The New York Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1868, Page 6

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BULLENE.— Morning and evening. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BUEN BENJAMIN. Marning and evening. GRACE CHAPEL.—Rev. E. F. Remington. Morning ‘and evening. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE RE- FORMATION.—Morning and evening. REV. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM'S CHURCH, Fortieth street.—Preaching by the pastor. Morning. SEVENTEENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—Rev. Wa. B. Conuit. Morning and evening. } ST. JAMES’ LUTHERAN CHURCH.—Morning and even- ng. i ST. PETER’S CHURCH.—Rev. N. H. CHAMBERLAIN, Evening. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor SNow. ternoon. TRIPLE SHEET.| New York, Sunday, July 5, 1868. | THE NEWS. Prospect of a railroad throngh that section. Their lands, it will be remembered, werg tly gold by & so-called treaty at tocleals Brice to the Leavenworth ang Railroad Company. From thg plains we learn that the Indians are again ecoming troublesome, A large body of Savages crossed to the south side of Platte river, between Plum creek and Willow Island, on Thurs- day last, and drove off @ number of wood choppers. The removal! of troops from Forts Smith, Phil. Kear- ney and Reno is progressing rapidly. About two thousand Shoshones and Barrock Indians held @ council with General Augur on the 2d inst. The shipment of gold from Central City, Col., in Jane amounted to $200,000, The steamers Gettysburg, Narva and Francisco de Asis arrived at Havana yesterday, the current prov- ing so strong that they were compelled to buoy the new telegraph cable which they are engaged in lay- ing four miles east of Morro Castle. An interesting compilation of religious intelligence on the eleventh page of this morning’s HERALD will be found refreshing reading, especially to politicians now in the city. The Navy Department has issued orders conform- ing to the law for an eight hour system of labor. A man named John Rilands was stabbed in Baxter street last night by an Italian named Magaldo. He died instantly, and his murderer was arrested after a desperate struggle. Anold man named Francis Kerrigan was mur- | dered last evening at the corner of Warren street and Underhill avenue, Brooklyn. Two men, named Joseph Lynch and Martin Dempsey, were arrested on acharge of having commitred the deed. Kerrigan was stabbed tn the region of the heart with a scis- sors and died almost instantly. “ John M. Sheldon, a member of Engtne Company No. 10, was run over by the engiue at the corner of Myrtle and Classon avenues, Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, and instantly killed. The National Convention—Nice Little Game ef the Albany Regency. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse. So says Mark Antony of his friend, ‘‘the noble Cesar,” who was by Brutus, Cassius and Company put out of the way, ‘not that they loved Cesar less, but because they loved Rome more.” Our ex-Governor, Horatio Sey- mour, has been as patriotic and magnanimous as Cmsar; for has he not thrice refused the democratic nomination for the next Presidency? His last declination, some three days gone by, was so frank and unequivocal that it has been generally accepted as conclusive. He was not equal to the great distinction; he had not been seeking it; he did not want it and he would not have it. Yet, in our judgment, this is but a stroke of strategy in the nice little game concocted by the Albany Regency for Seymour's nomination. It is the identical trick which was so success- fully played not many years ago to secure to Mr. Seymour the democratic nomination for Governor. He had withdrawn; he was not in the fight; but his triends thought, in the nick of time, that a complimentary vote in his favor as the first choice of the democracy would be very acceptable to Mr. Seymour, though he would unquestionably decline the nomination. Under this assurance the experiment was tried, but the Convention was caught; for Mr. Sey- mour graciously accepted the nomination thus conferred, and the thing was fixed. Now, in this Convention the advantages of the same trick of strategy are visible to the naked eye. Mr. Seymour, it is understood, has positively withdrawn. He thus ceases to be an object of attack, and his friends begin to be sought for by the other candidates. The Seymour de- tachment becomes a balance of power in the | Convention. It beats about the bush right and left. It adroitly contrives and assists. in | the slaughter of Chase, Pendleton, Hendricks, Hancock and the rest, and then, at the point where all his rivals are used up under the two- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, of hi for Mr. Chile, ahd Wwe a6 fot | believe they are. Nor have we any faith