The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1868, Page 6

6 ————— i > NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XX XIII. ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. No. 248 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—LiF® iN THE STREETS— Gas Burrzecy. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fout Piay. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Houmprr DuMPrY. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—ELIZABETH, QUEEN or ENGLAND. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. Fine Fir. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—BaRBE BLEUE. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth strest.—ETHIOP1aN MINSTRELSY, £0. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE, 40.—BARBER BLU. 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHIO- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, Sc. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 1 Bowery.—Comio VOOALIgm, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Tae Gneat ORI- oman Einesae Tap vavpRVILER COMPANY. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. IRVING HALL.—GRAND MOVING Diorama OF LIN- OOLN'S FUNERAL CEREMONIES. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—POPULAR GaRDEN Concent, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, MINSTRELS—HooLEY’s Crnous. MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Aur. Brooklyn.—HOooLey’s NEW YORK BorrNOR AND TRIPL i ST oo EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, September 3, British capitalists and engineers offer to build the underground railroad in New York. The London Standard (a journal in the Disraeli interest) disap- proves of the Loudon Times’ article on the Burlin- game-China treaty. The Standard does not see much in the treaty either way. A Russian Catholic Bishop who disobeyed a synodical order of the Em- peror is banished to Siberia. Napoieon has gone to the camp at Chalons. Consols 94, money. Five-twenties 72 in London and 7534 @ 7534 in Frankfort, Paris Bourse firm, Cotton quiet, with middling uplands at 107%d. Breadstus unchanged, Provisions improved. Pro- duce quiet and steady. MISCELLANEOUS. In the Democratic State Convention yesterday the resolutions afilrming and endorsing the general platform of the party were adopted. An electoral ticket, with Henry W. Slocum, of Kings, and{Delos De Wolf, of Oswego, for the State at large, was reported and ratified. The Convention then con- cluded its nominations for State officers and ad- journed sine die, The following are the tickets of both parties:— THe Democratic. Repubdican. John T, Hoffman. John Governor... . Griswold, Lieut. Governor......Ailen ©. Beach. Alonzo B. Cornell. Canal Commissioner. Oliver Alex. Barkley. Bascom. Insp. State Prisons...Dantel B. McNeil. Henry A. Barnum, Clerk Court Appeais.E. O. Perrin, Campbell H. Young. Advices from Mazatian state that General Patoni bad been killed in Durango by some of the troops under General Cauto. The arrest of Cauto was im- mediately ordered by General Corona, but it was feared he would pronounce and resist. ‘The internal revenue investigation was continued atthe Astor House yesterday. An affidavit of John D. McHenry, the informer, stated that Daniel Mur- ray, a distiller on Twenty-fourth street, had ac- knowledged giving ex-Collector Smith and Commis- sioner Rollins sums as high at times as $1,000 a week for thetr good will. There was no further evi- dence taken yesterday and the case was adjourned to the United States District Court. Commissioner Rollins, who is one of the defendaats, las refused to answer. The Secretary of the Treasury has published the regulations prescribed by the Department to govern the transporiation of merchandise between ports on the Atlantic and Pacific by the isthinus routes, Inspections on the Isthmus are to be discontinued, and passengers’ baggage, if secured by card and seals in the manner prescribed, will be passed without examination. Commissioner Rollins, in reply to a tobacco manu- facturer, states that the tobacco tax will be assessed and collected as heretofore until the stamps under the new law are furnished, Attorney General Wilkins made a violent speech against the confederation with Canada in the Nova Scotia Assembly yesterday, in which he declared that if redress ts not given before the next session the people will appoint a collector of their own and have the dues paid into the local treasury, and if necessary they will appeal to another nation. Such an uproar ensued at the conclusion of the speech tat (he Speaker declared the Assembly adjourned. ‘The negroes in the Georgia House of Representa- tives were declared Ineligible yesterday by a vote of and thereupon twenty-five of them left the le four, who claim to be white men, re- mained. , acolored member, in his closing speech said that the thing meant revotution and the carpet-bargers