The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 120 Broadway.—PY¢M A1.10N— Tot ON PARLE FRANCAIB. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirticth street and Broadway.—Afiernoon and evening Performance. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth sireet.—RowiNson CRUSOE axp lis MAN FuIDAY, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., betwoen dik and 6th avs.— OTHELLO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Buxiesque Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF Tuk Forty THIEVES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fi hb avenue and Twenty- fourth street,—Tur Henuct's Bene. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th sireet.— Caste. * ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Hih street, -Ivautan Orena— Lunuixe. GRAND OPERA HOUS! ‘Thd street.—Tak TEMP! corner ot Eighth avenue and GERMAN STAD? TE i. 45 and 47 Bo wery— Risiex's IMvEniar J rere. 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Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 20. The Oxford crew has commenced to practice for the great international contest with the Harvard crew. Another challenge tas been sent to the Har- vard boys py the London Rowing Club. The Grand Lodge of Orangemen of Ireland has petitioned the Queen against the Irish Church disestablistinent. Election disturbances continue in Paris, Since the 12th inst. 149 persons have been arrested for poiltical offences. The Marselllaise was sung at Nimes at a public meeting. At Bourges the prison was forced open by political agitators and one of their party set free. A riot occurred im Aube, in which blood was shed. A number of ex-Queen Isabella’s friends have as- #-mbied on the Spanish frontier, preparatory to crossing the border. ‘The Emperor of Anstria ts in favor of the Public Schovl bill recently passed by the Reichs- rath. The Bavarian elections have resulted in favor of @ union of North aud South Germany. Cuba, Despatches Gom Havana state that the recent reports of the landing of Milibnstering expeditions are unfoulied. The Spanish cruisers are watching so carefully that it is almost impossible for an expe- Altion of the kind to escape them. Mr. La Reintrie, jate Vice Consul at Havana, had an interview with President Grant yesterday on Cu- ban affairs, He has been frequently in the interior of the island, and says that the Cubans will certainly succeed, as their policy of harassing the Spaniards by avoiding decisive engagements Was proving very effective, The sidewheel blockade runner Salvador, which escaped some time ago from Key West, was at Nas- sau on the 10th inst. She bas encountered but litte litigation there, and seems to be taking on Cuban men, arms and munitions under the open eyes of the British offictais without any trterference. The steamer Fiorida, now lying at Chester, in the Delaware river, is to be detained by the Collector of Philadelphia, by order of Secretary Boutweil, who suspects that the vessel is in the interests of the wert Miscellancous. A Washington correspondent states that President Grant's reserve in dealing with the foreign ques tions now prominently presented, does not arise from hesitancy or weakness, but that he feels he can do nothing a8 long as the Executive actton is entirely subordinate to the Senate. He thinks tt useless to negotiate a treaty with England, to be afterwards revised by the Senate, unt) he knows what that body and the people waut, and whether the Senate will pay any atiention whatever to the treaty atter it has been negotiated. He considers the Senate’s control over foreign questions an as- sumption of power similar to the Teaure of Omce act. It is stated that the Cabinet have recently dis- cussed the Eight Hour law and concladed that it was not intended to reduce the wages. It was there- upon decided that the President should issue at an early day a proclamation to that effect. President Grant stated in conversation with Major Moore, of Texas, yesterday, that there would be no election in that State before November. Secretary Boutwell has directed that hereafter two millions of Treasury gold shali be suld weekly until further orders instead of one. Senator Sumner ia frequently in receipt of abusive letters from England and Canada in reference to his late Alabama claims speech. Ali the departinents in Washington are to be closed on Saturday, the 20th, by order of the President, in order that the employés may take part in decorating the soldiers’ graves at Aritngton, ‘The imperialists of Washington intend to meet on Monday for organization aad alliance. They pro- pose the establishment of @ coustivutional monarchy in this country. In the case of Davis against the Western Union