The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1868, Page 4

EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York f RRALD. ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—O.ivex Twist—Forty | TMIRVES. FRENCH THEATRE.—En; Opern—Matinee at 1— WDootoR OF ALCANTAKA, Evening—BonrMLAN GIKL F oxrwrie THEATRE, Broadwa IMatinee at 13s. f NEW YORK THEATRE, er paste New York Hotel.— PAEI6 AND HELEN. Matinee at 2. ~Hompry Dumpry. | yipLo's GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Wmite Fawn. }Matinee at 1. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Connit S00GAM. [Matinee at Ly. ! WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and (Tue Wuite CockavE, street. — » PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth ‘avenue.—Lost, Matinee at 1. IRVING HALL.—BLinp Tom's ConcERT, Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL.—MusicaL Frstivai—MonstEr ,ConoERT. Matinee at 1. { SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eruto- Sian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &e. {_KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRE! coun rnioitiEs, &c.—G RAND ¢ BRYANTS' OPERA 10 jsireet,—EWHIOPIAN Minst ¢, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BAuter, Farcr, bo. Matinee at 235. tq, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Be ‘VOCALISM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, kc. Matil 720 Broadway.—Son« HS.” Matinee at Tammany Building, 14th EOoRNTRICIIIES, eC. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—Sor TEnEsa. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— SERLOUS FAMILY—LONELY MAN OF THE OCEAN. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. MINSTRELSY—THE IMPEAC FALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THe WAR. {Matinee ‘at 2. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 23d st. and th av.—EXHILITION OF PICTURES, & Brooklyn.—ETHIOPIAN Matinee at 235. New York, Saturday, May 23, 1868. & a THE NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated this tmorning, May 23. The Zollverein Parliament stands adjourned, An nglish report says the Pope wants one thousand soldiers from the United States, Mr. Home, the Spir- tualist, is ordered to return the money to Mrs. Lyon having obtained it by “undue influence when she vas under a hallucination.” , MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The Chinese Embassy, better known as Burlingame (Mission, arrived in this city yesterday and have taken ‘voms at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Burlingame ts ccompanied by his wife and daughter, two Chinese Ministers, two secretaries and six interpreters. Mr. eward was immediately apprised by telegraph of the distinguished arrival. ) Grant and Colfax were serenaded in Washington ust night. Both of them made speeches, the Gen- jeral’s being very short, and received the congratula- ‘ions of their friends, | Several witnesses were examined by the Impeach- nent Managers yesterday. Although the evidence jeenerally was very spicy, nothing in proof of corrup- ftion among the parties upon whom the Managers Avish to place it was brought forth. Senator Pomeroy Alenies the allegation sworn to by Colonel Cooper that ihe (the Senator) was offering to obtain enough vores to secure acquittal on receiving $40,000. » The Canadian Parliame) been prorogued until July 1, The Governor General approved al Earl Mayo is to relieve Lord Monk in July. » The se of the Governor of Monte: Mexico, acknowledges having arrested six American citizens, Pout says they were disorderly, and he had a right to werrest them. Two British men-of-war are threatening to bom- ‘bard Port au Prin the persecution of for- feigners does not ¢ » American war Amer yet arrived. its bills. Cabral’s friends are preparing to invade St. Do- quingo. The so Texas is almost com pletely ov an bandits, and most of the suurders attributed to Texan disloyalists are said to ibe their work. In the Old School Presbyterian Assembly at yesterday a unanimous report « of the New and Old Schoo! Churches, recommending i basis for a union of the wo branches, was received aud discussed, » The Chicago Methodist General Assembly have azreed to elect no additional bishops at pr The great trot between Lady Thorn, Luc )) ilkes and General Butler took place at the rse yesterday, Lady Thorn winning in three ight heats, her best time being Walter Brown has been defeated in the racing gnatch for the championship of Charles River, Mass. Albany Bt ‘Two Jupanese refugees have arrived in San Pren- cisco. . Another telegraph line across the continent is in progress, The Indians continue their depredations in Nevada, ahe troops being absent after other marauders, A rendering tank explc in Ohio, on Phursday, with fatal resuit {The Catiteott-Ailen trial continued yesterday | Xn the United states Cireuit Court . Yudges Neison and Benedict. A considerable amount pf new testimony was elicited and the court rod fvas crowded with interested listeners, It resumed to-day at noon. | The Jewish temple of tx Anshi Chesed, in Norfotk street, the oldest Jewish congregation tn the eity awas rededicated yesterday with imposing ceremo. nies. } The steamship City of Paris, Captain Jas. Kennedy, ‘of the Ingian line, will leave pier 45 North river about ‘one P. M, to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown. The Buropean matisjwill close at the Post Oflce at twelve The National line steamship Helvetia, Captain ‘Cutting, will leave pler 47 North river to-day at ‘twelve M. for Liverpool, calling at Quecnstown to jand passengers. The Anchor line steamship Britannia, Captain ‘Laird, for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry to land passengers, will leave pier No. 20 North river at Awelve M, to-day, | The steamship Bavaria, Captain Meyer, of the Ham- ‘burg American Packet Company's line, wili sail as nextra steamer for Southampton and Hamburg, Geaving ler pier at Hoboken at two P. M. to-day. | The sidewheel steamship South America, Captain ‘Tinklepaugh, Will sail for Rio Janeiro via St. Thomas ‘and the usual porte at three P.M. to-day, from pier 43 Notth river. ‘The popular