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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV... .0..:cceeeeeeee seeeee-NOe 123 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CeAUACE® THEATRE, Broadway and 18b street. ASTER, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hourt® DoMPTY, with NEw FRATURRS. GRANO OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 28d sireet,—THR TEMPEST. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—THE SPrRir OF THE Fountatn—Soar Far Man. S THEATRE, 234 at, between 5th and 6th avs.— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Ta® BURLESQUE Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street,—! A PERICHOLE. STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— —Dis HocuzRirTsRrisn, £0. LEY THEATRE. 220 Broadway.—E1izk HOLt's COMPANY—PaBis; OR, THE JUDGMENT. MANY, Fourteenth street.—RoBINSON CRUSOR AN Faipay, £0. WOOD's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Ouxs. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic SKETONES AND LIVING STATUES—PLU10. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHI0+ PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS—THREE STEBINGS TO ONE Bow. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Yoca..1SN, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. OPERA HOUSE, Tax Bit Poster's Brooklyn.—Hooury's Darau. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, May 3, 1869. TO ADVERTISERS. was assembled, mon. Inthe Church of the Stranger, in University place, Rishop Wightman, of South Carolina, con- ducted the services of the Lord’s Supper. St, Paul’s Reformed Dutch Church on Fortleth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, was dedicated by Rey. Chancellor Ferris, Dr. Eddy and others. Rev. G. Vorberg was formally installed as pastor of the Lutheran church of St. Matthew, in Broome street. Rev. Henry Wara Beecher baptized a large number of candidates for membership in his church, requir- ing the lady candidates to remove their headdresses for the purpose, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1869.-TRIPLE. SHEET. writes from Reno station, Nevada, under date of A Change of Cabinet the Only Safety for April 15, and gives a most graphic and interesting account of the road as it passes over and through the Sierras, the wildness of the scenery, the useful- ness of the snow sheds, the arduous work on the tunnels and the elegant arrangement of the cars. Secretary Boutwell proposes to prohibit smoking, chatting, receiving visits and drinking among the ‘Treasury clerks during business hours, The miners’ organizations in the Pennsylvania coal fields have notified the coal dealers that no coal will be cut or loaded after the 8th inst. The printers of New Haven are on a strike for forty and forty-five cents per thousand. The City. At St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, notwith- standing the stormy weather, a large congregation Dr. McSweeny preached the ser- The new Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator M. H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin ; Captain W. A. C. Ryan, of Montana ; Colonel S. ©. Pierce and John H. Kemper, of Albany; Captain E. Conklin, of San Francisco, and J. E. Wynne, of St. Louis, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Lieutenant General W. T. Sherman and family are at the Astor House. General Harney, of the United States Army; Captain Harmony and H.'L. Schneider, of the United States Navy, and Colonel George 0. Jones, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General G, Thayer, of Providence, R, I., and Dr. Moreno, of Havana, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Captain D. Wray, of Brownsville, Texas, is at the St. Charles Hotel. Congressman N. B. Judd, of Chicago, Ill., and James W. Scovill, of Camden, N. J., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Question ot Cuban Recognition at the State Department. According to the Washington correspond- ents Mr. Secretary Fish has been ventilating a little the question of recognizing the bellige- rent rights of the Cubans. out, it seems, by the report that the British government contemplated such recognition as a good stroke of policy for the purpose of establishing British influence and promoting commerce with Cuba, and in a measure to head off the United States there. has no information to confirm such a report and thinks such action on the part of England not at all probable. He was brought Mr. Fish Our government, it is said—that is Mr. Fish, we suppose—believes that the British government would not be likely to take any step that would bring it into collision with Spain or any other European Power while the Alabama claims remain sus- pended over it. Then, it is said, so far from dreading the recognition of Cuban belligerent All advertisements should be sent in before eight o’clock, P. M., to insure proper classifi- cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BrooxLyN CARRIERS AND NewsmeN will in future receive their papers at the Brancn OFFICE or THE New York Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svpscriptions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be Teceived as above. THD NIWsS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 2. The debate in the Spanish Cortes on the constitu- tion has ended. An amnesty has been granted to all persons who took part in the Cadiz, Malaga and Xeres insurrections, A serious disturbance among the troops stationed