The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1868, Page 4

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By steamship at this port we have our special European correspondence and mail report in detail of our cable telegrams to the 23d of July. Purther advices by the Atlantic cable from Brazil state that the dispute between Minister Washburn ‘and General Caxias was still unsettled. The Para- guayans had been again repulsed’in a sortie tn the Ci.aco, The capital had been removed from Asun- clon to Lague. It ts rumored in Washington that an ad interim Commissioner of Internal Revenue may be appointed at any moment to relieve Mr. Rollins, and that the subject of placing General Banks in the Russian mission as an ad interim, vice Cassius M. Clay, is seriously discussed at the White House. Mr. Evarts, ‘the Attorney General, is away, however, and the President has decided to await his opinion on such Aclicate matters before taking any decisive steps. An affray occurred in Columbia, South Carolina, on Saturday night, between colored members of the Legislature and a party of white men who tried to get into the boarding house occupied by the legisla- tora, thinking it was a brothel. One of the whites ‘Was shot in the head and mortally wounded. Albert Hughes, a negro man, was hanged in Platts- burg, Mo., on Friday, the 24th ult., for the murder of ‘ white man named Jenkins. He made a speech, not exactly confessing the murder nor denying that he aid it, When he was dropped his feet touched the ground and the rope had to be shortened. Elsewhere in our columns this morning we give an extended account of the Feejee islands in the Pacific and the negotiations in progress for their purchase by the United States, Ayoung lady was run over by a railroad train near Elmira on Saturday night while she was stand- ing leisurely on the track waiting for another train to pass her. She was instantly killed, and two men Near by were also struck and badly burt. One of theta had bis leg broken, but managed to cling to the cowcatcher until the train was stopped. ‘The Staten Isiand ferryboat Middletown and the health officers’ propellor Fenton collided off Staten Island yesterday afternoon. The Fenton was badly injured, but no persons were hurt. Two jumped overboard, but were rescued. Warren Chase addressed a meeting of spiritualists at the Everett Rooms yesterday, and in the course of his remarks declared that the Biblical stories of Samson, Daniel in the lion’a den, the pil'ar of fre and other wondrous miracles were ail Munchaus- enisms. Ap affray occurreé in Shrewsbury, Vt., on Satur- day, between two famiuet which bave long been bitter enemies, and a young man who had nothing whatever to do with the trouble was killed, no oue else being wounded, In De Soto county, Miss., on Friday, the 24th of July, fifteen citizens of the highest respectability Were arrested on charges of horse stealing. It is supposed that they are members of a large gang ope- rating in Mississippi, Tennessee and Illinois. General Steedman has gone to resume his duties a3 Collector of Internal Revenue in New Orleans, his resignation having been offered to take effect when is successor is confirmed. Three persons were drowned at Atlantic City on Saturaay. Tae Arrest or GengraL Sneripax.— General Sheridan was arrested on Saturday at Leavenworth, on the complaint of Mr. Dunn, the Postmaster at Fort Leavenworth, for assault and battery. Dunn had been ordered off the reservation for alleged misconduct, and on refusing to go had been ‘forcibly ejected.” Whatever be the merits of the case, the arrest of the General indicates the restoration of the supremacy of civil over military authority. One of these days it isto be hoped that this restoration will be complete throughout the land, Now that “‘the cruel war is over" the “man on horseback" must yield precedence to the judge. Lost Cartpren tN Brooxiyy.—One hun- dred and twenty-seven lost children were found and restored to their parents by the police in Brooklyn during the month of July. This fact is more creditable to the vigilance of the police than to that of the parents. Many poor people who are obliged to be absent at work throughout the day must leave the children at home in charge of each other. Would it not be well to establish in all our larger American cities institutions like the ertches in Paris, where mothers may safely leave their little ones to be well taken care of gntil their day's work is done ? great power in former elections, is at this time wholly unavailable to the democracy. Indeed, it is an element of defeat rather than of suc- cess on the democratic side at the present mo- ment. German population at this end of the State ‘The Issues of the Campaign—Folly of the New York Democracy. A Western demooratic paper denies with some sharpness the assertion that its party makes an sppeal to the liquor interests for support in the present election, and says:— “The liquor question does not enter into the contest. The issue is whether we shall pay the national indebtedness in gold, where