The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. fourteen, In the Louisiana Legislature yesterday ex-Gover- nor J. M. Wells petitioned for his salary as Governor for the interval between the time of his removat by General Sheridan and the inauguration of Governor Warmouth, ‘The race between the yachts Martha, of the Brook- lyn Club, and Mattie, of the Bayonne Club. for the = sum of $1,000, through the Narrows to buoy No. 9, and return, came off yesterday, and proved a close contest, the Martha winning by one minute and fifteen seconds. The miners’ strike in Pottsville, Pa., has assumed such threatening proportions that the Marshal of the county is guarding the collieries in the vicinity. Dr. Peels delivered a lecture last evening at Union Hall, in the Bowery, on the ‘Societies and Festivals of the Germans in the United States.’ The lecture was quite lengthy, but the gist of 1t may be gathered from its introduction, in which the assertion was made that they tended to propagate true civilization in this country and that their iufluence has ever been humanizing. The rest of the lecture was a studied composition to prove this point by argument and facts. A two gallon jug of gunpowder exploded in a small boat at Cape Elizabeth, Me., yesterday, seriously in- juring Captain Glenny and pilot Stoddard, who were 1m the boat working upon the wreck of the steamship Bohemian, Arather singular case is now being investigated before United States Commissioner Stilwell, which it — = XXXII. RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BLOOMING DALE BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev, W. Pore VEAMAN.—Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Rey. Da. DEpMs, Morning and evening. CENTRAL PRESBYTE! For, Moruing and evening. CHURCH.—Rry. F, F. CHURCH OF THE REDEMPTION.—Rey, Untau Scorr. Moraing and evening, CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rey. Apporr Brown. Morning and evening. , EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Key. Du. KuOTRL. Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—Rey. J. M. PEEBLES. evening. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rry. East- BUBN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. Morning and ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.—Consrcration oF DR. MOQUADE, Bishop elect of Rochester. Morning. ST. AMBROSE CHURCH.—Morning and evening. connected with the whiskey rings in this city to ASUEDISH LOTHERAN CHURCH OF GUSTAVUS | secure the removal of Collector Batley. ‘The parties ee : are now charged with perjury, and testimony in the Fi sot he HALL.—Re" Cnaxces B, Smytu. After. case is being taken before the Commissioner which Camapenent will exhibit some rather startling facts. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor Snow, Af- ‘A decree of divorce was granted in the Supreme temngon. TRIPLE == _+| Court yesterday by Mr. Justice Ingraham in the a} case of Charles G, Webber against Louisa Webber. England and the Abyssinian Expedition— Honors to Sir Robert Napier—An Example or Two for the United States. Sir Robert Napier, the hero of the late Abyssinian expedition, has been voted by the New York, Sunday, July 12, 1868. CB NEWS. EUROPE. : oie Sat A i The iew- * port by the Atlantic cable is dated yea- | British Parliament a pension of two thousand terday ev july 21. pounds sterling a year, and has been created The Loudon pr canvasses the American demo- | by Queen Victoria a peer of the realm, with cratic Pr versely to can nat The Spa © 'Y . sols i, a O44 d ‘-ntal nomination, interpreting it ad- » juour’s chances. The German-Ameri- raiaton treaty was in operation in Prussia. ‘eers lately arrested are exiled to the the title of Lord Napier of Magdala. These dered to England by this admirable soldier in the famous expedition for the release of cer- | tain English subjects held as prisoners by the late King Theodorus and in defiance of the warnings of her Majesty’s government. The invasion of Abyssinia, the defeat of the King’s army, the release of the prisoners in question and other Europeans, the storming of Mag- dala, the death of Theodorus, the dispersion of his forces, and the return of Napier with | his trophies and the young son of the deceased King to be educated in England for some fu- ture purpose, were, briefly, the results of the | late expedition. The profit and loss account has been in some British fault-finding quarters set down as the rescue of a score or two of | prisoners at an expense of five millions of pounds sterling, or, in round numbers, some twenty-five millions of dollars in gold—a costly | adventure, they say, into a worthless region, peopled by a race of intractable and useless barbarians. This, however, is but a narrow view of the subject. In our estimation the costs of this Abyssinian expedition were but a small invest- ment compared with the objects gained and money. Five-twenties 73 @ in Frankfort. h middling uplands