The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1868, Page 4

4 YORK HERALD DWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Ba. Velume SNNIE..... 0. cece eee AM OSBMENTS THIS EVENING. WAGLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tur Lecvecy oF Lire, BRUADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.-A FLaem ov LignyNiNnG. Matinee. NIBLO'S GARDEN.— PF sabi pet THEATRE, . Tum Magio Teome BT, 0. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Houerr Domerr. Matinee at Ly. SE, Tammany Building, Mth + &O. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Couro Vooarisa, NEGO MINSTRELSY, ac. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—AL¥ BURNETT, vur Hoxonisr, CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPUL AR OEKT. A WOOL) OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—HoouRr’s MINSTRELS—THE WILD Fawn, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BorkNOK AND ART. i New York, Saturday, July 25, 1868. [HB NEWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, July 24. nues to flow to the Bank of France. to divert the West India steamship in St. Thomas to Porto Rico. Murder vess in Servia, In England the legisla- trials pri tion tended to complete preparation for the general ne question of payment of the Mexican gain debated in the French Legislature. ig, money. Five-twenties, 72% in Lon- don and 7654 & 764 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull, Cotton lower, closing with middling uplands at 10%\d. Brcadstuffs improved. Provisions without marked change. nip at this port we have an toteresting in detgil of our cable telegrams to the CONGRESS. e yesterday a bill was passed regu- ninental surveys of rivera and harbors, hat public moneys shall be applied where such imp. ments are of general commercial value. A bill w sed regulating the carrying of passen- gers i iuips and sailing vessels. A joint reso- lution was introduced and passed in regard to the provisional governments in the States of Virginia and Texas. A long debate took place upon the pas- Sage of a bill authorizing the Alexandria Canal Com- pany to construct a railroad bridge over the Potomac at Georgetown, The bill requires the bridge to be compieted within five years and prevents the com- pany from giving the exclusive right over the bridge to any one ratlroad company, but declares that privi- leges gr to one company shall be extended to all that 1 them on equal terms. At noon the Senate went into executive session, during which the [lawaiian treaty was laid on the table, and the Chinese treaty was ratified with amendments. In the Hi the Senate bill to provide for the issue of $20,000,000 temporary loan certificates, for the purpose of redeeming outstanding compound Interest notes, was passed. The Senate’s amend- ments to the bill granting a subsidy to a line of New York and European steamships were non-concurred in. The motion to reconsider the resolution to ad- journ on Mouday next was laid on the table, This determines the question, A bill was introduced and, passed to provide for the more speedy reorganiza- tion of the States of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. The Committee of Accounts reported that the charges against (he Doorkeeper of the House (Mr. Lippincott) were ely unfounded; that his accounts are all correct, and the present number of employés in the present Congress is only the same as in the Thirty- fifth Congress, when Mr. Orr was Speaker. The re- port of the conference committee on the Alaska Appropriation bill was agreed to. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic despatches from Vera Cruz, Mexico, the 20h in: ite that great apprehension existed amon, the authorities at the prevailing reports of threatened fillibustering expeditions from the United States. Movements were on foot in Vera Cruz and Mexico City to repel any such invasions. By t ram from Macao, by way of London and through the Attantic cabie, we learn that the Chinese rebels marched eouthward after relief of Tientsin, Japan is still more deeply torn by civil war. Jeddo is threatened by a huge army in the interest of the ex-Tycoon and the Mikado persecutes native Chris- tians, Baltimore was visited by a flood yesterday, pro- duced by aheavy fallof rain. The streets and lower floors of some of the houses were flooded to the depth in some instances of eight or nine tect. A horse car with its passengers was swept away in the rushing torrent, but fortunately no lives were lost. Itis not Known for certain whether any lives were Jost in the city. The loss im a pecuniary point of view is estimated at $5,000,000, In Ellicott City the telegraph reports Grant's Milla were carried away and sixty lives were lost. A heavy rain fell in this vicinity last night, con- tinuing up to an early hour this morning. Tele- graphic communication