The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1869, Page 6

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ApveRTisements and Svsscriprions and all letters for ¢ New York Herarp will be Teceived us above. ) TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements should be sent in before <= tight o'clock, P. M, to insure proper claseifi- ‘cation. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated may 13, Reverdy Joinson yesterday formally telegraphed from London to Washington his resignation as American Minister at the Court of St. James The London 7imes still discusses the Alabama claims. It had an editorial yesterday in which it claimed that in submitting the question to arbitration Erglaod has conceded all that she possibly can con- cede, Persia. A large number of persons have been arrested in Teheran, supposed to have been tmplicated in the recent relig'ous riot. Cuba. y severe engagement is reported to ace at Las Minas on the inst. On the Cuban side were several American regiments. ‘The fight was very severe, culminating in a hand to hand encounter. The Spaniards fled, with a loss of over four hundred killed and wounded, Miscellaneous. The rumor that Sefior Roberts, the Spanish Minis- ter at Washington, lad demanded his passports, 1s Incorrect. On the contrary, Sefior Roberts saye Spain enteriains the most cordial feelings towards the United States, and has no cause for greivance in matters. He scouts the idea of a nd says Spain will not allow her- ngland and France against the aily as the latter very recently expresse’ trongest sympathy with her attempt to throw oi a despotic government. In the Nova Scotia House of Representatives on Wednesday the Attorney General submitted an ab- stract of the provincial policy respecting confedera- tion, incr 26 and Increased representa tion in the Dominion Parliament, anda modifica- tion of the arrangements regarding the taxation, trade and iisheries of Nova Scotia are demanded, an approving vote of the people to be had before any final settiement 18 accepted. Information was received in Montreal yesterday that the English Privy Council is considering the ad- visability of relinquishing ali her colonies except India. The Colored Men's National Executive Committee waited upon President Grant yesterday and pre- sented an address advocating the appointment of a few colored men to office in the Northern States in order w convince the Southerners that the North is willing to accept what it forces upon them. The address closed with thanks for the favors President Grant had already granted the negroes. The Presi- dent, it is said, replied that he woulda give the sub- Ject due consideration. Mr. Douglas, Acting Commissioner of Internal Re- venut, has decided that cigar and tobacco revenue stamps are to be sold by no one but Collectors, and their sale by or purchase from any one else subjects the contracting parties to a penaity, Chief Jusiice Chase has rendered another impor- tant decision in Virginia, A United States Marshat who turned over the government funds to the con- federacy in 1561 was on trial, and pleaded the sia- tute of limitations, which the Chief Justice accepted. All postmasters and other officers suilariy situated will probably plead the same. Attorney General Hoar has decided that officers serving in campaigns against the Indians are en- titled to brevets for meritorious service in the presence of the enemy, @ recent law of Congress permitting brevets to be conferred only during a time of war. Operations were commenced yesterday on the Mis- sissippt bridge at St. Louis, Boring has begun on the Tilinois shore in order to reach a rock to serve as foundation for a shore abutment, ‘The Connecticut Legisiature has raufled the con- stitutional amendment. A convention has been called in Montgomery, Ala., Of ait business men and planters in the State, to form an immigration compan The County National Hank in Clearfield, Pa., was entered by burglars on Wednesday night and robbed of $30,000, ‘The coal miners’ strike in Pennsyivania has spread to Pittston, Where 1,000 workmen yesterday ceased labor. Dorchester is to be annexed to Boston, The City. Samuel DP. Talbot, a young man residing at No, 1 Montague terrace, Brooklyn, attempted to kiti a young lay named Lizzie Scribner, who resides in the same house, early yesterday morning. He had professed ardent love for the young lady, but she discountenanved lis advances. He came home at NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1869. —TRIPLE an early hour of the night and attempted to chioro- form her while she was asleep; but failing in that he shot at her twice, injuring her in the head and hand. Supposing that he had killed her he retired to his own room and view his brains out, A coro- ner’s jury rendered a verdict accordingly. Miss Seribner is doing well, but her wounds are serious, In the Board of Aldermen yesterday resolutions were adopted appropriating $5,000 for the celebra- tion of the Fourth of July, and relative to certifying bills for advertsing for paving streets, &c. In the Board of Assistant Aldermen donations amounting to only four hundred and sixteen dollars were made to churches, A bulkhead was ordered buxt at the foot of Forty-fourth street, North river, and numerous uptown streets were ordered