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The EuroreAN Epvri0n, every Wednesday, at Six Gants per copy, $4 perannum to any part of Great Britain, or &6 to any part of the Contine include pe age. The CaLvorniA Epition, on the ist, 9th, 16th and 24th of cach month, at Six TS per-copy, or $3 per annum. - ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- .Berted in the LY HERALD, European and Cali- fornia Fditions. Volume MN XILL.......cc.ccccssessecces No. 195 AM SEMENTS THE General Ord, commanding tM California, suggests to the Secretary of War that if the bill for the reduc- tion of the army becomes a law, there will not pro- balyy be troops enough leit in Arizona and Nevada to fynt the Indians, . Two Roman Catholic bishops were consecrated in Philadelphia yesterday—Rey, William O'Hara, of the new diocese of Scranton, and Rev, F. J. Shanahan, of Wilkeslarre. he services were very imposilg. , The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridge man, Will leave picr 45 North river this afternoon Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, to land and recetve mais and passengers. Business in alinost every department of trade in commeretal cire saturday was extremely light. Cytton was in fair request, but prices were irregular and lower, closiny at a .¢. for middling up- lands. Coffee was in fair demand and firmly held, while other kinds of groceries were dull and heavy. On Change four was sparingly dealt in, but with- out particular change in value, Wheat was dull and nominal, To effect sales of importance holders would have been obliged to accept of materi- ally lower prices, Corn was dull and fully 2c. lower, new Western mixed closing at $1 09 a $1 10. Oats were also dut! and lowerygbosing at 84c. a 86c. in store and gfioat. Pork was in tolerably active de- mand and 15¢, a 25e, per bbl, higher, Lard was in moderate "request, but a shade firmer. Beef was dgii and unchanged, Petroleum was dull and lower, closing at 1734¢¢. for crude (in bond) and 34c, a disc. for refined (in bond), Naval stores were quiet, but generally steady, Freights were quiet at about previous rates, The Settlement of , Reconstruction—Article Fourteen—The Presidents Proclamatia President Johnson has issued a proclama- tion setting forth that ‘‘Whereas, by an act of Congress, entitled an act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and*Florida to, representa- tion in Congress, passed June 25, 1868, it is made the duty of the President, within ten days after-receiving official information of the ratification by the Legislature of either of said ales of a proposed amendment to the consti- tution known as article fourteen, to issue acpro- clamation announcing the fact, and whereas the said act seems to be prospective ;” and whereas, as he says in substance, certain par- ties acting as the State authorities of Florida have reported the ratification of the thirteenth (abolishing slavery)‘and the fourteenth amend- ments to the constitition by their State Legis- lature; and whereas certain other parties, acting as the State authorities of North Caro- lina, have attested the ratification of said fourteenth article by their Legislature, he, the President, issues this proclamation, ‘‘an- nouncing the fact of the ratification of said amendment by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina in the manner hereinbefore set BOWERY Ti 47 Bowery.—BOOTLLACK OF THR Horer-\o1-au-Vent- MAzEPPA NEW YORK TiTEATRE, opposite New* York Hotel.— THE GRany Dusirss : OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hemery Dumpty. NIBLO'S CARDEN, “Brokdway.—Bagur Bure WALLACI . Broatway and 1th street Tur Love BROADWAY Broadway.—A FLASH OF Ligursina. BRYANTS' OPERA HO. THIOVIAN MINSTRELSY, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! VoOoattem, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, 4 CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenne.—PoroL an GanvEN Concern, ROOLE, AND Mix OPERA ay—Inisl MESMP: ART GALLERY, 84 Broadway.—Grrat NATIONAL PAINTING NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOMENOE AND Aut. New York, Monday, July 13, 1868. THE NEWS. if EUROPE. ‘The news report ,by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday eventing, July 12. - The Duke de Montpensier was arrested and con- 1. Prince Napoleon left gypt veyed to the frontier of Sp Constantinople for Athens. The Viceroy of was married to the daughter of the Chief Mini Turkey, Abdul Medjid. Five-twenties 77 in Prankfort. By steamship, at this port, we have a very inter. esting mail report, in detail of our cable telegrams, to the Ist of July, The inauguration of Luther's Monument—the most noble structure of the sort on the Continent—was @ grand affair, one hundred “thousand persons attending, and Queen Victoria and the Emigration Committee of Rome for ding greetings simu ausly. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special correspondence from China, dated at Hong Kong and Shanghae to the 2cthof May, fur- nishes a very interesting and important record ofthe cruise of the Shenandoah, Captain ier, along the coast of Corea in search of the survivors of the crew of the American “schooner General Sher \. The naval mission was conducted with prudence and skill, the American commander having se-" cured communication with the local oMfictrs and sovereign. It appears, however, as if the Sherman— spoken of as an unknown vessel—had been attacked when on the coast, returned a fire, and was then sasailed aud blown up and every person on board lost. Among other ‘correspondence we have to-day a letter from the Island of Juan Fernandez—once the home of Robinson Crusoe. Our correspondent, who’ | ts an old traveller, by no means fancies this famous island, The attempts to colonize it have all proved abortive, and nineteen souls now constitute the en- tire population, and these eke out a miserable exist- forth.” The certified vouchers of : the ratifica- tion by the other reconstructed States, we in- fer, have not yet been received by the Presi- dent.+ = The ratification of Florida, before the pas- sage of the act of Congress in question, is re- garded by Mr. Johnson as a nullity, and under the same rule, we suppose, the Arkansas ratifte cation is ignored. Technically considered, {his ruling appears to be correct, and will probably, to upset it, require a special act of Congress or another. ratification by the Legislatures concerned. In any event we pre- sume that Congress during the present session will see this thing through, inasmuch as, from this proclamation it is evident that the Presi- dent will fight for his policy against that of the two houses to the “bitter end. We assume, therefore, that before the adjournment of the session we shall have a proclamation from Congress, if necessary, announcing this artiele fourteen of the amendments as part and par- cel of the constitution—the supreme law of the land ‘‘to all intents and purposes.” How, then, will the two political parties of the country and how will the reconstructed States stand under the supreme law of this amendment? For the precise information of our readers we here reproduce it in full :— ARTICLE XIV.—SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in te United States and subject to the Jurisdiction f are citizens of the Cnited States: they reside. No State shall and of the a aw which shall abrislge tae of citizens of the United tate deprive any person of (“due process of law, in its jurisdiction the life, liberty or pr hor deny (0% all be apportioned amon, ving to their reap v puing the whole number of persd Stale, excluding Indians not waxed. But when right to vote’ at any eivetion fer t ectors for the President United Slates, fi entath ecutive and 111 bers of the Legisiature iher to any of the male inhabitants of su ag twenty-one years of age and citizens of any way abridy ‘ept for partictps lion or other crime, the basis of representation shall be reduced in the proportion which the namber of male citizens shall bear to the whole number of wenty-one years of age in such State, 8. No person shail be a Senator or Represen- tative tn Congress or elector of President and Vice President, or hoid any oifice, civil wuilitary, under the United Syates or uncer any State, who, having ence by fishing and hunting, having no bread of any kind and but few vegetables. The island 1s mountetnous, is covered with timber and produces few varieties of fruit; but the waters abound in fish of almost every kind. The charm thrown around Juan Fernandez by De Foe’s narra- tive of Robinson Crusoe is rudely dispelled as we are made acquainted with the island—a most uninviting place, certainly, even for our enterprising country to settle up, and doubly go as the residence of a solitary castaway. Captain Briggs, of the English man-of-war Chan- ticleer, who closed the port of Maza'lan, Mexico, and only awaited intelligence from bis Admiral to bombard it, for a presumed insult to himsell, has been ordered by the Admiral to reopen the port im- mediately and proceed to Panama, lis course Laying Been disapproved of. ‘Two men calling themselves Lamartine and Cal- verly were arraigned on Saturday before Commis- sioner Stilwell and were fully committed for per- jury, it having’been shown in evidence thf their real names were Shaw and Rowe, and that under the assumed names given abave they had made false afidavits against J. F. Batley, Collector of the Fourth district of New York. Collector Batley has sent on a staterent of t lieged conspiracy against him to Secretary McCulloch. St. Patrick's cathedral, in this city, was formally consecrated with imposing ceremonies yesterday. A Glarge number of bishops from neighboring districts were present and participated in the exercises, and the building was completely filet with a crowded congregation, The corner stone of the new church of St. Charles Borromeo, Sidney place, Brodklyn, which is to be erected on the site of the former church, burned down in May last, was laid yester+ day with appropriate ceremonies and in the presence of a barge concourse of people. : The Plasterers’ National Convention, which has been in session in Chicago since Tnesday, had adopted resolutions upholding the plasterers’ asso- clations which may choose to sirike for the eight hour system, and recommending that the organiza- tions advance their prices for labor. Lieutenant Governor Dunn was regularly inducted into office by the Louisiana Legislature on Saturday. He made a speech in which he disclaimed a desire for social equaiity on the part of his race. A mob is reported to have recently broken