The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1868, Page 4

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New York, Saturday, August S, 1568. TH NaWws. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yea- terday evening, August 7. Jem Davis was loudly cheered on the Liverpool ‘Change. France orders an additional supply of horses for the army. Italy will pay the French por- tion of the debt due on the territory taken from Rome. Doctor Lushington, of the English bench, is dead. Turkey declares the eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt successor to the viceregal throne. The Cre- tans, it is said, appealed to England for aid. Consols 93%, money. Five-twenties 71‘; in Lon- don and 75 in Frankfort. Cotton steady and active, without change in prices. Breadstuffs steady and upward and provisions dull. By special correspondence from Europe we have interesting reports in detailjof our cabie telegrams to the 25th of July. MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic advices from St. Domingo state that Baez’ troops in the capital were deserting him. The reinfcrcements ordered to Seybo had retused to embark. Venezuela advices to the 22d of July have been received by way of the Cuban cable. General Mo- nagas was at Valencia with 4,000 men on his way to Puerto Cabello, Falcon was blockading the port qf Laguayra with one small vessel, Further intelligence from Japan states that the Tam Stonewall was still fying the American flag, not having yet been turned over to the government. Admiral Rowan, with his flagship Piscataqua, bad arrived at Yokohama. | istration since the rebellion was wound up by and hearth in the country. But instead of the | load being lightened we are called on to bear The Terrivle Counter-Revolution Ap- proaching. The figures, as they come in from Kentucky, are mounting up for the democratic majority. The last returns, which we published yoster- day, set down eighty thousand majority for Stevenson, the democratic candidate for Gov- ernor, and these returns represent the country districts from which they come in slowly, and will probably show larger gains, according as they are received. The result of the June election in Oregon was quite as remarkable an evideuce that the people are awake to the mul- tifarious mischief which the radical party has wrought in its administration of the govern- ment. We cannot, therefore, shut our eyes to the direction of these straws which show how the wind blows. The republican majority in Oregon in 1866 was 327; the democratic ma- jority for member of Congress (the solitary one who represents, that young State) was, at the election of the first Monday in June, 1868, 1,209. Here was a gain of the anti-radical party of over fifteen hundred votes in a voting population of about twenty thousand. Taking these two States as an example, we will find that the people are not abandoning their hos- tility to the wanton and dangerous policy of the ruling faction, which during three years of peace has increased the national debt and kept up war prices and war taxation. The Kentucky election has taken place since the Presidential nominations of both parties were made; and yet so far from the nomination of the radical convention strengthening the back- bone of the faction, or the nomination of Sey- mour and Blair weakening the spinal column of the democracy in that State, they have turned events the other way. These results are but the early indications (the skirmish fire as it were) of the great revolutionary battle which is about to open. If the other State elections which are to come off between this and the Presidential contest in November should happen to give like indications of popu- lar hostility to the radical usurpations and corruptions, who can tell but that the pominees of the Chicago Convention may be over- whelmed by the weight of radical maladmin- General Grant that they have to carry on their shoulders? If we look at the facts which confront the people when they come to vote, we find that taxes to the amount of three thou- sand millions of dollars have been imposed upon us, We find that the national debt has been increased to the tune of three thousand millions more. And this, when the country is at peace and the people had a right to hope for a reduction of taxes and the national obli- gation as the fruit of victory won, God knows with what terrible sacrifices to every home further exactions, to submit to increased ex- The statement of the public debt for August 1 shows the total debt to be $2,633,588,756, incinding $52,210,100 in bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad, while the cash in the Treasury amounts to $101,054,276, Compared with previous statements this shows an increase of $13,288,504 in the debt since June. A gas main under the centre of the dome of the Capitol in Washington exploded yesterday, tearing all the framework to splinters and creating some apprehension of the safety of the building. The paraphernalia used at the funeral of President Lin- | good of the country. coln, which was in the Washington crypt for safe | keeping, was partially burned. In the Louisiana Senate yesterday a resolution was offered calling upon Governor Warmouth for proofs of the numerous outrages mentioned in his letter to the President. The resolution was advo- cated by its mover in a bitter