steamship George Washington, Cap- in Gager, belonging to the Cromwell line, will leave ier No. 9 North river for New Orleans direct at three wP. M. to-day. ‘The Merchants’ Jine fine steamship General Grant, Captain Quick, will sail for New Orleans direct from pier 12 North river at three P. M. to-day. ‘The steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, of the | \Biack Star independent line, Will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannali, Ga, The sidewhee! Heamship San Jacinto, Captain \ kins, will leave iF «4/ for Savannah, Ga, ‘VThe stock market was firm yesterday. Govern | ment securities were very strong and in active de PANG Ht advancing prices. Gold closed at 197%. oint committee | Brooklyn, before | willbe | jer 16 Hast river at three P. M. to- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1868, Grant and Colfax—A Strong and Popular Ticket—How is It to Be Beaten? In U. 8. Grant, the General-in-Chief of the army, and in Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the national House of Representatives, the repub- lican party has placed a strong, cohesive and popular Presidential ticket before the people. Grant, the great captain of the age, has also proved that in the administration of the civil affairs of a peace establishment he possesses those rare endowments of practical statesman- ship which qualify him for all the responsi- bilities of the executive head of the govern- ment in any emergency. It is the general im- pression among the American people that in his hands their interests and the honor and prosperity of the country will be safe. His asso- ciate, Speaker Colfax, for one of his age, is a man of great experience and superior abilities and sagacity in our political affairs, and in the event of a call to the White House to fill the | unexpired term of his colleague, no doubt can be entertained that he will give us a good admin- istration. Nor is the flattering reputation of these men limited to the United States, for it is substantially the same abroad as at home. The news of their nomination will strengthen the confidence of the friends in ‘‘the great re- public” over all the world—on the Thames, the Seine; the Rhine, the Neva and the Danube, and from the mighty Amazon, rolling its flood of waters down the equatorial line, to the imperial Yang-tse-Kiang of China, “‘the son of the sea.” Nor will that honest faith in American securities at Frankfort-on-the-Main be weak- ened with the prospect of the transfer from and after the 4th of March, 1869, of the reins of our government to Grant and Colfax. ‘The Chicago Convention could not have chosen a better ticket. The President pro tem. of the Senate, Mr. Wade, who led the list of Vice Presidential aspirants on the first two or three ballots, would have been to Grant as heavy a load to carry as was the Old Man of the Sea to Sinbad the Sailor; and Fenton, the next high- est competitor of Colfax, would also have been adead weight. Colfax, on the other hand, gives that positive strength and consistency to the ticket which makes it a unit and expands the circle of its influence. He has had the valuable training of a newspaper editor—a vo- cation which in this country is the best of schools for an aspiring politician. It teaches him all the ins and outs of the profession and how to avoid those shoals and bars upon which so many of our greatest statesmen have foun- dered. The rail-splitter and the tailor were a powerful team, but the tanner and the editor will match them. There is ‘‘nothing like leather,” and the newspaper is the third estate of the nineteenth century. Grant 4d Colfax are a strong ticket, and they are provided with a movable extension platform on the negro suf- | frage* question and on the money question | which will accommodate all comers of al! shades of opinion. | We come, then, to the inquiry, how is this | ticket to be beaten? From present indications | the republicans have some show of reason for | the boast that Grant and Colfax will walk over the course. But ‘‘the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong.” In 1852 it was thought that General Scott would walk over the course. The whigs and the demo- erats of that day stood upon the same plat- form—Henry Clay's great compromise measures of 1850, But behind Scott stood Seward and the Northern abolition league, and, fearing that Seward and his abolition affiliations would control the administration of Scott, if elected, and reopen the troubles of the slavery agitation, the people spontaneously turned over to poor Pierce, and he was elected by an electoral majority exceeding that of Har- rison in 1840, So now the radical influences which lie behind Grant and Colfax may create | areaction against them. Grant, we know, is | not, like Scott, to be caught writing a long letter | on politics after ‘a hasty plate of soup;” nor | is he the travelling compaigner to be caught with his breeches down; but for all that the power behind the throne wielded by such Sumner, Butler and Wade may weaken this otherwise powerful ticket of Grant and Colfax. Again, why both their candidates from the | because they fear that Pendleto men as Stevens, have the republicans chosen West? Is it s greenback | | theory had as much to do with the last October election in as negro suffrage, and that | accordingly it will need the combined Western | strength of Grant and Colfax to overcome this current of popular opinion in that quarter? We cannot tell; but there must be some danger here, or this Chicago Convention would have taken a more definite position than it has de- | clared on the redemption of the national debt. | In the interval to the Fourth of July we expect to be further enlightened upon this important subject. If the Western democracy control Ohio | father of well-warred victory.” And what were | this occasion that society is squeamish because | it is not willing to tolerate the public discharge | occurred while the journals in questions were their national party convention, Pendleton and his greenback system will try the strength of Grant and Colfax in the West; but otherwise the strength of the democratic ticket