The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD On BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ——— Velume XXXIII.. +No. 186 a AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. FATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Pizango— pitrcnocrart Tow ‘CaINGLE’s LOG, &C. Matinee at 2. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Waits Fawy. ALLA THEATRE, Broadway and 1%&b sirect— we nnd or Livs. BROADWAY THEATRE, LigmTMine, O BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Zivta—A TALE OF BLOOD BOX rom LimBniox, &0. Matinee at 2. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— ‘Tus Geany Duchess. Matinee at 2. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosdway.—Humpry Dumpty Matinee at 13s. Broadway.—A FLASB OF LYRIC HALL, Sixth avenue.—BLixD Tom. Matinee at 2. Tammany Building, 14th HOUSI BRYANTS' OPERA Milanese af streot,—ETHIOPIAN MINSTABLSY, 40, -ASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery. Couto youauiane NweRo MINSTRELSY, dc. Matinee at 254. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPULAR GaRpEN Concert, Matinee at 3. TERRACE GARDEN—Porvutak GaRpEn Conomer. DODWORTH HALL, 86 Broadway.—Mn. A. BURNETT, THE Homonisr. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ‘Tax STREETS OF New Youk. EW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOB AND ABT. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, July 4, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, July 3. General Napier was at Windsor, the guest of Queen Victoria. Prince Napoleon was entertained at dinner by the Sultan of Turkey, the Viceroy of Egypt being present. The telegraph banquet in London is reported at length, including the speech of Mr. John Bright. The debate on the French budget was continued, M. Thiers speaking in opposi- tion to the military expenditure. China Mae gee of May 20, by way of England, Teport that the rebels of the North menaced Pekin seriously. Consols, 95%, money. Five-twenties, 73% a 73% in London and 77% in Frankfort. Cotton firm, with middling uplands at 114d. Breadatufis quiet. Provisions steady. Our special correspondence and mail report from Europe, published on the eleventh page of this morn- ing’s H#RALD, embrace very interesting details of our cable telegrams to the 20th of June. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the new Tax bill was reported with amendments and made a special order for Monday. The resolution excluding certain Southern States from voting in the Etwctoral College was called up and postponed, whereupon Mr. Edmunds said he would not call it up again. The Senate soon after adjourned until Monday. In the House, there were present about twenty- five members, all the democrats but three being ab- sent, The Civil Appropriation and Deficiency Bills were considered in Committee of the Whole. Sev- eral Senate amendments to the first were acted upon. Mr. Stevens offered an amendment giving twenty per cent. additional pay to certain civil employés which was extravagantly amended and rejected. The two bills then went over. Mr. Butler, of the Committee of Impeachment Managers, made a report which was recommitted and ordered tobe printed. It wili be found in full elsewhere in our columns to-day. The House soon after adjourned until Monday. saa THE CONVENTION. ‘The hotels of the city are jammed with delegates who have arrived to atiend the National Democratic Convention. Badges were distributed to them yes- terday by the executive committee. Among the notables present are several ex-rebef Generals—Wade Hampton, N. B. Forrest, 8. B. Buckner and others. ‘The Convention will be formaily opened this morn- ing at Tammany Hall, which has been elegantly fitted up for the occasion, The Chase Executive Committee have adopted an address to the Convention in support of the nomina- tion of the Chief Justice. Printed circulars, signed “A Radical Democrat,’’ have been received by nearly all the delegates, urging the adoption of a female suffrage plank. MISCELLANEOUS. President Johnson yesterday issued a prociama- tion of general amnesty and pardon to all engaged im the late rebellion, except those already indicted NKW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1868.—TRIPLE ———___— SHEET. The Dangers of the Demecracy—The Old Game of Northern Radicals and Southern Fire-Eators, There are but two parties in the country, and have never been more. One is the party of the nation—the party whose ideas grow from the great natural impulses of the people toward freedom, progress, justice and right in the broadest and plainest sense. Called by any name, this party has always been the same in its principlés and its purposes, which are democratic in their very nature and essence. Denominated whigs in the revolution and democrats in our subsequent history, the men whose sympathies and instincts ally them to this party are to-day the conservative masses of the nation, who watch so-called party organ- izations only to see with