at ly a veadstaffs slightly improved. Provi- without material change. The » Bremen, ©: in Neynaber, from Bremen 0 th ult, via Southampton on the oth, arrived at this port at an early hour this morn- ing. Our special European correspondence, in detail of our cable t msto the 27thof June, will insure an inter’ ition by its most useful variety of subject and the completely e manner in which it is M4 pence sions and | In the Senate yesterday the bill authorizing the registration of fifteen Canadian built vessels engaged in the lake trade and always owned by American citizens was passed, with little opposition. The bill for the 4 ntinuance of the Freedmen’s Bureau This bill provides that the Commis- sioner shail on the Ist day of January next cause the Bureau to be removed and its operations discontinued, except the educational departments. The bill to fund the national debt and for the conversion of notes of the United States was taken up, the ques- tion being upon the substitute reported by Senator Sherman, which provides for the issue of twenty, thirty and y year bonds, bearing interest, re- spective four and a half and four percent | the profits to be realized from it by Eng- per annum, exempt from taxation in any form; to | jand and the world, First, the moral be excl sed for the redemption or purchase of = é vealy a z an equal {of interest-bearing notes other than | fect will he felt to England's advantage existing flv’ ent bonds and three percent cert | by the one hundred and fifty millions ficates, It es contracts made specifically Asiatics of the British empire in India with for gold, Mr. n advocated his substitute and | the return of this Anglo-Indian army; and Mr. Sumne wuced it as covert repudiation and | next, the prestige of this Abyssinian invasion ral faith, Before a vote could be : 7 m 1 the Senate adjourned. will be recognized among all the surrounding @ bill was passed changing the terms | savage nations and tribes of Africa north and + Court at Richmond and Norfolk to | south of Abyss and will ope: Staunton and Witheville, ue aa reduction | purpose also in Egypt. We are satisfied that t y sumed. The fourth sectio : ‘ ; Uae pie rachael ifort acta i shy a leaeae this Abyssinian enterprise of Napier is but an that there aba! only three Major Generals, to be | item in certain great designs of British trade { with regard to thetr qualifications by the | and power, in regard to which the instructive, 1 March, 1568, The fifth section, providing | and we may say invaluable, African explo- Ger generals in a similar manner, | rations and discoveries of Livingstone, Bur- Other sections, reducing officers : aeRO + stam departments one-half, were | 0D, Speke and Grant, and Sir Samuel Baker, the bill was porarily | are only so many encor ¢ contributions, ve printed, e Baker, for example, has r ed an immense n of the Sot cotton region along the northern and eastern borders of Abyssinia; Speke, Grant and Burton have discovered offer extensive and fertile regions around the great fountain lakes of the Nile and along the course of the upper river, while Livingstone has laid open a num- ber of fertile and extensive dist tion of 4 taken upon {1 In th of the Dis ‘ate to some was ag and or: the ri toral ( sion uj th plectioneering: com 1 General Blair was s'rons republicans. It was vious question and the re vote of 112 to 21. Tie s he Tax bill were non-concurred in | ¢ of Conference was asked for. by the closed by was passed amend 3 below the and a Conmat MISCELLANEOUS. equator adapted to all tie producis gf the Our Panima letter ts dated July 4. Independence | ‘epics in thelr perfection. Gay was »d by the Americans it ity in What does all this signify ? it may be asked. an app! ste manner. A. G. Lawn Minister | It signifies that the flourishing British colonies 1, Was in Panama on his way to the Santos Acosta had been appointed to Costa of Ausiralia and New Zealand of the present United Sta day may be matched in the course of another Minister to the United States by the President of Co- 4 = ek lombia. was prewing with Ecuador, the | 8eneration or two bed least, in their commercial jury in the Ambator question having pronounced | products, by the British possessions of Eastern against tie | ioubians, There was no news of im- | Africa, from Abyssinia southward. Such we Portan: Central s enies i duit believe to be the grand designs involved in this uur Valparoso correspondence ts ¢ une 10, eee sates s Congress sill in session, proceeding actively late Al pyssinian expedition. Nor have we any with busi The question between Peru and | Objection to interpose to its fulfilment. The manifest destiny of the United States is the North American Continent and its islands— Chile in re to the Spanish iron-clads will soon be brought wy in that body. It was confidently ex- pected that with Colonel Balta’s inanguracion @8 | 4 felq of enterprise large enough for President of Peru the matter would be