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6 NEW YORK HERALD STREET. RROADWAY AND AN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIBTOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not turned. be re- Volume XXXIV. ACADEMY OF MUSIQ, Mth street. —[raliay OPERA— Louxuise. BOWERY THEATRE, ToLL Housr—Losr ix Bowery.—Dow or THR OLD NDON WAVERLI Browdway.—P¥GMALION— Tor ON PaRur wooo's UM AND THEATRE, Th ‘street and Broadway.—Afiernon and eveaing Perfor! THE TAM MA. urteenth street.--ROBINSON CRUSCE anv Its Ma o BOOTHS THEATRE, 3d st,, between Sth and 6th ave,— OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-Tar Buairséun Ex- TRAVAGANEA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweoty- fourth sizeet.— UES DRAGONS DE VILLABS. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Caste, GRAND OPERA HOU: 2d sireet. Thy TEMPE Broadway ani {th sireeh— corner ot Eighth avenue and MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— PLAYING Wel . THEATRE ComiQ AND Livine SuaTUy 51 Broadway. —Cowtc SkrromRs MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway. —Druro- NMENTS—THe UNBLEACHED BLONDES. NEW YORK EERALD, the Union | The Great Asiatic Section of ard Its Vast Resources. The completion of the Pacific Railroad, in connection with the wonderful discoveries of gold and silver recently made in our new States and Territories, from the Great Plains west of the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean, has awakened a new and general in- terest throughout the Continent in regard to that interesting section of the United States. Its geographical features, here and there, its soil, productions and mineral resources, there- fore, for the information of our readers, in a few general remarks, we shall make the text of this article, The territorial area of the United States (excluding the detached four hundred and eighty-one thousand square miles of Alaska, which for all practical purposes just now may be left out in the cold) is in round numbers three million square miles—an enlargement from about eight hundred thousand square miles on the establishment of the Union eighty- two years ago. The section lying between the Mississippi river and the Pacific Ocean covers over two-thirds of this area of three millions of square miles. Leaving out the tier of States— Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana—on the west bank of the Mississippi, the country directly under consideration em- braces the following States and Territories, east or in the Rocky Mountains :— States, Square Miles, + 75,000 ing, with loss than three millions of capable itself, with our modern appliaw art, of susiaining a hundred millions, end filly millions may be conveniently added to our Southern States, with their twelve millions. The Pacific Railroad opens these boundless western regions to the emigrant, and the abolition of slavery and the establish- ment of equal rights opens to him as in- vitingly, whether from Europe or Asia, the golden gates of the South. As for the Afri- can, there will be no more importations, and the living element of this race on band will gradually fade away. Progress of Reconstruction. The proclamation of the President for the election in Virginia is a right step in the right direction. What the country most needs now is commercial reconstruction, and this cannot be attained while a set of hungry politicians are continually making and unmaking legisla- tures, laws and courts for no better reason than that they are ‘impediments” to political schemes and party greed. Virginia is now in a fair way to bring all her powers to the bene- fit of the general trade and industry of the country, and to receive the benefits which will accrue from an influx of Northern capital and skill as soon as stable government ts estab- lished in her domain. Two States only remain now for reconstruc- tion, and General Grant will receive the appro- bation of every honest man in the country if he will at once do for them the same thing he has done for Virginia and complete the recon- struction of the glorious arch of the Union. The wise precedent he has established in Vir- Indian. New M 285, Colorado. 106,475 Wyoniing ana’ Dac p Montana The vast dimensions of these States and Territories will be better understood by a com- parison with the Empire State of New York, the area of which is within forty-eight thousand square miles. Of the agricultural resources of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska we need say nothing; but the last two, in addition to their BRY. Tammany Building, Mth sures. ae. TON DRS OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comte Vous 10 MINSTRELSY, &e. HOOLEY'S OPERA Brooklya.