which they may wisely act to secure the welfare of the coun- try. The other party is simply an instinctive aggregation of all the men who feel an an- tipathy to democratic ideas—who are in an- tagonism with the people merely because they are the peofile—fellows prone to claim su- periority in virtue of a domineering disposition, or respectability in virtue of money, and who cohere in the common purpose to substitute their arrogant temper for the popular will, and to govern the people on the assumption that the people are never fit to govern themselves. This is the true nature and division of parties without regard to names; for names are de- lusive in the study of parties, since the party that opposes the people always endeavors to palm itself upon them as the people’s party, and will assume any name to accomplish this. Indeed, the opposition elements adopt all ruses to secure their triumph over democratic ideas—sometimes opposing the people, some- times seeming to act with the people, but al- ways, whether on this side or on that, keeping in view the same end. In the years before the war there was a striking illustration of this in the conduct of the Southern fire-eaters and the Northern political element that is now the soul of the radical faction. Though to all appear- ance the extreme elements of opposition be- tween North and South, the country repeatedly saw the instinctive sympathy between these factions, saw the strangest resemblances in the thoughts and acts of either, and saw that Massachusetts and South Carolina, though they called things by different names, were in fact side by side, true sister States on all points of principle. Their common ground of sympathy was the same narrow view of our future that put them in an attitude of the bitterest an- tagonism to popular purpose, and orators in Boston denounced the nation and the constitu- tion in the venomous style that was adopted by the fire-eaters in Charleston immediately before the war and during its progress. Ani- mated by all the spirit of aristocracy, the Southern leaders, though called democrats, desired nothing so much as to trample demo- cracy and every democratic idea under their feet. They had already practically driven the free laborer out from their States by the culti- vation of the slave, and were ready to push this to such an extreme that there should not be a free laborer left. If they could not have this right under the government of the United States they would make a new goverdment under which they could have it, and this their determination brought about the attempted secession and the war. In every step of the struggle the Northern radicals played directly into their hands, their fast allies. They kept up the excitement—kept the national blood at that fever heat of fury that made any act of frenzy possible. In previous years New Eng- land, having the same notions as the Southern States of this government, had proposed to adopt the same remedy for an evil, and thus she sympathized with secession and encour- aged the fire-eaters through all the radical organs with the notion that the North would assent to the destruction of the Union. Some of the fiercer of the radicals of to-day were then in the fire-eaters’ party, and were the hottest of all for extreme acts. Our four years of war, therefore, were forced upon the nation by those elements in either party that are opposed to democratic princi- for treason or other felony. ‘The intelligence from Mexico is of the highest im- portance. It appears by our special telegrams, Gated Mazatian, June 20, that Captain Bridge, of the British man-of-war Chanticleer, had blockaded the port and was only prevented from bombarding it by the united efforts of the foreign consuls, om account of an insult offered to himeelf and his paymaster by the Custom House officials. The Mextcans, im answer to his threat to bombard the city, brought thetr artillery and imfantry to a position in front of the Custom House. The American flag floats over all American property. Captain Bridge had agreed not to commence the bombardment until he heard from the Admiral at Victoria, but in the meantime a strict Blockade on Mexican vessels is maintained. A United States steamer had arrived to protect Ameri- can property. ‘The Fourth of July will be very generally cele- brated to-day throughout the country, In this city, the First division ef the National Guard will parade, the public buildings and the shipping will display their national ensigns, and the usuai salutes will be fired at the Battery. In the evening, freworks will be exhibited at various points. In the Board of Health yesterday Mr. Eaton, coun- sel, called attention to the fact that many marriages are performed by notaries public in this city which are illegal, as they have no right legally to perform the ceremony. A disastrous collision took place on the Sound Thursday night, between the steamer City of Boston, of the New York and Norwich line, and the State of New