paved with Belgian pavement. The dead body of a man, whose name 1s un- known, was discovered in East river, near the Brooklyn side, yesterday, the throat cut from ear to ear. The body was much decomposed and had on nothing but underclothing. In the case of Joanna O'Connor and Anna Pearsall, who have been in the Tombs since Thursday of last week, by order of Judge Cardozo, for alleged con- tempt of Court, Judge Clerke yesterday granted a writ of habeas corpus returnable before Judge Car- dozo this morning. Some time ago the women pub- lished a remarkable letter claiming that Judge Car- dozo had intimidated lawyers from appearing for them, and had stated that even ir a habeas corpus was ordered in their cases he had arranged with all the judges to make it returnable before himself. The examination in the case of B. F. Ten Eyck, the actor, who ts charged with obtaining money on forged paymaster’s checks, was continued before Commissioner Osborn yesterday, and the defendant was held in $2,000 bail. ‘The stock market yesterday opened firm, but under- went a decline, recovering buoyancy later in the afternoon. A movement is on foot to close the Stock Exchange at four o’clocks and suspend street deal- ings after that hour. Gold was firmer, advancing to 1384. The government gold brought 133.41. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General Reeve, of the United States Army, and A. Jillinghurst, of San Francisco, are at the Metropo- litan Hotel. Colonel Rathbon, of Washington; Comptroller W. F, Allen and C. Van Benthuysen, of Albany; Colonel W. H. Harris, of the United Staves Army; J. N. McCullough, of Pittsburg; Senator S. ©. Pomeroy, of Kansas; ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, and John V. Baker, of Comstock, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Judge McCormick, of Pennsylvania, and Dr. A. J. Clark, of Glasgow, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General George W. Buck, of Chemung; James Ter- williger, of Albany; Senator Cole, of Washington; Captain J. M. Hood, of Ilmols; N. H. Hasbrouck, of San Francisco, and Captain J. Raymond, of Borden- town, N. J., are at the Astor Honse. Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis; Dr. G. Symes, of Cambridge, Mass., and Captain E. R. Wilson, of Buf- falo, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Tie Third of General Grant’s Administration=What is the Promise @ We are in the third month of General Grant's administration, and still there are no visible signs in the heavens of the dawn of the millennium. The General’s inaugural was a good thing. It gave general satisfac- tion in reference to the Cabinet, and likewise on economy, retrenchment, reform, an honest payment of the national debt, the fifteenth amendment and our foreign relations; but Washburne, first choice as Secretary of State, was a riddle, and the general make-up of the Cabinet, as it now stands, not only puzzles the politicians, but is by all sorts of men ac- cepted in the lump as a mystery past finding out, All that the politicians profess to know of the Cabinet is that Fish in diplomacy isa disciple of Seward ; that Boutwell is the in- strument of a faction in Congress; that Cox, Cresswell and Hoar are mere political make- weights ; that General Rawlins, as Secretary of War, is only the recording clerk of General Sherman, and that goodold Mr. Borie, in the Navy, is but the tender to Admiral Porter. All accounts concur in extolling the piety, gentleness and amiability of the venerable Borie, and how, after spending a portion of the week in Washington, under Porter's in- structions, he leaves on Saturday to spend his Sunday inthe more genial Sabbath day at- mosphere of Philadelphia, The Cabinet, taking all such criticisms with a liberal sprinkling of salt, might be improved by reconstruction; for, as it is, in the lump, Month we have no promise of great things in any special department. Nor are there any hopeful signs of retrench- ment and reform in the general division of the spoils. What with his impediments of the House and the Senate and the ravenous ont- side crowd of office vultures and the Tenure of Office law, here was a tough job. General Grant, however, plunged into this jungle of the spoils as he plunged into the jungle of the Wilderness, expecting hard knocks, but re- solved to get through. He has got through; but the groans of the wounded are painful to hear, and through the rank and file of the re- publican camps there are weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. To change the figure, this scramble for the spoils has been a most disgraceful and demoralizing spectacle, and the prevailing influences at headquarters do not promise much in the way of retrenchment and reform. The evils here brought to light may lie in the established and pernicious sys- tem of personal rewards for party services, but still these evils, since General Grant's inaugu- ration, have been developed more alarmingly than ever before; for never before has there been in this country such an exhibition of im- pudence, rapacity and shameless wrangling over the public plunder, The results were inevitable. It is simply impossible to give general satisfaction in par- celling out the plunder when the office-seekers compared with the offices are as ten to one, Hence