The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.-Taxre fast MEN— vagy [non 4 SarLon. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Kigtth avenue and ‘38d atreet.—ParRiE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth streek—La GRANDE DUCHENSR, 40. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- ene. —La VIE PaRisikn WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and lb stroet.— A STANDARD COMEDY. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-Hivcort Dicooay Doox. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 23dat., beiwoeu ih and 6th avs. ‘Tux Lavy or Lrons. a WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway. - BURLESQUE OF Ix10n, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon aud evening Perforumace. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street. —C.oginna—Peren Guar. ee aes MRS. F, B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— Tar Lorreny or Lire. 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Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated May 30. Minister Motley arrived in Liverpool late on Satur- day. He wus received yesterday by the American Consul, the Mayor and delegations from the Amert- can and Liverpool) Chambers of Commerce. He leaves to day for London. General Caballero de Roda, the new!y appointed Captain General of Cuba, will leave Spain on the 15th proximo for Havana. Ismail Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt, arrived in Vienna yesterday. BROOKLYN. and Svsscxievions and all Heratv will be Cuba. the Spanish steamer Pelyao arrived at Havana yesterday, from Nuevitas, with a namber of wounded soldiers and @ cannon captured at the bay of Nipe. Peru. Our Lima letter isdated May l4. The government has recognized the Cubans as beiligerents, and de- cided to grant them all the usual privileges. Sefor Valeri, a Cuban commissioner, bad arrived at Lima some time previously to ask the loan of the Peru- vian monitors for the nse of the Cuban insurgents, but the request had not yet been complied with, General Kilpatrick, Minister to Chilé, lad arrived. Colombia. oar sa letter ts dated May ¢ Three sailors, belonging to te British ship Kensington, who were thrown mto prison some time ago by the police in Aspinwall, prove to be Americans, who served during the war, and Consul Kice is trying to get them out. They were fired upon, wounded and put into chains, sod so have remained for a inonth, almost starved and without any prospect of a trial. Mosquera’s chances ior the Presidency ave brightenmyg daily. His election will be an insaperable tur to all United States treaties on the subject of 4 Darien canal, ax he cordially hates republicanism. Chile. Our Valparaiso jetter is dated May 4. The lodians oo the frontier have nad a quarrel among them- selves, which bas resulted in hard fighting, and will probably relieve the Chilean governmeni from the necessity of carrying on the war agaim<t them. The question of recognizing the Cubans as belligerents was under discussion in the Senate. Miscellancous, Genera! Batier has nad another conversation with a reporter, and says that the law im the Alabama controversy is on the side of Engiand, and i had been #0 decided by our Supreme Court, but that we snould, nevertheless, withdraw our intercourse with England because of her course in taking ad- vantage of a technical law to imjure ux. He opposes ® reciprocity treaty with Canada, were untairly treated in the ‘but think: th a treaty would be of great advantage to Canadaand England. He expressed the greatest confidence in Boutwell’s policy and considers him the best Secretary of the Treasury since Hamition. A complimentary banquet ig to be given Governor Curtin, Minister to Russia, on the 12th of Jue, at the Phitadelphia Academy of Music. During the terrific hailstorm in W (Ww. Var on Friday hailstones feli which weighed singly three- quarters of a pound, and, striking men and animats tw the streets, seriously injured many of them, Knocking men down in some instances, and goad- ing the horses to ran away or to seck shelter in the halls of houses, A severe rain storm visited Wastiagton on Satur ay night and lasted through a portion of yesterday morning. Several houses were unroofed and one or two were blown down. No person is known to have been killed, but three were severely injured. ‘The mother of Stephen A. Douglas died at Clifton ‘Springs, N. Y., yesterday, in the eighty-first year of her age, of heart disease. A prize fight took place in a rear yard on Portland Street, Boston, on Saturday afternoov, between Stephen Williamsand “Croppy" Marsh. Both com- batants were severely punished after a fight of about half an hour, when the police broke into the yard and arrested ‘hem. They were conmited without bail. The City. ‘The ceremony of decorating the suidiers graves took place yesterday, and was attended by immense throngs, notwithstanding the rain which came down tm the morning. A circular from the Sorosis and the Women's Rights Associations has been issued calling a meet. ing to establish & permanent woman's parliament, “which shall crystallize the influence of women into & reformatory power to act definitely upon all ine Varied interests of society.’ Women may veoome eee ee poli tax, In the case of McHenry, charged with perjury in testifying in the Rollins Harland revenue case, the jury who retired on Saturday night rendered a ver- dict of guilty early yesterday morning. Prominent Arrivals, General J. 3. Quimby, of Rochester; General Hunter and Colonel A. R. Eddy, of the United States Army; Dr. A. Shephard, of Obio; General James Craig and Major S. A. Grath, of Missouri, are at the St. Nichoias Hotel. Colonel J. R, Fithian, of Buffalo; D. A. Folger, of San Francisco, and Colonel Williston, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major J. A. McCreight, of Harper's Ferry; Colonel Frank M. Kelsh, of Philadelphia, and Isaac Fithian, of Buffalo, are at the St. Charles Hotel. N. C. Baldwin, of Cleveland, and J. G. Phillips, of Buffalo, are at the St. Julian Hotel. F. L, Ridgely, Jr., of St. Louis; George Peabody Russell, of Salem; Bradley Barlow, of Vermont, and Chester W. Chapin, of Springfeld, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. M. Clapp, of Washington, and C. L, Cnalhss, of Kansas, are at the Hoffman House. General James R, O’Beirne and General Marston, of Washington; G. W. Hotchkiss, of Binghamton, and J. J. Osborn, of Boston, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. Colonel! Sherwood for Chicago, J. Packer for Phila- deiphia, F. 5. Stevens for Swansea, Maas., and 0. FP. Almy for Providence, The Neutrality Question at Washington. In the present aspect of the domestic and international questions in the minor countries south of us it is not remarkable that the Cabi- net at Washington finds itself sorely puzzled how to shape its policy under the encumbrances of the existing neutrality laws. Cuba now presents two governments to the world, each with a valid claim to recognition. The island of St. Domingo, divided between the negroes of Hayti and the mixed population of the Dominican republic, offers tour, if not five, claimants to legitimacy as the ruling power. Mexico, with a larger territorial scope, is again on the verge of domestic revolution. Among all the contestants the only apparent ground for stability of rule is found in the recognition by and active sympathy of the United States. "The result of our own civil war and its appli- cation in the case of Juarez has made this- evident to the world. Accordingly we find President Cespedes and the Spanish Minister at Washington; President Baez and the agents of Cabral, who is said to be again afoot in St. Domingo; Em- peror Salnave, and General Domingue, of Southern Hayti, and others whose schemes are less prominently developed as yet, all pulling their wires round Mr. Secretary Fish and puz- zling his honest and slow Knickerbocker brains, rendering his latter days miserable. Popular sympathy and the national interest combine on one side, and the stipulations of the neutrality laws are appealed toon the other. No man can fail to see—and, therefore, the entire Cabi- net perceive—-that if the present complications in the American Mediterranean are forced or even allowed to develop in a manner antago- nistic to our permanent interests, the adminis- tration will lose its hold on the respect of the country and acquire a merited weight of popular obloquy. The difficulties in the case are in no small degree enhanced by the past practices of mem- bers of the Cabinet to use the neutrality laws asameans for defeating the aims of rivals. Thus in the well known case of the steamer Massachusetts, during the administration of General Pierce, Marcy, as Secretary of State, availed himself of the tribunals to defeat the schemes of Jeff Davis, who was Secretary of War. The neutrality laws have been used also by political partisans to frustrate rival parties, as was evident under President Fill- more’s administration, and they are to-day relied upon by a set of copperhead politicians who, when in power, were hot for their repeal to thwart the administration of General Grant and prevent its gathering of an overwhelming popular support, by imitating a policy which shall contemplate the admission to the Union ! of Cuba, St. Domingo and Mexico, and solving at an early day the practical formula of this great advance in our national march. There is but one safe course for the Cabinet to adopt in this dilemma. It must abandon the petty paths which have been trod by its predecessors, and which have led the United States government into the anomalous position of being a constabulary force for the minor despotisms of America and converted the neutrality act into a parochial relief law. The act itself is a remnant of our national weakness during the early days of the government, and should have been modified long stance to make it conform more truly to the development of our national power and the spirit of our age. The Cabinet cannot repeal the law, but it can modify the practice of its interpretation to such a degree as to relieve it from the dilemma in which the government now finds itself of having to decide on the opposing represen- tations of two foreign Ministers