The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1868, Page 4

4 disease supposed to be similar to the present one, and reported that there was no danger in eating NEW YORK HERALD | BROADW4Y AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed NEw York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Mie! THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. MUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Foun Pray. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BAuDE BUtUE BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dopotng FOR A WIFR— RED GNOME AND WHITE WaRnrox. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Brontway.—Huarry Domery. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Fire Fry. * BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—TRODDEN Down. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th street, ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comro Voua.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &o. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Sovanth avenue. —PoruL an GampEN Concent, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— KELLY & LEON'S ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &O. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU MINBTRELS—SURF. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOK AND ART. Brooklynt—Hoo.ry'’s August 10, 1868. New York, Monday, THE NEWS. EUROPE. By special cable telegram from London we have news from Turkey which states that Admiral Farra- gut had reached Constantinople in the steamer Frolic, ‘The Franklin was on duty at Syria. ‘The news reported by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, August 9. Queen Victoria reached Lucerne, Switzerland. The reaffirmation of the entente cordiale with Eng- land pleases the Parisians. The Hungarian Governor permitted the arrest of the Servian prince, Prince Alexander, accused of complicity in Prince Michael’s murder By steamship, at this port, we have our special European correspondence and mail report in detail of our cable telegrams to the 30th of July. Adelina Patti was married in London. MISCELLANEOUS. French advices from Japan report the Mikado as acting with great military vigor against the rebel forces. Our Sandwich Islands correspondence presents numerous topics of interest. The Attorney General has not yet found anything in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser upon which to bring an indictment for treason, but asks further time forexamination. The Minister of Foreign Affairs intends soon to sail on a visit to the courts of Europe, in order to remodel existing treaties. The first cargo of Japanese coolles had arrived at the islands, and it is believed that they will prove valuable help to the sugar planters. ‘The government offers a subsidy of $30,000 for inter- island steam navigation. Lighthouse dues—three dollars for every foreign vessel entering the port and ten cents per ton annually for coasters—are to be collected at Honolulu. The King feels great anxiety regarding the course to be pursued to- wards him by the United States. He says if the Americans trouble him he will hoist the British fag and claim its protection. The opinion of Attorney General Evarts on the legality of appointing an ad interim Commissioner of Internal Kevenue in place of Mr. Rolling will probably be submitted to the President on Tuesday. It is understood to be adverse to the legality of the proceeding, and therefore adverse to the wishes of the President. M. Berthemy, the French Minister at Washington, has expressed his conviction that Mr. Burlingame, with his Chinese Embassy, will be as cordially wel- comed in Europe as he has been in America. The Democratic Electoral Convention in Columbia, S. C., adjourned on Saturday. Resolutions were adopted thanking the Northern democracy for their cordial welcome of the Southern delegations in New York and declaring that the party South relies on constitutional agencies and peaceful measures for success. Wade Hampton made a speech, denying the interpretation put upon his recent speeches by the Northern papers. ‘The lower house of the Louisiana Legislature has passed the new militia bill, which makes it a penal offence to organize a military company except under orders of the Governor. ‘Two of the Indiana express robbers were arrested in Windsor, Canada, on Saturday night. One of them, Reno, is the last of a notorious family of that name, who were ali concerned in the recent robbery of an express car on an Indiana railroad. Six of his gang were hanged by the mob at Seymour some time ago. Our correspondent at Mount Desert, Me., mentions some of the attractions of that place, which is visited annually by a large number of Philadelphians and New Englanders, the representation from New York generally being very small. The fishing, bathing and driving are all good. Among the late arrivals from New York is Mr. John W. Harper. Rey. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., preached an open air sermon yesterday at the junction of Colymbia and East Houston streets and avenue A. crowd was large and very orderly, although the place chosen for the meeting is not very notable for the good order or good morals of its frequenters, The camp meeting at Sing Sing continues to in- creas: in numbers, four hundred tents being already erected on the ground. Rey. William Morley Pun- shon, the Wesieyan preacher from England, who was a deiegate in the Chicago Quadrennial Con- ference, was on the grounds on Friday and delivered asermon. Rev, Henry Ward Beecher was invited to Preach yesterday, but the invitation did not reach him in time, and Rev. Dr. Newman, of New Orleans, oMciated, It is believed Mr. Beecher will accept the invitation. The association of German-American teachers, which meets every two weeks in this city, have sub- mitted a report of the educational system pursued by them to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington. It appears that German children going to the regular schools in this country usually forget the language of the Faderiand, and the schools wore first organized to do away with this state of af- fairs. They have, in the course of time, been greatly improved, until now they are claimed to be equal to the best schools in Germany. ‘The yacht squadron departed from Glen Cove yea- terday, after the members had enjoyed a good time at Mr. Kinnard’s and the Pavilion Hotel, in the way of hops and dinners. They arrived at New London in thé afternoon. A list of the oMcers and crew of the bark Henry Trowbridge, all of whom were lost, shows that all of them, except the captain, were from New York, the captain being a resident of New Haven. Three of the dead seamen were found in the forecastle when the vessel was first discovered, and yesterday nother dead body was found ina bunk, making the fourth whfch has been recovered. The list num- vered ten altogether, #0 there are six still missing, besides the captain’s wife and children, all of whom are supposed to have taken to the boats and been swamped. party necessity, to secure the election. the meat or drinking the milk. An investigation by a HERALD reporter of the s‘aughter houses at Com- munipaw yesterday disclosed the fact that most of the meat there was diseased. Over one hundred car loads of cattle have arrived at Bergen since Satur- day, and sixty-nine arrived at Communipaw yester- day. ‘The exodus of citizens and their families on the numerous excursions which New York offers almost gratuitously to her wearied denizens took place yes- terday, Hoboken, Fishing Banks, High Bridge, Coney Island and all the others having the usual represen- tation. The figures of the late election in Kentucky show a democratic gain in eighty-five counties of 40,363, Governor Stevenson's actual majority is nearly 90,000, The steamship City of New York, Captain Tibbetts. of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river to- morrow (Tuesday), at one P. M., fer Halifax, Queens- town and Liverpool. The mails by this steamer will close at the Post OMce at twelve M. on Tuesday. The Electoral College—Prospect of Difficulty Alena. From the action of the Florida Legislature, from the apparent determination of the radi- cals to chose the President by manipulating the electoral vote for this purpose, should the contest be a close one, and from several other difficulties looming up with regard to this question, there is some reason to fear serious consequences. The radical Legislature in Florida and the Legislatures in some other of the reconstructed States show an evident purpose of frustrating the popular vote for Presidential electors, in case that vote is likely to be against them, by giving the Legis- lature the power of choosing electors, as was formerly the case in South Carolina. Suppos- ing even the Legislatures have this power legally—but that is questionable—such an abuse of authority would be contrary to the spirit of the constitution, to our republican institutions and to the avowed principles of the radical party, which all along denounced the South Carolina mode of choosing electors as anti-republican; but worse than that, it might lead to great trouble, or even to civil war. Then there are three States—Virginia, Mis- sissippi and Texas—not yet fully restored and not likely to be before the Presidential elec- | tion. Are they to be excluded from the Elec- toral College because their representatives have not been admitted to Congress? They will doubtless send electors to the College. Will it be left to the President of the Senate, whose duty it is to count the Presidential elec- toral votes, to say whether these States shall be excluded or not? Their votes might decide the election. The contest may be so close that the votes of these three States counted for Grant and Colfax would elect these candi- dates, and without them Seymour and Blair would be elected. In that case would the radical party and would Mr. Wade lose the opportunity of securing the power and patron- age of the government? The prize is an enormous one, and, judging from the antece- dents of Mr. Wade