speech, in which he stated the republicans had fifty-five hundred guns | stored at their headquarters in the city, It was re- ferred. Our Washington correspondent states that when certain banker of that city, who had been making & good deal of money by commissions on the sale vi | government lands, appeared at the Treasury recently to settle some business, he and all the officials in the | department were astonished to find that a law had | been passed some time ago prohibiting the pay- ment of such commissions. None of them had known it before, the reading of the laws of Congress being too dreary work for them to go through with. ‘The bill removing political disabilities was passed in the lower house of the Alabama Legislature yes- terday, and the bill providing for the casting of the electoral vote by the Legislature was passed in the Senate. The Shrewsbury Yacht Club held its annual re- gatta on the Shrewsbury river on Thursday. Ten yachts took part in the race, which was over a course twelve miles long. Several yacht clubs were repre- sented and the Mattiey of fhe Bayonne Club, was de- clared the winner, making the distance in four hours, Unrty-six minutes and fifteen seconds. There were three races at Saratoga yesterday. The tirst was won by the chetnut colt Sundown, the second by the bay filly Oakland, and the third by the bay horse Red Dick. ‘The fre tn the Canadian woods is raging just back of the town of Collingwood, and fears are euter- tained for the safety of the town. The Chinese Embassy are still at Auburn. On Wednesday they visited the State Prison, inspected the machinery and saw the convicts at their dinner. They then visited the woollen mills and the orphan asylum. Yesterday they inspected t ‘ater works. The steamship Mary Sanford, from New York for Wilmington, struck on New Iniet bar at the latter place on Thursday night. No lives Three lighters are trying her to get her off. The steamship William Tibbetts while entering the | opening for conflict. The expression of anti- harbor of Belfast, Me., last envening was struck by lightning. The captain and pilot and a laay passen- ger were injured by the shock and one man was knocked overboard. A boy of seventeen frightened away a party of burglars, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday night vy threatening to shoot, but plucking up courage they returned on Thursday night and the boy carried his threat into execution, killing one of them instantly. Bill Connor and Jim Melntyre, the former a butcher in Spring street and both members of the old rt boys’ of the Eighth ward, fought near Sheepshead Bay yesterday for $60 aside. aAftera fight of Ofty-seven minutes and twenty-three rounds Connor confessed himself whipped. The sheriff of Benton county, Mo., attempted to | arrest several members of the Ku Kiux Klan aday | ortwo ago, when he was resisted and two of his posse were killed. ‘The Indians are committing outrages and depre. dations in Arizona. ‘The steamship Ariel, Captain Jones, of the Ameri. can line, will sail from pier 43 North river at twelve M. to-day for Bremen via Cowes, The Merchants’ line steamship sherman, Captain Heory, will leave pier 12 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct. The steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, of the Cromwell! line, will sail to-day at three P. M. for New Orleans direct from pier No. 9 North river. The Black Star Independent line steamship Mar- mion will leave pier 15 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. ‘The steamship San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, will sail at three P. M. to-day from pier No. 8 North river for Savannah. The steamebip Charleston, Captain Berry, will | penditures. | for. ' Southern States, and Governors who really re- | present little more than a mock constituency, | demand from the government an expensive | army to assist them in carrying out schemes | and ambitions which are purely partisan and are reported lost, | % et the seal emphatically upon the issue by In order to keep a portion of the country in subjection more troops are called Men foisted into Congress from the are positively destructive of the peace and It is facta like these which meet intelligent men of all parties when they come to cast their votes, and we cannot be surprised that majorities are found to pro- test emphatically against a continuance of this kind of government. The people demand a change, and it is the people, and not any particular party, who will make the issue at the approaching election. Names and individual candidates count for very little in this contest. It s a cheap gov- ernment, honestly administered in view of the fact that the country is at peace, which the people require. A serious counter--evolution, therefore, terrible to the politicians, no doubt, but good and wholesome for the people—be- cause it is being born of the people—is at hand. Nothing but the marvellous activity of our population and the untold resources of the country could enable us to bear the present burden of taxation or induce us to submit to carry itso long. But it is evident that a reac- tion has set in, and it may be that in the course of events as now foreshadowed the next elec- tions will result in sending a majority to Con- gress possibly in favor of repudiation, but cer- tainly in favor of a vast reductiod of the present enormous taxation. The public mind leans that way. Let us have peace, real peace, is the popular cry, and the popular heart naturally yearns for the possession of that prosperity which should accompany peace. The result of the Presidential election may be so vaguely decided in the conflict between the rights of the Northern and Southern States in the matter of franchise as regulated by radical legislation as to drift us into another civil war ; but it is clearly the duty of the Northern States their votes and leave nothing to chance or no radical sentiment in the late elections in Ken- tucky and Oregon is but the percursor of a great counter-revolution, upon the verge of which the country stands this moment. TrautaN FixaNnog.