accredited to Washington. The spirit of the law never con- templated the conversion of our power into a safegnard for effete and rejected forms, and much less into an instrument for private wrong. This interpretation will necessarily be modi- fied by the course of circumstances and the moral relations which exist with surrounding States, The law of nations is itself continually modified by circumstances and the changing forms of national development, and it can nev@ undertake to do more than to define the moral relations which exist between our- selves and our neighbors, It is these which the Gabinet must consider, and if it will do so in an enlarged and enlightened spirit that con- sideration will lead it to the adoption of a truly American policy and statesmanship which will be in accord with the permanent interests of peace and command the respect of European Cabinets. The law and the practice of every European Power recognizes the right of citi- zens of neutral States to take service under a belligerent nation, and traffic in arms, ships and munitions of war is held to be no violation of the rights of neutrals if the traffic is not de- nied to either belligerent. [tis only the act of Congress passed during a period of national childhood and timidity that makes the exer- cise of both of these rights a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. We look to Mr. Hoar for an opinion on this impor- tant question, which shall be framed in the true spirit of the moral obligations of neigh- boring nations, and which shall relieve our government from the degrading and disgusting position of preserver of the claims of every wornout aad dying system with which the of diplomatic intercourse may have led us into relatious, : Cuba. From our special correspondent at Lima we NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET voters in the Pariiament by paying one dollar | Important from Peru—The Recognition of | The Graves of the Union Dead—Decorati ® Day. The observance yesterday of a national 2e- have the important intelligence that ‘Peru | ™oriam celebration in honor of the dead of has recognized the Cuban patriots as bellige- rents, and has decided to grant them all the privileges attendant on that character.” This solves the mystery of those two Peruvian iron- clads bought in this country and at present hovering within a night's steaming of Havana. Peru, in short, means in this declaration of belligerent rights the reopeniag of her war with Spain, and Chile and Ecuador will back Peru. The opportunity is inviting for a de- clsive settlement on their part with Spain, and in serving Cuba they will serve themselves. Whether those two iron-clads will be sold to the Cubans or held in reserve for a crack at the Spanish fleet before Havana, the fact will shortly be made known. That those two Pe- ravian war ships in the West Indian waters are intended for a deadly blow at Spain cannot be doubted, and Peru has had sufficient provoca- tion to justify it. y As for the Peace Conference proposed by the United States, and agreed upon by Spain, Peru, Chile and Ecuador, it may be consid- ered as dismissed; and if so we may have a declaration of the renewal of hostilities from those Peruvian ships in front of Morro Castle. The cause of the Cubans is wonderfully brightening. Several detach- ments of warlike filibusters from the United States, with valuable supplies of artillery, small arms, and ammenition, &c., have got into the island. And they have already turned the tide of the war to active and successful of- fensive operations. Now, with Peru follow- ing the example of Mexico in the matter of belligerent rights, the Cabinet at Washington ought to feel ashamed of its timidity and de- lay, especially with the encouraging and em- phatic resolution of the House of Representa- tives in behalf of decisive action on this subject. A proclamation of belligerent rights to the Cubans from President Grant would now settle the question in Cuba in less than a month. In fact, the Peruvians may settle it within that time; but what a sorry settlement this would be for the United States. We expect the an- nexation of the island of Cuba; we want it, and we ought not to depend upon the unaided efforts of other friends of liberty to secure the prize. We say that General Grant ought to be ashamed of this sort of American dignity and decorum. It is nonsense, it is stupid old togy- ism, and we have had enough of it. Dignity, the fitness of things, and the cause of peace and humanity call for the intervention of the United States in this business in some decisive form. To avoid the complications and entan- glements which otherwise may follow Generat Grant should at once, in behalf of the Cubans, issue his proclamation of belligerent rights; for, from present indications, this is the form which, after all, our reparation for English belligerent ri, will have to take. The Liquer Question in the linment. British Pare In another part of this paper our readers will find a statement from the London Globe of some very interesting proceedings in the British House of Commons on a promissive prohibitory