The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ¢AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXII. AM. SEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— THE GRanp DucuEss, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpry Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— Tur Loviray or Lire. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A PLASH OF LIGHTNING. BOWERY THEATRE, VEN. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atrect.—EVHIOPIAN MINSTRELBY, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooal.ian, Nk@RO MINGTRELBY, &c. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue, POPULAR Gaxprn Concent, ART GALLERY, &5 Broadway.—Garar NATIONAL PAINTING. OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Wednesday, July 15, 1868. New York, HB NBWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated duly 14. ia signed the Irish and Scotch Reform \ the English Franchise Boundary bill. us’ son was at Osborne on a visit to the Queen. Spanish army was exhorted to loyalty by ‘he genoval commanding at Madrid, Minister Bancroft was officially engaged tn Baden. Prince Kara Georgewich has been charged as accomplice of the Servian murderers, Cousols 04 a@ 945%, Money. Five-twenties, 72 south New Hampshire, for the shor: term. The Carolina Legislature has elocted Thomas J. Roberts Tniled States Senator for the short term. FP. A. Sawyer, Collector of Internal Revenue in Gharleston, ig the choice of the Senate for the tong terul, but the resuit in the lower house has not yet been deste Governor Warmouth, of Louisiana, oMciatly 90 fled General Buchanan yesterday of the passage of the resolution ratifying tie constitutional amend- ment, whereupon an order was issued announcing No. 197 | that military law no longer exists in the State. Governor Humphries, of Mississippi, who some time ago was removed from office by General McDowell, but who refused to vacate and continued {0 exercise the duties of hia office, a military ap- pointee also acting as Governor ai the same time, was yesterday ejected trom the executive mansion, with his family, by the military authorities, General McDowell was removed about two weeks ago, it was supposed on account of his action towards Hum- phries, and General Gillem, who has commanded Bowery.—OragLLo—Vor-av- | Since, succeeded him. Governor Holden, of North Carolina, on Monday appointed a new Board of Commissioners for the city of Raleigh, supplanting the present city author- ities, The latter, under legal advice, declined to give way to the new appointees, and it was rumored yes- terday that Governor Holden had called on General Canby for military aid in ejecting them, Orders have already been issued to reduce the force in the Freedmen’s Bureau in Kentucky so that the expense will be less than one-half the amount at present, and similar orders in reference to the other States will be issued soon. General Grant is on his farm near St. Louis, and will probably not return to Washington before the middle of September, A radical delegation from Mississippi is in Wash- ington prepared to prove before the Reconstruction Committee that the election in that State was won by the democrats through fraud. Chief Justice Chase has again declared himself in full sympathy with the democratic party, although he disagrees with the plank in their platform rela- tive to the Southern constitutions. He believes these constitutions should stand until changed by the people of each State, all voting. A Great Social Revolution=The Treaty with China. The terms of a treaty between China and this a72), in London and 77 in Frankfort, Paris Bourse | country have been agreed upon by the Chinese firmer, Colton quiet, with middling uplands at 1144 pence. Breadstuils quiet, Provisions dull. Embassy and the State Department, and the document now awaits the action of the Senate. ‘The Chinese rebels have completely retired from | By this treaty the ports of China are made free before Tiep-tsin, In Conival Asia the Russians have obtained Feroz Shah vs an ally, thus coming nearer to the north- ra froatier of British India. e nship at this port we havea mail report of sar cable telegrams to the evening of aty. CONGRESS. yesterday the Funding bill was y debate, in the course of which of Indiana, defined the animus form, Pinkney Whyte, the eessor of Reverdy Johnson, redentials and was sworn in, The ipplying vacancies in the execu- “4 to redeem outstanding compound en up and discussed, but was vote being taken, The House Z for the discon- reau were con- was passed, The bill that the assent of © House the Alaska bi viter several pi gies is given to by th A reso- mn ary of the Tea 2 to the obstructions uel om Sandy gas uniess It of poisonous vapors, lered to be distributed ferry panies were Dr. Harris’ is in New eek, the in- degree to the in- al was or yvand the r watel “the New from turning takes are ght persons were phen Low on "8 an » woman's at the station house, 1d floating on the water after the iboa! Sylvan Gr f the Harlem ferry, ‘se of the steam- ue, last evening, on » Was ran ard paddle | battered and dis- iainjured, No lives 0 croas th nce, of the Bi chts Mattie and Mat- 8 won by the Mattie e seconds, Fach yacht has econ one having been