The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | crcga, "00° Stor ver sromuer tr the BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. The City. Philip Keabeil, a German, living at 149 Stanton ‘Street, attempted to murder his wife and daughter Yesterday morning by beating them on their heaas ‘with a hammer, fracturing their skulla, After com- mitting this flendish deed he attempted to take his OWn life by shooting himself in the breast with a double-barrelled pistol, but only inflicted a coupie of serious wounds, The woman and child are not ex- Letters and packages should be properly sealed. pected to recover. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic Mr. Bergh has add: oletente mee 43 despatches must be addressed New York | tan Board of Health recommending the abolish- Hepazp. ment of the custom of offering rewards for the de- » . struction of dogs during the months of July and Rejected communications will not be re- | August and the suppression of the dog pound. turned. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Pr CIS UO Ek (MIE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the General Reese, of the United States Army; Colonel year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription o wee Se aE Be PANE Price $12. Hastings, of Kansas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. = — Colonel B, H. Chadbdourn, of Chicago; S, T. Wil- liams, of Philadelphia, and Major George W, Rath- bourn, of Port Jervis, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Dr. E. W. Du Bose, of South Carolina, and J. W. Digi aos of Memphis, Tenn., are at the Maltby louse, John G, Saxe and George E. Peck, of Albany, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Ex-Congressman J. V. S. Proyn, of Albany, and Horace Rublee, United States Minister to Switzer- land, are at the Brevoort House. General Shepherd, of the United States Army; ex- Mayor Fargo, of Buffalo, and Anthony Barclay, of Savannah, are at the Astor House. Dr, W. H. Wishard, of Indiana; Chas. A. Wash- burne, of California, and C. B, Haie, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. Ex-Postmaster Randall left yesterday for Wash- ington, and Dr. S Russell Childs for Saratoga Springs. The United States and Great Britain. It appears from our cable despatches that the excitement produced in Great Britain by the speech of Senator Sumner has not yet died out. The London Times still thunders away in a tone of mingled threat and apology. The Pall Mall Gazette, reflecting the sentiment of the clubs and the West End generally, speaks out in a similar vein, with this addi- tional thought, however, that the United States in place of being angry should be between S8thand | grateful, in place of demanding pecuniary reparation for injury done should be ready to pay a debt of gratitude for services rendered. The Spectator, a weekly journal of high political and religious respectability, is more bellicose than either the Times or the Gazette, and reminds us that when so fast a friend of the North as Mr. Forster denounces the speech of Mr. Sumner we ought to learn how united is the sentiment of the British people and how powerful is the force which will be arrayed against us if we press our extravagant and outrageous demands. We are prepared to hear a great deal more of this talk. We have stung John Bull to the quick by telling him the truth; and, writhing in agony and with cha- racteristic stubbornness, he does his best to explain and justify his conduct. We cannot say, however, that any of the journals or any of the statesmen who have taken up the sub- ject have been very successful in this matter. future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice | The weakness of the case—the total impossi- ortae New York Heratp, No. 145 Fulton street, bility of justification—is revealed by both the Brooklyn. Times and the Pal! Mall Gazette. To say that in the past we ourselves have similarly offended, and to assert that France is in the same condemnation with Great Britain, are surely lame apologies. The ques- tion is not what we have done to Eng- land in the past, nor is it whether we have a cause of quarrel with France. These are questions altogether aside. The question between us and Great Britain is simple and easily understood. We have suffered a pecu- niary loss and we claim compensation. We have, in business-like fashion, presented our bill. We insist on payment; but with a patience and dignity which become us we are willing to wait. This is the whole affair. Great Britain may fret and fume as she pleases, Our temper is not to be ruffled, nor are our claims to be withdrawn. It will take Oude. more than on anurans Mr. Goldwin Smith diiee aes and a more alarming thunder than that of the been settied, The mandarin who countenanced the | purpose, persecution of Cliristians has been removed from Ic is not easy to disconnect the perturbation comics, Cube. into which the speech of Senator Sumner has A oulit ustering expedition, numbering 300 men, is | thrown the British lion froma conviction on repor'el to have landed near Gibara, on the north- | the part of the British government and people pre coast of bested Heap - dant gg a yr that the United States have really become a ey were attacked by the Spantai osing tacn in killed and wounded sna to eeaes ot pod great rival Power, and thatia theevent of loiy, ‘The Spanish Joss is statea at thirty-two, Se- | hostilities they would prove a mighty and dan- vee fighting is reported near Trinidad and Cienfu- | gerous enemy. It has long been the belief of ez0s, with heavy loss on both sides. Both Spaniards | British statesmen and politicians thatif nothing and Cubans are nmitting the most appelling intervened to check our progress we should, in almost every department in which the British NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tam BURLESQUE Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF TUR FoRTY THIBVES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street,—Tak HEEMIT'S BELL, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1%&h street.— CastE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lth street,—ITALIAN OrrRa— Lomuing. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— Ris_ey's IMPERIAL JAPANESE TROUPE. pOLYMPIC THEATRE. Broad OOK. we THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerpa—Poor Doo AY. y-—Htooony Diccorr BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 OTHELLO. FRE: aue.—La H THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Vis PARISIENNE. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Bd street.—PaTRiE. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—PY@MALion— A Suvres Pauor, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Atiernoon and evening Performance. a Neg TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—CrLorinDa—PrtEee AY. Chet OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Jack THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic & AND LIVING STaTCES2PLUION ravgeennions CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av. Gith wts.—POrULAR GARDEN CONORET. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHro- Play ENTERTAINMENTS—Tus UNBLEACHED BLONDES. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, street.—EiHIOPIAN MINSTREL Tammany Building, Mth oie” aaa er PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comro N, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. TON Vooa. EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner 84 av., 634 and 64th ste.— Guanp ( ERT, &c. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, MINGTRELSB—VSL-AU-VENT. Brooklyn.—Hoouar's NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND A New York, Monday, THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers, Brooktyn Carniers sxp Newsmen will in ADVERTISEMENTS and Svpscriptions and all letters for the New York Heratp will be Teceived as above. THE Naws. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 23. ‘The famous English yacht Cambria was beaten in & recent contest with a number of other yachts of the Royal London Yacht Club. Minister Washburne was formally presented to the Emperor of the French yesterday. General Dix bade adieu to his Majesty on the same day. The elections were progressing favorably to the government. The French Derby, yesterday, in which fourteen horses Tun, was won by Consul. Admiral Topete has been appointed Colonial Min- ister ad inierim. It is now rumored tn Madrid that Prince Augustus of Portugal is about bemg brought forward as a candidate for the Spanish crown. wteocities, and sm. bands are raiding over the country killing and robbing the inhabitants, ‘The reported de of the Spanish forces attempt. | people had won distinction, rival and outstrip ing to reopen the ratiroad to Puerto Principe is fully | them, The revolt of the Southern States, as confirmed. The loss of the Spaniards 1s put dowd | it yromised to check our growth and limit the at 1,000 men killed and wounded, who were leit in the hands of the Cavans. The patriot forces cap- | ™98@ of our action and influence, was hailed tured ten cars laden with provisions, arms and | a8 a Godsend. The cause of the Southern ammunition, During the battle 400 negro troops | confederacy was thus in a sense the cause of in the Spanish service shot their oMfcers and went England. We do not say that it was not also over to the Cubans, the cause of France and of other of the mon- archies of Europe; but it was pre-eminently the cause of England. The success of the South would have maintained that balance of Miscellaneous, The President's