—The Italian Cabinet consents to pay that portion of the debt of the territory lately taken from the Papal domain and annexed to the “free” kingdom which is held in France, and then turn to the inhabit- ants of the provinces for reimbursement. This looks very much like robbing Peter to pay Paul, and augura either an empty treasury in Florence or a wholesome fear of Napoleon. King Victor Emanuel having obtained the celebrated “bit of land"—not, however, with the blessing of the Pope—should assume all the responsibilities and not impose a penal tax on the people for the reason that he is forced to pay a national debt. PossiBL& PRESIDENTIAL ComPLioatioNs.— There are half a dozen possible Presidential complications which might ultimately result in civil war. Suppose there should either be no election, or one so closely contested that two rival Presidents and two rival Vice Presidents should stand forth in sight of the bewildered and excited people. What then? The only safety against this danger is to be found in an leave pier Mo. 9 North river at three P, M. to-day for Charleston. Tue vrig Laura is at Boston with the yellow fever ! on board. he stock market was dall and vartable yesterday. Guid dactuated between 147% & 148). overwhelming vote of millions of the people against the selfish machinations of a few hun- dred thousand politicians and in favor of General Grant ae President of the United States, 5 TS ete NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1868. Great Financial Movement of the Western Union Telegraph Company. We understaad that the Western Union Tele- graph Company has just originated a great financial movement, which may, perhaps, ena- ble it to pay more than two per cent per annum dividend to its stockholders out of its large earnings and send its stock, which has been below thirty per cent, up to a respectable figure. The company has, we learn, made some sort of an arrangement or bargain with Dr. Swin- burne, the Health Officer of the port of New York, by which these enterprising parties are to monopolize all the ship news arriving in the harbor and to peddle it out to every needy paper for whatever its proprietors can afford to pay. The profits from this business will probably reach nearly or quite five thousand dollars a year, and if by this great increase of business and the extension of its monopoly from Sandy Hook under the water to the Quarantine grounds the Western Union Tele- graph Company can swell its two per cent divi- dend and send up its stock fifteen or twenty per cent, we shall regard its managers as great financiers. i For the past six months the Hzracp has had two steam yachts running in the Lower Bay and gathering the ship news. This new sys- tem, which we originated for the benefit of the commercial public, has enabled us to place be- fore our readers full and authentic reports of all ship news from day to day more speedily and reliably than they ever before received them from any other source. The combination ‘between the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany and Health Officer Swinburne seeks to put a stop to newspaper enterprise, and for per- sonal considerations to assume the power to dictate to the press how it shall collect its in- telligence and to the shipowners to whom they shall communicate their news. The attempt is as presumptuous and impertinent as it is illegal and disgraceful. The Health Officer and his deputies, who all have a finger in the pie, have assumed the power to arrest two of our employés engaged by usin the collection of the ship news. For this unwarrantable stretch of authority we shall seek the proper remedy. But in the meantime we call upon Governor Fenton, whose intelligence must at once sug- gest to him the impropriety of his official's conduct, to remove Dr. Swinburne and appoint some sensible and efficient man in his place. When a Health Officer neglects his proper du- ties for the sake of making outside combina- tions and interferes with matters that do not concern him it is time that he should be re- moved from so responsible a position. Condition of Affairs in Louisiana—The Policy of the President. The letter of Governor Warmouth, of Louis- iana, to the President, calling for two regiments of cavalry, a regiment of infantry and a bat- tery of artillery to preserve order in the State, represents a very bad and gloomy state of things. His Louisiana Excellency says he has no doubt a hundred and fifty men have been murdered in the State within the last month; that bands of armed men rove about unmo- lested and unpunished, committing the most terrible crimes, particularly