The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue ‘and 28d stroet.—THE TEMPEST. BOWERY THEATRE, Bor Fountatn—Soar Fat MAN, ROOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., between Sth and 6th ava.— OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar Bunvesque Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty THIEVES. Tue SPigit oF THE Fifth avenue and Twenty- FIFTH AVENUE THEATR! x LANTERN ES. fourth street.—LE MABiAGR WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Ith street.— ASTE. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— NAOHT UND MORGEN, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broad with NEW FEATURES. Matin —Humety DUMPryY, Le. WAVERLEY THEATRE. 720 Broadway.—Evize Hous BURLESQUE COMPANY—PAnis; O8, THR JUDGMENT. HE TAMMANY, Fou th street.—ROBINSON CRUSOE AND His MAN FRIDAY, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—CoMIo SKETCHES AND LIVING STATUES—PLU10. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Rossini's MBssR SOLEN NELLE, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHto- PIAN ENTEGTAUNMENTS—TH DTRINGS TO ONE Bow. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vooa!ism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—RIsury’s JAPANESE TROUPE. Brooklyn.—ILooLey's HOOLEY'S OPERA HO) 8 DREAM. MinsTReis—THE BILL Pos’ MEXICAN EXHIBITION PARLOR., No, 765 Broaaway.— CusISTIAN MARTYR AND CHILD, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Aur. TRIPLE SHEE New York, Thursday, May 6, 1869. THH NDWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 5. The London Times of yesterday has an article on the Alabama claims question, in which the speech of Senator Sumner is sharpiy criticised. At the Chester races yesterday the Tradesman’s Plate or Chester Cup was won by the horse Knight of the Garter, and the great Chester Produce Stakes was ‘won by Lambton. In the House of Commons the bill to disable the Mayor of Cork, Ireland, from act- ing as magistrate was read for the first time. Justice Lefroy, late of the Queen's Bench, died yesterday. The Spanish journals maintain that the seizure of the Mary Lowell was a legal act and deny that Bug- Jand has made any demand for restitution, Olozag’ end his iriends demand the establishment of a di- rectory. The Ministry of the Italian government has re- figned. A new Cabinet ts being formed. The North German Parliament has passed a reso- lution tn favor of the payment of deputies. Cuba. Near Admiral Hoff reports to the Navy Depart- ment, under date of April 27, that a large expedi- tion, with men and munitions for the Cubans, which sailed from Yucatan, Mexico, had attempted to land them on the south side of the Western Department, and the Spanish Admiral had sailed with a portion of his fleet In search of the expedition. The trans- port carrying political prisoners to Fernando Po has putinto Porto Rico tor repairs, and the Captain General of that island has determined to send some Of the prisoners to the Canaries and the rest to Cadiz. The crew of the Peruvian transport Reyes, which was sunk of the Bahamas, have arrived at Havana, and are in charge of the American Consul. The Uritish Minister at Washington yesterday received intelligence of another Spanish outrage on British shipping. A brig was hailed by a Spanish man-o!-war, and, on refusing to stop, was fred into and sur No particulars are given. ‘The Wasiington authorities, it is understood, will not object to the sailing of any vessel with war mu- Ditions unless her clearance is made out for Cuba. It is intimated that if the clearances are made out for Jamaica, Nassau or Mexico they will not be questioned. The proposed Cuban republican constitution has been prepared, It 1s said, in Washington city and ts yet to be submitted to the provisional government, It provides for annexation and divides the island into several States. St. Thomas. ‘The Peruvian monitors were still at St. Thomas on Saturday. The American crew had been discnarged, St. Domingo. The troops under President Baez were twice de- feated, with heavy loss, by the revoiutionists on the 13th and the 23d of Aprii. Hayti. Aux Cayes was again bombarded by Salnave'’s gunboats on the 24th, but no visible eifect was pro- duced ont garrison. Paraguay. Our Buenos Ayres letter is dated March 20, The effort to form a provisional ‘at on the part of ihe ¢ y have et proven suc- coseful, ers hav received from Minister McMa nd rumors are current that he has been imprisoned Lopez, but they are discredited. The Cholera has disappeared. Buenos Ayres. A financial crisis is prevailing at Montevideo, and f general crash ts apprehended, The great Argen- line Central Railroad ts almost completed, and pro- posals hay called for to construct lines of tele- graph across the repub’ The Legislatare. The following t with others, were passed by the s a ‘TO regulate the fare on the Troy avd Boston Railroad; widening Fourth ave- nue, Rrookly