pending in Cincinnati, the been completely broker up by illegal acts on the part of the company. A bill was adopted in the Canadian Parliament yesterday for the establishtnent of a telegraph Ime from Montreal to England by way of Greenland and Iceland. Gre, supposed to ve caused vy aa incendiary, NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. the chief town of the county of Kerry. Thore “4 Elections and Tumult tn France. was a serious collision betweon two mobs, an} Frdéace becomes more agitated and dis- burned down a boarding house in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday night. One boarder was burned to death and another one fatally, and twenty-five or thirty others escaped only by jumping out of the upper windows. A man named Field, in Lycoming county, Pa., quarrelled with another named Mathews about the division of some money, on Tuesday, and struck him over the head with an axe, injuring him seriously. A constable named Grey attempted to arrest Field yesterday, but was also struck over the head with an axe and seriously injured, Field then took to the woods, and a squad of men are searching for him. The canal boat M. G. Wethertree went over a dam across the Hudson river at Fort Miller, N. Y., on Wednesday evening, and the captain's wife and child were drowned, ‘The Jubilee chorus have commenced mass rehear- sals in Boston, Three thousand of them sung in Music Hall on Wednesday evening. Four of the coal mines in the Lower Wyoming (Pa.) district have resumed work, The City. On Wednesday next the Committee on Applications of the Board of Excise, consisting of Messrs, Bos- worth, Manierre, (Crane and Smith, will report on the proposition to reduce the liquor license fees, It is highly probable that the fees will be reduced, as the committee, three of whom are republicans, con- sider the question no longer a political one, The Presbyterian Assemblies, both of the Old and New Schoo! Churches, assembled in this city yester- day, in separate council, The question of the re- union of the Churches was brought up and favorably ed in both bodies, but without any decisive A full report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere in the HenaLp this morning. The steamship City of Brooklyn, Captain Brooks, Inman line, leaves pier 45 North river at one o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, for Liverpool, stop- bing at Queenstown. Mails close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. The steamship England, Captain Thompson, Na- tional Ine, leaves pier 47 North friver at twelve M. on Suturday, for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamship India, Anchor line, leaves pier 20 North river, at twelve M., on Saturday, for Glasgow via Londonderry, ‘The steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, leaves pier 12 North river at three o'clock to-morrow after- noon, for New Orleans direct. ‘The stock market yesterday was irregular, but generally strong and active in sympathy, with an ad- vance in New York Central to 18914. Gold was ex- cited and rose to 14474, when the market became Weak aud the price declined t0 14334. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman N, P, Banks, of Massachusetts; EB. B. Judson, of Syracuse; Judge James Rice, of Indiana; Professor R. T. Bumby, of Georgia; Rev. Charles Beach, of Snow Hill, Md.; Dr. J. Allison, of Pitts- burg; Judge Davis, of Alsion; 3, T. Danfirth, of Salt Lake City; Rev. 8. C. Logan, of Pittsburg; Rev. W. Speer, of Philadelphia; Rev. J. Mamtt, of Wheel- ing, and Rey, J. C, Carson, of North Carolina, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Postmaster General Randall, of Washington; ex-Governor E. Chapman, of California; D. W. Gooch, of Massachusetts; Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire; W. H. Seward and W. F. Seward, of Auburn: E. D, Webster, of Washington; ex-Gov- ernor McCormick, of Arizona; Kbner H. Reed, of Newhold, and George 8. Marsh, of Maryland, are at the Astor House, '. E. Willetts, of Troy; C. L. Cobb, of Michigan; 3. B, Haines, of Washington; F. Baker, of Philadel. phia; Lieutenant B. F. McIntire, of Washington, and 5. K. Williams, of New York, are at the MMetropoll- tan Hotel. Judge I. N, Curtis, of Ohio; Major W. 1. Billings, of Wilmington, N. C., and George M. Smith, of North Hadley, Mass., are at the St. Charles Hotel. Captain Gilfilian, of Corry, Pa.; Captain A. Arm- strong, of Buffalo, and E, J, Jamieson, of Sandusky, are at the St, Julian Hotel. M. J. Crammer, United States Consul at Letpsic, arrived in the steamer Hammontia yesterday. Commodore Inman, United States Navy, and Comte de Divonne, of France, arrived tn the steamship St. actio Laurent from Hayre, yesterday. Secretary