York, of the Hartford line. The former was badly damaged, her starboard boiler exploding and falling overboard, Several of the crews and passen- gers of both vessels were seriously burned by the escaping steam, but no lives are known to have been lost. A committee of five, appointed by the Mississippi Reconstruction Convention, is in session in Jackson hunting up evidence of frauds in the late election. They sit with closed doors, and a row ensued yester- day, wich several leading citizens demanded to see the evidence. In the Louisiana Legislature yesterday nothing of much interest transpired. The city is perfectly quiet, but the military were again on duty. In the North Carolina Senate yesterday a resolution ‘was introduced providing that the fundamental con- ditions imposed by Congress in the wholesale read- mission bill shall be forever held without legai effect in the State. ‘The Governors elect of Georgia and Alabama have been installed by General Meade, preparatory to the assembling of the State Legislatures. On our twelfth page thie morning we give a de- tailed account of the execution of Ruel, the prisoner at St. Hyacinthe, Canada, on Wednesday. We have correspondence from the Sandwich Islands, the British West Indies, St. Domingo and Hayti, all of which will be found on our tripie sheet this morning. The news from ali these points is in- teresting, although it has generally been anticipated bj our special telegraphic despatches, Bighty young jedien om Elmira Seminary, N. Y., ‘vigited Richmond, Va., yesterday pad caused quite a ples—the one section endeavoring to crush out that guarantee of popular liberty, the sovereignty of the States; the other seeking the same end by the extension of an aristo- cratic system. Radical arrogance and self- sufticiency played into the hands of the fire- eaters, and the fire-eaters, remembering the obligation, are prepared to acknowledge it and pay in kind. This is their disposition as they come to the Democratic Convention to be held in this city to-day. They will play into the hands of the radicals as these did nto theirs, and will rather defeat the demo- cracy and perpetuate radical rule than be jthemselves pushed aside by the triumph of democratic ideas. Even now they threaten to secede from the Convention if they cannot have their way, just as they tried to secede from the Union when they could not have their way, and they manifest the spirit that will break up this Convention as the Charleston Convention was broken up. These men are blinder than a serpent’s slough to every political and social fact of the nation’s existence. They want to go back to the Chicago platform and one of the Chicago candidates, and pronounce the war a failure, and thrust that declaration down the nation’s throat, intensifying its hatefulness by presenting it everywhere with the same face on their banners that was there when they fought for this atrocious dogma four years ago. They want to insult the nation, make it accept the insult and triumph on those terms, or they want Butler and the radicals to rule all. But- ler was one of their associates before the flood, and they would rather see in power the party of which he is the type than to see a popular triumph under the lead of any true representa- tive of democratic id eas, Let the people take notice, therefore, that this is the danger of their cause in the Con- vention—that the fire-eaters will control it and dictate its candidate and its plat- form. Defeat will, of course, be the re- sult, and that defeat means the continued domination of the radicals. There is no chance for the nominee of this Convention unless he stands on the principles that are given by authority as those of Chief Justice Chase, He must accept the war and its re- sults ; for the war was carried on and paid for by the democratic masses, and tho radicals who claim it had no share in it but the steal- ing, canting and blundering. The democracy will permit no imputation on what they did to cept the war, the thirteenth amendment and | ing, revolutionary and infamous can be the fourteenth amendment as the foundation of our political future; for this means the sovereignty of the States and of the demo- cratic masses in the States, With this—uni- versal amnesty, the taxation of wealth rather than labor, the supremacy of law and pure administration as its promises to the people— & party may hope for success; and all the more if it gives such a practical emphasis to the promises as the nomination of. Mr. Chase. But the Convention will not take these steps if the fire-eaters, in their practical co-operation with the can prevent; and it is now the great danger and trouble of the democracy that its greatest enemies hold a high place in its councils. General Amnesty te the Ex-Rebels of the South. The long looked-for proclamation from the President granting, without reservation, am- nesty to the late rebels of the South has at length appeared, and will be found published elsewhere in the Hzratp