The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1868, Page 4

NEW YvorkK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES ‘GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New York Heravp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-Humpty Domrry. Matinee at 1'y. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18h street.— Free Fiy. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuoppen Down. Matinee at 13x NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BaRne BLEUE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Don JUAN--BRAZILIAN Are. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Taxmuny Building, Mth mireet.—ETHiOPiaN MINGTRELDSY, &O. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOSE 21 Bowery, Coro VooaLIM, NEGRO MimeIRELSY, &c. Matince ut 335. THEATRE COMIQUE. 514 Broadway.—Eriortan Eo- eRNTEIONTIES, CONIC VOOALISM, &C. Matinee at 249. CENTRAL PARK GARDI GauvEN Concent. Seventh avenue.—POPULAR MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— KELLY & LENS EVHOPIAN MINSTRELSY, &e. HOOLEY'S OPERA SE, Brooklyn,—Hoonry's MINSTRELS—A STRANGE WOMAN IN BROOKLYN. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOIENOE AND ART. Saturday, August 22, 1868. << New York, Preparations for Business—Vast Increase iu the Circulation of the Herald. Despite the prevalence of the political exciteiont which precedes a Presidential the commercial interests in New centres give evidence of the steady approach of a very heavy business season and indicate a vast expansion of trade. of the Heratp reflect both facts daily. Our advertising business this full commenced to election, Work and the other great The advertising columns extend at an earlier date than in any pre- ceding year, and is accumulating so rapidly as to give solid assurance that it will be larger, as well as of a more diversified rharacter as to the wants of the millions, than in any foregoing fall, The circulation of the Heratp increases in an equal ratio. Letters enclosing business advertisements and sub- scriptions for the paper pour into the Heratp Ignoring the ahifiings and turnings, the violence and vulgarities of the party press, merchants aud traders from different sections write us by every mail in the following terms :— ‘On acconnt of my business 1 very much tnter- ested in the issue of the comin: Presidential election and want to learn something as to the probabilities pf its resuit on the substantial interests of the coun- try. Caring nothing for politics, and unable to glean anything from a press which is forced to set forth merely the sayings and doings of party leaders and fepresent the case as they direct, | want @ paper whfth will give me the news and tell me what is heally occurring at home and abroad. I can learn hothing from the others—silly, violent, abusive, full bf slang and, consequently, unpatriotic. 1 lave to lake the IeRALD for the news. THE NEWS. establishment in increasing volume. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlanti’ cable is dated yes- verday evening, August 21. The Swiss authorities have ascertained that an Attempt was to have been made to murder Queen Victoria during her recent visit at Lucerne. A man, Phose naine is not given, has been arrested, and, it said, confesses to have intended to assusainate her eae. He is a Fenian. Twenty-five persons were killed by accident, faused by a railroad cofWion, in Wales. One of the golliding trains was loaded with petroleum, which exploded, took fire and jiteraily roasted eighteen of the deceased. To-day (August 22) will be observed #8 @ holiday in London, There was a heavy outflow bf specte from the Bank of France. { The York, England, races were quite animated @nd largely attended during the secoud and tuird faya, | Consols 03%, mo ey. Five-twenties TIX1iu Lon. don and 76% in Franktort. Paris Bourse closed Quiet on the 20th instant, : Cotton firmer and buoyant at an advance, middling Pplands closing at 104d. Breadstuifs quiet. Pro- Visions uachanged. MISCELLANEOUS. Our Panama letter is dated August 18, There were Many complaints of the management of the Isthmus Railroad and the New York and San Francisco steamship lines, General Ponce and his forces had reiurned from the interior and had landed without Quy molestation from Correoso, Ponce had imme- Giately issued a decree abolishing martial law and convoking a constitutional assembly, Our letters from the Argentine Confederation are Aated Buenos Ayres, July 14, and Cordoba, July 8 armiento had been el i President by 89 of the fe electoral votes. He was expected home by the ®leamer of August 18, He ts understood to favor peace with Paraguay, and a py y to that effect will robably provoke a war with + Congress was Ein in session, and @ bill to abolish all Argentine Jegations abroad had been int d wud was likely to become a law. The financial trouble in Monte- Video still prevatied, The proposed inpeachinent of ' dent Mitre has been given up, The women in Wuraguay, it is reported, tn addition to becoming #oldiers are #iso performing civil functions, sach as Justices, alcaides, recruiting oMlcers, &c. Our Const at Fayal, Azores, shipped abont eighty. foven deserters from Amer whaling vessels on board the brig Evarista for Boston, in November Jast, in order to get them home, The brig has not Bince been heard from, and it 1s supposed that she Das been lost with ali on voard. Genera! Rosec t is said, has gone to Green Bria e Salp! Va., to mect General