—Hoouer's Minsrerie—Cooo's F. NEW YORK Mt M OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— SOIENOS AND A SHEET, Monday, May 17, TRIPLE New York, is69. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. | Notice to Carriers mee Newsdealers. OKLYN CARRIERS AND Newsurcn will in future receive their papers at the Braye Orvice or rae Nsw Yor® Heraup, No. 145 Faiton street, Brooklyn. Apyertisemests and Susserrerions and all letters for the received as above. New York Uenarv will be Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated May 16. Political meetings were held m Paris on Saturday. They were conducted in @ quiet manner and the Police did not interfere, The government will not tolerate any more violent demonstrations, No poli- tical meetings will be permitted within five days of the elections, The political excitement yesterday again manifested its@f in Paris. A grand popular demonstration will be made to-day. The Cortes on Saturday again rejected the pro- position to establish a triennial directory. A re- gency ts again looked for, with Serrano at its head. A pumber of arrests of members of the civil guard have been made. The Cuban volonteers have had some trouble in consequence of the non-payment of their bounties. Paraguay. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated April 7. Minister McMahon is reported to have arrived at Asuncion, where he remains extremely reticent 1 regard to Paraguayan afars. Captain Kirtland, of the Wasp, had returned to Buenos Ayers, after protesting against the refusal of the allies to allow him an es cort to the Paraguayan camp. Sandwich Islands. Our Honolulu letter is dated April in fi annexation to the United he feeling ates is in- ere vidly. The last census shows that the na population is rapidly decreasing, and the foreign even more rapidly increasing. The money market has been nearly drained to purchase real esta » California, and the gold mining whigh was about I out under the White Pine discoveries, bids fair to « siderable exodus of foreigners. Miscellaneous. Senator Sumner called at the White House to see the President last week, but Mr. Dent, the chief usher, having carried up his card returned with the remark that he would have w wait fif- teen minutes, Mr. Sumner said he would not wait fifteen minutes for Napoleon, Victoria or any one else, that when Mr. Grant wanted to see him he ni for him. With that he with- drew in a House was 0 and told @ friend that the Waite hing but a military cainp. The Western Representatives at Washington do not like Secretary Fisn's exclusiveness. Congress- man Shanks, who called to sce him on Saturday, was kept waltiog in an ante-chamber for an hour anda halt, and then left im disgust, declaring that in elary might keep his d—d oid pis- jartinent to himself. ‘Turner's Opera House, in Dayton, Oto, was de- stroyed by fire day night, The loss is estt- mated at betwe 000 and $800,000, A man named Sardinier, who owned a store tn the building, while trying to save his goods, was crushed to the floor by a taliing wall. He was not much hurt, but was tightly confined, and while his brother and sev- eral others were attempting to extricate him and his wito and family were looking on another wall fell and completely buried him. fhe losses by the fire, caused by lightning, in Fadyville, Ulster county, on Saturday, a far as can be ascertained, are as follows:—J. H. Cornell & Co., $15,000; J. H. Leek, $4,600; John Jordan, $6,000; James Conner, $6,000, All were partially tsured except John Jordan. One horse, belonging to Cor- nell & Co., was killed by the lightning. Aman named Frank Albert committed snicide at Milwaukee, Wis., last§evening, by jumping from the fifth story of the St. Charles Hotel to the pavement, He is supposed to have been Insane. ‘The Lackawana lron and Coal Company's piaining mill at Scranton, Pa., was destroyed by fire on Sat- urday night. Loss, $15,000, An altercation occurred in Worcester, Mass., on Saturday evening, during which James If, Washing- ton (colored) stabbed Patrick Kinnary (Irish) in the bowels with a pocket knife. The wound is a dan- Gerous one, and it is feared will prove fatal, Kin- nary Was the agressor. Archbishop McCloskey preached the sermon at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday. At the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church @ large meeting assembied to hear & discussion on the objects of the Evangelical Alliance. Mr. W. L. Dodge stated that the general convention, or “world gathering,” in this country dad been postponed until the autumn of isto, Dr. Dix lectured at Trinity chapel last night on the “World's Trial.” Under the title of “Our Civil Service Abroad’ wih be found in another colamn tua morning a lever from an Wuropean correspondent, giving some startling revelations tn regard to the American Le gationa im ihe