drawn. er lay was a marked improvement upon the receding days, but notwithstanding t a ses of sunstroke oc- wo in Brooklyn, while sisewhere, The list of line.y large and appailing, and iter number of the cases \ospitals will result \nur's pharmacy at d % degrees. In nomeler ye ay indicated ty 104, in Baltimore 10344, s was held at the Brook- fata its maxim Poug ddegrces, in Schenec in Toronto 100, and tn M A Grant ratification me sie the L. Woodford was engtuy speech upon ica, not sufficient to erday afternoon at Nothing clse was done but to itions passed by the master ma- sous on (he i aod revding the draft of an address to the public. The case of inspector Foik, who was arrested on the complaint of Jess Alien for assault in having showed him up among the crowd at Coney Island on Sunday a# & potorious Luef, was calied up before Justice Cornweil, in Brooklyn, yesterday, but it waa Postponed on account of some of the witnesses for the complainant being absent. The arrest of In- spector Foik was made at Allen's request, without any affidavit in the case being made. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier 1@ Bast river at three P, M. to-day for Charieston, S. 0. The stock market was dail yesterday. ment securities were heavy. Goid ciosed a 4p. MISCELLANECU:, Our telegraphic despatches from Port av Prince, Hayti, dated July 2, state that a had been forwarded to Washington Minister stating that Present Salnave was likely to succeed in quelling the Cacus reve!iion, Governor Smith, of Alabarna, was inaugurated yesterday. Hig message strongly recommends the Femoval of political disabiiities and bitterly de- mounces disfranchisement except for crimes, There are about thirty colored members of the Legisiature and tho chaplain and sergeant-at-arins of tue House are colored. The North Caroline Legislature yesterday clectod Jobn Poo, of Pasquatank, United States Senator for | he long corm aud Gengral J, 0. Abvowt, formerly of , comprehensible -aé to the commerce of the United States, and all embarrassments and restrictions to trade are set aside; citizens of the United States will be permitted to reside in Chinese cities and engage in trade there, and will be protected in all their rights of person and property. But more important, perhaps, than all the rest is the pro- vision that opens to our enterprise the naviga- tion of the great rivers of the empire. Not only shail our people be able to trade with ail the ports on or near the coast, as we now do with Liverpool, Havre or Marseilles, but they ienis was amended and passed. ‘The | may also push into the interior of the country ¢ the issue of three per cent temporary | and make the familiar acquaintance of the strange people that have been the mystery of the world for so many centuries. They may meet the Chinese actually and in their homes— not as they are qualified by contact with Euro- peans in the cities in which they have hitherto been mostly known—and may organize. the trade in Chinese products by direct intercourse with the producers of the commodities. On the other hand our government gives to the Chinese certain advantages in trading on our Pacific coast, guarantees to the people of that nation residing here the protection in their rights due to the subjects of an equal Power, with ultimate naturalization, and agrees to aid China against its enemies in the ordinary terms— ‘| that is, to stand the friend of that nation if other Pow ndeaver to extort undue privileges by the common means of intimidation. This is a good, broad programme for the future inter- course of our people with the acute, indus- trious and thrifty myriads of the Flowery Land—liberal as it should be, and fair; and the Senate should give it the necessary approval without delay. In the same connection it is well that the House has carried through the legislation necessary to complete the Alaska purchase; for this Chinese treaty and the glimpse it presents of the future of our Eastern relations give an immensely increased value to every inch of the Pacitic coast of this Conti- nent, In its results the making of this treaty will prove the greatest social and commercial revo- lution of the age. Its effect will be far greater than was that of the discovery of America; for while in literal truth it involves the discovery of a newcontinent to the travel, the trade, the active intercourse of life, we must remember that that Continent is not an impenetrable wilderness, peopled only by wild tribes, without a history, a literature, or any but the more primitive natural laws, but is, on the contrary, a land possessed of the oldest living civilization, the oldest living language, laws and philosophy; that it has a government whose principles, while refined to an astonish- ing minuteness of detail, are wonders of the simple action of the human mind; a govern- ment that is the only one on the earth, nearly, not founded on the rottenness of priestcraft; that it has innumerable cities, from the people of every one of which we may learn some truth absolutely new to us and sure not to be worthless; that it has an unnumbered popu- lation the thriftiest and most industrious on the globe, and that {ls products ate incomparable im value, and the necessaries of civilized life