up a radical newspaper office in the Intertor of Louisiana, the owner of which is a meraber elect of Congress. Five hundred Mormons, tn charge of Elder Perry, arcived in the steamer Minnesota at tis port yester- day from Liverpool. They are on the way to Utah. Reverdy Johnson ts to be banquetted in Baltimore on Wednesday. previously taen an oath as a member of Congress, or a8 an oficer of the Caited States, or as a meinber of any State Legisiature, or a4 an executive or judi- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1868. again from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Now, in returning to the popular amendment of. 1866, -and in carrying it through, it.will supersede all the laws of Congress and State constitutions conflicting with it in any of the States. ‘Thus, subject to the conditions named, South Caro- lina will have the same right-as New York to establish a restricted or universal suffrage. Of course the Southern whites, in order to change their present State constitntions on the suffrage, will have to win’ over the existing negro vote, to a greater or less extent, from Virginia to Texas; but this they can do with | complete success and at once if they only go the right way about it. Another law has just been passed by Con- gress providing, in substance, that’ no ‘State not recognized by Congress as duly reinstated and qualifjed shall have a vote in the coming Presidential election; and as this Congress is to count the electoral votes of this election it will be useless to make a fight in any State not fully reconstructed and restored cial oMcer of any State, support the constitution of the United States, shall have engaged tn isurrec- tion or rebelifon against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemtes thereof, But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability. SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and boun"es for services in suppressing insurrection and rebellion, shail not be questioned But neither the Unitea States nor any State shail assume or pay any debt or obilation in- curred in aid of insurrection or rebeliton against the United States or any claim for the loss or emancipa- tion of any slave; but all ench debts, obligations or claims shall be held tiegal and vot. Sev. 6. The Congress shall lave power to enforce, by - satamitd legisiation, the provisions of this article. Here it will be observed, first, that equal civil rights are established throughout the United States to all citizens, and that persons of all races and colors, born or naturalized in this country, are citizens. In the next place it will be observed that the regulation of the right of suffrage, on certain conditions, is re- stored to the several States. Next we have certain civil and military disfranchisements of rebels, subject to absolution by a twoetbirds vote of exch house of Congress; next, securi- ties for the tuture in behalf of the national according to the terms laid down. So far as the reconstructed States are concerned they are now about as cgrtain for Grani and the re- publicans as they would have been for Chase as the democratic nominee. In choosing Sey- mour the democrats have abandoned the South, as they have thrown away their last year's vi tories in the North, ard Grant, on this constitu- tional amendment, will’reproduce the elections of 1866, S The Pope and ‘the Approaching General Council at Rome. Pius the Ninth has entered upon the twenty- third year of his reign as chief bishop of the Christian world and the seventy-seventh year of his age. But few of the successors of St. Peter have lived or reigned so long. St. Peter is supposed to have directed the affairs of the Chureh during a period of twenty-five years. It is commonly believed that if this term has been reached it has not been exceeded -by any of the two hundred and fifty- eight Popes who have since filled the sacred chair. It would be a strange thing, and char- acteristic, “somewhat, of this age of revolu- tions, if Pius the Ninth should exceed the sacred limit and remain the Head of the Church for a longer period of time than his predecessors, St. Peter included. Hé is a hale and hearty old man, and, acéording to our Roman correspondent, likely enough to live for ten years longer. Our correspondent, writing from Rome on June 23, gives us further particulars relative to the convocation of a general council of the Church. Such council, it is now certain, will’ be held in December of next year. We have Iqgerhad rumors to the effect that it was the intention of his Holiness to convene a general or ecumenical council on an early day. It was, however, doubted by many whether he were brave enough to venture upon so critical an experiment. General councils have in only one or two instances proved of real ad- vantage to the Church; they have seldom proved soarces of comfort to the reigning Pope. For the simple reason, were there no other, that an ecumenical council is pos- sessed of higher authority than the Pope, it is not much to be wondered at that bince the dissolution .of the Council of Trent in 1563, after it had been in session for elghteen years, no general council, properly ‘so called, has ever assembled. It says much, therefore, for the bravery of the veteran Pio Nono that be has resolved that an