European and Asiatic cities. He elaia that the United States ta the worst repre. wented at foreigu courts of all tha gations. fine soil, have valuable beds of coal. Of the above named Territories, Montana we place first in agricultural resources, and it is hardly second in iis golden mineral wealth. It hasa thousand beautiful and fertile valleys, watered by the numerous mountain crystal streams which make up the great Missouri. In fact, as Mianesota is without a peer in her peculiar beauties, embracing as she does the table forest lands, with their countless crystal lakes, which are the sources of the Mississippi, so is Mon- tana unsurpassed with her countless romantic mountain streams and lovely valleys which make the sources of the Missouri. Wyoming, cover- ing the head streams of the great Yellowstone, has, with its mines of gold, copper and lead, many of the natural features of Montana, and the Pacific Railroad goes through the heart of the Territory. Colorado, with those grand and glorious mountain enclosures, North Park, Middle Park, South Park, &c., and with its lofty mountains of Pike's Peak, the Spanish Peaks and other snow-clad peaks, and with its head streams of the Platte river and the Arkansas flowing east, and of the great Colo- rado of the Pacific, is called the Switzerland of America; but it is far more beautiful to the painter or poet, and infinitely richer in its soil, to say nothing of its gold mines, than Switzer- land. New Mexico, further south, has a large extent of arid plains and desolate mountains ; but from its great ranges numerous rivers, radi- ating east and west, invite the settler to their mines of gold, silver and copper, or to the pro- duction of corn, sheep and cattle. Dacotah is comparatively poor, as far as it is known, in minerals and arable lands; but the navigable Missouri winds through it for handreds of miles, and this of itself will build up in time a powerful State. So much for these Territories lying east of the west side of the Rocky Mountains. The States and Territories lying west of this great continental chain and stretching over the still loftier chain of the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific include the States of Oregon, Cali- fornia and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington, Idaho, Utah, parts of Colorado and New Mexico, and the whole of Arizona, the aggregate area being say eight hundred and fifty thousand square miles, or equal to eighteen States of the size of New York. California, built up from her gold mines, is destined to prove the richest State in the Union in her grain and fruits and roots of all descriptions. Oregon and Washington are rich in their timber, arable lands and fish- eries. Idaho has but little to depend upon beyond her gold mines, Nevada literally overflows with silver, and has also some of the finest timber and rock salt inthe world. The Mormons of the watered valleys of Utah (a Territory generally desert) have made the most productive farms and gardens this side of California, and from their great Salt Lake, at no distant day, millions of tons of salt will be produced. In Arizona (a gold and silver region) are, on the banks of the Gila river, some of the finest lands and the ruins of some of the most ancient cities on the Continent. They are supposed to have been the cities of the ancient Aztecs, the same people whose splendid city of Mexico of a later date was the wonder of Cortez. All this great western section of the United States, from the tier of States on the west bank of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, may properly be placed as part of the Asiatic sec- tion of this Continent, while the country from the dividing line indicated to the Atlantic may quite as appropriately be called the European section in its prevailing natural features. In our Asiatic section, as in Western and Central Asia, we have grassy plains and deserts and rocky mountains, with occasional strips along their sides of timber and numerous streams, including rivers of considerable length, which have no outlet to the sea, but are absorbed by the sands, or, emptying into isolated salt lakes, are evaporated by the sun, and general dry- ness prevails over all this Asiatic region. From a hundred miles weat of the Mississippi to the towering Sierra Nevada chain, which follows north the line of the Pacific coast, the general level of the country is from four to five thousand feet above the sea, and from its altitude and prevailing dryness it is among the very healthiest regions in the world. Like the Asiatic Caucasian region, it is calculated to develop the white man in his physical per- fection, the finest race of men and the loveliest women on the globe. | Ours is, indeed, a great country. We are | «reat with