in Mr. Seymour's repeated declinations, positive | as he makes them. He is standing aloof to | avoid the first rough blows of the battle. It is | the old trick of Seymour and Polk and Pierce. It is a skulking mode of warfare; it is the Indian system, and the big Indians of Tam- many Hall are skilled in it as well as} Seymour. Let the Chase men and the Pendleton men accordingly be on their guard | in reference to the withdrawal of Seymour, | and treat it as a deception and a snare until | the name of Seymour is withdrawn in Conven- tion by the New York delegation. Even then, | ff there is any hedging upon Seymour, let it be stopped at once; for the Albany Regency are not to be trusted. | Close of the Summer Meeting at Jerome Pack. The summer meesing at Jerome Park waa less successful than former meetings. It was not good management to bring the spring and summer meetings so closely together. Several of the best horses in the entries were unfit to run—Kentucky, Extra, Dickens, On- ward, Local and others. ever, was favorable to the same display of fashion and wealth as that which distinguished the spring meeting, although fewer: spectators | were present on account of the absence of many | New York families on their summer tour. | Both the spring and summer meetings con- firm us in our impression that the dash system of racing—formerly known as scrub racing, in which horses of any kind of breeding used to contend—seems to be the only race we can have at the present day, or until we can return to the old system of breeding horses possessed of | great constitutional vigor and endurance. Al!- though the race horse of the present day is probably superior in the form that should give speed, yet his muscular development does not appear to keep pace with the general features of the structure. The result is that we are con- tinually hearing of what are called first class horses breaking down at an early age, their tendons give way; and they are unfit for ser- vice just as they have arrived at maturity. Our interest in the Jerome Park races will be redoubled when we find that to all their other advantages they add the advantage of en- couraging a return to the old system of racing, with its main object of improving the breed of | horses and securing strength and endurance aa well as speed. England in Training for an Election. The people of England have commenced a regular course of training for political action during what the leaders of the New York ward “rings” would call a ‘“‘rousing” election strug- gle. Our English oousins gave a grand exhi- bition of their efficiency and rapid progress in the acquirement of democratic logic on the oc- casion of a meeting called in support of the Gladstone Church bill, and presided over by the Lord Mayor of London, in Guildhall, of which we publish a mail report to-day. By the execution of a fine ‘“‘corner” and flank manceuvre the anti-Gladstone men filled the hall to its utmost vapacity, drowning the voice of the Lord Mayor and other speakers, and expressed the sentiment of the assemblage as against ‘‘Popery” and for the ‘‘Queen,” “the Church” and “‘the Bible.” Mr. Disraeli found hosts of energetic supporters in the un- invited and unwashed freemen, although his policy was opposed on the platform by all the members of the Rothschild family who have thirds rule, ifr. Seymour is trotted in fresh and good as new, distances all his exhausted competitors.and carries off the prize. The two-thirds rule is a beauty. At the British politics dull. The English harvest prospect was cheering. Consois, 9% a 951/, money. Five-twenties, 73% @ | 73% in on. Paris Bourse firm. | Cotton active, with middling uplands at 114d, | Breadstufts dull. Provisions fat. | By steamship at this port we have mail detatis of | our cable despatches to the 23d of June. THE CONVENTIONS. The new Tammany Hall in Fast Fourteenth street was formally dedicated yesterday morning, before the assembling of the National Convention, by the Sachems and brethren of the Society of St. Tammany, who formed in procession at the temporary wigwam in Thirteenth street and marched to the new butid- ing. The Declaration offindependence was read by Judge Cardozo, after which Crand Sachem John T. Hoffman pronounced the dedicatory address, the ceremonies terminated, and the Hall was thrown open to the Nationa! Convention. Mr. August Belmont, chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, called the meeting to order at a quarter past twelve o'clock and made the welcoming address, Henry S. Palmer, of Wis- consin, was then unanimously chosen temporary chairman of the Convention. General McCook then proposed that the rules ofthe House of Representa- gives govern the Convention, but considerable dis- cussion ensued as to whether this would abrogate ;the two-thirds rule in nominating a