liquor bill, providing that when two-thirds of the rate payers in any parish shall declare against a license for selling liquor, the license shall not be granted. Com- pared with our Maine Liquor and Excise laws this is a mild and democratic measure; but it appears that her Majesty's Commons are not yet educated up to the merits of total absti- nence by compulsion or liquor prohibition in any shape, although it is very evident that the proposed bill will grow in strength from its present defeat. It was defeated on a motion appointing a certain day for a second reading by 198 to 87—a suggestive result, but not so significant as the bolting of one-half the mem- bers of the House for the door when the bill was brought to the vote. Intemperance has become a vice of such fearful consequences in Great Britain, and especially in her large cities, that some remedy for its manifold evils cannot with safety to the State be much longer delayed. Tue IxpiaANs AND ‘THE Qvakers.—The Indians of the Plains are at it again, robbing, killing and scalping defenceless white emi- grants and stragglers, and the Quaker peace commissioners are en route to their reserva- tions. Sheridan and his rifles, no doubt, will have to try their hand again in this business before the Indians and Quakers can be made to understand each other. Meantime those Quakers, a8 peace agents, ought to be armed. Otherwise Tall Bull may be the death of Shad Belly. Tne Emperor or Austria's Cosine Ap- press to His Leoistatore.—It is a speech of which the Emperor, his Prime Minister, his Legislature and his people may be justly proud. At the battle of Sadowa (1866) Aus- tria was slumbering among the effete ideas and institutions of the Middle Ages, the most back- ward State in Europe, not excepting Spain. To-day she is foremost in her great reforms in the cause of civil and religious liberty and wise statesmanship. Under Von Beust the victories she has gained and the progress she has made since Sadowa are more glorious than the triumphs of Bismarck in the war. The budget of the reforms made in his govern- ment referred to by Francis Joseph in his late address makes one of the most extraordinary and thoroughgoing political revolutions of mo- dern times. England has not accomplished in two hundred years as much in the way of reform and political progress as Austria has accom- plished in three years. Her awful defeat at Sadowa has been to Austria fruitful of the greatest civil triumphs. In a few bold and lengthy strides she has advanced as from the dim twilight of the thirteenth into the full blaze of the nineteenth century. Fixixe ie StaNpARD.—Anna Dickinson maintains that Mrs. Stone, Mrs, Livermore and Miss Anthony, the greatest women of the age, are superior in intellect to our aldermen and legislators. We think they are—just about. But we would like to know if this claim of superiority to the aldermanic intel- lect is all the claim the women make on behalf of their great lights. If 40 the modesty is commendable. We would have put them a great deal higher. We would have compared them with George Francia Train, Senator Spragne, Colorado Jewett, the Right Honora- ble Mr. Gladstone, Garipaldi and the Mayor of Gork, the Union army by the decoration of their graves with floral tributes inaugurated a new and ennobling era in the history of the coun- try, the annual recurrence of which will incite the American people to deeds of the most ele- vated patriotism and be remembered by the world, so long as history endures, in attesta- tion of the truth of the grand poetic axiom, that “They never fail who die in a great cause.” Ata moment when the existence of the republic was imperilled almost to oblitera- tion by rebellion at home and the encourage- ment and support afforded to the treason by our enemies abroad, the deceased patriots stepped from the professional chair, the work- shop, the counting house, the plough and spade, the crowbar and the hod, and ‘‘quickly formed in the ranks of war,” leaving their homes and families, at the call of the govern- ment, to fight for the preservation of a free shelter for oppressed and impoverished peoples, and the security of homes and em- ployment in the future for millions then unborn. It does not require the ‘‘storied urn” to say how they fought, bled and triumphed ; the simple, elegant and silent tribute of yesterday is far more eloquent, proclaiming as it does the common valor of all, instead of reciting the devotion or prowess of a few. Our complete report of the scenes and ser- vices which took place in the more humble ru- ral cemeteries, as well as in the different burial grounds situate near New York and the other large cities, will be read with affectionate attention and interest. Parents, widowed mothers, orphaned chil- dren, brothers and sisters, the more distant relatives and sympathizing friends of the dead, turned out with a universality which aggregated the processions to very many thousands; yet there was no repining at their domestic losses, no expressions of regret at the soldier sacri- fice, no grudging of the victims slafo on the altar of the country; it was garlands with an