The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET, BROADWAY JAMES GORDON” BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic be addressed New York despatches must HERALD. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Matinee at 2—WiLD Ow . between Sth and 6th avs.— Evening —OTHELLO, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.--Tut Rerirsque EX TRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty Tutevns. Evening at 2. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avevue and Twenty- fourth streat.—Tue Hrnmit's Bei. Matinee at 2 WALLACK'S THEATRE, Brosiwar aut 18h street Caste. Matinee at 2. é ACATEMY OF MUSIC, 1th street. —T1ALIAN OPERA— GERMAN STADT TH EAT nd 47 Bowery— Riscey's Iuprniar Ja Doox. Matinee at 145. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —JACK SHEPPABD— WATORMAN anv His Dog—Srecrar BRiDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Hiccory Driccory WAVERLEY THEAT! Tux Two Pots. Mati WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth atrest and roadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. 220, Broadway.—PYOMALION— it 2. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—RoniNson CRUSOE anp His Man FRIDAY, 0. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — Dompry & SON—POCAHONTAS. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. —Comic SKETORES AND LIVING STATUES—PLU10. Matinee at 2. CENTRAL PARK GARDE: between 58th and (Goth ats. —POPULAB GARDEN .—ETHI0- LONDES. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 595 Broa twa Plan ENTERTAINMENTS—THE UNBLEACHED BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, street.—ErHiorian MINSTRE! many Building, Mth 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO 'SE, 201 Bowery.—Comro Vooaiss, NEGRO shite ac. Matinee at 255. EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner 8d av., 634 and 64th ats.— Guanp Conoxrt, &c. HOOLEY'’S OPERA Hi MixsTBEL8—Coco's FRoLt NEW YORK MUSEUM | OF ANATOMY, 18 Broadway.— SOIENOK AND Azr. TRIPLE SHEET. "Saturday, E, Brooklyn.—Hoouar's eat = 1869. New York z = a WN a =: 3. Bureve. ‘The cable telegrams are dated May 21. The independance Belge, of Belgium, yesterday evening contained the announcement that Minister Sanaford had forwarded his resignation to Wash- ington. The Rev. Alexander Dyce, the Shakspearian com- mentator, died yesterday in London. Reverdy Johnson will leave Southampton to-day tor the United States. The new duplicate telegraph from ‘London to Valencia, Ireland, was completed yeater- day. Sir Francis Head, formerly Governor General of Canada, writes to the London Times about the injustice of America claiming damages or the Ala- bama claims, and maintains that England has dor- mant claims for apology and damages against the United Stntes. Last week there was a heavy flow of specie into into the Bank of France, A change of his present Cabinet by the Emperor is looked for. ‘The debate on the future form of government for Spain in the Cortes yesterday amounted to nothing. ‘There was much talking and noaction. Admiral Topete favors the Duke of Montpensier for the throne. Articles thirty-two and thirty-three of the constitution were passed yesterday by the Cortes. Cuba. A proclamation which the Spamards claim was issued by Cespedes before Valmaseda’s infamous order has been published. It provides for the exe- cution of all Spanish volunteers captured, and the confiscation of tue property of all enemies of the republic. No neutrality is recognized, and foreigners who have voluntarily aided the Spaniards will be ex- ecuted. The Engiish prisoners captured on the wrecking schooner by the Spaniards have been re- leased. The property of nineteen Cuban ladies had been confiscated. Miscellaneous. The Navy Department has issued an order direct- ing that the names of seventeen vessels, hitherto called by rather unpronounceabie Inaian titles, be changed to the names of towns and States. Tne Contoocook, Admiral Hoff’s flagship, is to be called the Albany, and the Piscataqua, a comparatively new vessel that relieved the Hartford as flagship of our Chinese squadron a year or 80 ago, Is to be designa- ted as the Delaware. The Omaha is changed to As- toria and the Ontario to New York. President Grant received Major General Clarke, of Texas, yesterday, and had a long conversation, in which the latter gentleman urged that the Texas election should take place in August, when the peo- ple would not be busied gathering their crops, and would have time to attend the polls. The outrages were greatly exaggerated. The President finally said he would have the State restored with as little delay as possible. The President yesterday issued the expected pro- clamation more clearly defining the intentions of the Eight Hour law. He directs that after this date no reduction of wages shall be made in government ‘Workshops on account of the required reduction of hours of labor, A bill contracted by Secretary Seward in tele- graphing over the cable to Reverdy Johnson has been presented to Secretary Fish by