The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1868, Page 4

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The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, Juty 30. A London journal says that the American Funding bill will not render five-twenties more ‘‘acceptable”” in England. Queen Isabella of Spain would not ac- cept the resignation of Admiral Nunez, of the trans- atlantic feet. Gedrge Francis Train was again in the Irish Bankruptey Court. The Goodwood cup was won by Speculum. Consols 9414 a 94%, money. Five-twenties 72 in London and 76}; a 76'4 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse steady. Cotton more active, with middling uplands at 93 Pence, Breadstuffs heavy. Provisions slightly de- clined. Our special European correspondence supplies a variety of interesting details of our cable telegrams to the 18th of July. MISCELLANEOUS. From South America we have conflicting accounts regarding the progress of the Paraguayan war. The allies claim that the fortress of Humaita has fallen into their hands, while reports from Paraguayan sources say the fortress 18 as secure as ever and that in an attempt to make a reconnglssance of the place the allies were defeated with heavy loss. Minister Webb has remonstrated with the Brazillan govern- ment for its interference with the movements of our Minister to Paraguay and will demand his passports if the allied forces further obstruct his passage up the Parana river. The Union Republican Congressional Committee are in the receipt of numerous letters which show a threatening condition of affairs tn fexas. Outrages are daily occurring and a spirit of lawlessness is re- Presented as prevailing. The Constitutional Con- vention is a complete failure, Jack Hamilton throw- ing Impedim nts tn its way in order to carry out his own objects. ‘Thad Stevens has written a letter to a friend, in ‘which he shows that the Funding bill, as it flually passed Congress, has settled the question that the five-twenty bonds shall be paid in gold, principal and interest. The National Temperance Convention at Cleveland yesterday adopted a series of resolutions taking ex- treme grounds in favor of a prohibitory law, and denouncing the sale and use of intoxicating drinks as criminal, The opening of the Cornell University at Ithaca has been postponed until October 7. Rev. William D; Wilson, of Geneva, has been elected Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, and William ©. Cleveland, of Cambridge, Professor of Civil Engi- neering. ‘The citizens of Augusta, having become heartily tired ofmiliiary rule, have petitioned the Georgia Legislature for a civil government for their city. A bad feeling exists between the police and the citi- zens. The Alabama Senate has determined to pass a bill to punish the hoiding of Ku Klux societies and toe suppress their publications. A bill is now before the same body forbidding common carriers to make any distinction on account of color. Tt is reported in Omaha that a large band of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had attacked a small body of Pawnee scouts under Lieutenant Howley, killing one Pawnee, capturing several others and wounding Lieutenant Howley. The miners’ strike in Pennsylvania ts again under full headway. Mass meetings of the miners have been held in Scranton, at which most inflammatory Speeches were made, At Wilkesbarre trouble is expected, and at Hutchinson and New Boston a revolt has taken place, the miners being weil armed. The distillery of William Murray, No. 128 Dock street, Philadelphia, was totally consumed by fire Yesterday morning. Loss, $14,000, Soon after this fire was subdued the plumbing shop at the Philade!- phia Navy Yard took fire and was consumed, Loss, $5,000, The Kansas State Convention, held at Topeka yes- terday, nomimated George W. Clark, of Atchison, ernor; Maxwell McCastin for Lieutenant or, Wilson Shannon, Jr., for Secretary of State, Scliauble for Auditor, and Allen McCartney for Treasurer. The competition drill fora handsome champton- ship flag between the Mongomery Guard, of Boston, and Company E, Twelfth regiment, National Guard, took place yeste jay at T mpkins square, in the presence of hirty thousand persons, The prize was awa nd the decision gave great dissatisfaction to the people generally. Considerable confusion and tarbuler prevailed during the » continnance of the contest, “THe ri is of the First, Seventh and Tenth Assembly districts held meotings at their several headquarters last night. The Tenth district meeting was largely attended and was addressed by Messrs. D. 8. Riddie and rge Langbein in the English language and by Drs, Snodgrass and Muir in German. The inquest held yesterday by Coroner Rollins to Investigate the defth of John Spicer, supposed to refused to grant an order upon application of Wright, Gillies and James W. Gillies, and against William 8. Cone and William Martin, to show cause why the defendgnts should not be declared bank- rupts. In the criminal term