everywhere. So rich is that East- ern World, and in such esteem have its products been held from time immemorial, that the greatesl discoveries, the greatest systems of commerce, the greatest navies of history have alike grown from the desire to secure those products. Eagerness in this endeavor has been the stimulus to human activity in some of its grandest phases, One of the few facts pre- served to us of the commercial life of Greece is the still attractive story of Jason and the Golden Fleece; and the Colchis that Jason voyaged to was only a station on the ancient route to China, and his wonderful golden fleece might well have been an anticipation of the trade in raw silk. In times more within ken it is clearly perceptible that but for the stimulus of the desire to reach the East by other routes than those that followed Jason's lead, the voy- age around the Cape of Good Hope, with its | wonderful disclosures and its ultimate change | a the aia of naval power, would never have een made. Neither wi ] demonstrated the form bpm ant hy planet. Indeed, | that illustrious navigator only stumbled on our Continent in his search for the one that we now, by ® piece of natural justice, are effectively ' opening to the world. If, then, Europe and the | world was revolutionized, great powers cast | down and little ones built up by the discovery | Continent furnished in its wild state, what in- NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNE from the practical discovery and throwing open of that land the least of whoso tea districts is absolutely a greater wealth to the world than all the mines of Peru! Ghina casts aside the traditions of four thousgad years and comes forth from her ancient sgclusion to take a place among the nations of tiie earth, reposing her confidence on the younges* of all these, In a short time the hundreds of lite American steamers that are now conducting int Chinese waters a trade fabulously iucrative will increase to thousands, and these representatives of the new age will carry its thoughts and facts raterially up every Chinese river and into every Chinese city or village. It cannot be but the Chinese will be greatly benefited by the perapan they will gain. New ideas germinating in brain give a3 much to the soil as they receive, and the facta in science characteristic of this age, its electrical communication, its use of natural forces in the drudgery of great labors, must materially contribute to the reorganiza- tion of China socially and to ameliorating the condition ofa people whose lives physically are as primitive as their views of honesty and virtue; and while primitive honesty and virtue are prime articles, much less is to be said in favor of primitive travelling. Our own sparsely peopled Continent will also prove, as knowledge spreads, a great outlet for the teem- ing population of China, and this will be not the least of the benefits to that country of the new communication; for it will, perhaps, prove the true remedy for the chronic rebellions. As the treaty provides for the proper treatment of such new citizens of the republic they will prove as great a source of wealth in the Pacific States of the future as European emigrants have proved in the Atlantic States. Thus the amity of the youngest and the oldest of the nations in existence begins under the best auspices, and all may confidently believe that the new association cannot belie its promise of mutual increase in knowledge and wealth. The Rights of Property Owners on Broad- way. A decision was recently rendered in the Su- preme Court by Judge Daniels on an action brought by Knox, the hatter, to compel the city authorities to remove the Broadway bridge, which was ordered to be taken down within ninety days after a copy of the judg- ment was served upon the proper officers. The most important part of Judge Daniels’ decision, however, is the establishment of the rights of property owners along Broad- way. The Judge says the land which forms Broadway was dedicated by the owners of the property for the uses and purposes of a public street, and in this respect it differs from most of the streets of the city, where the fee of the land is in the public at large. The streets to which the city has acquired title in fee may be devoted to many public pur- poses that would be unwarrantable and unjustifiable in streets like Broadway, where a simple dedication of the surface of the land for the purposes of a public street was all that was ever surrendered. The right of the Legislature to authorize the construction of railways over the streets which belong to the Corporation is not questioned, but to grant such franchises in streets which belong to the owners of the property along their lines without their consent and without compensation, is clearly contrary to that provision of the constitution which declares that private property shall only be taken for public purposes by properly and justly compensating the owners for it. The Judge explains very clearly the rights of the property owners on Broadway, and says they all retain their fee in the land, neither the Legislature nor the Corporation having any right to authorize the use of the walks or carriage ways for purposes not legitimately appertaining to it