The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1868, Page 4

4 HERALD ANN STREET. uW YORK NE aya BROADWAY AND JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXII... AM SEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Doerr. K'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— WALL. Tue Lo’ vor LIFk BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—A PLasH oF LiGurnin a. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo: SERVANTS BY LEGACY— CLuns ARE TeoMes—Vou- LO. —OTHRL NEW YORK THEATRE, oppoaite, Tur uaND Docuuss-Panis AND HBL! BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 1th street.—ErHiorPian MINSTRBLSY, 40. York Hotel.— N TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Gomro Vooaliem, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Mz. A. BURNETT, Tur Homower. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PorcL aR Garpen Conorrt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOMRNOE AND ART. New York, Bhursday, July 16, 1868. 9B NEWS. EUROPE. The news report of the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday e ig, July 16. A tvansiation of the American naturalization treaty concluded with Bavaria is telegraphed from Berlin. The Prince of Wales will havea residence in Irelaud. A very serious party fight occurred in Ire- land, The political reports from Spain are contra- dictory. Cousola 94%, money. Five twenties 72% in Lon- don, and 76% in Frankfort. Cotton quiet, with middling uplands at 114d. Breadstutfs and provisions dull. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to reduce the military peace establishment of the United States—the number of enlisted men to be reduced to twenty-six thousand. A number of mis- cellaneous bills were called, among which was the bill for the establishment of a line of steamships from this city to Europe, and which elicited a most favorable debate. Mr. Sherman made a lengthy re- port from the Committee on Conference appointed on the disagremeents between the House and Senate on the bill for the collection of the tax on distilled Spirits, tobacco, &c. A communication was received from the Secretary of State to the effect that twenty- ‘Uhree States, including Ohio and New Jersey. which have reconsidered their action, had ratified the new Constitutional amendment, He mentions the South- ern States in a separate list. In the executive ses- sion William M. Evarts was confirmed as Attorney Geners1 In the House the credentials of James H. Goss, of South Carolina, were referred, and David Heaton, eutative from North Carolina, was admitted he Senate amendments to the bill disabilities were concurred in. > conference committee on the Tax 1 to and the bili now goes to the Presi- “vening session was devoted to speech THE CITY. ‘The number of persons reported as having been prostrated by the heat during the past twenty-four hours in this city, Brooklyn and Jersey City exceeds one lundred. Over fifty per cent of these have proved fatal, Dr, Harris, Registrar of Vital Statis- tics of the Board of Health, makes the startling an nmeement that two hundred and fifty deaths are Known to have resulted from the excessive heat of the past three days within the Metropolitan dis- highest range of the thermometer in this lay was 94. In Poughkeepsie it was 103, qonising itimore 102, in Montreal 105 and in Richmond, .. 06 > took place yesterday. After quite a st the Eva won the race, passing the ¢ stakeboat thirty-seven minutes and fifteen onds in advance of her competitor. rand Patrick Purcell, who beat Patrick feath with stones last March while he with his wife, were sentenced in the ‘ourt of Sessions, yesterday, to two years Sates Court, was yesterday adjourned until Monday next. Dr. Blaisdell isone of the parties implicated in the alleged conspiracy to effect the removai of Revenue Collector Bailey, ie stock market was firm at the close yesterday. Goverument securities were dull, but steady. Gold closed at 1424, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Panama letter is dated July 6. for Pre have gon ment, W The electton ent was reported on the night of the 4th to for Dr. Amador and against the govern- “upon a revolutian was inaugurated the ng, by which the acting President was arrested, General Ponce, commander of the State troopa, Was inaugurated Provisional President, and a force Was sent to arrest Amador, who will probably bo banishe 1. A decree was then issued declaring the wus in a alate OF war, suspending constitutional ntees and stopping the transit of the Rio her political outbreak was apprehended i on. Our Valpa » (Chile) letter is dated June 17. Con- gress was in session, and the papers relative to the Chilean corvettes leaving London had been laid before both Louses by the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs. They strongly condemn the action of the Peru- vian Oherge d’Affaires, The Chilean colony at the Straits of Magellan is said to be a success, Our Lima (Peru) letter 1s dated June 28. A promi- Ment newspaper in the city had published the fact tnat three revolutions were about taking place, allof them to prevent Colonel Balta being inaugurated President, and two of them favoring Prado or Pezet. Bard, fa THe Keak Tae gone to the North, but Canseco, the acting President, had resisted all in- ducements to turn over the government to any of the revolutionists, Advices from Mazatlan, Mexico, to the Sth inst. tate that the British war vessel Chanticleer was still blockading the port against Mexican vessels ouly. Our Mexico city correspondence details an outrage perpetrated upon an American