and the | fight for it may be in the East, with New York as the centre of their operations. In any event, whatever may be the strength or weakness of the republican Presidential | ticket or platform, East or West, there will be a fine opening, cutting in here, there and | everywhere, for all the elements, including the | republican conservatives opposed to ult radicalism—a fine opportunity, we say, to defeat the radicals in the elections for the next Con- gress, They may be cut up in detail by judi- | cious conservative combinations and indepen- dent republican nominations, East and West, and thus, even in tht event of Grant's election, the game of the radicals may be blocked in the House of Representatives, as the first essential step to their complete overthrow. The republicans have the adwantages of a strong ticket, a flexible platform and of being the first in the field, By the Fourth of July they will be @ well organized army, fully equipped and entrenched in « strong position. By strategy, by regular approaches or by storm, their works must be carried, if carried at all. Pendleton proposes to storm them; Belmont proposes the more cautious method of regular approaches; we propose strategy and the flanking process. This is the best that we can | do, and if itis not enough we must turn over | the difficult problem to the wise men of the | ' Manhattan Clab. Repvcep DivipeNps.—The holders of fire | insurance stock may connt upon reduced divi- | | dends if Fire Marshal Baker is set aside for | an inexperienced politician, The incendiaries are on the gui vive. | while the Dickens dinner was still a blooming | which the burners and the burned called the | ference as to the names of things! The Watering Places and Pleasure Travel. The work of frbishing up, replenishing, reno- vating and revivifying the fashionable watering places is now going on, and the proprietors are taking qdvantage of the advertising columns of the newspaper press to call the attention of the pleasure-seeking community to the attractjons of their several localities, This will prove an important season for the great fashionable summer centres, such as Long Branch, Sara- toga, Newport, Cape May, Schooley’s Moun- tain, New Lebanon springs and the rest. It is the Presidential year, and the fashionable places will be the resort of politicians as well as pleasure and health seekers, and intrigues in politics as well as in love and participation in all the gay follies of this day and generation will be found in the programme. It will bea general season of extravagance, flirtation, fun, fashion, frolic and politics, and many @ sad political scheme will be found tripping along hand in hand with grace, beauty and inno- cence. The exodus to Europe also bids fair to exceed that of former years, This is con- sequent upon the establishing of lines of new, fast and magnificent steamers, the safety and comfort attending the ocean pasaage and the reduction of the rates of fare to reasonable amounts. Therefore those who wish to avoid the vortex of political excitement, or who, with an eye to the future, go abroad to pick out some snug little foreign mission, making ready, as it were, to fire as soon as the new administra- tion is in line, will take some one of our daily line of European steamers—for the average departures are more than seven per week—and inhale for a few months foreign airs while studying foreign graces and follies. Some of our novelty-seeking people will also take occa- sion to visit those scenes of historic interest in the South connected with the war—Rich- mond and Petersburg, Old Point Comfort, the Rip Raps and the rest, for example—an entire seminary of young ladies from the interior of the State having, it is stated, engaged passage for a trip to Virginia in the splendid new steamer Isaac Bell, which has just returned from a successful trial excursion to that very interesting section of the country. In short, the coming one bids fair to rival all previous seasons in piquancy, Uniqueness and variety of attractions, All that is wanted to give it unction and completeness is an abundance of cash and plenty of confidence, Newspaper Partisan Saturnalia—Commence- ment of the Presidential Canvass. With the very sensible nominations made at | Chicago the Presidential campaign opens, and the first feature of this opening will be the | saturnalia of the party journals—the indul- gence of all the promptings of party spirit in print; the showing forth to the light without any restraint of all the vile things that float or switn in the dirty element of partisan writers’ hts; the exhibition in revolting naked- ness of all the vices and mean instincts that degrade human nature. Foremost on their respective sides in the division of the party | press stand the New York Tribune and the New York World. These take a shameful precedence, as Byron’s romantic cutthroat did, by ‘‘daring to be first” in all assaults on things that decent men respect—by simply having less scruple to slander and vilify. Reckless because they forfeit no character in these excesses, these journals yet give the keynote to the press of either side, and are followed with subservient fidelity by the small fry that would rather be atrocious. than tame and know no way between the two. Recently we had from these respective lead- ers in party vituperation a taste—just enough | to indicate flavor—of the way in which they already regard the high and worthy names of ither side. One of them spoke of Governor Seymour, a man of pure character and dis- tinguished position, and who may be the Pres dential candidate of the democracy ; the other spoke of General Grant, who actually is the candidate of the republicans for the first place in the nation, and whom the people may describe in the very words of Homer as ‘‘the thougl the terms in which the journals spoke of men of this character? One of them actually di: cussed ‘‘Governor Seymour as a liar” and the | other argued upon Grant as a ‘‘drankard.” Without shame, with an impudent attempt to browbeat public sentiment from its disap- | proval, one of these creatures complained on of its disgusting