ecumenical council shall be held in Rome in December of next year. The world has greatly changed since the days of the Council of Trent, and it is changing, more and more. An ecumenical: council may be a blessing tothe Catholic Church, but it may be iis ruin. Everything depends on whether the spirit of reaction or the spirit of progress shall rule on the océasion. Meanwhile we have to thank his Holiness for the prospect of a sen- sation which the world has. not experienced for three hundred years. May he live fo grace the council by his presence and his wisdom! The Board of Health and the Gas Company. Health is an important thing to have in the bouse. Soisgas. Ifaman is sick, and sick in the dark, he knows all about it. Perhaps society, having an artificial taste, would rather be slightly oit of order in its respiratory or di- gestive apparatus in a good blaze of light than to be robust with kerosene or dips. This would be a prejudice, of course, but we have a notion this prejudice will induce all timid people who do not want to be pushed to a choice to hope that neither the Board of Health nor the gas company will take any desperate steps. Hav- ing instrigted its attorney. to commence a suit against the gas company to compel that com- pany to cease manufacturing gas untildt can do it without disagroeable odor, the Board stands in its natural position of the great champion of the finer sense of society's nose. But if it suc- ceeds, how about our eyes? If it succeeds many will rejoice—naturally. We are sure that all New York would deprive itself of light—would be wretched for an indefinite time on tallow candles, whale ofl, coal oil, burning fluid, camphene and other weak inventions of the enemy—for the eake of satisfaction against a company that, at some time or another, has made every one of its customers feel the arro- gant impudence of its style, Indeed, 80 general is the sentiment of indignation against the company that we have often wondered why fhe general public did not ‘‘strike” for civility as the mechanics do for wages. It is a fact that gas may be made without the odor tuat, emanating from some gas houses, renders the air of whole sections of our city poisonous—only the process would be more debt and against all rebel debts and claims for slaves, and, finally, Congress is clothed with the power to enforce these provisions. Upon this amendment against President Johnson's policy, in the State elections of 1866, there was 9 distinct appeal to the people, and from Maine to California this amendment, as the policy of Congress, was so overwhelm- ingly sustained that it was generally supposed that thedemocratic party had fought its dast battle, and that the elements composing it would have to take a new departure under some new orgqnization, after the fashion of the old whig party. In 1867, however, in the abandonment of the popular policy of this amendment and in the adoption of a compulsory system of universal negro suffrage in the rebel States, under a mili- tary system of reconstruction, the radicals of Congress turned the tables upon themselves, and 60 the follen democracy rove to their feot expensive. Here is the rub with the gas com- panies. They can by law only charge at a certain rate, and they will charge the utmost and make the gas as cheap as they can, never mind who suffers. In putting itself against this conduot the Board of Health fights the battle of the people. If necessary, let it drive the gas factories out of the city. Gas can be brought forty miles ia pipes quite as easily as the Croton water. There is no reason why it should be made here. What has become of the project to make our gas at the Pennsylva- nia coal mines and send it here in pipes? Has the gas company bought out the projectors of that plan? Seymove Over tar Water.—The demo- cratic nomination has fallen flat as a pancake on the othor side of the water. The London press unanimously give up the case to Grant | as a foregone coaclusion, The National Debt -and National Credit. It is the most difficult thing in the world to make the people and press of Europe under- stand us or to speak of us fairly. A portion of the British press particularly seems to take pleasure in raking us down and misrepresenting us whenever anything occurs to give it an opportunity of doing so. The characteristic egotism and self-righteousness of John’ Bull stick out ‘ina remarkable manner on all such occasions, We are called cousins, blood rela- tions, a great people, and all sorts of compli- mentary things are said of us when the British want to settle Alabama claims after their own fashion, to get a tariff from us favorable to themselves or to gain some other advantages ; but when we are in trouble or believed to be in difficulties the cloven hoof is shown, John Bull then strikes’at us and complacently com- pares his degenerate offspring with his own noble and honorable self. For example, no sooner were the financial features of the democratic platform, as adopted by the Convention beld in this city, telegraphed to England than the press there cried out repu- diation; and we all know that by some means or other, and either from ignorance or design, our six per cent gold interest securitics are | kept down twenty-per cent’ below the British three and a half per cents. If the