in the northern and northwestern parishes, aud that the sheriffs and other civil officers proclaim their inability to stop crime or arrest the criminals. Altogether the Governor's communication is a very lugn- brious document. [n making this call upon the President he confesses that the organiza- tion of the militia for the suppression of these outrages “is of questionable expediency, inas- much as it will be, under the present excited state of mind, one political party armed to the support of the government against another.” Here, then, lies the whole mischief. It ia a wat of political parties. It is the natural result of radical reconstruction and the efforts of the radicals, many of them outside Northern car- pet-baggers, who neither have any abiding interest in the State nor sympathy with the population, to disfranchise the native citizens and to control affairs for the sake of the offices. As a consequence this excites bitter hostility and outrages on the other side. Western and northwestern Louisiana, with the bordering sections of Texas and Arkansas, were the most lawless portions of the country during the war. Even the Confederate authorities could not keep down the bands of robbers and independent guerillas there. A federal army could not do it now under the proscriptive tyranny of radical rule. However, we have no doubt Governor War- mouth’s representations are greatly exagge- } rated, as well informed people from Louisiana |’ and our Washington correspondents state. The truth is, there is a probability that the democrats will carry the State in the approach- ing election by twenty thousand majority or more, which alarms the Governor and his radical confréres, and they want the United States troops to help them out of the dilemma. They want the aid of the federal government to defeat the democrats, and this is the real secret and motive in calling for troops. What is the duty of the President under these cir- cumstances? Evidently to let the rival parties and factions fight it out among themselves. Mr. Johnson, we understand, holds the matter over for consideration and to sub- mit it to his Cabinet. We do not know yet what course he will take, but un- less there be a positive rebellion he should insist that Louisiana must execute her own laws. The federal government is not required, and, indeed, would go beyond its legitimate functions, to exercise its authority in support of any patty in that or any other State. Louisiana is a State of the Union now the same as New York. The radicals have had it all their own way in reconstructing the government and have all the advantage of governmental authority in the State, If they cannot hold what they have got, with all the advantages on their side, they must yield to the popular will, That is the way of repub- lican government. The people of the North cannot and will not be taxed to support a vast army in the South to keep the radicals or any other party in power. No, the people of Louisiana must fight it out among themselves, and we hope the President will tell them so, however much the radicals in and out of Con- gress may howl or threaten him with impeach- ment, They may, and will, perhaps, abuse him or even threaten impeachment again, for what they may term neglect of duty in not protect- ing loyal citizens ; but nothing short of rebel- lion against federal authority should cause him to send an armed force or to iutervere in the party fight ia Louisiana. The Indian Question. What shall be done with the Indians? has long been a perplexing question. To civilize them, to govern them in their savage state or to exterminate them have ail been ideas enter- tained and disputed; but so far no success has accompanied any one of these projects. To civilize the Indian of the Western desert and the Rocky Mountains in the present genera- tion—that is to say, to bring him into the traces and habits of the white man, to make him a profitable cultivator of the soil, a good mechanic, a politician, an alderman, a presi- dent of a national bank, or even a member of Congress—is something not to be thought of. To accomplish this we must take the papoose from his cradle on the back of his maternal parent and train him in the way he should go. A good deal has been done by this method, as we know, with the Pottawattomies, Delawares, Senecas and the six tribes of Western New York. Under proper guidance and the observance of good faith on the part of the white people the Indian, proud, suspicious and sensitive under white supremacy as he is, might cease to be an obstruction to the advance of civilization on the Western plains. White settlers could sit down in peace on their farms, and railroads could be pushed ahead towards the Pacific with far less trouble =v and expense to the government if the present system adopted by the Indian Bureau at Washington and carried out by its agents in the Indian country were thoroughly remodelled. We have been accustomed to put all the blame for what are called Indian hostilities upon the shoulders of the red man, while it happens that most of it could be more fittingly credited to the ignorance or indifference of the officials at headquarters and the shameless corruption and breach of faith on the part of many In- dian agents in their dealings with the tribes. For instance, of what value is a treaty made and signed by the