a population inside of forty millions ; wut the western section we have beoa dosorib- ginia in submitting toa separate vote the test oath and disqualification clauses should be fol- lowed in the case of Mississippi. In Texas the Convention overstepped its legitimate powers and duties in granting away millions of acres of public lands and the State credit to an enormous extent to aid the plundering schemes ofravenous specalators. It should be made by proclamations, subject to a separate vote by the people, on the question of being submitted to legislative approval. We hope the Presi- dent will act at an early day in the cases of Mississippi and Texas, so that when Congress meets on the 1st of December it shall truly represent « restored Union, and we shall pre- sent no longer the stain of military govern- ments within the precincts of the great re- public. The Tax Levies im the Legislature. The protracted and somewhat mixed process of legislation through which our city and county tax levies passed during the late session, de- veloped # general opinion that Albany was not the place to regulate the manner of assess- ing and collecting taxes in the city of New York according to the ancient traditionary system. The sentiment of the country republican mem- bers was almost universal, and it was very freely expressed during the debates, that the New York tax levies ought never again be made the subject of legislation in the State capital. With this we entirely agree. The city and county authorities, chosen by the people who are to pay the taxes, ought to be the best judges of how much is wanted to carry on the government and how the amount should be distributed. New York ought to be as com- petent to take care of her tax levies as Brook- lyn, Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester are to manage theirs, and we are inclined to think that she is. Certainly the country repre- sentatives who undertake to do it for her would be more intelligently, though, perhaps, not so profitably, employed, attending to their little jobs in the way of bonding towns, build- ing canal bridges, and increasing the powers and salaries of justices of the peace in their respective country districts. We can take care of our own tax levies if the Albany lobby will only keep its hands ¢ off. Tue Riant Pran.—One of two hundred parsons visiting the Presifent wanted to go on the Catholic system and shake hands with the President on behalf of the whole party; but the President, not afraid of the extra exercise, favored the Protestaht plan and shook his way, man by man, through the whole party. Let him look after his subordinates on the same system. Westrrrn Mexico.—Our advices from West- ern Mexico, published to-day in another column, exhibit a terrible condition of decay and demoralization in that fertile portion of the Mexican republic. Revolution in success- ful progress, when its forces do not exceed three hundred men, is a telling commentary on the weakness of government, while the ability of small bands of robbers to hold the high roads and keep the towns in constant fear of kidnappers exhibits an utterly exhausted con- dition of society. Alongside of this decaying State stands California, a wonderful picture of power and progress. The future is evident, In this case the fat kine will at no distant day eat the lean kine, and the world will not say nay. Birps or Passace.—Over seven hundred passengers left for Europe by the steamers of Saturday last, the greater number going for the summer trip, Lorrz, PARAGUAY AND Brazit. —Our cor- respondence from Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres make it very evident that the Brazilians have an elephant on their hands in their occu- pation of Paraguay. The allied commanders at Asuncion do not by any means agree in regard to future operations, while Lopez shows no diminution of his pluck and energy, and the people of Paraguay cling to their chief with a unanimity wonderful to behold. If he is the tyrant the allies endeavor to prove, it is evi- dent the people love him better than they do the new foreign rulers. Brazil cannot do | better than give up this miserable war and follow the example of President Sarmiento, | who, by turning his attention to the arts of peace, it making a wonderful revolution in the Argentine Confederation. Postaok.