of the same court Judge Blatchford decided that a mortgage upon a distillery, given prior to a seizure of the premises for violation of the Revenue laws, did not exempt them from seizure, Charles Hartman and Ferdinand Sulzberger, con- victed of conspiring to defraud the revenue, and sentenced to imprisonment of ten days and to pay & fine of $5,000 each, have had their fines remitted by the President. ‘The Inman line steamship City of Paris, Captain J. Kennedy, will sail from pier 45 North river about one o'clock P. M. to-morrow, August 1, for Queens- town and Liverpool, The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve o'clock M. on the day of sailing. ‘The®National line steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hall, will leave pier 47 North river at two P. M. to- morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers, The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Carnaghan, will sail from pier 20 North river at twelve M, to-morrow (Saturday) for Glasgow, touch- ing at Londonderry to land passengers. The sidewheel steamship Crescent City, Captain Holmes, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, August 1, for New Orleans direct, The Black Star Independent line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will sail to morrow (Saturday) from pier 13 North river at three P, M. for Savannah, Ga, The steamship San Francisco, Captain Deaken, will sail from pier 17 East river at ten A. M. to-morrow for Sisal and Vera Cruz. The stock market closed strong yesterday. Govern- ment securitles were dull. Gold closed at 144% a 14476. The Chinese Embassy and Its Mission. The treaty made between the Chinese Em- bassy and our government, the text of which was published in the Heraxp last Tuesday, is a matter of greater historic and world-wide importance than is generally understood. It is the commencement of a new era in the history of China and in the relations of that country with tho rest of the world. There was a great deal of speculation as to thd object of the mission. Some thought it came to make a commercial treaty only, and others that it came not to make,a treaty at all, but merely as a sort of roving mission preparatory to a more free intercourse between the Chinese and the Western nations. All speculation is now at an end. We know what it came for and what it has accomplished. To designate it properly, it should be called a treaty for China or in favor of China. All the direct concessions are made in favor of that country; for hardly any advantages are conceded to the United States not heretofore enjoyed by former treaties; and though the principle of reciprocity as to the privileges of the people of both countries in the ter- ritory of each is guaranteed, still, looking at the former relations of China with the United States and the other Western Powers, and at the status of the Chinese among the nations of the world, China gain’ positively immense ad- vantages, while those which we may obtain in addition to what we enjoyed by former treaties are prospective and depend upon the liberal tendencies of the Chinese government. This, on the first impression, would seem to be all on one side, like the Irishman’s reciprocity. But the question is, do we lose by it? Or rather, do we not gain by it? Was it not due to China that we should solemnly concede these rights of an indepen- dent nationality? Is it not for the interests of commerce, civilization and the world at large that the empire of China and the Chinese peo- ple should be brought within the family of na- tions on an equal footing with other countries? We think there is but one answer. The spirit of the age, humanity, justice, the preservation of a mighty empire of industrious people, num- bering more than a third of the human race, from dismemberment and anarchy, and the de- velopment of commerce and modern civiliza- tion among them—all called for such a treaty as this. The party opposed to this policy of treating China on an equality with the civilized nations of the West—those who are for taking her by the throat and coercing her as if she had no rights or national existence—clamor loudly against the mission and its objects. They would repeat the scenes in India—sow anarchy among an industrious and a peaceful popula- tion, depopulate a vast and the most ancient empire in the world, all for their own selfish and ambitious purposes. Fortunately this is a small and powerless party. It does not com- prehend the spirit of the age and march of events. It meets with no favor here, and we think wifl meet with little in Europe. The government and people of the United States are in favor of doing justice to China. They believe this is the true way, if not the only one, to break down the barriers of Chinese exclu- siveness, to inspire confidence in the people, and to open a wonderful future for trade and improvement in the empire. They believe this is to be the dawn of a higher civilization for China. Every branch of our government has