vocabulary, because it turns away in loathing from the exhibition of its frantic dislikes ; while the other is so in the habit of using this style that it is, perhaps, not yet conscious of having in any way overstepped common decorum, And these manifestations under the softening infinences of festivity, thing and all the amiability of which they are capable was in fall play. Let men imagine what their style may be in less agreeable searons, Such was the prologue, Pursuing its ehar- acteristic career, qpe of these journals has since discussed before the country the only statesmen of ite party—seven in number, the honorable and nobly distinguished men in the United States Senate—who repndiated the notion that they were political chattels, and, defying dicta- tion, voted on their consciences against im- | peachment. In discussing the course of these men the radical organ adhered to its old notion of “calling things by their names.” There {is nothing that the world has so difered =npon as to what the names of things are, Indeed, all the differ- ences that have deluged the earth in blood began at just that point. Since the dawn of civilization the faggot has unceasingly burned around roasting humanity only to convince men of error in regard to names. Heaven and Hell differ not more widely than the names by same thing. John Husa, burned at the stake, believed that he was burned for truth and pure religion ; while the whole Church of Rome—a very respectable authority as to names—de- clared that it burned him for heresy, schism and the whole category of sins. Simply a dif- Tt was always the same, and one would suppose that the experience of the whole human family would by this time have made men modest in the declaration of names, It has not, however, and they goon. Only the public sees that & man who ‘‘calls things by their names” calls them by what he fancies their names are, agd | Brown bein that his fancy is colored and distorted by all the accidents of his life—by his prejudices, hates, hopes and fears. So, when the 7ribune calls seven Senators traitors—Judases, Bene- dict Arnolds, Wilkes Booths—declares that they are perjured and infamous and applies to. them without stint all the opprobrious epithets that rage can summon, men see that it is only the vindictiveness of disappointed fury that makes a poor creature suppose, in applying these words to seven honest men, that he is ‘calling things by their names.” But the war of virulent epithets is only in its opening hour; this is only the light spat- tering of the skirmish line that we distantly hear. Wait till the line of battle roars in with its packed and savage anger. Then, indeed, the popular ear will have memorable sensations, Our people already know what Presidential elections can do in this way. They know that one side of a man’s biography can never be satisfactorily written till he bas been a candi- date for that high office, and that then he can be proved guilty of every crime against the law and every offence against morality. Such is the general character of the argument held by party journals in election times; but how will that general character be put to shame by the ebullitions of party journals on this occa- sion? To what height will the fury chorus swell when it opens with such distinctions as liar, drunkard, traitor and murderer? Tar Roques or tHe Rrnc.—These rascals expect to angle twenty-five thousand dollars per annum out of the pockets of the taxpayers by appointing one of their number to the office now held by Fire Marshal Baker. Will these gluttonous spoilsmen never be satisfied ? Lorrertes AND Lorrery Tiokers.—It would be quite curious and interesting to ascertain the amount of money daily invested in this city in lottery tickets and lottery policies, To judge from the number of places in which the business is notoriously carried on, the sum thus squandered by the ignorant and infatuated must be very heavy. All this is in open viola- tion of law, and yet the lottery ticket dealers unblushingly advertise and carry on their un- lawful traffic in the face of the authorities. What is Superintendent Kennedy about that he does not look into thig matter ? ee Tue Crry Rossers.—Not content with driv- | ing the veteran Common Council clerk, Mr. Valentine, into retirement, and Chief Engineer Craven to Europe, these insatiable cormorants now seek to oust Fire Marshal Baker from the position he has filled so satisfactorily for many years. Will the public permit them to suc- ceed? We shall see. AQUATICS. Regatta on the Charles River for the Chame | pionship and Gold Medal. {From the Evening Telegram of Yesterday.) Boston, May 22, 1868, The New England Rowing Association inau- gurated the boating season to-day with a race for the championship of Charles river and the possession: of the association gould medal, which is a magnificent affair, The interest manifested in this las been intense, and thousands of dollars changed hands in conse- quence thereof, The contestants numbered eight, atest and were Waiter Brown, William Randall and Robin- | son Williams, of Portland; Joseph J. Fay, Jr., cham- pion of the Union Boat Club, of this city, and John ‘Tyler, Jr., William Appleton, James Cleary, who belong to Boston, and all prominent oarsmen here, The race took place at noon to-day. It was for single sculls, distance two miles, and for which ail the above named parties put in an appearance, The favorite was Brown, and no one seemed disposed to risk their greenbacks ainst him. A large number of Portlanders were here, who backed Kandal! at three to one against Tyler. The third best in the pool was Fay, and he and Tyler were ona par. Fay won the championship of the Union Boat Club of this city last week, and has many friends. He is splendidly developed and pulis a handsome stroke. it is only three weeks since he went in training, and the race to-day is his second contest for a champion- ship. The judges were William Biakie, starter of the Harvards, Cambridge; A. F, Dexter, of the Narragan- sett Club of Providenee; B. V. Humphrey, of the ituals of Albany; Henry tibert, of the Union of paton; A. H. Bt ier, of the Una; Henry