—Ninety thousand dollara is the total for one month of the business of the New York Post Office with 1 Buropean countries, Mores AND | Beans, —We denounce as bar- barous the punishment of criminals at the whipping post still in use in Delaware—the layin vibes or fifty lashes over a rogue’s shoul But in thia Empire State our prison eashbitiios may shower men to death with cold water, and there seems to be ao bar- baritv. MONDAY, MAY 1i, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ligions Progress » and Jews in AdorationW hitaunsies The festival of Whitsuntide, observed in the Christian churches each year in commemora- tion of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, affords in the order of God's providence an opportunity, as well as the means, for a reawakening of the religious sen- timent with the confirmation of men in tho faith, The anniversary of this feast occurred yesterday, and was celebrated from the pul- pits, from the reading desks and on the altars of New York and the surrounding cities—no doubt all over the country—with a reveren- tial devotion and words of praise conveyed in so many different languages as to recall to the mind of every attentive worshipper the glory, beauty and missionary utility of the “gift of tongues” vouchsafed to the apostles. The spirit is abroad; the harvest gives promise of much fruit, and it is to be hoped the good results will be abiding, Should it prove otherwise, it must only be said, particu- larly of New York, that the weeds and tares of our modern fashionable every day city life have become so abundant as to smother the germ of the grains of mustard seed which are sown daily in the highways and byways by our zealous clergy in words of Scripture teach- ing, but trampled on, too frequently, by even members of their own congregations. The religious anniversary exercises are not yet concluded, Children are being con- firmed in large numbers in the Gatholic churches; we shall have here among us during the week many hundred Presbyterian clergy- men, representing the ‘‘Old School” and “New School” of that denomination ; two hun- dred Lutheran clergymen have paid their re- spects to President Grant in Washington, each one of them insisting on shaking his hand, contrary to his expressed wish, while at sun- down on Saturday the Jews commenced the celebration of the Feast of Shabnoth, or Weeks, which typifies the revelation of the Law to the people of that race, besides calling to mind the successful passage of the Red Sea by their ancestors. Notwithstanding the ample reports of the anniversary exercises spread before our read- ers daily during the week since the 10th inst., we submit this morning a varied but consol- ing synopsis of the services and sermons, ordi- nary and extraordinary, which were performed and delivered in the churches, metropolitan and rural, yesterday. Rev. Mr. Cook preached a most useful discourse in the Seventh street Methodist church of this city, on the subject of the “Law of Labor,” inculcating the absolute necessity of outdoor work as well as its dig- nity on the minds ofhis youthful hearers, Bishop Snow denounced the Church of Rome as the “old and foolish king” marked in the Bible as being antagonistic to the first child, the Re- deemer, the sons of Zion Church departing in apparent joy at what they termed a happy pulpit parallel, _ Reverend Day K. Lee preached in the Bleecker street Universalist church on that inexhaust*sle subject, “The Pacific Railway and Its Lessons,’ setting forth the advantages of the great Continental artery, material, social and agricultural, in words of such force and accuracy as to induce the con- viction that he had read the letters of the special correspondent of the Hxeratp from different points of the line attentively and with profit. The Pacific Railway opens upa grand field for missionary enterprise, which it is to be hoped will soon be fully occupied for the conversion alike of Indians and Christian gougers and lynch-law men, Numbers of Jewish children were confirmed in the elegant temple of Adas Jeshurun, Reverend Doctor Einhorn giving an eloquent sermon appropriate to the Feast of Weeks, at the conclusion of which the young folk handed him a check for several hundred dollars. Archbistyp McCloskey celebrated High Mass in St. Patrick's cathedral, preach- ing subsequently on the ‘Feast of Pentecost,” according to the interpretation of Rome. Reverend Henry Ward Beecher held forth, in his peculiar style, in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, in condemnation of those who dress for show in churches, as wellas of “brown stone” dwellings generally, a sort of heresy, as we imagine, in his ministerial career. Bishop Williams, of the Episcopal Church, was particularly active in teaching, preaching and the confirmation of the young in Bridge- port, Conn., the clergy of different commu- nions in that city being animated with a similar spirit, The suburban temples from Bridgeport to Newburg and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., were crowded; beauty, fashion and devotion pre- senting everywhere, Miss Olympla Brown, of Weymouth, Mass., preached against tobacco and in advocacy of personal cleanliness in