Bee ani (her rebel chieftans for some important Purpose, supposed to be a pronunciamiento accept. dng 86 final the abolition of slavery. Among the visitors already at Green Briar are Governors Pickens and Letcher, Generals Lee, Echols, Beaure- ard and other notables, Ewell and Lougstreet are expected to-day, It is stated in Washington that the President ts undoubtedly preparing charges of incompetency aud mismanagement against luternal Revenue Comimis- bioner Rolling, ‘The New York yacht squadron conciaded its sum. mer cruixe at New Bedfort on Thureday, when it disbanled, and the vessels sailed away in thelr Yarious directions. Seven million doliars gold have been shipped to Kew York from San Francisco since Jannery 1, an excess of a million and a half over the amount hipped in the same time last year, A bill to exempt foreign capital invested in cotton fmonufactures in Georgia from taxation was deteated $n the lower house of the Legislature Of iiat State esterday. _ NEW. YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, | AUGUST 22, 1868. into a crowd in Washington were yesterday fined for disorderly conduct and sixteen others were required to give ball in from $300 to $500 to answer at a further hearing. The Naval Academy steamer Macedonia, with the graduates on board, arrived dn Thuraday at Annap- lis from Funchal, Madeira, Two Grant electors in Alabama have declined to serve, and have taken the stump for Seymour. A radical paper in Montgoucry has ceased publication for want of support. The opposition Sound steamers have settled their differences and returned to the old passenger fare of five dollars, instead of one, to Boston, No Councilmen have yet been arrested under the Supreme Court warrants, as they are all out of town. Itis probable they will settle the matter by admitting the five claimants. A curious case of long continued embezzling was brought to light yesterday. A Mrs, Poer, forewoman of a paper collar manufactory, and her daughter, who is assistant forewoman, were heid by Alderman Coman, at the Tombs, for trial on the charge of ob- taining money by compelling her girl employés, about sixty in number, to draw money for a surplus number of collarsjand give the money to them on pam of dismissal, The steamship Helvetia, Captain Outting, of the National line, will leave pier No. 47 North river at half-past eight this morning for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The steamship Atalanta, Captain Dixon, will sail from pier No. 3 Nofth river at nine o'clock this morning for London direct. The steamship Tybee, Captain Caulkins, will be despatched for Galveston, Texas, at three o’clock this afternoon, from pier No. 4gNorth river. The steamship San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, sails for Savannah to-day, at three o’clock, from pier No. 8, North river. The steamship Champion, Captain Lockwood, will leave pier No. 5 North river this afternoon at three o’clock for Charleston, connecting with steamers to Florida ports. The steamship Granada, Captain Harris, will sail for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz at ten o'clock this forenoon, leaving pier 17 East river, Greeley on the Presidential Election. Greeley begins to see the Presidential can- vass in clear light, and sees every reason to fear the failure of Grant, He says that the labor that is to insure the triumph of the re- publican candidates ‘‘is yet to be done;” that six times as many clubs ag the Grant men now have are necessary, and that before it can expect to win theclubs must ‘gather and glean half a million votes from those who are now indifferent or hostile” to the republican party. And all this, he justly reasons, ‘implies such acanvass as has never yet been made in our country.” For those who fancy the election of Grant and Colfax certain he says :—‘‘So far is this from the fact that they are this hour in peril of defeat” and ‘‘will surely be beaten if their steadfast supporters are ngt speedily aroused to general and intense activity.” Republicans “have to poll their very last vote in half the States—many more than they ever yet polled in the belt of States beginning with Connec- ticut and extending through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Indiana—or Seymour will be next President.” He believes that “there is danger—grave deanger"—that Grant will not be the next Executive; not that he doubts of the real supremacy of the republican party in point of numbers even, but he fears that republicans will be apathetic and demo- crats crafty, and of course dishonest—a view not quite consistent with his other view that his party needs to win half a million votes gained either from its opponents or from men indifferent to party. Greeley, then, begins to feel the coming de- feat of General Grant. He has good reason to be uneasy in view of the possibility, He may regard this result as in a peculiar’ degree the consequence of his own efforts. He has directly contributed to bring it about. He created in the first place and has kept alive those elements of disaffection to the republican party from which alone Grant's defeat can come. He is the man who has driven the common sense, the respectable controlling con- servatism of the country into an attitude of hostility to the republican party. He is the real source in bis party of all its extreme ten- dencies—all those desperate efforts to remodel the nation in accordance with extravagant and misty theory—those