the agent of the Telegraph Company for payment. It consists of a Single item and amounts to $40,000. Mr. Seward, it seems, was allowed cheap rates on his messages, and so became rather verbose. When this bili came in he refused to pay it. It therefore fell to the suc- ceeding administration. Secretary Fish declined to Pay it, and when it was presented tojPresident Grant he sent it to Attorney General Hoar for an opinion, which he is now engaged on. Indian Commissioner Parker has issued an order assigning @ large force of army officers to duty as Indian superintendents and agents. A colored police magistrate has been appointed in ‘Washington. Two colored clerks have been desig- nated for appointment in the Revenue Bureau. One of them is president of a republican club in Wash- ington, and the other is the brother of an alderman Of the olty. red Douglass, Jr. (colored), has been Sppointed @ clerk in the office of the Register of Deeds in the District of Columbia. He wrote a let- Spt to the Register applying for the position and stat- ang pat he was a printer, but could not work at his trade Si KSGHuRE Qf the trade combination against his color. Ebenezer D. Bassett, ‘oun cclerha ‘Minioler Haytt, waited upon the Assistant Secretary of State yesterday received his instructions, previous to his depaftuie for the fled of his diplomacy. The in- STuotions relate merely to securing the payment ofa Claim for $30,000, due for the repair of a Haytien ‘War vessel, Attorney General Hoar is very unpopular among ‘the politicians and Congressmen in Washington, ond it is said that efforts will be made to have him dismissed from the Cabinet. The Massachusets dele- Gation are especially bitter against him. ‘The City. In the Presbyterian General Assemblies yesterday & conference Committee on Reunion was appointed. A basis of union adopted by a committee of the Inst General Assembly of the Old School was presented, but was not acted upon. In the trial of George B. Davis, in the United States po Court, for perjury, yesterday an application it the prisoner to testify in his own behait #E refnsed by the Court. The jury, at the conciu- Sion, retarned a verdict of guilty and the prisoner ‘Was remanded for sentence. Oomptroiier Connolly yesterday appointed the pew alain, NEW _YORK HERALD Board of Tax Commissioners, consisting of 7. J. Creamer, W. H. King, @. H. Andrews and Nathaniel sands, ‘The Pearsall and O'Connor contempt case came up before Judge Cardozo yesterday and was par- tlally proceeded with, Judge Uardozo offered to admit the prisoners to bail, but they declined to accept bail and the case was thereupon adjourned to Tuesday. In the gross receipts of the places of amusement during the month of April, Booth’s makes the high- est return, $44,000; Niblo’s next, $38,000, and Wal- lack's next, $35,000, Mr. Theodore Allen was again in court yesterday before Justice Ledwith on a charge of rescuing & prisoner from @ detective named Townley. The charge was preferred in March last, but this was the first time that the prisoner could be produced. Allen's friends thronged the room, and one, an alder- man, seated himself within whispering distance of the Justice. Under the circumstances the Court post- poned the case for a week, and Allen gave batl and withdrew. In the case of Connors, the Broadway policeman charged with assault and battery, the jury yesterday returned a verdict of guilty. Connors not having appeared his counsel stated that he did not know where he was, and Judge Bedford ordered his bail to be forfeited and a bench warrant to be issued for his arrest. W. H. Livingston, a clerk at Stewart’s, and a man of family, whom Judge Bediord and the District Attorney commended as having been of the highest Tespectability and most unblemished honesty here- tofore, pleaded guily to embezzling $4,500 from his employers and waa sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary. The stock market yesterday opened with great animation, New York Central advancing to 19234. Under sales to realize the whole market fell off from one to three per cent, but recovered a portion of the decline and closed steady. Gold fell to 14034, but re- acted to 141}, at the close. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Ex-Governor W. Dennison, ex-Congresaman S. Shellabarger and B. E. Smith, of Ohio; ex-Congress- man J. S. Marshall, of Illinois; Judge W. traub; of Cincinnati; Henry Keyes, of Vermont; ©. A. Miller, of Alabama; J. P. Folsom, W. H. Anderson and C. H. Latham, of Lowell, Mass., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army, and Colonel Daniel Gardiner, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Charles Hotel. A. 8. Merriman, of Washington; G. J. Atwood, of New Jersey; W. Boyce, of Canada; A. Tingue and George 0. Jones, of Albany; J. Henderson, of Balti- more; J. F. Gulick, of Indiana; C. C. Huntley, of Montana, and G. S. Warner, of Portland, Me., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Professor Thorpe, of St. Louis; Captain Samuel G. Nevins, of Baltimore, and E, R. Donaldson, of Que- bec, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Ex-President Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire; John G. Saxe, of Albany; General George W. Buck, of Chemung; D. Lyman, of Middletown; J, P+ Voor. hees, and J. Tucker, of Philadelphia, and Benjamin Douglas, of Connecticut, are at the Astor House, ag Prominent Departures. Senator Zach Chandler, of Michigan; Senator T. W. Osborn, of Florida, and his brother, Rev. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of St. Louis, sail to-day in the City of Brooklyn for Europe. Dr. J. R. Groesbeck, Major Davis, United States Army; Colonel M. O’Brien, Professor A. Hall, and J. Rogers, United States Navy, sailed yesterday in the steamship Henry Chauncey for Aspinwall. H. J. Winser, United States Consul at Sonneberg, Saxony, sailed yesterday in the steamship Bavaria for Hamburg. Oar Relations with Great Britain—Mr. Goldwin Smith on the Situation. What a fuss the Senate of the United States, connected as the action of that august body has been with the speech of Senator Sumner, has created in Great Britain! Our special cable despatches, our special correspondence and the extracts which from day to day we have made from the more prominent British journals prove how deep and how general is the excitement which has been produced on the other side of the Atlantic. Weeks have now passed since a great American statesman, a man of culture, dignity and large experience, and but little in the habit of humoring the mob, honestly expressed his thoughts on the Alabama treaty, and by the tair, clear and ex- haustive statement of the case convinced the American people that there still lived among them men to whom their destinies might safely be entrusted. The rejection of the Clarendon-Johnson treaty was with us a fore- gone conclusion. The action of the Senate and the speech of Sumner while they pleased did not surprise us. Our minds were already made up. The action of the Senate justified our conviction, and the speech of Mr. Sumner gave fair and full expression to the national sentiment. The result was that we were satis- fied, but not at all demonstrative. It has been altogether different with our so- called cousins on the other side. Their rela- ' tions with America, the ridiculous manner in which we have treated Minister Johnson, the outrageous demands of Sumner, the probable results of war with the great republic of the West—these and kindred subjects have made British journalists wholly forgetful of all do- mestic questions. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Mr. Disraeli, Irish Church reform, House of Lords reform and all other names and reforms have temporarily given place to the new and unlooked-for phase of the unsettled ques- tion between John Bull and Brother Jonathan. Hitherto the sentiments engendered by Sum- ner’s speech have been expressed only by the journalists. Some of the jourrfals have been furious and bellicose in the extreme. Some of them have made admissions to the effect that John Bull was partially in the wrong, that so far as he was wrongdoing he should confess his fault, but that he must not, on any account, submit to coercion or insult, Others, again, are timi@, full of fear and evi- dently at their wit’s end. All this fuss and fary contrasts strangely with the composure and comparative indifference of the American people. We know how the case stands, Wo are satisfied that it has now been fairly and fully stated. We know who we are and what we can do, if need be, and we are totally re- gardless of consequences. In this connection it is impossible to over- look the fact that a mighty change has passed over the British mind during the last few years in regard to the United States. It ts not many years since it was the habit- ual custom of British authors who happened to visit this country to accept our hospitality, to worm themselves into our confi- dence, to study our institutions, and all for no higher or more noble purpose than, first of all, to fill their purses, and secondly, on their re- turn home, to make their countrymen laugh at the oddities and eccentricities which, in exag- gerated language, they unjustly and ungrate- fully ascribed tons. There have been many such offenders. The greatest of them all has asecond time revisited these shores, has a second time heen generously treated, and has had the honesty and the manliness to confess and ask forgiveness for his former offence. Our late civil war has worked wonders on our- selves and on scaihind ‘aincatiy, We feel ourselves to be a mighty aud a compact people. Our onward movements have become more em- phatic and more irresistible. Our rapid and gi- gantic strides, in the shape of internal develop- ment and territorial expansion, are startling the world and everywhere extorting the confession that the great controlling force of te future is revealing itself on the Western Continent. We are guilty of no exaggeration when we say that the United States of America are inspiring hope into all peoples and imparting