with Washington and the South was seriously interrupted. ‘Tue University race and base ball mach betweer the representatives of Yale and Harvard Colleges came of at Lake Quinsigamond yesterday. fhe crowd of spectators was immense. The boat race ‘was a clove one, the Harvards winning by Mity seo- onds, The base ball match between the University nines at Worcester was postponed yesterday owing to the mist. A riot took place among the collegians on Thursday night, and sixteen of them were ar- rested and fined in the Municipal Court yesterday. One was held to bail for the larceny of a goid watch. Our Columbia, 8. C., letter depicts the effect of the gew government upon the prospects of the State in general, The policy of Governor Scott is represented to be liberal and conservative, and the Assembly, being composed mainly of the poorer classes, appears willing to favor any State improvements which will give the jaborers work. The native colored members have sanbbed (he Northern members, and have de- termined hereaster to put only natives in ofice, The President yesterday nominated Erastus D. ‘Webster as Assessor of Internal Revenue in the Brookiyn district. The Southern Military Districts are soon to be re. Organized by direction of the President, in conse- Quence of the restoration of civil government tn a g@umber of them. ‘The Military Commission at Atianta, Ga., was dis Bolved yesterday. jouse of Represen‘atives as passed a Pesolution ‘ing the removal of political disabtit- ties from the white people. ‘The coal miners of Pennsylvania lave become quiet Bince the issue of the Sheriff's proclamation and it ia Believed that the strike is at an end. ‘The Fenian Congress is still in secret session in Buttaio, A Canadian epy who had wormed himseit to within hearing of their deliberations by pretend ng to belong to @ circle was found out yestertay pond ejected. The hotels at Newport are fall, and more strangers @re there than the oldest inhabitant remembers to have ever seen before. President Johnson ts expect- @1 soon after the adjournment of Congress. New ‘York and Brooklyn are strongly represented. Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest en the Body of John Smedick, the policeman who was as. @assinated in the Twenty-first ward on Thursday Might by s desperado named Jovn Real. The verdict Was that ‘deceased came to his death by a pistol @ired by the hand of the prisoner, John Real,” and (@e prisoner was sent to the Tombs. The Coroner concladed his investigation yesterday to top causes that led to the homicide of tug iste William Creamer. Mr. Josephs, who was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the affair, was discharged from custody, there being no evidence against him. The verdict of the jury was that de ceased was murdered by some unknown persons. The City Tax Collector of Richmond was removed yesterday by General Stoneman. ‘The Genera! Transatlantic Company's steamship Europe, Captain Lemarie, will leave pier No, 50 North river at ten o’clock this morning for Breat and Havre. ‘The Anchor line steamship Iowa, Captain Hedder- wick, will sail at twelve M. to-day from pier No, 20 North river for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry to land passengers. ‘The steamship Circassian, Captain Ellis, will leave pier No. 3 North river to-day for Southampton and Bremen. ‘The Cromwell line steamship Cortes, Captain Nel- son, will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans. The aidewheel steamship San Jacinto, Captain At- kins, will saii from pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, The sidewheel steamer Charleston, Captain Berry, wul leave pier No. 5 North river for Charleston at three P. M. to-day. ' The stock market was firm yesterday, and closed strong. Government securities were steady. Gold closed at 143 a 14314. The Approaching Elections im England—The Great Reform Movement. Thousands of citizen processionists parading the streets of London, and the organization of @ mass meeting in Hyde Park last Sunday in condemnation of the State Church establish- ment and denunciation of the action of the House of Lords in the recent Parliamentary effort to sustain it, afford new and startling evi- dence that Great Britain is on the very eve of a struggle in which will be decided, with Disraeli and the tories on one side and the toiling masses on the other, the question whether there is a “‘finality” of reform or if the English people can complete a constitutional revolution within the constitution and by its operation. The Irish and Scotch Reform _ bills, with the Boundary bill, which defines the electoral limits in which the constituencies shall vote under the English Reform bill, having been signed by Queen Victoria, the event of a general election for members of a new British Parlia- ment next November becomes a matter of cer- tainty. In