ridiculous vagaries of a dreaming enthusiast who fancies,he is a politi- cian and a statesman. Had republicanism acted on the impulses of the people at the close of the war, had its policy reflected the true will of the people, how different would have been our recent history! But it gave way to that spirit of which Greeley was the head and front, and the rest came of course, Thonce came all the nigger legislation and all that per- versity of our recent political strife that would not have peace ifit was not peace with the nigger in the best place. Thence came all the legislation outside the constitution and the effort to cast the Exegytive office out of our system of government because the occupant of that office did not agree with Greeley in his view of his duties. This is the spirit that has rendered it impossible for the people to act longer with the republican party; and though the nation respects and reveres Grant for his character and his history, it cannot even for his sake accept a party of such tendencies and subject, as its record shows, (o such unsafe influences, It is not the first time that Greeley has ap- peared in the same character, He had the same relation to the disastrous defeat of Scott. He was the leader who inspired in the people such a natural alarm and fear of what might follow the success of the whig party. His extravagant agitation of the anti-slavery ex- citement, his fary, his venomous invectives, his intellectual antics generally, made’ such » sentiment against his party that Scott's heroic national record was an insufficient assurance. In the same way his extravagance and folly have driven from the support of his party the vast masses of the people, and thus he has prepared the way for the defeat of his candi- date, There is one thing that may save Grant, and this chance for safety comes from a | queer quarter. The copperheads, by the pecu- liar character of their opposition to the hero of | the war, may yet insure his election, Their campaign against him may stimulate a great popular movement in -his favor, Popular gratitude is capricions and will not see indig- nities cast on one whom ft ought to favor, even though if left alone it might neglect him. Jackson's career indicated once the full force of this, and Grant's may again, The copper- head violation of all decency in its assaults on the great commander may give him a cham- pion in every respectable voter, and if the people are thus pushed to make the contest turn on the personal merits of the candidate we shall see that the popular good will toward j the nation’s hero is greater eveu than the Tiree of tue colored Souayos on triai for Gripg | popular fear of the radicals, Reported Hitch im Washington About the denies this, and endeavors to prove by loga- Mexican Mission. {t appears from information leaking out at Washington that General Rosecrans’ delay in going on his mission to Mexico arises from a hitch with regard to the instructions the State Department wants to give him and which he objects to receive. It will be remembered that we have ventilated in the Hzraxp from time to time certain big Mexican jobs which Thurlow Weed, Seward and other like patriots have in hand. There isan express company scheme worth about a million dollars; railroad schemes worth about five millions; telegraph concessions worth several millions; land and emigration grants of vast extent and value, and steamship and other privileges equally valuable, all granted by the Maximilian gov- ernment or of older date, and all repudiated by the legitimate and existing government of Mexico. The whole, perhaps, would not be worth leas than twenty millions of dollars if valid, or if President Juarez could be forced to recognize them. The Seward family, with Thurlow Weed and other friends of Seward, claim these grants or have an interest in them. The State Department, it seems, wants to give General Rosecrans instructions to urge or insist upon these claims with the Mexican gov- ernment, and the General stoutly objects. He does ngt want to be sent out as the agent of these speculators under the cover of his minis- terial functions. He isa high-toned and an honorable gentleman, and has broader and larger views of the objects of his mission, Now, as torailroad, telegraph, express com- pany, steamship and other enterprises in Mexico, we are in favor of them, and if carried out they would be a great benefit to that country, They are ‘what Mexico needs, and American capitalists are the men to push them through. But this will neversbe done by kite- flying stock operators and scheming politicians. Nor can the Minister of the United States use his power to urge contracts made by a govern- ment which we treated as bogus all along. The grants made by Maximilian, according to the views of the American government and people, and according to the declaration of the republican government of Mexico, are not worth the paper they were written upon. General Rosecrans is right in refusing to be made a tool for promoting the schemes of these speculators, and the State Department is wrong in wishing it. The truth is, there is but one way to carry out such enterprises and to regenerate Mexico. That is either by estab- lishing a protectorate over the country or by annexing it, The latter would be best; and to do that now would only be anticipating the inevitable destiny of Mexico a few years, It is there our republican empire must first be ‘rounded off ;" for the chronic