not specifically so provided, or in the legal cur- rency of the country; in other words, whether we are willing to pay coin, worth one hundred and fifty cents on the dollar, in return for paper money borrowed by us when worth only forty to fifty cents on the dollar.” It is an old truism that doctors will differ, but certainly on this point our democratic doctors are so widely apart that it is difficult to conceive how they can be engaged in the treatment of the same patient. If we take the diagnosis of the case as presented by the New York faculty we find it diametrically opposite to that laid down by the Western practitioner. Here we are taught to believe that there is no thought of paying our bonds, in- cluding the five-twenties, in anything but gold, but that the liberty of every man to drink what he pleases and to trade in liquor as freely as he trades in dry goods is directly involved in the success of the democratic candidates. On this, as on all other great political ques- tions, our New York politicians show them- selves to be the worst kind of blunderers and muddleheads, without the ability to extond their vision beyond the contracted mits of a ward fight or a Tammany caucus. They are not fit to hold a candle to the men of the West. By giving the party over to the interests of the bondholders they have lost the sole chance they possessed of making even a decent show in the approaching election. There is a dis- position among the people to resist the further extortions of the money lenders and specu- lators, who have made already hundreds of millions out of our unfortunate war; and while they are in favor of honorably fulfilling all the nation’s just obliga- tions they demand that there shall be fair play on both sides—that no “funding bill,” no agents for foreign bondholders and no Manhat- tan Club parasites of a shoddy aristocracy shall increase a large portion of the national debt fifty per cent by binding the government to pay the principal in gold where such a con- dition is not nominated in the bond. This senti- ment, founded upon justice, was the capital upon which the democratic party might have advantageously traded in the pending cam- paign; while the liquor question, although of In the last State election the Irish and were thoroughly aroused in opposition to the absurd and oppressive Metropolitan Excise law, and upon that issue alone they gavea majority large enough to carry into office the whole democratic State ticket and to se- cure a democratic Assembly and a Senate opposed at least to the extreme measures of radical fanaticism; but the democrats, after they had secured power, betrayed their best friends and prevented any modification of the present Metropolitan Excise law, in order that they might retain its excessive fees, its odious spy system, its arbitrary arrests and Its other offensive features to trade upon as political capital in the present election. In this man- ner they frittered away their strength with the whiskey and lager beer interests, and made themselves in fact responsible for a law which was formerly so heavy a burden on the shoul- ders of the republican party. The most striking evidence of the folly of the New York democratic leaders in endeavoring to carry the next election on the exploded liquor and lager issue is, however, furnished by their own organs, which every day abuse General Grant as a drunkard and declare that he cannot stand up before a whiskey bottle without falling down. As General Grant led the army of the United States to victory through several long and trying campaigns, the people of the United States will be slow to believe that he is a confirmed in- ebriate, unfit to be entrusted with power. They will only recognize in these assaults of pro- fessed whiskey organs upon Grant asa whiskey drinker an acknowledgment of the fact that the republican candidate is free from those Puritanical notions that render so many of his party objectionable to the masses who have no sympathy with coercive legislation. This will furnish the Irish population with an additional reason for voting for General Grant, whom they already regard with favor on account of his well known hostility to the rebel sympathizers in England, which would be likely to lead to a war between Great Britain and the United States before the close of his term of office. On the other hand, Governor Seymour, the democratic candidate, has no failings that are likely to draw him near to the hearts of the people. He is of the Puritanical school, famous for his strictly moral habits and un- compromising teetotalism, It shows the utter fatuity of the New York democracy to attempt to make a liquor issue at a time when the rival tickets are headed by two such candidates as Grant and Seymour; and the same argument holds good with the State ticket. The republicans have put in the field for Governor an iron candidate, whose platform is free lager for the workingman, while the democrats will no doubt nominate a atraightlaced saint of a yet straighter achool than that of Governor Sey- mour. On the