as a thoroughfare. He further says that persons or companies who may improperly obstruct the streets, the fee of which is still held by the owners of the pro- perty bordering thereon, may be successfully prosecuted and made to respond for the act in damages. Under this legal decision it is plain that the Corporation of the city has no right to charge us for the privilege of constructing vaults under one half of the streets fronting our office, which Judge Daniels decides is clearly our property, and we shall take steps immediately to recover back all that we have thus far paid. We shall go further and compe! the railroad companies which now obstruct the streets in front of our building to take up their rails and depart for some other location, where they may claim privileges from the Legislature and the Common Council which those bodies have the right to grant, or where they will no longer occupy land under the feeble tenure of squatter sovereignty. Crvt, GovERNMENT IN LovisiaNa RESTOR- Ep.—A despatch published in another part of the HERaLp gives the happy intelligence that civil government has been restored and is in full operation again in Louisiana. Governor Warmouth o} aly isp baie Bychanan of the fact, an eral Bucl ag issued an order to that effect, and says that military authority will no longer be exerciadd pader the reconstruction acts of Congress, and ali offcd?® commanding posts or detachments are forbid- den to interfere in civil affairs unless upon proper application of the civil authorities to preserve the peace. Military law no lo exists. Now that Gepergl Bochafan has nothing further to do in Louisiana we advise him to leave New Orleans and go to Texas, Als work now is to help the Texans to recon- struct their State as soon as possible, and to bring it back into full communion with the other States of the Union, as Louisiana has been brought back. Tue Liquor Deaters Cazatren,—The dem- ocrats last year secured the support of the liquor dealers generally of the city and State upon the strength of the great things promised in the way of free liquor in the event of the success of the democracy in the State election. On these premises they carried the State by some fifty thousand majority, they got a de- cided democratic majority in the Assembly, and if they had desired it they could have managed the Senate on this liquor question. They made some show, too, of'a purpose to do something in behalf of free liquor; but they did nothing, and the tipplers of whiskey and of such a field for activity and teade as our | the lovers of lager were all cheated, But do i they intend to be cheated again? That is chauges may We aot anticipate the questioa, “Yo fierce Bemocrucie.” “Ye fierce democracie” has mounted ite high horse again, Io the saddle, spurs on, body slightly beat forward, it plunges ila gaffs rowel deep at ihe word ‘*Go!” and yells out, “Clear the way thar! We're coming like chain-lightning on the back of an open-mouthed alligator after the radicals. Now for the times before 60! Whoo-00-00p!” The Democratic National Convention of 1868 having been broken up and done for, the shat- tered particles of the late confederacy are gath- ering themselves together and making the firma- ment resound with thelr joyous exclamatloas. Preston, Hampton, Vance, Perry, Yerger, For- rest, Vallandigham and the reat are particu- larly exultant. Defeated by the voice of the people at the ballot béxes in 1860 by the elec- tion of Lincoln, crushed in the field by the cartridge boxes of Grant from 1860 to 1864, saved from premature galvanization in the latter year by the repugnance of the people to adopt the maxim of the democratic platform that the “war was a failure,” the ‘‘fierce democracie” now consider themselves as having gone through the necessary process of purifica- tion, the required purgatory of political clarifi- cation, to enable them te atone for their past errors and demand consideration for the future. Eight years out in the barren high- way, barred from the rich clover fields of the public Treasury, they have had their appetites whetted, had time to observe their tattered raiment—which President Johnson promised to bushel up, but did not—and they are now ready to renounce their former heresies, pro- vided they be allowed to gather once more like penitent children around Old Uncle Samuel's corn crib. They think with the Northern cop- perheads they can run in under the banner of Seymour, with Frank Blair attached, tied like a firecracker to the tail of a kite, and revive the splendors of their eight years’ reign, from 1852, under poor Pierce, to the close of 1860, under the poorer and lamented Buchanan. They are all no doubt very hungry, very thirsty, very contrite. But they must remem- ber that they must forget; they must cover the past with the mantle of oblivion; they must take the situation as it is ; they must acknowledge the progress the republic has made during the past eight years; they must understand that whatever advances it now makes in the way of liberalism in regard to universal suffrage, in regard to general amnesty, which are worthy of being adopted by the most enlightened nations of the world— in regard to the condition of human freedom generally—all must be