the cities, boroughs and counties of the United Kingdom all persons claiming the voting right will immediately seek to be regis- tered according to law, and the revised lists of enfranchised men—perhaps of women also— certified and issued by the presiding judges of these courts will contain a roll of citizens qualified to cast the most impor- tant vote ever before given in that country— a vote which may have the effect of com- pletely altering the political structure on which the Crown rests for support, and thus bringing to a legitimate issue the great principle which was evolved, but not thoroughly understood, there before General Monck announced the Restoration to its legislators. When the Reform bill of 1882 was put in operation the liberal and _ radical leaders of England proclaimed ‘The bat- tle of the constitution must be fought in the registration courts.” The people accepted the great truth and acted on it. Dur- ing the thirty-four years which have elapsed since 1834 they have kept the inscription on their banners, and slowly, but patiently and surely, gained victory after victory, at the hustings and in Parliament, over the oligarchical and tory interests. They repealed the corn laws, obtained free trade, emancipated the English dissenters in matters of conscience, annulled Episcopal sees and extinguished, in name, the tithe system in Ireland, reformed the judiciary and police, opened all government situations to those de- clared the best qualified to fill them by com- petitive examination, pronounced the Irish Orangemen a ‘miserable, monopolizing mi- nority,” and, most important of all, by the enactment of the Encumbered Estates Sales bill for Ireland acknowledged that the law of first entail in real estate is completely within the jurisdiction of Parliament. This fine advance in the direction of com- plete reform in Britain has not inured, how- ever, to the substantial benefit of the people. In truth, it was not made fairly and squarely by the people, but obtained, to a very great extent, through the rivalries and jealousies of the party leaders in both houses of Parlia- ment, who, by changing a Minister and conced- ing a measure now and then, adroitly evaded anopen and manly discussion of principles with the immense democratic power which they kept hooded in dread of its huge propor- tions. The issue of the American civil war, by ita splendid attestation of man’s capability for self-government, removed the aristo- cratic bandage from the eyes of the people of England. They looked about and beheld a million of their fellow men in the workhouses, wages ruinously low, employ- ment precarious, and every interest in the land depreciated except those of the aristocracy. Ireland was exhausted by emigration, the highlands of Scotland depopulated by the same agency, taxation heavy, although indi- rect, and nothing unchanged except the “rights” of the nobles, entwined with the privileges of the Crown, vedetted by the Church and flanked by the powerful patronage of the army and navy. The people of the three kingdoms clasped hands in political resolve. From that union comes the new Reform bill and the ap- proach of a general election. The tories witnessed the act and have been since pre- paring to stand face to face with free citi- zens, Karl Derby's retirement from office, Disraeli's accession to power, and the recent conversational remarks of the Prince of Wales on Anglo-American politics give evidence that they are not, however, prepared to fight on the old exclusive ‘Mine,” while the angry scenes which occurred in the House of Lords on the 3d and 4th of July—when Earl Ruseell and the liberal minority left the chamber in a body—prove that the cohesion of class is being resolved, and that a large number of the peers of England will be very likely to take the popular side during the great contest in November, Should this inference prove cor- rect it will moderate the heat of the canflict considerably, and the constitution will be gracefully adapted to existing circumstances, The British people cannot lose in any event; for if the “liberal” peers fight merely for their order it will only cause the political revolution to be more sweeping and the fraternity of nations more complete, for Great Britain will elect a Cabinet and the Amerigan people a President in November, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1868. Arming the South. in the discussion in the House of Represen- tatives on Thursilay last, on the question of bringing to an end this session of Congress, Mr. Stokes (radical), of Tennessee, earnestly pleaded against an adjournment until the new authorities of the reconstructed States shall have been provided each with a certain quota of arms proposed for their defence against the Ku Klux Klans and the unreconstructed rebels generally. Said Mr. Stokes :—‘‘My