chiefs of a hostile tribe if its provisions are not carried out by the officials appointed for that purpose, or if the purport of the treaty is falsely interpreted before the signatures are obtained? Of what account is it that annuities solemnly contracted for are delivered by the agents, short in many cases one-fourth of the promised quantity, and re- ceipts obtained from the unsuspecting savages for the full amount and the voucher placed upon record in the bureau at Washington as testimony that the agent has fulfilled his trust ? Yet we have heard of these things going on as a matter of custom. Can we blame the In- dians if they mistrust usin all our dealings with them, or can we be surprised when they exhibit a vengeful spirit within the agency of a dishonest official ? It is to this system that we must attribute, ina great measure, the difficulties with the Indians on the Plains. That many of them are intractable, especially the young warriors— the rowdy element which prevails in every tribe—may be true, and many of the hostilities we hear of arise from that quarter, rather than from any disposition to make war upon our settlements or railroads; and it may be remarked that a great portion of the reports cir- culated by parties interested in misrepresent- ing the state of affairs on the Plains is grossly exaggerated. Not half the stories of attacks by Indians on white men, on trains, or the killing and scalping of soldiers are true. The probability is that these fictions originate in the jealousy of rival Indian agents, and they not unfrequently emanate, we suspect, also in rivalries between parties interested in the different branches of the Pacific Railway, of which there are three running through Kansas and Nebraska. At all events, we have it on the best authority that the rumors of a party of soldiers being killed and mail carriers being attacked recently by Indians in the vicinity of Fort Larned and Fort Hays have no founda- tion whatever in fact: and so no doubt with many other wild rumors of the same sort. The truth is that the presence of an efficient military force, under experienced officers like General Sheridan and General Sully, is sufficient to keep the peace, and it may be regretted that the military power is not accorded more privileges in dealing with the Indians. Crip- pled as the army officers are by the red tape of the Indian Bureau, their experience and dis- cretion are almost worthless attributes where, under a different system, they could achieve all that is desirable. It is evident, in view of all the facts connected with our attempted gov- ernment of the Indians on the Plains, that the sooner the matter is placed in the hands of the War Department the better. The present sys- tem is utterly corrupt and fruitless. We have recently made treaties with thirty. thousand hostile Indians through the instrumentality of the Peace Commissioners at Fort Rice and the valuable assistance of Father De Smet, the venerable Jesuit missionary; but if the com- pact be not fairly kept on our side the treaty is waste paper, and we have no guarantee that it will be faithfully observed unless the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department at Washing- ton looks sharp after its agents. It is there, after all, and not in the wigwam of the redskin, that the root of our Indian difficulties is to be found. Harti anv St. Domineo.—It is cause for sorrow to find that the beautiful island of St. Domingo, one of the richest certainly of the West Indian group, is still a prey to the wild- est kind of anarchy. The confusion existing in both sections of the island has no parallel out of Mexico. Hayti is at war with itself and with Dominica. Dominica is at war with itself and with Hayti.. It is rottenness and corruption all over. It never can be anything else so long as negroes and mixed races, more feeble even than negroes, hold possession of the island. There is only one cure—annexa- tion to the United States. It is not convenient to annex it just yet. Let the Presidential elec- tion be got over, and then let the eagle spread its broad wings over St. Domingo and give it peace, happiness and prosperity. Jerr Davis in Exetanp.—Jeff Davis ar- rived in England on the 5th instant. It is to be hoped he will remain there. The American people have no objection even to his raising another loan if he can succeed in obtaining the cash anywhere between the banks of the Mersey and John O'Groat’s House. Prace tv Evropr.—The French govern- ment has addressed an official circular to its officers ordering the purchase of additional supplies of horses for the army. The “empire is peace.” The democratic politicians are getting a8 much muddled and troubled about their can- didate for Governor as they were a few weeks ago about their candidate for President. Gris- wold, the republican nominee, has been in the field since the first week in July and is making headway every day. His connection with the working interests of the country, the extent of his great iron business and his well known freedom from all the Puritanical notions that have rendered his party so unpopular at this end of the State are all working in his favor. He is recognized among the Germans as the champion of free lager, and while they are declaring in his favor the rival democrats on the two sides of the East river are squabbling