arranged i level & fi amicably. Active operations were to be commenced | American development for many genera- tions to come. Let England, if against the Araucanian Indians leiwgs’ rail- she will, way to Ar proceed to the development of the boundless veserepnt ethat the | commers! rees of Afriea, We shall get Capiain ener | conten ts the ra in the ‘, 2 profits of each i city and al!) sorts on the subjec reaned by | OUF Full « profits of such expansions the Hoard of He of trade ition, ~The only wonder is We have news from Mexico city to ti hoond | that with the lacy redundant population of the Vera Cruz to the 6th inet, by the Calan cable. | isgand of Great Britain, now struggling for a Galvez had been shot. Cortina had routed Flores, bare existence, her Majesty's government should be so slow in peopling her compara- tively uninhabited colonies and the waste places of the earth inviting the skill, enterprise and industry of her people. If her Majesty's Cabinet would only open their eyes to this sub- ject they might soon find a way to relieve Eng- land of nine-tenths of her paupers and turn them to a profitable account. There are yet some other views suggested to Thirty regu Estrada at burned. Bs down the shad been taken privoners by one villa dell Valle, Which was sacked and odo was at Jacala with a force to put rotaro rebels, but the latter weve mase- ing at Amoles to meet him, Angel Miramon had been arre: for implication in the Puebla rebeilion, Gur Chilean correspondent furnishes a most inte- resting narrative of a trip taken by General Kilpatrick and members of the American legation in Chile across the Andes into the eastern division of the Argentine republic. The route taken by the party is almost appears originated in the attempt of certain parties | are graceful recognitions of the services ren- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 46 —TRIPLE 1 . 2 mi ] ! : - + fied the constitutional amendmeut known as article | dence from the armies of Scott and Taylor, | plete success of the great International Ger- Doniphan, Kearney and Fremont. Yet again, | in the honors conferred upon Napier, we have England's strength among the nations. She rewards her faithful servants with a liberal hand. The people of the United States, too, | from Washington to this day, have not forgot- | ten the wisdom of this policy. Hence the | commanding position in which General Grant now siands as candidate for the next Presi- dency. As the saviour of their government the sovereign people that he shall take the helm. Finally, in this late Abyssinian expedition, regardless of costs, hazards or consequences, for the rescue of certain English subjects, we have an example of the vigilance of the gov- ernment over its people which we must adopt the citizen, before our government can be pro- perly respected by the Cabinet of England, the ‘‘greasers” of Mexico, or the King of the Cannibal Islands. . A Proclamation from the President. In compliance with an act of Congress passed on the 25th of last month the President has is- | sued a proclamation announcing that the Legis- lature of North Carolina has ratified the pending amendment to the constitution known as ‘‘article fourteen.” The President makes reference to his having received the resolution of the Florida Legislature ratifying the same, but announces the fact that it was passed prior to the act of Congress mentioned, which act is prospective in its bearing. For this reason, doubtless, the action of Florida is entirely ig- nored, The tenor of the proclamation is quite remarkable, and shows that Mr. Johnson is determined not to recognize the recon- structed States. He speaks of receiving a paper ‘* purporting to be a resolution of the Legislature of Florida,” from ‘* Harrison Reed, who therein signs himself Governor.” Again, the other paper was, he says, ‘‘ transmitted by and under the name of W. W. Holden, who therein writes himself Governor of the State of North Carolina; and so with the other parties whose signatures are attached. All of this implies that in his oficial capacity the President recognizes neither Mr. Reed nor Mr. | Holden as Governors of their respective States. Still Closer to Asia, Our special correspondence from Japan and China, published this moraing, elaborates in im- portant detail the telegraph news from both countries, dated at Yokohama to the 4th of June and Shanghae to the 25th of May, which appeared in our columns a short time since. The writers report the origin and progress of the reactionary convulsion produced against ‘the Mikado of Japan by the aristocracy and hierarchy after the abdication of the Tycoon, calling attention at the same time to the man- ner in which the movement had already affected the foreign interests in the chief ports of the empire, and its probable future influence in bar to the opening of the territory to outside er ation, From China we have the latest mail intelli- gence respecting the