the prevailing hue and cry among the republican journals over the stupid appoint- ments of this administration, its ingratitude to its friends and its reckless disregard of the claims of the unlucky beggars, hat in hand, turned empty away. They have become even scandalous in their accusations; for they say that the favors of the administration are bought and sold, that gifts of houses and lots, and horses and carriages, and books and hats, and boots and shoes find a cordial wel- come at headquarters ; and these accusers ask us in derision, what can you expect of an administration which invites approaches that were repulsed even by Joha Tyler, Fillmore and Andy Johnson ? In relation to all such charges we hold that custom gives an excuse to General Grant, and that the beggarly and contemptible stinginess of the government to its faithful servants whose services capnot be measured by dollars and cents is an excuse for the custom of private sub- scriptions and individual offerings in such cases. The British government rewarded Wellington in princely gifts of honors, money and rich estates, while for services incalculably greater and more important than those of the great Duke, General Grant. a poor man, re- ceives from his government a military promo- tion, with its perquisites, which hardly meet his proper expenses. Some of his fellow citizens patriotically step in to his relief and he re- ceives their offerings. They make his mind easy touching his private affairs, and thus he may more largely devote his energies to his public duties. We mayadmire the remarkable example ot that sterling soldier, General George H. Thomas, in refusing all such private recognitions of his great achievements, from the gift of a mansion to the gift of a service of silver; but the fashion runs the other way, and General Grant has only followed the fash- ion, He is a practical man, and, moreover, he has doubtless acted upon the idea that it would be squeamish to decline a gift really useful the acceptance of which is regarded as a compliment by the giver. But, absolving the President upon these matters, the question still recurs, what is the promise of his administration? He has given us nothing yet but his inaugural, his Cabinet and his general division of the spoils upon which to form a judgment. Judging from these things the promise is not ver. bright. He has reduced to practice the vadloat doctrine of “equal rights,” regardless of race or color ; for his appointments cover all shades of race and color, from the Caucasian to the undiluted Af- rican. He has also practically recognized women’s rights in the appointment of a good lot of patriotic women as postmasters. And so it turns out, while the republican journals par excellence have becom some cases as bad as the copperheads in *- and denun- ciations of the President at Wendell Phil- lips, Fred Douglass and the women’s rights women sing his praises and crown him with flowers. This marks the consummation of a great revolution; but what next? Our too sanguine expectations have subsided. Saladin sitting in the White House, and, while loung- ingly smoking his cigar, discussing the claims of Tom, Dick and Harry for the consulate of Chinchowfoo, or the Post Office at Jones’ Cross- roads, is a disappointment. Nor does it satisfy us to hear that while General Grant proposes to do nothing for the present on the Alabama claims, Cuba, St. Domingo, or Mexico, his private opinions on each and all these subjects are those of Young America. Public acts are what we want, ‘not private opinions, To sum up—in tho thira mionth of an admin- istration with four years before it for the de- velopment of a policy, if but little is promised but little can be reasonably expected. The promise, however, upon one manifest defi- ciency, is not encouraging. We refer to the deficiency in the administration in the sagacity to grasp, and the energy for decisive action, demanded by the crisis in reference to our do- mestic and foreign affairs. We must have re- trenchment and reform on a grand scale in our domestic affairs, or a vigorous foreign policy of expansion from this administration, or in the elections for the next the short method of removing our present burdenof taxes and debt will work another political revolution. How important, then, the question, Will this admin- istration be a failure ? Important from Cuba—Defeat and Retreat of Spanish Troops—American Volunteers Engaged. From Havana by way of Key West we have advices reporting the progress of the Cuban revolution to the 12th instant and conveying intelligence to the effect that a sanguinary en- gagement had taken place between the patriot forces, aided by a number of American and Dominican volunteers, and the Spanish soldiers, which resulted in the defeat and retreat of the latter. The battle was fought on the 3d instant, at Las Minas. The Spaniards, num- bering twelve hundred men, under command of General Lesca, attacked an entrenched position held by the insurgents, under the per- sonal orders of General Quesada. Quesada placed the native Cubans in front, covering them with four hundred American and Domi- nican volunteers, the latter having orders to fire on them ifthey ran. The Cubans fought des- perately. The Spaniards assailed the position three times, using the bayonet with