P. Wood, the Alpha of Portland, and Edward B. Robbins, pcretary, and Edward D. Blake, Treasurer, of the ind Rowing Association, For an hour Pr race the bank of the river fora mile along its course was crowded with spectators. The river was covered with rowboats of every descrip- tion, and seldom has a boating season been inau- gurated under such auspicious circumstances as was is of to-day. The sun, fora wonder, shone forth with unwonted splendor, and everybody was in the best of spirits and extremely hilarious, Without much delay the contestants got into line, No. 1, counting from the judge's boat, Williams next, Appleton, Cleary, Fay, Tyler and Bat- ler in order as named, with Randall outside, or next the shore. With the word “go” a handsome start was made, Brown took the lead, pulling a beautiful stroke, with Tyler second, Fay next and the rest about even, The race, In fact, seemed to be between the three named. Brown's friends increased their odds, Randall's bankers looked chapfallen, while ‘ay’s friends spoke encouragingly of his chances. At the half-mile stretch out Tyler lapped Brown, with Fay close on in his paper boat; and here it may Lint ty Gerd stated, to Brown's credit, that he was pulling a strange boat, having surrendered his own, which he had brought from Portland especially for this race, to Tyler, the backb of whose boat was broken yesterday, Cpon rounding the stake, at the distance of a mile, Tyler led, with Brown and Fay respectively in order astern. A handsome spirt gave Tyler a lead of five or six lengths, which he maintained the entire home- stretch, and he came in the winner in fifteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds, Fay followed tn fifteen minutes and forty-three seconds; Brown next in stx- teen minutes and nine seconds; Randall, sixtes minutes and fourteen seconds; Cleary, sixteen mi utes and thirty-eight secon leton, sixteen minutes and. forty seconds; Wiliams, sixteen minutes and fifty-seven seconds, and Butler in seven- teen minutes, As the first four came in the enthusiasm was in- tense and it was at first hardly believed that Brown and Randall had been beaten; but no fouis were claimed, so, Tyler was deciared the winner and champ.on of Charles river. Randall's friends, who had lost heavily, felt quite chapfatien and chagrined. LABOR MOVEMENTS, ‘The Coachmakers’ Union No. 1 met last evening quite numerously at No. 267 Bowery, Mr. Brown tn the chair, The object of the meeting was to perfect the organization of the union, preparatory to some movement looking to an increase of wages. As this seems to be in a fair way of accomplishment the union will meet again next Friday evening. The stairbuilders met for a similar purpose at Mun- zinger'’s Hall, No. 147 West Thirty-second street, yes- terday evening, and are equally as sanguine of en- success. The bakers Will have amass meeting to-night at the Harmony Rooms, on Essex street, with a like pu in view, ‘The General mittee of the German Democratic Union party held its regular session yesterday even- ing at Schimenger’s Hall, Third avent near Eight- eenth street. About two hundred ‘nla were present. A new and revi constitution was adopted, and also a lengthy ess, which they call a platform, but which is only a severe arraignment of the radical party for numerous misdeeds, without enunclating or asserting a sage positive principle of its own, The excuse for this was that the com- mittee did not wish to anticipate the action of the Democratic Convention, cheerfully waiting What may issue thence, to nod assent to whatever may be promuls there. This business being easily dis- posed of, the committee adjourned, ‘THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following is a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours as indicated by the ther mometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, Heratp Building: 6A. M. P. 9 A. M. ae. vee OT 12 + 2 6 2 ‘THE CHINESE EMBASSY. Arrival in this City Yesterday—Persounel of the Legation—The Landing, Drive to the Westminster and Movements of the Strangers Yesterday Afternoon. The curiosity of New York—a grave, mind-her- Own-business old dame, not subject to any shakiness of nerves—was just a little excited yesterday by the advent of a number of rather unusual personages with rather unusual cues, of rather unusual man- ners and from a rather singular country—a country the peopleof whichjhave strange ways and ideas of their own; the art and literature of which spring up upinto weird, fantastic forms that seem whimsical to other people, and the government of which has a reticence pecultarly its own, though not particularly suggestive of its own qualifying adjective, “celes- tial.” Jenkins would have jotted in his note- book—‘‘Sensation,” ‘opportunity for a grand exhibition of imaginative gymnastics,” “no facts needed except names;” but the fact is there was no sensation as Jenkins would have jotted it down, and New York, the imperturbable, was just curi- ous, not out of her wits with furry, as Jenkins would have reported her. New York may be pardoned, too, for a little curiosity on an exceedingly curious occa- sion. The world at large is curious. A female atheist or a poodle dog, a monstrous squash or edu- cated hog, a murder or a muster—all the same— life’s glories and its griefs all feed the fame; and New York, though v/asé with sight-seeing, has her spasms of wonder at what is going on in the world. Not that a female atheist would be anything wonder- ful in New York, for female freethinkers are by no means the exception at this age of the planet; not that a poodle dog could ex- cite any curiosity, for poodle dogs, both biped and quadruped, are by no means uncommon; not, in fact, that anything in the above catalogue or in a longer one could make a sensation. All are too common in New York and have assumed simply the pias of ordinary affairs, and something of another 1k must be sought for and exhibited before New York will even trouble herself to look out of the window. New York is not green, and never lifts the sash to see or lounges in small delegations around hotels without the most satisfactory reasons for