encouragement to all nationalities. It is not, therefore, a matter of surprise to us that we have ceased to be an object of ridicule and become an object of respect and even fear. It is, however, a matter of some surprise to us that in these altered circumstances an Englishman who has acquired some reputation among @ class of his own countrymen, and who now, for reasons best known to himself, is a resident in this country and the recipient of American bounty, should abuse the position to which he has been generously appointed by undertaking the defence ef England against the charges of Senator Sumner, and by incul- cating sentiments which he knows to be utterly anti-American in their tone and ten- dency. Who is Mr. Goldwin Smith, that he should teach us in this matter and lecture us in this fashion? That this gentle- man has talents we very willingly admit ; but his sentiments, which never found themselves in very general favor at home, are, we fear, very little likely ever to find themselves in favor here. If we understand the object of the founder and directors of the Cornell Univer- sity, Mr. Goldwin Smith was brought to this country for national, not for anti-national pur- poses; not because he was out of sympathy with our republican institutions, but because he was believed to be in sympathy with them; not for the purpose of infusing into the minds of our citizens and the rising hopes of the country poisonous sentiments, but that he might correctly read and fairly state from a high, impartial but republican standpoint the great lessons of history. Certainly he was not brought here for the purpose of advocating the cause of a government and people at whose hands the citizens of the United States believe they have sustained serious and irreparable wrong. We care nothing for this gen- tleman’s warnings; and he ought to know that we need not his advice. We are a young people, it is true; but we are old and wise enough to direct our own steps, and we are strong enough, if need be, to defend our own interests. Mr. Guldwin Smith, we say, has abused his position. Ifhe is not pleased with what he sees around him he knows what to do. If he likes us not he can leave us. And we humbly submit that those who have the control of the Cornell University would not offend the good sense of the American people if forthwith they politely dispensed with the services of this rather im- pertinent English professor. It will not surprise us if Mr. Smith’s un- necessary interference in this matter should bring down upon his head the wrath of his own countrymen. He may find the British government and people as indignant as he has found us ungrateful. This, however, is his own affair. If he has sinned he must suffer. It is for the British government and people to know that our minds are made up, and that nothing that can be said by impertinent profes- sors, by a furious press or by haughty and indignant statesmen, can have the slightest effect in changing our opinion or overcoming our fixed resolution. We have said what we mean, and we mean to abide by what we have said. We can well afford to wait—to wait with calmness and with dignity. If our claims are not met our hour of indemnity will soon come, notwithstandiug the hoary reminis- cences of that Anglo-Canadian placeman, Sir Francis Head, dating back by thirty-two years, or the modern palliative of arbitration suggested by Mr. Foster, Vice President of the Council of Great Britain, which we pre- sent to-day. Gotp Gorse Down.—There was a rather sharp decline in gold yesterday; but as the cliques which control the market were on the “bear” side the fall did not hurt them. The sufferers were the small speculators who were tempted by the recent advance to purchase for a still farther rise. The cunning old operators got wind of Secretary Boutwell’s intention to sell an additional million of gold, and stood from under in time. E1ont Hovrs a Day.—The President took & very sensible view of the Eight Hour Labor law when he decided that it was intended to mean ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. If it did not mean that it was a piece of very silly legislation and would have been no relief whatever to the workmen in the public service. Time is too short and labor too heavy for the employés in the government navy yards and other public works to throw off two hours a day if the pittance they are paid is to be thrown off with them. Toe Barz, aND TUE sate Sgtiares 4 of State Sowird, aa the pe @ know, used his “fittle bell” in Washington with great vigor during the early months of the war. The bell was neglected, however, when he seized hold of the Atlantic cable and commenced to cor- respond with our Minister, in London, on the Alabama claims by submarine telegraph. Senator Sumner pointed out yesterday that one of these despatches cost forty thousand dollars in gold. How much did the whole series cost? The cable men want their money. When will it be paid? Can England be made to discharge the item? The bell was danger- ous, but not so vastly dear. Toe Cans—Wnen Smau. We Have TEM ?