acted upon this sentiment and belief. The House of Representatives honored the Embassy by a formal reception in its hall, the President and Secretary of State earnestly promoted the objects of the mission, and the Senate, with marked unanimity, confirmed the treaty made, The press and the people everywhere, irrespec- tive of parties, cordially endorse the action of the government, Tho coming of the Chinese Embassy to this country—the first of such a c eter that over left the oldest and most populous country on the globe—with an American citizen as the chief envoy, is so remarkable and opportune and the resulis are soextraordinary that it seems almost miraculous. At least the sceptic even must be disposed to regard it as providential. have been poisoned by strychnine contained in a Seidlitz powder on the 19th inst., was adjourned un- | til Wednesday next. Dr. Doremus, who made a chemical avalysis of the stomach of the deceased, found unmistakable evidences of strychnine. On Tucsday night Mrs, Sarah Lindsley, of No, 408 East Eighteonth street, while asleep Tn her chatr, Gropped her infant, which fell into a tub of water standing at the mother's side and was drowned, The divers are at work with a new submarine ex- ploring apparatus at the spot where the English fri- gate Hussar is supposed to have sunk in 1780, The men remained under water nearly an hour, and suc- ceeded in finding, aa they believe, traces of the sunken vessel. Two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars have been contribnted to the support of the family of officer Corlett, who was drowned while attempting to rescue a passenger who fell from the steamer Seth Low a few days since. In the United States District Conrt, tn Rankruptey, Jndge Blatchford yesterday dismissed the petition for wdjudisuion Of bAUkFus toy Lied 27 S 1 a @ 06, agolust ML le Duuham & Co, The Court alse Had it arrived a few years ago, while slavery existed and while the supremacy of one race of men over all other races was proudly and tenaciously maintained, it would have failed. | The Caucasian lords of creation in our govern- ment would not have admitted the Chinese to equality; but a mighty revolution in political, | social and moral ideas has taken place within seven years. A nation that can now admit the negro, the lowest type of humanity, to political privileges and equality could not refuse the hand of kindness and fellowship to the vastly superior Mongolian race. Mr. Burlingame, imbued with the progres- | sive ideas and liberal tendencies of the age, peems to have been the apostle providentially | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1868. and he has accomplished his mission so far most successfully. Never had China agreater benefactor. He has acted all through with a fixed purpose and with admirable discretion to promote the interests of the government and people who honored him with their confi- dence. At the same time he was fully convinced his native country and the rest of the world must be benefited by his action. The vast resulta of his mission can only be seen in the future, though we may form some idga of them. The treaty with the United States gives to China the powerful moral sup- Port of a mighty nation. The party in power in that country, favorable to foreign iater- course, represented by the reigning dynasty and Prince Kung, will be strengthened against the native rebels, and, as a conse- quence, will probably maintain its authority. England, France and the other Powers of Europe will sooner or later have to follow the United States in the liberal policy inaugurated here, Indeed, we have nodoubt these Powers will accept the treaty made here as the basis of their future policy towards China, Though an American, Mr. Burlingame seeks no exclu- sive advantages for his native country. The governments of Europe, seeing this and realiz- ing the fact that the old throat policy of coer- cion must necessarily be at an end, will doubt- less act in concert with this great republic in sustaining the integrity and progressive im- pulses of China. The result will be vastly enlarged trade with that empire and the intro- duction of railroads, the telegraph, steamboats, machinery, our superior implements of industry ‘and all the improvements and influences of our Western civilization. Such are the pros- pects’ promised from this extraordinary and unique mission. Having finished its official business it will leave the United States in the course of a few weeks. We shall watch its progress in Europe and hope it may not be less successful there. The War in South America, During the struggle of the allied French and English forces against Russia in the Crimea a sort of grim pleasantry prevailed among our people on reading the war news by each arrival of a steamship from Europe to the effect, “Sebastopol has fallen,” and immediately after- wards, ‘Sebastopol has not fallen;” and again, perhaps during the same evening, ‘‘Se- bastopol has been reinforced” or ‘‘Sebastopol is stronger