disorganized condition of that republic, as well as our own destiny, demands that. General Rosecrans is a statesman, and doubtless understands the question well. He should not be hampered with the red tape instructions of the State Department nor be made the tool of scheming speculators. He should be left free to carry out the grand American policy we have men- tioned. Then there will be the widest field for the enterprise and capital of our citizens in building railroads and telegraphs, in establish- ing express companies and steamship lines, in working the mines and in developing the won- derful resources of Mexico generally. We hope the President will have grasp of mind and fore- sight enough to send General Rosecrans away on his mission to accomplish the absorption of Mexico independent of Mr. Seward’s jobs or instructions. Money as an Klectioneering Element, We have not heard much of money so far. as an electioneering element in this campaign. The time, however, for passing round the hat and for electioneering subscription funds and forced contributions from officeholders and all that has not yet come. Brick Pomeroy has found a mare’s nest in one small operation which may be worth a shot on the wing. He has discovered that the Hrrap received a bonus or retaining fee of fifteen thousand dollars for advocating the nomination of Chief Justice Chase by the Tammany Hall Conven- tion; but it appears that this fat was thrown into the fire by the counter movement of Jeffer- son Brick. He does not tell how much he got for upsetting the Chase movement; but as he has all the airs and flourishes of a fiush or flash financier the presumption follows that he got something, It is reported that a joint stock combination of banks and bondholders have raised a fund of half a million for the protection of their interests in this election against the repudiators, and as Brick, in his reckless scurrilities against General Grant, is doing good service in behalf of his election, it is probable ‘that Brick has had » sop of this bank fund. If we may believe him he has somewhat suddenly become rich, and it is ru- mored that he has had a sop from this bank fund of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, If this is true the World is surely entitled to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the same fund; for in his reckless and scan- dalous abuse of General Grant the little Manti- lini eclipses Brick and labors to do 6o as if it were a matter of life or death to the owners of the World establishment. So far as the Herarp is concerned we seize the occasion to notify all political joint stock companies and speculators in the purchase of newspapers for Tom, Dick or Harry that in their line of busi- ness nothing below the figure of two hundred thousand dollars will receive the slightest at- tention at this establishment. Our advertising columns are open to the politicians, as they are to all other parties at our usual rates, but our editorial columns are not for sale, Meantime, in the industrious Brick we congratulate the bondholders and Mantilinis of the Manhftan Club on the effective democratic agent they have secured to aid in the work of electing” General Grant. A Rather Questionable Discussion. There isa very curious and a yery original | discussion going on just now in the newspapers between Mr. Charles A, Dana, of this city, and Brick Pomeroy, of the far West, as to the des- tiny of the soul of good old Abraham Lincola, They both appear to be very positive in their knowledge of the matter, as positive, in fact, as if each of them had received his information by express direct from the alleged location of poor Old Abe's spirit. Brick Pomeroy affirms with vehemence that the soul did not go up to heaven, but straight down to the other place. Qur venerable triegd Dana, qn the comtrarn, rithms and all other weapons known to arithmetic, logic and the squaring Tana that good Old Abe's soul has not gone to that other place, but has travelled at two-forty speed right up to heaven. Now this very curious discussiog exhibits Brick Pomeroy and Mr. Dana in a very original light, and goes a good way to prove that they are both ex- tremists, They appear to take no heed in this controversy of an intermediate state which, as they evidently cannot ‘‘make both ends meet,” shows that there is no possibility of an agree- ment, There are a great many people, and religious people, too, who believe in purgatory, yet the contestants—Pomeroy and Dana—have overlooked this half-way house altogether. It has not occurred to either of them that the soul of Old Abe might have'stopped half way. However, we shall watch the progress of this discussion with some curiosity ; for we confess that we take a great deal of interest in dis- covering what became of good Old Abe. We had supposed that he had gone the same road with John Brown, and that his soul was march- fog on. But the learned pundits—Brick Pome- roy and Dana, through some spiritual agency from above—or express connection with below, may be able to solve the question. France and Prussia. There is not a week passes by but the tele- graph flashes across the Atlantic tidings of uneasiness in the money market, rumored in- trigues, plots and counterplots, martial pre- parations on a gigantic scale amid protésta- tions of the most pacific intentions—protesta- tions which impose upon no one, which leave commerce crippled, taxes increased and in- creasing, and a war