—The Legislature passed an act incor- porating a company to run cabs in this city on the same plan which has proved so convenient in London and many of the principal cities in Europe. Such a system would be an especial convenience here, and the want of it has long been felt. It is said that the parties who pro- pose to put a line of cabs on our streets are prepared to commence operations as soon as the vehicles are imported from Europe, and “that all the capital required is ready for in- vestment. We have seen the bill go through both houses of the Legislature and receive the signature of the Governor. Now we want to see the cabs running on our streets, That is the final and impostant point. SATURDAY, MAY Y 2 22, Cas pee nrae Mareh, * It appears from our Washington despatch published yesterday that the President listened, very attentively to the verbal report of ex-" Vice Consul La Reintrie—who has just re- turned from Cuba, where he has been residing in official station for more than two years— frequently interrupting him and asking him questions, In the opinion of this official the Cubans have adopted a wise policy in not accepting open battle in the field against well organized and disciplined troops; and the question of their success is merely one of the ability of Spain constantly to reinforce her wasting and diminishing army. In this state- tent we do not doubt that Mr. La Reintrie has hit the nail on the head. The interest exhibited by the President shows that he is fully alive to one of the most prominent and urgent questions in American politics. Cuba will not only be very soon applying to our government for recognition as a State under her newly organized republican form of gov- ernment, but at no distant date will make formal application for admission as a State within our Union, It behooves our public men, and particularly those in the government, to study these ques- tions, and to take care that the government does not lose the present most favorable occa- sion to advance our national policy. The initial question in these movements—the one that requires immediate attention and action— is the one opened by the offer now made by the Dominican republic. Torn by selfish leaders and factions for several years, St. Domingo has found a period of rest under the rule of President Baez. But the effort and expendi- ture required to repress the bushwhacking disconteiit of a few unscrupulous politicians diverts the revenue of the government from its true application in behalf of peaceful de- velopment and maintains the public authority in a state of constant poverty and weakuess. Enterprise and industry, wanting tho natural protection which should secure their peace, disappear from the land; commerce decays and society is deprived of its highest stimulant to progress. President Baez has wisely sought to strengthen the fabric of peace by a close connection with the great republic, and ag | Cuba and &t. offers should be wisely considered and acte upon. The admission of St. Domingo as a State of the American Union would guarantee her a re- publican form of government and at the same time relieve the Dominican people from the ex- traordinary efforts and sacrifices they are now compelled to make to preserve the public peace. Nor would there be any increase of cost to us. The presence of the American flag, sustained by the moral power of our govern- ment, would suffice to preserve the territory from foreign aggression and domestic broils, The arts of peace would prosper, industry and trade revive and public and private wealth increase. All of these advantages can be se- cured by the simple negotiation of a treaty-by the Secretary of State with the agents of the Dominican republic, and the whole matter can be ratified and ready for presentation to Con- gress on the meeting in December next. Such « treaty is not to be looked upon asa mere attempt at petty annexation. It is, in fact, the arrangement of the formula of our coming southward march, and will be the proud- est monument of the adminstration which es- tablishes it. With slavery the era of filibus- tering passed away. We have now to digest the form of that peaceful annexation the spirit of which is already evident in the countries beyond our southern border. Close upon St. Domingo will follow Cuba, Mexico (either in portions or, perhaps, in one grand mass), and then the rest of the States and the isles of the American Mediterranean, to the isthmus of Darien. This whole field opens @ most promising aspect to the administration of Pre- sident Grant, and it is only the first step which requires skill and wisdom. If this is rightly taken, as it can easily be in the case of St. Domingo, the succeeding ones will follow of their own accord. The administration must recognize the duty before it and act up to the national spirit in this great field now open to us. A Lvoxy Dovarass.