Bridgeport, advising her hearers to imitate the purgations of the Jews. Washington city furnished brilliant con- gregations, magnificent church music and eloquent sermons. The scenes in the Catholic and Episcopal churches were particu- larly animating. President Grant, with his family, worshipped in the Methodist Episcopal church, while his able aid in another field, General Sherman, accompanied by Mrs. Sher- man, assisted him in spirit in the Catholic temple dedicated to St. Aloysius, The two warriors may yet conquer the Aabitués of the capital from ‘‘rum to true religion,” a victory which would eclipse even their former con- quests, and perhaps elevate the President to a crown of glory in a happier land. Tur AGITATION IN Paris.—The electoral agitation in Paris intensifies and becomes more serious hourly. Napoleon disperses the meet- ings by force. A grand popular ‘‘demonstra- tion” is to be made to-day. A like demon- stration converted Louis Philippe into plain John Smith. How will it eventuate just now? Recoustruction and Progress in Austria, A few days ago we learned that Francis Joseph had closed the Hungarian Chambers with a speech brimful of rejoicing and hope, Now we are told that he has closed the Reichs- rath with a speech equally jubilant. When we are told by the cable that the Emperor was often interrupted by loud and long continued cheering we are forcibly reminded that a great change for the better has passed over the do- minions of the Kaiser, In 1866, when Prussia came down in ber might and majesty and well nigh extinguished Austria on the field of Sa- dowa, the world was surprised to find how weak the empire of the Hapsburgs had be- come, For months afterwards the work of digiatogestion wont on so rapidly that it seomod as if the empire were about to crumble to pieces. All is now changed. Uungary has won her liberty and her autonomy, and her people are contented. Reform in various doe- partments in both sections of the empire has been pushed with a vigorous hand. Religious liberty has been guaranteed to the people. The educational system has been improved. The army has been reconstructed and made more efll- cient. The finances, too, have greatly improved. Out of the school of misfortune Austria has come mightily benefited. Sadowa, which was immediately so disastrous, has already proved a blessing, both to the people and to the mon- arch, It is characteristic of the Hapsburg family that they always yield with good grace to the stern decrees of fate. They have gen- erally, however, been too willing to retrace their steps when opportunity offered. It will be well for that august family if it never un- learns the lessons which it has received during the last three years. Tur Pittsburg Leader has been sued for libel for stating that the voto of a cortain member of the Pennsylvania Legislature was ‘in the market.” The editor made a mistake in not making the charge general. He would then, probably, have come nearer the truth— if we can believe the statements of the repub- lican papers themselves. Tr is intimated in a Pennsylvania paper that the members of the last Legislature were unlike little children; for they had to be “‘seen’’ in order to be heard. Four Baraxs with a hundred thousand bushels of grain on board recently left Du- buque in tow of a steamer direct for New Orleans; whereat an exchange suggests that it would be amusing when this tow passes St. Louis to see the Grain Association there watch the diverting of the trade of the Upper Mississippi from that city by the very means sought to secure and retain it. There seems to be a regular diamond cut diamond business in these efforts of the Western merchants to secure this vast trade. But, like almost all other laws of trade, it will regulate itself. PavEMENT.—The use of a steam roller in the repair of roads in Central Park will introduce to the knowledge of our citizens a most effec- tive piece of machinery for roadmaking or for preparing the bed for pavements. Why should not the Park be more generally devoted to this practical sort of instruction, and even be the theatre of experiments in pavement on a large scale? Tax Incovo1s Leaistature has passed a law classifying drunkards with idiots and insane people, and giving their property aud persons to the charge of guardians, What a cutting satire this is upon certain members of Congress from Illinois—even in that august body the Senate of the United States, where the law might apply to creations of the Legislature itself. . Forgieners in Orrice.