of this morning. It is appropriate that on this day, the anniversary of our national independence, an act of clem- ency like this should be performed and the last barrier to a complete restoration of the Union and return of kindly and fraternal feelings between the two great sections of the republic swept away, far into the irrevocable past, for- ever. §o far, then, as he can Mr. Johnson has given the finishing touch to the work of reconstruction, In the proclamation he de- clares that the time has arrived when civil law should be supreme in the South; that there is no reasonable ground for apprehending @ renewal of the rebellion; that pains and penalties for offences committed and long since expiated are vunneces- sary, and that a continued military Tule, denial of the right of trial by jury and suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in a time of profound peace are prejudicial to and in conflict with the spirit of our republican institutions. On this day, therefore, Jefferson Davis is the only man remaining unpardoned, and he would probably have been made a subject of executive clemency had not his indictment for treason prevented it. This latest official act of the President will be received with satisfaction throughout the country, for although the number of persons benefited by the proclamation is comparatively small, it comprises the leadiag men of the South. So long as they were kept alienated from the mass of their fellow-citizens and held liable to indictments and trials on charges of treason, so long was the work of pacification incomplete. Such men as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. John- ston and other rebel leaders are the true re- presentatives of the Southern people, and it is well that their disabilities have been removed, at least to the extent that the Executive can remove them. We have nothing to fear from them in the future, and there is much to hope from men who, however mistaken their cause, fought us with a valor which has made the name of an American known throughout the civilized world as the synonyme for heroism, We feel o profound pleasure that on this day there dwells no political pariah in the United States. The lawless deeds of a Jacobin Con- gress may for a while longer keep beneath the heel of despotism the late rebels of the South, but the people will soon relieve them of their burden. If the voice of wisdom and modera- tion shall prevail in the councils of the Conven- tions that assemble in this city to-day the ninety-third anniversary of American independ- ence will be as glorious and memorable as was the first. Universal amnesty and supremacy of the law will then march on linked together ; the bloody pages of our four years of civil war and the leaves on which are inscribed the history of radical tyranny and misrule will be closed forever, and a future full of peace, friendship and prosperity will be the destiny of the country. Henceforth instead of re- proaches and recriminations the Southern and the Northern man can clasp each other's hands in fraternal grasp, and if, as they must, memo- ries of what has been shall come back at times, they will cause no bitterness— only regret at that which was perhaps inevitable. Mr. Johnson has performed a praiseworthy action in every respect. We have had enough of bloodshed and of political strife. Whatever may have been their fanlts, the people of the South are our countrymen, and there is much in their history that should make us proud to own them as such. Their destiny is ours, just as ours is theirs. From this proclamation of amnesty let us hope that brighter and happier years will come, and that that peace which we so ardently desire may follow in its wake. Ben Batler’s Report—Fighting by Con- cussion, The Impeachment Investigating Committee mountain, which has been laboring for several weeks past, has at length been delivered, and its offspring is about the most contemptible little mouse that ever was born. Ben Butler, who bore the pains of maternity, has again illustrated how devoted he is to the art of ar- guing and fighting by concussion, as Mr. Evarts so happily termed it when referring to the hero of Big Bethel. The report in ques- tion is a weak, trashy and stupid production. It proves nothing, except the folly, ignorance and conceit of its author and his colleagues. From what had been said before it was only reasonable to expect that at least one case of bribery or corruption or even undue influence would have been proven. Instead of either of these we have some statements by testimony and otherwise that Senators Henderson, Fowler, Ross and Van Winkle had ex- pressed their intention of voting in favor of conviction upon some one or another of the articles of impeachment. This is about all. Nowhere does the investi- gation of the committee elicit a fact tending to prove that either of these Senators had been corruptly influenced in bringing about the President's acquittal. There is, it is true, a