ball given to him and passed the evening away mainly io shaking hands with (he numerous crowd that passed him in review. 4 fre at Long Branch yesterday destroyed the out- buildings belonging to the Mansion House. it is reported in Montreal that recent petitions for tho release of McMahon, tho Fenian, are to be favorably considered. In the South Carolina Republican Convention yester- Gay, a resemtion proposinr a colored candidate for Vice President was voted down. A wothan named Mary Biake, thirty-five yoars of age, who resided at Cornvall, on tho Hudson, and has been misting since Tuesday morningjwas found yesterday lying partiaily inacroek about five hundred yards from hor hoase. She bad boon brutally murdered, her skull being fractured, and her nose crashed and broken. Acargo of twenty-three coolies arrived at New Or- leans yesterday from Havana, aud several others, who had arrived previously, are already at work on the plan- tations, This being in violation of the acta of Congreas, the Attorney General is proparmmg instructions for tho district attorneys on the subject. Fight persons, four of whom wore women, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat off Mount Desert Teland on Wedheaday. To tho Supreme cial Court of Massachusetts yes- terday a petition askiog that an assessment of certain State taxes on shares in the national banks shall be set asido as invalid was dismissed, with costs, the Judge de- ciding against it. Henry Koop resignod the Presidency of the Now York Central Railroad at a meeting of the directors in Albany yesterday, and H. H. Baxter was olected to the position, A riot occurred at Rogersville, East Tennessee, on Tuesday, between radicals and conservatives, during a a conservative meeting, at which Emerson Etheridge was speaking. Two men were killed, aud seven mortally and thirty slightly wounded. Negro Saffrnge in the Seuth—-A Batch ef Blacks in Congress. and What Then? A day or two before the adjournment of the late session of Congress Mr. Sumner admon- ished the members of the Senate that it would be weli to prepare their minds for the recep- tion, within tho next twelve months or #0, of a sprinkling of Senators of African descent from the Southern States, From the developments of the initial steps to reconstruction, and from all the signs of the times, thera was something more in this notification then idle badinage. We .think the probabilities are all in favor of the African sprinkling sp boastingly fore- shadowed by the Massachusetts Senator; and we should not be surprised if, with the accom- plishment of their work of rehabilitation, the ten ontaide States were to send up five, ten, fif- teen or twenty colored gentlemen to the lower House, and half a dozen, more or less, among the conscript fathers of the Senate. In round numbers the aggregate population of these ten outside Slates may be set down at eight millions, and the proportions at four mil- lions five hundred thousand whites against three millions five hundred thousand blacks— which gives the whites a majority of a million. Allowing one voter to every seven persons, these figares will cover five hundred thousand black voters aginst six hundred and fifty cisive majorities in South Carolina; Mississippi and Louisiana; the whites in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, while the two races nearly balance each otber in Florida—allowing for the larger de- struction of the whites by the war and the in- crease of the blacks by accessions during the war from the border slave States. Hence, if all the voters of both races are brought out, the blacks are sure of three States, and they may carry four or five of the ten. We may safely assume that, while the blacks en masse will vote the republican ticket, they will be supported by some considerable fractions of the whites; so that, if we go no farther, the ohances are in favor of the blacks. But rebel disfranchisements will probabiy in the aggregate cut off say seventy-five thousand men otherwise entitled to vote; so that in all the ten States concerned the whites will bave but seventy-five thousand majority to rely upon, Bui, in the next place, the actual reg- istrations made of voters from Virginia to Texas exhibit an almost unbroken catalogue of black majorities, 80 heavy in most places as to show that large numbers of whites, from indif- ference, disgust or despair, have given up the fight on the threshold, and that, from the Po- tomac to the Rio Grande, the republicans, with their solid black vote and their white support- ers, hold the game of reconstruction in their hends. So, from the facts ond figures before us, the actual situation of things warrants the con- clusion that the republican party will carry nearly all, if not all thess ten outside revolu- tionized Southern States, in their work of re- construction. Nor is it likely that the blacks, constituting in all these States the bulk and strength of the party, will consent to do all the work without any of ite rewards. They have only to demand a