and fighting among themselves. In New York the Baron von Hoffman is the favorite and demands the nomination, which he would probably have secured without difficulty but for the opposition of Misther Murphy, the Senator from Kings, who brings nearly half of Brooklyn and a large number of country democrats from the western part of the State into the field as his forces and contests the prize with Tammany. Hoffman has already tried his mettle in the race (two years ago), and as he was beaten then he should be satisfied and get out of the way. Murphy founds his claim principally upon the fact that, as a mem- ber of the Democratic National {onvention, he submitted the resolutions which form the platform of the party in the present contest. This, however, is a yery small recommenda- tion in bis favor, as, in the first place, the platform is mere twaddle, and in the next place a Buffalo democratic editor, and not Senator Murphy, was its author. As Hoffman has already received a nomination for Governor, and as Murphy’s platform claim is bogus, and as both these politicians have given trouble enough to the party, we propose a new deal altogether. Let the democracy nominate Wil- liam Cassidy, the butcher boy of the State capital, for Governor, and finally dispose of Hoffman, Murphy and poor Church. We opposed Cassidy when he desired the nomina- tion for Secretary of State, but we support him for the nomination for Governor—a posi- tion to which he is better entitled than either Hoffman or Murphy. Cassidy commenced life as @ butcher boy for the Dutch citizens of Albany; he has been the butcher boy for the democratic party ever since, and has per- formed his duties well. We have had occasion to christen him Confidence Cassidy in times past; but as this isthe season to forget and for- give and to live together in peace, we bury the hatchet, and call upon the Democratic State Convention to recognize the services of their ablest editor and bulliest butcher boy, and to place William Cassidy at the head of their State ticket. Our Watering Placee=The Correspondents. What is the matter with the newspaper cor- respondents from our watering places? We have enumerated these multiplied summer re- sorts and set forth their manifold attractions. They are at this moment thronged by thou- sands of visitors, representing all the com- fortable classes of our metropolitan society. But the letters of the newspaper correspon- dents offer scarcely any graphic descriptions, either of natural scenery or of the varieties of lite and character, which might be studied to such advantage by vigilant and thoughtful ob- servers. For the most part these letters are intolerably inane, frivolous and uninteresting. Perhaps, in some instances, the excuse which the writers may plead is that the inanity and frivolity of so-called ‘‘fashionable” life at watering places are only too faithfully re- flected in their letters. But even these fea- tures might sharpen the pen of a vigorous satirist. From Newport, indeed, we have re- ceived some statistics about its horses and car- riages and cottages, and these statistics are at least more valuable than any trivial gossip about the idle visitors to that charming place. From Saratoga, with its eighteen thousand guests and the whirl and rush of a dissipation not surpassed at Baden-Baden and other fash- fonable gambling places on the European Con- tinent, we have had spirited descriptions of the races. From Long Branch (our American Biarritz), where deep and extensive political plans are deliberated upon and formed, and where the new Emperor of Tammany (Peter Bismarck Sweeny) holds high court, with a black mustache to the right of him and a green one to the left of him, we obtain more or less interesting and important political news and speculations, the ultimate value of which time alone can reveal. But with these few exceptions we must repeat our condemnation of the stupid and silly and tedious letters which the newspaper cor- respondents are now inflicting upon the public. Let us hope that they will yet supply the de- mand of the general reader for something better. The approaching visit of the yacht club, under command of Commodore ‘Stebbins, to Newport and other famous watering places on our coast will no doubt stir up all the latent elements of refined social enjoyment within the cultivated circles at each of these points, and the correspondents can then com- plain of no lack of entertaining topics. At any day we may hear from Long Branch of some new and startling scheme or complication that shall render the present political confusion still worse confounded. Nor would it be strange if amid all the scenes of dissipation and vice at Saratoga some correspondent should discover a man more wicked than the wickedest man in New York, if not even a woman more wicked than the wickedest woman anywhere else. Nova Scotia and the New Dominion. The Nova Scotian difficulty is not yet over. Prime Minister Macdonald and his friends have not been warmly received in Halifax. So faras we can judge from our latest news their mission has been a failure. It is stated that they have received attention from the Lieutenant G@ernor and others, but that no demonstration of a public kind has been made in their favor. Meanwhile a com- mittee of seventeen, with Mr. Howe as chair- man, has been sitting with the object of