proclamation overriding Attorney General Hoar's elaborate opinion concerning the eight hour law causes the jatter ofcer much dissatis- faction. He thinks there can be litte use of an At- | power which it was England's interest torney General if his interpretations of legal ques- | and desire to see maintained. Hence tions are to be thus rudely set aside by the Presi- her sympathy with and her encour- Lyre agement to the rebel cause, The issue A clean sweep has been made in the Treasury De- partment of Johnson men and conservative demo- | of the war was not, perhaps, surprising, but , rats. It is said that the Appointment Clerk will soon | jt was certainly disappointing in the extreme. issue @ circular inquiring into the political faith of | phe British government and people now see the Tresaury clerks, with the view of future re | 144 Union established on foundations which movais. A report has been prepared, by an officer detatied | are likely to prove enduring as the ever- for that purpose, concerning the frauds practised by | lasting hills; see the rapid development of claim agents and other Le guna tee settling | our resources and the enormous increase of Claims of oficers and soldiers ie govern- c ment, This report, it ls expected, wiil fully expose | UF Mier , bp rata out our aud ‘all engaged in sucn swindling transactions, eape- | ®TMs, claim ing the Continent as our own an cially those operating in the Southern States, binding it together with bands of iron; and In accordance with the President's proclamation, | they know that this young and vigorous off- General Canby nas issued an order for an election in shoot from their own noble race must go on, sy wee ane uract, proviles for anew regiatre | conquering and to conquer, until on the brosd tion, which is to be made within ten days from the | surface of the globe it shall know no rival. fourteenth of June, At the election the whites and | With Anglo-Saxon blood in our veins, quali- the blacks are to be entered on sarah sedis | fed but not deteriorated by foreign admixture, ‘The steamer Silver Wave, crowded wi an iti aking th children, capsized and sunk in the Schuyikili, near | inheriting ong ons prone a? e Philadelphia, yesterday, All the passengers, ex- | English tongue, it is our destiny to eclipse Cept one child, escaped. even the glory of the parent race. On a ‘The instructions of Minister Motley are said to b¢ | broader platform and in a more enduring form Of a general rather than special character, and do ble, ours in the great future is to be the réle, not not contempiate’any 4) oti yo the Alabama claims matter, chan ennai of Carthage, but of Rome. The Hudson River Ratiroad freight buildings in| Britain knows well. We are marching rapidly Hudson were fred by an incendiary about two | to the foremost position among the nations, o'clock yesterday morning aud entirely consumed. | ang she knows she cannot resist us. Loss $10,000. : + {The Kickapoo Indians, now living in Chihuahna, present mood is not, therefore, wholly unnatu Mexico, and who left ‘their reservation near Fort | ral. Boott, Kan., in 1861, to avotd participating in the | and despair. war of the rebellign, are anxious to return to their old hunting grounds. They ask an escort of United States troops while passing through Texas, fearing 4 fn attack from the people of that State in retaliation All this Great Her Her rage is the rage of disappointment We cannot bring this article to a close with- out expressing our disgust with the course which is being pursued by some of the journals NEW YORK HEBALD, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1869.—TRIP Pe eee 2) SS tS Se a AO ia) ee aii of this city in regard to this international question. We have seldom seen sentiments of disloyalty more persistently paraded. When Now York journals denounce the speech of Senator Sumner, glorify England, prate about her army, her navy, her wealth, the patriot- ism of her people, the certain ruin that awaits us if we provoke her wrath, we do not much wonder that Goldwin Smith should have lec- tured us as he has done, It is some consola- tion to know that the journals to which we have referred do not represent the sentiments of the American people, but the sentiments of miserable cliques and coteries. Our English friends can be guilty of no greater mistake than that of re- garding those journals as representatives of the American people, Let them look er at the country journals, which at all h more truly reflect the national character and sentiment, and they will seo that Senator Sumner has not overshot the mark. It will surprise us if the rural press does not, from sea to sea, repudiate the sentiments of those would-be friends of England, and give proof that the American people are prepared firmly, truly, unflinchingly to-abide by