received as the accepted ideasfof the time. In these days progress and liberalism go hand in hand, by the aid of the electric telegraph, throughout the world. A shock here is felt in Europe; a shock in Europe is felt in- stantaneously in America, The metropolis of the New World speaks to the centres of re- publican liberty in Europe and all over the earth, every hour in the day, and responses are duly received from England, Russia, France, Germany, Spain, all the powers of the Conti- nent, as well from the Empire of the Cres- cent and from the furthest East, until it clasps hands with our own glorious, gold-emblazoned West. These are a few of the fruits of the past eight years’ progress of our country, and the nullitiers of the South, with their democratic sympathizers in the North, will be sunk for- ever out of sight if they attempt to ignore them or pass them for a moment aside. If they do, the fate that befell the Bourbons of France will befall them; for they will find in General Grant a Napoleon who adapts himself to the progress of the age and both hears and re- spects public opinion. + Meanwhile let us see what the ‘fierce de- mocracie’ further propose to do. telling what may yet turn up. pends upon cirqumstances, There is no Everything de- Generar Bram as Otver CromwELi.— Some of the radical jeurnals affect to be very much alarmed in contemplating the possibility of the elevation of General Blair to the White House, inasmuch as he has promised, if Presi- dent, to overturn ali these negro radical State governments of the South and to turn out this radical Congress at the point of the bayo- net, or by ‘‘push of pike” after the good old fashion of Oliver Cromwell. But to get Gene- ral Blair in this position to play ‘Old Noll” the democratic ticket must first be elected ; and then Mr. Seymour, elected President, must re- sign; neither of which contingencies seems very likely to happen, from present appearances. Nor can we imagine, if from the chapter of accidents Geperal Blair were to get into the White House, that be would be such a donkey fs to attempt the réle of Cromwell or anything of the sort. He is one of those snap and flash politicians who say a great deal more than they mean, while Grant is one of that order who mean a great deal More than they fay. Words may mean something or nothing, but by the acts of men we can pretty safely judge them. On this test there is nothing very alarming in the record of General Blair. PAassaGE OF THE ALASKA APPROPRIATION Bit 1s THe Hovse.—After a long debate, ere Be the minority, made a number of fe efforts to kill the Hoeake, the Hou Representatives yesterday passed the bill appropriating the money needed for the pur- chase of Alaska. The vote stood 114 to 42, ow the Senate will certainly agree to the bill the conclusion of the treaty with Russia is evidently near at hand. We have frequently expressed our approbation of the purchase, and can only repeat that this Territory is cheap for the price. Ina few years its value and importance to the republic will become appar- ent to all, Tae Rerorrep Tarp Party Cast Move- M&ntT.—There are various rumors afloat from Washington that certain democratic liberals who do not like Seymour, and certain republi- can conservatives who do not like to play second fiddle to the radicals, have been sounding Mr. Chase upon the proposition to run him as a third party candidate, and that he has no objections to the movement. We guess, how- ever, that this is a republican device to kill off both Chase and Seymour by knocking their heads together, and that the Chief Justice bas no notion of going into such a profitless con- flict. By holding off he may come up as the very man of all men for the crisis in 1872, and thia, wo doubt not, is his decision upon tho subject, YAY, JULY 15, 1868, for cho Fall Our Theatree—Preparatious Season. Eleven of our theatres are closed. Tho “heated term” will probably keep their doors shut for several weeks, But the managers are all busily employed in preparations for the fall season, which promises to be one of the most brilliant in the annals of the American stage. In the musical line, particlarly, the most active competition will be exhivited. Maple- son, it is said, proposes to bring yis company from London and to venture at the Academy of Music upon the experiments whigh have proved fatal to 40 many directors of the (talian dpera in this city, confident that with Nilson, Tietjen, Trehetti, Mongini, Arditi and Kellogy he may have a chance of escaping the fate of his predecessors. But to realize his hopes he must not only avoid the errors of hia predeces- sors, but withstand the pressure of energetic competition, Max Strakosch sailed on the 11th inst. for the purpose of engaging an opera company for the coming season. Grau is re- pairing and enlarging the French theatre, while his agents are securing in Europe artists of the highest talent, such as Rose Boll and Carrier and other illustrations of the opéra bouffe. Pike is determined that it shalt not be for lack of money if he fail to engage Schneider herself and other celebrities of the same order. What- ever the money which he has made by his suc- cessful distillery operations can avail will be devoted to rendering his splendid opera house a favorite resort of the admirers of the opéra bouffe. Bateman will take time by the fore- lock and inaugurate on the 20th instant, at Niblo’s Garden, a fresh season, of the opéra bouffe, of which he holds himself to be almost the creator. To the attractions of Mlle. Tostée and the celebrated trio, Messrs. Leduc, Lagrif- fouland Duchesne and other members of his last year’s troupe, he will add the attractions of Miles. Irma, Lambele, Duclos and Rose, and Measrs. Aujac, Dardignac, Guidon and Francis. With competitors like Grau and Bateman and Pike and Max Strakosch, Mapleson may well nerve himself to the utmost in order to win success. AN Otp Story From OLp Spatn.