expenditure swollen be- yond all precedent in times of peace. What does all this forebode? Does it mean peace or war? The solution of this question rests with France, or rather with her Emperor, who seems to be forever parodying Hamlet's solilo- quy and saying to himself, ‘‘To fight or not to fight, that is the question,” and unable, after all, to make up his mind to either. But if he will not put an end, and speedily, to this uncer- tainty, the popular voice will settle the ques- tion with or without him, Men of business in France are growing tired of an armed peace more expensive than war and not less fatal to commercial enterprise, and military men kept on the tiptoe of expectation, with shortened furlough and frequent marchings and counter- marchings, are longing for the battle field, with its excitement and its glory. The genius of France is military. Her most cherished annals are those which tell ef the glories of the First Empire; and now that a new rival has sprung up upon her frontier, threatening to contest with her the supremacy of the Continent, the old jealonsy and heartburnings rankling against Prussia in the breasts of Frenchmen since the defeat of Waterloo are now rousing them to assert their supremacy and crush a rival whom they have so long hated. We have little doubt, therefore, that a few months, perhaps a still less time, will see France and Prussia engaged in hostilities. Other kingdoms may and probably will become in- volved, even against their will, in the conflict on one side or the other; so that it would as yet be idle to speculate as to the result, But this much seems probable—that a war is at hand that will shake the old monarchies of Europe to their foundations; that from the greatness of the armies engaged and the im- proved means of destruction that will no doubt be made use of it will prove moro calamitous to human life than any war yet recorded, and that compared to it even our own civil war will dwindle down to dwarfish proportions. Still we are not without hope that much good may come out of this, that men will come to see the folly of leaving the peace of the world dependent on the caprice or ambition of sove- reigns who may have nothing to recommend them to their irresponsible station but horedi- tary descent, or, as in the case of Napoleon ILL, a still emptier title—the shadow of a name. Conspiracy Agninst tho Life Victoria. The Swise authorities havo ascertained that certain parties conspired to murder Queen Victoria, of England, during her recent visit to that place, and after a very strict search have caused the arrest of a man, whose name is not given, charged with having designed to carry the plot personally into execution. The prisoner is said to be a member of the Fenian organization, and we are told by cable tole- gram that be has made such statements as leave no doubt of his intention to have assas- sinated her Majesty had the occasion pre- sented. He stands committed to await the requisition of the British authorities for trans- mission from Lucerne to England. It is difficult to conceive that any associa- tion, of even pretended Christian men, could harbor the idea of murdering a lady venera- ble not more for her royalty of station than her faithful and exemplary discharge, from early life, of her duties as a daughter, a wife, o mother and English matron, The charge is made, however, againat a certain olass of her Majesty's subjects and stands forth for proof or disproof. of Queen Tak Asorttion or Stavery A Finatiry.— We publish » statement copied from a Virginia paper to the effect that a distinguished military personage is on a visit to prominent Southern- ers for the purpose of consulting in regard to a general declaration on the part of Southern leaders that they regard the abolition of slavery as a finality. We do not believe the military officer to be on any such mission to Virginia, He has other and more important matters at present in hand. Bosides, slavery is dead and buried and its grave has been filled up and its epitaph written by the South» erners themselves. Eyery announcement they make on the subject is to that effect, the avowals in « recent letter of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina, being especially to the point. It is both absurd and silly for the radi- cals to attempt to infuse into the present cam- paign the notion that the democrats will restore slavery if they aro successful. An idea so preposterous should not be ontor- tained among intelligent people. — A Sxsston or Conarnss iN SEPTRMBRR.— From all that we hear we may confidently look for @ reassembling of Congress in Septembor. The condition of things in the reconstructed ag well as in tho upreconstructed Southern States is anything but promising to the radicals, aud the Southern radical Representatives and Senators lately admitted, it appears, insist upon some additional measures of legislation in the cause of self-preservation in advance ofthe Presidential election. We may, there- fore, count upon the reassem! of Congress on the 21st of September. the Southern States seem to be drifting away with the up- rising of the democratic niggers, and something must be done to stop them. The Aspect of Things in Wall Street. The Erie excitement was less absorbing yes- terday than on Thursday, and some of the reports then circulated were -contradicted, so that the stockholders have leas need than at first appeared to stand in terror of the present directors of