the demands which they have made. Why should we trem- ble when the British lion roars? What have we to fear? War with England would de- velop our resources, would multiply our wealth and might leave us mistress of the seas. The Memphis Commercial Convention. For years previous to our late war the South was somewhat famous for its so-called commercial conventions; but whatever was the ostensible pretext for calling these con- ventions, they invariably ran into interminable discussions of State rights, negro slavery and all sorts of political questions. None of.them ever succeeded in exercising any appreciable influence on the commerce or industry of the nation. The vast change which the war has wrought is manifest in the proceedings of the Memphis Commercial Convention, which ad- journed sine die last Saturday. This Conven- tion had a fine open field and vigorously entered it. Railways, bridges, levees, emi- gration and a variety of kindred topics of a practical character were seriously deliberated and acted upon, and on the day of its adjourn- ment it adopted a resolution requesting Con- gress to put the telegraph aystem of the coun- try under the control of the Postmaster Gene- ral. In passing this most important resolution the Memphis Commercial Convention bore witness to the growing public sentiment in favor of the uniform telegraphic system, which has already been adopted with the happiest results in several European countries. If the sentiment of the people on this point shall find expression in all similar conventions through- out the United States it cannot be long before Congress will be induced to yield to it and to inaugurate a reform which is equally neces- sary, just and advantageous. Justiok To BE Appriep For.—We under- stand that a movement is being made among the merchants and ship owners, who are fellow citizens of Governor Hoffman, towards seek- ing the interference of the Executjve in their behalf, and to ask to be relieved from the extortions of the Health Officer. In plain words, they will petition for the removal of Dr. Swinburne. Is Grant A Fatturg?—The Sfohawk Valley Democrat says:—“The truth is Grant is an egregious humbug, and we have no doubt that his election will prove to be in all respects a calamity to the country.” That's what the rebels said during the war. More Asout Grant's ADMINISTRATION.— The Portland Argus says that Grant's admin- istration is a failure. Whereupon its contem- porary, the Press, says the Argus is bending under the weight of its threescore years and three and exhibiting all the decrepitude that might have been expected from its vener- able age, and adds, with a slight improvement, that the condition of the Argus is— Sam’s eyes, Sam’s teeth, Sam’s taste, Sam's (Sam- bo’s?) smell, Sam's everything. Has the editor of the Press ever ‘‘seen Sam?” Exorse Licenses.—We believe that the committee of the Excise Board appointed to report upon the question of moderating the price of licenses are prepared to make their report to-morrow. We hope that they will recommend a reduction, because that course would seem to be in accordance with the popular wish. Under the old Board the issue of licenses was made a political question; but that difficulty is removed as tho Board is con- stituted now, and there appears to be no good reason why tho maximum rate of two hundred and fifty dollars should be adhered to. Al- though the bill to amend the Excise law failed in the Legislature, the existing law permits the Board to use their discretion in fixing tho price of a license at any sum between thirty and two hundred and fifty dollars. How Lona, On, How Lone will Gover- nor Hoffman permit Dr. Swinburne to ride rough shod over the merchants and ship owners of New York? “Epvcatine THe Pustto Minp.”"—The radical press has talked a great deal, both publicly and through private circulars, about the necessity of educating the public mind up to a standard that would enable them to carry out their fanatical doctrines. We have just witnessed three specimens of the instruments through which the public mind is thus edu- cated. One a few days ago committed suicide in Georgia after attempting to murder his co- lored mistress in a drunken fit; another, a co- lored assessor, publishes a card acknowledging that he was misinformed in regard to certain tragedics alleged to have been committed by the whites upon the blacks and to which he gave publicity; and another has been dis- missed from employment on account of a seri- ous lapse involving his character for integrity. With preceptors like these is it any wonder that the public mind should be educated up to a very pernicious standard of morality? Spanisit Norseuy Sona.—“Four and twenty gunboats all on the stocks, Ian’t this a dainty fleet to get among the rocks?” British SaLvtations.