and Governor Bullock would be ousted next. He left the hall brushing the dust from his feet in derision. It is now understood at army headquarters that General Grant wiil remain West until late in October. ‘The Secretary of the Navy in accordance with the ‘will of Congress has succeeded in reducing the per- @onnel of the navy to eight thousand five hundred men, the force it counted previous to the war. The story of the Croton aqueduct is told elsewhere in our columns this morning. To old New Yorkers who remember the time, only twenty-five years ago, when they depended for their supply of drinking ‘water on the weils, pumps and springs, and when water on each floor was not a general thing in houses Dow supplied with all the “modern improvements,” the story will be of especial interest, but will be read with lively sensations also by every citizen who takes a pride In the metropolis. ‘The match between the New York and St. George's Cricket Clubs was resamed yesterday on the grounds Of the latter, The match ended in a drawn game. ‘The twelfth annual games of the Scottish Caledo- Dia Club were held at Jones’ Wood yesterday. There Were six thousand people on the ground. A man famed Halliday cut his foot in @ shocking manner while running a race. ‘The investigation in the malpractice case in Amity street was continued before Coroner Rollins at con- siderable length yesterday. The two men whose ames were mentioned as having been on terms of intimacy with the deceased girl were examined and their evidence taken in extenso. Dr. Grindle, whose name figures prominently in connection with the case, was present at the inquest, but has not yet been examined. A White boy was recently found murdered near Savannah, and as it was believed that he had been killed by negroes for his gan and accoutrements con- @iderable excitement ensued. Parties were out haunting for his murderers, and on the roads were frequently halted in the military form by companies of armed negroes. Two boatmen rowed a match race on the Niagara fiver yesterday, partly against the rapids, the winner making five miles in forty-eight minutes and ffty- even seconds, The Inman line steamship City of Paris, Captain Kennedy, will leave pier 45 North river at eight A. M. to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Great Britain and the Continent will close at ithe Post Office at twelve M. on the Stn inst. ‘The stock market was on tne whole steady yester- @ay. Government securities were firm and for the NEW. YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Fall Trade—The Advertising Business. There is every prospect that trade in New York will be more brisk this fall than has gen- erally been anticipated. As o rule the ex- citement of s Presidential election renders trade dull; but judging from the advertising columns of the Hgratp, which may be re- garded as a faithful business barometer, our merchants and retail dealers will have no com- plaints to make this season, despite the ab- sorbing interest of the political campaign. The pressure upon our advertising columns has been greater this year than at any former cor- responding period, and, as has seldom been the case heretofore during the closing weeks of the summer, we have been compelled to publish triple sheets day after day, in order to accommodate advertisers without unduly encroaching upon the space devoted to general news. All this is an unmistakable indication of a comparatively prosperous business sea- Son, and we believe we may confidently predict & speedy revival of trade that will set afloat a large amount of money throughout the country, and do much to averta repetition of the suffer- ing and want that prevailed among the poorer classes of New York and other cities last winter. An advertising people are always thrifty. The enterprise and energy that prompt them to push forward inthe race and keep them- selves and their business before the eyes of the world insure them against failure. It would be difficult to point to a single instance of great success in trade that has not been won through the valuable medium of the advertising col- umns of the daily press. houses in every branch of business are those which have expended fortunes as advertisers, and persevered until they have forced patron- age from the public. The American people, and especially the citizens of New York, are beginning to understand these truths, and ad- vertising isnow as much a necessity of business life as are the railroads and the telegraph. What the London Zimes is to the merchants, traders and commercial men of England the Herap is to the same classes in the United States. Its sygiem of arrangement and extensive circula- tion render it a useful, convenient and valuable agent for supplying every conceivable want and negotiating all descriptions of trades and bargains. Persons now refer to the HERaLp advertising columns for business information as they