one side, therefore, we shall have Graut and Griswold, free whiskey and free lager; and on the other blue-light Puritan- | ism, weak tea and lemonade in their repre- sentatives, Seymour and Hoffman. The mere statement is sufficient to show tle folly of the New York politicians in discarding the green- back issue and endeavoring to play a second time the exploded liquor game, when the odds are all on the side of their opponents. Austria and Prusin=Prospect of an Alli+ ance. Indications are not wanting to show that Prussia and Austria will on an early day be- come better friends than they have been since the terrible day at Koniggratz, The journals of both countries reveal the fact that the feel- ing of bitterness engendered of rivalry and in- tensified by the late war and its results is dying out, It ia not to be deniod that it is for the ‘one of Mohammed the Prophet. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1868. interest of both countries that they should for- get the unpleasant past, recognize each other as brothers and gird themselves for the work of the future. Prussia has few interests out of Germany. Austria, since Sadowa, has ceased to be a German Power, and her interests clearly lie in an eastern direction. It is gratifying to know that while the Austrian government is busy satisfying its varied popu- lation with substantial reforms it also fully and frankly recognizes its new position. The pivot of the Austrian monarchy is no longer at Vienna, but at Pesth. Francis Joseph is greaterand more powerful now’as King of Hungary than as Emperor of Austria. Austria and Prussia joined in friendly alliance will form an effective bulwark against the ambition of France on the one hand and the aggressive policy of Russia on the other. So long as they remain disunited Russia will command the situation in the East and France will be a dangerously posverful neighbor in the West. United, German unity will become a fact and the chances of Austria in the East will be largely increased. ‘‘ With a little prudence on both sides,” to quote the language of the New Free Presse of Vienna, ‘the Oriental question could reunite what the German ques- tion separated.” This much at least is certain— that such a union would prove a more effec- tual guarantee for the continued peace of Europe than any other arrangement at present possible. The Fourth of July in Turkey, The subjects of the Sultan of Turkey wit- nessed the celebration of two most remarkable and important annual festivals—the one re- ligious, the other political—in the early days of the present month, the anniversary of the birthday of the Prophet being observed on the 2d and that of the national independence of the United States on the 4th of July. On the morning of the Feast of Mevind, in memory of the Prophet, the Sultan repaired in state to the mosque of the Sultan Achmet to offer his prayers, and in the evening of Independence Day the American colony assembled in the Sultanieh valley and toasted universal progress and liberty ina joyous and fraternal manner. As if influenced by a remembrance of the strange miracles which accompanied the birth of Mohammed in Mecca—the extinguishment of the sacred fires of the Parsees, the drying up of the lake Sawa, the palace of the Persian King shaken by an earthquake, and other prodigies—there was scarcely any liquor con- sumed by our patriotic fellow citizens on the occasion, and they discussed home politics in gentlemanly language anda tone of most edi- fying amenity, an old fashioned democrat re- sponding to the toast of General Grant as a candidate for the Presidency, and a republican acting as sponsor to that of Chief Justice Chase as the’nominee of the democrats. This pleasing scene will no doubt afford vast encouragement to the present Sultan in his work of constitutional reform, but we sin- cerely wish that his impressions In favor of man’s capacity for self-governmeut will have become fixed in his mind be- fore he bas an opportunity of reading (he now reads the foreign journals) the vile per- sonalities and epithets which are daily used by the American party press in discussing tho Presidential question at home, and thus come to waver in his resolutions and return to bis im- perlalism. The celebration of the Fourth in the Sultanieh valley was so happy and temperate that the Tammany Hall people may think of removing the statue of the big Indian from the front of the Wigwam and replacing it by It may put astop to whiskey drinking and billingsgate. Allah is great. The Russian-American Parchasc=Its Prose pective Value. ‘ We see by our Washington news that a nice little check for seven million two hundred thousand dollars in gold had been handed to Baron de Stoeckl, the Russian Minister, in payment for the Alaska purchase, and that the Baron had the happiness to acknowledge the receipt in form in behalf of his government. This completes the transaction. A great deal has begn said for and against this purchase, and a good deal of ridicule has been thrown overit about the icebergs, walruses, Esqui- maux, Arctic