—England has in- creased her salute in honor of the Maharajah of Jeypore, India, by two guns. The Sepoy leaders were fired from English guns, and had two too many of them. The Jeypore man is situated mueh more pleasantly, Reconstruction és the Churches. The Presbyterian Asvemblies, Old School and New School, still in session in this city, have for some days past been earnestly engaged in the work of reconstruction and reunion of their divided Churches, North and South. The Methodists, North side and South side, have been moving in the same direction. The Baptists, hardshell and softshell, likewise. The Protestant Episcopalians on slavery were not much broken up, though somewhat demoralized, before the war; but during the war, on the South side of Mason and Dixon, in their Sunday morning prayers, it was ‘Bless Thy servant, the President of the Confederate States,” while on the North side it was ‘Bless Thy servant, the President of the United States.” The last official Episcopal prayer for’ Jeff Davis was on the morning of that April Sunday in Richmond, from the service of which he was called by a card from General Lee, announcing that he was compelled, bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage, to leave town forthwith. With the abolition of the “President of the Confederate States” the difficulty of a reunion between the Episco- palians North and South ceased to exist, and under the benign reconstruction policy of Andy Johnson they all were soon reunited in the loyal prayer for “‘Thy servant, the President of the United States.” On the ritual, how- ever, and church ornaments they are threatened now with serious mutinies and desertions to the Holy Father of Rome and Mother Church, and so they may need a great deat of reconstruction yet before they can be harmonized on the same platform. John C. Calhoun, in his last speech in the United States Senate (1850), spoke of the divisions of the Protestant Churches, North and South, on the slavery question as the breaking of so many of the cords needed to hold the Union together. He was right, and it will be conceded by the brethren of these Churches, North and South, that inthe war they fought it out on the “‘almighty nigger.” Now, slavery being out of the way and tho nigger being lifted up to the doctrine of equality outside, one would think the reunion of the Churches split up on Uncle Tom a-very easy matter. But we see from the profound pettifogging in these Presbyterian’ Assemblies that questions of Church rule and Church pro- perty South or the ‘“‘almighty dollar” have taken the place of the ‘everlasting nigger,” and that the settlement of these matters re- quirgs much prayer and deliberation, and more in the way of concessions touching Church abstractions than Presbyterians are in the habit of making. In their theological chop logio these Presbyterian expounders, Old School and New School, ——Can a hair divide Betwixt its south and southwest side, And they will contest it over the splitting of a hair of doctrine till “Gabriel snaps his resurrection gun.” We do not, therefore, ox- pect for a day or two a Presbyterian Church reunion North and South; for the evident hankering of the Northern brethren for South- ern Church rule and property involves some- thing more than a mere abstraction after all. The same embarrassment impedes the reunion of the Methodists; but on Church doctrines, North and South, their general belief is sim- ple and easy to harmonize. Hence their tre- mendous success, North and South, among the masses of the people who have neither taste nor time for those microscopical absiractions which are tho salvation of the Presbyterian. The Catholics North and South, before the war and during the war, got on harmoniously, because they did not undertake to mix up American politics with their religion. Thus, having suffered no divisions on slavery, they need no reunion with the abolition of slavery. On the Protestant side, from the Episcopalian tract societies down even to the Quakers, they so mixed up politics and religion on the slavery question that hardly a sect among them caa now tell how their divisions began or how to mend them. We can only say to them, in the name of common sense and the Sermon on the Mount, let bygones be bygones, and “let us have peace.” The City Post OMce—A Public Nuisance, There is no city in the United States of even twenty thousand population that is so deficient in. some things as this great metropolis with its million of inhabitants. Take, for example. our miserable markets, the like of which do notexist in any town or village from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, Then our docks and piers are all tumbling to pieces. They are public disgraces, ruinous to the interests of our ship- ping, and continually involviug the city in ex- pense