—Fred Douglass, Ju- nior, son of Fred Douglass, Senior, applied to Mr. Wolfe, Register of Deeds, in Washington, yesterday, for a clerkship. Mr. Douglass con- fessed he belonged to a ‘‘despised class,” yet, notwithstanding, had fought acceptably for the Union as a Massachusetts soldier, adding that he was a son of Fred Douglass—a man who was held in bondage on account of the dif- ference of caste—and a printer; but his trade was rendered useless in his hands in conse- quence of the exclusive action of the Printers’ Unions on the question of color. Mr. Wolfe replied favorably, and Fred, Junior, is pro- vided for. The “Black Douglass” will likely become a rallying ery, as in Europe in the olden time. Is a Hurr.—Mr. Sandford, United States Minister to Belgium, has thrown up his office in 8 huff, becausé the Senate did not confirm his appointment in o like capacity to Madrid. Mr. Sandford vacates a favorable position, and the President may prepare to receive appli- cants. EAB Meta ncons Ont The Texas Election and the Cotton Crop. While from Texas we receive the pleasing assurance of General Reynolds that he can hold the election in that State in July if the President orders him so to do, from Washing- ton comes the statement that General Grant has told some peripatetic politician that no election will be held there until November. If this be true no more unwise resolution could be taken by the administration. A State elec- tion in Texas will require an agitated political canvass for four, if not for six, weeks previous to the day of voting. This would involve all the month of October and a good portion of September in an excitement in which the freed- men take delight, and for which they are willing to abandon any and every labor. Texas to-day has planted in cotton one- third more land than over before, and this turmoil among the laboring class will be created in the height of’ the picking season. Such a step cannot but have a disastrous effect in diminishing the amount of cotton gathered, and reduce materially the gold resources of the government and the country during the coming season. The prospects for the coming cotton crop of the South are sufficiently reduced without Prosident Geant adding his assistance 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. to diminish them still more. We urge upon him, therefore, for the good of the whole country, not to delay this important measure beyond the period when the crop is laid by to ripen for the harvest. Let this election be held in July, before the harvest begins. It is bad enough to have speculators and selfish Politicians to urge their petty interests before those of the country, but General Grant should not lend himself to such infamous purposes. Tho Quarantine Question. There is a good deal of noise being made just now about the question of quarantine, but it seems to have taken a wrong direction. That the Health Officer, who is supposed to have the care of the public health in his hands, is using his position for very different pur- poses than those which the law allots to him or prescribes for him is a fact well known to the whole mercantile community. In the first place he has no legal right to become a col- lector and vender of news. The law establish- ing quarantine precludes all parties alike from boarding vessels within the limits of quaran- tine, and then landing the crews and passen- gers of such vessel or the crew of the boat which boards her. Without this provision there would be no quarantine; yet this health official, Swinburne, or his deputies, do this very thing continually for a pecuniary con- sideration. The law of quarantine gives the “Health Officer no right to arrest anybody at Staten Island, because the quarantine ground there is abolished, except within very limited precincts, and outside of those boundaries he has no jurisdiction there whatever. The re- cent action of the courts in dismissing the parties arrested at Swinburne’s instigation proves that he is acting as much outside the law in these matters as he is in smuggling, under the guise of performing the duties of Health Officer—an allegation which was so clearly made not long ago, and backed by such substantial proofs as would probably have put the Health Officer in a very disagreeable but very secure place, only for the political and other influences brought to bear upon the case. Now, is it not evident that if contagion is likely to be brought to the city the quarantine boats, whose crews and medical officer remain on board the vessel for a length of time, who mix among the crew and passengers of the contagious vessel and then return to the city, the men to roam at large among our citizens, travelling on the crowded passenger boats from Staten Island or landing at Whitehall slip and Brooklyn, as it is well known they do— +| is it not evident, we say, that if there is danger of contagion it is more likely to come from that quarter than from the news boats which run alongside incoming vessels for a moment to receive the package of marine news thrown to them? Our reporters do not board the vessels except in oases where there is no con- tagion likely to be on board. They