people are expecting every moment that Forrest (Forrest, we believe, is at Long Branch) and his rebel democratic crew will commence making war upon them. This is a matter of life and death tous. I am satisfied of the fact that we will need these arms at the South at a very early day. The war cry has gone forth; the rebels say they will rule the country or exterminate the Union colored men, and, for one, I am disposed to meet them.” Mr. Washburne, of Mllinois, was afraid of this thing—afraid that the arms which might be sent down to the loyal negroes would be seized by the rebels. Mr. Boyden, of North Corolina (one of the new members from the South), was alarmed at this proposition to send arms to his people to be used against each other.” ‘Great God!” he exclaimed, ‘‘we cannot afford to fight cach other. Keep away your arms. Do nothing to irritate our people, but everything to assuage and heal the excitement. I warn the House if arms are sent there we shall be ruined—we cannot live there. If we need anything in the shape of arms, in God's name send us the army of the United States; but do not arm neighbor against neighbor.” This has the ring of good sense and honest conviction. But another re- publican member from North Carolina, Mr. Deweese, was not of this way of thinking. Said he :—‘‘Some provision should be made for the governments of the new States and for the protection of their loyal people, otherwise the rebellion will be re-established. If Congress adjourn now, before the end of six months the last traces of republican governments in the South will have ceased to exist, and the Ku Klux Klan, the rebel, the slaveholding, cop- perhead democratic party will be ruling there as they ruled in 1865.” Further, as the skir- mishing debate went on, Mr. Deweese de- clared:—“‘Under the rule of the democratic party from 1861 to 1865, every musket, shot- gun and horse pistol was taken out of the hands of loyal men and put into the hands of Southern sympathizers.” But with his fearless war cry of ‘‘Come on! come on!” Mr. De- weese, arms or no arms, signified that he was ready for the fray. From this debate it is evident that the recon- struction system of Congress has not with their restoration secured peace in the States concerned, that they are in danger of a vio- lent clashing of the two races on the with- drawal of the United States troops, and that the State authorities recognized by Congress in those reconstructed States feel that there is no safety for them if left to shift for them- selves. Where lies the difficulty? Itis to be found in this Congressional experiment of Southern universal negro suffrage and rebel white disfranchisement. And where lies the remedy? It may be found in that new amend- ment of the constitution, known as article four- toen, restoring to each of the States, South as well as North, all alike, the right to regulate suffrage to suit themselves. Meantime the duty of preserving peace in the States re- stored devolves, next to the local authorities, upon the President and upon Congress. The members of the two houses want to get off home, but they cannot trust the Presiflent after his late vetoes and proclamations, and they have no time to impegch him, and they are afraid to try this proposed experiment of dis- tributing arms to these new State governments. So the two houses have resolved upon a recess till September, and then, if they can find nothing better to do, we may expect to hear something more on another impeachment of Andrew Johnson. The Presidential campaign is very stupid and flat just now, but we shall doubtless have excitement enough before the 3d of November. Japan Still More Disorganized by War. When the High Priest of Kioto, Japan, came forward in his hierarchical character to take an active part, on one side, in the civil convulsion by which the empire was torn after the forced abdication of the Tycoon we antici- pated that, as in Christian countries, the priestly interference would only add fuel to the flame, divide the contending parties still more and render the work of reconstruction more difficult. By telegram from China, for- warded to London and thence through the Atlantic cable, we find that our inferences have been verified. Affairs in Japan tend from bad to worse. The Mikado has pro- claimed anew the severe edicts formerly ex- isting against native Christians, under which the work of foreign missionaries had been for centuries repaid with the sword of the execu- tioner, the pillory, the knife and the gibbet. The supporters of the ex-Tycoon have two hundred thousand men under arms, and the city of Jeddo is seriously menaced by this huge force and a fleet. The native antipathy to foreigners is freely displayed, and at Osaka opposition in every possible shape is given to their acquisition of real estate in defiance of treaty stipulations, By