fixing the compensation of record clerks of tie New York Common Pieas Court; for a now drive from 158th street to the Blind Asylum; for the impro ent of Harlem river and Spuyten Duyvil creek. The Supply bill was amended by giv- ing $2,500 to the New York Poultry Association, and the bill was then passed. The bill incorporating the Oswego Pier and Dock Company was returned to the Senate wilh a veto by the Governor, and on mo- tion the veto was tabled. In the evening session the Assembiy amendments to the State Excise law ‘were non-concurred in, In the Assembly the General Tax bill, assessing a tax of five mils, was ordered to a third reading. The Charity bill, appropriating $151,000, was mended by granting $10,000 to the House of the Good Shepherd, of Brooklyn, and $5,000 to the Roman Catholic Reformatory, of Buffalo, and passed by a vote of 77 to Mm Mr. Gleason, on behalf of the members of the House, presented Speaker Youngiove with a gold watch and chain, The Governor returned, with his veto, the bill concerning the public schools of Johnstown, which veto Was sustained by a vote of 71 to18 Bilis ‘were reported to regulate the sale of theatre tickets, to incorporate the Staten Island Bridge Company and for other purposes, and the bill to authorize the construction of @ central elevated railway in Broad- way was passed. Miscellaneous, ‘The Indian tribes in the southern districts of the Indian Territory, where the grass is beginning to grow so that they can feed their horses, are vecom- ing discontented and anxious to renew the war, ‘They complain that their annuities have not been NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Tho Assault of the Republicans and Copper | and is willing to fill the position which they | T#termational Yackt Racing—Mr, Ashbury’s ane lie can paid. Numbers of them have already forsaken their reservations and gone north of the Red river. General Lee is recetving a warm and demonstra- tive reception from his old friends in Alexandria, Va. Governor Jewell was formally inaugurated Gover- nor of Connecticut at Hartford yesterday. Both houses of the Legislature met and organized. Judge Gray, in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, decided yesterday in the case of Drew that the Legislature had a right to punish him for contempt in refusing to obey its summons. He was thereupon remanded to the custody of the Sheriff. Caroline Brown, & negro woman who had charge of the ladies’ retiring room of the Senate, was one among a party removed recently by Sergeant-at- Arms French, under an order to reduce the force, Caroline is the one who was put off the Alexandria Railroad some time ago, and about whom the Senate got itself into a virtuous indignation at the time. She now threatens to have Mr, French removed un- less she is reinstated, The Hon. George Villiers, a son of Lord Clarendon, and Ruslem Bey, a Turkish general, are among the latest prominent arrivals in Washington. ‘Trouble is apprehended among the settlers on gov- ernment lands in Kansas, many of whom have lived upon the land after the usual pre-emption payments, and now suspect that some of the recent Indian treaties enacted by the Senate will oust them. A surveying party-on the Fort Scott Railroad was at- tacked recently and one M. O. Vasey, while address- ing a meeting of settlers, was mobbed. A judicial decision was rendered in the Court of Common Pleas in Dauphin county, Pa., yesterday, against the Western Union Telegraph Company for $20,000 due as back taxes, The City. The inquest in the Long Island Railroad disaster was concluded yesterday, the jury rendering a ver- dict that the death of the victims was caused by the neglect of the railroad company to keep the road in proper order. The North German Lioya’s steamship Donau, Cap- tain Ernst, will leave Hoboken at two o'clock P. M, to-aay for Southampton and Bremen. The mafis will close at the Post Office at twelve o’clock. The steamer Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock P. M. to-day for Havana. ‘The stock market yesterday was again greatly ex- cited over a heavy decilne in the ratlway list. Gold was dull and closed finally at 13534. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor Thomas Carney, of Kansas; John Sharp- less, of Quebec, and General W. J. Palmer, of St. Louls, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Williston and Major G. W. Graham, of the United States Army; Dr. D. S. Graus, of Washington; O. S. Hopkins, of New Mexico, and William Whit- ney, of Massachusetts, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Risley and Dantel Voorhees, of Indiana, are at the Maltby House. Judge J. J. Roberts, of New York, and Professor Thorpe, of St. Louts, are at the St. Julian Hotel. Captain Judkins, of steamer Scotia; Mr. Roberts, of Quebec, and J. Enders, of Richmond, are at the New York Hotel. 