refer to a directory for an individual's address, and the expensive habit of treating with agents is rendered unnecessary when the principals are brought face to face by means of an advertisement. Our most famous The fact that one paper in England—the Zimes—and one paper in the United States—the Hgratp—take prece- dence of all others as advertising mediums is simply owing to their enormous circulation, largely outnumbering their contemporaries; but at the same time it is a convenience to the public that the great bulk of advertise- ments ofall descriptions should thus appear in a single journal in each great commercial metropolis. The marked increase in the advertising patronage of the HERacp this year is of course in some measure attributable to the growing habit among our people of this new mode of transacting business. bered that the heated term has scarcely yet passed away; that the great tide of humanity, which, during the summer months, flows to- wards the ocean, the springs and the moun- tains, has scarcely yet turned and commenced to pour back its thousands into the cities ; that the fall season is only in its infancy, and that the public mind is occupied by the excitement of a Presidential campaign. At such a time the Heratp’s twenty-seven to thirty columns of closely packed advertisements, day after day, embracing every description of want and every diversity of interest in trade, commerce, manufactures and finance, must be accepted as a certain indication of the approach of a season of more than ordinary business prosperity. But it must be remem- The News from Mexico—Assassination of General Patoni. The news from Mexico published in this morning’s Heratp will not astonish any one who has watched the course of Mexican affairs. General José Maria Patoni, the late fellow prisoner of General Jesus Gonzales Ortega, was brutally assassi- nated at Durango on the 18th ult. by some officers of General Cauto's staff. The latter General is commander of the Durango garrison, and had sent the officers to summon General Patoni to his headquarters. It must be borne in mind that General Patoni, in com- pany with General Ortega, had been liberated about a fortnight previously from his jail at Monterey, with the privilege of going whither he might choose. It does not appear on what grounds the summons of General Caéuto was based. It would seem that there could have been no grounds. However, General Patoni was shot down in the house of a friend for not complying immediately with the orders of General Cfuto. The only relieving feature in the case is the prompt action of General Ramon Corona, commandant of the Pacific military district, in suspending Canto and ordering the arrest of all the parties implicated. This assassination of General Patoni, the friend and companion of General Ortega, comes very sus- piciously on the heels of the late murder of Colonel Bueyes Pintos and his companion by their guards. It will be remembered that these victims were imperialist prisoners, cap- tured at Querétaro with Maximilian, While being removed from one place of imprisonment to another they were shot on the road between Querétaro and Guanajuato by their guards, on pretence that they attempted to stone the five-twenty bonds of 1967 very strong. Gold closed OH 16% 0.163%. guards and escape. The Mexican govern- ment owes to mankind, and to itself par- ticularly, a thorough clearing up of these brutal affairs, especially in this case, in view of the late impeachment and deposition of Governor Cuervo for having allowed the execution of a notorious band of robbers in accordance with the laws of Jalisco, The Burlingame Mission—British Policy it China and the East, The treaty made between China and the United States through the Burlingame mission has hit the British in a tender spot. To show this we publish in another part of the paper extracts from the English press. From these it will be seen the mission, its objects, Mr. Burlingame himself, the action of the Ameri- can government and the treaty are very dis- tasteful to our British contemporaries, We are not disappointed at this; it is just what we expected. There were some premonitory growls from the English in China, India and the East generally when the mission was ini- tiated, though the newspapers in England were rather reticent at first, but now they grows in chorus all round. The London Times leads the pack and the heavy weeklies follow. All this hostility to the Burlingame mission and treaty arises from a well grounded fear that the whole British policy towards China and other nations of Asia has met with a serious check and is about to be overthrown. It is more bitter, too, because this important mission has been en- trusted to a foreigner and not to an English- man, and that foreigner an American, a promi- nent citizen of a great rival commercial Power. It would have been annoying enough to the British had such a