citizen there, @ petty Mexican officer having entered his residence with a file of soldiers and taken away his young daughter by force, Advices from the Sandwich Islands are received to the 26th of June. The Hawalian Legislature had been prorogued. The captain of the United States steamer Mohongo had had a friendly inferview with the King. One hundred and forty-eight Japanese immigrants had arrived. The King has been ill again and ts believed to have leprosy. ‘The Minister of the Interior had been censured by the Legisiature fer overstepping the bounds of his authority. The treaty between China and the United States agreed upon by Secretary Seward and Minister Bur- Hogeme was transmitted some days ago to tho Senate, where it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Adairs. That committee, it is now said, are inclined to reporteéavorably upon it. A banquet was given in Baltimore last evening to Reverdy Johason. A number of distingu:shed per. sons Were present. In repiying to the usual toast ‘Wir. Johnson made a speech, in which, however, he juded only very slightly to his provable action after dus arrival at the Court of St. Jaines. The United States steamer Wyoming is reported to fhave been wrecked on the 9th inst. near Fort Russell, Vancouver's isiand. ‘The Sovth Carolina Legislature bailoted yesterday for a United States Senator for the tong term, but to reach @ decision. A. G. Mackey, Collector Port of Charleston, so far !s ahead. eae Harvard College took piace th ty, Hall 40 Boston closed, and uovernd? atiended the Progress of the Presideutial Campaign. In view the great fizzle in which the Tammany Fourth of July Convention closed its labors, in view of the failure of that Conven- tion to come up to the broad ground on which the democratic masses were prepared to meet it, the evident tendency of popular opinion is to revert to the times when the people found that it was not safe to trast the democratic party, Those were the times that gave the republican party its start in life. Republicans promised to save the nation, and the demo- crats were crazy to carry out a theory that must destroy it, and this forced the people into the former party, made up though it was of whigs, Know Nothings, abolitionists, and all the elements of chronic opposition to popular impulse. The nation went with this party for @ purpose and forced it to accomplish the purpose; but so soon as the pressure of the general will was withdrawn, so soon as the direct action of @ippeople on party councils was no longer felt, as it had been through the war, the leaders of the party gave indications that their old instincts had not died out, and they proceeded to reorganize the government in accordance with those old instincts, on a tyrannical, intolerant, anti-democratic basis. Entrusted with the national power, they made a partisan use of it, their prime object being not to restore union, harmony and peace be- tween the rebelling States and the faithful ones, but to so frame the fundamental law.of reor- ganization as to keep down and defeat the pop- ular will and prevent a democratic party from raising its head in the Southern States. See- ing their great victory abused to such pur- poses the people abandoned this party by com- mon consent and gave victories or great gains in numerous States to any organization that promised successful opposition. Here was the hint for the democratic leaders. From the very nature of the case the de- mocracy revived everywhere, and the people rejoiced in a promised opportunity to put down the men and the party they had seemed to stamp with their approval by acting through them during the war. As the country is over- whelmingly democratic in its normal state, and as the people were everywhere giving indica- tion that eight years’ experiment of the other party had sickened them, the case seemed plain that there was to be a return to the nor- mal condition. Only one thing was neces- sary—the people required to be sure that the democracy in its revived phase was soundly national and not vitiated by the errors and bad purposes that had compelled them to cast it aside eight years since. As the democratic party was wrong the last time they knew it, they demanded to know that it had got right before they would trust it. They waited for its nomination, to read, in the name of of the individual ‘‘distilled of all its vir- tues,” what were its views of our recent history and our present position and its purposes for the future. In the name of Horatio Seymour they see these views and purposes declared with unblushing front; they see that the democracy has not yet arisen to a national comprehension of the war, but is resolute still to regard it as it did from Chicago, and to consider the present position of the nation as the result of the triumph of wrong, the whole of which must be undone, and they see that the purpose of this party in the future must be to humiliate the victor. In the very name of the candidate the democracy repels the masses that poured out the blood and sub- scribed the money for the war. This will not do for a proud, generous people, confident of the right of what they have done, and thus by inevitable necessity the nation turns to Grant. Little as it likes the party that was compelled to put him up, much as it distrusts the more violent element of that party, it knows, likes and is willing to trust Grant himself, for sound judgment, upright heart and inflexible pur- pose—the people's own hero—and it knows that it has no good to hope and every evil to fear in the success of the democratic candidate. The