Presidential can- didate, and it was amended so as to accept the rules of the last Democratic National Convention. Reso- lutions for the appointment of committees of one from each State on permanent or- ganization and on credentials were adopted after a lengthy discussion on the right of the Territories to representation in the Convention, which was not conceded. The committees were then appointed, and also one on resolutions and platform. The Declaration of Independence was then read, and the Convention adjourned until Monday at ten o'clock. The Soldiers and Sailors’ Conservative Convention assembled at Cooper Institute in full force, ail the States being represented. General John A. McClernand, of Hlmois, was chosen temporary chairman, Colonel L. D . Campbell, of Ohio, offered resolutions denouncing the radical party as having abandoned the principles involved in the civil war and urging the National Democratic Convention to nominate @ candidate of such antecedents as will enable the soldiers and sallors to support him con- sistently with their war record. A committee on permanent organization was then appointed, and made a report soon after, General W. B. Franklin, of Connecticut, was chosen permanent President, and after some further business the Convention ad- Journed until Monday at nine o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS. Independence Day was ceiebrated yesterday with even more than the usual display. Salutes ushered ft in and it was honored by the ringing of chimes, the parade of the military, steamboat and rafiroad excursions in every direction, the display of public Pyrotechnics in the evening and a most alarming explosion of powder in private pyrotechnics by the Juventies all through the day. The accidents and casualties were numerous, many boys being injured and two #0 badly burned by an explosion in Thirty- sixth street that they are not expected to survive, The weather was extremely sultry. General Canby upon being notified that the North Carolina Legisiature had ratified the constitutional amendinent issued an order suspending military law in that State. A friend of Senator Harlan, travelling through the Cherokee Nation, in Southern Kansas, says the aet- tiers there express themselves higuly pleased at the Baltimore Democratic Convention of 1844, | | where it was invented to kill off Van Buren, we find that on the first ballot Van Buren had | 146 out of 233 votes cast; on the ninth ballot | he had only two votes left; for Polk, a fresh | nag, was just then brought in, and a general | rush for Polk nominated him, to the astonish- | ment of all concerned. In the Baltimore Con- vention of 1852 the old stagers, nine of them, | fought pretty stubbornly to the thirty-fourth | ballot, when, having betrayed their exhaus- tion in an effort to unite on Dickinson, poor Pierce was trotted in, fresh and prancing, head and tail up, and on the forty-ninth round he walked over the course. This is the game of the Albany Regency with Seymour. It is to keep him back until his rivals are wofn out and killed off, and then to charge with him after the fashion of the Old Guard of Napo- leon at the turning point of the battle, fresh and vigorous, against the exhausted centre of the enemy's line, break it, double up the two wings, rout them and take possession of the field. There are two cliques among the managers of the New York delegation—a Seymour clique and a McClellan clique. Certain democratic | seats in the English Parliament. The report of the proceedings in Guildhall gives assurance that there will be a yery “lively” election time in Great Britain next November when the Church question comes | to be discussed at the polling places all over the kingdom. Tue Recent CoLttsion OF STREAMERS ON THE Sounp.—The collision of the steamera City of Boston and State of New York on Long Island Sound last Thursday night narrowly missed proving one of the most disastrous collisions on record. Both boats were crowded with passengers, and although only three or four lives were lost and comparatively few persons were seriously wounded, this escape of nearly a thousand people from a dreadful death is due to an overruling Providence and by no means to any precautions on the part of those who are required by the State laws to guard against accidents of the kind. In the thick fog that prevailed at the time of the collision bells The weather, how- | JOLY 5, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. fax 6u the Interest of the Bonds—Report of the Committee. The Committee of Ways.and Means has not reported agreeably to the instructions of the House on the proposition to tax the interest of United States bonds ten per cent, though the resolution instructing it to do so was carried by the large vote of ninety-two to fifty-five. It has reported a bill, it is true, but