evergreen hope, subdued grief mingled with a lofty pride, and a religious feeling guided by faith not inferior to that which filled the heart of Abraham when, with inspired belief in salva- tion in the future, he prepared to offer up the life of his beloved son fn obedience to the Divine will. The New York procession was really a fine affair, while the decorations of the graves as conducted in Greenwood Cemetery, at Cypress Hills, in the smaller rural cemeteries, and in Trinity churchyard, by affectionate volition of the military and people on their return march up Broadway, was at once elegant and affecting. The day was closed appropriately in this city by the delivery at the Academy of Music of what may be termed in memoriam funeral orations, spoken in words of telling eloquence by Major General Sickles and others before a very crowded audi- ence. On such an occasion and during a mo- ment of such solemn approach towards com- plete national reunion we were pained to pub- lish in our columns yesterday the statement that United States marines were detailed on Saturday for duty in Arlington Heights church- yard, under orders to prevent the decoration of the graves of the Confederate dead interred there. {3 this really true? The men on both sides were born under one flag; they spent many a year of boyish sport in company; in an unhappy moment they were estranged by the machinations of selfish politicians ; family disunion, even to death, ensued; but who at- tempts to continue this division after death? Did General Grant know of the order given to the marines in Arlington? Peiwwcr Lovts Bovursoy, first cousin to the Farnesian Hercules, is married, and by a priest, and this we suppose is all right and settles all the difficulties ; for as the marriage was done in defiance of the pastor and the bishop they are all right with the Pope—and the priest will be all right with the Prince, may be, one of these days. Prirr said, ‘Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker,” meaning that a speech is great before any auditory, according as it em- bodies in happy words the dominant thought of the hearers. Judging from the way in which the whole American people have ac- cepted Mr. Suraner’s Alabama speech, it cer- tainly embodies the national thought—an “American citizen” in Europe to the contrary, notwithstanding. Experience Teacuks.—-We hope that more mercy will be shown to unoffending and even offending citizens in future by the members of the police force, now that their chief has had a mild experience of the use of the club. A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind ! A Practican Soxvrer’s ([pka—That able- bodied officers can be best employed in the field fighting the Indians, and that the Sol- diers’ Retreat is the proper place for the disa- bled and sick. See Sherman's decision in the case of General Emory. Coroner's Casks.—The supposed case of poisoning of Mrs. Clark has proved a false alarm, and now somebody wants to know why these false alarms are got up, and why the Health Board, when there are doubts in re- gard to a death certificate, does not communi- cate with the physician who made the certifi- cate before handing the case over to the Coro- ner. The reason perhaps is that that would be a proceeding seeming to imply that some other persons may have knowledge besides the Board of Health men and the Coroner. Such a supposition must not be permitted. Besides, if they communicate with the phy- sician there might be no occasion for the Coroner's investigation, and if there were no Coroner's investigation there would be no Coroner's fees. Tie Bie Qvestios is among the most in- teresting subjects now agitated in Milwaukee, The Heening Wisconsin asserts that an effort is being made ‘by the reigning junta” to de- Americanize the city by excluding the Scrip- tures as ‘‘very demoralizing to many of the scholars.” Is the Bible exclusively an Ameri- can institution ¢ Sweer as Cyriexea’s Breariu.—The fare- well international love letter of the Hon, Rever- dy Johnson to the Mayor of Southampton. Such are the soothing virtues of a regular treatment of English rev beef, plum pudding and 'aet- end-‘act, Cuba and the Now Captain General. Our recent advices from Spain state that General Dulce’s urgent telegrams to be relieved of his government of Cuba have been acceded to. He has probably been compelled to take this step by the condition of his health, which is very far from being good; but no doubt the situation of Spanish affairs there has much influence in augmenting the urgency of his request. The Captain Generaley of that Spanish colony has ceased to be the easy and profitable position which it was up to a recent date. Three years is the established term for holding the office, but a shorter period has been the usual practice for many years past; and yet of the many captain generals who have been sent out from Spain since the time of Vives, who governed forty years ago, every one, excepting only General Ezpeleta, has the public reputation of having returned a millionnaire to the peninsula. Events which have transpired during the last six months have materially