have as much regard for their lives as the employés of the Health Officer’s department—perhaps more, as they are more useful in their sphere— and certainly they would not to contagious disease and death to the clty in their own persons. If a vessel is healthy there certainly can be no harm done in board- ing her for such a legitimate purpose. Re- strictions put upon emigrant runners and “‘bummers” were not intended to be applied to newspapers, whose object is to provide the public with the earliest shipping news from abroad—to place upon the desk or the break- fast table of the merchant each morning intel- ligence of the fate of his ships and cargoes, wherever they may happen to be scattered over the seas. This is @ part of newspaper enterprise of which the Hzrarp has never been neglectful. It was one of the earliest features in ite infant history, and it is one which to-day, when its value is fully and substantially established, it is not going to surrender. i So far as any danger of contagion front infected vessels being carried by ship news reporters is concerned, that can be answered by the fact that news has been furnished in this way for thirty years, and yet who has heard of a case of infection being brought to the city through this channel? The real cause of the fuss about the matter just now is that other journals in the interest of the Quarantine ring are jealous of the Heratn's enterprise, and are governed in their opposition by a small—a very small—spirit of economy. We offered them opportunities of obtaining ship news at a moderate cost, while we were willing to bear, as we now cheerfully bear, the bur- den of the expense; but they would not ac- cept, preferring, it appears, to use such Te- ports as the Health Officer, in violation of th the Quarantine law, might furnish them. We put our own steamers into the service. papers which are in with the Quarantine ring were not equal to bear the expense we cannot help it. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that they are jealous, irritated and unhappy. It is not less surprising that Dr. Swinburne should like to use them for the purpose of keeping the merchants of New York under his control, by attempting to furnish them ship news just when and how he pleases, and upon his own terms, relying upon the grip which he has upon them to prevent any remonstrance being sent by the merchants to the Governor against his mis- management of quarantine, because it is evi- dent that, if Governor Hoffman should not act upon the charges and suspend the Health Officer, every merchant who signed such charges would have to brave the vengeance of the Quarantine despot. It is quite probable, however, that the Governor is not unwilling to investigate any charges that may be pre- ferred against the Health Officer; but of course, unless the universal disgust and dis- satisfaction with his management of Quaran- tine and the blackmailing system which can be practised upon our merchants takes this definite shape, the Governor has no grounds to take any action in the matter. The sooner some measures in this direction are taken the better it will be for the public health and the commercial interests of the community, Caste Tatxararny.—A duplicate line of submarine cable has been completed between London and Valentia, Ireland, and the two Atlantic cables are working. At Valentia one cable will be used exclusively for forwarding and the other for receiving messages, 60 that despatches may be transmitted almost in an instant, it is said, between London and New York, We hope so. If the’ Iuternational Rivalry in the Arts. A letter which we publish to-day concern- ing ‘“‘Art and Artists in London” contains the following phrase, which we recommend to the serious consideration of the ‘Hanging Com- mittee” of the National Academy of Design :— “Better bare walls than bad pictures is an ex- cellent rule.” Notwithstanding the enlarged apace at the exhibition of the Royal Academy the rule has, it appears, been rigidly observed. Unhappily, this has not been the case at the present annual exhibition in the Venetian building at the corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street, in New York. We have already. been reluctantly constrained to say that, the forty-fourth annual exhibition of the Academy indicates a persistent indulgence towards mediocrity, It is always more agree- able to praise than to censure; but this year, as wellas for more than one year past, we have been pained to see that American art seems to manifest decline rather than progress, 80 far as we can judge by the Academy ex- hibitions. With the exception of a few land- scapes and one or two portraits there is scarcely anything in the present exibition worthy of a second glance. Such is the unanimous verdict of the public and the press. One fatal consequence of the extreme lenionoy of this “Hanging Committee” at our Acade- my—a committee which, we are glad to learn, has been lately reduced in number from thir- teen to three—is that artists of inferior rank have been