3 Lord Berkley Paget, Lord Waterpark, F. a. Wig- gins, and Mr. Wigram, of England, are at the Bre- voort House. Dr. Charles Taylor, of New Milford; W. B. Slack, of Washington, and D. Trowbridge, of New Haven, are at the St. Denis Hotel. G. H. Chatterton, of Albany; J. Travis Quigg, of Philadelphia, and C. Humphrey, of Albany, are at the Westminster Hotel. : A. B. Cornell, of Ithica; P. B. Goodsell, of Boston; General J. R. Anderson, of Richmond; Rev. Joseph tyon, of England; Rev J. Y. Gholson, of Alabama, and Senator Sprague, of Rhode island, are at the Fifth Avenuc Hotel. General Myexs and Colonel Swords, of the United States Army, are Qt the Hoffman House. General J. M. YSarren and R. L. Johnson, of Albany; John G. Saxe, of Vermont; D. Lyman, of Connecticut; Judge Tru:*key, of Pennsylyania; ex- Mayor Innis, of PoughkeepSie, and J. L. Adams, of Montreal, are at the Astor House. Baron Gauldree Boileau, forme*ly Consul General of France in the United States, but :9W French Min- ister to Peru; Mrs. Kirby Smith, mr. T. K. Law- rence, Count Delaroche and Mr. T. W. Shippen at- rived last evening on the steamship Lafayette, from Brest and Havre. Prominent Departures, Rusten Bey and Mr. Wyatt, of the Turkish Lega- tion, for Washington. Ex-Congressman F, E. Woodbridge, for Vermont. Mr. Goni, of Washington; J. R. Walters, C. M. Presley, Mrs. R. T. Moses and H. A. Wyckoff sailed yesterday in the steamship Siberia for Liverpool. General Daniel Ullman and family satled for Europe in the steamship Denmark. ANoTHER BoneMIAN INventioy.—That Cuban expedition which left this port by the Arago was a rich Bohemian vision, like the discovery of the murderer of Mr. Rogers in a Sing Sing jail. The Arago put to sea on Mon- day—not Tuesday—and up to the hour when she was left by the pilot had not taken on board any ambitious adventurers, but only a full complement of men to work her. She goes to replace in the Peruvian service a vessel just lost, and goes with the permission of our government to change her flag while out. Tue East River Brwor.—The Shipown- ers Association seems to object not to the bridge, but to the insufficient height at which it is now proposed to build it. We presume the bridge will finally have to be built at what- ever height is best for it and the traffic over it, as the engineers shall determine. Shipping must accommodate itself to the port, not the port to the shipping. With five miles of water front on the North river, let ships go there. This city must expand, and can only do it on Long Island. PREPARING For THE Great Eciirse.—Sec- retary Borie has ordered a scientific expedition to Siberia and Alaska to take notes of the coming August eclipse of the sun. Would it not be well to extend the researches of the expedition into Alaska itself, to save that lovely country from a total eclipse ? Gas.—The gas companies say that the gas bill now before the Legislature is unconstitu- tional because ‘‘the State cannot force them to sell their manufactures when they bave no guarantee that they will be paid for them.” That is not exactly where the forcing comes, The same authority that gives the corporation anexistence can lay down rules for its conduct, and if the rules are not complied with it can force the corporation to give place to another. Lavret ann Gorp give emblematic honor to the last tie of the road that is to lead our people to greater glory and wealth than a people ever had before. _—_—_ Wiy?—Why is it that when a posse of women’s rights women go to the polls to de- mand votes or make any other of their non- sensical demonstrations before the public they are always accompanied by some man who seems to assume the character of sponsor and guide? Do the women recognize the necessity of such a creature? Spatn’s Resovrces.—The Spanish loan for ten million sterling has just been negotiated at twenty-nine and a half per cent. In other words, Spain’s credit is such that she gives her obligations for ten millions in order to get about three millions. Who says she cannot conquer Cuba? heads Upon President Grant. There are to-day three boldly marked divi- sions in American politics, These are the dominant republican element, the copperhead, and the less noisy yet stronger force which supports the President. The former repre- sents a radical victorious body of men, who, having had unlimited power placed in their hands, are intoxicated with it. In all the world’s history there is no parallel to their lavish expenditures of treasure. We havo seen Rome rocked by civil wars and foreign conquests; have seen empire ride into power upon the rains of the Roman republic; we have seen France, England and the German countries run through centuries of war; but the debt, the expenditures, the corruptions and the plundering which have followed the wreck of their national morality have been light in comparison to those which have charac- terized our own civil strife. North and South, those who were the legislative leaders during the rebellion appeared to make it a