present contrast with Japan, China makes good her ancient claim to superiority of race; for while the Pekin government .is openly advancing, safely and in constitutional form, to a complete intercourse and in- dustrial identification with the peoples of the outside world, we find the Japan- ese flaunting their oligarchical and mili- tary barbarisms in the eyes of Europe and America as if with the view of affrighting civilization from the country by their very ex- tent and atrocities, They will find it impossible to accomplish this result, Christianity can- not recede, nor can the eastward commerce of the Christian Powers be rolled backward. Trade will find its openings and level, and trade must be sustained by a grand allied war force—ships and sailors, cannon, bayonets and white soldiers, Fraxog ano tag Ustrep States.—French productions are heavily taxed in passing through our Custom House. American pro- ductions are not so hardly dealt with in France. France feels wronged by our conduct, but France rofuses to retaliate, Which is tho wiser—Fraace or the Uaited States? The Condition of the Streets and the Sanitary State of the City. The Health ‘Commissioners have at last been aroused to the importance of doing some- thing toward preventing the appearance of an epidemic in our city. They propose to deodo- rize the gutters, sewers, cesspools and other places where filth has been allowed to accumu- late. Ifthe Board had done something toward keeping the health of the city good at the early part of the season, when it was so, they would have done more good and acted with some de- gree of sagacity. The masses of filth that exist in various parts of the city, and which now send forth their pestiferous and poisonous odors and vapors, should never have been per- mitted to collect. The streets and sewers should have been thoroughly cleansed and kept 80 long before the sickly season set in. The cesspools in private dwellings—those about tenement houses especially—should have been seen to, and the landlords or owners held re- sponsible for any infraction of the sanitary laws. The heaps of rubbish, the offal of slaughter houses, the noxious effluvia of the bone-boiling establishments and gashouses, should all have been thoroughly attended to long before this time. In the lower parts of the city, where the cellars are invariably over- flowed during the spring tides, and through which there is frequently no outlet for the sewers on account of the high tides, nothing has been done to purify the localities, and they always become unhealthy as the hot weather advances, and if an epidemic should set in there would be no end to the cry of ‘Bring out your dead” from,these death vaults. But better late than never. The Health Board seems to have set at work in earnest; but if the city is spared a devouring plague it will not be because they have taken timely pre- cautions to prevent it. Ratification of the Treaty With China. At half-past eleven o’clock last night, after a consideration of nine hours, the Senate rati- fied the treaty with China. This is one of the remarkable events of history—that the first general treaty by the oldest nation of the world should be concluded with the youngest. It proves that the Celestials are a progressive people, fully alive to their own interests, and prefer the friendship of a young, vigorous, go- ahead nation to that of the solemn, pragmatic slow coaches of the Old World. China has, in this treaty, shown her sense and indepen- dence; she has secured a most powerful ally, and can now make her own terms with other outside barbarians. The Sandwich Islands Treaty. The Hawaiian treaty, which has been before the Senate for some weeks, was thoroughly discussed yesterday in executive session, and, notwithstanding Senator Sumner’s advocacy, was by the untiring exertions of Senator Fes- senden laid on the table, where it doubtless will remain in undisturbed repose until the re- assembling of Congress. The leading objec- tion to the treaty is its reciprocal character, and which, it was held, if confirmed by the Senate, would inure to the benefit of the Hawaiian government. In this discussion we see that doctors in statesmanship, as in medi- cine, are prone to differ, for the cause has never yet existed in which really able and learned men could not with ability strenuously argue a negation as well as an affirmation. ‘The first article of the treaty, which for the present has been definitely disposed of, pro- posed that animals, arrowroot, coffee, cotton unmanufactured, fruits and vegetables, furs, hides and skins, sugar not above No. 12 Dutch standard in color, syrups of sugar and molasses, and other products of the Hawaiian Islands, should be admitted into all the ports of the United Statés free of duty ; and the second article provides that, in consideration of the first article, the