—Martial law has been declared in the province of Cata- lonia. THE NEW TREATY WITH CHIVA, The new treaty completed by Mr. Anson Buriing- game in behaif of the Chinese empire with the United States ix, perhaps, the most important, ali things considered, that has ever been made between two nations 80 peculiarly situated as are those of Asia and America, for the first time brought into practi- cal and unrestricted relations with each other. Under this treaty, now in the hands of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, China is to freely open her territory to all the world—that ts, to all who are disposed to formaliy recognize her integ- rity a3 a nation. Her ports, without exception, are also to be opened to the commerce of maritime people, Foreigners, wherever they may travel within the pale of the laws of the empire, are to be protected in property and person by its municipal enactments. Nor is this all; full freedom is accorded tn matters of education, religion and trade, Ina word, whatever an alien sojourning in any civilized State of Europe or America may de- mand in the matter of guidance and protection, that the Emperor of China, through his government and officers, is solemnly bound to extend to those who, relying fully on the faith of the treaty, shall venture within his jurisdiction. In return for these privileges, the treaty provides that eminent domains shall inhere in the Emperor of China; that the integrity and equality of China as a nation among tle nations shall be accorded without qualification by the United States; that the coolie trade shall be inhibited, but the right of voluntary emigration fully accepted be- tween the subscribing powers; that China shail be fuly placed on a footing of equality with the most favored nations—which, of course, permits the open- ing of consulates by the Chinese government in the porta of the United States, and the sending to the national capital to represent the Emperor of China a minister plenipotentiary; and, finally, the right to conduct its internal affairs without question by the representatives of other governments near or remote to the seat of its government. In a word, the new treaty in all its clauses, which is brief and to the point, is the embodiment of Mr. Anson Burlingame’s speech at the banquet ten- dered to the Legation by the Chamber of Commerce a few weeks ago. In that speech the orator took up the co-operative policy which hitherto has been uniformly acted upon by the representatives of the nations at Pekin holding commercial relations with the great empire in Eastern Asia—a policy now for the first time thrown into oMciai form, and which, guaranteed of its integrity, will permit the Chinese government and people to put aside all exclusive. ness and at once and for the future freely commingle with the nations of the earth. This treaty, simple and yet suggestive, will prove of invaluable benefit to China, and not more so for her than for the world at large. When this treaty, which undoubtedly will be ratified by the Senate of the United States, with perhaps a few unimportant amendments, is, or one similar in view if not in language, accepted by the Powers of Europe, it will assure the people of China, hitherto so jealous of foreign influence and intebferdi&, That the nations with which they have held at best but @ restricted intercourse for ages have no desire to act towards them in other than @ straightforward manner; and further, it will convince th Yuat the Western nations are GFER TesirOWs of according to them rights and privi- leges which ordinarily are withheld by those who aim, especially in Europe, of restricfing.the right of public worship, if not that of conscience. Thus, for example, is the right guaranteod {9 aij who emigrate ro ylis part of hepa | ‘spptinent wb wt DP. on- que their own altars ana worship their goas en them as education, enlightenment or conscience may direct. Apart from these things, which are of a secondary character, the treaty (we speak of it as already rau- Se recognizes, frat, that eminent domain resides 12 tnd pergog ¥. the Chinese Emperor; second, and aaa corollary, the integhty of the empire; third, its equality among the nations; fourth, the guarantee of rights of protection to his (the Emperor's) sub- jects; fifth, religious toleration; sixth, réoiprocal educational privileges; seventh, emigration, or the rights of access and settlement within the jurisdic- tions of the two nations, and eighth, the opening to commerce of all accessibie ports in the two coun- tries. COLLISION ON THE EAST RIVER. The