rule to rake into their own pockets and into those of their friends the wondrous wealth which mod- ern prosperity had poured upon the United States. In the North Congress has held the reins, and, mounted upon our national treasure box, with the people in harness, has driven in a manner which can only be estimated by the two thousand six hundred millions of dollars of debt which mark its track. So firmly have its members seated themselves in power that they no longer represent the people whom they originally used as a stepping stone to political preferment. Congress is, in its unity, our dic- tator. Each State has furnished a larger or smaller number of particles to form this dicta- torial element. But how of the copperheads? They are a curious combination. Among them are men who, too cowardly to have a well defined opinion, maintained a sort of political vaga- bondage during our war. During the same period they furnished from their ranks that element which, behind our backs, was worse than a rebel army of two hundred thousand men. Since the war they have taken advan- tage of the character of that ‘‘bull in a china shop,” Andy Johnson, and have stirred up large masses of the people, North and South, with the fallacious idea that the war settled nothing, that slavery still exists, that no politi- cal conditions have been changed, that three hundred thousand slaveholders even now hold the power, that steam and electricity are dreams, that all the gentlemen are South and that their education North counts for nothing, that England cannot breathe without American cotton—that, in fact, eight years of desperate war and political turmoil have had no results. They surrounded the Presidential bull, and per- suaded him that, in the main, they were right. He, with horns down, gored by friend and foe, charged here and there. He bellowed for ““ny policy” and the ‘“‘constitution” to the de- light of Congress, to which he gave more power, and to the joy of the copperheads, whose sole hope of office was and is the keep- ing of the country in an unsettled condition. There is another element. It is that off of which all this republican and copperhead war scum has grown fat. It is the sturdy conser- vative heart of the country. It represents the yeoman who, back of the seaboard cities, gives the nation its sinew and power. If comprises the soldier who, on both sides, fought from the conviction that he was doing his duty. It is this element that, firm as a rock, has saved us from Ajsintegraiion since the war closed. It is this both copperhead and republican have tried to control—the one trying to gain power, the other to perpetuate it. Both parties felt that President Grant had the strongest hold upon this sturdy backbone of the country, and it be- came a desperate game which should nominate him for the Presidency. Grant took the repub- lican road because of tlre’ two offered it was the cleaner. The republican party got the name of electing their President ; but this party in the election of Grant simply recognized the silent but irresistible governing force of the United States—the common sense of the people. We have thus pictured three distinctive political elements. Two of them were even before the war too vile for national good, but now they are reeking with the corruption which festers in the last eight years of our history. Congress represents the dominant one. Cop- perhead and democrat, in their attempts to stir civil hatreds into action, represent the second. President Grant represents the third. He is the sole exponent of all the force that gives us national cohesiveness at home and national respect abroad. It is to him that the common sense of the country turns, with the hope that he will express, by word and act, the will of the people. It was in opposition to the contending repub- lican and copperhead elements that Grant took his seat. The hounds at once set upon him. The force they brought to bear was terrific. The vast and intricate system of ‘“‘rings” that held and dictated the methods of public plunder were at the heels of Congress and urged its members to the attack. Congressional salva- tion hung upon its power to force its instru- ments into office. United States Senators went so far as to dictate to the President who should and who should not be nomi- nated or confirmed. Their colleagues sus- tained them in this dictation. Again, the copperhead press, true to its principles to create turmoil, immediately opened upon the Executive. The whole hungry pack which it represents echoed the howl. The President has stood the assault well. He has thrown them the bones and they are now purring over them. This gives him time to look about him and study his position, He must discover that the Cougressional party that had him forced upon them are bent upon making him a nonentity in the govern- ment—that the copperheads and democrats are but a crowd of political Rip Van Winkles. He