treaty as the one in ques- tion been negotiated with any other govern- ment; but to be made with the United States and through the medium of one of our own citizens is extremely galling. In fact, it places England in a perplexing dilemma, for she has either to take this treaty or make a similar one, and consequently to abandon her old and long cherished policy of dictation and force toward China, or to see this country, her great commercial rival, take all the advantages which friendship and a more extended com- merce with the Chinese will give. Indeed, she would have to see the influence she has long exercised in China superseded by that of a rival Power which she cannot venture to defy. The London 7imes may well say, after stating its objections to the treaty, ‘‘yet the question may be asked, is it wise for England to multiply her differences with America on such grounds as these?” It would not be wise, and, more than that, it would be futile; for neither England nor any other Power can arrest the growing influence and commerce of the United States with China. It is said by these jealous cavillers that England is more interested in China than any other Power; that she is the proper Power for China to employ as a medium for revising her treaties with other nations; that the treaty with the United States has been entrusted to the manipulation of foreign counsellors, who advise what is impossible—the restoration of a retrograde system; that it bears distinct traces of foreign inspiration ; that in their belief the mission did not originate with the Chinese government, and that China obtains no conces; sions from the United States, while the latter gain a monopoly of railway and telegraph im- provements. There is offence enough in all this to the British, but the particular sting is in the advantages the United States gain in the way of trade and carrying out improvements in China. But thése philosophers of the British press differ materially about the effect of the treaty, while most of them agree in de- nouncing it. While one thinks it will give the Americans advantages in carrying out railway, telegraph and other improvements in China, another thinks it is a diplomatic barrier against all improvements or progress. One asserts that unless the European Powers, and espe- cially England, be firm in resisting the line of policy inaugurated by the Burlingame treaty, it will lead, at no distant period, to a fourth or fifth Chinese war; and another intimates that it will not do to multiply differences with America on these grounds. Altogether they are ina pretty muddle about Burlingame and his mission. However, they gannot give up the old idea of force, the threat policy, as Mr. Burlingame graphically designates it. ‘China is not yet fit for this change,” they say—that is, the change effected by the Burlingame treaty. “The foreign offices of Europe will be inun- dated with just complaints of local tyranny ; it will either produce a total cessation of trade, thereby exposing India to bankruptcy and the British exchequer to the loss of the tea reve- nue, or demands on Pekin, which must be supported by force.” There is the rub. The tea merchants, the interests of India and the British exchequer must be maintained, though the empire of China be extinguished and four hundred millions of people be made the slaves of England. ‘The Chinese,” they say, ‘are bound to grant us permission to trade in the interior.” And again, ‘‘We shelled the town (Canton), opened it, and from that day to this have found the population as obliging, as ac- cessible and as eager to do profitable business as those of any continental city.” It is always the same policy of force, the same that subju- gated a hundred and fifty millions of people in Hindostan, that forced the poisonous opium down the throats of the Chinese, and that would now reduce that people to the condition of the Hindoos, and all for British trade, British supremacy and the British exchequer. But the deathknell of this selfish and brutal policy has been sounded. England may keep her hold on Hindostan—may make herself # atill greater Asiatic Power in the direction of Persia, the Himalaya Mountains or the Ara- bian Gulf; she may become a great African Power, from Abyssinia to the Cape of Good Hope, but she must not touch the integrity and independence of Chins. The United States have inaugurated a tiew and liberal policy towards the Chinese in the Burlingame treaty, and our rapidly growing trade and friendly relations with the empire will compel us to see that China be treated as all other independent nations are. There is no doubt that Russia will act with us in carrying out this new policy. Nor do we think France or any other of the continental Powers of Europe will oppose it, Asto England, the United States | hold in Canada and in the) vast commer- cial interests between the Awo countries guarantees of peace. This new