Boutwell in Wall S¢treet—The War with the Gold Gamblers. War has been declared by the Wall street gold gamblers against the Secretary of the Treasury. They are “dead set” against the policy he has adopted of putting in the market a million of gold every week in ex- change for government bonds, and they have evidently entered into a sort of holy alliance, by “‘bulling gold,” to drive him off the field. Our Washington despatches inform us that Mr. Boutwell “‘is overwhelmed with letters and protests against his financial policy;” that every day he is visited by patriotic individuals anxious to enlighten him in his duties; that among others Mr. S. B. Chittenden, of New York, has been trying his powers of per- suasion, and that he flatly told the Secretary that gold would go up to 175 shortly unless his present financial policy be abandoned; but that ‘“‘Mr. Boutwel! has such confidence in the soundness of his own theories that he could not be moved by his own party friends or the friends of his chief.” From this we may infer that through his friends the gold gamblers have been getting round to the weak side of General Grant. Doubtless, however, he has left the manage- ment of the Treasury to the full discretion of the Secretary, and we have no apprehen- sion that the President will interfere with him in behalf of the Wall street gam- blers, the bulls, who buy gold to-day to sell out on a rise to-morrow. Itisa simple mat- ter of arithmetic that a million of gold from the Treasury thrown into the market every week is so much added to the available supply for our merchants in the payment of duties, and that in the course of time the purchase of fifiy-two millions of bonds annually will of itself extinguish the national debt and reduce gold to the value of our paper money, dol- lar for dollar. As this looks to the extinguish- mentof the business of these Wall street game- sters and all their political affiliations, radicals and copperheads, they naturally combine to frighten the Secretary off the course. Their devices to this end are some of them very sharp and some very shallow and ridicu- They hoard up gold to make it short; they fill the street with wars and rumors of wars, The President at one moment has re- solved to proclaim belligerent rights for the Cubans; next, the sensation in England over Senator Sumner’s exposition of the Alabama claims means war; then the Bank of England, it is given out, will to-morrow raise its rate of discount; and then there are dreadful dissensions in the Cabinet which signify an “irrepressible conflict” in its councils on the question of peace or war; and by such sharp practices and artful dodges the fluctuations of gold among the panic-stricken gamesters are made to run the profitable gauntlet to the bulla of two or three per cent in the course of an afternoon, This, too, is done in the face of the fact that United States securities on the dollar command from 1104 for the ten-forties to 123} for six per cents extending to 1881. In the face, then, of such facts as these, and of increasing revenues, internal and ex- ternal, promising, in the old ruts, a surplus over the next fiscal year’s expenditures of fifty millions, and, with anything like proper economy, retrenchment and reform, « surplus of a hundred millions—in the face of such facts wo sec the power of the holy allianco in Wall street against the Treasury, when, upon the flimsiest rumors and devices, it can run gold up to 144 against a million a week from the department. These Wall street gold rings are, in short, the heaviest deadweights which the Treasury and the country have to carry. Compared with them the whiskey rings are a bagatelle; but powerful as they are, with their political gambling affiliations, they can- not long maintain the game of locking up their gold for a rise against a steady stream from the Treasury in the purchase of gold- bearing bonds of four or five millions a month, and the turn which the market took toward the close of business yesterday begins to show the reaction, As for all these Wall street stool-pigeon rumors and theories of war, by which gulls and gudgeons are so readily caught, they are utterly absurd, There is no danger of war between the United States and any European Power or any European coalition. The time is eminently inviting to the adminis- tration in behalf of a bold, decisive foreign policy touching the Alabama claims, Cuba and Mexico, because we have the game in each case completely in our hands, Napoleon’s Mexican adventure has satisfied him in reference to armed interven- tiins in American affairs directly affecting the interests of the United States. The British reform movement among the people, including Ireland, is security