credit of one country be as good as that of . the other and the resources equal, the securities of the two countries should have the same credit. British three and a half consols are quoted now at ninety-four to ninety-five. This would make United States sixes worth about one hundred and sixty, if, as we said, the credit and means of paying be as good in one case as the other, Yet what do we see? Our secu- rities are quoted in London at the same time at a fraction over seventy-three—that is, reckoning the value of the securities upon the interest drawn from them and the return for the capital invested in them, ours are con- sidered by the stockdeslers and capitalists abroad not worth half the value, placed upon those of England. Ouf credit stands less than fifty per cent below that of Groat Britain. There is no cause for this diffegence. It is not real, but artificial, and can only be temporary. It arises in a great measure from the per- sistent efforts of the British press, capitalists and stockdealers to depreciate the character, standing and credit of the United States. What are the facts with regard to the credit of the United States—to the prospect of paying the debt‘and the moans of paying it? How does this country compare with England and the other countries of Europe in this respect? First, we will remark that our debt, enormous as it is, was contracted at home; we did not ask for money abroad; we obtained*no loans from foreign countries. Yet we raised more money than any nation ever raised in the same time, and carried on a war unexampled in magnitude and cost to a successful issue; No nation in the world—no, not even England, with all her wealth—could have raised such a vast sum within the few years that the war lasted. The effort would have broken down any other country. Why were we able to do this? Be- cause we hada vast and rich Continent, full of wealth and natural resources, and thirty-five millions of the most industrious and enterpris- ing people in the world. The debt is but a small mortgage on the vast wealth and un- equalled industry of the nation. We have not, like England, reached the limit of production, nor have we any reason to look gloomily on the future, as Mr. Gladstoné does of England, when her coal mines and other resources must give out. Stupendous as the development of this country has been in ypalth dnd population,. it is only the beginning of a mighty future. There are not three millions of paupers to eat up the earnings of industry or who cannot find employment. Every person is a producer ; there is plenty of well paid employment, and room enough for ten times the present popula- tion. There are now, probably, forty millions -of people in the United States, and within the next decade there will be over fifty millions. And it must be remembered «that this popula- tion is equal in productive power to double that of most other countries, on account of its superior energy, invention and enterprise. It is hardly necessary to men- tion here” our unlimited agricultural re- sources, including almost everything that is grown elsewhere, from the hardy cereals of the North to the semi-tropical productions of the South, or toour boundless mineral wealth in iron, coal, copper, the precious metals and ‘every other kind of mineral. ‘All this is well known. Who will presume to say, then, that we cannot pay the national debt, and pay it, too, within the period of the present genera-- tion if we choose ? ° But the foreign cavillers intimate that our people may repudiate the debt, and point to party platforms and the utterances of party politicians as indicating that. Our political parties and politicians say a great many things for buncombe, and aBuse each other for all sorts’of bad doings and intentions, In other countries parties and politicians do the same, if they do not go quite so far as ours. There is a great deal of claptrap in all this, and is so understood by the people. But with regard to the platforms of the democrats and repub- licans, which are much alike-as to financial questions, there is nothing squinting even at repudiation in them. Both. parties intend to pay the debt honestly, and if either of them did not it would be condemned by the people. They do intend that the bondholders shall be taxed as all other property holders and people are taxed, and the majority of both are in favor of paying the debt avcording to law, in legal tenders-while they are the Jawful money of the country and where it is not stated the bonds must be paid in cofm. The majority of both are for paying as much of the debt as possible at the earliest period and in the easiest manner within the meaning of the‘law. This is all there is in the platforms, and is that not just ? Is that repudiation? Does it not rather show a fixed and an honest purpose to pay the debt? We think our foreign creditors, from whom we asked no loan and who have voluntarily pur- chased our bonds, will soon see that the credit of the United States stands as high as that of any other country, and that our securities will tise accordingly tn the markets of the world. Tae Camratons Orexey tx CoNarnss. — There was a lively incidental debate in Con- gress on Saturday last on the democratic Pre- sidential ticket, in which Messrs. Eldridge, Brooks and, other democrats