not such a one aa. was wanted, and it has at the same time protested against the mea- sure. Instead of reporting a bill simple in terms, like the resolution, and confining itself strictly to performing that duty, it has compli- cated the matter as much as possible, so as to embarrass the future action of the House, and has made a stupid argument against the mea- sure, Instead of stating in direct terms that | this ia a tax on the interest of the bonds, a bill ia reported reducing the interest. Though this amounts to the same thing, so far as the sum to be paid and collected goes, the principle in- | volved is quite ditferent. Ina principle taxing the interest and reducing it are two very differ- ent things, and the action of the committer only shows its stupidity and covert purpose in reporting such a bill. The argument of the commiltee, if it is | worthy of beifg called argument, is tallacious, far-fetched and irrelevant. It speaks of pre- cedent and of English law, of national honor, of the public cradit and of the invested rights of the bondholders in the same claptrap phra- seology that the organs of the bondholders in this city do. The report shows what narrow- minded and incapable legislators these mem- bers of the Committee of Ways and Means are. The question has nothing to do with pre- cedent; it is simply one of public necessity and convenience. The whole of our financial condition is unprecedented, and Congress has been legislating all along since the war com- menced without precedent. Look at the in- come tax, that.has no precedent in our history and is generally believed by the best lawyers to be unconstitutional. Indeed, Congress has been doing little else than legislating outside of the constitution. Yet a great hue and cry is raised now when a measure is proposed en- tirely within the legitimate powers of Con- gress, simply because it taxes the rich bond- holders for whom the Committee of Ways and Means has assumed the defence. As to Eng- lish law and the action of the English govern- ment, the argument of the committee is very lame and displays lamentable ignorance of history. Nearly all the British debt was con- tracted at a high rate of interest; a good deal of it at six per cent, and a portion higher than that; yet it is well known that the interest now is only three and three anda half percent. Was this repudiation? Was the reduction of interest from time to time to half of what it was originally repudiation? Our bondholders and the would-be financial legislators in Congress are fond of quoting English precedents and English honesty, yet they seem to forget this fact. It may be said that this was all done legally and by an exchange of securities; well, we propose to do everything according to law. The British bondholders could not resist the action of the government in reducing their interest, and it was as com- pulsory upon them as the proposed tax here would be. They no doubt cried out repuiia- tion just as our bondholders do now. All governments have assumed the same right. At this very time the news comes to us thgt both Austria and Italy propose to tax the interest on their debts. In Austria the tax is to be twenty per cent—ten per cent more than that proposed by Congress. The twaddle of the committee about national credit abroad and the difficntt obtaining loans hereafter from Europe s this measure pass is on a par with the rest of | our the silly argument. All the enormofs loans and resources required to carry us through the war were made at home. We did not ask Europe for loans, though the Europeans did buy some of the bonds becanse they were | cheap, just as they buy our railroad or other bonds. We do not and are never likely to want | European loans to the government. We are better without them. If we could carry through such a gigantic war on our own re- sources we shall never want the aid of Europe. United States bonds are exempt from local taxation, while all other kinds of property are subject to it. The bondholders now draw over eight per cent interest in should have been ringing and whistles should have been blown incessantly. Had this law been complied with the peril to which the two crowded boats were exposed would have surely been avoided. A thorough investigation sfould at once be made as to the causes and circum- stances of the collision. If it shall be found to have resulted from culpable neglect of the financiers of this city who made some sacri- fices of ‘‘der monish” in behalf of McClellan in 1864 would like to get it back, and doubtless his nomination and election in 1868 would answer this purpose. These men constitute official returns show that the Irish emigrants in | member of the House will frame a suitable bill the New York McClellan Central Committee, Their chance is very slim. The Seymour clique to their