in Saragossa ts apprehended. South America. Our Valparaiso (Chile) letter is dated Aprils. A quorum was still wanting in Congress, and it was feared that the dominant party, aided by the Cabi- net, was working to prevent the presence of a quo rum. The proposed convention at Washington to Settle the difficulties between Spain and Chile has finally been accepted by the latter government. Our Lima (Peru) letter is dated April 14. The col- ony of Americans im the republic are anxiously waiting to hear the decision of Secretary Fisn in the matter of their claims for damages received from Balta’s troops dhring the revolution. The yellow fever is raging flercely in tne cities on the southern coast, where an average of forty persons die every day, although the greater portion of the population has fled to healthier regions, and the bodies are thrown, without coffins or shrouds, into the trenches. Our correspondence from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, is dated March 26. The allied steamboat expedition from Asuncion to Matto Grosso found the inhabi- tants along the Paraguay river greatly in need of Commodities of all sorta. No news has yet been heard from Minister McMahon. Owing to the rise in the Paraguay the Kansas is afloat again, Marquis de Caxias has been made a duke, the only one now Derazil. Sir Charies Bright bas submitted a pro- posal to the Brazilian authorities to extend a teie- graph cable to Europe. By an Atlantic cable despatch Lopez is reported to be preparing to take the oijeusive, with au army of 10,000 men. China. Our Hong Kong Correspondent gives the particu. en the English and Chinese at Swatow. Three villages were burned b; ng. lish marines, and it is estimated that fifty-five China- men were killed, The affair at Foochow was not so serious. Australasia, We have Sidney, Melbourne and Wellington cor- Tespondence, the latest date being March 1. The white settlers tn Fiji had been called upon by Tha- komban to assist in whipping the Narosa tribes. The latter are committing many depredations. A nugget weighing 210 pounds troy was unearthed by a couple of ‘dead broke’ miners at Danolly. It 18 believed to be the largest mass of gold ever discovered. The Prince is again in Melbourne. The war has about ended in New Zealand, Te Kooti having died from the effects of his wound and the Hauhaus being dispersed. Cap- tain Brown, of the American whaling bark Callao, of New Bedford, is held by the Consul at Auckland on a charge of shoOting & seaman named Brennan, and leaving another hamed Connoliy among the natives on Lynx Island. Miscellaneous, It ls now understood that Minister Motley goes to England with no suggestions for a further confer- ence in regard to the Alabama claims, our govern- ment preferring to leave the matter in abeyance Until they can more carefally consider it, Qur Washington correspondent nas had @ long tntei- view with Senator Sumner on the subject of the excitement created by his speech in England, The Senator thinks there need be no Sppretiension of war, as both nations are tdo sensi- bie for that, He noticed the fact that the English papers published no telegram reporting the rejec- tion of the Alabama claims treaty, and thought that the despatch to that effect was suppressed by the English government. Mr. Motley wili leave on the 19th, and, according to Mr. Sumner, he knows just What to do and how to do it, President Grant and his family had their pictures Aaken on Saturday at Brady’s gallery in Washing. ton. General Canby, tt is stated, will probably defer the constitutional election in Virginia until July, so a8 not to interfere with the harvest and in order that he may obtain a fail registration of voters. Our correspondent wid is making the overland trip across the Continent by the Pacific Hauroad rights by England he would regard it asa favorable circumstance, and calculated ta lead to the early acquisition of Cuba by this country and the injury to British commerce. We take it for granted that these are the views of our Secretary of State, for they are characteristic and crude enough. We agree with him, and think it not likely that the British government is contemplating at pres- ent the recognition of Cuban belligerency, but not for the reasons he assigns. England is not afraid of a war with Spain or any other European Power for such action. There is not the least reason to fear. Spain is not ina condition to go to war and would not make that a cause of war. Nor would any other European Power trouble itself to maintain the authority of Spain over Cuba or interfere in the least in the matter. A war with Spain seems to be the bugbear in Mr. Fish’s mind. He has not the least comprehension of the situation or limited power of Spain nor of the Cuban question in an international point of view. Though a respectable gentleman he is a timid old fogy and utterly unfit for Sec- retary of State of this mighty republic. Though, speaking of Spain going to war with England should the belligerent rights of Cuba be recognized by the latter, he evidently had in his timid mind the silly apprehension of such an event with this country should our government take the step first. Such pue- rility, timidity and want of comprehension in our Secretary of State are enough to make every American indignant and blush for shame for the humiliating position his country is placed in. If even England were disposed to take the first step in recognizing the Cubans as bellige- rents there is