policy and the | treaty based upon it has its foundation in the liberal and enlightened sentiment of the age and is full of promise both for China and the rest of the world. However much the British press may rave about the sacrifice of their old system, we have no doubt that Lord Stanley, Mr. Disraeli and the other enlightened states- men of England will see the futility of resist- ance and treat the Burlingame mission in a proper spirit. But, whatever they may do, our policy is established, and our interests lie in the fullest development of trade with China through friendly and peaceful intercourse. Henceforth all difficulties with China must be settled according to the principles of interna- tional law, as they are between other great nations. The Ancient Hebrews in a Modern Age. By special correspondence from Cassel, Hesse, we were enabled to place before our readers on Monday last a report of the proceedings of the international congress of Jewish rabbis held in that city during a ses- sion extending over three days. This vener- able assemblage embraced shining lights"in Israel, gathered at the ‘‘call” from all parts of Germany, from Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, England and other quarters of the Old World. The subjects submitted for de- bate were worthy the consideration of such congregated talent, Inspired by sanctified commission direct from Moses, and invoking the guidance of wisdom inherited from Solo- man, the rabbinical congress resumed the task of solving the conflict with which the Hebrew Church is threatened—a conflict between religion and science, between old rites of worship and modern ones, which was commenced and continued in the last two con- gresses held in Frankfort and Breslau in 1844 and 1846. Our reporter shows that a very satisfactory progress was obtained by the members, the main points of a most harmo- nious agreement of reference being enumerated thus:—‘‘The rabbis are in favor of using in worshipping, as far as possible, the German language instead of the Hebrew. They agree to a general abbreviation of the service; drop those portions which treat of sacrifices and votive offerings, as also the prayers for a resti- tution of Jerusalem, return to Palestine and the re-establishment of a Jewish empire. They acknowledge the necessity of new doctrines regarding the mission of Israelites, and depre- cate every semblance of self-glory.” We regard this Jewish ecclesiastical conven- tion, held at @ moment of critical change in matters of creed and forms of worship all over the world, as well as of sweeping politi- cal revolution in both hemispheres, as of very great importance—an opinion which our Israclitish friends in the United States will readily endorse. The venerated rabbis in Cassel give warning to Christendom that Israel is about to put her house in order, so that the people of the Jewish race and faith may quietly assume, after an intelligent and beatified adaptation to local circumstances, their proper position on earth—a measure of fulfilment to which they are entitled, if the proper moment has really arrived for its fru- ition, by their physical persistency, their patience, their sufferings, their wanderings, their indestructibility under penal enactments, royal denunciation and hierarchical anath- ema; their humility and peculiar charity in clothing the naked and finding money for the needy, so that the distressed, after proper application, may at all times enjoy either ‘a cup of water” or a cup of wine, according to the terms of the “bond” duly completed. This moment of fruition has, we think, arrived. The Jews are looming up on all sides. In England—a country which has been ruled by “blood” since the days of the Conqueror—we behold Mr. Ben- jamin Disraeli, a lineal descendant of the race, and at one time humble as Moses when bun- dled from Egypt with nothing but old clothes, overtopping the descendants of the Norman, called to the second step of the throne—as befits a son of Abraham, David and Solomon— devoting himself to the work of pacifying tumults of sectarianism in the Christian churches, and shining out asa sort of pre- cursor, or John the Baptist, in a wilderness of unbelief, if he should not turn out to be the Jewish Messiah himself. He has already, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, dealt with the “money changers;” he stands uncontrolled by Parliament, yet ‘“‘renders unto Cwsar,” and has given many “signs and wonders” in the way of reform. We will not, however, pronounce on. the exact char- acter of his mission until we learn how he has carried Great Britain through the next general election. Napoleon leans confiden- tially on the ‘‘faithful” of the house of David, and the wonderful success of his latest and most triumphant loan is due, perhaps en- tirely, to the exercise of the wonderful finan- cial science of a son of the once despised race. North Germany is