Stoamboat Providence Rans Into the Steamboat Sylvan Grove—Narrow Escape from a Terrible Disnster. Although at almost all times the boats of the Har- lem Ferry Company are largely patronized by the reatdents of the upper end of the isiand, yet daring the past few days the oxcessive heat has had thi effect of compelling many to take advantage of the pleasant sail up the Bast river who, knowing the genera! carelessness and recklessness of those having charge of the ferryboate that ply to and from the city, and bearing tm mind the fact that not many months ago one of the Harlem boats was run on the rocks and injured while the efficient commandant of the boat was enjoying fais Dreakfast—would rather have the ills and incon. venlences of along ride im the horse cars than trust thomacives to the mercy of the deck hands of the Hartom Ferry Company. Laat ovening, ahortty after atx o'olock, the steam- boat Sylvan Grove atarted from her moorings near Pack lip, bound for Astoria and Hartem, having on | voard some four or dive bundred passengers. She | nn ee was crowded im almost every available place, ath those who had secured positions were quietly dia- postng themsetves to enjoy tho cooling breeze ao welcome after @ day’a sojourning, either (or memes 2 Dleasure, especially when the ther- mometer during the, day ranged among the nineties. The boat had scarcely got fairly inte the stream when the steamboat Providence, of the Bristol line, also crowded with passengers, was ob- served.coming on her course up the river. ‘The tide was fonping out strongly at the time, and this some- what retarded the progress of the’ Sylvan loaded down as she was with human from the peculiar relative positions of the was 00n apparent to all that @ colitston was inevit- able. As far a3 can be learned, no whistle was blown, no bell was Tung, nor was any other intima- tion given by those in charge of the Doate that they prectated or were prepared for the coming di 4 Tbe Sylvan Grove kept steadily on, endeavoring to cross the bow of the Providence, while the latter ves. sel continued on its course, towering toward the Harlem boat as if tt would “walk right over it.’ The passengers on both boats now became wild with excitement, and with frantic haste the lath by which the few life preservers on the Sylvam Grove were lield up inst the deck covering was ‘orn down and the preservers were sec! athough, to the discredit of the sex be it said. the “Serner” portion of those on board secured most of the xuards and at the same time evinced a greater amomt of anxiety and alarm than did the ‘weaker! Portion, The passengers secured life preservers, stools, Caairs, pieces of plank and everything and any- thing tha could possibly aid or be of assiatance in & struggle inthe water. A comparative quiet seemed ‘0 cole Upm those who chought themse.ves doomed. A few monents of awful suspense ensued; the ern luNidled together on the side of the boat rthest from treir approaching destroyer and thus jed to Caton the boat so that the guards on one side were but atew feet above the surface of the water. The Provdence had lesseaed her speed, but not soon enough © avoid colliding with the boat which stood acroas\er course. When tie. ollikion was found to be nnagidaple the pilot of the Provi- dence altered the pro% so as to strike at such a point as to lessen the Brobalhiy, Of loss of life. ‘This point was of course the paddlé pox, and against this the prow of the Providence Ame with such force as to shiver the wood work and start and warp the iron arma of the paddlewhecl Ihe so many reeds. ‘The colliding of Course lifted "ae a somewhat, 1 t, boats tt and this, togecher with the cro of the passengers to the other wie, nod the boat so much that the water hed om atthe cabin windows on the por side, aud there was every probability of the boat winking. ‘The ex- citement was intense and if was also with the greatest diMiculty that many of the paysengors could be prevented from jumping into the water. Ine moment—which to those oF almost SW uy around with brow wide latter immediately righted. miads toward the Providence and some forty or fifty of he pas- sengers trom the Sylvan Grove succeeded in gytting on board. The amount of damaye was spewily ascertained, but vie excitement was uot v easily allayed. The Prov! for a fe’ minutes with by i nees ready for use in case been precipt- tated into the water. jearned that the hullof the boat was uot damaged was injured or had fatlen overt Qo on its way and th » eomp! 'y disabled, was towed back to her sitp and the passengers landed. These latter generally deeming the conduct of the ge of fhe Sylvan person or persons who were in Grove as inghly cuipable wer indignauon meeting, aud many dire Ur against the parties who had so sly the lives of over four hundred passengers. e THE ASSAULT ON THE OFFICERS OF tHE FoRTY- BIGHTH PRRCINCT.—Onicers Lydell and Ryan, of the Forty-eighth precinct, were severely beaten, a few nights since, by two men named Join and Willtam Bahn, Yesterday these two rowdies were arrested and locked up to answer. AGIRL SHOOTS AT A BURGLAR.