demonstrations of the Northern rebels against Tientsin, news of the disgrace of the most talented and formidable of the imperial generals, tendency of British diplomacy, advices of the efforts which are being made by the Emperor but another example of the great secret of | and country from dissolution, it is the will of and everywhere enforce in the protection of useful notes of the | man-American celebration in Berlin on the Fourth of July, 1869, and will likely promote a grand American emigrant Schuetzen fest on that | occasion, « Saat lish and American Ships and Ship- builders, In view of the impending revolution in the commerce of the world the question forces itself upon every American mind, why is it | that English shipbuilders can afford to build vessels cheaper than our own? In an authen- tic statement of the British navy now before us we observe that all the engines and no i small proportion of iron-clad frigates are built by private parties. In one column of the tabular exhibit we find the names of the great firma of Penn & Sons, Maudslay & Fields, | | Lairds and other eminent engine and ship- builders constantly occurring. In fact, these individual establishments constitute a material function of England's strength. We have already alluded to the languishing state of some of our marine workshops, and we know that the same stagnation prevails more or less in Providence, Boston, &c. As with England, so in a great measure it is with us. One leading element of our strength lies in these extensive iron works and the ship and engine building firms which conduct them, and go completely are they indices of materiat power that with their deterioration there is a corresponding depression of national vitality. With flourishing lines of steamships come wealth and the promotion of our iron and shipbuilding interests in all their varied branches, and with these comes likewise the | ability to construct an iron-clad navy on better terms than is possible at the government works, which are costly affairs and do not yield commensurate returns. It has been very satisfactorily demonstrated in Great Britain that private enterprise is fully equal to supply the wants of their great naval service, and has far outstripped the public workshops in every essential condition. Of the magnitude of these gigantic concerns some idea may be formed when we state that the Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Com- pany at Blackwall has an annual capability of twenty thousand tons of iron-clad ships. The irigates Warrior and Minotaur—the latter of six thousand eight hundred and twelve tons—were built there. This company alone had en their stocks at one and the same time | the iron-clad Minotaur; the Valiant, four | thousand one hundred tons; the Perventz (for the Russian government), of two thousand eight hundred tons; the Victory (for the Span- ish navy), four thousand eight hundred and sixty tons, and an iron-clad frigate of four thousand two hundred tons, built for the Sultan of Turkey, but subsequently sold to Prussia and christened the King William, forming an aggregate of twenty-two thousand seven hun- dred and seventy-two tons—a trifle over one- third of our whole navy now in commission— allat asingle private establishment! With the coal and iron fields at hand, the Thames in which to launch their ships and the powerful engine building firms of Maudslay Sons and Fields, and Messrs. Penn & Sons near by, the | facilities of this‘company for building vessels | of war of whatever type are unrivalled in Eu- rope and almost entirely unknown in the United States. Then there is the Millwall Shipbuilding Company's Works, where the iron troop ship Himalaya, the Northumberland, | i - : ss tonesnananesrll of capital even this hyak4: oF the suiponuang interest must languish, and thus eventually ‘pass into the hands of foreign artisans. Yet it is well known that as carriers iron ships “sweat” their cargoes in low latitudes and are insupportably hot. Besides, they require to be frequently docked to be kept clean, and can never enter the lists of competition with wooden ships for freights in the tropics. The shipbuilding interests of the United States were never In auch languishing circum- stances as now. The unsound condition of the national currency, by enhancing the cost of labor and materials, has doubtless con- tributed to produce this deplorable state of things, and the only hope for the revival of this important branch of American industry is in speedy and energetic Congressional! legisla- tion. Stringent laws are needed for the better protection of life and property at sea. Amore rigid inquiry should be instituted into the capacity of navigators and engineers and every effort made to encourage the endow- ment of marine schools. The natural result of these measures would be to attract. the capital of the merchant and to stimulate the skill of the mechanic and the shipwright. In the event of a war the