the company; and the fact of the President being a very able railway manager, and one who is, moreover, believed to be actuated by an honest purpose in the manage- ment, is calculated to inspire confidence where it would otherwise be wanting. The whole responsibility of the decline in the stock from 70 to 44 rests, it is claimed, with Mr. Daniel Drew and other speculators not interested in the Erie management, but, on the contrary, strongly opposed to it in consequence of hav- ing no longer @ voice in it. Thousands have lost heavily by this unexampled fall in a stock which was more generally held than any other; but, like all such sensations’ in Wall street, it will be less than a nine days’ wonder. Next to Erie gold has latterly absorbed an unusual degree of attention, and the price has fluctuated between 143 and.150 within a fortnight under the operations of speculators who aim tq,control it, but who would be much better engaged in some other pursuit. The indications now are that gold will soon be ran up again, and the political excitement attend- ing the progress of the Presidential campaign will doubtless result ina higher premium and violent fluctuations, apart from the rates of foreign exchange and other material ifluences. We are just now experiencing the lull before the.storm. A great ado has been made about the shipment from Europe to this port of half a million of dollars in small coin, which is unsalable abroad on account of light weight, unless at a considerable abatement from the nominal value, and therefore the return of this coin is without any significance whatever, and by no means foreshadows other specie pay- ments, which the rates for sterligg exchange on this side are too high to render profitable. The case of James Fisk, Jr., against the Union Pacific Company and the Crédit Mo- bilier continues to occupy public attention both in and out of Wall street, and the result | of the further adjournment of the argument on a motion to remove it to the United States Courts is awaited with interest. Meanwhile the evident reluctance of the officers of either company to undergo an examination or furnish any information as to its affairs strengthens the general belief that the allegations of the plaintiff are true, in which event not only is a judicial but a Congressional investigation called for, the grants made by Congress having been to the Union Pacific Company and not to the Crédit Mobilier ; and for the latter to exer- cise the fanctions and enjoy the privileges of the former seems illegal on its face, even if the motives involved were above criticism instead of open to condemna- tion, as in the present instance. The construction of the railway is a source of immense profit to the Crédit Mobilier, which is a close corporation, composed of a few of the directors of the Union Pacific Company, and large dividends are the result, while the Union Pacific Company pays no dividends to its stockholders. Moreover, the road has been pushed forward with a view to money making with such rapidity that it is said to be faulty in construction; and this also is a matter for a Congressional committee to inquire into. Our national securities show an improving ten- dency and money continues abundant at four per cent, 3 THE YACHT SQUADRON. “Breaking Up”—Adieu=The Cruise. New Baevrorp, August 20, 1568, The summer cruise of the New York Yacht Club 13 @ matter of the past. Tne Commodore's pennant no longer flaunts at the masthead of the white ribbed Phantom, and her clean cut keel glides along the sil- very waters of Martha’s Vineyard, the quests on board secking pleasure th visiting the picturesque land and water views which have made that portion of New England famous in song and story. Her sis-" tors, from the tiny White Gap to the huge Daun*iess, have weighed anchor, and while some are seeking the embowered club house on Staten Island many are dotting the prominent harbors along the coast. New Bedford seems almost deserted. There is a seeming want of animation since the departure of the yachts among its aquatic joving commn- nity, and the wharves, about tho Acushnet river aro bereft 06 the lovely picture of hundreds of both sexes onraptured with the sight of so much that was beautiful. Yet the memory of the visit of the squadron will exist long with the good people of this pleasant place, even as long as the merry boats that created it, ‘The last boat race has been sailed, the adieus been spoken, and that after the grandest, finest and de- cidedly most satisfactory of the many summer cruises that have associated the name of the New York Yacht Ciub with greatness tn aquatic matters. From the sunny day when the yachts in stlent pro- ceasion prettily and coquettishly passed out of the harbor ot Glen Cove until yesterday, when the boom- ing of guns noted their separation, there has been naught else but brilliancy, harmony, wnanim- ity; and in tpis there is satisfaction, for where there are so many persons associated under peculiar circumstances it is natural to suppose that | diversity of fooling will exist; but a common purpose has surrounded them all, making the position of the Commodore equally as agreeable as it is honorable, The cruising grounds could not be easily excelled. In bays, rivers and om the ocean, along @ const whose charming scenery, wooded islets and wooded Dlaffs are diMouit to Fa yee have the pleasant ves- sels shot merrily without accident, Wherever the ciub signal fluttered attentions