for England, and in the New Dominion we have a hostage next door for her good behavior. Spain is still in the labor of a deliverance from a quasi state of anarchy; and neither England, France nor Spain is in a situation to propose or entertain a proposition for a triple alliance for the pro- tection of Cuba, The internal condition of each of those Western Powers is revolutionary, and from Paris to Rome the Continent is ripe for combustion. The general feeling in Europe of insecurity is operating to swell the currents of European emigration to the United States, and to give stability to our bonds of all descriptions. We therefore contend that a vigorous and progressive foreign policy from General Grant will not only meet the general approba- tion of the country touching the national honor, dignity and expansion, but that this policy abroad will be entirely consistent with the domestic policy of peace, economy, re- trenchment and reform, the payment of the national debt and the reduction of gold to the level of our paper money. In any event even a million of gold weekly expended in the purchase of gold-bearing five-twenties is so much gained to the Treasury and the country, and so much lost to the gold gamblers. Potrok!—An exchange says that Senator Sprague has ‘opened a bureau” in New York. This is flat burglary. Where are the new Police Commissioners ? Wuy He Don’t Reorerocate.—A very good reason is given why Mr. Harvey, our present Minister to Portugal, does not recipro- cate the courtesies extended to him by the court of Braganza, the diplomatic representa- tives from other nations, American naval officers and so on, It is a very plain one, and may be frequently seen endorsed on protested, money drafts—to wit, ‘‘no funds.” The radical members of Congress for several years past have expunged the appropriation for the salary of the Minister to Portugal from the diplomatic pay roll because he (the iden- tical Harvey) was so indiscreet as to write a rather copperish letter to Secretary Seward about the conduct of the war, or something of that sort. Hence his present state of impe- euniosity. He may even have to borrow money to get home from his successor, Mr. Shellabarger, who leaves on the 26th to take Mr. Harvey's place. So much for radicalism. OrriciaL.—George C. Cooper has been ap- pointed State Commissioner of Fisheries in place of Seth Green. What will King Salmon, Chevalier Trout and all the rest of the finny tribe say to this? Mr. Green has been so long identified with the fancy propagation of their race that his removal cannot but be re- garded as a scaly proceeding. Principat aNp Inrerrst.—The Sorosis stood upon the maxim of ‘Principles, not men,” in their rejection of Mr. Roosevelt. It is rarely that interest can be expected where there is no principle. How Enetanp Sees It.—England, con- scious of her offences against us when we were in trouble, expected sharp retort when we were on our feet again. Reverdy Johnson was sent out, and she seized him and dined him into oblivion. She did not know at first that we were not yet ourselves again, but began to think as much towards the close of Reverdy’s career. When Grant came in and the Senate came out with a full declaration of our case her worst expectations were realized. Know- ing the justice of our case, but not knowing how far we may mean to press it, she is natu- rally uneasy, and the ministry, fearing war, stir up a demonstration in the journals. Serious CHareg AND AN INpIGNANT Dr- NiaL.—The Mobile Register states that Gov- ernor Hoffman is ‘‘winning golden opinions of all sorts of people ;” upon which a Western paper remarks that it don’t believe Governor Hoffman ever bet a dollar in his life; and as for keeping company with ‘‘all sorte of people, it will go ite last red that he don't.” Misstsstprt AND THe Firreenta AMEND- MENT.——-In an address to the people of Missis- sippi_ ex-Governor Brown enunciates the fol- lowing as one of the propositions they should entertain :—‘Fourth—We accept the fifteenth amendment.” Thus are the Mississippi demo- crats, once called the fire-eaters of the South, taking a step in the way of progress in advance of their brethren in Indiana, A TALB oF A Fistt.