it. Yesterday there were peculiar reasons in the arrival of an embassy from a country whence em- bassies are uncommon, The steamer Arizona, from Aspinwall May 14, put in an appearance jomenney forenoon with some peculiar entries on her mani- fest—entries of strange people with strange luggage and strange solemn faces, with the black wiry hair very carefully shaven from the temples and very carefully cultured on the top of the head and gathered and cued in long tails be- hind. Tne Hon, Anson Burlingame, United States Minister at the Court of Pekin, with a retinue of mandarins, was among iiie passengers from San Francisco via Aspinwall, In other words, the fa- mous Burlingame Mission was on board, and eyery- body went to see. Of course everybody who has ever lounged about the C:#® i{ai1 has observed before those peculiar in? yiquais who sell cigars at the rate of three $" ive cents, and whom, with the quaint fli of phrase to descriptive peculiarities, the in- ‘habitants of San Francisco term — mutuies, They are individuals with \ ry small, eaif- less legs, that seem to : we bent into @ permanent crook with the weight of their little nondescript bodies, and w! h yellow, leathery kins that have all (he appearanc : of Kid very care- fully tanned and dried in the sun; individuals with squeaking, peculiar voices that we might easily mis- take for the notes of a hand organ long ailicted with influenza; individuals with little, black, beadlike eyes that might easily be taken or mistaken for very care- fully polished ovals of jet inserted exactly where es are ordinarily insérted in the queerest little | knoblike h Ja that were put upon a pair of shrunken, bony, mummy-'ike shoulders. ¢ individuals New | York — daily without even the ceremony of a , nod, being of what the Greeks used term the of potloi, An embassy of the mandarins of the race is, however, quite another thing, and an em- + ba AOE aiden pater ate Mel ET but prove | another thing altogether. The consequence was the gathering of a small inultitude at the foot of Canal street yesterday morning, not so particularly for the parpose of greeting the distinguished stranger: for the purpose of satisfying a little laudable osity as to the personal appearance of a res! jan- darin from the country where Mandarins are cou- a, but whence they are seldom exporied, ne multitude, however, caue near being disap- pointed, and were only gratitled, in fa tervention of a happy’ aceident—Fortun reputed to favor tie brave, turning a usual habit on this occasion and c¢ mg to favor the curious, The accident hap- the receipt of a tele- cond Was ih hailing distan: Uno, commande: ailed to meet the si ibassy on board. ‘The cutte oftice with a smali and rather se on board, ing of Abra veyor of ti New York; } ringame’s oF Ciev c ne Por Mr. of Boston; award M a arty boarded extending a him on board a a welcome to Mi tue cutrer, after pire was hoisted — by Doiliver on | te of the cutter, the guns of | the Arizona suluting the strange ensign. ‘The party then proceeded up the bay and were lau | at the of Nineteenth street, East river, where carriages were in waiting to conv them to the Dickens the Westuni Burlingame ly gathe await ti , and, after consid ing, the guest was escorted to his suit of the second fluor. ‘The ge 3 Westminster about jock in t ‘The muititude did not lose their gimp: darins, nevertheless, and, despite ot intentions of the revenu in bis mouth, manner of # conquering Cwsar, though that every one of them did so was nothin, ch to blame the cutter in question. In eo of fact that the Arizona was behind time and of the further fuet that the embassy was cumbered with a vast quantity of very singular ag cage in the shape of bund budgets, trunks of odd pattern and ihe like, the of the steamer deck: that it was 0 wustcr both of he time to effect a the embassy and the embassy’s inggage to the cut in waiting, and, the cap roving inexorable, embassy had the alternative to leave their lug; anmlembark in sta fice state to conve tieir luggage, and the that t multitude at the foot of Canal street was not disa pointed as the reception party was. It was near or quite two o'clock when, after sandr: e or to stay therewith and sac The embassy ai vriugs, the Art 1 like a ponderous Viathan athwart the dock at foot of Canal and, blowing off its dense breath with two, which would have answered ce of any sea monster imagin- ad still, rocking fis huge hulk to and ionally’ and breathing very heavily aud very andibiy indeed. It was a hydra-faced monster—that multitude that turned its handred heads im the direction of the other and huger sea monster which had just moored, ana upon the hulk of which and in the bow which there was a peculiar bustle just at that time of individuals who had all the air and manner of lilliputs crawling with. in and upon the gigantic car julliver of exceedingly modern pattern. uinbled up and down on the monster's back, (he buge hulk betraying by no sign that it — felt them: th peeped in and out at the huge monster’s nostris, and the monster did no teen sneeze, though a single sneeze might have projected them into the middie of the harbor; they serambied about with vatises and luggage on their backs in the Toonster’s internals, and it made no sign that any- thing was the matter. ‘Then they haujed a plank and rested it upon one of the inonster’s ribs and began to scramble out of it with whatever they could lay their hands on, and the huge sea-hatk did not seem even to fill them. ‘Thus went on the process of dis- arking, which the hydra-faced monster on shore kept its eye on, noting Fr motion, and, it must be admitted, swearing @ very little occasionally, with an admixture of the exceedingly idiomatic English Which Addison describes as the dialect of the London ‘ishmarket. “Try that again and Vil mash ve in the snoot,’? hooted one of the faces of the hydra-faced monster on shore to another face of tre same monster, which just then happened to be wring * articulate something through one of the pipes of the monster's many-pipe: throat, and “Mash, if that’s your game,” hissed the other face, just as if to be “mashed” were an exceed- ingly