and the radicals, we think they would not lose the opportunity. True, Congress passed a joint resolution, and that over the veto of the President, excluding States not reconstructed and entitled to representation in Congress, which was evidently intended to apply tq Virginia, Mississippi and Texas; but this resolution could be repealed or a special act of admission passed betwoen September and November, or any time before the counting of the votes, if that became a On the other hand, should Seymour and Blair re- ceive a sufficient number of votes, which by counting those of the three States named would give them a majority in the Electoral College, would not the President of the Senate, acting upon the joint resolution of Congress and in favor of his party, refuse to count the votes of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas ? These are some of the complications and dangers of the approaching Presidential elec- tion. the Electoral College bill referred to holds that all the States, though some may not be repre- sented in Congress, have the constitutional right to vote for President and Vice President, and, of course, this includes Virginia, Missis- sippi and Texas. The democratic party will probably insist upon this right. imagine, then, what a terrible conflict may occur should the votes or exclusion of the votes of these three States decide the election one way or the other. danger nor an improbable one. fearful prospect of it. it is for the people of the Northern States to cast such an overwhelming vote for one or other of the tickets that the election may not be left to a few of the Southern States or to the contingent action of Congress in any case, The President in his veto message of We can This is not a fancied There is a The only way to avert Mr. McCallech’s Figures. Mr. McCulloch's statement of the national debt is too brief and ambiguous to on- able the public to understand the opera- tions of the Treasury Department in the con- version of our national securities. We see, the, ‘Herat yesterday, that as sed over twelve millions during the last year, from August 1, 1867, to August 1, 1868; but we do not know how this deplorable state of th has been brought about at the time the national {income was over four hundred and seventy millions. The greatest change that has taken place has been in the conversion of the three-year seven- thirty notes, to the amount of $451,233,425, into six per cent five-twefty bonds princi- pally. The debt bearing coin interest has been increased $4109,464,891, This, of course, at the present premium on gold, adds largely to the annual burden of interest. What the country wants to know particularly is the amount Mr#McCulloch gains ‘or loses in these enormous financial transactions of converting the debt from one form to another—how it is done and how mnch might be saved by an able management of the finances. The power given to the Secretary is extraordinary and the responsibility very great. From what we know of his incapacity and ignorance of na- tional finance there is reason to fear a vast sum {s lost by his manipulation of the public debt, especially as we see the debt has been increased while the income has been stu- pendous. The people want to know all the facts, and we call upon Mr. McCulloch to give them. At least we hope Congress will thor- There is some excitement in the city over the report of large trains of diseased cattle being on the way here from the West. Professor Gamgee, of Chicago, some time ago investigated the cause of @ oughly probe the transactions of the Treasury Department with regard to the management of the national debt, | ! NuW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 186s. Diseased Cattle in Market. There is some excitement just now over the idea that a quantity of diseased beef has found its way into our markets from the West. The promptness of the Board of Health, to whom we are indebted for many other sanitary pre- cautions, in causing an immediate examination to be made into the condition of the cattle yards in this vicinity, and requesting the Gover- nors of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jer- sey to look after the cattle trains approaching this city through their respective States, may arrest any danger arising from this circum- stance. Most of the cattle which come here from Texas and the Cherokee country, where it is said the disease originated, are shipped from two points in Kansas—Abilene and Sa- lina—through to Chicago, so that it would be very easy to have a thorough examination of the cattle trains made between the latter place and the city of New York. The Board of Health have control over the slaughter houses in this city, and it is their duty to see that no diseased cattle are killed for market in those establishments. We have to trust to the Board of Health for the safe en- joyment of our beefsteaks, and with energetic action on the part of that body there will be no cause for alarm, It would be deplorable if, ia the absence of cholera and yellow fever, which are happily