no reason, as Mr. Fish justly says, to dread that. Indeed, we ought to look at it favorably. Nor do we think it would pre- vent the acquisition of Cuba by the United States hereafter; for that is written down in the book of manifest destiny. But England might gain great advantages both to her commerce and prestige in Cuba and throughout the An- tilles, and in that point of view the British government is quite capable of comprehending its interests and acting upon them should no higher political considerations deter it from such action. England will never act from sym- pathy with the cruelly oppressed and struggling patriots of Cuba; but she might, from self- interest, should she see her way clear to head off the United States and to weaken our influ- ence over the Cubans and throughout the An- tilles. Asa reproach to our timid and weak government we could almost wish that England would take the lead in recognizing the Cubans as belligerents. We could wish this were it not for the shame and damaging effect it would bring upon our country. Let us talk no more of the Monroe doctrine, of sympathy with any brave people struggling for their independence, of an American syatem of policy for the Ameri- can Continent, or of the power and dominating grandeur of our great republic, if we do not promptly accord to the Cubans belligerent rights. There never was a worse and more cruel despotism than that of Spain over a peo- ple who are our neighbors, whose interests are closely united with ours, and who have no ties or sympathy with their rulers or the old Euro« pean world; yet we hesitate to accord the boon of belligerent rights to theme The world will treat us with contempt for our weakness and stupidity ; for we fail in magnanimity, in comprehending our own interests and in per- ceiving when the hour of destiny points #0 plainly to the opportunity and necessity for action, Would to heaven that we had at this particular time an American statesman like Bismarck or Napoleon at the helm of affairs. Then Cuba would soon be free and the founda- tion would be laid for a grand and progressive American policy worthy of « mighty nation, the Administration. When General Grant commanded the armies of the Union victory perched upon his ban- ners, because no man had the right to ques- tion his acts or demand his purposes, But the Presidency is a different thing. Congress has reduced it to a mere second mate's posi- tion, and every party leader who controls a section in Congress claims the right to issue orders and to know all the plans. To make the matter still worse, these political section masters are not agreed among themselves. Each is jealous of his competitors, and the result is confusion. The Washington de- spatches all agree that there is much dissat- isfaction among the politicians there, and the Western newspapers are beginning to find fault with the President for this state of things. There is ground for complaint, and it lies in the fact that the recognized head of the Cabinet, though a very worthy gentle- man of the old school, is entirely unfitted by his ideas, habits and tastes, for the post he fills. The fact is General Grant is not a politi- cian and does not wish to become one. He fought many splendid battles and won great victories, for which a grateful people have elected him to the first office in their gift, and are willing to pass over his shortcomings. He eannot at this time take hold in an entirely new field and become a great worker, and his disposition, therefore, is to let matters take their course in Cabinet council. He has no foreign or domestic policy to urge, no plans to carry out, no ambitious designs to foster, and therefore he has confi- dence in those he has called around him. But for this very reason he should have the strongest possible Cabinet he can construct. This would be the best evidence that he entertains a lively interest in the wel- fare of the nation and a signal return for the confidence reposed in him. It is admitted on all sides that the present leader of the Cabinet is not up with the ideas of the time, and though eminently respectable and desirous to do all that lies in his power, he holds no grasp on the heart of the country, and is incapable of marking out and carrying into execution a policy for the administration. The President, therefore, should not court disaster by procrastination and unseemly de- lay. The voices from the east and from the west are signs of the rising spirit of the times, and must be heeded if he would not invite defeat. The unanimity with which the Senate and the whole country have responded to Mr. Sumner’s recent masterly utterances on our foreign policy points to him as the best man to place in the position of Secretary of State and at the head of the Cabinet; and recon- struction of the government should at once be made, not only by calling him to office, but also by consulting him as to the persons who may be called to hold the other portfolios, With Mr. Sumner in lead as the working man of the administration the President can feel a confidence that no gross mistakes will be com- mitted like those of waiting to know what England says before we decide upon our policy in the Cuban question, or drawing up the instructions of Minister Motley, and with- out taking upon himself the supervision of every step in foreign or domestic affairs he may be sure that his administration will not stand before the country convicted of inca- pacity and meritorious of defeat. Tae Firxess or Tutnes.