desirable thing, though in the case of the face in question a little “mashing’’ would not in any de- gree have impayed the symmetry of its general make up. Hap) however, the presence of a policeman prevent he fame pee a Bed pea which was devoutly to wis! - | ame nature’s handiwork that in this case ad produced a combinati a cee but in artisan: i being deferred to More convenient season, the hydra- nit termed @ multitude turned fe manag faces in one in the direction of ation. On the back of the hulk just about this time might neon noticed. “gmerent fromthe rest. They n vere, tt with cues hanging down their Were queer bei backs, ‘and which they wagged occasiona'l; hated : sort of sglemn expressiveness, as ever au pee te exactly wages ym che fectly ludierou! perturbable, and if was ever observed to smile it must have been with a peculiarly awkward contortion of visage as if he was by no means used to it, They were jnes in the habit of jes and with the most grolesque no- mani ie which exhibited thetr jabl or They sera @ little, though vers gravely, down nor standing up like any of the its on the back of the ‘va monster They did not sit, but nd ident, St ai ning! aon ing was a ; py the: reming; th ere or seemed to be human parodies, whic posed somebody of & satu rm had composed by Way of caricature of hu- “Mr. to their mind wes disen- | ralmase. Their Wwity Was per- | | original ‘‘Musceta” (Indian)—Cove, Long Island, | | | i manity €xhibiting all its comic possibilities of” fe feature, motion, expression oy general com- Be anatomical had was as if My head en the shoulders of some- body else for its own; as if the arms and of somebody had been meant for those of som else; asif every component part of the individuality had been put by mistake exactly where it did not belong. ‘hey “had a@ sort vitality obvious- ly, but were as if their vitality had been so struck im that the blood did not af all within at least @ hand’s thickness of the surface. As to their grav- ity, it was as im) ‘a8 that of Burton used to be in “The Mummy.” Not a mandarin winked a8 to the lip, to use a Grecism, even in the presence of Jenkins of the P why had succeeded in elbow- ing his way to the vicinity, and was busy with pen- cu and notebook, thou; as the interpreter intro- duced them they bowed almost to the ground, rolled their curious eyes wickedly about in those odd little heads of theirs and winged with their queues with @ queerity of expression which was absolutely unreportable, would have puzzled even the wits of Jenkins himself to put on paper. After the ceremony of in- troduction, the group of grotesques all seated them- selves on the deck in their own peculiar squatty pos- ture, which might have been mistaken for an intention to be seated, and maintained a grave and stern decorum equal to that of the ravenon the pallid bust of Pallas in Poe’s poem. In dress there was no badge to distinguish a mandarin from the lesser rank, though the interpreter explained that there was a difference in the number of buttons on the cap of a mandarin and on that of an inferior personage. With the skull caps which they wore on this occasion, interpreter ex- pl ined, furthermore, that the mandarin was only to e distinguished by his “noble, dignified and gentle- manly carriage,” with which reply Jenkins ex- pressed himself satisfied, and made an item in his hotelook to the effect that as it wus there was no telling a mandarin from any body else, since both mandarins and members of the suite were in that Squatty posture which precluded the possibility of any distinction in carriage or any other distinction whatsoever. It might have been noted, however, that one of the Embassy was ornamented with a pair of spectaties, somewhat larger than those of Euro- pean wear, and seeming to have been made and put on with a view to the utmost gro of effect, behind which twinkled a pair of very sinall Mongolian eyes, with a great deal of a ceriain sort of intelligence in them, mingled with a certain grave humorousness. This personage is Shih Tajen, @ inan- darin of the first water and a high Minister of State. He is low stature—say five feet six or thereabouts— and somewhat bent with fe. ‘The other, who might have been noticed standing near him, is Sun Tajen, auother mandarin, with an exceedingly Milesian cast of features and of heavier and more burly tnould, ‘This second is also a high Minister of State. The former is sixty years of age or thereabouts and the latter is forty-uve—a couple of facts which the interpreter sup- plies and which nobody could guess but for tne kindly information of the man who happens to have on hand the dates and figures; for, to all ap- pearances, the one is just as old and no oider than the other, the one having just as many wrinkles as the other, and there being no difference as to age in either of them, Both look as old as they weil can; and here it may he noted us a bit of generalization ihat to the casual and inexperienced observer an in- dividual of the Mongolian type has always a look of age which it is diMcuit to dissociate from at least fourscore, and which has probably bogotten the Curious Sau Fianclscan epithet of “muinmy” as expressive of this peculiarity of the race. Even the students accompanying the Legation had the same look of age as If they Lad been born old and had never had ay baby hood or Peston as if, in fact, they had come into the world after thefr “teens”? had been long past and nature had visited upon them the curious freak of bringing them into the world just as wrinkled and attenuated as was Dr. Dolliver at the age when he heard the graveyard ing to him, “Dr. Dolliver, it is bedtime.” The queues of the whole party were exceedingly long, trailing to the ground even, so that were aris- tociacy to be reckoned by length of queue very arig- tocratic indeed must have been every member of the Embassy, from mandarin to student. A circumstance arising from this fact created some le commotion as the members of the Winbassy were pissing down the gangway from the steamer. A member in the rear happening to tread upon the tail of a member in front—a queer procession they were, as a facetious