Alaska Appropriation Bill. The decided vote—yeas 114, nays 42—by which the bill appropriating $7,200,000 in coin to meet the treaty stipulations of the purchase of Russian America has passed the House of Representatives indicates the popularity of this immense territorial acquisition. The whole queétion may now be considered settled, and that Alaska is henceforth as completely a Territory of the United States as Dacotah or Arizona. Russian America is fixed as a Terri- tory of the United States, and the field of labor thus laid open to American enterprise is one as vast in its resources as in its geographical extent. The salmon, cod, walrus and seal fisheries, to say nothing of whales, of the Alaskan bays, inlets and rivers along a coast line of over a thousand miles are, from the reports of all the voyagers in those regions, unquestionably the richest in the world. The Atlantic fisheries, from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, for which we have frequently been threatened a rupture with England, are comparatively poor. There are many times seven millions of money in those prolific and extensive fisheries of Alaska. With the completion of the Pacific Railroad, too, the timber along that coast range of moun- tains will be found another substantial and en- during source of wealth in the trade of those regions with Californias. Again, the chain of the Aleutian Islands, which extends from the mainland of Russian America in « semicircle across the Northern Pacific td fhe islands and Continent of Asia, will secure as a chain of telegraphic and naval stations which in the event of « foreign war will be equal to the command of the Pacific Ocean. Nor is it a secondary consideration that in this bill voting the money for the pur- chase in question our hitherto undisturbed re- lations of friendship with Russia are main- tained, and that in the event of any rupture in the future between the United States and Eng- land and France in reference to Chinese and Japanese affairs Russia may be relied upon as our ally. In this view the treaty just con- cluded between Mr. Seward and the Chinese Burlingame Embassy becomes only the more desirable to us from the advantages conceded to American trade and from the security of these advantages through our good relations with Russia, We say nothing of the reported discoveries of gold in Alaska, but we have no doubt that the NEW fornia and Nevada. Counting the minerals of Alaska, however, and its agticultural capa- ; cities as nothing, the Territory, we dare say, within ten years to come, under American enterprise and development, will still be proved a great bargain. Treasury Gold Ring—A Call Upon Cone ereas. There has been a great deal of fuss in Con- gress about whiskey frauds and the whiskey ring, and there have been some investigations about the matter, though little has been re- vealed and nothing scarcely done to prevent the evils. These frauds have been astounding enough, certainly, and the government has lost by them within the last few years hundreds o! millions of dollars. But the Treasury gold ring and its operations is an evil of as great a magnitude or greater. Mr. McCulloch's gross mismanagement of the gold reserve of the Treasury—a sum amounting to a hundred mil- lions on an average, independent of a large reserve generally of legal tenders—has kept up the premium on gold and the currency de- preciated. We have no hesitation in saying that with the enormous income of government in specie from customs and with the vast pro- ductions of our mines the country might have returned to specie payments, or have been very near it by this time, had the Treasury Depart- ment been properly managed. Why, Mr. Mc- Culloch has had on hand all the time an amount of specie equal to that ordinarily in the vaults of the Bank of England, which represents the paper circulation of England, besides a constant and regular flow of specie trom customs into the Treasury equal to the demand for it for government purposes. It is not the want of specie, but the want of sense in the government, that keeps the currency de- preciated and golg at a high premium. The gold room and a few gold speculators of this city, by the favor and assistance of Mr. McCulloch, make the whole people of this country pay high prices for everything they consume. Congress is equally as ignorant on this subject and about the national finances generally. In fact, we have neither in the administration nor national Legislature anybody who understands these questions. And it is this and not the want of credit in our government that makes our securities so low abroad. The British, who are abler financiers, do not doubt our ability or disposi- tion to pay the debt, but they have no con- fidence in the ability of Congress or the admin- istration to regulate the finances on a sound basis. If ever any public functionary deserved impeachment Mr. McCulloch does. He ought to be impeached for the stupendous loss he has brought upon the country, for the mischief be has done and for his official delinquency. There ought to be a committee of Congress appointed to investigate the transactions of the Treasury in connection with the gold gamblers of Wall street. And for the future there ought to be a heavy tax, say of fifty dollars on every ten thousand dollars in sales not made to and for merchants for customs duties exclusively. This might remedy the evil of gambling and bogus sales to some extent, and bring down the premium on gold. At least it would add something considerable to the revenue. We call upon Congress to act upon this matter