ennobling Jews, Austria attracts Israelite bankers and barons to Vienna, estimating their presence and crispy bills as presenting more effectual means of national resuscitation than did the musty parchment of the Roman con- cordat, while the British Parliament is aided vastly in its deliberations by the experiences of many distinguished children of the faith. In the United States we have three millions of Jews, four millions of negroes, three mil- lions at least of Catholic Irish and half a million of Chinese, besides any quantity of Germans, Catholic, Protestant and infidel ; but of all these our fellow citizens of the Jowish persuasion are by far the most philosophical, the most industrious and the most silent. They adapt themselyes— “take to” our government institutions at once, give no trouble to the authorities, never bore the people for offices, are thankful for their “shent per shent” and never make riots or an election ‘‘muss.” The Jews are perfectly at home in the United States, and the rabbis in Cassel displayed infinite wisdom in the aban- donment of the idea of insisting on a return to Palestine. Why should our Jews run off to Palestine to sicken with malaria and gripe on & fig diet, leaving New York, one of the healthiest, freest and greatest business cities— in jowetry, clothing, gold, “greenbacks” and currency ‘‘stamps”—in the world, more par- ticularly when, if Mr. Disraeli turns out to be the “‘star” we have referred to, the exodus must be by steamship eastward to London? We want the Jews here, and we are rejoiced to know that the rabbis permit them to remain. The Cassel Congress of Rabbis takes the wind completely out of the coming Counoil in << es Rome. Pius the Ninth calls by authority | tions. A recent full investigation of the state from Peter, but in Cassel were men trumpeted by the voice which thundered from Sinai, who will have reconciled science with religion and defined material progress before his ‘‘briefs” are duly served onthe Catholic prelates. Here again we recognize the genius of Disraeli, and in his own words, as written in the second book of ‘‘Coningsby”:—“I am all for a re- ligious cry,” said Taper. ‘It means nothing, and, if successful, does not interfere with business when we are in.” ‘‘And now for our ory,” said Mr. Taper. ‘‘ ‘ Ancient institutions and modern improvements,’ I suppose, Mr. Tadpole?” ‘‘Ameliorations is the better word; ameliorations! . Nobody knows exactly what it means.” ‘We go strong on the Church,” said Mr. ‘Taper. Personal Abuse—Grant and Jackson. There is a curious similarity between the present Presidential canvass and that of Gene- ral Jackson in 1828, In Jackson’s time there was no limit to the volume of abuse poured upon him by his political opponents ; yet he not only survived the attacks, but rose upon the very waves of personal hostility, until he was lifted into the highest place in the government. Every effort to defame his character proved only a stepping stone to his success, and the intemperance with which his private life was assailed served as but a fanning gale to waft him into the Presidential chair. Twice this game of his purblind enemies was tried. The phials of wrath were opened again in 1832. We will not repeat the language which was applied to General Jackson or the opprobrious names which were heaped upon him. We will not recall the violence with which the sacred veil that should have sheltered the sanctity of his home was torn asunder. Suffice it to say that this method of political antago- nism defeated itself, as it is very likely to do now in the case of General Grant; for the same plan is being pursued by the public prints en- gaged in the object of defeating his election. During the past two or three years the democratic party has been governed by two distinguished newspaper men—one in the Hast and one in the West—Sam Barlow represent- ing the Orient, and Brick Pomeroy representing the Occident. The wit of the one, coarse though it was, and the dulness of the other, which long since reached the limit of tolera- tion, might have been a little original in the beginning, when they opened fire upon the character of General Grant, because there is always a piquancy about anything novel, even though it runs ina coarse or a stupid vein. To assail a man who is admittedly one of the leading characters of the age, whose reputa- tion is without spot or stain, whose fame stands high not only in his own country, but in all Europe, is, to say the least of it, a very petty piece of business, and only shows the short- sightedness of these partisan journals which by defaming him, would make him greater than Jackson in the days when personal abuse of the eandidate resulted in his triumph. The abusive tone of the democratic organs may have won a little popularity at firgt, but we see that it has ended in almost universal dis- gust. The wit and humor with which the organ of Brick Pomeroy