than ever.” In South America, on the banks of the noble Paranf, history is repeating itself, After the publication of many reports and an equal number of contra- dictions as to the progress and prospects of the confederated Brazilo-Argentine forces against the power of Paraguay during the past three years, we have to-day telegrams from the seat of war, by way of London and the Atlantic cable, dated at Rio Janeiro and in rear of the Paraguayan lines near Humaita, the first assuring us ihat that now celebrated fort- ress had fallen into the hands of the allies, and the latter equally positively asserting that it remained in good condition, was well manned, had been supported by new flanking outworks and that the Paraguayans never entertained an idea of abandoning it. On the contrary, the Paraguayan officers state that the allies having sent out a detachment in reconnoissance in the direction of their works on the Tebicuari river, the force was met by their soldiers on the banks of the Tapare and dofeated, with con- siderable loss, after a severe engagement. We are also left to infer that President Lopez had not made any advances towards a peace ar- rangement, This is Sebastopol news over again, but in the more serious aspect that, while our trade was really benefited by the prolongation of the war in the Crimea, North American com- merce is vastly disturbed and many mercantile arrangements considerably confused by the protracted—nearly chronic—strife which dis- organizes the entire interests of one of the most fertile regions of the Continent. South American contradiction in war matters is pro- verbial all over the world, but even in its midst we should expect that the United States Ministers in Paraguay and Rio Janeiro would seize every opportunity of obtaining correct information a3 to the condition of affairs and forwarding it to Washington for the enlighten- ment both of our government and the people. Our cable telegrams to-day report, however, that both these gentlemen, Hon. Mr.” Wash- burn in Paraguay, and Hon, James- Watson Webb, of “mahogany stock” pistol fame, in Rio Janeiro, sre each engaged in an official difficulty, tho one , with the Marquis de Caxias, chief of the allied army, and the other with the Emperor and Cabinet of Brazil, as personages of less note would be entirely unworthy of his diplomatic ire. Mr. Washburn has been refused a free transit on the Parand river, and Mr. Webb is in vindication of Mr. Washburn and the United States steamer Wasp and threatens—as he has on one or two occasions previously—to demand his passports under a certain contingency. This may prove a serious phase of the South American war, perhaps has been and is now serious, The Emperor of Brazil, if not fully aware of the martial propensities of Hon. James Watson Webb, may have unwittingly offended him, and this very incident may have affected the whole course of the war. If so, the Emperor had better read the history of the “mahogany stock” pistols and at once “back down ;” for there is not a Bourbon among them more huffy and unyielding than Mr. Webb. To take Humaiti is one matter; to conquer General Wobb a horse of quite another color. Senators rrom Grorat,.—The election to the Senate of the United States of two con- servatives by a radical Legislature has a queer face; but if it is the honest result of the voting it is an exceedingly good sign. If these radical legislators can turn their backs on the men who made them and act boldly for the States and not for the carpet-baggers, it will altogether change the face of Southern politics. But there is yet a doubt, we sup- | pose, if the radical Senate will admit Hill, as he was one of the Southern Representatives who resigned his place in Congress to “go with his State.” Wastep—An endorsement from Horatio Seymour of article fourteen of the amendments appointed for the great work of bringing the | hundreds of millions of Chineso into close and , equal relations with the civilized nations of the West, Noman could ba better adapted, of the federal constitution, now part of the | supreme law of the land. If he will sign that ho will create the greatest political sensation * evar knorwn In this country, And why not? The Constitutional Amendment and Political Parties of the Day. Article fourteen of the amendments of the con- stitution declares, first section, the equality of all citizens in their civil rights, and ‘that per- sons of all races and colors born or naturalized in the United States are citizens thereof and of the State in which they reside; second, that repregentation in Congress shall be re- stricted or extended in proportion as the right of suffrage may be restricted or enlarged by the several States; third, that certain rebels shall be disfranchised and disabled from hold- ing certain civil offices, State and. national, until absolved by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress; fourth, that the validity of the national debt, pensions and bounties shall not be