can, therefore, turn nowhere for sup- port except to the yeomanry and the common sense of the country that gave him his fame, enshrined him as the commander who saved us from national disintegration and virtually made him President, There is yet a greater victory in store for him than any he has won. His first step towards it is to reor- ganize his Cabinet and place young, energetic and able men in the chairs of those who repre- sent 1800 instead of 1869, Doing this the people wil feel that their President really placse himself at their head have given to him. Doing this, and ignoring republican and copperhead, President Grant will take the initiative in the organization of a party which can within three years sweep away the existing ones with all their obsolete ideas, dictatorial proceedings and corruptions. Educational Progress=The School Commis- sioners, Old and New. The members of the Board of Education of this city, as organized under the old law for the control and ‘discipline of our public schools, held their last session yesterday even- ing. The proceedings, as will be seen from our report, were of a very interesting charac- ter, some of the representatives retiring from this wide and important sphere of public duty, while others have been called upon to continue to give the benefit of their experience to the rising generation under the simple yet com- prehensive and pointed measure drafted by Mayor Hall and passed by the Legislature on the 30th ult., which is to supersede it under his magisterial management. This document, with the appointments, appears also in our columns in the shape of ‘‘memoranda” filed by the Mayor in his office at the time of making the appointments of School Commissioners. A careful perusal of this paper will show that his Honor is duly conscientiously impressed with the responsibility which rests on him as an executive officer to see that our school system is administered faithfully, impartially and intelligently, as there are few men in the community who have known such lamentable consequences, both to families and society at large, flowing from the defective or ill-directed education of youth, as he has in his professional capacity. The new commission is made up of gentlemen taken from almost every class of industrial pursuit in the metropolis ; men who, as an associated unit, will each contribute useful hints, derived from practical experience of everyday life, for the further reform and elevation of our school system, not merely in the routine method of im- parting instruction to the young, but how it should be conveyed so as to be permanently useful and at the same time retain the mens sana in corpore sano of the men and women who are to succeed us. In this list of Commissioners of Common Schools we find the well known name of Isaac Bell, one of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction, an able and devoted social reformer, the friend of the orphan and home- less, a careful adviser of youth approach- ing go adolescence, one who has always held out words of hope even to the most degraded, directing personal correction with 7a firm leniency when needed. Next is Richard L. Larremore, president of the board just dissolved, a lawyer and man given to inces- sant work in the school improvement cause, and a writer of repate on the subject of public education. Messrs. Thomas Murphy, ex- Senator; William Wood, banker; Nathaniel Sands, Magnus Gross, editor; Lorin Inger- soll, manufacturer; Samuel A. Lewis, broker ; Timothy Brennan, ten years a Commissioner ; John H. Sherwood, builder ; Bernard Smythe, Receiver of Taxes, and William E. Duryee, present a Commissioner from the Fifth ward. This commission will enter on its duties at the expiration of ten days from the passage of the bill and hold office to the last day of De- cember, in the year 1871, any vacancy occurring in the meantime to be filled by the Mayor's appointment. The constitution of this board, its instructions, aim and object cannot fail to impart satisfaction and hope to the parents residing in this—the great American metro- polis, But we may here with propriety say that the complete realization of the hopes, both of our legislators and the gentlemen who give their services to secure it by a more complete system of public schools, depend almost entirely on the exer- tions of the parents themselves. They have to see’ that there are no more truants; the Commix'sioners and teachers will exert them- selves so that we may have no more rowdies. The example set by the inhabitants of New York impress, for good or evil, the morals of the people o.* fire country at large. The radi- cal cure for the’ Vices of society which lead to crime in our mia'st can be found only in the * in front of the teacher's primary school anu : desk. Our citizens ,.