—It is said that Mayor Hall hauled the last pompineau of this latitude. He might tell us of the history of that fish in chapter that we should take care to have in- serted in the next edition of Athenwus. How Lone, oh, laudable gentlemen at the head of the government, will you keep Cuba out in the cold now? She has a de facto patriotic government better entitled to civilized recognition than the Spanish shambles commit- toe that acts under the programme of Valma- seda, Workings of tho Telegraph Monopoly—A Postal Telegraph the Only Relief. Tho suit brought a fow days ago in Cincin- nati by H. L, Davis against the Western Union Telegraph Company exhibits in a strong light the bearing of this gigantic monopoly on the commercial interests of the country, and the manner in which the vast power they wield is used to force every enterprising merchant, banker and broker in the country to contribute to its gains. From the statements before the court it appears that the Cincinnati Stock Ex- change Company, desiring to have frequent and reliable reports of the condition of the market in this city, arranged with Mr. Davis for the sending of the same in cipher by tele- graph. The business was carried on for some time with mutual satisfaction to the parties, until the Western Union Telegraph Company deter- mined to monopolize the profits that might ac- crue from sending mercantile reports over the country. Davis was then notified that if he would surrender his list of customers to the telegraph company they would pay him a stated weekly salary to attend to the business. When he declined to do this they then threat- ened him, and signified that they would make him understand that they controlled the mat- ter. Accordingly a series of annoyances com- menced in his business, and delays in the transmission of messages, which finally broke up his arrangements and compelled him to seek other employment. This case is merely a specimen of the sys- tem which has been pursued by the telegraph monopoly all over this country, and it has en- abled them to obtain the exclusive and un- checked transmission of market advices be- tween all our great commercial centres. We say unchecked, because their market reports can only be verified by private telegrams transmitted at great cost, and these serve only to protect individuals, and not all the mer- chants subscribing for the regular report. Every man in business knows how unreliable these market reports of the Western Union are, and yet all are compelled to take them that they may know what influences are working in their market, We have frequently had to refer to delays and suppressions of important changes in markets, and some plausible excuse is always found for an occurrence which may have enabled somebody to make a very profitable series of operations. A case of this kind occurred two days since in our own market. A difference of two per cent in the quotation of bonds in the Frankfort market on two consecutive days occurred in the Western Union reports which were delivered to subscribers in this city. This caused much excitement on the street, and on examination it turned out that the quotation given the day previous was two per cent above the market. The excuse was that ‘a mistake had been made in deciphering by the key.” We are not told if any one had operated in the meanwhile, and it only appears that a powerful ‘‘bull” movement was in operation at the time. We cite this case only to exemplify the dan- ger and temptation’of monopoly in the trans- mission of market advices. It will be said that the Western Union do not control the European advices. We admit this; but they do control the advices between our own great commercial ceutres, which affect prices of all our staples of production and trade, and the feeling among the business community is that reports of important changes in the market slips must be verified by private advices. This destroys the true object of the merchant in paying the monthly tax for the slip; yet, as we have already remarked, he must pay the tax tothe Western Union in order to know what is going on. There is but one remedy for this enormous evil and wrong. The postal telegraph will render that instrument serviceable to every merchant and greatly increase its use by them. It will facilitate the sending of competing market reports and secure promptitude and exactness in them. The merchants of every city in the country should take action, through their respective chambers of commerce and commercial boards, to enlighten public opinion and urge upon the government the early establishment of the postal telegraph. We shall then be rid of vexatious monopoly in transmission and its attendant errors and taxation. Doas.—The Mayor is of opinion that the Board of Health has jurisdiction of dogs, and hence will issue no canine proclamations and establish no rewards. Let the Board of Health make Bergh an inspector for this special duty and the dogs will be attended to without shock- ing circumstances. Tue Maeniricent Sovrn.