kept at bay by wise sanitary measures and timely rains, the health of the city should be trifled with by the importation of living poison in the shape of Texas cattle, and disease and death be permitted to creep insidiously into our households from the butch- ers’ shops or the stalls of our markets. We hope, therefore, that the Board of Health will pursue a rigorous investigation into this matter and give the public at once a true statement of the case. Meantime we hardly think that there is any serious cause for a panic upon the question of beef. Butler’s Speech at Gloucester. General Butler has taken time by the fore- lock, and, getting the start of General Schouler, his rival candidate for Congress from the Fifth district in Massachusetts, has made the first bid for the nomination. His speech at Glou- cester on Saturday evening to the wives and daughters of the absent Cape Ann fishermen was fully reported the next morning in the New York Heratp, This speech recounts in the most eulogistic manner, of course, his own labors in Congress in behalf of the in- terests of his constituents. It defends his obstinate advocacy of impeachment of the President. It reiterates the charge of being “victims of corruption” against the seven re- publican Senators—‘‘the same number as there were devils cast out of Magdalene”—and for lack of whose votes impeachment failed. It gives a good word to Stanton and many a bad one to Thomas and to Andrew Johnson. The latter is denounced in Butler's usual bitter style ‘‘as a traitor, a sympathizer with rebels, counterfeiters and thieves and every bad man generally.” General Grant is ‘damned with faint praise.” The story is denied that a bar- gain “had been patched up between Grant and Butler,” alike disgraceful to both. A con- tradiction is offered of ‘‘another of the many- headed rumors in circulation” to the offect that in the event of General Grant's election the Massachusetts representative ‘‘will not receive that just and proper recognition from the aduifpistration which belongs to his position in the fpublican party.” Butler declares :—“‘I shall advocate the election of General Grant as the man selected by my party, whose patriot- ism, energy and success at the head of the armies of the United States in destroying the rebellion in arms give satisfactory assurance that he will be able, at the head of the gov- ernment, to resist this new phase of the re- bellion. Transferred to civil life and his administration devoted to such a patriotic work, it shall have the same cordial and hearty support from me that it would have were he my dearest personal friend.” We must not omit to mention that Butler not only thus ‘“‘defines his position,” but also gives a curious definition of the term “carpet-baggers.” According to his authority, these are ‘“‘soldiers who fought in the war and conquered, and who, while seeking to defend by ballot what they had gained by the bullet, have been called by their copperhead enomies ‘oarpet-baggers,’ the only reason for such an appellation being that the war has robbed them of all except what can conve- niently be carried in that small article.” Now 60 many of the so-called ‘‘carpet-baggers” were sutlers, and not soldiers, and so many of them never had anything at all to be robbed of previous to the war, that this definition must be regarded as funny rather than correct. It will hardly do to be inserted even in the next edition of Webster's Dictionary of the Connecticut language. Nor will everybody put the same estimate as Butler on what he enumerates ‘‘among the benefits which the war has given tothe South,” ‘the dispensa- tion of three million dollars’ worth of food offered to the impoverished whites.” Liberal as this ‘‘dispensation” must be considered, it could but poorly compensate for the absolute destruction of thousands of millions of South- ern capital by the war. Perhaps the hero of Fort Fisher may deem the impoverishment of the Southern whites a blessing, but to whom ? He may be devoutly thankful that it has been “ganoctified to his own good.” Nevertheless, if it be a grim joke to him, it is death to them. Cochin and France. Our latest news from the far Kast is of rather an alarming character. On the 16th of June last it appears that a French trading station situated near the frontier line of Cochin China was attacked by a band of Anamite rebels. The French station consisted only of twenty- five men, who for a time made a gallant re- sistance, but who were ultimately overpotvered and massacred. On the 21st of June a French force appeared on the scene, dispersed the rebels and recaptured the place. In another place in this day's Heraty we give at some length an account of the actual relations now and for some time subsisting between France and the empire of Anam. It cannot but be fresh in the memory of our readers that almost simultaneously with the retirement of the French from Mexico France virtually gave up the fruitless contest which she had for some time been carrying on in that part of Asla—a cir- cumstance of which the opposition