garnished its violent attacks upon the character of public men were somewhat of a relief to the dulness, the empty pomposity and horrible brutality of Sam Barlow and his men. If General Grant is elected he may safely claim that he is largely indebted to these journals for his success, The Approaching Elections in England. It now begins to be manifest that the Disraeli Reform bill, although it has considerably widened the electoral circle, is going to make no appreciable difference in the class of men who will seek and secure places in Parliament. The scions of ancient and illustrious houses and successful merchants, or, as the Saturday Review puts it, “young lords and elderly soap boilers, will reign supreme.” A littlenew blood there may be, but it will not be much. The difference of the new régime from the old will consist rather in the pressure which it will be possible to bring to bear upon members of” Parliament than in any change in the members of Parliament themselves. The kind of men will not immediately be of an inferior class; but the badgering during the progress of the canvass will be less tolerable to gentlemen, and, therefore, in the long ran will be deteri- orating in its influence. There will be more burning of gloves, because there will be more contact between gloved aristocratic fingers and rough plebeian fists. It is manifest also that the great testing question at the polls will be whether or not the Irish Established Church is to be disestab- lished. This question is to create the line of demarcation between liberals and conserva- tives. The two election cries are to be “‘Glad- stone and justice to Ireland” and ‘Disraeli, and no Popery.” Itis undeniable that the liberals. are united as they never have boen united before. As one man they will go in for Gladstone and Gladstone's policy. The conservatives are scarcely less determined, and Mr. Disraeli’s chances are by no means desperate. There is nothing at all in the situ- ation or prospect barring the probability that Disraeli may steal Gladstone's thunder and thus furnish another proof that while generous promises are the property of the liberals gene- rous deeds are the property of the tories. To Disraeli and the tories the British people are indebted for a substantial measure of reform. It will be strange if justice to Ireland at the end of this struggle shall be due to the same source. Our Interoceanic Trade=Important Treas ’ sury Regulations. We invite the special attention of shippers and of owners and commanders of vessels en- gaged in our vast and increasing interoceanic trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports to the new and important additional regulations which have just been issued by the Treasury Department. Our interoceanic trade has as- sumed immense proportions, and now that the revenue laws impose taxation on al- most every conceivable article of trade, smuggling, which has hitherto been comparatively insignificant, prevails to an alarming extent on the route connecting the ports on our Atlantic and Pacific coasts as wellas elsewhere. The Isthmus of Panama has become the main point of the operations of the smugglers, and not even the inspectors of customs sent thither by our government with the consent of the authorities of New Granada have been able to put s stop to these opera- of things at Panama by Colonel instance of Secretary MeCulloch, ret in a change in the whole system of regulations tobe observed by those engaged in the inter- Oceanic trade. All officers of the customs now stationed on the Isthmus of Panama are to be withdrawn, their efforts to check the evil of smuggling having proved to be less effectual than they will be likely to be at Now York and at San Francisco, and the main Officers at these two ports will henceforth have charge of the whole matter. A separate corps of inspectors is to be established at New York and at San Francisco, whose duty it shall be, under existing and future regulations of the Treasury Department, to thoroughly inspect the cargoes, baggage, &c., of all steamers or other vessels running on either of the Isthmus routes, both on their arrival at and their de- parture from the ports of New York and Sas Francisco, The additional regulations which we publish to-day are full and explicit, and it is of the utmost importance that they be faithfully observed by all shippers and owners and masters of vessels engaged in our inter- oceanic trade. France Bent on Peace—How Much¢ From a late cable despatch we learn that the Moniteur, the official organ of the French gov- ernment, has come out with a leader in vindi- cation of the peaceful intentions of the gov- ernment of Napoleon. The best argument which it has found in favor of peace, if we are to judge from the despatoh, is that the number of men now on leave of absence from the French army never was so great. To our thinking this isa weak and silly argument. All