relatives and friends in the old | jytion passed on Monday and that both houses is powerful and is headed by the Albany Regency. They argue in this way: Seymour has made mortal enemies of the Pendleton men in that Cooper Institute speech; they will in the first of the fight kill our candidate unless we hold him back. Let us do this, and when we have killed off Pendleton, Chase, Hen- dricks, Hancock and Andy Johnson, by knock- ing their heads against each other, there will will be an opening for Seymour. we are sure atleast of the State of New York, and in holding New York, if we do nothing more, we hold the candidate and the whip hand over the Convention of 1872, We warn the friends of all the other candi- dates and probable candidates, especially the friends of Mr. Chase, that this is the game of the Albany Regency in behalf of Seymour. In this view very little faith is to be placed in the professions and promises of the New York delegation in behalf of Chase. They are using him as a convenient instrument with which to lay out Pendleton, their most formidable enemy. Pendleton is too strong to be beaten by a direct attack, and strategy must be resorted to. There is something to admire in the bold and manly front presented wy the | fered, and Mexico may serve as @ new illus- | the House of Lords as he was for the Emperor Pendleton men. They proclaim their candi- date and his platform without wincing or mincing. We know where to find them and what they want. We do not know that the Albany Regency are honest in their professions usual and legally obligatory precautions, let severe punishment be inflicted upon the guilty parties. Tre Reat Linerarors or [retanp.—British the United States remitted the sum of £540,884 land during the year 1867, Of this amount £202,914 was in the shape of prepaid passage tickets enabling others to come and do like- wise. Sidney Smith said that the cry of “ Erin go bragh” was nonsense, and that the Irish should drop it and adopt the motto, ‘Erin go bread and cheese; Erin go pantaloons without holes in them.” It appears as if the Irish took the hint at the time, and that their children If nominated | have since looked around and found the land | entirely new aspect to the Eastern question. where they can carry it into practical effect. The Money Order Irishmen are the real ‘“libera- tors” of the Green Isle, Ovr Mexioan CorrgsponpeNcr—STaTe OF THE Netonporine Repusiic.—Elsewhere we give some interesting correspondence. from Mexico. It will be seen by these letters that Mexicans can be as happy as other people are, even in their own country, and the fact. that their country is in a distracted condition, that its government is a worthless machine and its treasury empty, sits very lightly on the minds of the people, who eat, drink and are merry in spite of all. An old moralist reflected very happily on the small share, either for good or evil, government had in the miseries men suf tration to that felicitous old rhyme. Degraded, contemptible, worthlesa, by comparison with | does any other government of the earth, her people can yet dance and enjoy a featival with a zest we may all envy. currency on their bonds—an enormous rate of interest—and there is no kind of property so well able to bear a tax. In fact, it would be only fair and equitable to make it fifteen per cent instead of ten. The Committee of Ways and Means and those members of Congress who oppose the measure think only of legislating for the rich and to make the industrious classes bear all the burdens of the government. Few of the work- ing people have any bonds to tax, while they are taxed in everything they wear, eat, drink or use. We hope some sensible and patriotic on the simple proposition contained in the reso- of Congress will pass it without delay. Rerorm in Torkry.—In the Heratp of Friday we published a couple of letters from the pens of our special correspondents at Con- stantinople showing that reform in Turkey is no dream, but a solid, substantial fact. The reforms which the Sultan has inaugurated and which the world has approved have given an The Cretan troubles, as our correspondents show, have become ridiculous. The Servian, Bulgarian and other questions have all been killed by the sensible reforms introduced by the Sultan. It would certainly be a new thing in the world’s history, but it cannot be gaid to be an impossible thing, to see Turkey betoming one of the most advanced nations of modern times, The Sick Man so unconscionably long in dying is in an exceedingly hopeful state. His condition is one of the interesting features of modern history. nok “beenrtliy Siz Ropert Napier x Loxpox;—The hero of Magdala has arrived in London. Like a trne soldier he is ready for any emergency. He is as ready for the House of Commons or of Abyssinia. What he is required to do he On the