in the French Ohamber last yoar took full advantage, Ia those circumstances it was a slight solatium to the irritated mind of France to learn that Admiral de la Granditre had occupied and permanently annexed to France the six pro- vinces of Lower Cochin China. It will not be surprising if this fresh outrage on French traders shall so work on the mind of France as to give the Emperor an opportunity of giving General Niel and a large section of the French army employment in the East. An expedition to the East may now be considered certain, and it is not an improbabilit# that the entire emp! f Anam will be brought under French control. France haa never yet catablished herself firmly in the East. This seems to be her opportunity. Mr. Campbells Letter to the Negroes. At a great democratic meeting in Aiken, Ga., on the 4th inst., a letter from Mr. J. B. Campbell, of Charleston, was read, a long ex- tract from which (embodying his views of the present condition and future prospecta of the American negro) we published yesterday. These views are in the main full of soberness and truth. The direct address which Mr. Campbell makes to the negroes themselves is no less kindly than plain and forcible. He tells them :—‘You may live here if you will, peaceable, happy’ and prosperous under the protection of our laws just as we are pro- tected, with no distinction or inequality, but you cannot govern us.” He says, alluding to a qualified suffrage, “that will be for the edu- cated and the property holders among you. They are so few that it will give youno power, not even the shadow of it.” He adds:—‘‘If every white inhabitant of South Carolina—if every white man, woman or child in the South- ern States should consent and agree to it, you would not be permitted by the people of the North and the West to establish a Liberian or a Dominican or a Haytien government in the United States.” And he concludes his re- markably interesting letter thus:—‘‘You have the opportunity offered to choose between per- petual peace, prosperity and advancement in all the many blessings called civilization—be- tween that and hostility to us, degradation and final extermination. We offer you the former ; the carpet-bagger tempts you to the latter. As your friend I pray God to give you wisdom in your choice.” There is no doubt that the letter of Mr. Campbell faithfully expresses the views and the friendly spirit of, all good and intelligent members of the late slave-owning class at the South. The Franco-American Telegraph. The Franco-American Telegraph Company has taken practical shape and has obtained a cha®ter, and we are assured that by the Ist of August next year a new cable will connect New York with Paris. To the enterprise of Cyrus W. Field and his friends, coupled with the assistance obtained in Great Britain, both the Old and New Worlds must remain lastingly indebted, because they sustained all the risk, expense and anxiety inseparable from initial experiments, and because their success in the long run made future efforts in the same line as much a necessity as a convenience. The two cables already existing have justified the wildest dreams of the warmest advocates of ocean cables. But two cables are not enough to connect the brain of Europe and the brain of the United States. Besides, the present medium of communication is too much under the control of Great Britain. In the event of any international complications of a serious character we should be, so far as the present cables are concerned, entirely at the mercy of England. It cannot, therefore, but be gratifying to all the people of this great and growing republic that French enterprise has determined that there shall be a new and independent line of telegraphic intercourse, The Great Eastern has been chartered by the company. British and French engineers and other men of science have been en- gaged to lend the expedition the benefit of their wisdom and experience. The shares, wo observe, are being eagerly bought in both the French and English markets, and the official journal of France, in an article which we re- produce to-day, speaks of the vast importance and ‘‘grandeur” of the undertaking. Every- thing indicates success. It will not be long till Great Britain multiplies her cables. It will not be long till the Continental nations make similar ventures. Wo grow and all Europe feels our importance. Europe, in fact, stretches out her hands and seeks to know more of us and to benefit more and more by our boundless resources. The time is not far fistant when Atlantic cables will be numbered by the dozen and when Pacific cables will be equally numerous. The United States will then become the true centre of the modern world. The natural result will be the attrac- tion of Enropeans in large numbers to our coasts, the development of our national re- sources and the tremendous prosperity of the great cities on our Eastern and Western sea- board. Let cables multiply in all the seas. We oannot have too much cable intelligence, for intelligence of this sort is progress, wealth and