changed the value of the office. Revolution has over- thrown the Spanish authority in one-half of the island and made its tenure very precarious in the other. The Cuban leaders have de- creed the abolition of slavery, and with this decree the African slave trade, which was the greater source of emolument to the Captain General, has disappeared. The war of reprisals, as carried on there against both person and property, is destroying industry and trade and driving the wealth of both parties to seek safety elsewhere. With these the revenues of the government are naturally disappearing, while its difficulties daily in- crease. Thus little profit and few laurels are to be gathered by Spanish commanders, and the hope of succor from Spain is as remote as it was to the old governors sent to the Spanish main, With this change of circumstances it is not surprising that the once coveted office now goes a begging. Months since General Dulce sent his resignation to Madrid, and the place was tendered toGeneral Prim. It was thought to be a good chance to get rid of this factious and mentally. insignificant element in Spanish politics; but Prim was too-keen to take the bait. Caballero de Rodas was then looked to as the military leader best able to cope with the difficulties of the situation, and it was an- nounced that he would be sent. But the situa- tion of Spain herself is too critical to spare for a colony a man who, from all the signs evident in the field of view, might soon be a necessity for the preservation of the home government. A change in the Spanish government of Cuba is a necessity, however, and the Spanish Ministry have appointed probably their best soldier to cope with the difficulties of the situa- tion. The approaching change of command, combined with the advent of the rainy season, will have the effect to prevent much activity in military operations on the part of the Spanish forces, and the new Captain General will find plenty of work on his hands when he arrives at his new post. Asotier Taina Gate By tHe War—A Biessinc iN Disauise.—Before the rebellion there could not well have been more than five million white applicants for office in the South—niggers not counted. After the war the number of office-seekers there may be reckoned at seven millions—niggers counted and making a fair allowance for white men dis- franchised. Then there is the large colored population in the North to be added to the number of office-seekers. Taken altogether, it may be safely calculated that five million black adults have been added to oun office-seeking population since the war closed, and should be included among the many other blessings it conferred. This, however, is one of those blessings that had better have kept up its dis- guise. Casvat FernyBoat travellers saw yesterday morning a sight not common even in the busy East river. The steamboat Norwalk, that turned a somerset to the bottom the other day, was suspended half in the air and half in the water, from the giant arms of a floating derrick, and two little tugs— the devil fish of our harbor—were hurrying derrick, steamer and all off to some safe cavern up the river. The facility with which a steamer is thus lifted from the bed of a river and taken to the menders may give an idea of the mechanical! appliances of the day. ArouMENT.—An ex- policeman, one expelled the force, went to see Kennedy about bis case and apparently to argue it over. But such was the force of habit and police education that once in the Superintendent's presence the only argument he could use was his club. At Deap Low Water—Party politics and party principles, party journals and party leaders. The nigger’s right question being substantially settled the woman's right ques- tion is coming into the foreground; but the women, very much like Sprague, don’t seem to know what they are driving at, and so they make but slow progress. In politics there is a calm, but after the calm there will come another general shaking up of the dry bones of all parties. What shape it will assume nobody just now knows, and nobody cares; but it will come, A Siicut Mistake-—-The idea among some prophets that the reunion of the Presbyterian tactions is the beginning of the millennium. Horatio C. Burcnarv, who has been nomi- nated by the republicans to succeed Minister Washburne in Congress from the Third Illinois district, is a New Yorker by birth. Remember, Horatio, that there's « few things in the heaven and the earth not dreamed of in the philosophy of thy predecessor—Flihu. Moré Raptoat Eoveatton or tik PoruLar Mixnv.