de- vising the best means for a repeal of the union. At the same time we find that in Lower Canada vigorous efforts are being made to secure the independence of the entire Do- minion. Lodges having this object in view have been éxtensively formed throughout Canada. This latter commands our admira- | tion more than the paltcy Nova Scotia business, whioa office we beld aattl (ue date of us decease, - $e SE ee The Democratic Muddle About Governor. | ‘The cure for the troubles of the Dominion is not, after all, difficult to find. Annexation to the United States is the real panacea. We are well assured that there are germs of revo- lution all over the Dominion. The latent heat exists, and it only requires g little effort to fan it into a flame. Let the effort be made by all means. Let the cry be raised for immediate annexation, and the Dominion will be surprised to find how thoroughly republican it has already become. Annexation would give the Dominion peace and prosperity, and Great’ Britain would not much object. MOVEMENTS OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY. Visit to the State Penitentiary—What the Chinese Saw and What They Thought—A Visit to the Auburn Woollen Mills. AUBURN, N. Y., August 5, 1863. This morning the Embassy set out from the reat- dence of Mr. Seward to ‘‘do” the first day’s round of visita to the prominent points of interest in this en- terprising little city. Sorae time before the starting of the party the elegant private carriages of Dr. Wil- lard, General Chedell, Christopher Morgan, Mr. Knapp, Mr. Ross and Z. M. Pomeroy, member of Congress, were placed at the disposal of the Embassy during their stay here. When everything was ready Mr. Burlingame, in company with Mr. Morgan, led off, followed by the carriages containing the secretaries, Messrs. Brown and De Champs, the Tajens and the students, To add to the interest of the occasion a citizen accompanied each carriage, which also contained in the party one ofthe secretaries or an English speaking interpreter, in order to communicate all information to those not acquainted with the vernacular of the country. After a short drive through the principal streets of the city, attracting everywhere a crowd of admirers or astonished spectators, the B emp repaired to the State Prison. Upon reac! is point the Embassy were cordially welcomed. They were at once passe’t within the iron doors and gloomy walls of that abode of the victims of vice and human depravity. ‘Ag the hour of dining for the convicts was by this time wear at hand, the Embassy, under the direction of Colouel J. A. Saulsberry ana Colonel Thomas, keeper of the penn, were conducted somewhat rap- idly through the workshops. No sooner did the hutn of the machinery greet the cars of the indefatigable Chih than that dignitary waa all enthusiasm. He hastened through ¢he entrance of the first shop, look- ing right and left, up and down, takiug in the whole building at a glance, Sun, Ina more measured man- ner, went through the same motiops, and as usual took matters more deliberately. The Tajens frat spled a machine for making smooth!ag plates. TAA immediately became an object of study, but Chit thoroughly ferreted out the principle before he could be induced to leave. The same interest was mani- Tested by the whole of the party as they went througle every department of the extensive works connected with the establishment. Reaching the boot shoe manufactory the pegging machine excited the spe- cial curiosity of the entire representatives of che flowery land. Leaving the shops the party visited the cells. The Ambassadors, each in company with a cliizen, en- tered a cell and were locked in. Chih laughed very heartily, and as he came out said he had ‘just come from prison.” His vivacity over the little in- cident was quite marked, and he was congratulated by all upon his release, The visitors next proceeded to the eating room. Here everything was ready awaiting the convicts from their work. Nine hun- dred and fifty places were arranged. A tin plate, containin polled beans and fat Kem, atin cup of water and a piece of wheat bread on one side aud corn bread on the other, In the cook room the woole _— took a taste of prison fare. The Tajens hought the bread remarkably good for such @ purpose. By this time the convicts had washed and formed in marching order for dinner. The Embassy took a ogerss on the porch facing the prison yard and aaw he convicts walk in and take their seaty. The party then again visited the catmg roomi, where they nt @ few moments and then returned to the car- riages outside, he visit was characterized by the greatest courte- sy on the part of all the officers of the institution, and especially in the pains they took to explain every feature of interest. ‘The Tajens were evidently very much impressed with the discipline of our prison system and the humanity evinced tn alleviat- Ing, atleast, the physical discomfort attending the punishment of crime. Manslaughter, higher cases of theft and sociat vices, all capital offences im their own country, they were surprised to learn were punished according tie the circumstances surrounding these offences vy different degrees of confinement. From the Penitentiary the party returned to Mr. Seward’s residence and rested theinseives during the midday hours after the morning's excursion. ‘This afternoon the