were verv rouchl handled, together with the democratic ticket and Convention, by Messrs. Boutwell, ‘Old Thad Stevens” and others, ‘Old Thad,” we dare say, is so well pleased with the nomination of Seymour that he will let Andy Johnson hence- forth go scot frée. —_— Proposed Postal, Telegraph Sysiom. Mr, Townsend introduced a bill in the House of. Representatives on Friday to incor- porate the United States Postal Telegraph Com- pany and to establish a postal telegraph system. It appears that this is a private company and enterprise; but the bilt authorizes the Post- master General to make a ten years’ contract with the incorporators for the transmission of messages. We have on several occasions ad- vised Congress to establish a general system of postal telegraphs, following up the idea enter- tained by the British government for such a system in England, only adapting the details and machinery to our own peculiar situation and circumstances. We recommended such a system to be tried at ideast, and at once, be- tween New York and Washington. We think eit would be both practical and highly bene- ficial to the public. The bill now introduced, however, does not seem to be what is wanted. It looks very much like a big.job by which the government money is to be used for the benefit of a private corporation, and through which another gi- gantic monopoly is to be established. Perhaps some of the existing telegraph -monopolists are at the bottom -of the movement, either to strengthen and perpetuate their present privi- leges or to head off any project*of the govern- ment for establishing a general system of postal telegraphs. We are not yet informed as to this matter, but the movement’ has a suspicious look. What the people want is a general and com- prehensive system, if, after trying postal tele- graphy between New York and Washington, it should be found practical and conducive to the public interests, covering the whole country, and to be under either the Postmaster General or a special department ‘of the government. We do not want any Mr. Hubbards, Mr. Bateses, Mr. Howeses, any Mr. Smiths or Mr. Joneses, to be the postal telegraph department of this great country. We believe this mighty agent of our modern civilization, the magnetic telegraph, can be made“generally useful to the public for communications, and that it would supersede letter writing, even in the ordinary affairs of life, toa great extent, if the cost of telegraph- {fg were reduced and brought within the means of the mass of the people. This can never be done by placing such a postal system in the hands of private corporations, for they would-certainly become a monopoly and study only their own interest. The cost of telegraph- ing now is outrageously high, simply because it is a monopoly-in the hands of rich and pow- erful companies. To make the telegraph an instrument of postal communication generally, and to give the control and profits of it to indi- viduals or corporations, would be monstrous and defeat the object we have in view. Let the government take the matter in hand, and either give the whole control of it to the Post Office Department or create a separate and special department, with such a man‘as Pro- fessor Morse at the head. The bill introduced by Mr. Townsend begins at the wrong end. It looks like a stupendous job and nothing else. The Sailor Prince and the Citizen Sailor. England and America have Been shaking hands. The visit made by Prince Alfred to qur fleet was becoming and dignified. The re- ception given to the’ Prince by our fleet was cordial and enthusiastic. Prince Alfred is the favorite member of the royal family of Eng- land and popular as a representative of the British navy, Slways the most popylar branch of the service. Not to dwell on his recent misfortune, which has after all endeared him more and more to the British people, he was, ‘perhaps, the fittest man in England to go down to Southampton waters and do honor to ofr American Nelson. After all, however, he was more honored in the act than honoring, for Farragut has proved himself a very prince of men. Since the days of the old sea kings, certainly since the days of Nelson, the world has seen no grander sea king tham the man who did ‘uch terrible work with his wooden ships against’the granite fortresses of Jackson and St. Philip and the rebel iron-clads, rams and fire rafts below New Orleans, who, with his good ship Hartford, bade defiance to the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, and by his suc- cess made Grant's success at Vicksburg possi- ble and effectually opened up the Mississippi river, and whose name besides will be ever- lastingly associated with that unparalleled conflict in Mobile Bay. It will be long before Prince Alfred can have such arecord. His chances are not diminished by having his name associated with Admiral Farragut. Tar State or Arrairs IN JaPAN.