fogs, and so forth; but few seemed to have realized the importance and value of it in our vast opening trade with Asia, The United States now touches upon Asia. In- deed, it may be said we have become one of the Asiatic Powers; for portions of our new Territory—some of the islands of the Aleutian chain—lie within the Asiatic division of the globe. This chain of islands, stretching from the peninsula of Alaska across to Petropau- lovski in Kamschatka, lies in a comparatively temperate climate and forms a succession of bridges or stepping points from one Continent to the other. Most of them are farther south than the north of Scotland and are surrounded by the waters of the Pacific and Bebring Sea. They do not leavyea gap anywhere of more than a few hundred miles at farthest between America and Asia. They seem as if placed there expressly to counect these two Continents by easy telegraphic communication, and they come into possession of this country at the very nick of tinte for this purpose, Just as we are opening new and extensive relations with China, Japan and the other countries of Asia—just as the telegraph and Pacific Rail- road are spanning the American Continent and when our steamship lines have commenced to traverse the Pacific Ocean—the way is opened to us through our own territory of making an easy telegraph communication between the two hemispheres, The Russian-American purchase is worth more than we gave for it for this purpose alone. Abill has already been introduced in Con- gress to incorporate and aid a company to con- nect by the magnetic telegraph China, Japan and Russia with the United States by way of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, and a0 doubt it will be passed as soon as Congress reassem- bles. Another American company, called the East India Telegraph Company, has obtained the privilege from China for laying telegraph cables along the Chinese coast to connect all the great and populous commercial cities from Canton to the Yellow Sea, The company is about to manufacture some eight hundred miles of cable for this object, and within a year or two the Chinese will learn from practical expe- rience the immense value of this great agent laid and a connection made with it by others along the Aleutian Islands and Alaska we shall be in instant communication with China and other parts of Asia. But this will only be the commencement of what will be accom- plished in the end. It will not be many years, probably, before the vast and populous empire of China will have a network of telegraphs like this country and the countries of Europe. The Chinese are an enterprising people, and as soon as they learn the value of the telegraph they will not be slow to use it. These great movements, together with the arrival and work of the extraordinary Embassy from China, open up the prospect of a mighty future for Ameri- can commerce and development. As to Alas- ka, we know not yet what its territory may bring forth. Tho last news from there informs usof the discovery of valuable coal mines, the coal of which is said to be pure anthracite and superior to Lehigh. Every way there appears to be a wonderful future opening in the trade and development of our Pacific States and Ter- ritories, from which, of course, New York and the eastern side of the Continent generally must be greatly benefited. We haveno reason to begrudge that little check of seven million two hundred thousand dollars ig gold to Russia for the Alaska purchase. The Parties and the National Issue. Radicalism had made an issue for the democrats. It was broad and palpable to the people, for it was the issue of law or no law, government in accordance with the forms of the constitutiqn, or government outside the constitution by despotic military power; all our national politics crystallized around the single point whether the North should submit to the same arrogant, reckless, partisan, per- sonal domination that the result of a great war had forced upon the South. This was the issue made by the insane folly and the aggres- sive, bullying spirit of those feeble creatures, the radical leaders ; and the republican party was on the wrong side of this issue, while the democrats, by the accident of events, were on the side that gave them the sympathy of every lover of the country and seemed to identify their success with every hope for the future. Supposing, from some deceptive appearances, that the democrats had accepted the results of the war—supposing that all parties stood on the same ground with regard to the issues of the past, and seeing that for the issues of the present the republicans were wrong and the democrats right, the people were ready to co-operate with the democrats in the fullest measure. This is the philosophy of the demo- cratic gains of the past two years in State elections ; this was what gave the democrats their gains in the East and the West and their fifty thousand majority in the Empire State, and this relation of parties would, beyond all doubt, have given them the Presidency. But they have acted with a folly worse even than the radical folly. They were in the position ofa candidate; and a candidate who cannot hold his tongue loses his chance. They had only to stand still while the madness of the radicals drove the people over to them, and they could not stand still. They have begun their campaigning in a way to justly excite the greatest fear for the coun- try if they come to power.’ The popular readiness to try the democrats again was based upon the supposition that they had accepted the results of the war, and they now can hardly emphasize enough the declaration that they have not done so. People supposed that all parties stood on the same ground with regard to the past, and every democrat of prominent name is doing his utmost to demon- strate that this is not true, and that parties are still divided as they were in the war, that the republican party is the party of the nation, and that the democracy is inspired by the principles that can only be carried out through the destruction of the government. The democrats by this have simply pushed aside the occasion that had come to them. They have refused to accept the issue on which they were right, and have gone behind that to put themselves on another upon which the people have repeatedly declared them wrong. There- fore it is not possible they can win. Troubles in South America. Nothing but wars and rumors of wars, revo- lutions and counter-revolutions comes from South America. The whole of that continent, with Central America, the West Indies and Mexico, right up to the border of the United States, is in a continual state of revolution- ary fermentation. The frequent and terrible convulsions of nature in that part of the world correspond with the political and social dis- turbances of society. Whether one has any connection with the other, whether the moral and physical worlds act in harmony or react upon each other, we cannot say. All we know is that there is as little peace in society and government as there is want of rest in the crust of the earth. Every day or two the HeRatp publishes news of revolts, rebellions, revolutions or wars in some one or other of the South or Central American republics or the West Indies. On Saturday we had a fresh batch of correspondence from Venezuela, St. Thomas, Hayti, St. Domingo, Mexico and other parts, pretty much of the old and usual war- like tenor. The headings of these dozen let- ters or more from our correspondents reveal a deplorable and chronic state of disorgani- zation and war. ' The history of one country is much the history of all and the causes of the troubles are similar, In Venezuela Monagas seems to have estab- lished his power again in Caracas, the capital of the republic, though fighting is still going on at other points. Monagas is a usurper and a revolutionist. He was driven from power by rebellion before; how long he will be able to hold on this time remains to be seen. He declared himself Dictator and Presideat fer ten years when he held the reins of govern- ment formerly, This time he may follow the example of Salnave in Hayti and declare him- self Emperor. He and his brother ruled in Venezuela successively, and they established and perpetuated their power through the negro vote till driven away. Thoy overthrew General Paez originally, who was moderately conservative, by suddenly proclaiming imme- diate freedom to the negroes, and by using these negroes as 6 balance of power, just as our radicals are now doing with the blacks of the South. The few negro slaves in Venezuela would have been free in the course of afew , of modera civilization, Whon that cable ts! years through the law of emancipation passed oe a by ~ the regular Congress of that country, but the two brothers Mona- gas saw that, few as these negroes were comparatively, they would constitute a balance of power in the republic. Monagas seized the opportunity to make a revolution on this issue and obtained power through the negroes. They made up their army chiefly of these ignorant and brutal blacks, and put the whites under the heel of a negro military des- potism. This was the beginning of the nume- rous gnd successive revolutions in Venezuela. The creation of a political balance of power from the negroes is the cause ef all the troubles in that country. Though the negroes are the least numerous portion of the popula- tion, they become a power when used in this way by ambitious demagogues and revolution- ists. We see no hope for that beautiful and productive country while such a disturbing element exists. A similar state of things is found in Hayti and St. Domingo, only there the negroes are more numerous relatively to the rest of the population, There it is a wat of different branches and types of the same race chiefly. The lizard party, which is composed princi- pally of pure negroes of the lower classes, are fighting with the aristocratic cagos, or mixed negroes. Caco is the name of the black par- rot which feeds upon lizards; hence the appli- cation of these terms to the rival parties. The uncivilized or only partially