at once and before the session closes. It cannot employ its time ina better way, and we have no doubt that by next winter the good effects will be seen. Our Australasian Correspondence. The letters which we publish to-day from our special correspondents at Melbourne and at Sydney chronicle the opening of the Victoria Parliament, the formation of a new Ministry, the filing of a new affidavit in the apparently doubtful case of the Sir Roger Tichbourne’s baronetcy claim, the testimony of a recent official report on the present condition of the colony of Victoria in favor of its steady pro- gress in importance and wealth, the curious and perplexing case of an unlucky curer of snake bites and a atill more unlucky victim, a somewhat apocryphal account of a brother of the late N. P. Willis, the criticism of local critics upon “Under the Gaslight,” which has been running at the Duke of Edinburg’s thea- tre to very fair houses, and the production of a literary curiosity in the shapo of a new ter- mination to “The Merchant of Venice,” by a Melbourne poet; together with an alleged violation of colonial law by an American skip- per, which may lead to a long diplomatic cor- respondence between the colonial government and the United States ; the celebration of the Queen's birthday, the exploits of bushrangers, thg somewhat gloomy condition of New South Wales and Queensland, and the departure from Sydney of Mr. Hoyt, an American, in the Albion, for Japan, where he intends to start a coach line between Jeddo and Yokohama. Our letter from Sydney states that ‘Australian theatricals are mostly in the hands of Ameri- oan managers, and California and Australia are theatrically one.” American influence is manifestly extending in Australis, and the circumstances of the re- cent visit of Prince Alfred are but premonitory symptoms of the very strong probability that Australia, within a comparatively short time, may declare its independence of the metropoli- tan government and become a new republic in close alliance with the great republic of the United States. These premonitory symptoms of disaffection are no less striking than the throwing overboard of tea chests in Boston harbor in resistance to an unjust tax. William the Fourth, when in his youth he visited New York, met, as did the Prince of Wales ata later period, with a far more cordial recep- tion than that which was lately accorded to Prince Alfred in Australia, A Proorsestve Commosiry.—Framingham, in Massachusetts, must be regarded a6 a decidedly progressive town, It is twenty miles from the “Hub.” Up to within a few years past—say three or four—it has been a favorite resort of the long haired philosophers of the free love, woman's rights, negro worshipping achool, and many are the picnics, sociables, anniversaries and celebrations they have held within its limits. It seems now to have changed its character a trifle, and our report in to-day's Heratp shows that the shoulder hitters and plug uglies have taken the place of the phi- | losophers who used to congregate in its shady YORK HERALD, THUL {SDAY, JULY 16, 1868, Hot Weather aad che City Authorities, Our city is as hot as Calcutta; but at the | same time we goon in the good old way that | might be expected of an energetic seaside com- | munity in the temperate zone. In Calcutta they count upon the heat, and provide in many respects against ill consequences. Here we have the heat, count upon it and care not. With all the life and movement of this excep- tionally active city carried on in the same tem- perature that roasts Calcutta it is only natural that we should have a formidable list of mon and women prostrated in the streets, either by exhaustion or sunstroke. We cannot prevent the heat; we cannot prevent men heedlessly exposing themselves or putting on the final ounce in the form of whiskey ; but we ought in ; humanity to have the most ample provision made that the loss of life shall be as little as possible. This is not done, and the Board of Health is to blame. If a man falls at the corner of Seventy-fourth street and Tenth avenue, prostrated by heat, and has to be carried to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, he might as well be left to die at the corner of Tenth avenue and Seventy-fourth street ; for treatment, to be useful in these cases, must be very nearly immediate. There should be as many sanitary stations, if only established temporarily, as there are police sta- tions, and every station in charge of competent physicians, at least one of whom should be present on duty all the time. It does not afford a favorable notion of our ideas of civilization that we make so much better provision for keeping order than for saving life. Moreover, enough is not done in those very things as to which the Board makes most noise, and which relate to keeping the surface of-the city clean. Every square inch of the streets of this city should be thoroughly swept every day between the first of June and the first of October, and the fresh*water from the hydrants should flow in the gutters for at least three hours every day. We are told that this is impossible, that water is scarce, and similar nonsense. This thing is done in cities larger than ours and not so well supplied with water. The truth is the Board isa tame and fossil affair, and has not had the right sort of men in it from the first. It deals too much in negatives, prescribing what shall not be done— what the butchers shall not do and the gas companies shall not do, and so forth. This is right, but it does not go far enough. The Board should take an initiative on