—It is stated that after last year’s crop, with expenses paid, the South retained two hundred millions in gold. Furthermore it is announced that six hundred thousand dollars’ worth of manufacturing stock has been subscribed for cotton mill at Colum- bus, Ga., and seventy-one others are in pro- cess of erection at Savannah and other points in the State for the manufacture of cotton and woollen goods. One factory at Augusta has a capital of six hundred thousand dollars, and last year turned out nearly six and a half million yards of cloth. The Arizona cotton factory, established in Claiborne parish, La., since the war, is now paying a net profit of twenty-four per cent per annum. New Orleans is soon to have a cotton mill with ten thousand spindles. With these auspicious signs of prosperity be- fore us are we not warranted in proclaiming the South as magnificent? But she has scarcely reached the threshold of her future wealth and grandeur, if her sons stop bother- ing themselves about politics and all put their shoulders to the wheel of the car of fortune. Those Inecxplicable Riots in Ircland. Almost every cable despatch brings news of a riot in some part of Ireland. What is the mat- ter? These disturbances can hardly be at- tributable to Fenianism, for that is defunct, gone up in smoke. Neither is there any at- tempt in the British or Irish press to show that they are of an agrarian character. The riot in the northern part of the island the other day and its bloody consequences, can readily enough be traced to the ancient devil- ish spirit of religious animosity. Such demon- strations are annual orgies in the absence of which that portion of the country would be hardly recognizable, But there are no such causes of strife existing in the south of Ireland, and yet the last row between the people and the police, and it appoars to have been a brisk one, occurred, as we ave informed, in Tralee, interference by the police, armed with carbines and revolvers, the mobs being armed also, and the result was a serious loss of life. Now these matters concern us not at all, except in this, that they raise the question as to their origin and their probable connection with the Policy of the Gladstone government, It might be well for the government to show that Ire- land is discontented and ungovernable in order to give to the disestablishment of the Irish Episcopal Church, and the contemplated measures upon the land tenure, a force which the opposition would find it difficult to resist. If nothing can quell Irish riots and bloodshed but the success of the benign measures of Mr. Gladstone, why, of course, there is an argu- mentat once in favor of the ministerial policy. What a shrewd piece of management it would be to keep up disturbances in Ireland just now! What a Walpoleonic idea, if any such exists in the British Cabinet! These inexpli- cable riots in Ireland may possibly be solved in that way if in no other. Tho Presbyterian Assemblies. The representatives of the Presbyterian Assemblies, Old School and New School, num- bering many hundreds, assembled in this city yesterday, the main object of the meetings being to devise and perfect a plan for the re- union of this numerous and influential branch of the Christian Church. After organization a resolution was adopted directing the formation of committees of conference constituted of tive ministers and five elders, to be named by the Moderator of the old Synod, who, per- ceiving the vital consequences likely to result from his action in this first essential, requested that he be permitted time till to-day to delib- erate on his nominations. These proceedings constituted the main features of the first day’s routine business. A very pleasing incident occurred in the application of a gentleman who had journeyed from an extreme point of Texas for admission to the General Synod. His cre- dentials were not in technical form, as the Church in his locality is too sparse to form a local synod authorized to sign them, in con- formity with the rule adopted in the year 1837. He stated that his coreligionists, having re- mained loyal to the Union during the war, communion with their brethren in the South was interrupted. An attempt was made to “choke off” the applicant, but the.Moderator had his claim referred to the committee. The centre of unity may thus be restored to the followers of John Knox in the United States— & consummation worthy of the religious fealty, devotion in worship, citizen loyalty and unob- trusive demeanor of the Presbyterian body in general. REPUBLICANISM IN SpatN,—The Spanish revolutionists still wish for a republican form of government. They do not appear to know how to do it, however, ‘ Frounperine.