have ‘een shown to the visitors that marked the interest taken in the presence of such an unexceptionabie fleet. Tiero have been receptions, fetes, dinners, dances, where beauty and fashion in their regal at- tires have welcomed them, at times with imperial grace. ‘The regattas and races of the cruise were admir- ably conceived and splendidly contested. Ina word, with but the few exceptions when Aolns failed to nd to ardent ications for wind, these triats of speed, for brilliant mancuvring, excetient scamanstip and dor, have never been equatled, much loss excelted. Some of the ple that have thus been presented, as, for instance, in the contest | from Newport to Blook Island, and ee from this ; port to Cuttyhunck Point—out upon the deep, black, rolling ocean—there was at times so much variety harmony of form and color in the grand union o! sunlight, sweeping clouds, mountains of canvas, gliding hulls and busied ‘sattors that language is ‘wlmost inefficient to cath the sablimity. The cruise ts over {| It is almost sadness to say this and fully com) it, As I write these last few words ing it, near ® window that over. looks {he Hoots late anchorage, with ne ite. & bree! te: tle, almost its solimesa, en or, Let all phe m mement A of the summer c roseate colors as thoir fortile: ‘ions will allow, wi toa the DLOUuy Wi ve eomglet. ‘TRE CHINESE EMBASSY IN BOSTON. ee Reception in Faneull Hall—Grand Bauquet Las ef Goversor Bul- lock and Charles Sumner. a Boston, August 21, 1803. At half-past eleven o'clock this morning all the omicials of the Chinese Embassy were marshalled in the private parlor of Mr, pridr to thelr departure for Faneuil Hall. ‘As soon as the arrange ments in regard to the order to be observed were coinpleted, city messenger Oliver Spurr leading the way, proceeded to the carriages. Mayor Shurtliff accompanied Mr, Burlingame, The rest of the Em- assy were accompanied by Alderman Cobb, chair. man of the pommittee, and Benjamin James and Councilmen Pickering, Derny and Snow. Upon reaching Faneuil Hall the Embassy alighted atthe side entrance and proceeded at once to the platform fn the hall. A large crowd had assembled on the outside and great enthusiasm was manifested wher tne party arrived at the entrance. As Mr, Burlingame and the Embassy, accompanied by Mayor Shurtlif and the committee of the City Counoit, arrived within the hall three hearty cheers were givea for Mr. Burlingame and the Embassy. Long before the appointed hour the spacious edi- fice was crowded to its utmost capacity, the body of the hall with gentlemen representing the various in- terests of Boston, and. the galleries with the fair sex, residents of the Hub and ita surroundings. The interior was tastefully deco- rated with the colors of the Chinese empire and the American Union, and from thé rear gallery was suspended, between the Stara and Stripes and the dragon, a banner declaring that “The Occidents welcome the Orients.” Gilmore’s band enlivened the occasion with its superior musio previous to and all the way through the reception, and the applause of approval was almost equal to that mn honor of Mr. Burlingame and his associaies when they appeared upon the platform of the old Cradle of Liberty. Pregisely at twelve o'clock the stream of people commenced to pass over the platform, each one heartily greeting Mr. Burlingame and his associate ministers. The severe ordeal of hand-shaking lasted exuctly one hour, the time specified in the pro- gramme. At one o'clock the Mayor announced the reception closed, when there were loud calls for Mr, Burlingame. The Minister so far responded as to take a position on the platform and bow his ac- knowledgments, This act of courtesy on his part was greeted with deafening applause. The Embassy then retired, The Chinese then took their carriages, in charge of the committee, and indulged in the recreation of a pleasant though brief drive through several of the principal avenues of the city, after which they re- turned to their quarters at tue Parker House. The remainder of the afternoon was cluefly occupicd in preparing for the banquet, ‘The entertainment in nonor of the Embassy at the St. James Hotel to-night by the members of the city vernment was an elegant and interesting al fayor Shurtli presided, and introduced the spec making by a complimentary reference to the illus. trious Embassy and the ancient dynasty whicn it represents, Governor Bullock, on the part of the State, said that no duty remained for him save oiicially to as- sure their distinguished guests of the hearty concar- rence of the Executive in the honors tendered by city of Boston. On closing, the Governor said:—Les us respect the authority of exisung and ancieut nations. One is especially before us now that has lengthened and enduring annals, As the oldest c:vi- lized community of the‘United States, we of Massa- chussetts trace our record backward over only twe centuries aud a half, aud that, we are apt to think, furnishes ample and dignitied work of research for several historical, antiquarian and genealogical aocieties in examining ancient mounds, ener iet corroded tomahawks, and bringing to the lignt of cu’ day the virtues aad the frailties of some eight ce mine generations of men. How, then, can we not respect a peopie of a record of five thousand years? You may call them rude, but you have sougnt their commerce and have scattered among all your homes the products o1 their luxury, their urtand theirlabor. You may call