many important matters that it ignores, and make all possible positive arrangements for improving the sani- tary condition of the metropolis. The Late Collision on the East River. The collision on the East river between the steamboat Providence, of the Bristol line, and the Harlem ferryboat Sylvan Grove, on Tues- day evening last, by which almoat two thou- sand lives were pfaced in jeopardy, tends to exhibit in a marked degree the carelessness and recklessness of those to whose keeping human life is at times so largely entrusted. It also gives additional weight tothe arguments so often advanced in the columns of the HeRaLp in favor of compelling the Sound steamers to remove their moorings to some point on the East river side of the city above the lines of the Brooklyn ferries. There is as much reason to restrict these boats of heavy tonnage com- ing belowa certain point as there is to pro- hibit the Harlem and Hudson River Railroad Companies running their locomotives below certain streets in the city. The increase in the number of ferries which cross the rivers on either side of the city and the safety of the multitudes which make use of these ferries im- peratively demand that every possible pre- ventive of such an occurrence as that of Tuesday evening shail be applied. If the Sound steamers were moored at some point where they could not possibly interfere with any of the numerous ferries, the companies owning the former would be benefited in many ways, parties desiring to travel on the Sound would save time, and the possibility of such ac- cidents as that which happened to the Provi- dence and Sylvan Grove would be entirely re- moved. But the fact that such an accident did occur shows that there must be somebody to blame. On board the Providence at the time were fourteen hundred passengers, and on the Sylvan Grove were four hundred and twenty- five, making in all some eighteen hundred whose lives were placed in imminent danger, and these, together with the entire public, de- mand that the United States inspectors make a full and searching igvenigetion of the matter, and that spéédy ind condign punishment be inflicted on those through whose ignorance or negligence the occurrence was brought about. Good for the Prince of Wales. A committee of the English House of Com- mons has reported favorably on a proposition that Parliament shall purchase a suitable residence for the Prince of Wales in Ireland. This legislative action evinces an excellent disposition towards the Prince of Wales and should be very agreeable, as no doubt it is, to his Royal Highness. Whether it will effect any permanent good for Ireland is quite another question. When George the Fourth visited Ireland, like ‘‘a goodly leviathan rolled from the waves,” the inhabitants of the island proposed to build him « palace at their own proper cost. A learned aristocratic English- man smiled at the project, assuring them that his Majesty might have the palace, but they would have only the ‘‘poorhouse and prison.” Forty-eight years have elapsed since, and from some cause or other there are a great many of the Irish in poorhouses and jails, and the country is too poor to bestow a palace. If @ royal mansion is purchased there at the national expense it may result more hopefully, particularly at election time in November, Sgrvia.—The assassination of Prince Michel and the succession of Prince Milan do not ap- pear to have given Servia peace. Matters seem to be as bad as they well can be. The country is evidently a prey to anarchy of the worst kind. The cry for blood is loud and the passion seems insatiable. The Prince Kara Georgewich, the descendant and heir of Kara George, who gave Servia liberty, is strongly suspected of being privy to the murder of his rival, Priace Michel. Our | latest news is to the effect that Kara Georg is | Cited to appear and answer tho charges pro- ferred againsthim. Servia is ina critical con- precious metal is there ; for those coast moun- ! groves. Broken noses, dislocated joints and dition, and the trial of Kara George may have tains are but the continuation of tho gold and smashed ribs aro now the ordor of the day in | curious offect on the whole Bastern question. , , silver bearing Storra Nevads range of Cati- pious old Framingham, Marsachusetts, + Furthor mows will bo anxiqualy awaited, ‘Tho Naturalization Treaty Between Ger- many and the United States. In another place in this day's Heap we pub- lish at length the treaty which Mr. Bancroft, acting for the United States, has concluded | with the government of the King of Bavaria. The treaty is substantially the same as that concluded between the United States and North Germany, the principal points of which are familiar to the American people. Mr. Bancroft has since concluded a similar treaty with Wiirtemberg, and he is now at Carleruhe. negotiating with the Grand Ducal government for the same purpose. It is but just to admit that Mr. Bancroft has done more in his brief term of official life at Berlin to settle this long vexed naturalization question than any previous Minister of the United States in Europe. He has made Ger- many a unit from one point of view just as emphatically as Count von Bismarck has made ita unit from another. Mr. Bancroft has evi- dently mastered the question, and the princi- ples which he has embodied in his various treatios must soon become law all over Europe. Mr. Evarrs’ NomINATION CONFIRMED.