entire force of the private shipyards thus called into-life would become available for government work. Let us, then, urge upon Congress the pressing necessity of relieving our shipbuilding interest from the trammeis and drawbacks which now depress it. Fashion in Europe and America. Our special fashions correspondence from Paris, dated on the 26th of June, conveys in the same lively, piquant and attractive style which has distinguished the series from its commencement the reflection of the will of the fickle goddess so far as it can be received from a description of the latest styles of toilet prevailing at court, on the racing grounds, and in preparation for use, perhaps only display, during a season of healthful recreation and pleasant abandon at the sea side. With Eugénie at Fontainebleau, Napoleon in camp at Chalons, foreign ‘‘sportswomen” and English countesses on the turf, and the “world” of Paris in active preparation for rustication and- salt water baths, Fashion may be regarded as_ being in a slightly demoralized condition, her everyday code of must be finished from “head to toe,” according to rule, having been relaxed to a very considerable extent, while the charming little heads of the ladies appear to have been confused with an incongruity of idea as to what would be ‘‘just the thing to bring out,” coupled with amusing attempts to fix and shape into form fitting and vaporlike outlines of elegant robes, hats, skirts, petti- coats, jackets, flounces, trains, cuffs, collars and the remainder, which ‘‘nobody ever thought of before,” and from which the most startling, brilliant results in all matters apper- taining to dress generally flow. It was a mo- ment of fashion in its crudities; so the writer has nothing very definite to chronicle, yet re- veals quite enough to attract attention. Eugénie endeavored to bring the fashionable world to Fontainebleau by a routine of simple yet elegant receptions. Comtesse Montgomery, the Duchess Ferzensac, with the leading **turf- women" of the Bois, attracted much attention at the Paris race course in dresses of muslin, lawn or pique; mostly of striped patterns, made in the blouse fashion ; petticoats of the | aumae the power to say what States are in th Union and what out, which shall be entitled to répresentation in the national legislature and which not, it will decide, of course, what electoral votes shall be counted and what not. Congress has become absolute in the matter, and there is no going behind its decisions short of another civil war. Under this condition of things it is better to have the question definitely settled in advance of the meeting of the Electoral College. We want no more civil war or strife. If Congress be acting unconsti- tutionally and despotically we must wait till a revolution can be effected at the polls. That is the only remedy. In the meantime the Southern people and the country generally must make the best of their dilemma and wait patiently the turn of events. The Triumph and Reign of Opera Bouffe. The next titillation of the popular taste for amusement is to be the ‘Barbe Bleue,” opéra bougfe by Offenbach, which is to be presented by Bateman and his favorite artists in the late home of those frippery splendors the ‘‘White Fawn” and the ‘‘Black Crook.” Now the “Barbe Bleue” represents a third stage in the development of French fancy before our city footlights. It is a little better— that is, a litttle worse—than its pre- decessors. The ‘‘Duchess” was a dainty. piece of deviltry. It had suggestion in it, but presented with such art, such exquisite drollery, such taking humor, that no 0: e had the impudence to be virtuous. The ‘‘Belle Héléne” was perceptibly broader and still at- tractive. It was a kind of vice that men could embrace without the probationary familiarity that the rhyme supposes. It was a story com- mended to thought by the happy negations of wit. Here, on one hand, is the old rigmarole, tedious with its two thousand years of repeti- tion, more or less, as Homer told it, with Achilles for its Hero, Agamemnon and Mene- laus for great men, Helen for its deceitful woman and Paris for a slippery rascal, and wit jumps up and says to all this, ‘‘I don’t believe it,” and then presents a new version, in which the loud words of Achilles make him a mere bully, the tameness of Menelaus presents him as a simpleton, and Helen is justified for pre- ferring a handsome fellow of spirit in Paris. All this covers the moral and makes a story fit for ears polite from a simple case of seduction; and the French language, be it said, covers many a covert phrase and sly dig at decency that people would hardly tolerate in English. It is the case of Tom Hood's deaf old gammer toss- ing pence to the sailor for his song: — Only think of tossing a copper To Tom or Jack with a timber Linh. -Who looks as if he were singing a iiymin Instead of a song that’s very improper. Now, having digested the “Duchess” and “Helen,” we