Hawaiian government should admit into all its ports free of duty some thirty articles the produce of the United States, in- cluding bullion, gold and silver coin, manu- factured cotton, beef, bacon, ham, pork, fish, hardware, iron and steel, lumber, leather, tal- low, machinery, paper, petroleum and woollen manufactures not made into clothing. This convention is signed by Edward M. McCook, United States Minister, and Charles Coffin Harris, Hawaiian Minister to the United States, and if ratified would remain in force for seven years. This treaty ought to have secured the favor of the Senate in view of future possibilities. It is impossible we could lose by it. It is a certainty that in many important respects we would have been gainers. As a half-way house to China and Japan the Sandwich Islands will every year become more and more important. The day is not far distant when our sovereignty over these islands will have become a commercial necessity if we would continue undisputed masters’ of the North Pacific; and we know no better means of hastening on that event and making such a result desirable and precious than to enter upon such relations with the Sandwich Islands as shall encourage citizens of the United States to settle there in large and increasing numbers. It is clearly our policy to make the Pacific an American sea. The present was a favorable opportunity of encouraging so desirable a consummation, and our advice would have been for the im- mediate acceptance of the treaty. The Murdered Policeman. The killing of officer John Smedick on Thurs- day evening in First avenue, between Thirty- second and Thirty-third streets, by John Real, seems to offer the most aggravated features of @ murder in the first degree. It appears that the succesaful attempt of Real to kill Smedick is the third which the desperado has made, About three weeks ago Real was arrested for a second attempt on the life of officer Smedick. He was brought before Justice Connolly at the York- ville -Court, and when the magistrate learned that he had discharged three shots at the officer he quite properly refused to take bail, and ordered him to be sent before the General Sessions for trial on the charge of attempted murder, Subsequently the prisoner succeeded, unfortunately, in obtaining bail. It is evident that he laid in wait for his victim, against whom, for having procured his arrest for drunkenness, he owed an old grudge, and that he deliberately murdered him. The bravery and determination of officer Mee in overtaking and securing the murderer Real cannot be too highly praised. Whatever may have been the a motive for his murderous act, and whatever may be the charges brought against individual members of the police force for alleged abuse of the authority entrusted to them for the protec- tion of the community, there can be but one opinion as to the monstrous crime of Real in murdering officer Smedick. The abandoned girl who murdered another policeman a few months ago has been released, we understand, and is at large and at liberty to repeat her crime. But we trust that no shyster will be able to turn loose on the community the mur- derer of Smedick by any of the so-called legal tricks, which, together with undue political in- fluences, have become so common and which are at once so disgraceful and so dangerous. The New Whiskey Tax. The new Tax bill is nowa law. Its most important feature is that in relation to the duty upon distilled spirits, which is reduced from two dollars a gallon to fifty cents. The whis- key rings, whose profits and inducements to fraud are thus diminished one hundred and fifty per cent, used every possible effort, first with Congress and next with the President, to defeat the law, but without success. It re- mains now to be seen whether the reduction of the tax and the adoption of the more astrin- gent regulations in regard to its collection will put a stop to the wholesale robbery of the gov- ernment that has been going on for the past three years in the Internal Revenue Depart- ment. We have been told by the advocates of a reduced tax that the revenue would be largely increased by the adoption of their policy, as an impetus would at once be given to the business of the lawful distiller, while all illicit distillation would be discontinued as unprofitable. The new law requires the collection of the tax before removal from the distillery, and this is probably its best feature. The penalties for fraudulent returns from li- censed distilleries are also heavily increased. All these provisions will be likely at least to lessen the prevailing frauds, and if the new system should be the means of entirely break- ing up the disgraceful and demoralizing whis- key rings which have corrupted the whole de- partment it will be a great public benefit, inde- pendent of the question of revenue. The