vigor. Two assaults were repulsed by the Cubans, The third attack being exceedingly severe, the in- surgent defenders began to waver, when Quesada ordered his rear guard to the front, thus driving the Cubans into the ranks of the enemy, when a terrible hand to hand conflict ensued, at the termination of which, after a terrible butchery, the Spaniards gave way, retreating in good order, with a loss of four huudred and sixty in killed and wounded, the revolutionists losing two hundred men. Quesada’s men _ burned the town of San Miguel, in sight of the retreating Spaniards, and it is thought that they will henceforth act on the offensive, being flushed with victory, and confident in the ultimate success of the cause of independ- ence. Spaniards ata safe distance from the scene of danger predict the triumph of the cause of Spain, but we must say that their news becomes very gloomy when we read of Cuban patriots and American and Dominican volunteers being united for one common, tlorious i isstié. seh f THe Trauiay Caniver.—Victor Emanuel had a change of Cabinet on the 12th instant, Premier Menebres retiring in favor of Count Cambray-Digny. Yesterday, the 13th instant, ~ old Ministry went out of office, when general Menebrea wok up the portfolio of resident and named the Cabinet, which we publish to-day. Presto, change! Who can say under which thimble the “little joker” is in Florence ? Not a Caxpipate.—Mr. D. M. Leather- man, of Memphis, announces that he is not a candidate for Governor of Tennessee. It was not Leatherman, but another man, Tonnage Dugs 1s Cuna.—Our Washington despatch calls attention to recent advices from Cuba in regard to the fact that American ves- sels in the ports of that island are obliged to pay one dollar gold per ton higher duties than British or any other national ships. The sub- ject is worthy of the attention of Mr. Fish and Consul Plumb, and we call their attention to it, If we have got to pay more for being American citizens we should like to know on which of our particular merits this extra charge is founded, Axotner Wasinuns i tie Frevp.—The name of Peter T. Washburn is proposed as a candidate for Governor of Vermont, What an interminable family those Washburns are! The Reported Tripartite Alliance and the Cuban Question, Whenever the tide of events in Europe or America runs particularly strong the old idea that animated the Holy Alliance is sure to crop out upon the surface, and we hear grand an- nouncements of a combination of Powers which, by triple alliance, is to control all action and stop the course of events. This was the scheme of the Holy Alliance origi- nated at Paris in 1815, and assented to by all the European dynasties of that day except England and the Pope of Rome. Its ostensi- ble object was ‘to regulate the States of Christendom on principles of Christian amity ;” but its real purpose was to counteract the spirit of propagandism and revolution which the birth of the American republic had started on its mission among the nations, and to pre- serve existing dynasties which, at the period when the Holy Alliance scheme was invented, had just triumphed over the fruits of the French revolution and consigned Napoleon to perpetual imprisonment. The old scheme received a deadly blow through that famous declaration of Canning, which, by preventing the intervention of the allied Powers in behalf of Spain against her rebellious colonists, called all Spanish-Amerioa into national existence ; and the oldalliance was finally buried to rise no more by the French revolution of 1830. It was when Mr. Canning was making his fight with the anti-liberalism of the original scheme that Mr. Monroe came to his aid with the declaration of the American principle known as the Monroe doctrine. But no sooner does any people in Europe or America move in behalf of freedom than straightway comes a project of a new holy, or, as the modern phrase expresses it, tripartite alliance, to preserve some existing tyranny. The most notable recent examples are the cele- brated tripartite treaty proposition which fol- lowed the Ostend Conference, under which England, France and the United States were to guarantee Spain against any development of the free idea in Cuba, and the alliance between France, Spain and England, osten- sibly to collect certain debts of Mexico, but really to abolish free government there. As a check on revolution in Western Europe these tripartite alliances are useful things to the dynasties. They form an organized oppo- sition to modern political propagandism, and at the same time serve each at home as a di- version against local troubles. It is a notable fact in the tone and temper of modern thought that the people of every nation sympathize with all rebels except their own. Against this impulse the moral weight of dynastic alliances and their concomitant legislation in the shape of neutrality laws and similar enactments affords avery convenient foilat home. We may sympathize, but we must respect the laws and public treaties. This is the case with Spain at this moment. She occupies the anomalous position of establishing a rebellious government at home and defending the ancient tyranny in Cuba. It is not principles but dynastic rights she claims to defend. The agitation of the tripartite treaty question and dynastic