are to have ‘Blue Beard,” which is a little stronger, and thus we see that the world moves. How horrified simple people were when artists that had charmed Europe first tried our stage; when Vestris, Celeste and Elssler came, in the confidence of assumed victories won in Europe, before “audiences whose modesty was not a feeble valetudinarian trembling at every trifle! How eagerly the toilet was discussed then, and especially the length of the skirts, and what an awkward creature Elisler looks like now in the old prints, comparing her skirts with the skirts (?) they wear in some of our modern balivts! How bravely we have gotten over our primitive objections with our hundred nights of the to encourage railroads, with very comprehen- b six thousand six hundred and twenty-one sive vial and ny steed tons, the Great Eastern and other famous | reports. same material or drab linen, trimmed with | naked truth and our hilarious revels in French white guipure, and hats—assuming there wasa | fancy! London has gotten over some objec- hat—ornamented with feathers ot such length | tions of her own also, and staid, pious, pray and profusion of curl that the exact covering of | ing, churchgoing, sermonizing Joha Bull smiled on and This special correspondence reveals the ; ; ipa 5 A | metal ships of leviathan dimensions were con- fact that hoary prej coupled with feudal! : 54 structed. To these enormous shipyards we selfishness, alone prevent the complete “opening” of Japan to Christian enlighten- ment, material development, and a conse- quent ij se of the wealth and happiness of mankind, These barriers will soon disappear, however, The presgnt reception of our letters indicates the emangipating The Japan correspondence was posted in Yokohama, forwarded by steamship to San b and travelled thence by overland route to New York-reaching the Heratp establishment within thirty-seven days from the seat of the Mikado’s government, This is enocgh for the moment, ageucy—steam. neiseo, Health of the City. The hical situation of New York is admirably favorable to the preservation of the health of its rapidly increasing population. The winds that sweep through it from the un- rivalled bay below and trom the rivers on each side daily purify the atmosphere, and a single shower washes away more filth than the most faithful and energetic contractor could remove | ina week. At the last meeting of the Board of Health. however, two evils seriously detri- mental to the public health were quite properly denounced—the bad and insufficient food, to which the recent lamentable increase in the mortality of children must be directly attri- buted, and the poisonous odors from the gas works that spread disease and death through- out the whole region between Fourteenth and Thirty-fifth streets. The latter evil would be remedied by the adoption of the new magne- sium light so highly commended by Professor ; Doremus in a late number of the Heratp. The former evil demands the immediate atten- | tion of our authorities to the suggestion ot Sommissioner Smith in favor of the publication | of a series of rules for diet, to be distributed among the poorer classes of citizens who live in tenement houses. This suggestion has been referred to the Sanitary Committee, with power to act in the premises, It is not too late to insist also upon the im- portance of all requisite means to guard against the danger of the importation of contagious | may add the Mersey Steel and [ron Works, | with their stupendous steam hammers and roll- ing mills; the Lairds, whose name became familiar to during tae war and who built the Agincourt, of six thousand six | hundred and twenty-one tons; the Napiers, of Glasgow, celebrated for their iron clippers, and many Others of more or less note. Con- | fining themaelves to well established princi- | ples and employing nono but the best work- men, these leading firims produce ships and engines which may be deemed almost perfect. One thing is certain—there are no works in the world that will bear a comparison with them. There are constructed for England her huge iron-clads, cheaper, better and far more expe- ditiously than they could be in the government dockyards; and as these and many similar es- tablishments are the pride and boast of all Englishmen, so are they a great element of the wealth and power of the British nation. Let no one wonder, therefore, that England, with such vast facilities, should be able to furnish the whole world with cheap and magnificent ships. It is just such individual enterprise that we need to have developed and encouraged here. Our country has a superabundance of re- sources and our people have the genius, but we require a complete revision of our steam- ship laws as regards the outfit, management and discipline of vessels and the repeal of all acts which exclude shipbuilding material from the country or add to its cost. Besides this, we should follow the example of England by throwing