the world knows how easily all absentees could be brought to their respective head- quarters. A few hours would be suflicient for that purpose. The Moniteur cunningly over- looks the fact that the number on furlough bears a certain proportion to the bulk of the army. To our mind the many absentees only illustrate the fact that the army is unusually large. It is our confident expectation that in spite of all that the Moniteur has said we shall have athundering and world-startling announcement some of these fine mornings. Count Bismarck is ill, temporarily retired from office; and Napoleon well knows that he is the only rival he has any occasion to dread. The opportunity is very inviting to France. Some new and startling development of policy may be confidently looked for. Mixed Meetings at Dance Houses. The last sensation for the pious people of ‘New York and Brooklyn has been the widely advertised conversion by ‘‘the Wickedest Man” of his dance house into a noonday prayer meet- ing house and a Magdalen asylum. To give him his due, ‘‘the Wickedest Man” is honest enough not to pretend to have been himself con- verted. He is reported to have said that he does not deem it expedient just yet to join any church. But he relates his ‘‘ experience” and gives out hymns and otherwise generally assists at the daily prayer meetings which are held in the two small, ill-ventilated rooms at his den in Water street. These rooms are crowded to suffocation hy the most mixed congregation of parsons and pugilists, ‘‘Chris- tian ladies” and painted prostitutes, Wall street. brokers and Tommy Hadden’s boarders, thieves, drunkards and members of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The pro- verbial eagerness of good folks to visit had places is abundantly illustrated by the rush, of John Allen’s new set of guests, aud his old guests are still welcomed, althoug!: to a differ- ent class of entertainments. Wecannot approve of these mixed meetings at dance houses. The origin of the excitement that has led to them has too much the sir of a dubious speculation. Like the spectacular Black Crook drama which has lately been the rage in some of our theatres, and like the high-colored descriptions of licentiousness and other phases of vicious life in some of our magazines and pictorial papers, all this fuss and noise about “the Wickedest Man in New York” we must regurd as demoralizing. “There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth ;” but in. the present case the part of the repentant sinner seems to have been omit- ted. The'work of the truly pious and intelli- gent city missionary is equally necessary and noble. It is sometimes rewarded with signal success. The diver in the West Indies found in the sunken wreck of the Spanish galleon and from the depths brought up bags which were covered all over with hard incrustations, but which, when cut open, were found to be full of gold and silver bullion. So the missionary may find in the lowest depths of city life more than one soul incrusted with sin and yet full of innate wealth of mind and heart. Such souls are worth saving. Any soul, however har- dened and however impoverished, is worth trying to save. But there are limitations to human responsibility. It was a wise counsel toa young and zealous preacher when at hia ordination an aged brother charged him to re- member that not he, but quite another Person, had been sent to save the world. The most successful efforts to do all that man can do in the work of saving souls bave been made by humble, patient, silent workers in the Lord's vineyard. Such workers would never think of blowing their own trumpets and would never thrust their converts into public notoriety. On the contrary, they would expect and teach the sincere penitent “‘to put his band on hia mouth and his month in the dust.” But the injudicious spiritual advisers of the so-called ‘‘Wickedest Man in New York” want to make an exhibition of him, as they would like to have made an exhibition of such notable con- verts as Awful Gardner, Maria Monk, Lola Montes and the Menken. They have already made him more popular for the moment than Henry Ward Beecher, even with the Plymouth church people in Brooklyn. If they really wish to reach and affect the consciences of the ignorant and degraded they must learn to talk to them in language which can be understood by their hearers, and then they must “preach the Gospel” as well as pray and shout and sing. Let them do this work in their own churches, If there are not churches enough, let more be built. The two hundred churches in town hardly need such ‘‘chapels of ease” as the dance houses in Water street. It isa morbid excitement which impels the pious to seek those filthy resorts. Moreover, their curiosity to see “the Wickedest Man in New York” cannot be satisfied by seeing John Allen. He is not ‘the Wickedest Man in New York.” It ia aot certain whether even hie