—Of one hundred and fifty-one occupants of prominent offices in Milwaukee, one hundred and twenty-seven are of foreign birth, including mayor, seven out of nine aldermen, fourteen out of eighteen mem- bers of the council, and so on. Who will talk about the number of foreigners holding office in New York after this striking Western ex- hibit ? Toe Democratic Mempers of the Indiana Legislature are getting roundly scolded by the republican papers for their continued contu- macy in refusing to permit 4 qnorum to as- semble for the adoption of the fifteenth amend- ment. Suppose the boot were on the other leg, and the copperheads had a majority and desired to pass a measure obnoxious to the republicans—what then? It makes considerable difference in politics, as well as in other matters, whose ox is gored; but, seriously, the constitution of Indiana must be faulty in some respect, or proceedings like those we have recently witnessed could not have occurred in her Legislature. Barrie Forr is the name of the editor of the Columbus (Miss.) Jndex, and by a strange coincidence the leading editorial in a number just received is headed ‘Spring Fights,” being anaccount ofa pummelling the local received at the hands of a scalawag. Tax Boston 7'raveller thinks ‘the Virginians will not generally vote on the 6th of July, on the ground that they will wait for the results of the summer and fall elections, when, should the democrats do well, the old line Southrons will be impressed by the belief that the good times, as they call them, are about to return. Those “good times” have been coming long enough, and if the ‘old line Southrons” know when they are well off they will go to work at once and secure a restoration to their rights in the Union at the earliest practicable period. “gree! | FOR Your ‘Hacrens AND Your Fines!” is the new rendering of Marco Boz- zaris’ heroic appeal, as addressed to the coal miners by the Pennsylvania anthracite monarchs. Tue St. Louis Republican is quite sharp on the approaching Peace Jubilee and calls it de- risively ‘‘the grand wind-up in Boston.” Bet- ter have a grand wind-up there than a general smash-up all over the country, which might have been the case had the copperheads had fuil sway during the war. A Grorota correspondent of a New York paper has just committed suicide: in Atlanta, after having attempted to kill his colored mis- tress. He was a disciple of the miscegenating, free-love school of radical politicians, and carried out literally the doctrines of his set, This is but another evidence of the tendencies of New England radicalism, and is the natural result of the teachings of those journals that make great pretensions to morality and sanc- tity, and are always ‘moulding the public mind” to serve social I atroolty. Busivess ror Fisx.- —Fisk, Ie, ny is a very active man—the active, energetic man of the age, indeed, and finds time enough, in addition torunning all our railroads, theatres, steam- boats and jails, to sue nearly every one for libel. We recommend that this onorgetio genius give five or ten minutes of his time to the Erie Railroad, and so manage matters that when a freight train is off the track and an obstruction it shall be somebody's business to signalize the danger to approaching pas sonwer brains. ie peaks the Continent. We published yesterday another number of the series of interesting and instructive letters which the Hxtavp lately began to lay before its readers under the title of “Across the Continent.” A more distinct and correct idea of vast and almost unknown regions, which the Pacific Railroad has opened to the world, can be obtained from these letters than from any other source, The statistics given are as reliable as they are full and minute. The descriptions are photographically accurate. The story of the marvellous development of the mineral wealth of those regions is re- counted in a forcible but unexaggerated style. The letter, dated April 26, transports the reader to a city near the summit of Trea- sure Hill—at an altitade of ten thousand feet above the level of the sea—to Treasure City, the headquarters of the mining interests of the White Pine district in Nevada. The steep hill- side on which the city is built; the rude dwell- ings, made of canvas, pine or stone; the life and animation in groups of men, standing here and there, or moving about with pick and shovel, or rushing off to the assayer with handsful or bagsful of ore, or starting away to explore districts not yet examined; the sub- urbs of the town; the sight to be seen on all sides from the bluff beyond—piles of ore, shafts and holes, the buildings of various mining companies, hundreds of tents and cabins, clouds of smoke, flying rocks, rapid explosions of gunpowder, recalling the artil- lery duels and masked batteries of the late war, and, apart from these mining scones, the magnificent view of range after range of snow- capped mountains, as far as the eye can reach, with valley after valley between them, in every direction—all this is vividly brought before the