comfort. . America as a Wine Growing Country. We observe that the Secretary of State has been applied to by certain parties in France for information as to the most eligible portions of this country for the cultivation of the grape, with a view to wine raising by French colo- nists. Mr. Seward has promised to furnish the information sought for. There is no doubt that vast tracts of our Southern and Western States are admirably suited for this purpose. Missouri, Eastern Kansas and the two Caro- linas can raise large quantities of grapes. Indeed, we know that Ohio, Missouri and California already produce excellent wines, and in North and South Carolina even the wild grape vine yields an excellent fruitage for the manufacture of wine. With almost limitless variety of so!! and climate which we possess there is no reason why the United States should not be one of the finest wine growing countries in the world. In the Southern States especially there are peculiar facilities for making this branch of agriculture and manufacture profitable. “aad is very cheap there just now, The young people of the negro families, who are nuw a burien * the country, could be employed in get) riag the grapes, It is just the kind of labor suited poluts. The Bureau of Agriculture must havi a fund of facts connected with the capacity of the country for wine growing. It is most desirable that the millions of acres of un- cultivated lands now lying idle should be used for this purpose by enterprising colonists. For the last twenty-five years public atten- tion has been spasmodically awakened to the interoceanic highway of Tehuantepec, which after lying dormant for a certain period, say about every eight years, gives a sudden kick and, exhibiting » momentary sign of life, as suddenly relapses into its normal mummy condition. In 1842 great expectations were indulged among commercial men when the original concession was granted by Santa Anna to his favorite cock fighting associate, Don José de Garay, for the purpose of uniting the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean by means of a ship canal. But the gold fields of California and Australia were then undiscovered, and the enormity of the capital required for the con- struction of the work proposed could not be raised either here or in Europe. Then the project was duly embalmed for safe keeping. Eight years later, when the events of the Mexican war had passed into history and when the tide of emigration began to set westward, the Tehuantepec crossing rose to its full vale but the mixed ‘‘ring” of speculators (consist- ing of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Mexicans and Americans long resident in Mexico) into whose hands the franchise had passed from Garay wanted millions of dollars for their in- terest, and thus they sealed up the Isthmus against the world. Had these people been less selfish or grasping the railroad projected by General Barnard in 1850 would have been built between the Gulf and the Pacific, all Southeastern Mexico would have been vitalized and regenerated and Panama outrivalled long ago. As early as 1848 an effort was made by the United States government to secure the right of way over Tehuantepec, but these same speculators, whose clutches are still upon the grant, headed off Mr. Buchanan in his offer of fifteen million dollars to Mexico by the shrewd trick of transferring the franchise toone of their number, an English subject, “of whose rights Mexico could not dispose." But the moment the negotiation was defeated and Mexico prevented from any participation in this magnificent sum these speculators hoped still to perfect the sale to the govern- ment, when, presto! the grant changed hands and the Yankee membé? of the ring became vested with the soi disant “‘title.” But Mr, Buchanan saw through the scheme, and he adroitly turned the tables by saying that “‘if the project was slready in the hands of American citizens the United States had no need to buy.” It is needless to recapitu- late the spasmodic attempts that have been made from that time to this to open the Tehu- antepec route or to enumerate the legal diffi- culties that have beset the title both here and in Mexico. But one thing is worthy of note— no effort has been spared by the shifting owners of this enterprise to entangle the United States government in some way with their schemes and thus make it a party to this gigantic speculation. Tho favorite and most feasible plan has been to manipulate the American Legation in Mexioo, and (to the discredit of this country be it said) so success- fully has this engineering process been con- ducted that unless the diplomatic agent of our government gave himself up, body and boots, to these Tehuantepec speculators his useful- ness was utterly destroyed. Surrounded at all times by spies, either smuggled into his household as servants or forced upon him as attachés or interpreters, the secrets of the Legation have always been in possession of these outsiders, Ifthe Minister made a show of independence and kicked against such guardianship