‘t¢ liberal in their outlay in “this” direction, and ,¥¢ Sincerely hope that they will soon behold the 1. titiation of an edu- cational era which will consi. ‘tute by its fruits a period of repayment. By a constitutional avoidance of the Iatitudinarian, @™ of the French schools, the national hobbies o. ‘the Ger man institutions, the managerial defects of the English board, the deficiencies of the ,eish system; but examining, and perhaps culling o % ideas from the working of the Belgian plan, we entertain a firm belief that the public schools of New York wili soon become chan- nels of the most refined enlightenment and public utility. Tax Lone Istanp Ratroap Disaster.— The Coroner's inquest on the bodies of the victims of the recent slaughter on the Loug Island Railroad was concluded yesterday. The jury found a verdict holding the company liable for the deaths of the different persons, in consequence of the defective state of the rails and negligence in not keeping the road in proper repair, Their surviving friends must now vindicate the memory and family interests of the deceased. Exiancine THz Canats.—Canals are too slow for this age, and unless there is enter- prise enough to put steam on these channels of communication we ought to spend no more money on canals. Some men are ready to argue that changes would be necessary to make it possible to use steamers to any extent, but to make these changes would involve greater expense than the building of anotheT railroad, and the railroad would be more effective. Steam, then, on the canals as they are, or no more canals. Out on A Fortoven.—In Massachusetts they apparently have some of the usages that oat such favor in the Sheriff's office here, John Dorsey, in quod, serving out a sentence, was permitted to go home fora day ‘‘on fur- lough” and to ‘attend to home affairs.” Mas- sachusetts saw in this disposition the de- velopment of the domestic virtues, no doubt, and encouraged it. Dorsey improved the oc- casion by beating his wife's brains out with a club, ’ Challenges. Criticism of after-dinner speeches is not always gracious, and thorefore It is with reluc- tance that gentlemen will readily pnderstand that we venture to examine what was recently said by Mr. Ashbury in the cabin of his own yacht when, the dishes being removed, his health was proposed by Lord Lennox. Indeed, we could not be tempted to such examination by any ordinary means; but on this occasion Mr, Ashbury manifested so uncommon a de- gree of the post-prandial tendency to associate matters having no relation one with another, and did so astonishingly put things in the wrong places, ‘that a failure to dissent might be mis- understood. He spoke first of the cup won by the America, and now held by the New York Yacht Club, and of his intention to come here and try to win it, saying “‘it had been in the possession of America for seventeen years, and noone had had the pluck or the energy to compete for it.” From the consideration of the cup itself he went on as follows :—‘‘A great deal had been said about the difference in the tonnage of the vessels, He desired in no shape or way to take advantage; but he did desire that the vessel he competed with should be of the tonnage of the Cambria, and not double.” And thus he runs on touching the discussion in regard to the size of the Dauntless. Now, we have to inform Mr. Ash- bury that this question in regard to the size of the Dauntless has nothing whatever to do with his proposed race for the cup won by the America; and we caunot conceive that a yachtman so intelligent and accomplished should suppose the contrary, save we fall to the pleasant after-dinner theory. We hope that his &ttention will be called on this point to the communication we give in another column from one of the oldest members of the New York Yacht Club. Can it be possible Mr. Ashbury does not remember that he has put forth challenges for two races—one a proposal to sail any boat of the New York Yacht Club for the cup won by the America, and another to make his trip across a race with any American yacht of a certain size? Such certainly is the view taken here of the letter published by him immediately after his very pretty triumph over the Sappho. In that letter he appeared as a genuine Briton, ready for Anything in the shape of sport on fair terms; and if there was a little exube- rance of triumph in it we reflected that it was a great while since an American yacht had been beaten on that side the water. From the terms of his challenge, as fairly taken, there was a chance for any one to make a race, and the Dauntless merely accepted one of his propositions; that was all. This was an independent, individual act of the owner of that yacht—not the act in any sense whatever of the New York Yacht Club—having no official relation to the club, nor to the cup the club holds. Indeed, we doubt if the New York Yacht Club would be any more ready than the English clubs are ‘+o make an international ocean race. They agree entirely with the English clubs that long races are nota