—A | an entrance yesterday morning ito, Mr. Brown, No. 239 Henry street, but before he had time to gather up any valuables he was confronted by the servant girl and made a hasty exit. Before he had got far the heroic girl sent a bullet whizzing after him, but he succeeded in getting of without re- ourgiar effected e residence of liam Jones was seriously stabbed Smith street at eleven o'clock on parties got into an altercation, aknife and stabbed the former in the side, icting a dangerous w. . The io- Jured man was taken to the City Hospital and Day ‘Was locked up to answer. Tak CENTRAL BANK FoROER nseph Perez and William Delmar were yesterda red of forgery tn the Court of Seasions before Judge Troy. The prisoners some time since obfained $420 from the Brooklyn Central Bank ing, on the day previous, deposited f at check, purporting to have. of Fisk & Hatch, the Wail was sentenced to five y imprisonment in the 8! BURGLARS SENTE and J. Murphy were yesterd ti ne Court of Sessions of burglary in the third de on a joint indictment, charging them wi residence of Mr. J. D. avenue, Baggot was Murphy to three ye Priscn. Baggot is the f now in prison. George t convicted of burglary, and was a term of two years’ imprisonmen Jess ALLEN ACCUSES INSPECTOR FOLK OF ASSAULT- ING Him.—Justice Cornwell issued a warrant for the arrest of Inspector Folk, on the complaint of Jess Allen, who accused him of assaulting him while at Coney Island on Sunday iast. The Inspector waa ig entered the . to undergo dowh there looking after thieves and Alien was down there among them. The Inapector showed him up before the public among the rest as a notorious thief. Yesterday the case was to have been examined, but owing to the ab- sence of some of the complainant's witnesses it waa tponed for one week. The inspector imquired tf fe conta see the aMdavit which the compiainant made, and was informed that there had b. none, made. The warrant had been granted merely for the asking. The Inspector then asked the Judge tla complaint could be taken from a thief and folgv, The Judge replied that he was not aware the comp,ainant was a thet. TRE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Repy>iican Mass Mecting at the Brookiyn : Academy. The campaign has been inaugurated in Kings county. The first mass meeting was held at the Brookiyn Academy of Mastic tast night, under the auspices of the Kinga County Republican General Committee. A number of guns were fired in the City Hail Park and some fireworks were displayed when the crowd vegan to as aembie. At eight o'clock the Academy was pretty weil filed, about fifty ladies being among che assemblage in phe lower part of the t . The atage ys cog jed by the members of Repubitean Gen minittee and their friends, The meeting was called to order shortiy after cight o'clock, when the Lieutenant Governor, Stewart L. Woodford, was nominated as chairman. Tais met with a hearty approval. Woodford » ty, to address the meeting. iad TH ou h sick champber, he said, to testify to his devotion” me Union oause, ad add his” Deartiogt Godspeed b> fhe canvass, (Appiatse. aucus ve a a tee torious loyalt: inst treason thas ; 3 cause of the patriotic masses, wao Saved our tana in the hour of danger: 4 catse against bold, men who plotted eecenion. Tho was the’ GUN Be public economy againat profligate and exiravagant cord cause of puble morality against official corruption and wick@dness in high piaces; the cause peaceftt and loyal reconstruction inst anarchy, violenc® aud the dread rule of the u Klux Kian. (Applause.) (When the speaker alluded to Govergor Seymonr there were hisses and applause.) He said he made no attack upon Governor Seymour asaman. He Was most courteour and gentie in lite manners, cul- tured in min and persuasive in eloquence. (Ap- plause and hisses.) His public life was open to criti- cism, and he (the speaker) charged that the New York riots during the draft were the result of his speeches, his teachings and his official acta, After some further remarks in regard to the late rebellion i oer ' peek Aye — applauded. jong list of vice presidents to fo nocing was then read by Mr. H. g Bellows, Mr. John ©. Coit then read a series of resolutions, which were to the effect that they hoped that a plat- form would have been presenter by the democratic which Would have left the tsaue between two parttes only @ personal preference for the candi dates; that in the piatforin adopted by the New York Convention two enda are prominently mani- feat aa the objects of democratic attalnment— namely, to penne, those at the Led sustained goverment with their money, those at the South who sustained fi PY, their personal devotion and loyalty. Ay declaring hat the obliga- of the government incurred during the war shonid be paid in a depreciated currency) they im- pair the credit and reduce the vaiue of pablic Securities in the hands of those who, under the Promptings of the highest patriotism, poured with- ont atint their treasures into the comers pf the a ernment ata crisia when It was doubti whether that government would ever be able to return one cent of the money thus generously loaned. The reaointions were adopted. es were thea made by Horace Greeley and Joshua Van Cott, Which the meeting adjourned. —————— NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Nnited States steamer Saranac, (rom Mexican east the Pacific, arrived at San Francigge oa.