share of the honors and offices to get them. Hence, we may conf- dently expect, and during the present Con- gress, tbat sprinkling of members of African descent in both houses suggested by Senator Sumner. We are called, then, to inquire what will be the moral effeot in the political world of this eiartling innovation upon the old order of things? We may be sure that negro equality, proclaiming itself through negro voices from both houses of Congress, will make a profound impression upon the public mind throughout the North. We apprebend that the result will be a general reaction against the republican party in the Northern States; for we know that there is a stronger wall of white prejudice against the negro fn the North than exists in the South, This prejudice elocted Buchanan in 1856, and wonld have elected Douglas or Breckinridge in 1860, had the Charleston Con- vention consented to unite upbn either. We may expect, then, when the blacks assume the Political balance of power of ten reconstructed Southern States, and send up their black repre- sentatives to tbat there will be a rovolusionesr jon acainst them emang the The Justices of the Richmond Hustings Court have made answer to General Schotield's recent ¢mmunigation cail-ing thoir attention to ertain dovisions of the court, which be considered partial! and unjust, One of ths cases was that of a man who whipped the teacher of a freedinan's school for tloggivg his brother, for which he was fined ono cect. In rolation to this, the Justices gay ment was never known in the bistory of Virginia courts and would shock the moral sense of the whole com- Our letter from British Honduras is dated July 13. Avother steamer had arrived from the United States with a largo number of immigrants, As inducoments Jature exempts all immigrants from turee years after arriving, admits last night was a grand affair, He was, of course, present NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY »26, 1867, whites of the North which will upset tho re- publican party. This may be the real object of those leading Southorn white politicians who are urging their people to the experiment of allowing the radicals and the blacks all the rope they may desire in this business of Southera reconstruction. Let us push this thing of nogro equality, say these Southern leaders, into Congress, and then the laboring white masses of the North against this Southern negro political balance of power will take the alarm, and a Northern reaction of the whites against the blacks will be the inevitable re- sult; and thus the republican negro party will be destroyed by its own weapons. a reaction of the whites against the blacks and the republican party in the North, Meantime, however, we suspect that the spontaneous and powerful popular movements North and South in behalf of General Grant for other and momentous issue of negro political and aocial equality. The Colombian Struggio—Our Interests. Our recent Colombian news indicates that the elements of revolutionary struggle are far from settled. For the present they simply re- main quiet, ready t burst out into warfare 80 soon as European intrivne can be brought to bear upon them. The struggle in Colombia, which has thrown the country into constant turmoil since its war of independence, has within a recent period grown into a new issue, in which the old war to separate Church and State takes a secondary position. The contest to-day results from the geographical position of that country, or rather New Granada. From the outgrowih of Pucific trade it has drawa the eyes of the commercial nations to the narrow transit between the two great oceans, and made that strip of land the diqmond prize in the great national commercial tournament. It is evident that, sooner or later, tie Panama isthmus will be cut by a ship canal, that other railways will connoct the two oceans, and that the nation that can eontro! all these, by hold- ing the territory, will hold also the key to haif the commorce of the world. Europe, always more active in seeing and seizing commorcinl advantages than even our own plodding governmznt, and keenly slive to the immenss importance of the strategic com- mercial points that shape the courses of the great trade currents of the world, has-ect iis whole energies to the task of controlling Panama. In this is found, too, a great political as well as commercial advantage.