—The only name that could with any propriety succeed Webb's in Brazil was Blow. Tre St. Domingo Question.—We publish in another column to-day a letter from St. Do- mingo which takes ground against President Baez's project of annexation, and states that Cabral and his friends have taken the field for the purpose of deposing the Baez government and defeating its schemes. There is so much contradiction between the assertions of the two parties, and so little proof adduced by either, that the general reader can believe nothing. The fact is the people in St. Do- mingo take little or no interest in government, and are pillaged or praised as may suit the purposes of those in power. The country is at the mercy of a few designing men and ready freebooters on either side, and will gain immensely by any step that will introduce stable government and stop promiscuous pil- lage under the guise of protecting freedom. Earty 1x tag VALLEY.—Jubal has had another fight. As in a great many of his former fights, there was a Glass too much in the case. Jupce Conxnotiy.—It is a flagrant abuse that one man should hold two elective offices—a thing demoralizing and subversive in the eyes of all right thinking men. When a man accepts nomination for an office it is virtually a pledge that if elected he will resign the office he holds, and if it were not so he would neither be nominated nor elected. Judge Connolly was elected Register while still Police Justice, and in holding on to the smaller office while enjoying the greater he violates this implied pledge. Het Gare.—The contractor for the Hell Gate opening has had his time extended by the Washington authorities and will go on with his operations. Oprsion.—The Southern Opinion is dead— which isa good sign for Southern opinion. Every one will be glad to hear that there is no encouragement in the South for rank, captious, snarling hostility to the government, and that the people are no longer inclined to ‘nurse the devil.” Quarantine. If it is the opinion of the people and the doctors that quarantine is not necessary to prevent the introduction of disease, then its expensive machinery ought to be abolished at once; but if, on the other hand, it is held that quarantine cannot safely be dispensed with, then we should have a quarantine worthy the name, and not the ridiculous farce we now have—that while it imposes on commerce all the embarrassments and expenses of sanitary supervision affords no safety at all to the city, What shall we do inthe summer with our pres- ent system if in the winter, by the negligence or inefficiency of officers, pestilence is intro- duced into one of our finest suburbs? From the virulent type of fever that broke out on the ship James Foster, Jr., infection is now spread- ing on Staten Island. One of the men em- ployed on a quarantine steamer took the dis- ease, and his wife, who attended him, took it from him. Another person, attending on the sick, took it and communicated it again, and 80 it goes. One of the junior physicians of the Quarantine establishment, who had the temerity to call these cases ship fever, has been driven from his place. By such disci- pline the truth is kept down, and it is no wonder that reporters are disliked in that vicinity. At the time of the arrival of the James Foster, Jr., the Board of Health remon- strated against the doings of the Health Officer, and he bullied that Board to silence. Can he bully pestilence out of the city? Wall Street Speculation. Ever since the beginning of the year there has been a steady rise in nearly every stock dealt in at the Stock Exchange. The move- ments of currency in April and the stringency in money during the opening of spring business have usually resulted in a decline. This time, however, the precedent was reversed. The obstacle was entirely disregarded, and specu- lators paid exorbitant rates of interest to have their stocks carried rather than part with them. With the relaxation of the money market the buoyancy has been correspondingly great. The advance in prices {s all the way from ten to forty per cent. The speculative fever seems a repetition of that which succeeded the inflation attendant upon the immense issue of paper money during the war. It appears to have made the round of speculative subjects, and, having just closed up with real estate, commences at the stock market again. Pri- marily, the incentive to the present specula- tion is a hope of sharing in the immense ad- vance in railway values which it is expected will ensue upon the finishing of the Pacific Railway, while the fashion of issuing scrip divi- dends will, it is thought, become quite gene- ral, and capital stocks be thus increased two, three and even fourfold. One scheme con- templates the creation of a corporation between this city and Buffalo, with a capital of one hundred millions. We have pointed out the dangers of all kinds of speculation, and we repeat the warning again. With the decline of fifty per cent in breadstuffs and the opening of lake, river and canal navigation, the looked for fabulous earnings of our railways this sum- mer will dwindle to very ordinary figures, while the question of watering stock and wringing extra dividends from the travelling public is one which the courts may yet decide against the railway monopolists. Senator Sumner’s Reply to England. Senator Sumner having read the report of the effect produced by his recent speech in the Senate on the Alabama claims question, as