them bar- barians, but with their own sense of right they can call you the same, You may doubt their elemental principles of government, but they have bad a gov- ernment ages before you were known, and more re- cently, when you were not sure that you could main- tain and transmit a governinent, You may question the clatin of their literature to common respect, but it ante dates all that isa known us of the thought and record which we call saci You may ask if you will a7 China comes here with an American citizen for her ambassador to demand & high pace of dignity among the Western countries, and she answers with the eloquence of a long and masterly history that she comes offering only terins of international eqnality as one of the peo- ples and governmeots of the world of to-day, ¢ impacted and ribbed by the vicisatiuces of fifty cen- Uuries, sel-subsisting against all oflorts to assall or invade her, but willing und anxious now to welcome the salla of your commerce into her porta, the voices of your missionaries into her interior, and the rights of your citizens within her jurisdiction. In that spirit and in that cause I welcome Mr. Burlingame and his associates and bid them Goodspeed” on their way to the other countries, Mr. Charles Sumner spoke at considerabie length, ronouncing &@ Warm eulogy upon Mr. Kurlingame, in which he said, “Mr. Burlingame was not only my personal friend, but an honored associate in representing the good ple of this com- munity, and in advance ® great cause, which he champloned wiih memorable elo- quence and fideiiy, Such are no common ties. Permit me to say that thisspleadid welcome now offered by the municipal authorities of Boston is only a natural expression of the sentiments which must prevail in this community. Here his iabors and _tri- wmphs began. Here, in your early applause and ap- proving votoes, he firat tasted of jonor Which is now his {n such ample measure. He is one of us who,going orth tato a eae 9 country, has come back with its highest trusts and dignities., Once the rep- resentative of a single Congressional district, he now repreaenta the most populous nation of the globe. Once the representative of a littie more than a third rt of ory he - _ = a eteaee of ~ "ag han @ third part e human race. popu! tion of the globe ts estimated millions, that of China at four hundred millions, and sometimes even at five hundred millions, If in this eee there be much to excite wonder, there paralleled ts still more for gratitude in the un} oppor. tunity which tt affords, What we all a onlty as the reel else can the aim of . There can be no limits to immeasurabie cons nce, For myself I am_ less solicitous with regard to concessions or than with rivite; to that spirit of friendship an fe = which embraces alike the distant and the near, and when once established renders all else easy.” Mr. Sumner then gave an interes! review of the visit of Marco Polo to China in the thi mth century, as described by Venetian historians, and drew com sons between the ex; neces of Polo and Burlin- jaime. In conclusion he said:—‘And this brings ir. Mayor, to the treaty which you invited me to discuss, But I will not now enter this topic. If you did not call to order speaking too long, I am sure I should be catled to order in another place for undertaking te speak of a nn which has not yet been proclaimed by the President. One remark | will make and take the consequences. The treaty does not «do much, but is an excellent beginning, trust through the d offices of our tellow citizens the honored plenipotentiary will unlock these great Chinese gates which have been bolted and barred for long centuries. The mission is more than the treaty, ause it will prepare the = for further intercourse and will neip that new order of things which is among the prom of the future,” Mesara. BE. P. Whipple, Charles G. Nazro and others made addresses. WRECK OF THE YACHT CHALLENGE, The yacht Challenge, owned by the Measra, Lorit- lard, of this city, was recently wrecked on a reet about fourteen miles from Para, Brazil. The pilot who had her in charge got confused in a critical mo- mentdluring the passage from the harbor to the sea, and before Captain Sraith, who was in command, could interfere the vessel was allowed to run ona reef, where she became a total wreck. Her crew of @ dozen men became frightened and refused to obey orders, although the captuin and some of the officers eiebee evdeavored to enforce obedience with their pistols. Soon @ striking on th pet the crew took to the boats and the yacht went to pieces. The officers und crew were ‘picked up Missia- 3 by the steamshtj er and arrived in this city on Thursday night The Challenge was the lary f yacht ever butt in America, with the exception of Mr. Kingsland’a Alarm, She was 310 tons burden and 1867, At the time of her loss she had on cargo of Log and India rubber, The Challenge was a very fast satler and handsomely Mtted up. Sho Waa valued at $35,000 and Is insured, HANG THE HERALD. New York, August 20, (964, To THe Eptrox or tte HERALD: — SiR—I have taken the HSRALD from No, 1 to the present time, For twenty-four years of the time t was a hotel kepper, and during that time | was obtiged to take all the leading papers, The Herano he first payer looked for. In fach, Lw. Soltged to take two or three coples of the Tks to supply my era, IT have now retired from business and take the HBRALD 94 Lhe Os1y papot te be rolled Upoe% for news. ‘ ALWAYS & OUORAT,