questioned, and that all rebel debts and claims for slaves shall be held illegal and void ; fifth, that Congress shall have power, by ap- propriate legislation, to enforce these provisions. This article the Secretary of State has pro- claimed as duly ratified by ‘‘more than three- fourths of all the States,” and that, therefore, it is ‘‘valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution of the United States.” Here, then, we have a definite settlement of the questions of civil rights, suffrage, disfran- chisement and civil disabilities, the national debt and all rebel debts and claims for slaves— a settlement which, in the State elections of 1866, was overwhelmingly approved by tlie people from ocean to ocean. But how stand the political parties of 1868 upon this settle- ment? It is the work of the republican party, and, although it opens the door for the re- moval of the Congressional policy of universal negro suffrage enforced upon the rebel States in their reconstruction and restoration, even Sumner was an active instrument in securing this ratification, He and his fellow radicals of the universal fanatical negro suffrage school doubtless believe that whatever party may come henceforth uppermost in any of the Southern Stg ju give the negroes the largest su a in order to have the largest possible representation in Congress and in the Electoral College, which elects the President and Vice President of the United States. The republicans, ‘then, radical fanatics, and women’s rights men, and all, will adhere to this amendment, although it limits the suf- frage to males above the age of twenty-one years, and restores to the States respectively the right to establish a universal or qualified suffrage on the basis of property, education, race or color. The administration, next, with Mr. Sew- ard’s proclamation of this amendment, is bound by it; for it is an official act of a recognized officer of the administration. But what of the democratic party? According to its Tammany platform the Southern reconstruction acts of Congress are “unconstitutional, revolutionary and void.” Against the universal negro suf- frage experiment of the republicans there was a democratic Legislature elected in Ohio in 1867, and also in New Jersey, and the first regular proceeding of each of these Legisla- tures was the indignant repeal of the ratifica- tion of this constitutional amendment made by the Legislatures elected in 1866. In the case of New Jersey the revocation was expressed in terms of such unqualified wrath and denun- ciation that the paper, pronounced ‘‘scandal- ous and offensive,” was refused a reading in Congress. Nor have we yet heard the first syllable from any quarter in the democratic camp in recuguitlun of this amendment. ‘The constitution of our fathers” is the campaign cry of Wade Hampton; and, according to his own testimony, he had as much to do in the shaping of the democratic party's war platform of 1868 as had Mr. Vallandigham in the building of its peace platform of 1864. But if we are to go back to ‘‘the constitution of our fathers” we must go back to the régime of Buchanan, and of slavery and the Southern slaveholding oligarchy, and the Fugitive Slave law and Southern lynch law, and the Dred Scott deci- sion that ‘‘negroes have no rights which white men are bound to respect.” The democratic Tammany platform recognizes the abdlition of slavery by ‘“‘the voluntary action” of the States concerned. This would imply that by their “voluntary action” they may re-establish slave- ry. The simple truth is, however, that slavery was abolished in the slave States by compul- sion, by war, by the bayonet, and the result leaves nothing to the ‘voluntary action” of any State against the sovereign authority of the United States. Is the war—approved as a success by the people of all the States participating in the election of 1864, except New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky—to be pronounced by the people in 1868 as a failure? The position of the democratic party and its restored Southern leaders, including Henry A. Wise, the Rhetts, Wade Hampton, Toombs, Cobb, Stephens, Semmes and Forrest, against Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan and Admiral Farragut, and against the results of the war, Southern recon- struction and this constitutional amendment, means the “Union as it was” before the war and State sovereignty, and that the ‘‘liltle un- pleasantness” of the rebellion and its conse- quences shall be wiped out, including the national debt and faith, and that the old Southern oligarchy, like the Bourbons by the Holy Alliance or the Stuarts after Cromwell, shall be restored again to power. Such is the attitude of Mr. Seymour as the candidate for the Presidential succession against General Grant, the conqueror of the rebellion. In other words, the campaign has assumed the sharply defined lines of an appeal from the results of the battle flelds of 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865 to the