- In the hands of France and England Panama is the greatest barrier to the progress’ of their only great commercial rival. lf every ton of our froight that makes the transit botween tho Atlantic and Pac'fic oceans pays a tribute to our Earopsan rivals, we may well say that wo have no distinct nationality of our own, but live really under the shadow of the monarchies that would desiroy us, or prop themsolves into afactitious existence by drawing, as their su- perior commercial policy already draws, upon our national vitality. In view of these things the political events ocourriag in Colom- bia become of earnest importance to us. The interference of Europe in our own neighboring sister republic having been gloriously crushed, the Colombian question now becomes a primary and prominent one with France and England. Before the empire was overihrown in Mexico Colombia was secoadary; for, had the Moxican republic fallen, Colombia would have bowed to the control of European influence without a struggle. Now the problem is shifted from Mexico to the next great republic south of us. Mosquera’s official organ—La Prensa, of Bo- gota, February 2, 1867—stated the character of the political struggle well when speaking of Mexico relative to Colombian interests:—“That expedition was carried out with the connivance, if not the secret complicity, of the goveraments of Europe. For this reason we have beea par- tisans of the empire in Mexico ; not. precisely from a love of monarchy, but because it is necessary to dam up the invading spirit of the United States.” Mosquera had at that timo boen allowed to sport his tineel uniform at the courts of France and Spain ; he had been feasted and petted by Earl Clarendon ; ho bad been allowed to boast his relationship to Eag¢nie, the Empress, and Isabella, from the Peninsula, had turned the old man’s head by a flattering letter. Hence- forth Mosquera worked for royalty in the Western World. His first announced policy, however, was the consolidation ef Colom- bian unity. Maracaibo was to be cut out of Venezuela, Ecuador was to be overrun, and, finally, Costa Rica was to be annexed. Thus the now European-Napoleonic-Claren- don-Palmerston scheme was to concentrate a new force to impede the march of the United States, and, at the same time, hold the key to the world’s commerce. The desperate efforts of Mosquera to gain his point by the assump- tion of dictatorial power, his sudden overturning by his clearer-headed colleague, with the pre- sont uncertainty of national unity upon either side of the question, show what strong political forces there are at work to give Colombia an increasing interes} in the eyes of the United States. There is something more then the Panama railway franchise involved in the struggle. It ie a contest of the same nature with that which we have just terminated ia Mexico—the republicanism of the New World, headed by the United States, against Europe. With lamentable ignorance, our State Depart- ment lately said that it “ knew very little of Colombian affairs.” It was a confession not necessary to make. It will be wise, however, if our government awakens in time to the vast importance which the control of Paname bears to our fatare. The first Designado was absent in Barope whon Mosquera was deposed. The ‘second Designado holds the power until bis retarn. We see that Mosquera’s leading military com- mander has left Panama for St. Thomag for the purpose of meeting the first Destgnado. When Level de Gods moots Santos Gutierres at the above island wo shall have the new plot, and, backed by England and France, the Mosquera party may open a new campaign in favor of Europe. Under no circumstances must Panama be allowed to fall Enropean contol ; better a five years’ war; for it ie more essential to our fatare than | any strip of tortitory on,the face of the alohe, This will, in all probability, be-the solution of the experiment of the political organization of the blacks against the whites in the South— the succession will carry everything before them; but with the setilément of. this quosion there will unquestionably come @ decisive Northern revolution on this so much as warning the victim. It would seem, unmitigated brutality, and without regard even though they have a sharp hostility to the boys, character, day in which a gross outrage was committed on a lady passenger by a conductor ; and there is at preeent a very general complaint of the gross rudeness and insulting expressions of these men toward passengers. forget the fact that for moaths the ears have highway robbery, and that in very many cases it has been tolerably evident that the con- ductors were in league with the thieves. of the various lines, who have deliberately degraded the position of a car conductor and awarded the places to men whose claims spe- cifically were that they were bullies and roughs. Itis not worth while to blama the conductors; for a ruffian will still be a ruffan wherever he may be placed, and words would be wasted on him. But the public has a fair right to find fault with the directors for putting such fellows where they should have decent, civil men. There are eo many hours of labor on the cars, and the wages are so low, that it is sald an honest man cannot hold the place; but a surer means has been taken to keop honest men out. Conductors’ places are part of the “patronage” that the stockholders trade away in their political bargains to secure members of the Legislature and the Com- Rumored Gesurrection of Mazziat. didate for election as a Deputy to the Italian the Roman republic of 1848 is as sincere for the complete emancipation of Italy. Confi- dent as he may