into tho private slipyards of our citizens all future contracts for vessels of war. Certain it is thatehere is no branch of me- chanical industry which has shed so much glory upon the nation or contributed so vastly to ad- vance the hopes of mankind. In modelling it is not presumptuous to say that we excel all nations in the essentials of safety, capacity and speed; but the equipment and outfit of our steamers do not compare with those of the English or French. Our vessels are radically defective through too great economy in the the head could not be seen. The Empress graced the grand stand, dressed in a robe of corah fou- z | lard, of a dark cream color, bordering on fawn, andtwo other foulards—the tussar and laintoun—were much patronized in the city. France had, as usual, gone over, in fashion- able invasion, to the muddy little English sea- port of Scarborough, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, with the view of acquiring the cut of the most recent British eccentricities in sporting and watering place costumes—an an- nual movement on the part of France calcu- | lated to depreciate her name for originality in | fashionable invention in the eyes of independ- ent thinkers, but which tends to illustrate the position taken by some persons in the Old World—it may have been the Tooley street tailors—that there is really nothing ever new in | dress but the material, and that what is known as fashion is merely a renovation and “retouch” of something which had been worn several years, perhaps centuries, before. This argument induces a consideration of the main point of our present fashions letter in the query—Why should New York go to Paris for the fashions? Why should not New York— Americans—create, use, control and send fashions to Europe? France has no mo- nopoly of polished idea, and the mind of her people is not so clear and original as that of the free children of the United States. Paris has merely inherited her sensitive appreciation of neatness in dressing from others and duly transmits it as a monopoly of fasiiou. Ancient Rome was more famous than modern Maris, and just as particular, in the matier of dress— perhaps more particular, for Horace has fixed the Roman gentleman as the home factis ad unguem—a« ‘man made even to bis nail,” un- alterably in history. Regarding the philosophy of the science of fashion in this light, we think it is high time that we should, in a friendly way, revolation- ize the Paris idea and write a declaration of American independence in the matter of the origin and ‘composition’ of our dress fashions. _ has looked approvingly tremendously on Schneider—the wie! archest, daintiest piece of Par sent over to tempt him in Offenhach’a music, and knock about his ears ail his old pet | notions about ‘what is correct, you know.” | We shall go onin the same direction. We | shall laugh more delightedly over opéra bouffe | the coming winter than we did last winter, and | shall have more provocation. We shall have | it from Bateman ,at Niblo’s, from Grau at the | French theatre, from somebody else, perhaps, at Pike’s—three or four companies with opéra | bougfe at once. Everything else will be dead— | Italian opera dead as a stone Memnon buried | in the mud of the Nile or the sands of the | desert ; legitimate drama dead as a dozen marble monks in as many old Gotpic ruins of. | churches. Even the naked drama gives no | promise. There is life in nothing now but opéra bouffe, and from this present stage of dramatic vitality what comes next? Is this the end of the career? From having the taste cloyed with this sort of delight do people come back to a desire for thought, language and passion on the stage, or must we go still further for that ? The War for the Union and Its Logical Results. Without acknowledging that they are ashamed of their great success, that they repent of their adhesion {) the great principles on which they « ae recent war, the Ainericar people cannot support a pecty opposed to tho war, and wise success would be & sina! fo | the abandonment of the moral and politi j cal advantages gained to the nation by , the war. It is in virtue of the war that | we stand as we do in the eyes of for- eign nations. One of its great effects was to aggrandize our fame abroad, to show usin our true proportions before those who thought us insignificant brawlers, and to make us known as the leaders of thought—the very head and front of progress to all the peoples. In this blaze of active struggle, this concentra- tion of our life that was crammed into the four unknown to travellers, and the magnificent scene: of the mountains, the lovely valleys, the habita of the people, their labors and their us of the advantages of this late Abyssinian expedition to England and the civilized world. diversions, incidents of the chase, &c., are | For instance, Napier, with his training in In- faithfully depicted by our correspondent who thus enables us to present to