long-winded argument upon the subject of the money raised by Wooley and others, but vague assertions never yet proved a fact. Mr. Wooley or Mr. Anybody Else may have raised a million of dollars, but so doing does not show that the money was used to bribe Senators. If this report develops anything disgraceful at all it is the act of the committee in seizing the private despatches of individusle— despatches which, according to law, should have been kept sacred from the eye of the imagined. , And, now, what does this whole report amount to? Simply nothing. General Butler has only added another to his numerous ridicu- lous failures. To his great fizzle in digging canals opposite Vicksburg and Dutch Gap and to his greater farce of exploding a considerable quantity of gunpowder several miles from Fort Fisher, with the idea of knocking down that celebrated fortress, must be added this effort to manufacture thunder in the shape of a ter- rible arraignment of those Senators who had the courage to rise above party clamor and perform their duty with honesty and integrity, General Butler and his radical colleagues must try again. To the present time their genius has only demonstrated how men blinded by partisan passion can recklessly indulge in inuendoes and charges of an utterly baseless character, and how, in endeavoring to prove them, they bring down upon themselves the contempt and derision of the community. The Great Day in the Metropolis—The Democratic Convention. “The glorious Fourth,” always a great day in this metropolis, with its parades and fire- works and all its patriotic glorifications, will this year be a day of transcendant importance, as it will mark the opening of a new chapter in the history of the democratic party and of American politics. Upon the political Con- vention which assembles to-day the success or the defeat of the democracy in the approach- ing Presidential contest—nay, the continued existence or dissolution of the party—depends. Upon this candidate, that candidate and the other there are many factions, cliques and coteries in the Convention, but they may all be summed in two grand divisions—the one progressive and expansive, in favor of a new man and a new departure; and the other still attached to the old ideas, obsolete issues and politically dead expounders of the party faith. Mr. Chase represents and is the candidate of the progressive division, and Mr. Pendle- ton is the embodiment and the champion of the stgnd-still or retrogressive division. The general line of demarcation between them is as broad and deep as that which separated the Western Douglas faction from the Southern Jeff Davis faction in the Charleston Conven- tion of 1860. In that convention the Douglas faction planted themselves inflexibly upon the doctrine that the settlement of the question of negro slavery in the Territories, as estab- lished in the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854, properly belonged to the white settlers in the Territories respectively. But the Southern oligarchy had had enough of ‘‘squatter sove- reignty” with the bloody and disastrous ex- periment in behalf of slavery in Kansas. They would have no more of it, and so they took the new position suggested by the Dred Scott decision of 1856, that under the constitution the Southern slaveholder had the same right to take into the common Territories of the United States his slaves, and to hold them and work them there as slaves, as the Northern man had to take with him his horses and cattle as property. Upon this issue between Western squatter sovereignty and the Territo- rial rights of the Southern slaveholders the Charleston Convention collapsed, the demo- cratic party was broken up, Southern seces- sion and rebellion followed, and the grand result has been the most remarkable and mo- mentous political revolution of modern times since the terrific French convulsion opened in 1789. How stands the democratic party to-day? It stands confronted by the amendment added to the constitution abolishing and interdicting slavery within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States. It stands confronted by the Congressional work of reconstruction and by the recognition on the part of Congress of the new State governments thus established in Tennessee, Arkansas, North and South Caro- lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louisi- ana (eight of the eleven rebel States) and by a decision of the Supreme Court, from Chief Justice Taney himself, that the State govern- ment recognized by Congress is the State, and that there is no appeal from it, none whatever. Here upon the recognition of these States as admitted by Congress, subject only to the gen- eral conditions of the constitution, including articles thirteen and fourteen of the amend- ments, stand Chase and his supporters, while opposed to them we find Pendleton and his party, whose repudiation of the work of Con- gresa involves the re-establishment of slavery and the restoration