— Notwithstanding the strenuous opposition offered,'by certain radicale, the nomination of Mr. Evarts as Attorney General of the United States was yesterday confirmed by the Senate in executive session. Our reports from Wash- ington represent this action to have given gen- eral satisfaction to the moderate men of all parties, MEXICO. Gross Outrage On an American Mexican Takes His Daughter by Ferco— Connivance of the Authorities. MEX100, June 22, 1868, Your correspondent has to record one of the foulest blots upon the human character—a most damnabdie outrage upon an American citizen, upon the sacred rights of the hearthstone and of the family. It will be seen that at least tn Mexico no person can feel that his home is inviolable, or that he has the right to protect it against the despoiler. An American gentleman who has lived in the country for several years had some time ago become a widower, and so left his only daughter in the United States, where he placed her in a convent, under the care of the, supe- riors thereof. At the age of fifteen years, some year and a half ago, the young girl came to Mexico to enjoy the society of her father. A few days ago she was seized with a sudden and girlish fancy for a young Mexican, who happened to be secretary to a petty officer and prefect in a neighboring smal! town or village. The Mexican is represented to be ignorant, without the means of supporting a wife and wholly without antecedents, By some infatuation he persuaded the girl that he desired marriage, which, when the father learned it, resulted in the latter's forbidding the former ad- mittance to his house, The extreme youth of the re Ga her ignorance of the worl! justified the ‘ather in checking the rashness of the Mexican, who, however, on the joloming. day stole the girl and took her to the Judge of the place and requested to be married. This latter functionary very properly deciined, and detained the giri until the father, whom he sent for, arrived and took her home. As a matter of course strict orders were given to all the servants to admit no one tnto the house without the father's special permission; the strictest watch was kept upon the girl, and the Mexican was warned of dire results if he further attempted to abduct the daughter. On the t 17th of the month Mr, Mexican presented himself at the door of the American, and demanded the girl, wich, a3 a matter of course, the father tndignantly refused, The Mexican then stated he would have her by force if necessary. The father replied that he would punish the Me: n’s first step into Lis house by shooting him, and the would-be tntruder left. He, however, shortly returned with a file of soldiers and forcibiy took away from the father his only daughter. It is stated that the order for this out- Tageous act was given or countenanced by Governor Don Juan Jose Baz, of this district, a man well-known in New York. The fatuer up to the present time of writing has not seen his daughter and knows nothing of her whereabo Your correspondent has inquired and learns that in accordance with Mexican law a marriage contract ¢annot be made by males who have not attained the age of tweuty-one, nor by females who have not reached the age of twenty. Persons under these ages require the consent of the parents or guardians to the marriage, and in case this consent cannot be obtained then the Governor of the district can decide whether the ob- Jections of the parents are trivial or not, and whether they shouid not be whoily overruled by force of arms if necessary. [ have not been able to find a copy of the law, but understand that in this case the girl can be taken by force of arms from her arents, and, as it is termed, ‘put in deposit,” pend- jng tliteen days’ public notice of the intended mar- riage, at the end of which time, unless something extraordinary intervenes, [suppose the gentleman will be most complete master and the father success- fully despoiled of his daughter. What will your readers think of this bit of Mexican authority? Does the civilized world dream that in Mexico the holy family shrine can be (hus violated and by high au- thority and by furce of arms achild—a daughter torn from the father to be given tothe arms of an excited Mexican, who deciares that by force he will make nonll and void the kind omice of the parent, which the laws of all society and of nations decide are ina special privilege and his duty? DEMOCRATIC DEMONSTRATION AT ELIZABETH, N. J, The democracy of Union county held a picnic ina delightfully shaded piace cailed Sommers’ Grove, at Elizabeth, N. J., yesterday, prior to the ratification meeting which was held in the evening in front of the Court House, on Broad street. At the picnic the attendance, though large, was not at all up to the expectation of the Jackson Guard, under whose auspices the aMfair was gotten up. There was no Speechifying and those present, including a large repregentarion of jadies, emoyed Lhemseives in every way that the occaaion would permit. In the evening, at the meeting tn front of the Court House, an immense gathering trom Jersey City, Newark and several other adjacent towns and vill was present. The Jackson Guard, headed by @ brass band, received the Newark tion of the Jacksonians at the railway depot, when the entire body formed into a proces- sion and marched up _ Broad street to the piace of meeting. The procession—each member being in uniform and carrying lighted torches—presented an Se brilitant oe o'clock by the selection o' mson, and a long list of vice- of Elizabeth, as president, residents and secretaries. Addresses were made i General Theodore Runyan of Newark; Judge faar, of Trenton; Mr. Martin. of Ohio; Colone! Cnas. R. Cornwell, of Washington, and a number of other gentlemen. THE FUNDING