—Half a dozen women’s or- ganizations are in existence, and a meeting of one or the other is in the papers every day; but what is the object? Agitation of woman's rights in some shape, apparently ; but, judging from the meetings, it is plain that they do not know exactly what their rights are, what they are without, what they have or what they want. Without purpose and without definite aim, fifty commonplace women come together every now and then and cackle—merely to cackle. ‘ Drouinine Dixner.—Reverdy Johnson has taken the superlative degree in declining dinner:—‘‘I dine, thou dinest, he, she or it dines; we dine, you dine, corporations dine, noblemen dine, trade leagues dine, all hands dine. I'm done dining, sine dinie.” Dirromatic Smuaerine.—It is proposed to give Minister Hale a chance to make a clean breast of it about that smuggling business before retiring from office. Why not, give all our foreign representatives a chance to do the same thing before they give up the political ghost? What a wonderful, what a humiliating spectacle it would present! We hope to be forgiven if we express the conviction that there is not an American legation abroad, from the highest to the lowest, whose linen would be found unsoiled in case of a public washing. Tue Bovrsoxs axp Bonaparte.—Isabella, the ex-Queen of Spain, has not for- gotten the pleasures of Madrid, her home or throne. Two thousand of her adherents have muétered on French territory and threaten to cross the border in opposition to the revolutionary government. The men are, it is said, under the command of Generals Gasset and Peauela, officers of much merit and bravery and distinguished for their action in defence’ of the royal cause. The Spanish government is already on the alert to prevent an invasion. Very grave complications may arise on the peninsula should it be attempted. Isabella is very rich. She is sheltered and befriended by Napoleon. Should Bonapartism and Bourbonism join hands cordially very ex- traordinury consequences may ensue, such as the advent of a French army to Madrid, the neutralization of Gibraltar and the freedom of the Mediterranean. Who can foretell the next move? Cuba should seal her charter of inde- pendence immediately. German Uniry.—Bavaria, the most persiat- eut opponent of the realization of German unity under the supremacy of Prussia, has fallen into the line of national advance. The general elections just held in the kingdom have resulted in favor of the perfect union of North and South Germany, reversing com- pletely the public expression recorded in Munich at the moment of the Austro-Prussian war. Bavaria is about to cut loose from Rome and will soon become independent and pros- perous, Aut Wroxa.—It is reported that the new Minister to China is to confer before his de- parture with some ecclesiastical bodies about the protection of missionaries in the Celestial country. Is this Minister to represent the ecclesiastical bodies or the United States? If he goes out loaded with missionaries he goes to fail and to complicate and prejudice our true interests in China. We have got nothing whatever to do with the religion of the Chinese ; and for our accredited representative to take a position that regards them as heathen is a diplomatic insult, Is this appointment ono more blunder? turbed as the moment of election approaches. We have to-day a report of the progress of tumult, public disorder, police repres~ sion, the forcing of a prison and a rescue and bloodshed. Paris and the provinces are equally inflamed. Such occurrences at such a momentare dangerous in any community, but particularly so in France at present. Who can forget either the revolu- tion or the coup d'etat? The French nation is passing through a mighty ordeal, pregnant with the most vital conse- quences to the policy of Napoleon, and although the press mentions but few facts in reference to the importance of the movement there is every reason to believe that tho sub- ject is straining the public nerve in every direction. One of the most remarkable inci- dents attendant on the occasion is the com- plete revolution that has transpired in the tenor of the two well known journals, the Siecle and the Constitutionnel, of Paris, the former of which was an acknowledged advocate of liberty under the late M. Havin, and the latter an undisguised supporter of the government. Now they have completely reversed their tactics, much to the annoyance of their con- Sreres, which in several cases has been carried to the extent of personal attack. The press being the indicator of the pulsations of public opinion, this proves that the question ia radically moving the public mind, which fact is corroborated by cable telegrams received during the past few days. A Cracow jour- nal (the Aaj) professes to have authentic in- formation, and states as a fact that the secret police of Paris has been gained over iv the interest of Count Bismarck in order to create disturbances, Although not partici- pating in the opinion of the Cracow cor- respondent, we look forward to demonstrations from the opposition party of the French nation rather than from the sources of foreign bribery or corruption. Far Fetonep.