spectator remarked, “with tails to their heads” that insulted member whirled suddenly, aud an altercation took place which was less diplomatic than emphatic. Al hands set up a cata- ract of jabber like that of an _ aviary in which parrots articulate and canaries whistle and all other birds keep tme in their own original dia lect. Order restored (and to restore order was difti- for the queue of a mandarin, like the beard of a is inviolate) the party passed down the way and were escorted to their carriages. ses Were all of similar cut, though of every dis- similar color, the majority ing a certain dingy blue with the lustre washed out of it, A black skull- cap drawn tightly over the head, a loose overall cending to the Knees of a pair of caifless legs, ilar to those ascribed to the Copts, en- cased in a pair of top boots fitting very closely to the jeg, andan ivory hilted stiletto stuck carelessly in the top of the ‘boot—these complete the encasing integuments of a set of the’ queerest bodies that euer mistook themselves for members of what the philanthropists cail the great family of man. Ata glance and,feven upon close inspection, one couid not telithem from Japanese, though ‘Japs’? they are not and though they belong to another and quite different nationality. “Their heads are shaven exactly inthe same mauner as those of genuine aps” and their general gurb is the sane. ‘They r no swords, however, and’ there is an absence of that clatter in walking which is pe- culiar to the Japanese shoe. Here, nevertheless, tne distinetion ends. the “Japs,?) they atiect’ the violent colored and misshapen ambrella; aud, like the “Japs,” Mazenta and crimson blossom in’ hide- ous combinations on the utensils in q q All race which has maintained a certain distine- ss of feature, and which emanates from the north of the huge wall that divides the lower from the upper portion of the Celestial Empire. The two mandarins part aving been es- 1 nd ensconced in the auges—rode ite » to the hotel, Where rooms had been pre- spoken for them. ‘The pariy arrived at the about half-past two o'clock, about one hout 1a halfafter the arrival of Mr. Burl game, and was duly registere+ ir. Burlingaine being assigned to the rooms lately occupied by Dickens and the members of the Embassy occupying a suit of thirty rooms on the second floor, Mr. Burlingame is accompanted by his wife ana daughter—tssac Liver- Livermore and Miss Liv- ver being of the diplomatic Westin e and Captain Dollt ye The composition of the Embassy is as follows: Hon. Anson Burlingame, accredited Envoy Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the treat, Powers of the West from the Emperor of the bir empire of Confutsee; J. McLeary brown, First Secre of the Legation; Mons. de Camps, Second Secretary of the Legation; six interpreters, two of which are, English, two of Gallican extraction, and two of Prussian; and the dusky forcigu- ers who compose th rest, and are exactly Uurty in all, including servants, cooks aad barbers. Shih Tajen and San Tajen, who are Ministers of the first rank in the® Empire, and are invested with consulting and discretionary pow- ers, constitute the visible ratifying hand of the lega- tion, and the rest of the dusky are of inferior rank. A curious air carried their queer foreign names in & cramped handwriting, which might have been mis- taken for hieroglyphics, on the register of the West- minster, all with plain Mr. before them and all look- ing asif written with the same striveled, bony, yel- low, leathery little hand with its claw like finger «1 ornamented with blue semi- They were as follows nails, also yellow cireles at the projecting end. and in the following order:— ‘Tung. . Kang. fa A most whimsical cancatenation of Mes: Mongolian gutterals and one to put their cipherer in mind of Hoaugho and all the jaw-distort- ing gutteral names on Morse’s maps. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Burlingame, after the arrival of the remainder of the legati took an al ing at the Central Park, in company with his friends and the Secretary of the Embassy. Mr. Seward was advised by telegram of the Minister's arrival in the course of the afternoon, and it is Nae the Diplo- matic Corps will be summoned thither ina few days. In the course of an interview yesterday afiernoon Mr. Burlingame explained that if was his wish th: all politically partisan ovations should be av any reception that might be tendered him, appenr- ing here as he did as the representative accredited of another nationality. RAILROAD ACCIDENT—A BOY'S HEAD CUT OFF. ‘The eastward bound Cincinnati express train, whem crossing the bridge over the Passaic, near Paterson, yesterday morning, ran over a boy about cight years of age named John W. O’Nell, whose parents reside at Pi ‘Godwin street. He was recklessly trying to reacte the shore ahead of the train, running on the narrow foot board of the bridge, but when abont twenty feet from the end was struck by the Vpn knocking him crosswise on the track, with his hy on one side of the rail and his body on the other. The train then — over him, completely severing: the head from the body, the former remaining om the foot board while the trunk rolled overboard. Strenuous efforts have been made to recover the body, but thus far without success. As the river is very high and the current strong it will probably be found, if at all, some miles down the stream. Tho ghastiy, mutilated head was ali that could be taken home to the distracted parents, LONG ISLAND INTELLIGENCE. TH® Bi-CBNTENNIAL SETTLEMENT OF GLEN COVE.— To-day the residents of Glen—formerly Musquito, celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the set- tlement of their beautiful village. On the 24th of May, 1668, the chiefs of the Matinecock tribe, Susca- nemon and Werch, deeded to Joseph Carpenter “lande lying on both sides of Musceta Confe,” for the purpose of erecting thereon a saw mill and dwell- ing house. The conditions of the deed were com- plied with. It is the date of thia conveyance the eople thereabout propose remombering with an Tne dian clam bake, chowder, and other pleasant things aud doings at theit egove.