test of speed, and they have never goneinto them. The great winter ocean race was the private match of three members of the club, and not a club affair; nor was it considered (officially) a club matter until the three yachts had left our coast. It will be the same with any race between Mr, Ashbury’s yacht and an American yacht now, if any is made, It may be that only some individual member will venture on the many chances against him across the ocean that lie in the build and power of such a boat as the Cambria. As to the contest for the cup, without doubt that Mr. Ashbury is sincere in all that he utters of his intention to make a contest, we have still to say that he has not yet even opened the preliminaries for such a race. Won in peculiar circumstances and froma gallant and stanch foe, that cup istreasured here as a high trophy, and it is provided that any contest for its possession shall be subject to certain rules, These rules were published over ten years ago and are on record in English authorities, and the fact that they are thus accessible to Mr. Ashbury makes it the more strange that he has not yet complied with their requirement, as that is the only way in which he can institute a race for the cup. Let him do his part and come on, and he need not doubt that the New York Yacht Club here will receive him in a generous spirit and afford him all opportunity for the contest. It will not turn on points of measurement or disputes of systems, whether or no he shall have a big boat or a little one. Indeed, the rales prescribe how the size of the contesting yacht shall be ascertained. The New York Yacht Club will put a repre- sentative boat fairly against him if he comes , “operly accredited as a representative him- self, not otherwise. And, however we may bo doubts! as to what our yachts may do against British yachts in British waters this summer, we feel most certain that we know who wi,'l be the victor here. 7. CUBAN QUESTION BEGINNING TO Loom Up 1x Exotanp.—Some of the leading heavy journal yand reviews of the British capital are eg"innin, ¢ to discuss the ominous drift of pub- lic satin ont in the United States on the Cuban cs ‘rection, the grasping propensities public, and the warlike proclivi- ‘ Grant. Very good. There vlenty of material for com- ‘ws and speculations on » &e., for the Scribes during the next four *” is coming, and will stop to water of the gre.t % ties of Gent& will probably bé , mentaries and revk American aggressions, and Pharisees of Englan. years. ‘‘Manifest destiny there is no telling where he his horses. ok Harp Up.—Salnave, the bla, yetrenthes i Hayti, who is fighting for his crow 7 ras ie q be distressed for money. More fool Ger. a wise man, he would have gone off, h frard, with a full chest of hard cash to Ju on the first serious outbreak of a rebe. against him, and would have settled do, among the quiet darkies of Kingston, there t enjoy the fruits of his labors, no more trou- bling himself about the rebellious niggers of |- Hayti. maica Mion ’ Mr. Motley’s Instructions. We are advised from Washington that Mr, Motley will shortly depart on his important mission with certain specific instructions by which his official conduct in Great Britain will be guided; that these instructions will be based on the general views of the Alabama claims set forth in Senator Sumner’s late clear, comprehensive and trenchant speech on the subject as covering the American ultimatum; but that there is to be no particular hurry in reopening negotiations, inasmuch as the ad- ministration holds the opinion that nothing will be lost on our side by delay. The British government, it is thought, will grow mellow toward us on the subject with a little time for cool reflection, and that by next Christmas the views of her Majesty’s Cabinet, with the public opinion of Great Britain, will undergo a considerable reaction on this matter. Mr. Motley is not to lose sight of public opinion at home, but will seek the most favorable occa- sions in England upon which to submit and press his little bill. This looks like peace, which is devoutly to be wishe@; but too sanguine, we fear, are the expectations of Mr. Fish touching a British reaction from the Johnson-Stanley treaty to the ultimatum of Senator Sumner. The chasm is too wide and deep to be bridged over with diplomatic trestlework in the interval to next Christmas. The concessions and indem- nities required by Senator Sumner from Eng- land are such that if presented as an ulti- matum she will gain all the time she can by ingenious evasions and delays. But this treat- ment cannot be long continued without pro- voking the intervention of Congress. The two houses will, in the regular order of things, reassemble at Washington on the first Monday in December next. On the next day the Presi- dent’s annual message on our foreign and domestic affairs will be laid before the two houses. In reference to the Alabama claims