for damages done to horses and wagons by falling through their rickety floors. But the greatest abomination of all is the old shanty called the City Post Office, in Nassau street, Not only ia it unsuited for the purpose by size and construction, but it is actually falling into such a state of ruin and decay that the business of the foreign mail department cannot be con- ducted in consequence of falling ceilings and the uninvited visits of the rain which comes through the roof, to the great possible damage of the valuable mail matter. Besides this a portion of the Post Office business, we bolieve, has to be done somewhere outside the build- ing for want of room. This is a scandalous condition of things. We have now a now Postmaster and should have a new Post Office. Whatis the com- mittee doing who wore appointed to. select a site for the new building? The late Logis- lature empowered them to change the original site to a higher place in the Park—a very necessary measure, because the spot chosen for the Post Office waa about the most incon- venient and impracticable for the business in the city. A meeting of the citizens shoald be held to stir up this committee and ascertain what they are about. Toe War ww Cvna—Fresh battles have taken place between the Cuban revolutionists, aided by filibuster volunteers, and the Spanish regulars. Qae of these engagements is described as of considerable severity and attended with much loss to the patriot forces. Gibara, on the northern coast of the island, Cienfuegos and Trinidad are in commotion, and have been made the scenes of conflict. Appalling atrocities are committed on, both sides, and it is said that a number of “free lances” ride round the country robbing and murdering inoffensive persons, Cuba is an unsafe neighbor in such a condition, Can Gesaral Grant afford » pacifioator? i Le SHEET. Whe Are tho Imperialists? The high court of imperial nincompoops has been .in session in this city for some time past. It is bacd to tell whether they are branch lopped frava a trunk of themselves or an off- shoot from the imperial houses of China, Japan, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Mus- cat, Brazil or Hayti. The glories of the Shah of Persia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Khaw of Tartury, the Great Mogul and the High Cockaloram of the New Do- minion of Canada sink into insignificance be- fore the piercing lights of this new imperial Yankee revelation. Torcad some of our ex- changes one would think that the republic had gone tothe empire of the dogs, and shat cats and rattlesnakes were commanders of the sit- uation, They copy articles from a two and catchpenny concerm in this city that has an imperial crown surmounfing its title heading, asa washtub would o laundry advertisement, indexing its character. A fool's cap would have been a more appropriate emblem. But the fools or lunatics are not all dead yet,or we should not see such a vapid caricature upon journalism placed upon the news stands. Some have thought that the publication of a cheet like this would kindle a riot; that the Police Commissioners would be obliged to double the force of their department in view of the tremen- dous influence it would exercise in exasperat- ing our liberty-loving and republican-loving population, and in contributing towards the cheerful spectacle of pulling down houses, smashing up presses, knocking. type into cocked hats, all illuminated with dissolving views of editors and reporters with their eyes done up in elegant lines of black and blue, streaked with yellow. But the teachings of this organ of imperialism and the veporings of its followers would be innocuous were they not farcical, They make men laugh, and any distemper that excites the risibles of mankind is always calculated to make them think. Byron said— A single drop of ink May make thousands, nay, millions, thins. A. solitary laugh in an audience of thousands has made more than one man ponder. There- fore a good laugh is almost as potent as a drop of ink for the purpose of ventilating an idea. When Daniel Webster spoke of the city of New York as the “Imperial City” of the New World he did not refer to it in the ridiculous sense now atiached to the phrase by these imperial monkeys and apes of foreign pomposity. Talk about making the United States an em- pire! Weare an empire already—an empire of republicanism, an empire of tree thought, anempire of progress, development, intelli- gence and civilization. By the aid of steam, cash, genius, enterprise and electricity we have become an empire whose diadem contains gems that shed rays to the uttermost parts of the earth, attracting hither the forlorn, the downtrodden, the frugal, the industrious, the progressive of all nations. Imagine an empire in this land after the manner of the