ballot box for a judgment between the cause represented in battle by General Grant and the cause still upheld with the ‘‘stars and bars” by General Wade Hampton, the The } joni Debt. Thero is a threatening cloud rising in the South and the spirit of rebellion is still active, as the recent speeches of Wade Hampton and other Southern leaders, who are seeking to fire the Southern heart anew, abundantly show. The perilous condition of affairs in Tennessee, growing out of the conflict between the Brownlow government and the disfran- chised white population of the State, at the same time adds to the dangers of the situation; for we may hear of bloodshed there at any time after the militia is called out. How far the revolutionary signs of the times may develop into more menacing proportions it is premature at present to indicate; but the { qacstion occurs, what would, bo tho result of such & man as Blair becoming President of the United States? Seymour is known to be ® weak man, and some say the pro- gramme is for Seymour to resign in the event of his election, so that Blair may follow the fashion set by Andy Johnson and mount into the executive chair. The Southern fire-eating element would then be in the ascendant indeed, and who knows what the party in power might not accomplish? Would they not, among other things, be likely in their rebellious spirit to try to punish those who furnished the means for carrying on the war against rebellion by re- pudiating the national debt? The possibility of such a contingency is of interest to business men, capitalists and the people generally, and we suggest it merely in order that they may stand prepared. The Situatien in Spain. From the letters of our special correspon- dents and from cable despatches the readers of the Hzraxp have been made aware of the fact that Spain is in the agony of another revolu- tionary crisis. A late despatch informs us that order is re-established and that peace reigns over the country. It is the order that reigned in Warsaw. It is the peacefulness of death. In this case the revolution was not permitted to take practical shape. If, how- ever, we are to judge of the character of the intended movement by the severity of the measures adopted to defeat it, it must have been more than ordinarily alarming. Sucha wholesale deportation of marshals, generals and officers of every rank is something unusual even for Spain; and the arrest and banishment of the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier lend to what we may call the coup d'état not only a European, but a world-wide importance, Gonzales Bravo, the present Chief Minister of Spain, who is admitted on all hap%s to be one of the vilest and most unprincipled mon who ever ruled in any country, has accom- plished 8 deed _which leaves even | the worst and most ‘violent proceed ings of Narvaez in the shade. The tyranny of Bravo may retain for Isabella a little longer her tottering throne; but the spirit of liberty is not easily killed. Weak as it is in Spain, it still has life. Seventeen mil- lions of brave people, inhabiting one of the finest countries on the face of the earth, with resources practically unlimited, cannot forever be held under the heel of the tyrant, no matter how able he may be. It is difficult as yet to get at the actual facts of the case. That a conspiracy of some kind existed may be taken for granted. We are without any evidence which in the slightest degree criminates the | Queen's sister and her husband. It is not impossible that their principal offence con- sists in the fact that they are favorites with the people, and that their continued presence in the country was perilous to her Catholic Majesty. Their banishment may make them more dangerous than ever. Spain is sick of Isabella and her tools; but Spain as yet wants that unity of purpose which makes a nation. The tyranny of Bravo will not have been in vain if it helps to create such unity. The situation at the present moment is full of interest. Mr. Seward and His Real Estate Specu- Intions. There ate still some islands on the face of the earth that we do-not own, which, however, is not so much Mr. Seward’s fault as his mis- fortune. We would have owned them if they had been for gale. Now, howevor, one of these is in the market. It is an important one. It is situated in the Malayan archipelago, has no name worth mentioning, and is inhabited by a race of dusky skinned fellows with three cornered faces, who sleep twenty-two hours a day.. We will extend to thom the blessings of universal suffrage and wake them up. This island is offered tous by a magnate named Moreno, who is not the least sheepish in his style. He does not own the island, but he has seen it—he has been on it, in fact, talked with the natives and got away alive. He now offers to us his whole right, title and claim to said premises for half a million dollars. This is fabulously cheap, and if Mr. Seward does not close the bar- gain at once, giving Moreno the half million, and taking