evening of July 2 the House of Lords and the House of Commons both voted him honors. He has been publicly thanked as no man bas been thanked since the days of the | morants are not satisfied. Duke of Wellington, with the single exception of Sir Colin Campbell. Ducal honors and a pension were decreed to the first. Lordly honors and a pension were decreed to the second. Neither the one nor the other have yet been decreed to Napier; but it may be taken for granted that unless Napier has special objections he will be voted a handsome pension and made a peer of the realm. Napier deserves it; and the New York Heratp, strange as it may seem, has more to do with Napier’s fame than any British journal. Thus it is that the world rights itself. Morrit?e Warehousing Bit! and the Protective Policy. Mr. Morrill has reported a bill to the House of Representatives, with an elaborate argu- ment from the Committee on Manufactures, for modifying the warehousing system. It ap- pears from this report that sundry petitions had been made to Congress praying for the re- peal or modification of the existing ware- housing laws, and that the action of the com- mittee is the result of an investigation into the questions presented by these petitions. Thatis, afew manufacturers appeal to Congress for more protection, and a few high ‘protective policy Mr. | members of the committee recommend, in a long argument on protection, the modification of the warehousing system .and report a bill for that purpose. By the existing ware- housing system the importer ia permitted to place his goods in the public stores or bonded warehouses, where they may remain three years without payment of duties or interest on duties, but are subject to an additional charge of tea per cent upon the duties if they remain more than one year, .and are subject, of course, to charges for storage. In other words, duties are only payable upon the with- drawal of the goods for the market or con- sumption. It is estimated that about half the goods imported are entered for warehousing, and that there is on an average about forty-two millions of dollars’ worth of imported commo- dities constantly remaining in warehouse. This, however, is much too high an estimate for the last eight months. The object of the warehouse system was to give every facility to importers to adapt the sale of their goods to the market and to make the United States a great centre for the dis- tribution of commerce. While there can be no doubt that this has been a great convenience to trade in general throughout the country and in promoting commerce with other countries, it has been. especially beneficial to the mer- chants of New York and those of our other commercial cities. It would be difficult to estimate the great advantages to this mighty commercial centre of America. But Mr. Morrill is only looking at the interests, or sup- posed interests, of a few manufacturers, Heute he proposes by the bill reported to afford ad- ditional protection to the manufacturers in imposing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum in gold upon the amount of duties on goods, wares or merchandise lying in the warehouses, in addition to the charges now made, from the time of entry until the with- drawal for consumption. Besides, the mer- chant is to make declaration in writing, veri- fied by oath or affirmation, at the time of entry, asto whether his- merchandise is for home consumption or exportation, and is to be bound to dispose of it accordingly. These protectionists are like the horseleech spoken of by Solomon ; they cry, “Give, give,” and are never satisfied. The New England manufacturers, a8 well as the iron and other | manufacturers, are well protected now. The necessity for raising a large revenue for the | government has afforded them an opportunity to tax the rest of the community heavily and to become enormously rich. The farmers, la- borers, tradesmen, the mass of the people— yes, more than ninety-five per cent of the whole population—are paying thirty, forty or fifty per cent more for what they buy and use than the imported value to protect and make rich afew mannfacturera, who are less than five per cent of the population. Yet these rapacious cor- Of course Mr. Mor- rill, in behalf of the manufacturers, reiterates the old exploded story of the general welfare, of increasing the national wealth and of the agricultural and other classes finding a com- pensation in a home market among the manu- facturers for their products. But the people are too enlightened at the present day to be- lieve all this. They know there is little diffi- culty in finding markets for their products when trade is free, or comparatively free, and they are not disposed to pay two dol- lars for one simply to protect and make rich a few manufacturers. The idea of protection in