be, however, of the possibility of capturing Rome and expelling the Pope, he can hardly be so inconsiderate as to imagine that Victor Emanuel would, if he coald, ignore the obligations of his convention with the imperial government of France, Nor can Maz- zini have forgotten his suspicion that Garibaldi himself may be, after all, but a cat’spaw for the Emperor of the French. The latter is, perhaps, quite willing to have just enongh agitation kept up in Italy to precipitate a state of things that chall afforl a pretext for sending back his troops to Rome, and attempting to carry out his own ultorior plans. It is possible that Napoleon If. would gladly use Victor Bman- uel, Garibaldi and Mazzini, all three together, as instruments in accomplishing, wittingly or unwiltingly, his old idea” of such a distribution of powers, spiritual and temporal, as should let the Pope retain possession of the keys of heaven, wiilo his own imperial hand might grasp the sword. To be sure, Orleanists and re- publicans and legitimists, in the French Logis- jature and outside of it, are’ making such an ado about the unlucky Mexican expedition and the 61d fate of Maximilian that Napoleon has his imperial hands fall at home, and it is not absolutely impossible that Maazini is visionary enough to hope that the preseht moment may be seized for re-erocting a Roman republic. But even if he succeeded in restoring it, how long, in tho actaal condition of Europe, could he expect it to last ? : Brutality on tho City Care, On Mondey night a conductor of the: Forty- second street lime pushed or kicked a: news- boy from the platform of his car while it was in motion; the boy fell upon the track, and a car coming cloze bel ran over him and crushed his skull, causing instant death. So ended one little life, cut short for no greater offence than the attempt to gain a meagre subsistence by humble, honest effort. Another case has been published in which a conductor of the Fourth avenue line did his share toward furnishing a repetition of this cruel story, by kicking a news- boy off the ear while it was in motion, without then, that the conductors had begun a war on the newsboys, and were to wago it with to the lives of the poor little wretches, But this is but one of the manifestations of their A case was reported the other Nor must we beon a favorite sphere of pocket-picking and ‘The blame for all this lies with the direc tors mon Council in their interest. Thus it is not because a man is fit for the duty that he is made-a conductor, but becauss he is one of the “Iriends of Mr. Mulrooney,” who will re- member the company next winter if they remember him just now. Thus bullies, gougers, plug uglies, dead rabbits and kindred gentry are pushed into all the cars to accommodate future legislators, and so it happens that the men and women riding in the cars ate con- stantly insulted by coarse speeches and shocked by acts of rudeness, brutality and in- decency. What do the directors care? The people must ride, and the Legislature is “all right.” ‘Wendell Phillips and the Republican Plan. Wendell Phillips writes in the Anti-Slavery Standard on what he calls “the republican plan,” by which he means the course of Con- gress in not impeaching the President, but giv- ing executive power with regard to reconstruc- tion into other hands. For # wonder here is a subject in regard to which this unqualified scold hardly knows what to say, and not being positive he is not even entertaining, much less exciting. He approves in one breath and con- demns in another; he deliberates and is lost. He fiads fault, of course, He could not open his mouth without that in this badly arranged world. Bat he does it mildly, without vim; for it is « case of which he cannot seo the drift and aim, and recent blunders have taught him that mere passion cannot supply the place of foresight. It is a good sign that even Wendell Phillips can learn. Federal Prieeners. The letter of the rebel commissioner Ould, which we published yesterday, should be im- mediately placed in the hands of Mr. Shanks, whose committee upon the treatment of federal prisoners fs fully empowered to investigate the acts, Mr. Ould does not state whether there were aty conditions which the could not accept attached to his offer to de- liver up fifteen thousand of our starving cous- trymen. A searching examination into the re- fined butcherioa of Andersonville, Belle Isle, Millen and other prison pens should be imme- ely made, and that, too, without reference fhe political feelings of any party. Let Plame tall where it belongs; but let justice Ro loager be made a mockery. The Atlantic cable announces, on the some- what dubious authority of Italian vefagees in Paris, that Mazzini has gone to Italy ¢o join Garibaldi in his intended movement on Nome. This questionable rumor brings the name of Giuseppe Mazzini before the public for the first time since he positively declined, in a letter to those Parisian journals which still retaia republican sympathies, to become a