detailed in our special cable telegram from London published last Saturday, re- affirmed his position on the subject in the very interesting extra-parliamentary conver- sation which appears in our columns to-day. Setting out with the acknowledgment that the Heratp despatch conveyed to the Presi- dent and Cabinet the first intimation which the Executive had of the new British sensation, Mr. Sumner intimated that the asseverations of the British press should be received with much caution, for the reason that “England never likes to be told the truth, particularly when in the wrong.” He did not express surprise at the irritation, even alarm, which now exists in that country, as the British people have seen the unanimity with which the Senate supported his views and rejected the Johnson-Stanley treaty, to which state of facts they will soon have added, de- spite the shifts of the London Zimes, the dis- agreeable attestation that President Grant coincides completely with his views. Mr. Sumner thinks that the difficulty will not lead to war, as he appears fully convinced that England will pay the amount of our bill in preference to fighting. Hoping for an ami- cable arrangement, the Senator declares that there shall be no yielding on the part of the American people after Mr. Motley has made known their wishes to the English Cabinet, These words have a truly national sound. The people will like them. Sovrnern Firg-Eaters Dyixe Ovt.—The Southern Opinion, an organ of the antedilu- vian fire-eaters, has gone the way of the Charleston Mercury. Taree Goop Sizzp Foreicn Questions. — First, the Alabama claims and British North America; second, Cuba and the West Indies generally; third, Mexico and Central Amer- ica; and they are all written in the book of “manifest destiny,” and they are all coming, though Mr. Fish ‘‘don’t see it.” Brooxtyn.—In one district of Brooklyn nearly a million dollars is paid on incomes over ten thousand dollars each. IMMIGRATION TO THR Untrep STATES From IreEtaAND AND GermMany.—Our Cork corre- spondent refers in his recent letters to unmis- takable indications that the emigration from Queenstown will thts year be unprecedentedly large. The various steamship companies hav- ing boats calling there are unable to accommo- date the passengers who throng their offices, notwithstanding the rise in the price of pas- sages to seven and eight guineas and the placing on their lines of all their available steamers and the chartering of others. The Cunard and Inman lines despatch one or two extra steamers a week to take out passengers left by their regular boats, and nevertheless eleven hundred passengers had to be left be- hind on a single day, the 15th ult. A similar activity reigns in the German ports. One feature is common to both the Irish and the German emigration of the present year. The emigrants are for the most part either skilled artisans or small farmers, and are unusually well provided for the new career which they are to enter upon in this country. If they will only resist the temptations to linger in the crowded cities of the Atlantic coast and will hasten on their arrival here to the homes that await them in the great West they will never regret having immigrated to America, Tae Nationa, Dest.—The national debt (less the amount of cash in the Treasury) was: On the Ist of May, 1369 On the Ist of May, 1807 Sater} Increase in two years. $8,372,000 Question for Secretary itwell—At this tate when will the debt be paid? Question No. 2—Without some glimpse of daylight how long will the veovle stand it? Our Relations with Moxico. The old cry. Despatches from Mexico of a very important character have been laid before the Cabinet, supposed to relate to negotiations for the sale of Sonora and Lower California. We are tired of this eternal nibbling of Mexican schemers and Wall street plotters at the Treasury in Washington. No sooner does a set of rulers become effete in Mexico than straightway we have negotiations for the sale of a slice of territory, The Gadsden purchase kept Santa Anna alive for atime. Comonfort nibbled all the while he was in power. Then Juarez came on tife carpet with the McLean treaties. After these followed the Romero treaties, some of which, like others, their predecessors, were too disgusting to be submitted to the Senate. Now comes another Juarez applica- tion for a little more money in exchange for land. We have seen this thing ripening and watched the silly subterfuges which have been resorted to in Mexico to divert public atten- tion from the facts. Every Mexican ruler is willing to sell territory if he can only keep the fact from the public till such time as he can discount the drafts for the money. If he only gets that he cares not a fig for public abuse. It is time that this petty and retail trading for empire be stopped. Mexico is pursuing the natural course of her orbit towards the American Union rapidly enough now, and there is no need of paying speculators, either Mexican or American, for chips when the entire block is coming of its own accord, From the day that our government will adopt and announce the policy that it will pay no more money for Mexican territory we shall see a new order of things springing up there. Mexican government is worn out and inex- tricably involved in debt. Mexican trade is shrinking continually, and presents to-day but a mumified resemblance to what it once was. Mexican society is dissolving and being dis- placed by anarchy and bands of robbers. A