of the constitution as it was before the war. Here is a line of division between the oppos- ing forces of this Convention which must end, from present appearances, either in the nomi- nation of Chase and a new departure on the high road to victory and a new and glorious political revolution, or in the nomination of Pendleton and the crushing defent of his party in the election, or in another disruption of the Convention and the party, as at Charleston. Hence we may truly say that this Fourth of July in New York is a day which will mark a new epoch in American politics—a day which will go far to determine the life or death of the democratic party, a day, in short, “big with the fate of Cesar and ef Rome.” English Blockade of Mazatlan—Proper Treat- ment of Mexican Insolence. Our telegraphic despatches from Mazatlan announce the blockade of that port by the Eng- lish man-of-war Chanticleer, Captain Bridge, commander. The immediate reason for this decided measure was the gross insult offered to Captain Bridge and to his paymaster by. Custom House officials, These officials deny having acted in the outrageous manner attri- buted to them by the Captain, asserting that they have merely carried out the laws against smuggling. In the lively correspondence be- tween Captain Bridge and General Corona the latter asserts that as military commander he could not interfere in matters pertaining to the civil law; but the gallant English captain declares that in accordance with the law of nations he demanded redress of the highest authority, His letter to the Consul of the United States sets forth the fact that having failed to procure redress from the Mexican authorities in Mazatlan for the insults offered to him by the Customs Department he is compelled to take summary measures to repel the insult. He therefore announces his intention to close the port of Mazatlan and to make quob seizures as seve the coupiry. The Convention must ec- | public, Nothing more shamelggs, law dety-| he way consider gogepeery. Ge sysi-r “Should force be required to carry out my intention I shall be obliged to resort to it, but it will be my desire while inflicting punishment on the government of Mazatlan not to injure private property, if possible.” The American Consul is invited to display the United States flag over his consulate and to notify his countrymen in Mazatlan of the intentions of Captain Bridge before the latter opens fire on the Custom House and other public buildings. The English flag was to be displayed at the main and a blank gun to be fired in order that the inhabitants might remove from danger. Still later intelligence announces that the blockade continues in full force, but that the city of Mazatlan will not be bombarded until special instructions shall have been received by Captain Bridge from the British Admiral at Victoria. Diplomatic negotiations between General Corona and the Captain having failed to settle the affair, the late acting Prussian and English Consuls have addressed notes to Cap- tain Bridge stating that two-thirds of the property at Mazatlan belongs to foreigners, that there was imminent danger of a mob rising against foreign citizens if he bombarded the city or public buildings, and that ‘there was strong possibility of many innocent per- sons suffering, while those by whom he had been wronged and of whom he demanded re- dress could not possibly be punished.’ The Prussian and English Consuls have also for- warded documents setting forth the case in a strong light against General Corona to Mr. Plumb, United States Chargé @’ Affaires at the city of Mexico, in order that he, as the repre- sentative of a friendly Power, may communicate in their behalf with the national authorities. Great excitement prevails at Mazatlan, and our correspondent refers to reliable authority for the statement that the English Admiral will un- doubtedly order all Mexican ports in the Gult of California to be blockaded until full satis- faction shall be rendered for the gross insult to his junior officers and to his country’s flag. The public opinion is that this is the beginning of a long premeditated English blockade of Mexico and will end in an English-Mexican war. However this may be, the promptitude with which the commander of the Chanticleer has resented the insult to the British flag comports well with traditional English spirit and policy. Unfortunately we must add that it contrasts discreditably to us with our forbearance in view of Mexican insolence. In this very case of Captain Bridge the representatives of Great Britain and Prussia pay a respect to the American flag which only the Mexicans seem not to have learned to feel. So long as the Mexican authorities are not called to a strict account.for their recent numerous outrages to American citizens—such, for example, as the assassination of Colonel Becker and the im- prisonment and flagellation of several American merchants at Monterey—it is, perhaps, not surprising that the authority of the American flag should fail to be respected. is it not almost time that the Mexicans should be taught to respect it ? Nexr Year's CeLepRation or THE FourtH or Juy aT Bertin.