carriages were again placed at the disposal of the Embassy and were used to cou- vey the party tothe Anburn Woollen Manufactury. Here, under the direction of Mr. Wise, superintend- ent of the building, the Ambassadors and students were initiated into the mysteries of manu- facturing woollen goods. From the room de- voted to the unpacking of the unwashed wool, the entire process of bringing out the cloth was foliowed. The spindles and the looms were most attractive to the mechanical genius of the Chi- nese. Though every branch of the establishment was carefully looked over these almost speaking ma- chines were closely studied. It was only after the most eng | investigation that Chin mastered the principle of the spindles, and especiatly the com- plicated machinery of the looms; but to his evident satisfaction he solved the puzzling problem. After passing an hour in studying the manipula- tion of wool for the embellishment or protection of humanity the party repaired to the woollen card man- ufacturing esiablishment close at hand. Here, in the charge of Mr. Sargeaut, the principal of the mills, the delicate machinery used in making that delicate and useful mechanical appliance, the cotton card, was fully explained, As by a combined action the machine went on with the motion of intelligence, pricking the holes in the leathern band which formed the foundation of the card, cutting and forming the delicate wire in the proper shape, inserting it in iia fee place, pressing the wire home and fastening it in its proper position, the regularity of the rows, the even surface of the extremities of the wires all accomplished by the mere motion of a lever applying or removing the motive power, were vem pli with perfect amazement. ‘Ling, Ling!” exclaimed Chih, “it thinks; the machine thinks.” When toid when the little wire broke the machine stopped, the philosophers manifested almost a reverence, being in the presence of such an exhibition of the perfec- tion of mechanical accuracy. From these works the Embassy visited the Orphans’ Asylum. Here spending a short time, the Tajens caressing the unfortunate children withta, and with a sincere heart evidently sympathizing with them in. being without parents, and after listening to a little singing. the party returned to their carriages and drove home. The day has been well spent, and the Chinese are all delighted with what they saw and the manuer ia which they were treated. In the evening the distinguished guests were ene tertained in a most sumptuous manner at the resideuce of Secretary Seward. Many of the promi nent citizens of Auburn, in beorige 4 with, their wives and daughters, were present. e affair was Most enjoyable; and after the members of the Eu - bassy enjoyed themselves to their hearts’ content they betook themselves to their apartments and > lh night's rest after the excitement of jay. Di t Auburn—Inepection of the Aubura Water Works. AUBURN, August 7, 1568. The Embassy remained rather quiet during the forenoon. At one o'clock this afternoon they, with a large number of invited guests, sat down to dinner at the table of Mr. Christopher Morgan. After the dinner the Embassy paid a visit of inspection to the engine house and headquarters of the Auburn Water Works Company. Upon arriving there the two Tajen be- came very much interested in the working of the mderous machinery by which the water is forced hrough the mains and sup ly pipes which traverse every part of the city. Chih Tayen especially was quite diligent in tis inspection of the wheels and the force pumps, the register, puileys, lever, pipes, &c. Mr. Brown, one of the accomplished secretaries, explatned portions of the work. During their Stay at the engine house a column of water was thrown into the air perpendicularly about one hua- dred and fifty feet, which, to the Embassy, seemed to be considerable of a feat. After the tour of the water works the ;party re- turned to Secretary Sewari's, paying Mir. Nites Perry a complimentary call on their way. The dis- tinguished visitors will eed their visit here this evening and leave for Nlagara Falls by the eight o’clock train to-morrow morning. It 18 reported that the Embassy will not accept any public receptions in any locality, with one exception, during their stay in this coun and that exception is tn favor of Boston, the old home of Mr. Burita- game. By cable telegram dated yesterday we received in- telligence of the death of the Kight Honoravie Stephen Rumbold Lushington, which took place in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He was born in London in the year 1782, and received his education at Eton and Oxford, After gra.uating at All Sous College he was ‘called to the bar in 1806, and two Years subsequently he was admitted an advocate at Doctors’ Commons. He made rapid progress in the rofession of law, and devoted much of his leisure hours to literary pursuits. In 1828 he was appointed judge of the Consistory Court, and ten yeara later ie Was called upon to fill the responsible position of Judge of the High Court of Admiraity. He repre. sented various borouglis in the liberal interest in the British Saree years following 1829, and closed bis Parliamentary labors and retired from | eae. life tin the year 1841. At the close of his Pariiamentary career he was appointed by the then reform cabinet chief judge of the Court o| Archers,