—Our- latest telegraphic news from Japan has been fully confirmed by the letters of our special correspondent in Yokohama, The cause of the Mikado party is for the present in the ascendant. The cause of the Tycoon is not, however, altogether hopeless. He represents the party of agtion and of progress—a party which must ultimately win. The people are with the Tycoon, the nobles are dividing in his favor, dnd, strange to say, even religion is lending its help to the cause of progress. The High Priest of Kioto, the Pope of Japan, has condemned the secular tendencies of the Mi- kado. According to the High Priest the pro- vince of the Mikado is spiritual, not temporal. His assumption of temporal power is at once derogatory to his dignity and dangerously revo- lutionary.in its tendency. The presumption is that a reaction will set in in favor of the Ty- coon. Still there is but small chance that the sorrows of Japan will soon be ended. Watt Street on TA Powttioan Sitva- TtoN.—Wall street is not seriously disturbed by the democratic ticket. ‘The stockjobbers seem to think that Seymour, and his platfprm and his speeches, as Mr. Toots expressed it, are of “no consequence,” for the good and sufficient reason that Seymour, faxed out by Fenton, will be buried by Grant. AN INNOCENT MINDRD MoTaER.—A Mrs. Ferguson, residing at Union Hill, near Hoboken, N. Jy on Sat- urday last gave her infant, seven months old, to an unknown (?) woman to hold while she (Mrs. Fergu- gon) went into a store in Grand street on business. when she had completed her shopping she returnod to the sidewalk, but found that the woman had left, taking the child with her, The prudent mother then compblawued to the police authorities. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tue Wearnen YRererpay.—The following record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, as indicated by the ther- mometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, 218 Broadway, HERALD Building?— 93 vel Average temperature o O68 Cour DE SOLBIL.—Daniel Dalton, sixty-five years of.age, was found on Saturday evening on the door- step of the premises 102 Bowery tn an insensible condition, sutfering from the eifects of sunstroke. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, DrowNep Witte BaruinG.—Yesterday morning. shortly after four o’clock, George Begere was drowned while bathing at the foot of Seventeenth stréet, Kastriver. Deceased was thirty-eight years of age, redided at 226 First avenue and leaves g widow with four children, The body was not re- covered, ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—About half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night Mary: Henry, a native of this city, twenty-eight years of age, and residing at No, 6b Citrystie strect, attempted to commit suicide in Canal street by swallowing a quantity of laudanun, She was taken by the police to the New York Hox- pital, where an emetic was administered and she Was, Subsequently pronounced out of danger. AN INDUSTRIOUS Domusric.—A young woman, who was engaged a3,a domestic servant by Mrs. Zimmerman, of No. 163 Mulberry street, confiscated $409 in cash, belongins to her employer, and de- cainped 0. Saturday List. Pe energetic young lady had been only about twenty-four hours in Mrs, Ztfamertuan's seryice when she left, f Sick AND DesrirurTe.—Edward Flynn ane Joseph Petrie, were found by the police on Saturday night in the strects, inasick and destitute condition, A young woman named Einma Stanmire, twenty-aix years of age,,was also found in he street in a suntan Condition, having just previously given birth to & child. These suiferers we nveyed to Bellevue Hospital. . . LiGHTeN OUR Dankness.—Twenty-eight street lamps were reported by the police of the Twenty third precinct as not lighted on Saturday night, DROWNED WHILE Barnina.—About three o'clock yesterday afternoon Jolin Mooney,a lad thitteen yoars of age, residing at the corner of second age- une sagt rect, White bathing at the foot of Puirty-fourih rive., Was carried out by the tde and aid could be render ne body w: lL *PaTAL FALL From a Window.—Coroner Flyon was yesterday notified to hold an inquest at No. 16 Doyer strect over the remains of Richard Hall, a lad thirteen years of age, whose death was the result of injuries received on Tues tay last by failing fromthe first siory. window of the above named premises to the area, & distanc@ol twelve feet. His skull was badly fractured. ARRIVAL OF MorMONS.—The steamship Minnesota arrived at this port yesterday direct from Liverpool She left the Mersey oy the 30th uit., with eleven hun- dred steerage passengers, of which nunypér five han- dred are Mormons. ‘These fol ‘ers of Joseph the Pro, hgt are‘in gharge of Blder Perry, whom they recoguize as their president. ‘These religious cniu- grants remain in this city to-day, and to-morrow, accompanied by a son of Brigham Young, will leave for Utah, their future home. ‘Ten thousand other believers are to follow as soon as they can-bo shipped at Liverpool, MergoROLOGICAL.