BILL, Wasutneron, July 15, 1868. Following is the Funding bili as passed by the Senate last evening:— tatee'after twenty, thirty ‘aud forty r twent the following rates of ear sects wo hall boat foterest at ave Ny year jué in thirty shall bear ia at ‘anid bonds spall’ be exempt from tex: Netpal of local income the payment Of ait h shall be exompt from oll than auch income segeee aeites te tee th noe ee es. And the snig per cent, wi orm der ang State, futhorty™ nod ihe ue od hate, me holder or pur- aterest-beari a “dtetees thor than the i 1 existing five pet centim bonds and the three per centum cer. Tieates, nod ta im emount tn the suficinnt to cover the principle of all outstanding oy esiating celbadcen hundred euliioge of dollars ahail Be of the laste redeemable tn twenty Sao. 3 Aad be itt o the afth ‘an act to authorize the isaue of United States notes redemption or funding thereof and for fur: oF ihe Valied Beaten,” approved February j Ise. | ther enacted, That Sho. 3, And be i further ente "a va | waits forced accor terms, | Talk, aod ty oe ooiating to Univod Rates notes. to the cone trary noterttheiandl ad that Ube section shall ok ap. ply (o contracts for ‘the renewal ir ness under & enverenl tava, unlews auch contract originally in cots it forth That from and after the real eel act danas eet compensation of any amount RA 2, 3 Fy = | ‘of th 8 for the gale or, mogoution OF ROCUTIt Jem | ae tmere on seco ere hanes ates: cod all noe i ot $ ‘by constr''ciion oF Sica fee paendhnwes Pye x Citizon—A | a RR ER ene YACHTING. The Matok Race Between che Schooners Kva (Paalige) and MagiomA Spirited Contest— Calms and Squalle—The Eva the Victor— Boats the Magic Thirty-Seven Minutes and Fifteen Seconds. It was @ pretty and picturesque sight yesterday morning, that of the schooner yachts Eva (late Pauline) and Magto, as they rested on the waters of the bay opposite the New York Yacht Club house. They had obtained positions to speed away when the word was given ‘down to the ocean,"’ to test by @ fair and spirited trial their respective satling qualities, and to give still greater zest to the marine exhibition ‘much money’’ had been wagered on the result, The morning was of supreme beauty, but the san shot down its scorching, blistering heat, not only torrid enough to peel the skin from faces and hands of the human tik but toseriously affect the animal kingdom. [t was hot! The yachts had the company of the steam yachts Firefly and Jeannette, and as they clustered about them it was interesting to note the preparations that had been made by either boat. Everything was shipshape, and upon their decks were descried officers and men in busy groups. Club aniforma had been doffed, the neat blue and goid banished, and working rigs were the order of costume. Mr. Lorillard, the owner of the Magic, stood, with cigar in his mouth, coolly and confidently viewing the Eva, mentally gauging her amount of sail. Mr. Penniman, the owner of the Eva, ‘looked back” on the Magic, and, after whis- peting a word to her modeller, smiled compltacently. The sailing masters of the contending vessels were giving orders in sharp succession, and ag they paced the “quarters” were observed ever and anon to cast an anxious eye to Windward as if supplicating-olus not to be so ‘chary of tis favors. | The wind was light frdm the sonth, and’ its god seemed not to teed the stlent.prayers of the restless seamen, young and old. Everything was clear, placid, beautifal: Hardly a ripple on the waters. Every man wis at his post, and while the tide and gefitle Dreeze are swinging their bows around that an equitable start can be made, a word about THR ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. ‘The owners of the yachts Eva aud Magic agreed to sail a ‘match race on the 15th of July, under condt- tions the-same as the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club, with allowance of time based on the numberof hours occupied tn satling; the race to be made im eight hours or to be sailed over. in con- sideration of- these agreements the owner of the Magic wagered $3,000 to $2,690 that his yacht would be the victor. THE SAILING COURRE. The course was from a stakeboat oif the club house, Clifton, 3. 1., through the Narrows io the buoy off the Southwest Spit, turning the same from west to east, thence to the lightship, rounding it and returning, observing the spilt buoy as before, : THE JUDGES On the part of the Eva Mr. S. M. Taylor was selected, and in behalf of the Magic Mr. John M. Hubbard. These gentiomen wore the look of old “skippers,” and, disrobing themselves of super- fiuous coats and vests, awaited on board the steam yacht Firefly the auspicious moment of starting. THR UONTENDING YACHTS’ PERSONNEL. Bronzed, hardened seamen—men who had toiled amid the vagaries of Old Ocean for years—were all alertness and animation. The Eva’s crew enume- rated twenty-one of these sous of Neptune, while the Magic counted but seventeen. There was no laziness here; no figures reclining against shrouds and rig- ging, as if there was nothing to do, bul every man aud every hand knew what was to be done and how todo it, and as brawny fingers clutched countless ropes piercing eyes and sharp ears were open for the word or signal “to away.’’ THE RACE. The starting signal quickly came. There was but little delay. Both vesseis had slip lines to their cabies, and the Eva inshore, her pretty hall, like the turn of an Andainsian beauty’s ankle, rested but @ few yards trom the Magic. One whistle from the Firefly and all was readiness. A second, and quick a8 an electric spark, at a quarter to eleven o'clock, as a unit, the sailors bent to the main jibs of the yachts and both filled away. to the eastward, towards Long Island, the Magic gallantly in the advance. jain and foresaila, with Jibs and main gaff topsails, did their duty in the light breeze. The start was a picture to be remem- bered. It was pretty aad effective, and five minutes after none but the captain and owner of the Magic could be seen on deck, their hands seemingly alone guiding her on the course, whiie on the deck of the hva other tactics were observed, every man on deck, his eyes scanning nis own sails, perchance to a ae their setting. The Eva footed away beautifully and, inch by inch gaining on her opponent, sbortly took the wind from her and in a moment thereafter shot gallantly by. A dexterous tack and the Eva sped for Fort Lafayette, and by a splendid stretch weathered it finely. It was a wonaerful movement. Meanwhile the Magic tacked abreast the Fort Hamilton Hotel, towards Fort Richmond, and again, as if her captain was puzzied at the success of the Eva, towards the Cave, under Long Island, to catch the favorii breeze. Excellently weil was the Eva handled, as keeping her wind, she tacked again to- wards the Bluff light on Staten Island and under it splendidly towards Coney Island—tacks that won applause from ali that witnessed them. The Magic kept in the tide, and by short stretcies hoped thereby to advance; but this manoeuvre was unques- tionably an error, as when she eventually made the sume tack as the last mentioned of the Eva she wag one and a quarter miles astern. The wind veered, aud now came from the south. southwest, The Eva caught it, and under its freshening influence sped on splendidly. From the southwest point of Coney Island she agatn tacked to the west bank, the Magic ‘at the same time one mile to leeward doing likewise. Other tacks as required were made towards the East Bank and then onward to the Southwest Spit they bowled, sendit up staysails and topsails as the breeze required. Each struggled nobly, but abreast Buoy No. 9 the Eva caught another ae breeze from the southeast that carried her throug! the water so quickly that clouds of spray dashed over decks. And thusto the buoy of the Southwest Spit they sped, ba it as follows:— ue . M. 8. H. Eva....... sees 12 18 30, Magic.......... 12 2 Now to the goal! The Eva stood tnto the cedars on Sandy Hook to catch the little eddying tide that runs from abreast there to the point of the Hook, aad, after very slow work drifting beyond the Point, her crew wore gladdened by a swinging breeze from the eastward, aud on she sped, almost few, towards the lightship. The Magic, one and a half miles astern, after a series of evolutions, tried the same experiment, and that proved her greatest Ubadvised movement. As the Eva, toaming under her stiff! breeze, sailed 86 rapid that the fleet little steam yacht coul not catch her, the Magic lay with sails flapping tdly, still drifting along inch by inch. The accompany; yachts could not watt for her; but it was not that while lying under Sandy Hook dock the Eve was abreast of the tail of Romer Shoals. In @ manner seldom seen, yet justly appreciated, the Eva sped to the lightship and turned it in a alee style at two hours one minute an: seconds, and then with masterly movements shot homeward with a south wind. At this time the Magic could not be seen, but after many minutes she came in sight, and one mile east of the passed each other, a diffe.ence of in favor of the Eva. As the Magic now the Eva had reached had #0 fortu- oa under a good breeze the indy Hook, and here all the wind she nately held left her and she calmed. It was Me annoying. As there nearly an hour with scarcely ~ water, only drift: inch by under @ cracking soutl Should em | be beaten “ f. Me Eva. 3 see With all sails set as the fickle breeze struck her, slowly homeward, when abreast the ship in the lower bay the Magic was about two miles astern of the Eva. The acene here chi |. There had been ominous mut- terings of thunder near the Hook, but the lowering clouds had broken and the sun shone through the dark rifts, but within a haifa mile of the hulk MMlinots tt came suddenly upon them and # white squall trom the west-southwest shot over the bay. Dowm came all the Magic's sala by the run as she was men south Ea struck, and with guowales in the id that retarded her considerably. Before it had reached the Bva its force was nearly exhausted, and onward sped the victerieus yacht, both maim sail, foresat! and jibs set, passing the home stake- boat aa follows: — H. M. 8. Ev: 5 & 15 —a di@erence of thirty minutes and fifteen seconds, that, with an allowance of seven minutes due the Eva, gives her the victery by thirty-seven minutes and dfteen seconds. The time of the race Was six tours, forty-three minutes and ey seconds, nd conquest of jut @ single gun ann the ‘3 Mf pees tged iy ise for the the pretty Bva, disappointment and surpri: moment sn Tanting ait other th 8. Those whe knew the Eva when a stoop and who pleasantly testify to her great satling qualities then now affirm that she isa Better sailing vessel than ioe ahe {8 @ match for almost any yachting craft afloat, and truly she has shown such sw qualities that her nawe can almost take a leading position on the list. COMMENCEMENT AT BATES COLLEGE. MAINE. Honorary Degroos Couferred. t Lawiston, July 15, 1668. Commencement at Bates College took place to-day. Honorary degrees were as follows:—A. M., Rev. Dawson Burns, of London; D. D., Rev. George H. Ball, of Buffato. 5. P. Wi will deliver ag oration before tye literary this ovenine.