civilized negro is, as we have said, the source of all the troubles and revolutions in Hayti, St. Domingo, South America and all other parts where he has been elevated to political power. How could it be otherwise? How could such a brutal and inferior and ignorant people comprehend the nature of government? Yet it is to a similar state of things that the radical revolutionists of this republic are bringing us. A desperate political fight has already commenced, shaking the foundations of the government, upon the negro balance of power here. Surely, if there were any patriotism and wisdom among our radical politicians they would take warning from the fate of Venezuela and Hayti and the other countries of South America, Central America and the West Indies. Bergh on Matters and Things in General. Mr. Henry Bergh, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has seen his name in print so often that he begins to regard itas an authority on matters and things in general, as well as a terror to all who maltreat animals. He is falling into a habit of promulgating his views on a variety of topics. He needs to be reminded that there are limitations to human responsibility. Unfortunately his zeal is not always according to knowledge. His eagerness to enlighten the world outstrips his imperfect qualifications for such a task. Hence his oracular utterances are doubtful and contradictory. Like orator Puff, he has two voices, and therefore he can- not speak authoritatively. One day he advo- cates slaughtering and eating horses; on another be denounces the slaughtering of dumb ani- mals and the devouring of their flesh, which account, he says, for the largest share of the moral and physical diseases that affect man- kind. He declares his belief that the abolition of the use of the flesh of all animals would result in physical and moral improvement to our race. He confesses, however, that he agrees with the vegetarians only “in the abstract,” and himself ‘‘eats meat because of habit.” ‘But then,” he hastens to add, ‘the least appearance of blood, by reason of insuf- ficient cooking, shocks my sensibilities and causes my stomach to revolt.” With so weak o stomach and such tender sensibilities how can Mr. Bergh under- take the rough and ungrateful réle of o public teacher? The confession that he ‘“‘recks not his own rede” lessens even what little force might be allowed to his arguments against meat eating. He exhibits no profound ac- quaintance with his latest subject. Has he ever compared the recorded results of intense and manifold human activity in any tract ten miles square peopled by meat eaters with the utterly blank pages in history contributed by the feeble and scattered tribes that have wan- dered over vast deserts where meat is never eaten? Such a comparison might have led Mr. Bergh to different conclusions. He triumphantly cites in favor of those which he has reached the case of an Arab. He says ‘“‘I have had’ an Arab of tho desert run behind my horse a distance of twelve miles without betraying the least sign of fatigue, and the cheerful fellow had never tasted meat.” But this citation most forcibly illustrates only the proverbial “inhumanity to man” which is characteristic of tender-hearted reformers like Mr. Bergh. The President of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals could keep & poor, hungry Arab of the desert running at his horse's tail for twelve miles, but a turtle lying on its back or a rare beefsteak ‘‘with the least appearance of blood” shocks his ‘‘sensi- bilities!” Mr. Bergh may reply that the Arab was ‘‘used to it,” but so, said the fishwoman, were the eels to being skinned. THE CHINESE EMBAS.Y, The members of the Chinese Embassy who visited the Henatp office on Saturday night found plenty of food for conversation and reflection yesterday in taiking over the wonders they had witnessed in the art of producing newspaper. The peculiar bias ot Chih Tajen’s mind is for machinery, and, therefore, he found extra delight in contemplating the wonderful operations of the printing presses, Yesterday the Celestial philosopher gave Messrs, Brown and DeChamps a pretty thorough croas-examination in regard to many points he didgnot precisely understand. Tt is truly wonderful that s person so entirely unfamiliar with the mechanical contrivances of the Western nation should evince so much knowing curiosity and de- part with such an intimate knowledge of a machine so remarkably intricate as a printing press. The secretaries were compelled to admit that Chih knew more about the different parts and offices of the machinery in question than they did themselves. All of the members of the Embassy who were present were vehement in the bo gd of their delight over their visit. They say they have seen many won- derful and curious thi but their visit t@ the HERALD office, 80 grand in the scale of Its rations and novel in all the detatis connected with accom- plishing the daily work of bringing out the Paper, will always remain one cody Tg aa a8 weil ressive experiences " sone Ofte p rincipal