a memorandum of the latitude and longitude of the island, he will fail in his duty to the American people. This is a rare chance. The island will be a satisfactory equivalent for St. Thomas, which is untenable on account of the earthquakes. It is possible that Turkey, which is anxious to get the Cretans off her hands, may sell us presently their island home. On the first occasion on which the islands called Great Britain are in the market we shall buy them, and if we then own this Eastern scrap tho bird of freedom will have a foothold on all the quarters of the earth. The United States Naval Suit Jadgment in the Case of the Bordeaux Shipbuilders, Our readers have been kept familiar with the progress of the case of The United States vs. Arman et als, and they will therefore not be surprised that on Wednesday last judgment was rendered against the plaintiffs, with costs. Although the main point involved in the case was not reached, this judgment is in perfect consonance with the disposition of the, French government during the war to favor the Southern confederacy as much as pos- sible, especially by overlooking, if not by con- niving at the schemes of such representatives of the Confederate authorities as Mr. Slidell and his son-in-law, Mr. Erlanger, and their agents, The court says simply in its decision that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the case offered by the United States—that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the Messrs. Arman had contracted to build vessels of war for the Sonthern confederacy or that they had received any moneys belonging to the United States, M. Berryer, the great French orator, seems never to have wielded his marvellous eloquence more effectively than in exposing attempting a parallel between the War of In- dependence and tho War of Secession. M. Berryer denounced the latter as ‘‘an insur- rection that had for its object but one cause, which no one here would dare to sustain and avow—that of slavery.” It was, therefore, he contended, @ cause with which France, the ancient ally of the United States, could not | legitimately sympathize, But even the elo- | quence of Berryer was unavailing in tho’ pro- | sent cage against the logical consequences of imperial prejudices unfavorable to the U Bisiea, the fullacy of his opponent, M. Chevnier, in | | ments publi The Food Crop ot the West. It {s gratifying amid all the uncertainties of our immediate political future to know that the vast ares of the territory belonging to the United States and its immense fertility—thanks to sunshine as well as to improved methods of agriculture—fully entitle our claim to the pos- session of “a great country.” Notwithstand- ing the breadth of territory over which our late civil war extended, and the withdrawal of more than 6 million of men from the producing Classes for employment in military service, it is a singular fact, which has attracted the at- tention of foreign students of our history, that “the yield of the great staples of agriculture continued to increase, and never were they greater than in the last year of the war,” That the United States have gradually beeome the granary of Europe is patent. Equally so is the fact that the population of the Eastern and Middle States now rely mainly upon the Western States for wheat. The rapid develop- ment of the shipments of grain from the West is forcibly illustrated in the single case of the city of Chicago. Prior to 1838 there was no shipment of grain from that city, which in that year exported in thirty-nine sacks seventy- eight bushels of wheat; in 1862 nearly twenty- three million bushels were exported, and it is now one of the greatest grain markets in the ~ world, Everything seems to justify the recent pre- diction of a Western journal that the food crop of the West—of corn and wheat fnore espe- cially, the potato being below the average, as the abstract of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture states— will be extraordinarily large during the Pfesent season. Since 1860 there has not been a full crop. That of 1868 in Ohio was only three-fifths of the crop of 1860, and that of 1866 fell thirty-five millions short of the crop of 1860. That of 1867 was better, but that of 1868 is estimated at 1,695, 000,000 bushels; and if thjs estimate prove correct, as it apparently will, ‘“‘we shall raise 366,000,000 bushels of breadstuffs more than in {he year 1660, the year bofore the war, and the most favorable year we ever had.” This prospect is certainly encouraging. And when we add the strong probability that at no distant period California will become the great granary of the Pacific Ocean we shall be able to see how the American people, if true to themselves and worthy of their potential future, may prove equal to the burden of supporting a host of de- vouring politicians, and at the same time to the honor of developing a national greatness com- mensurate with the territorial greatness of their country. TuAD STEVENS SATISFIED ON THE GREENBACK Qurstion.