can- Parliament. Doubtless the leading spirit of and determined an enthusiast as he ever was ~~ Rovoluticaty Movements in the West Indies, + From our correspondence it is observable that there is a ge-eral revolutionary move- ment in the Spanish Wet India islands, which, sooner or later, must break out in open revolt against the rule of Spain. Cuba, now almost in telegraphic contact with us, acd day after day gathering liberal inspiration fron* Our pro- gress, is rapidly urging onward to a new con- dition of things suited to her geographicar Qo sition and her immense natural resources. Th'* iron hand of Spain is, however, still upon her. The Spanish budget of 1866-67 showed the enormous expenditure of $132,809,580, and the greater portion of this is wrung out of the few island colonies that remain to the mother coun- try. Cuba cannot be held down much longer; for intolerance, narrow statesmanship, and colonial corruption will produce its fruit de- spite all effort to uproot it, Porto Ricosit appears, is more inclined to take the load in a revolutionary movement than Cuba; she has a population of seven bundre@t thous.nd souls, of which but thirty-six thousand are slaves, The pzople are, appa- rently, through a greater liberal sentiment, better fitted than their neighbors for a revolu- tionary blow in the direction of independence. During a recent revolt on the island the people shouted “Viva el Goneral Prim!” “ Viva la Republica!” We trace in this a curious plot- ting which must have reached the West Indies from old Spain. General Prim, it is known, is stirring up revolution in the latter country, backed, itis supposed, by France. The revolt ofthe colonies at this moment would go far towards making General Prim’s movementa success, We look with interest upon the discontent existing in Cuba and Porto Rico ; for the time is close at hand when they must shake off their Old World fetters and join in the progressive movement of civilization Atlantic. on this side of the ‘The North Schleswig Question. Prussia is at last coming to ber senses in re- gard to North Schleswig. She has done her utmost to avoid the fulfilment of the obliga- tions imposed upon her by the treaty of Prague. The plebiscite promised has never bee: well the Danish sympathy of the Northern Schleswigers, and unwilling to bear the odium of an adverse vote, Prussia has made a pro- posal to the Danish governmont to the effect that she will hand over to them the province on the receipt of @ guarantee that the rights of the German population therein residing will |. be properly respected. The Danes and al! other sensible people have beem at & loss to know why such a guarantee should be neces- sary. Denmark is too weak, as all the world knows, to provoke unnecessarily the enmity and interference of Prussia by doing injustice to Germans residing within her bounds. The conduct of Prussia is, after all, not difficult to expisin. It is necessary for her to find a rea- son for giving up what she unjustly holds, and itis desirable to obtain, if possible, a pretext fo¥ fature meddling. The reason and the pre- text are both involved in the gnarantee. Den mark, we learn from one of our latest cable announcements, is not unwilling to give o suit- able guarantee, bat demands information as to the nature of the guarantee required. Radtenl Al Tf there are any men in yet know that there has been a war they are likely to find it out before the new constitution is made; for there is every indication that that in- strument will bear the most positive radical stamp. Forty-nine counties heard from in the re- gistration leave the nigger vote nearly double the white ve It is beyond doubt that the nig- gers will have a great majority in the whole State, and counties that have nigger majorities will sond more than half the members of the Convention. Those counties, therefore, will send either niggers themselves or such unquali- fied white radicals as will frame the kind of constitution that Congress wants. And this is very well. Let the white men stand aside, or popular vote then n granted. Knowing jabama. Alabama who do not then, and play dead till the niggers get the States in the Union, and then the white men may come out of ttie holes in which they are hiding and do what they like. M. Reuher’s Reply to Thiers and In yesterday's Heraty the Attacks of MM. Favre. we printed M. Rou- her’s reply to MM. Thiers and Favre. Those who have read this reply will admit that the Minister has failed to make out his case, and that we have no cause to retract the opinion we have already pronounced. The opposition, thongh in the minority, Napoleoniam has sus- honors of the debate. have carried off the tained a serious blow, and “France,” to quote the language of a Deputy, “is indeed doing penance, with a fool’s oap on her bead.” AMUSEMENTS. New Yerk Theatre. ‘ The unexpected arrival of Mile. Marietta Rave), who is engaged for a short season at this theatre, caused a change of programme ta last night’s entertainments, the French Spy being substituted and » Z $ u i | eit ia i 3 p s g ; i ' : I Aa ptive and varied programme, & good company and a well ventilated hall, are eerving to draw large bouses nightly to this long established and popu. sd bas ie i Ge i: / ze H S 3 i | ‘4 i ge g28 i : al 2? Hit for The Wonder and Aa- : e aga i i j = é . s = GENERAL GRANT. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALO. Lowa Braxou, July 25, tee7. * General Grant's visit to “The Branch” has brought @ fresh immigration here of the fashionables from New York and its surroundiogs. ‘The Continental and Stetssq ‘House are both beginning to exhibit signs of repletion, while all the other caravansaries along the esplanade are crammed with guests, as many as they can hold. great ones of Gotham, the celebrities of New and those quiet ladies and gentlemen who go to the sea- side to enjoy themselves without making a fuss, are ef Reve, Naat evening everybody turned out to see e boat mep whic® had been advertised to come off in front of the Contin, utal Hotel. The contesting craft were to be some” new fash.'‘oned species of surf boats, constructed out of gutta perchs some peopic said, and as no one sew the boats in question this statement could not be contra. Gicted. It wasto be quite grand affair. Tho crews were to pull, the bands were te piay, the ladies were pre pared to wave thew handkerchiefs-to the rivals, and « Genera! Grant was todisiribute the prizes to the winning crew. But it did not come off, A brisk southerly wind blew alt day, tbe ground owell was heavy, end the boats, although claiming to be especially ‘“‘sucf* boats, did not like to venture out. The General con- soloed himself for the disappotatment by smoking an ea- tue cigar, and then aitended a quiet hop at the Hew. Jand’s, Of course the tadies were “pat out," but they Hve on in the hope of the race yet takiog piaes, whiok, if there should happen to be a dead calm, will provabty be the case some day. * Talking of the ladies, one is reminded of stars, aud tat night was certainly the most starry might seen ior a long time. Tho “gates of heaven’’ wore bright enough witt diamond-dusted twinkiers, and one especial star, Jupiter or Venus, was co bright that it hada tuminows pathway to itself across the water, just as if isweroa moon. Diana was Jate in rising, and.so the stars lind the boat of it up twelve o'clock, whon the “silver orb of night” arose from her oeean bed like a ball of fro, Many peo- ple who wore tooking out iast night thoughs it was @ fire at sea, and it was not until the moon had ascended half way up the sky that thoy discovered their orror. This morning a sad accident very nearly oceurred te a venturesome bather, Mr. Stockton. Ho plunged inte the sea for adip, and swam out some distance, but om his return was unable to get in, although he struggled bravely against the tide and ‘‘undertow.’’ At Inst he catied out **heip!’’ and the boatmen got out a boat aa@ his rescue. Before they got him in he ha@ had hurried together by the time Mr. Stockton was re- leased from his peril, and of course all readily proffered their help and ‘The beach to-day is very enjoyabic. Thesurf is break- The reception and coniplimentary Grant at Stetson’s to-night was an elegant Na finer assemblage was over seen at “the Branch” than filled the spacious ballroom with the General's se ten o'clock. He was followed by his staf, a group ef officers from West Point, and « detachment from the frigate Minnesota, Including a dozen handsome midshipmen. After promenading around the room the General took bis for the ordor of haad@ shaking, ond was introduced to ladies and gentlemen by the hundred, Grant, it Ponnsyivania, though an effort will be made te auld him @ grand dinner even! Srerson’s, Lona Branog, July 25, a | llo’Clock P.M. §* ‘The ballroom, in a blaze of light and beauty, 15 a mag- nificent spectacle, Tho General is atill et bis post re ceiving his friends, and Mrs. Grant, in white satin, sas his side, sharing in the honors of the evening. The raised at the lower end of the esplanade, where the Maasion House Hovel, 8, Laird, propr.otor, faces the beach. A crowd quickly assembled at thie spot, aad before five minutes had elapsed after the alarm heg been given dense, thiek volames of black smoke aress from the bailding and floated out seaward. Messen- gers wore despatched to the adjacent hotels to borrew hose pipes; for, strange to relate, Long Branch does set possess a fire engine. On inquiry it was found that the fire originated in the gas house at the back of the Mas- and here the flames raged furiously for up- an oifte! ila i : HA bile il vee 3 i H é H z € fife in| | it i tf ii H i HH | wy {a crowded with Awericrm tourists, The’ of the Philadelphia Coanciy are on thelr wag home after an informal visit 0 Tefonte, Noatreal end Quedes, ai ‘The Atlantic Rowing Club ef hee terued @ challenge to the Colambia, Club of this city to meet ‘thom in a friendly trial of skill off tne Blysian , Hoboken, on ‘ext, betwoon the siz cared ‘boats of the associat: Should q rove ” conta may be