law should be allowed a fair and full trial? and it is to be hoped that, with a new Commissioner at the head of the department, and with the puri- fication that has recently taken place through the instrumentality of the courts, it will be found to answer the anticipations of its advo- cates. The Strikers in Pennsylvauia. Our news from Pennsylvania indicates a re- markable state of affairs among the mining population of the Keystone State. As it stands that mischievous enactment, the Eight Hour law, is a cover and pretext for the viola- tion of all law, for the inauguration of govern- ment by the mob and for the most outrageous interferences with personal liberty. Miners want to work eight hours a day and have the right to do so, but they want to compel their employers to pay them more for this labor than the employers think it is worth, and the employers refuse. Here is a difficulty that the miners fancy they will remedy by refusing to work altogether, and they strike. But, not satisfied with appealing to this costly remedy to right their grievances, they go further, and endeavor to force the remedy on others, and are just now engaged in using intimidation to prevent the working of all mines in which men labor ten hoursa day. They have asserted their authority thus far with little dispute over a great many mines, and seem to be lords of the ascendant. Governor Geary is not so fast to suppress this violence as he was to tell Con- gress how many men were ready to sustain it against the President. All this disorganization of labor in one of the great industries of a State results from that crazy bid for votes at the expense of all the interests of a people, the Eight Hour law. Doubtless the legislators who made that law expected the grateful remembrance in the next election of the eman- cipated laborers. We hope #iey will not be forgotten by the immensely greater number of poor men who thus have new burdens laid upon them through the increased price of coal and other results of the strike. The Accident at At tie City. Another of those accidents at a watering place that cast gloom over a whole season has just occurred at Atlantic City, a little place on the Jersey coast to which Philadelphians go for a dip into the sea. In the periodical con- gregation of a great many persons at given points that characterizes the watering place life, and in the exuberance of spirit, the gayety, the enthusiasm, the thoughtlessness often that are the consequences of youth and vivacity, it is, perhaps, in the very nature of things that some accidents must occur. It is hardly pos- sible that there could be such discretion and such living according to rule as would avert them altogether. But there are some kinds of accidents that ought not to be possible, and the present is one of these. It ought not to be possible that two young ladies could be drowned ata place like Atlantic City. The assemblage of people there is strictly with a view to surf bathing, and they who find their profit in that assemblage should rigorously pro- vide for the safety of their guests. Strong swimmers may sometimes scorn the regulation and breast the sea far out, but young ladies never do this and will use any provision made for their safety. And if even they do not hold by the ropes it is inexcusable that there should be no lifeboat ready at the necessary moment, A Question or Veractty.—The point as to whether Old Thad Stevens was ever in favor of paying the five-twenty bonds in gold is taking the proportions of a question of veracity, and the radical organ that has already denounced him as intentionally a swindler will soon have to come at him in its more energetic mood with “You lie, villain—you lie!” Thad says he never argued for payment in gold. Garfield says he did, and produces speeches. Somebody is evidently wrong. sequence; but what a queer state the republi- can party is in on the finances, when its leaders are so widely at variance on such a point ! Tax Water Proptem.—The whiskey tax under the late law was two dollars a gallon ; under the new law it is fifty cents, Will this increase the revenue on whiskey while cheap- ening the article to the consumor, or how? provocation which Real may bring fosward ea . That is tho question aow to be solved. Oruz and elsewhere to guard against their realina- tion. Who this is is of no con-* THLBORAPIEC NWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. The Japanese Civil War Increased in Violence and Extent. GREAT FLOOD IN BALTIMORE. Sixty Lives and Three Million Dol- lars’ Worth of Property Reported Lost. COLLEGIANS’ RIOT AT WORCESTER. MEXICO. Fears of American Filibusterism—Highway Robberriees=Rain Storm—Civil War—Trade Perishing. Havana, July 24, 1853, By steamship arrived at this port advives have been received from Mexico dated at Vera Cruz to the 20th instant. Great alarm