he was sure to be tabooed in Mexican society or made the object in secret of ridicule and contempt. Thus the post has been intolerable, and thus, for the past ten years, the United States Minister to Mexico, ina diplomatic sense, has never been ‘‘worth his salt.” In the selection of General Rosecrans, who is a distinguished engineer, a gallant soldier, an excellent linguist and a high-toned gentle- man, there are reasonable hopes for a better order of things, and we doubt not he will keep his eyes open for these Tehuantepec operators with their mummy speculation. Great good will undoubtedly follow from the opening of this isthmian crossing; but the dog-in-the- manger policy must cease or Mexico be left free to wrest the project from the stockjobbers into whose hands it has fallen, who will neither build the road ‘nor allow others to undertake it, Care should be taken, likewise, that the long outstanding debts due to Ameri- can engineers and Mexican laborers for the work that has already been done are promptly paid; and while the holders of the franchise are made to act in good faith to Mexico let the new Minister see that this grand project, of so much commercial valug to both nations, does not become, by a guaet endorsement on his part, the ‘‘boosting rope” for any broken- down railroad speculation, either in Florida or elsewhere. Minister Washburn and the Brazilian Commander. The little difficulty with the belligerent Powers on the Parand, gotten up by Mr. Washburn, is one of which, per- haps, the public may formi different opin- fons when it hears all the facts; but from what is thus far known it would appear that our Minister has suffered his personal pride and sense of the dignity of his position to carry him a little too far. He wanted a United States vessel to go up the Paraguay ‘river to inke his family on board; but this would require the vessel to go beyond a blockaded point, and the authorities main- | taining the blockade refused the permission. | This thy had the right to do. Suppose the | British Minister in Washington had claimed | the Tht to send @ train to Richmond through he Army of the Potomac, whether we liked it sot, to bring away some fanctionary and ais (amily, We would hardly have thought | him a man of good sense, and Mr. Washbura ; seems to put himself in just such a position as of all to them, and they could be employed et a very | we have imagined for that Minister. The ship | small cost. The State Department is no doubt | might have brought away only the Minister prepared to afford informatign upon gli these © and his femily—it might have been [nnovent ee pat E Sinton to do more; buat it cannot be it its mere- passage up the stream might have shown to the enemy. The allied commander gave a sufficiently liberal evidence of his own good will by offering to convey the Minister down to a specified point in one of his own ships—an offer that was declined ap- parently without even a polite, much leas amicable, recognition of its civility, Appear- ances so far are certainly against Mr. Wash- burn, and an indignity that the Minister calls upon himself by ill temper and want of judg- ment cannot implicate the government; but @ full history of the case may put our repre- sentative in a better light. The Soclety for the Prev te Animals. This society has just made its second an- nual report. According to the statistics of this document something has really been accom- plished. No less than two hundred and fifty persons have been prosecuted for cruelty to dumb animals. Dog fights and cock fighte have been almost wholly suppressed. During the hot weather special relief has boen sup- plied to car horses, and ten drinking fountains have been erected for the use ot horses and dogs. So far so good. Is it not pretty nearly time now for the benevolent to pay increased attention to the wants of their own fellow creatures? How many hundred human vic- tims of sunstroke might have been saved this summer by simple and inexpensive provisiona for their immediate relief! Where are the drinking fountains for man, as well as beast, the drawings for which were lately examined by the Board of Health? Where are the pub- lic baths and other indispensable appliances of civilization so often recommended by the press? The health and happiness of our im- mense population in New York would be vastly improved if Mr. Bergh and his friends would encourage humanity as well as prevent cruelty to animals, He prayeth well who loveth weil Both man and bird and beast; He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all. MOVEMENTS OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY. tlen of Crucky The Embassy Enjoying a Social Time—Mr. Burlingame Dec.ines All Pablic Ovations. AUBURN, N. Y., August 7, 1868, This morning the Embassy passed their time in the enjoyable recreation of remaining within doors, or those who saw fit made pyjyate visits on their own account. The students particularly took occasion to return the compliments pald; them by dropping in, upon thelr frignds and passing a few moments of