it will probably read somewhat after this fashion:—‘‘The negotiations reopened with England on the so-called Alabama claims are. still progressing, with an encouraging prospect of an amicable and satisfactory set- tlement.” But if nothing more specific or satisfactory than this shall come from the President a resolution calling for Mr. Mot- ley’s correspondence will be the next thing in order, and after this the next proceeding may be a joint resolution calling for more decisive action from the Executive Department. Mr. Gladstone, as it appears, consoles him- self with the idea that Senator Sumner'’s speech against the Johnson treaty and the unanimous vote of the Senate (save one) rejecting that treaty is all a political movement meaning thereby that it is all for buncombe. But any such construction of this movement will be a serious mistake on the part of the British Premier. The wrongs and humiliations which, from necessity, were endured from England by our government and people, during our late civil war cannot be settled by any half-way measures of redress. ‘One war at a time, Mr. Seward,” said President Lincoln to his Secretary of State; ‘‘one war at a time, what- ever the concessions required just now to avoid two wars.” Lincoln saw the game of England, France and Spain, and his forbear- ance and submission in regard to their move- ments defeated their grand design. But such was the impression made upon the American people, General Grant included, by the sinister and offensive conduct of those Euro- pean States in our internal struggle for the very life of this nation that had President Lincoln on the surrender of the rebel army of General Lee ordered General Grant into Mexico with a handred thousand men, for the expulsion of the French army and German empire, the movement would have been hailed by popular acclamation from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard. Such still is the public sentiment of this country in reference to England’s punic faith in her neutrality that General Jackson’s ultimatum to France—in- demnity or reprisals—would be the most popular alternative for General Grant's admin- istration, peace or war. “To this complexion it will come at last,” unless in the interval to next December the great English reaction expected by Mr. Fish shall come, or unless in England’s convenient neutrality and belligerent rights we may find a precedent applicable—first, to the Island of Cuba, and next to the New Dominion. We are strongly drawn to the conclusion that the policy of masterly inactivity suggested in the report of the general drift of Mr. Motley’s instructions covers some expected contingency in Cuba and elsewhere, in which England's example of neutral assistance may be turned to an account so good as to bring a full ee lent for Mr. Sumner's bill of the Alabama claims pending Mr. Motley’s negotiations. There are three important outside questions pressing upon our government, all of which may be settled on the precedents of interven- tion and active one-sided neutrality furnished by France and England. These questions are, first, the annexation of Caba and St. Do- mingo; second, the absorption of Mexico and Central America, and, third, the acquisition of British North America. Looking to all these acquisitions it will be no disadvantage to the United States to leave England’s prece- dents of neutrality and belligerent rights an open question, and in this view, but only in this view, can the American people concur with the administration in its reported instruc- tions to Mr. Motley that he need not be in any particular hurrry in pushing the subject of the Alabama claims to a settlement which will debar us from following the precedents of England in reference to internal insurrections in other parts of the world, Generar Lee 1x Virorsia.—General Robert E. Lee visited Alexandria, Va., yesterday, from Washington. He was the recipient of a pleasing ovation, crowds of persons, particu larly ladies, pressing forward to pay their respects to him. ‘The scene is represented as uuequalled since the days of Washington's sojourn in the ancient State. The General held a reception at the house of a friend, but was particularly reticent in the presence of the representatives of the press. Pusnine Taines.—In the New Dominion ———__— c are not satisfied to be out in the cold Ivatior tx Tae Ciry.—Half a dozen rowdies | they ‘e reciprocity doors shut against them, assaulted and beat the foreman of a fire engine, | with t tion has been carried in their “House were taken before the keeper of a justice | anda nw —<g” to recall the licenses issued to shop—called a mugistrate—by him wore im- | of Commo. for the fisheries. If they push mediately dismissed from custody, and re- | our citizens . may push things to a state they nowed the assault on the’ foreman betore they ; that point they . * than the present. got out of the court room. will like even less