—Thad Stevens always addresses a friend when he wishes to define his position on any public matter, and he has done so now on the greenback question. His letter will be found in another part of the paper. He is happy that the Funding bill of Mr. Sher- | man, which has passed both houses of Con- gress, and which if “it is not nowa law ia because the President has not signed it,” hag settled the gold and five-twenties question. The old man was never more amiable in hia life; for he thinks this Funding bill heals all differences and difficulties in the republican party, and he rejoices over the fact that almost every republican voted for it. Old Thad and Greeley can now embrace in the most cordial manner, in spite of the terrible abuse hereto- fore lavished upon each other. Still we aro not informed how this Funding bill is to be carried out or who is going to give up volun- tarily his six per cent bond for a four per cent one. However, it may answer the purpose of reconciling these radical leaders for the time: War Rerattation 1x Haytt.—Acting undes the rule of mutual murder lately agreed on between the contending generals in Hayti thirty prisoners, surrendered and captured in alittle battle of the civil war near Jacmel, have just been shot to death. The King of Dahomey frequently slaughters hundreds, the difference arising from the fact that tbe King has more of the raw material. The instinct is just the same. THE CHINESE ENIBASSY. Being somewhat fatigued by their journey from Washington, and having no particular engagement on hand, the native members of the Chinese Embassy took things very quietly yesterday, remain’ seciuded in their apartments at the Beeman Hotel the whole day. For Minister Burlingame ang his accomplishe1 secretaries, Messrs. Rrown and Dé Champs, there was no such thing as rest, however, although they need it quite as much as their celestial friends, or perhaps more so, seeing that they have Ato bear the brunt of diplomatic anxieties and labors between them, to say nothing of their suffer, ings in the way of official dinners, &e, Finding a saiver full of cards on his breakfast table, Mr. Bury lingame abandoned al! hopes of the much needed repose, and good-natured y devoted himselfto the eay tertainment of his numerons visitors. During the dag quite a iarge number of distinguished and influential persons, native and foreign, oMcfal and otherwise, called to pay their respects to the Embassy, and the usual number of fashionable tdiers, ummitigated bores, indefatigable autograph seekers, and other “regular nuisances,” who never pay reapect to anys body, dropped in from time to time, and, finding themselves unnoticed, dropped out again, looking very much disappointed, ‘ublic mem are publio property, and one of the principal penalties of great- ness is to endure the gaze of the vulgar; but, hows ever, Minister Burlingame ts blessed with constitution and @ most amiable disposition, a consequently, is enabled to bear LM ng under the troubles and annoyances to wi he is occ sionally subjected. It was rumored that the Chine members of the Embassy intended paying another visit to Niblo’s vesterday evening, but if such am intention was entertained it was not carrted; out, After the bewildering glories of the “White Fawn'? the “Barbe Bleue” would be tame, indeed, to such enthusiastic adinirers of the beautiful as Chi, Tajem and his appreciative friend Sun, Mr. Brown was the only member of the m‘sston who patronized tac opera douse last night, and, no doubt, he enjoyed. himeelf, for the tamest thing in opera bouge must be prefe: a bie to being bored to death by curious visitors, How the Chinese gentleuen employed their leisare — day is not known; but, doubtless, in view, o! ‘ig approaching visit to Boston, they avail tiemsemes every opportunity t read up and “erm on all sorta of, abstruse ambjects, so that they may mot be put to the blush by the superior learniag and attain- ments of the far-fame | blue stockings of the Hub. Untess unfo e cent cumstances sheuld oceur there Will be No Clause in tue programme of future move. in the HERALD of niay. It is rovabie that me of our gelestial wis! may ven- ‘ure forth to-day and on Saturday for the purpose ot visiting one or other of the places.af interest and to take a farewell look at New York; but op Sunday they will, no doubt, be occupied With yaratlons for the proposed trip up the Hudson, e FINE ARTS. ANOTHER BRAUTIFUL CHaOMG.—L, Prang & Co., of | Boston, have just issued ancéher of their oxquisite chromos, which for artistic ‘treatment and genuing resemblance to an olf painting has seldom if ever been surpassed. It is entitled a “Winter Land scape,” and is a truthful cop’y after J. Marvilier. in color, tone aud drawing Ib bears evidence of muc' artistic skill and good JXigment, and at a distan: 4 would be bard to dis*inguish it from the origin painting. One could ‘aiinost fancy while examintn; it olodBiv thot the finishing touches had actual + Deut waded oy bie bras,