conversation in English or French. Teh and several others took an opportunity to practise a game of croquet in the yard of Mr. Woodruff, adjoining the Piemisés of Secretary Seward. This amusement seems to Meet with universal favor and several of the students are quite proficient mm playing. There were plenty of young people about to make all or any desired explanations, At other places some amused themselves, ag woll as those around, in trying to acquire the pronunciation of English words. Teh and Kong show a remark- able aptitude for the acquisition of languages, and pronounce surprisingly well. Those who speak English—Messrs. Fung and Teh—in point of accentu- ation, pronunciation and emphasis, 4) almost as purely as an American and better tl foreigners generally. At half-past one the party visited the residence of Mr. Ch pher Morgan, in response to an invitation from that gentleman. They were received in the rior by Mr. Morgan, his lady and daughters, fter a brief conversation the party partook of Roman punch. The Tajens and some of the students enjoyed this new beverage very much. Chih and Sun displayed their appreciation by taking a second round. Fung, upon being urged to take a Ce | remarked that he was ‘a teetotaler, and woul to be excused.” The Embassy, in company with the host and hostess, Sec: Seward aud « small number of ladies and gentlemen, then sat down to an excellent lunch. Spiced oysters, sand- wiches, pagodas of ice cream, sherry, yr od and an unmentionable variety of small dishes, jellies, cakes and the like made up the details of this formidable “lunch.” At three o’clock the Embassy in carriages visited the works which supply the city with water. The novelty of these rests in the fact of furnishing the supply by means of water power directly to the city without the assistance of a reservoir, the power ot three turbine wheels the water is forced into the pipes at a square inch, circumstances being square inch. The machinery is 80 constructed regulate itself to this voiume, and in event of fire in the cu two miles distant, by opening a plug the extra- ordinary escape of water accelerates the motivn of the machine, which greater rapidity at once communi- cates with a lever and rings an alarm bell, when the engineers immediately put on more water. One novelty as a consequence of this peculiar mode of supplying the city with water is the absence of fire engines. The water works themselves are fire en- gines enough, th they are two miles off. In case of necessity, @ hose to one or were ex: by the superintendent. The at the simplicity of the ma- and were dee; terested in its work. his in’ the imminent residence of Colonel Perry, wi passed the of the afternoon. ‘This even! qa few calls were made by different members of the Embassy. Mr. Burlingame wishes it to be understood cities on the route of travel, however much it might be forthe pleasure of the party, that he must tively decline ey poe ovations on the way. action of the city of Buffalo he recognizes as an act of erent zise courtesy, and the necessity of adher. his rule. ‘There aro soveral reasons for adopt- oy bg og The first and most im; tof these is fact that the China on up to the teresta, business, latter the must be for his quired in the walks of public life in the service of his country. BROOKLYN INTELLIGENCE. Rossing A Money Drawsr.—John Smith and John Meehan were arrested and locked up to answer, tobacconist, at 129 Myrtle avenue. Runaway ACCIDENT.—A team of horses attached toa carriage belonging to Louls Ditwiller became frightened in Fifth avenue on Saturday and ran away. They smashed the Mg to pieces and dam @ vehicle peneng to Mr. Stout. Fortu- nately, no person was injured. INCRNDIARISM IN THE EASTERN Drsrrict.—A building in Fifth street, near North Ninth, BE. D., owned by Harmon Saunders, and occupied as @ blacksmith’s shop and stables, was set on fire b unknown persons between three and four o’c! jay morning and damaged to the extent of 150. No insurance. ARREST OF LIQUOR DEALERS.—The police of the Forty-nfth precinct yesterday arrested Charles Mar- tin, clerk in the grocery and liquor store of John Tedeman, Marcy avenue and Rodney street, and George Punett, corner of Second street and, South Fourth, BE. D., on charges of violating the Sunday, clause of the Excise law. They were locked up. SHOOTING AFrkay.—Benjamin Dayton and Wm. Davis, between whom an animosity has existed for along time past, met in Vanbrunt street, near Ra- pelyea, about ten o'clock on Saturday night. Dayton slapped Davis in the face, when the latter Orow a rewelver and shot his opponent in the foot. The injured man was taken to the , were the ball was extracted. Davis made his escape. ATTEMPTED Buro.ary.—An attempt was made by burglars about half-past two o'clock yesterday morning to effect an entrance in the dry goods stora of William H, Gelston, at 60 Flatbush avenue. Mr. Golston was awakened by the noise and on reaching just making his . the store discovered a man j 7 ie asan' tno and oMcer Seg ag fetvcolorod tam and exes Bin name aa Ivers son.