empire of Hayti, with a polished and magnificent bald-headed philoso- pher in goggles, like Greeley, wearing the imperial purple, as the greasy and sooty Soulouque wore his, Think of what the court of the Emperor Horace might consist of, taken from among his bosom friends and most inti- mate confréres. Colorado Jewett as his Lord High Chamberlain, with the title of Duke of Claptrap and the legend Sass et Brass in his crest. George N. Sanders as the Imperial Cup Bearer, with the title of Lord of the Rag-tag and Bobtails, his chief employment being to hand the imperial cup to his imperial master, after testing, the juice, upon & principle peculiar to Lord George himself, to ascertain whether its stimulating properties have been pro- perly exhausted. George Francis Train, Prince of. Flap-Jacks and Jump-up-Johnnies, Grand Usher of the Household and Tier-up in General of Feminine Apron Strings; his Royal Highness Prince Jefferson Davis, Baron Jake Thompson and Viscount Beverly Tucker, Imperial Bum-bailiffs and Procurers General of Bail for his Imperial Majesty whenever his Imperial Majesty gets his imperial body into tight places. A court composed of cavaliers like these would eclipse the Day & Martin shine imported to the court of Sonlouque, with all its pretentious and high-sounding titles of Duke of Lemonade, Prince of Softsbells, Vis- count Marmalade, Lord of the Cocktails, Baron Brown Stouts and so on. But we have had quantum suf. of this imperial ridiculus mus. Satis ewm imperio. It has been talked about long enough and imperiously enough, and our people want its advocates to cease their clamor in regard to it. It is a fit theme for an musing negro minstrel extravaganza and nothing more, Wuo is Governor ?—John T. Hoffman or Dr. Swinburne? The answer to this ques- tion should come from Albany. Wipentna Broapway.—Ap act passed in the last Legislature authorizing certain parties to widen that part of Broadway lying between Thirty-fourth street and Fifty-ninth street, the boundary of the Park. What the precise ob- ject of this is, or what neceseity there is for it, did not transpire while the bill was before the Legislature. The approaches to the Park by Fifth, Seventh and Eighth avenues appear to be commodious enough for all purposes, If Broadway requires to bo..widened at all it ie the lower and not the upper portion of it that stands in need of a change. We should like to know something moze about this scheme. Waar Are THe Provrrs?—The emoluments of the Health Officer aro estimated at various sums between three hundred thougand and seven hundred thousand dollara annually. The sum, whatever it is, comes. out of the pockets of our merchants, withors any service being rendered therefor. A Rutger ror Sramww.—Some one, imagines that Pope Pins would make a good ruler for Spain, inasmach as the Spaniards for centuries have been aocustomed to pious sways! Questions ror Govennon Horrman.— When the Health OMicer boards unhealthy vessels from sickly porta, for the purpose of collecting marine news and taking out pack- ages to bo despatched to the city, does ho not violate the quarantine laws and endanger the health of the city? And is he not liable to ‘arrest for so doing? Warre Is rae Quaranting Gnounp?— Init Staten Island or is it in the lower bay? Will eomobody inform Dr, Swinburne ¢ een tcl annem A The Primitive Church and the Churches Yesterday. “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place. And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they began to speak with other tongues.” In such simple words as the above does the sacred volume relate the communica- tion of the divine commission to the Apostles, Believing implicitly and with hearts inflamed with hope and ebarity, the men, weak and trembling before, were filled with courage and went forth confidently, yet with great humility, to preach Christ crucified te the nations, They took no heed for perscaul comfort, and knew not fear in doing the work of the Divine Master iw strange iands, using words of every known laxguage, in eecordance with the universality of tHe Christian senti- ment embodied in the wordsof the Sermon ow the Mount. Brave unto deaily they symboled the patience and self-denial of the Saviour is sorrow and suffering during’ their earthly career, frequently earning the crown of mar- tyrdom by the endurance of a viclent death or the most painful bodily suffering, from the moment of the decease of St. Peter to tliat when St, Francis Xavier yielded up his spizit on the inhospitable shore of Asia. Eighteem hundred years have passed, an Coristianity has lost much of its origtnal simplicity. The Churck missionaries are more nunterous— journeying, as we have been¢old during Anni- versary week, to the jungles and marshes which surround the Brahmapootra river in India, and