inconveniences to which Mr. aera cotn quer of information or advice in qui in re ate hina. it there are large numbers erp’ men anxious to take ad- of the new fleld opening tn China. For the it ‘be well to say Mr. Bur- there ts no nu for present "No t, Now Oa rwansiy Of oucvesa, ‘and such will remain the oPPOnintil 1¢ iw knowa th the empire what will be the result of the efforts of the a AS tog China on & footing With the other Grit clase - —_ = Powers of tnd \world. In the event of the success of this mission the further de of the rer in view by the Oh,'nese government will, doubtless, may deste. Pe mat Joa’ wi boc anet wi ve € before any change —_ be looked for. ae PROGRAMME Op .PUTURE MOVEMENTS, Uniess something has Occurred to interfere with the arrangements made yesterday the vessel on which our Celestial vistedis engaged passage to Al- bany will be hull-down on the n ludson bef the majority of the noble cititens of Gotham have rtaken of their mornin, were Dove the Westminster fowls Pd ver’ aa ‘ius morning and proceed to the foot of Desbrosses street, from which point they were to embark on the steamer Daniel Drew, leaving the wharf punctually at half-past seven, The distinguished travellers will rest over night at the Delavan House ag Albany, and start for Auburn early on Tuesday morning. After passing two or three a4 the hospitable roof of Mr. Seward the Embassy will jonraey to Niagara, taking up their quarters at the International Hotel. Beyond this point noth definite is arranged. It is probable, however, t! the party will spend some four or tive days at the Falls and then direct their steps towards the Hub of the Universe, YACHTING. FROM QUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. The Coming Muster in the Solent—Movements of the Squadrons. Lonvon, July 18, 1868. ‘The forthcoming grand gathering on the Solent is at present the great centre of attraction in the British yachting world, and an unusually brilliant “fortnight” is anticipated. The Royal Yacht Squad- ron are somewhat backward with their arrange- ments this year. The following ts a brief summary of the Royal Vic- toria Yacht Club programme:—August 10—The an- nual generai meeting at the club house and an+ nual club dinner, August 11—The Town Cup (value £100) race, Victoria course, twice round. August 12—Annual tripof the Royal Victoria Yacht Club; to sail in divisions under flag officers; in the evening the annua! ball, August 13—Match for the Vice Commodore's plate, value £100, presented by the Marquis of Exeter; a prize of £75 for the first yacht, and the first yacht in of any other rig to receive a second prize of £25; open to all yachts belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club and Royal Yacht Squadron—a time race according to the following scale:— Acker’s Scale. hours. 1 If the race ts completed under 5 5 do. 6 do, Do. do. 9 hours... oe If the race is completed in and over nine houra and under twelve and a half, acker’s scale, but if not completed under twelve hours, no allowance of time. August 14—Boat race and aquatic sports, to conclude with a grand display of fireworks. August 15—Race for the Commodore's Cup, value £100, pre- sented Dy cnenes Thellesson, Esq., and a second prize of presented by Thomas Broadwood, ag open to yachts belonging to any royal yacht club, from Ryde to the inside of the west end of the breakwater at _—— | August 17—Race for a prize, value £50, presented by James Ashbury, Esq., open to all cutters Lrg to the Royal Victoria ‘acht Club, to be sailed m Cherbourg to Ryde pier, On the same day a similar prize, presented by Caprauy C. Lovett, will be sailed for by schooners and yawls belonging to the Royal Victoria Yacht Club over the same course, For all the above races (with the exception of the Vice Commodore's Plate) cutters will be reckoned at twice and a quarter their tonnage, yachts at one and three-quarters their tonnage, to sail according tothe Royal Yacht Squadron scale of time. The following will be the allowance in all the races:— If comp leee within seven hours, whole scale; if over seven hours and under twelve, half scale; if over twelve hours, no allowance. All yachts to be classed by Thames measurement and to carry their usual fittings, anchors, &c., to the satisfaction of the Sailing Committee. Do. The Fronch Regattas—Euglish Representa- Udon. From Bell’s Life in London, July 13.) Next Tuesday the Société des Regattes au Havre gre their prize, 2,500f, and a gold medal, to be con- tended for by yachts of all nations; but we are sorry to say that we little anticipate any of our sccpers taking part in ft, the only vessel we Know of as hav- ing left our shores for Havre being the Erminia, 220 tons, Captain A. Young, an old boat, built by camper in 1849. Itis to be regretted that the original fix- ture, which was made to suit the Royal Thames Yaht Club raceto Cherbourg, was postponed. as it would otherwise have induced an entry of some of the finest vessels that ever hoisted racing colors. Tne course is from Havre to Cherbourg, around the Break water and return, about one