handful of kidnappers do not hesitate now to go into any town with less than ten thousand inhabitants and notify the most wealthy per- sons that they must pay down so many dol- lars or they will be taken to the country and held for ransom or death. The very men who to-day are offering to sell the national terri- tory do not dare to trust their persons one league from the gates of the capital without a formidable escort. On all sides are revolu- tions and rumors of revolutions, which are kept down more by the poverty of the oo ED election of Walker for Governor in opposition to Wells, and intimates that Walker receives the endorsement of President Grant. The Richmond Hnguirer asserts that there is an almost universal acquiescence in the action—or rather the non-action, for it nominated no can- didates of its own—of the late conservative convention, The Raleigh (N. ©.) Sentinel wants the people of the Old North State “aroused,” but does not arouse itself to the fact that Senator Sprague has not bought the National Intelligencer. The San José (Cal.) Patriot states that Senators Cole and Casserly, in voting to recede from the vote of the Senate on the bill to repeal the Tenure of Office act, reflected the wishes of their con- stituents. Both parties in California desire the repeal of the act. The San Francisco Herald states that General N. P. Banks, General But- ler, Henry Ward Beecher, E. H. Chapin, Wen- dell Phillips, Pa Wade, Frank Blair, Jr., and possibly President Grant, will visit California during the present or the coming month. Look out for earthquakes! The Los Angelos (Cali- fornia) Daily News is rejoicing in the fact of a reduction of seventy cents per hundred dol- lars on the rate of taxation of last year. The Memphis (Tennessee) Zoening Post chronicles the usual amount of criminal intelligence which usually refreshes the columns of the Memphis press. The Detroit (Michigan) Free Press advocates the Free Trade League move- ment. The Paris (Kentucky) 7rue Kentuckian remarks that “‘the whiskey trade is dull,” which must be bad news for those interested in Bourbon—Paris, by a singular paradox, being the hub of the Bourbon region. But that is Paris, Kentucky, not Paris, France. The Nashville (Tennessee) Republican Banner calls out, “Bring up the militia,’’ and declares that the Ku Kluxes.are still in organized ex- istence, notin Middle and West Tennessee, butin the “loyal” East. It also announces that T. A. R. Nelson has consented to become a candidate for the office of Supreme Judge of Tennessee for the Eastern division of the State. The New Orleans Picayune has been visiting a young ladies’ boarding school, and is much pleased with its experience. The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Hye pitches into the Chicago Tribune for its want of fealty to the administration of General Grant; but other republican papera in the West endorse its course. Trouble is evidently brewing between the Western repub- licans and President Grant, and all for the sake of some paltry offices. One Western journal asserts bluntly that Grant has been egregiously hymbugged jn the matter of his Sppointments, and imputes improper motives to those near the throne or behind it in influ- encing his judgment, We have not space to-day to give a further reflection of the sentiments of the distant newspaper press of the country. The above government and the country having so little to plunder than by any force that either can exert, The time is approaching when, as the next and most interested neighbor of Mexico, we must step in and administer government there in the interests of civilization and humanity, and the payment of money for portions of the territory will only have the effect of delaying, instead of hastening, the course of nature. What is needed now is the adoption of an in- variable policy by the government—that it will pay for no more annexation. If any neighboring territory becomes a prey to thieves, as in Mexico, or of tigers, as in Cuba, we may step in in behalf of weaker society and ex- tend over it the blessings of an organized government, If we do not do this some one else must, and that we cannot consent to. If the government of President Juarez desires to have its hands strengthened and its power restored to an efficient condition, let it make a proper application for the extension of our shield over it. We will then organize govern- ment with such powers that society shall be respected, industry and trade revived, revenue created, the domestic and foreign debt placed in due course of liquidation, and prosperity and happiness bloom throughout the land. But we want no more petty treaties nor retail trading in nationalities. An Hour with Our Distant Domestic Exe changes. The exchange bureau of a daily journal is among the most interesting features connected with its publication. By its aid the reader is enabled to take a daily survey of the entire country in company with the journal, and at the same time it affords advertisers the advan- tage of having their specialties seen and read in the most remote portions of the Continent. The exchange list of a paper like the New York Heraxp is of especial service to adver- tisers, inasmuch as it embraces the most sub- stantial papers in the country—we are refer- ring now only to our domestic newspapers, for our foreign exchange list is co-extensive with the expanse of journalism all over the globe—and at the same time it is placed on file in village newspaper