rights over their own rebels is a very useful foil to the revolutionary government in Madrid, counteracting as it does the propen- sity to further revolution which is so strong among all the political parties in the Spanish peninsula to-day. But such combinations can never have any permanent effect in America. The theory of government founded on popular consent is too firmly rooted in the New World to be checked or thwarted here by dynastic combinations. Every attempt of that kind since 1776 has not only failed, but by its failure has weakened dynastic power in Europe and given new vigor to the ideas there which are steadily preparing the impending fall. Our material development has been so enormous and so rapid, and at the same time so entirely independent of European aid or influence, that we are beginning to exer- cise a corresponding counter influence on the views of cabinets and the schemes of dynasties. We now form a most important part of that world outside of Europe which is steadily belittling the ancient and venerable idea called “the balance of power in Europe.” We are uniting the world with the bands of trade and the ties of material interests. China, Japan, Australia and Russia in Asia are throwing their commercial interests into the scale, and the balance of power in the world is the coming rule of international diplomacy. A tripartite treaty, therefore, between two or three of the dynasties of Western Europe on the Cuban question is a matter of small importance to us except in one respect. It shows us that our government should have a guiding policy. Antiquated politicians may wait to see what England or France thinks upon any question before they make up their minds as to what they will think, but they be- long to our period of national babyhood. The coming American statesman will base his ideas upon American needs, The nation has a policy enshrined in the popular heart, and it is the Monroe policy. This is well known in Europe, and many of our readers will remem- ber the excitement at gamed there by the con- er inistors at Ostend fifteen FEAES Lgd, when it was supposed that the Cabinet at Washington would accept the con- clusions of that congress as the cardinal points of American diplomacy. But the administration of poor Pierce was only equal to letting ‘‘I dare not wait upon I would.” Whenever we have an administration equal to the occasion of announcing that our action will be governed by our interests, and that it will be in accordance with American ideas and American impulses, we shall hear no moregof the nonsense of the tripartite alliances in Europe to shape and control events in the New World, The Monroe policy is the natural antagonist of the Holy Alliance and all its brood. The nation is equal to its require- ments, and hopes for statesmen that will not betray the national aspirations. Stentricant.—The Nashville Janner hears of a county superintendent who has received over five thousand dollars and established but two schools—and a large country dry goods store. Schoolmasters are probably abroad in that part of Tennessee. “Tie Cororep Troops Fovant Nosry.”— It is stated that the colored troops of George- town, D. ©., have tondered their services to President Grant for the purpose of assisting him in running the government. Noble- haarted fellows ! SHEET. Equal Rights. In the Woman's Rights Convention, on Wednesday, there was a characteristic dis- play of feminine notions on the subject of equality and of the feminine view as to what is the main point. As to equality, the view the women take of it was shown in the case of Mr. Foster, He did not agree with the women, and though his disagreement was quite fair it was unanimously voted that he must keep his opinions to himself. He said something that the women did not like, and he was declared out of order with such round and rattling emphasis that he may forever re- gard himself as metaphorically knocked down and dragged out. Equality, then, means ac- cepting woman's sovereign caprice as absolute law. It means not to contradict a woman. It means not to believe it possible that woman can be wrong. This is the sort of equality that woman intends to enforce where- ever she has the power. As the principal complaint has been that men have always aoted in just this style, how is the world to be any better when woman has her way with it ? All the women talked about’ what seemed to them the main point—that is, each one talked about herself. It was not only woman, woman, woman, all through, which we might expect, and which in itself is not offensive, but in each particular case it was the particular woman that was speaking who was the subject of the speech. This little egotism, however charm- ing in a small domestic circle, is less so on the platform. It will do very well when a woman only scolds her husband, but it is quite ridicu- lous when she comes out to scold the public. So far, however, the Woman's Rights Conven- tion has really proved what it set about to— that there is need for a better cultivation of the feminine intellect. Ir there be any question about what Sena- tor Sprague has been driving at in Congress it is pretty certain about one thing, and that is that his friends have been driven out of Providence. But perhaps that is so much the better for Providence. Turown Over.