this age of enlarged and en- larging commerce, when railroads, steam power and the telegraph are rapidly bringing all na- tions into close intercourse and brotherhood, is absurd. Mr. Morrill and his colleagues of the Committee on Manufactures are the veriest Rip Van Winkles ; they are behind the times and do not know that the world moves, The inci- dental protection afforded by the necessity of raising a large revenue is sufficient and more than the manufacturers ought to have if the government did not need an enormous income from imports, It is to be hoped Congress will not listen to any such proposi.ion as this of Mr. Morrill, which would cra:np our already too limited commerce and take away from us those great advantages of trade which are opening all over the world. PskiN AND THE Nren-Frit Resets.—We pub- lished yesterday a report from Hong Kong, May 20, via London July 3, that the Nien-fei or Northern rebels have met with recent suc- cesses and that Pekin is seriously menaced by them. But it is altogether likely that this re- port, like the similar one of August, 1867, will prove to be an exaggeration. In the long struggle which the Chinese government has sustained against the Northern rebels the lat- ter have, indeed, occasionally won victories over the imperial troops. But even if there were more foundation than there probably is for the rumored late successes of the rebels, the Emperor of China would enlist the sympa- thies of ‘all the Christian nations by the liberal and progressive views to which his government has committed itself by the embassy headed by Mr. Burlingame. Well organized as the rebel army is said to be, it has hitherto failed in every attempt to reach the capital. It is not impossible that one indirect result of the Chinese Embassy to the great Treaty Powers may turn out to be the complete suppression of the rebellion in Northern China ‘The Chinese in California. The: Pacific mail steamer China, whiok arrived at San Francisco on the 26th ult, brought, besides one hundred cabin passen- gers, nine hundred and fifty-six Chinese in the steerage. This is a noteworthy sign of the times, It isan earnest of the immense immi- gration to this country from China, which will correspond to and probably exceed the immi- gration from Europe. With the completion of the Pacific Railroad and the successful opera- tion of the Pacific steamship lines, the surplus population of China and likewise of Japan will be drained by California and other States on the Pacific coast. The number of Chinese already domiciled in California is surprisingly large. It is said that no less than twenty-five thousand Chinese are working on the Pacific Railroad. The Chinese who have hitherto been imported are for the most part laborers and small traders; but ere long swarms of skilled laborers will arrive and introduce into America theirimprovements in agriculture and their exquisite manufactures—their silks, porce- lains, lacquered ware, carved goods in tortoise shell, ivory and horn, engravings, bell casting, paper, ink, cabinet work, and all-the arta and in- dustries in which they evince so marvellous an aptitude for imitation. Even some of their learned men may come to lecture on the philo- sophy of Confucius, and from their lectures as well as in the joss houses which may yet be erected in San’ Francisco and other towns of our Pacific coast, those pious but,simple minded young men who purpose to go to Chiow aa Christian missionaries may learn a*great deal that shall enlighten them more fully as to the in- tellectual advancement of the people whom they are ambitious to teach. The Chinese laborers of the lower grades will prove a great addition to the wealth of muscle which is to purchase material prosperity for the Pacific slope, and the unsurpassed value of Chinese servants promises to relieve housekeepers in our Atlantic States from the annoyances to which they are now tyrannically subjected by independent Bridget in the North and by emancipated Dinah in the South. The Chinese Embassy, headed by Mr. Bur- lingame, which is at present visiting this country, will give, directly or indirectly, an additional impulse to Chinese immigration to the United States. The knowledge acquired by the Embassy will be communicated to the Chinese, and will doubtless tend to increase the disposition of so many of them to come to America. Still another mission may exert a similar in- fluence. The Hon. Charles D. Poston, Commis- sioner of the Agricultural Bureau at Washing- ton, left New York on Wednesday for China as bearer of despatches from the Chinese Embassy to the Emperor of China, and as special agent of the Lower California Company to promote immigration by the Chinese to the extensive land grants from the Mexican government to that company in Lower California and Sonora. The success of this mission will have an im- portant influence on the future of Chinese im- migration to America. Already the teeming population of China has sent so many to our shores that it behooves both the government of California and the government of the United States to determine their status and guarantee their protection by appropriate legislation. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tue WEATHER YESTERDAY.—The following is a | record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s 3 Broadway, HeRawp Building: SuppEN DEaTu.—Christian ed suddenly at his residence, supposed to 1 the effects of sunstroke, Mary Ann MeNally, of No. 279 First 3 last evening badly wounded by a shutter falling upon her head. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED PickPockeT.—James Buckley, of No. 317 First avenue, last night was ar- rested on the charge of picking the pocket of James McLaughlin, No. 24% Third avenue, of 3150. He bec taken to the Eighteenth precinct police station oUuse. ARRESTS IN THE PRECINCTS.—The Twenty-first pre- cinct reports five arrests yesterday; the Nineteenth, eleven; the Twelfth, five; the Eighteenth, thirty-six; the Seventeenth, eleven; the Tenth, ten; the Thir- teenth, seven; the Seventh, nine; the Sixth, tweive; and the Fighth, seventeen—nearly all for drunken- ness, disorderly conduct and other petty offences. KiLLep BY THE HARLEM RAILROAD TRAIN.—A man named William Smith, residing at No. 1 West Forty-fifth street, was run over at a late hour yes- terday afternoon, by a train on the Harlem Railroad, at Fifty-eighth street, and instantly killed. The coroner was notified to hold an inquest. SEVERBLY WOUNDED.—Joseph Leary, of 476 Second avenue, got into an altercation with another man, whose name ts unknown, st a lager beer saioon, 308 East Twenty-sixth street, last night, over the relative merits of Chase and Pendleton. Leary was badiy wounded of @ lager beer glass, and was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Cour vg SoLeit.—On Friday afternoon Jonn Reddy, an Irish laborer, twenty-four years of age, while at work on pier No. 27 East river was over- powered by the extreme heat and conveyed to Belle- vue Hospital, where death subsequently ensued. Coroner Flynn was notified to hold an inquest on the body. ae here lived at No. 16 Washington street, had been but a few weeks in the country. THe SCUUETZENFEST—ANOTHER MAN SHot.—An- other man was shot yesterday by the sharpshooters at Jones’ Wood. The man’s name, who bas perhaps been fatally injured, is John Casey. At the was hit he was standing at the corner of avenue A and Eightieth street, speaking toa friend. When he fell he was picked up and taken to the Tweuty- third precinct station house. The doctor who at- tended | im and dressed his wound says that he can- not live. The wound is in the back = of the head. He has since been taken to Bellevue Hospital. A PROVIDENTIAL Escare.—Yesterday afternoon the twenty minutes past two o'clock Harlem Rail- Toad train ran into car No. 85 of the Belt Railroad, at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and Fourth avenue, killing both horses attached to the car, tearing off the front platform, and throwing the car full of passen- gers quite a distance from the tracks. Strange to say, there was nobody hurt. AN UnFILIAL Son.—Yesterday morning at an early hour Mrs, Helena Herrett, a lady about fifty years of age, living at 653 Second avenue, was, it is alleged, stabbed by her son, Jacob Herrett, the knife pene- trating her breast and infii & severe wound. Jacob was taken to the Twenty-first precinct station where he attempted to commit suicide, as is averred, by knocking his head the wall of his cell. be tr injuries resulting from this attempt were of such @ nature as to require his removal to Bellevue Hospt- tal for surgical attendance. ESCAPE OF PRISONE! ‘SING SING. PovuGHKEEPsiE, July 4 1968. » Atalate hour Friday night two convicts, named Stephen Larkin and John Lowery, alias Robert Ver non, escaped from Sing Sing Prison. Larkia was con- victed in February, 1864, of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Lowery was convicted in June, 1963, of burglary tn the second degree and sentenced to seven and @ half years’ imprisonment, They escaped from the meséroom about midnight, by cutting their way out over the door. They were fleft in the messroom for tie pur- ose of getting up steam for cooking the breakfast, nce out they stole a small boat at Scarborough and crossed the river to Nyack or Piermont. One hun- dred dollars reward is offered for their recapture. Montreal down train on the Hudson River Railroad ran over a man this morning near Cru- ger’s, cutting him in p.eces. He was a lavoring man, named Nicholas Cleacy, a resident of Oruger’s. He leaves a wife and two children. His body was hors ribly tontiated.