—Intimate as the relations of Germany and the United States have be- come, the Germans find it difficult to keep pace with their cisatlantic friends. Thus we were in- formed through the ocean telegraph yesterday that arrangements have been nearly completed for a grand international fete on the Fourth of July, 1869. It is strange that in these days of steam and electricity the Germans should lag behind the Americans 4 full year in their pur- pose of celebrating the ‘‘glorious Fourth.” By the aid of the telegraph it would be easy for Berliners and New Yorkers to celebrate the Fourth simultaneously to-day. DISASTER ON THE SOUND. Collision Between the Steamers City of Bos- ten and State of New York—Boiler Explo- sion—The Damage Done—Scalded and In- Jured Persons—Frightful Scenes—The Rescu- ors. To the seeker of the beautiful in nature, to tourists generally, Long Island Sound, with its grand sur- its winding landscape and the calm ty of encircling hills, is peculiarly fascinating. Now and then the placid bosom of this broad expanse of water loses its quietness, and, animated by stormy recklessness, becomes more charming to the romantic and adventurous spirit. Here weary men and women can forget the sweat and dust of the city for awhile. Here cares, perplexities and rude jostlings of opposing interests may be forgotten. Here, indeed, could there be real pleasure in summer travel ff the safety of the public was assured against accidents that by foresight and precaution might be avoided. Periodically, it seems, as if news came of shattered hulls, hair-breadth escapes, with the sufferings and terrors of helpless women and defenceless chilidren, from some part of the sound. First, there are really obstacles of navi- gation that detract somewhat from the security which inland voyages should present where almost within @ biscuit toss there is land. Hell Gate, with ite numerous rocks, rough, jagged and solid, that closely border the channel through which @teamers have to pass, and concealed as they are just below the surface of the swift fowing stream, makes navigation a matter here of the greates danger. The least swerving of the passing vessel from its course in the centre of the tortuous channel is almost certain to bring its bows with an unplea- sant thump on some “rock of “ages,” whose hidden, hard crest never fails to penetrate the timbers of the staunchest, stoutest ship. This cannot be avoided; but where the broad expanse of waters offers the widest berth for a fleet as large as ever sailed on the ocean there must be negligence somewhere when vessels collide, when the broadsides and timbers of the crafta styled ‘Sound palaces” meet each other and shiver timber upon timber, sending, if not death, sur- fering to those who have entrusted themselves to the care of their officers. So much of this has occurred in times gone by that the pleasant and poeti- cal tinge to a Sound journey has, but not justly so, given place to an anticipation that the next intelligence will be worse, more fearful than that already heard, as it comes wafting to the con- ception of friends and the public. The terrors of that which can occur to the gilded vessels that ply this body of water have a vivid realization in the casuality that befel the steamers City of Boston, of the Norwich and New York line, and the State of New York, of the Hartford line, on Thursday evening. These vessels had not to buffet wild waves, but met with the ter- rors of a collision near the hour of midnight that was accompanied by suffering of some of their passen- gers that yet, though it is prayed not, may end in death, All the Boston steamers recently, owing to circum- stances, have been especially noteworthy in their mu- tual opposition, carrying hundreds, even thousands of passengers at a single trip, making the best possible time—in a word, adaing to the plethoric character of their respective company’s pockets, ‘with as little possible comfort to stor et er respecti as veniently sanc’ Since 4 mt ‘here should warn approac! teamers of the danger of s pproaching steamers lange! THE STATE OF NEW YORE. This vessel is on the route between New York and Hartford, and left her at the latter city at four o’clook the same yrith some four hundred pre ies which in the faces of those on the decks of the City of Boa- cans Fae Ae, ry secre, eee of upon the City of Boston that filled with renewed ap- prehension the fear-stricken passengers. volumes of steam and burning all it iched came rus! into every nook of the mid- ship portion of the boat, making frightful. results. State room doors were pushed and kicked open, and almost nude women, with stalwart men and babes, cried and frantically om each to the for person and besought relief, helpless with their fears. In answer to the wild inquiries of the fri ones the very