—The mean temperature of the week ending Saturday, 11th inst., as .determined by the thermometer of Fahrenheit, shaded in the open air at the Park, was 75.95 degrees. The maximum of heat was ascertained to be 95 degrees at i A. M. and 2and 5 P.M. of the Sth, and the minimum at 3 to8 A.M. of the 7th, The mean of each day was noted as follows:—Sunday, 85.03; Monday, 73.07; Tuesday, 70.63; Wednesday, 76.46; Thursday, 70.93; Friday, 75.43, and Saturday, 81.17 degrees. On the Sth, 7th, 8th and 9th rain, accompanied by thunder, fell. The total duration of these storms was six hours and fifty-one minutes, and the depth of water which came from the clouds was 0.753 of an itich, With the thunder on the days indicated there were very severe displays of lightning—tn some instances terrific. Polar ligats were seen on the night of the 10th and moruing and night of the 11th inst. SUNDAY EXCURSIONS. There was yesterday the usual Sunday exodus from the city of seekers after fresh air. |The steam- boats that ply betweenthis city and Staten Island were kept busy from their first to their last trip in conveying bundreds of paterfarilias and their numerous progenies to the parks and shady nooks on the island: The Coney Island boats were also ex ceedingly well patronized, particulariy late’ in the afternoon, the majority of the excursion ists being of tne poorer classes, who are forced six days Out of the seven to struggle and toil in tenement houses and workshops to keep body and soul together. Fort Lee was not behindhand as an attraction, and, judging from the many boat-loads of passengers who were conveyed to the well known resort under the cliffs of the Jersey shore, there must have been several thousand visitors to the hat lowed ground during the day, notwithstanding the fact of the comfortable proximity of so many eut of town nooks and resorts where the city denizen can stretch his weary limbs ona grassy bed and breathe the freshest of air. The larger number of the excur- sionists yesterday left for resorts many miles away from the metropolis—for instance, to Newbury, West. Point, Nyack, Grassy Point, &c, It would seem, however, in many cases, as though the Excise law has more to do with hese long excurstons than the simple pleasure of the thing, It is doubtful whether, during the present season, a larger number of persons has at any one time, Sun- day or any other day, left town for the sake of es - caping the heat and compressed alr of the city than that which shook of tue dust of the metropolis and strayed away by boat or other con- e where the sun couldn't reach them, The as intense, as every one knows, and did more substantial good in forcing the working classes out into fresh air, far away from town, than can well bo imagined, and so in this instance, as has been the cage in many others, good came from what was d6- nounced as vie evil. The number of those who left the city for the day by boats aud cars was not less than twenty thousand, + Coney Island—Another Excursion of New York Roughs and Pickpockets, The wéekly excursion of New York pickpockets came off yesterday in spite of the alarming attitude of the mercury. A select party of rowdies and gamblers accompanied the light fingeredgentry, aa on previous occasions, but the number of “green- horns” had sendibly diminished. Card playing and Jersey lightning were indulged in as usual, and there was no perceptible falling off in the way of choico oaths, hideous blasphemy and sickening profanities, Notwithstanding the publication of such lively inct- dents aa the desperate affray between the “fort, thieves” apd the small of policemen on board the steam@r Allison, tt is aytrange fact ‘iat a tal number of worthy citizens, principauy belongt +24 the working clase,seem to be still under the imj jon that Coney Island 18 @ nice place to go to on Sunday, Doubtless the excitment attending six “consecutive days of pocketpicking on Broadway and other crowd- ed thoroughfares is bea as trying to the nerves as ot aasaee on Wall street,"’ and a week's rowdyism and debauchery renders rest and recreation as much a necessity to the back-slum rufflan as tt ts to the overworkel politician or Bs yi but Coney Isiand should either be set apart for the especial recreation of thieves, blacklegs and scoundrels generally, or 80 policed that honest sons of inay take their wives and children there and enjoy their clas ta and security, Meanwhile respectable people well to choose some safer spot for the ei their weekly holiday—for instance STATEN ISLAND, where, althongh one cannot havé the pleasure of li do yment of tramping knee-d! in sand, the chances of being knocked down and robbed are somewhat more re- mote, The Staten Island steamers were heavily ited with excursionista yesterday, and, or returning, the passengers seemed to be equally glad tobe once more on the waters, for on shore, whether.in or oufof the city, there was scarcely & breath of air stirring. The various places of resort on the island were thronged with pleasure seekers, and acarcely an accessible shady spot but gave shel- = - some happy family or merry group of lads and aasica, OBITUARY. Commodore James F, Miller, U. 8. N. A despatch from Boston announces thegdeath of Commodore dames F. Miller, at Charlestown, Mass., on Saturday last, after @ lingering and painful tItnes&, The deceased was a nawre of New Hampshire, in which State he was born during the first years of the present att, und was a) ted entered the to the navy from Massachusett service on the ist November, 1! through the various rank of Commodore in 1866, ing date of the 28th Septem! a Lig had an pias hts self in war he was a most ex deservedly esteemed by all who knew him. AN 0 name of Theodore Adolpkes gdward Gressalt, weestdent of New Albany, Toa, aged thirty-three years, committed suicide by taking iaidenum to that city, = AN 5th inst. Cauge, pow. with alowd woman. Helenven ‘a wi Me r children, He veg a gra uate of a cotloge tn ved ‘me tn Chicago, ’