hundred and forty statute miles. The entries closed yesterday. Then on Monday week we have the Havre Regatta, under the patronage of his Imperial Highness the Prince Napoleon. A sailing match for yachts of ali nations of ten tons and upwards, course fourteen nautical miles, prize 3,000f. ($20) and a vy medal and 1,000f. to the first yacht among those titted out and built in France; so our cousins anticipate Engiish entries ne doubt. Entries close next Saturday at the Hotel de Ville. when charts will be supplied to the vessels, Entrance lf. per ton. The sailing rules are on the principle of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, as also are the rules of tonnage. ‘The time allowance is also very well reckoned, and altogether we wish M. K. Winslow, the President of the société, success after the liberal offer of such a prize. ROWING. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. ‘The Championship of England Contest, Lonpon, July 18, 1868, The only feature of importance in the rowing world is the prospect of another match for the cham- pionship between Henry Kelley and Joseph Sadier. Some time ago the latter put forth a challenge to row Kelley for £200 a side and the champtonship, stipu- lating that the match should take place upon the ter- mination of the legal proceedings in connection with the late championship flasco; tn reply to which Kelley has issued a counter challenge to row Sadler for any sum he may choose to name, provided he would consent to row within three months from the present day. The two men have arranged to meet on Wednesday next, July 22, when it ts generally expected that —=: definite arrangement will be arrived at in the matter. THE SPIRITUALISTS, Elther there are not many Spiritualists at present in the city, or the close, murky warmth of yesterday induced them to stay at home, or the charge of ten cents admission to the meeting was too heavy a draft. in these apathetic financial times, or Warren Chase, who was announced to address the meeting, is nota very big spiritualistic gun, for very few were pres- ent at the morning exercises yesterday of this pecu- liar school of modern religionists, at the Everett Rooms, corner of Broadway and Thirty -fourth street. To a beggarly array of empty benches the honorable lecturer principally addressed himself, but with a fervor of eloquence worthy a better audience and @ better cause. Ancient religious phenomena as contrasted with modern spiritualistic developments was the theme of the lecturer's discourse. As diferent conditions of the atmosphere produced different phenomena at different times—now calm sunshine, now the de- structive storm, now hall and snow, now whirlwinds and cycloons carrying ruin and devastation of property and destruction of life in thetr path—so he ary ere were differences in the moral and re+ ligious atmosphere producing like extreme effects upon the moral and religious condition of man. To understand the subject thoroughly it was necessary to carefully stuty the laws of cause and effect. The time was, and it is so now with many tgnorant People, that the rainbow was regarded as an emblems of divine promise that the earth would never be visited by another food; that it was regarded as placed there specially by ‘Seba mene interposition— @ marvellous miracle of God's prowess and promise. The merest schoolboy tyro now sees the same evolu- tion of primary colors in the prisin, and this ancieut phenomenon has no special miraculous power, but only a ple exhibition of the simplest workti nature's simple laws. In this connection those ancient biblical stories, Samson and his miraculous feats of strength, Daniei in the dén of lions, the palace of cloud and fire that led the Jews on the right path during their forty years’ pilgrimage through the wilderness, the three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who escaped the burning heat of the flery furnace, the sun standing still, and s0 on throngt ail the phenomenal records of the Old an New Testaments, he pronounced mere Munchausem barratives and only brought out Sundays to pla: upon the credulity of ignorant church members an: frighten Sunday school children. He «om| them to old and worn out and worthiess gunsin arsenats, which look very forminabie to the a oe od but are only so much dead weight of ol iron. Discarding this ancient phenomenon as on! the débris of olden oa 4 and ignorance and bigotry, he proceeded to speak of spiritual Phenomena as the mtroduction of a new époch in civilization and Ln geo advancement. These phe. nomena, he insisted, are evolved from the increased development of man and his moral nature. Cen- turies rolled on and only mow were the mental and magnetic conditions of man being fully and per- fectiy developed, mind and matter were working in reconciliation, ‘The material and’ the spirit world were being drawn together in close and barmontous communion, Human a had reached @ the beatitudes of a higher human cx. spirits in the material flesh Ge now been reached. could now be cou ory of spiritualiatic kon to imagine. tute