thence to’ the cabins which stud the banks of the Boyne’ river in Ireland ; and with wonderful success im each country, as wa have announced in the colaumns of the Henatp, on like authority, each succeeding season during twenty-five’ years. Tho cost of the Church of the present day is greatly increased, one society—tha t of For- eign Missions—receiving during the , past year the eam of one hundred and ninety-A ve thou- sand dollars, the others being equally , prosper- ous, Small rewards, certainly, for th e great danger to morals which the disciples i \cur im assembling in New York—stigmatizeé as tho modern Gomorrah—so as to brave Sataa ‘in his stronghold and see with their own eyts some of the many alluring nets which he spree 1s to catch the souls of men. Satisfied in such particulars, the: reves ‘end clergy from the rural districts delivered sa mo excellent parting advice to our people in 4 the metropolitan churches yesterday, the ooumt ry pulpits being in many instances filled by stra 1+ gers during their absence, as will be seen froa a the ample reports of the services and sermoma | furnished by our stenographers to-day, ema- bracing accounts of religious progress in. New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey, along the line of the Hudson, in Connecticut, Massachusetts: emd away on to Washington; an important. centre of vast power for good or evil, aa ik, may be used beneficially or abused, Drorgase of THE Pysiio Dept.—We are informed from Washington that the. monthly statement of the public debt for May will show a decrease of seven millions. At this rate, ' with a little’ help in the way of retrenchment. in expenditure and in: the collection of the revenue, external and internal, we may rea~ sonably expect a reduction of a hundred mil- | lions for the ensuing yoar, amd with’ a little more help from Congress it may be-made a” hundred millions or more, with a considerable reduction of our internal revenuo-taxation, and we may thus exhibit to the world the spleadid example of the payment of ‘a groat debt and the reduction of the taxes at the same time... It can be done, and the country ox- pecta it, Tue New Postrace Sramps.—A Down Kast paper says the government introdused the pre- sent nondescript things called postage stamps for the purpose of frightening counterfeiters. Tax Frevon Ergcrions.—The French elec- tions opened yesterday morning, the hallot- ting being continued during the day. Impe- rialism was ahead at, the close ofthe poll, and. Paris remained quict. The opposition held. back its strength purposely, woare told, for use to-day, but whether in fighting or voting we have notbeen informed. Time will tell. They Ail Come Back. We have the nows from Winchester, Va., that James M. Mason, of the late Confede- rate firm of Mason & Slidell, has returned to that town, where, for the futare, he intends to reside. This is something to,be noted. They all come back. With the collapse cf the con- federacy there was a pretty, general stampede of disgusted Southerners to other countries to escape the pains and penalties of Yankee dom- ination and negro emancipation. A colony of them was seé up near Qordova, in Mexico, where all that the loveliest climate under the sun and the richest soil. could give them wos theirs; but the colony wilted, and soon fell to pieces, and its members came siraggling home again. Several expeditions of exiles from the upset kingdom of King Cot- ton wont down to Brauil, where they dreamed of renewing life under the blessings of the “pecaliar institution ;* but those adventurers found negro slavery: in Brazil so strongly mixed.up with negro equality that. they could . not.stand it, and they, too, as froma shipwreck, in which they had lost everything but life, crane straggling hack. And so with similar expeditions to Central America, the West In- @ia Islands and elsewhere. They all failed, and the surviving parties therein all returned, “for richer or poorer—for better or worse,” to thair old places in the South, aa proferable, evon under the Yankee ang the free nigger, to any place oudside. Among the disainguished Southorn exiles who, for one, two or three years after the war, comtinued to ronts about in foreign parts, “seeking reat aad finding none,” were Breckin- ridge, Sonlé, ©. ©. Clay, Jake Thompson, Toombs, Madlory, Tronholm, the Lamars and a host of others, who have all returned— Breckinriige, Thompson, Mason and a good many more under the passport of President Johnson's last and comprehensive amnesty tion. Of those still abroad the most prominent are Benjamin, Slidell, ‘and last, though not least, Jeff Davia and George Sanders—the head and tail of the rebellion. But Jeff is coming, and Sanders, no doubt, will soon follow. Before the year is out there will probably not be a single Southern grydus