few who had remained calm t! he out anally gaye the intelligence that the City of Bos- ton had nrun into by another Sound steamer— the State of New York—with such force that the for- mer had been made almost a wreck. The cries of poaied. Seay increased the general anguish of the moment Horror and des} also marked the expressions of those on the State of New York, the same excite- ment, the same sobbing, the same cries for help, the same convulsive clutec! for life preservers. SEARCHING. So soon as Captain Charles F. Beull, of the State of New York, could realize the situation and ascertain that he had collided with a vessel, after rushing below and obtaining the welcome intelligence that his boat was not leaking and quieting, as well aa possib! the wild cries ¢¢ the Jemale pases and ad’ the “stern men” of their duty, cat four boats to be lowered, when, amid the cries of those on the steamer he had run into, he approached and asked her name and condition of damage. Re- sponses came that it was the City of Boston and that Pel was needed. The boats of the State of New York icked up two men found in the water near t! en were proceeding to the shattered hull the Boston, when lights and whistles summoned the —- of other steamers, and gladly was addi- ni aD welcomed. It was soon ascertained to be the City of New London, of the same line as the injured boat, om her w: to New York. By this time some degree of aietude had been restored. 204, mutual explana- Captain Lada to take his passengers and elt bag: J ane > ~ on board his boat ‘and give him a little aid for injured rs whom they had just found. This, of course, was readily done, and after this duty was performed an inve t gation was made, when the extent of OE AMAGR to the unfortunate vessels was revealed. The star- board midship section of the Boston was torn oif Hoe | or Pong meng rs er ae ab beeen bor boiler, after exploding, had fallen 01 the smoke pl were top) led down, ‘the light woodwork been torn into fragments, and pieces of huge timber had erushed through the ladies’ aa- loon, and wreck and ruin was everywhere visibie. On the State of New York there was less of a shat- tered appoarance. The forward deck had been car- ried away, the stem broken off, huge timbers smashed, flag stail severed and the stock of anchors broken by the fearful shock. THE {NJURRD—THEIR CONDITION. Among nearly one thousand people in sucha time as this it was long betore it was sat ‘ly aa- certained who had suffered. Soon it was known by their cries that the unfortunates were the follow- ing:— . ON THE CITY OF BOSTON. Wm. B. Hazeltine, New York, agent of Sand(ord'’s line of steamers, contusion over the left eye, ‘SA arm slightly bruised, with internal injurtes, ie gentleman occupied stateroom No. 18, over the ex- ploded boiler. C. W. Edgely, Brooklyn, scalded and interaal in- juries, not seriously. Mrs. N, B. Walker, Jersey City, severe cuts on limba. Henry B. Tracy, Norwich, Conn., right hand led. scalded. ‘There were others injured, but not to a degree that incapacitated their assisting themselves. ON THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Jas. Knowles, England, head, arms, limbs and all lower ion of ly badly and in places frightfully burn Wm. Pickerin, England, head, t roast, face, feet and an inpriy burned Faas two a riya] and deck passengers. ‘They were smu eens oe ghey and were inj Teel ire tmooupolons of the nearness of the city of Bostea until she was within ten feet of them. scald : a5 i bs Ey te Bs i ii ape* z i : ite Zl 3 i i ir ¢ | i | i ii isd Bl Hi i j it i : a8 5 fi iu g E i i i) 3 i i ; p ; i E H a5 Ht i lf ae rt fy i j i g 2 i late last even the did not ——_ belief of where dreadful nor were they cert: t the r laws of the United States regarding the rifging of bells and the blowing of whistles were complied with, These facts, demanded, and fully demanded too, by the public, will undoubtedly transpire. APPRARANCE OF THR VESSELS. & Visit to the State of New York santly suggestive. If such, then, is the nature of the ite of New York's dami the perfectly wrecked appearance of the meity of Boston can imagined. Saloons there are torn up, the siarboard side of the vessel ig gone, a boiler and all machinery attached lost, the frightful effects of the steam everywhere visible, fhe damage to the City of Boston ts estimated at about $70, while that to the State of New York at about $3,000. The injured men brought to the city were kindly care for, and all done yesterday that could be done thet sul ts 300 feet; breadth feet 6 inches; depth of nold, 13 feet 6 old measurement. is vemical airéct eng ving one 6 in diameter by 12 furnish i fa ines, ha ed by ti te te wo tul guards and Built in 1861. hull ts white oak and chestnut. Messrs. Sneden Tana built he hull, and the Novelty tro W ac] ' ‘The Stats ft New York was built im Brooklyn the Messrs. Poillon in 1866; is 1,417 tons bu of Kool 990 feet, breadth of 42 foet ‘hes; th of hold 12 feet 6 inches; of whit I sis 5ia5% é ; E p or