—One of the great reform- ers of the Equal Rights Convention was very severe on the Revolution for its vagaries, and it was announced thereupon that the gentle- man to whom the vagaries were due head no longer any part in that paradise. At the same time it was announced that this gentle- man “had furnished most of the means for the publication of the paper.” As the cashier is thrown over the printers had better look sharp. Tae BaLanog oF Power.—It is now many years since Canning talked of ‘‘redressing the balance of power in the Old World by creating a counterpoise in the New.” The recognition of the South American republics by England was the first result of this policy. Canning, however, did not then dream of the enormous power to be wielded so soon by the United States. We are the great controlling Power on the American Continent. Our will is law if we choose to execute it. In idea and in actual fact we are the advance guard of civilization. In any future consideration of the balance of power we must not be over- looked. The nations look to us and ask our aid; we cannot ignore our position. Old things have passed away; ail things have be- come new. Frep Doveiass AND THE ConsTITUTION.— We notice that Fred Douglass proposes to strike ont the word ‘‘white” wherever it occurs in the constitution. Will Fred state where it does occur in that instrument in the sense he applies to it? Tue State Temperance Alliance in Massa- chusetts is in a peck of trouble about its president, Mr. Spooner, who has been invited to resign, but has concluded not to comply with the proposition. The cause of the rum- pusis some point connected with ‘‘intoler- ance” and “proscription.” It seems, then, that the New England fanatics are beginning to appreciate the fact that there is such a word as “intolerance,” and that its definition can be foundin Noah Webster's Dictionary. “Poor Virernta!l”"—The Richmond Hn- quirer states that ‘‘poor as Virginia is, she is every day getting poorer; deep as she is in debt, she is every day getting deeper.” Wake up! wake up! Old Virginia! It is not your destiny to descend from the richest of States to the poorest. “Doxr”—An important word in the vocabu- lary of American progress. A Vatvaste Caurch MéEmMBER.—The Lowell Courier relates that ‘‘a worshipper in a church the other Sunday is reported to have been waked up enough by the passing of a contribution box to ejaculate ‘season,’ and then went to sleep again.” That devotee ought to be made to understand that it is a Christian's duty to worship both “in season and out of season.” But the pious people in Massachu- setts have a way of their own in performing their devotions. Learn to Lasor anv to Watt.—The trouble with James Buckley was that he would not work for his living. He wanted to make money in some faster way, and so he stole an express wagon, with all its valuable contents, Judge Bedford sentenced him to fifteen years’ hard labor. Had Buckley taken a different view of things he might have got an express wagon in tive years of hard labor. Tue Broap Cavron.—‘‘We have got done praying,” said tho prophetic reporter as the last spike was drivon into the Pacific Railroad. We worship now in the grander service of working out the great problems of human destiny. a A Consvtar Jon.—Somebody who wants to be United States Consul at Southampton is working dreadfully to oust the present incum- bent by showing his former sympathy with rebels, Since we can forgive the doings of Longstreet perhaps we can forgive even sym- pathy with those e doing. Bap ror Aairatons.—They have a queer custom down South just now. Whenever a man makes himself conspicuous in a district hy trying to push his political fortunes at the expense of the neighborhood by agitation and the atterance of harangues calculated to demoralize labor and make property ‘unsafe, somebody follows him out onthe road and shoots him, This usage has had great offect, Atlanta is fall of consctonce-sttickon agitators who are afraid to leave town. Senator Sumner’s) Speech in England, On Wednesday last w. published a résumé of the opinions of the Engh press on Senator Sumner's late speech on the~.Alabama claims. These opinions were gleaned frox the various Papers published after the full texto” the Sen- ator’s speech had been received. How, it seems nota little strange that while the pr prexs of Great Britain freely criticised Mr. Sumner argument the speech itself should be with- held from the general public, It is true that the London Daily News and Star, both liberal journals, have given extracts from the docu- ment, but this can hardly be regarded as suffi- cient to satisfy the intelligent thinking people of Great Britain, who desire to know exactly where they stand on this subject. To our way of thinking the proper course to pursue would be to have given Sumner’s speech in full. This would have explained all. It would have put the Alabama claims in the light in which the American people desire that these claims should be regarded, and nothing more. As this has not been done let us hope that when the press exhausts its criticiams the question will be fairly stated by the publication of the full text of the speech, in order that the people of Great Britain may fully understand for themselves the American side of the question, A Western Muppie Asovr 4 SoH00L TEACHER.