—To regard as a singular coincidence the fact that the first freight on the Pacific Railroad should be tea, and that it should be conveyed across the Continent prin- cipally on the T rail. The coincidence might, however, pass as singular, provided the article itself was first chop. Just So.—One of the liquor dealers, discus. sing temperance before the Excise Board, said that he went to Europe some time ago and never heard a glass of water asked for during his absence. He does not say what company he kept ; but it is true that if you call for water in England it is always brought hot. They suppose you want to shave or make toddy. They do not even water their stock over there. Governor Hoffman and the Railroads. gorernce Hoffman yesterday signed four bills connected with the extension and con- solidation of some of our chief railroad lines, as well as the comfort and odn- venience of travellers by rail, The first is entitled “The New York Central Scrip bill,” which guthorizes the enlargement of the capital of the Central road by an addi- tion of eighty per cent; the second ‘‘The Con- solidation bill,” which sanctions the consolida- tion of connecting lines of railway in this State, the more immediate object of which is to authorize the junction and continuation of the Hudson River and New York roads, so as to form a continuous line between New York and Buffalo, and thus constitute an important link in the chain of overland transit from New York to San Francisco, and vice versa ; the third the “Erie Directory bill,” which provides that the directors’ of the Erie road shall remaio in power three or four years longer; and the fourth the ‘Harlem Depot bill,” directing the construction by the company of a more fitting depot for passengers and baggage at the steam car terminus in New York. Governor Hoff- man, in his ratification of these measures by official notice to the Secretary of State, is very brief, explicit and cogent in expression. Those Fanny Chinese. The same cable despatches which brought us news yesterday that Mr. Burlingame had submitted the preliminaries of a most friendly and satisfactory treaty between China and France to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris brought also an account of « serious, most unfriendly and most unsatis- factory assault upon the French Ambassador at Pekin by a high official of the Chinese government. The assault consisted of a slap in the face administered to the French Ambas- sador by the Chinese official wearing a queue. Report says that the retort of the Count de Lallemand was to haul down the French flag from the legation of the empire which he represented. If such an affront was offered to # foreign official in this country it would be thé offender and not the flag that would be lowered, and that very quickly, too. The Chinaman would be very likely to find his level, however exalted he might have been before the insult was offered. But these Chinese are very funny people in matters of diplomacy. They do not appear to know the difference between a plenipotentiary and any ordinary mortal. Will the French government enlighten them? An excellent opportunity for doing so appears to be now presented in the case of the Count de Lallemand in the Celestial city of Pekin. The Washington Republican tells a good story of an interview between Mrs. General Gaines and Mrs. Doctor Mary Walker at the Patent Office the other day. Mrs. Gaines, after eyeing the peculiar dress of the female doctor, asked, ‘Is this Mrs. Doctor Mary Walker?” and being answeréd in the affirmative the little lady of the famous thirty years’ lawsuit, having next asked and received the privilege, proceeded to give the lady in the frockcoat and pantaloons 4 little good advice. The fol- lowing from this poiat is the conversation Mrs. Gatnes—Well, my advice is to go home and 1 off those breeches a once, and not disgrace your whole sex by wearing them. Mrs. Dr. WaLKeR—If 1 do so will you adopt mo as agaenter? tras Gathes—1 do not think I could, Ihave tow many adopted daughters already. Mrs. Dr. WALKER—If you adopt me as your daughter and give me everything you have tn tne word I would not abandon my priucipies and toast nor change my mode of dress. H Mrs. Gainss—You are injuring yourself by dress ing so. Had f put on breeches Ushould never have succeeded in establishing my rights, | never put on, breechos—no, not even my husband's, aud wiil tu blessing of God I never wil. i Mes, Doctor Walker retorted upon the fost«