offices, which, in many instances, are the centres of gossip, news, influence and intelligence for a spacious neighborhood. Let the reader go with us ona short journey among our most distant exchanges, taking them up promiscu- ously, leaving those of a nearer latitude to future observation. The Florida Union, published in Jackson- ville, Fla., discusses with the Mloridian the federal appointments in the State, and charges the latter with a design to ferment discord among the republican party. The Lynchburg Virginian adopts the action of the recent conservative convention in Virginia, and adds:—“‘And now let every true man worthy to bear the name of Virginian exert his best efforts to defeat the machinations of the car- pet-bag conspirators against the peace, honor and welfare of Virginia.” The Athens (Tenn. ) Republican hoists the name of Hon. William B. Stokes as the republican candidate for Gover- nor, and publishes a speech of Colonel Stokes, in which Andy Johnson is handled without gloves. The Walhalla (S, C.) Courier is discus- sing the merits of an important act of the Legis- lature determining the value of contracts in Con- federate State notes or their equivalent value. The value of such contracts is to be deter- mined by the value of said notes in the lawful money of the United States at the date of the contract. The Columbia (8. ©.) Phaniz argues that ‘“‘the country must depend chiefly upon the rich crops and general prosperity of the Southern States for its ability to maintain the government and resume specie payments.” We learn from the same paper that Columbia has been enjoying the luxury of the presence of the representatives of the following South Carolina papers :—Sumter Watchman, Ander- son Intelligencer, Charleston News, Marion Orescent and Newberry Herald, The Rich- mond (Va.) Whig, like most of the conserva- tive press of the Old Dominion. favors the will, however, enable our readers to form some idea of the magnitude of the journalism of the republic and of the value of the New York HERALD as a universal medium for advertising. Ir Sue Hap Nor Been Arrarp.—The Lon- don Times deprecates our Alabama argument in this style :—“‘It is not too much to say that at one moment during the war the fate of the American Union depended on the voice of England, whose sword thrown into the scale would have altered the result. She declined the contest, and it evinces a degree of unfair- ness bordering on infatuation to leave this con- sideration out of account.” Well, why did she decline—was it out of love for herself or because she was afraid? Ifthe former, we may take her forbearance into consideration. AnoTHerR Strike.—Some Sing Sing prison- ers indulged. the other day in the seasonable luxury of a strike on hearing a story that the hours of prison labor were to be increased. The person who suffered most was a keeper. He was badly beaten; and now we shall soon hear of more showering to death and more promiscuous shooting up there, Tae Herora.—Five hundred and fifty loads of furniture were taken out of the cily by the ferries alone in the two or three days of the May moving—some little measure of the expan- sion of the metropolis. The movement toward the upper end of the island was very great. Tue Braziian Mission.—Henry T. Blow, for some years a radical member of Congress from Missouri, has been chosen for Brazil in place of James Watson Webb. Blow, from all accounts, is a great improvement on Gencral Pile, rejected by the Senate, and will, it is ex- pected, prove an improvement even on Webb. At all events, this Missouri Blow, in relieving the administration and Webb from the web of his diplomatic complications, including Admiral Davis and ‘‘Portuguese Joe,” is a good thing. Our Religions Record—Services and Ser+ mons Yesterday. Instant in season and out of season the faithful pastors who minister to the spiritual wants of the different Christian congregations in this city, its immediate suburbs, and away along the line of the Hudson river, in New England, New Jersey, and at other points within immediate reach of our reporters, were on duty yesterday, in the pulpit and at the altar, exhorting, correct- ing, advising, comforting and endeavoring to “straighten” the way for fallen humanity to the attainment of glorious immortality. The exhibit, almost verbatim, of their efforts, published in our columns this morning, goes to show that the ministrations were attended by earnest and devout congregations, although the number of worshippers present in the dif- ferent temples was diminished to a considera- ble extent in consequence of the unexpected and unustial severity of the weather. Mem- bers of almost every religious nomination worshipped according to their own particular form of invocation and adoration, the pervad- ing sentiment and inflaencing motive being in each instance regulated according to the simple rule and practice of the cardinal vir- tues—Faith, Hope and Charity; God above all, and “your neighbor as yourself.” In the Catholic chueches the first Sunday of the ‘‘month of Mary” was observed in the usual form; decorations of the statue of the Virgin, the innocent voices of children raised in songs of praise of the name of the Saviour, high masses and pulpit oratory, the Rev. Dr. McSweeny making an eloquent and effective effort in the last named essential in St. Patrick's Cathedral, in this city, and the clergy of the other churches consecrated by Rome following in the same strain. In the Church of the