mind. Our correspondent bears testimony to tho unexampled richness of the ores of the White Pine district. He cannot help being amazed that land that only three years ago was a wil- derness, and that could be had for the mero asking, is now discovered to be teeming with wealth beneath its surface, and on its surface to be worth hundreds of dollars per foot. Hoe is convinced that the Eberhardt mine—the first mine located on Treasure Hill, and as yet the only one that has been extensively worked, and from which a large amount of bullion has been sent to market—is beyond all doubt the richest silver mine at present known in the world; its wealth is beyond estimate, About one million dollars has been taken out to this time, and now, with one small mill only, about six thousad dollars per day is being turned out ready for shipment. It is sate to say that ten million dollars would not cover the value of what this mine had in view, ready to be taken out for working. The ore would yield over twenty thousand dollars to the ton, With such full milling facilities as will soon be put in ope- ration the revenues of this mine will be im- mense, The resources of other mines are also indicated. But the people of the East are earnestly warned to be on their guard against gigantic attempts which are on foot to defraud them by false representations respecting the value of mines in this district. Our gorres- pondent has not the slightest doubt that the Eastern cities have already been flooded with lots of shares in mines said to be second edi- tions of the Eberhardt. He knows that bullion has been bought at high rates, the assayers’ marks have been obliterated and others substi- tuted, and that these “silver bricks” have then been sent East and represented to be the production of some White Pine district mine that has not developed enough ore to pay for the work done. The White Pine excitement, he adds, is not so great as it has been; people are waiting to see other bullion produced than that from the Eberhardt mine before rushing off as they did a few months since, thinking that every rock produced half its weight in silver. He predicts, however, that ‘it will be renewed again before long, and a st@&dy stream of emigration will take place that will give carpenters and masons all they can do to cover them.” It is a significant fact that Treasure City already can boast of having its daily paper, the White Pine News, Thus the press keeps pace with steam and electricity in the grand onward march of civilization. “Corton Yarns” is the title bestowed by one Southern paper upon the editorials in another. Some of our Southern exchanges, as well as others in the North in the cotton interest, contrive to spin out quite a quantity of these yarps in certain seasons. STARVATION IN SPAIN. —Our Madrid letter which we publish to-day presents a fearful picture of starvation and misery in La Mancha, one of the central districts of Spain, and in close proximity to the fertile wheat regions of Castile. Drought haa seourged the fields of both provinces till hunger rules through the land, and the starv- ing people proceed in bands of hundreds to the towns where food is known to exist, and io mass upon their knees pray for succor and re- lief. The curse of Spain has been her policy of relying upon her American colonies to sus- tain the exhibition of national wealth and greatness, while an onerous conscription law has driven thousands of her industrious youth to other lands. Let her cut off the last rom- nants of the cancer that has been at once the pride and ruin of the nation, and she will find loss pride in her court and less hunger among her people. Oar Civil Service yer We publish in another column this morning an interesting communication from our Abys- synian correspondent, who for some time past has been making a tour of the European Con- tinent with the view of enabling the Heraip to place before the American people an {insight into the workings of their representatives in other countries. From a perusal of the docu- ment it will be seen that the picture presented in the graphic style of tho writer is not an agreo- able one, and one evidently not calculated to impross the general public with a very flattering idea of the manner in which the groat Western republic is represented at the courts of mo- neroblos! Burope. At the points andin positions where we should make an appearance commen- surate with the increasing greatness of the United States, we find that the petty squab- blings of our ambassadors with their secreta- ries contribute largely to bring the country into contempt. This comes of appointing men to position totally unqualified for the office, to which they are appointed. Politioal patronage and favoritism. not morit or ability, unfortu.