—A Western paper states that a school teacher “‘in a Minnesota town appeared. in some private parlor theatricals. The board, indignant at such unpardonable conduct, voted his discharge. The public, likewise indignant at the board, met and offered that body the alternative of rescinding their action or re- signing.” This is a refreshing instance of Puritanism transplanted from New England to the usually liberal and tolerant Weat. Tux Richmond Znguirer suggests that ‘if somebody would come to Richmond snd hang outa flag with the device of a carpetbag and play the ‘Rogue’s March’ what » company he couldraise!” Such talk as this is not calculated to help Virginia getting out of debt, nor in re- storing her to friendly relations with other states. Or Agcx.—The Connecticut Legislature yesterday adopted the fifteenth amendment to the constitution, making the twenty-first State that has legally done so. Rats IN THE Srreet.—It is rather ex- pensive for city railroad companies to have their tracks out of repair. One of them has just been compelled to pay the price of a horse that was injured by having his foot caught ‘in a hole alongside the track. Fred Douglass and Social Rights—Amalga- mation the Ultimatum of the Radicals. High above all the usual clamor of platform speakers at the meetings of the American Anti- Slavery Society resounds the voice of Fred Donglass, declaring the rights of blacks to social equality with whites. Fred Douglass is not satisfied with the abolition of slavery; ‘if it had died honestly the society would have died honestly with it.” He is not willing to be satisfied even with the recognition of the legal and political rights of the negro which the universal adoption of the fifteenth amend- ment would confirm. Nor would he be satis- fied if Congress were to do what he deems its duty and ‘‘see not only that the negroes have the right to vote, but that they shall have the right to acquire land, to till it for themselves and to enjoy its fruits.” In behalf of the negroes he said ‘‘what they wanted was elbow- room to work out their own destiny.” And what he believes to be their destiny is clear from his hearty endorsement of the resolutions adopted by acclamation at the meeting on Tuesday in Steinway Hall, particularly of one resolution remonstrating against ‘‘the pro- slavery spirit of Southern slavery,” which ‘‘we see but too plainly in the ortracism and exclu- sive action of the most of the public houses in this city towards the colored people ;” and of another which reads thus :— Resolved, That we see, with especial satisfaction, that the Lieutenant Governor of a State, black though he be, can be Kayo eae received in a New York hotel; and since neither church nor press has yet roused itself to put an end to this heathentsh and infamous ~— of caste, We trust that the blacks of the South will claim their fall proportion of State offices, in order that governors, having broken their way into hotels, churches, lecture rooms and the other resorts of men, the e private citizen who shares _ a. of the first champion may in time find rm Fred Douglass’ view of the negro’s manifest destiny is also shown by his significant remark in explanation of his avowed “‘sympathy with democrats.” Calhoun, he intimated, had long ago anticipated Wendel Phillips and Seward in foreseeing that an irrepressible conflict was inevitable, and that slavery would ultimately be abolished. ‘The democracy saw the re- sult that some day a negro would come into the House of Congress and into the Senate. That is what the progress of events predicted, and it is coming. Give the negro the right to vote and all this must come. The democrat said, ‘Give the negro the right to vote and amalgamation will come.’ Their friends said, ‘Oh, no, it will not.’ The democrat said it would, Well, the times are advancing.” Douglass adds that “the salvation of this country is in beeoming incorporated in the American body politic, incorporated into society,” ke. “He would say welcome the black seen to any position and every position for which his talents and his habits fitted him. Do this and you will have peace.” In fine, amalgamation is the ultimatum of Fred Douglass. If we remember aright Fred Douglass once very sharply and properly snubbed and re~ buked a white man who sought to intrude into his family circle, soliciting the hand. of his daughter in marriage, together with a dowry of ten thousand dollars, But “‘the progress of events” has, perhaps, modified his views. He has naught but soorn for “the inhuman and unchristian prejadice against race”— the ‘senseless prejudice,” as Miss Dickinson stigmatizes it in her miscegénation novel, “what Answer?” Nor bas ‘he forbearance even with the “imperfect sy;npathies” which the gentle Elia confessed. "This country can be saved, according to thesanti-slavery radi- cals, only by filling it wAh mongrel, hybrid populations like those of Mexico and Central and South America. Wendoll Phillips has dis- covered that what “troubled the hopes of the nation and perilled its existence was in reality an original Saxon narrowness of self-concelt in the superiority of its own blood.” This “heathonish and infamous pre~ | jndioe” must be eradicated ere the desire can be realized whigh was expressed by Miss Lucy