prevalled in the republic in conse- quence of the circulation of reports of tntendea Movements of flibusters from the Unitea States, and extraordinary precautions were being taken at Vera From Tumaulipas I am informed that the contucta between Morelia and the capital was robied, tie passengers plundered and several hundreds of dol- lara in specie taken. | Heavy rains have prevailed in the interior ant con- | siderable property has neen swept away. The subvention of the Jalapa railroad contractors remaining unpaid the works have been stopped. The rebels muster at Pueble and Queratero, but have not yet been dguting with the troops. Norieja and Leon defeated the troops. General Garcia has been kilied. General Escobedo hanged three persons, captured by his soldiers, as spies. Robberies of the stage coaches increase in num- ber daily. There are many commercial failures, and the com- merce of the country 1s perishing rapidiy, JAPAN. The Mikado in War Against Christianity— Civil, Convulsion—Foreiga Treaties Disre- gearidled, Macao, Ching, June L2, VIA Lonpon, July 24, 1463, Important news has reached here from Japan via Shanghae. The Mikado has proclaimed anew the edicts against native Christians, ‘The civil war continued, The party of the Shagooa was gaining strength, It was reported that Stots- Bashi had raised an army of two hundred thousaud | men, and, assisted by a fect of seven vessels of war, was seriously menacing the city of Jeddo. q The natives in and around Osaka were throwing | every obstacle in ‘he way of (dreiguera to prevent them from buying land there according to the treaty | stipulations. CHINA. Relieved=The Revots Southwai Macao, June Lz, via LoRpon, July 24, 1338. Intelligence has been received from the north tha the entire rebel army which besieged Tieatsin afte: abandoning the attempt to take iuat city left the Peiho river and marched of in a southerly direc tron. Tientsin Marching ENGLAND. Tho Elections Bribery Bill. Lonnon, July 24, 1848, In the House of Commons to-night the Bribery bil was under consideration. Mr. Henry Fawcett, member for Brighton, move that the clause providing that election expensca ty paid out of the loca! rates and not by the cand | dates, which had been stricken out, be restored t the bill. § Mr. Disraeli deprecated the reinsertion of th | clause a3 dangerous to the passage of the bill. gave no’ guarantee to ratepayers against the e: penses Caused by improper candidates or politic adventurers. He hoped the House would not agri to the motion, After along discuasion Mr. Fawcett's motion w: rejected and the Bribery bill was finally passed. FRANCE. Flow of Specie to the Bank, Pants, July 24, 186%, Specie is flowing to the Bank of France. Accor Ing to the official statement, published to-day ov: the signature of jhe oMcers of the bank, the amou of bullion in vault is fully 10,500,000 franca great than at last report, The Mexican Bonds. Panis, July 24, 1868. The Corps Légisiatif waa engaged to-day io debate on the subject of the Franco-Mexican bonc SERVIA. The Murder Trials Still ia Progress. ViENNa, July 24, 1864 Despatches from Belgrade report that the secrets and servants of Prince Alexander Karageorgewi | are now on tfial on charge of complicity in the p for the murder of Prince Michel, Denial of Jurisdiction. Vigna; July 24, 1869 Prince Karageorgewich has sent a telegrap despatch to Beigrade denying the jurisdiction of | court over the members of his household now trial, and he denounces the testimony which | been elicited as confessions compelied from prisoners by torture. SPAIN. ‘Wost Ladia Steamship Trafic. LONDON, July 24, 196 It is reported to-day on the authority of telegre received from Madrid that the Spanish governm will make St. Juan de Puerto Rico a free port inc the ships of the Royal Mati Steam Packet Comp: piying between Southampton and Aspinwall * stop at that port, instead of St, Thomas aa present. FLOOD IN BALTIMORE. Heavy Fall of Rain Yesterday—The Str: of the City and the Ground Floors of Hor Under Water—Reported Loss of Life by Sweeping Away of a Horse Car. Battimons, July 24, 136 Rain commenced falling early this morning. ter a slight intermission it began to pour tn trore and up to this hoar—two P. M.—has continue: fall incessantly. That portion of the city adja to Jones’ Falis ts inundated, and travet is eat suspended in that vicinity. Frederick and Hart Streets are completely flooded, also Centre, M; space, and the Maryland Institute te surromnd: ‘sheet of rushing, foaming water, that i@ carr everything like hogsheeds, barrels, baies/of hay, with it, The first doors of the stores on the st) named are under water, and tho mérchanta been compelled to remove their goods to upper! rie. The loas will be very heavy, but cannot ‘be ontimated. ‘Tho water commoanced rising a few minutes t one O'L00K. and come et the caye of tro inghp