tempted, by the implied endorse- ment of the admission of their works to the Academy, to venture, in some instances, to send them abroad, and to expose them te decidedly odious comparisons. By their works the condition of American art has been subjected to a very difficult test. Had they been previously more severely judged at home they would have escaped, and American art, as represented, or misrepresented, by them would have escaped European condemnation. Surely some of our landscapists and sculptors have already manifested genius toa degree that should command admiration on both sidea of the Atlantic. But neither they nor our few figure painters should suffer any but excellent works to be exhibited abroad. At the World's Fair in London and atthe two great Expositions in Paris American inventive genius bas been worthily displayed and cordially recognized. But the prestige which it has deservedly won would soon be lost if inferior locomotives and reapers, and mowers and sewing machines, and printing machines and safes were tobe sent abroad for exhibition. No longer ago than last year a yacht which was sent to England on private speculation, for which the club to which its owner belonged was wholly irrespon- sible, suffered, or was alleged to have suffered, a defeat which was unreasonably made to pass for an affair of international importance. What- ever may have been the causes of this defeat it really was entitled to no such international importance. The Harvard oarsmen, who have accepted challenges to measure their qualities of strength and dexterity against the oarsmen of the English universities this summer, should profit by the lesson. Let them test thoroughly beforehand their qualifications for engaging im a contest that must assume an international character. If any boat’s crew prove unequal to such a contest let it gracefully retirein advance. We must give the same counsel to those of our gallant yachtmen who are strongly tempted to visit English waters and to engage in interna- tional contests during the ensuing sea- son. There are old yachtmen, we are sure, who will sustain us in giving this counsel. Without previous thorough trial no experiment of the kind should be undertaken save under protest. In marine architecture, at least, if not in er fing and useful arts, Americans onght now to have attained so high a degree of excellence as to be unwilling to submit to international gompe- tition anything but the very best and most convincing proofs of what we can accomplish. The Mission to Hayti. Professor Ebenezer Bassett, a negro, who has been appointed United States Minister to Hayti, left Washington yesterday for New York, en route to the field of his diplomatia labors. Assistant Secretary of State Davis posted the gentleman fully as to the nature of his duties; but, as if acting in vindication of the tenacity and fibre of the African brain, or in condemnation of the Professor's writing master, he communicated President Grant's instructions verbally; so the Ambassador is not burdened with written documents, The more immediate point of his duty appears to be to obtain from the Haytien government as soon as possible the sum of thirty thousand dollars due to us on o naval’ claim—a task which may appear very simple to the people in Wall street, but bears quite a different aspect in Port au Prince. Minister Bassett expressed himself pretty freely with regard to the political enemies of ‘gentlemen of color.” It is certain that he himself is qu!‘e an accom- plished one, both in gastronomics and diplo- macy, from the fact that during his stay in Washington he boarded with one of the Downings (George)—a name celebrated in the culinary annals of New York as first in the supply of “‘oysters in every style,” “F., R. and 8.” Incomes and Outgoes. An emigrant comes to this country with hie few hundreds in gold, and, after years of in- dustry, accumulates a fortune and revisits his native land, not to remain, but to let his old friends realize and enjoy his thrifty condition. He then returns to the country of his adoption, and, around a social table and amid smoking bowls of punch or rivulets of lager, he relates many an anecdote of old heaths and old heath- ers, old churches and old churchyards, old schoolhouses and old dominies, old inns and old innholders, old trysting places and old sweethearts, old folks whom he loved, and old fields’ in which he rollicked in his youth, Perhaps s tender recollection of some fair damsel is revived in the breast of a lis- tener as these stories are related, and a tear moistens his eye as the well-spring of his heart is touched. But it isa happy circle. They revere the land of their birth, and, at the same moment, rejoice that they live and are prosper- ous in the land of their adoption. How different is the feeling of people like these from that entertained by many who emigrate from old governments to foreign of the same, Nearly all men with money who leave the old Iand and go abroad to one ruled by the | flag of thoir nativity go for the purpose of