the readers of the HERALD & mass of intelligence regarding the interior of South America which can be found in the volumes of no dia, in his march of four hundred miles, with his camels and elephants, over the Abyssinian Alps, to Magdala, eclipsing Hannibal and Ne- history extant. General Kilpatrick and suite made,| poleon, has given the warld some new illustra- @ most favorable impression upon the people during | tions of the tremendous forces of science skil- the trip, and added to the high esteem, always enter- tained by the Chilenos of our countrymen. fully applied to the movement and subsistence Our Lima, Peru, letter is dated June 22. It was | Of @0 army in regions deemed inaccessible to not yet known who was the President elect, the invader. Nor can we omit the contributions and Colona Balta’s chances were considered far | made to science and our common schools from from certain. Colonel Mariano Cornejo, Minister of War under Prado, and several other officers had this Abyssinian expedition in reference to the been aprested for alieged conspiracy to reinstate geographical and geological wonders of the Prado, but they had made no developments, Mos- | strange country thus made known to the out- quera, late President of Colombia, was living in | side world. We dare say that the readers of exilein Lima. The yellow fever, which had been | the Heraty have not had such a treat of inte- raging since January, was nearly extinct. During that time it had carried off 10,000 persons. The President yesterday issued his proclamation resting information from a hitherto unknown land to thom ae thet of our Abyssinian letters eanouacing te fact that North Carolian uae reti- | since thoir reading of our Mexiona cerreages- diseases, such as the yellow fever, the cholera and other plagues. We trust that the Board snthgy era on ge Batdb d of Health will not relax its vigilance and that | retained constantly in one ship, and thus this year we may again escape every form of they become familiar with her behavior at rs aocentenl linea soa. This, unfortunately, is not the case Important from Germany. with us; for it frequently happens that By telegram dated in Berlin yesterday and | the passengers and crew come on board forwarded through the Atlantic cable we | together. Compared with English engines, learn that the Naturalization treaty lately con- | our engines, when built without regard cluded between North Germany and the United | to cost; are equal in point of durability States is in full and pleasing operation in Prus- | and strength; besides, more ingenuity is dis- sia. King William’s government had ordered | played in thelr appliances, and the cut-offs, that all prosecutions undertaken against | detaching levers, throttle valves, &., are adopted American citizens of German birth | much more simple,’ This le specially exem- should be stayet, and that all such persons | plified in the walking beam engine. It may now in prison under former sentences for viola- | also be remarked that we consume less coal tion of local laws repealed by the treaty shall | then either the English or the French. As be released forthwith. This intelligence will be | bulldors of wooden ships there are no mechan- received with jey by our German follow oiti- | ios in the world who oan compete with us, but aes all over the Union, [ ingures the com- A until there are inducomonte for the investmnet Votes of the Southern States in the Electoral | years of war, we have become as an example College. to all the-nations of a people devoted to free- The question of admitting the votes of the | 4om, enlightenment, progress; and we must Southern States in the Electoral College has | 20t belie that impression by going backwards. beon creating » good deal of discussion in Con- | We must not say we are sorry for the great gress, and a bill has just passed both houses | things we did by giving our suffrages to a excluding votes of those States that may not | Party that would have prevented us from doing have adopted a constitution of State govern- | them. Through the political sequences of the ment since the 4th of March, 1867, under which | W8r we must adhere to the great leader who State government shall have been guided us safely through the struggle, and help and in operation, and unless the election of him still to keep the country right and keep electors shall have been held under the | down those violent political elements that authority of such constitution and government, | Would swerve us from the direct path to one and such State shall also become entitled to par’ or pe se on asp by bye representa Congress pursuant to the acts as the ope of the nation’ safety an e .s no doubt, to | Only guarantee that we shall not be false to Southern | Ourselves. States in this respect in order to prevent any | Mr. J. B. Woodruff, the difficulty when the votes of the Electoral Col- aul Betty lowe aheli he counted. Ae Congress hes as- | dica