—A negro coachman in Chicago has eloped with his white mistress, an heiress. To what radical paper was he attached for the purpose of “educating the popular mind up to the right idea?” THe Til Mall Govette harps on one theme in its Alabama articles, constantly wanting to know why we do not assail France, as she was more active than England against us. England and France acted against ua in dif- ferent spheres. England acted with the Alabuma; France acted in Mexico. But France withdrew from Moxico with practical apologies, and that closed the case as against her, The Churches Yesterday. Ats moment when the moral feeling of tha the country at large is both offended and shocked by the attempts which were made ia Boston during the past week to revive the more prominent and seductive of the New Eng- land “‘iams”—from free religionism to Vol- taireism—and impress their peculiar doctrines, as wellas their general unbolief in established creeds, on the public mind, it is quite refresh- ing to turn toa perusal of our special reports of the church services and ceremonials which were conducted yesterday in New York— classed as the Gomorrah of the day by the modern Pharisees—and its extending suburbs, in New Jersey, Washington and other pointe from which the community is impressed either by precept or example. From our reporters, in manuscript and by telegraph, we learn that the churches were well filled, notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the weather ; the pulpite served with zeal and eloquence, churches opened, Sunday schools organized, and the corner stone of a new temple laid in the pres- ence of faithful and devout thousands. This ceremony, an initial of religion since the days of Solomon, was performed in New York by Archbishop McCloskey with all the solemnity ordained for such occasions by Rome, the Rev. Dr. Morrogh delivering an ad- dress to the people subsequently. In New- burg the Presbyterian reading desks were for the most part filled by members of tha Reformed Presbyterian Synod, in session in that place, while the Methodists cel- ebrated a grand Sunday School anniver- sary, the children being addressed by laymen as well as ordained preachers. Pres- byterianism was forcible and impressive in the Westminster, Alexander Mission and other edifices devoted to the celebration of its minia- trations, It was also much more tolerant in its tone towards dissenters from its tenets, its clergymen manifesting a vast improvement in Christian tone contrasted with that observed in the early days of the Church by John Bal- four—‘‘a saint to prelates surly” towards the Protestant Bishop of Edinburg, whom he was accused of having murdered for conscience sake. In the Church of the Reconciliation Rev. Dr. Potter sustained the position that the Church was Protestant and at the same time Catholic by its universalism, a truth fairly de- monstrated by the general worship offered by all classes to the Creator, one God. The decorations of the soldiers’ graves was alluded to in fitting terms. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher instructed a very crowded congregation on the subject of the Prodigal Son, and Brooklya was fervent and forcible as usual in the work of the cure of souls. Washington city sustained its reputation for charity, indifferentism and intolerance. The Catholics gave three thousand dollars to the Pope, besides opening a new church, with au Italian pastor, for the use of their colored brethren; the Sunday School teachers had a meeting and a’ sermon, while the Rev. Mr. Sharman objected to the decoration of the graves of the rebel dead, asserting that tho grave of Judas Iscariot was equally worthy of honor. He did not say, however, where the suicide was interred, although animated with the wretched feeling which induced the com- parison. bd Tue Paciric RaiLroap AND THR EN@Lisu Press.—The English journals, after having lashed themselves into a terrific fury over Sen- ator Sumner’s speech on the Alabama claima, are now bestowing the most flattering notices ‘on the success of the Pacific Railroad. The enterprise is regarded as a great achievement, a wonderful accomplishment, and one of the most remarkable works the world has ever seen, But though the English newspapers are loud in their praises of this great highway across the American Continent, they fail to recognize in its construction the entering wedge towards a complete revolution in the means by which the traffic of Eastern Asia will eventually be transmitted to the European nations. It is not enough that America be benefited; we also desire that others should share in our advao- tages. - THe Quakers anv tHE INDIANS.—It is reported that General Grant's Quaker agents are not doing very well with the Indian tribes, because they bring rain with them wherever they go. ‘‘Um!” cried Hole-in-the- Bottle, a big Indian chief of the Arapahoes “Quake no good. Bring water. No whiskey.” Wisconsix.—Among the names mentioned as likely to be the democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin is that of Gabriel Bouck. Blow your horn, Gabriel; for in a radical State like Wisconsin you are not likely to be heard of after the election. Exatanp.—We never knew till now what a saintly old creature England was and is. Here, by her own confession, we find that through allour war she was beset by sore temptation to give us a dig under the fifth rib in the recognition of the confederacy. Her “ally” urged her to it, her own interests demanded it, her disposition led that way ; but she refrained. Why? Because she was so fond of ns, and did not want to affect unfavor- ably the great experiment of republican gov- ernment, Kind old creature! FIRES IN WILLIAMSBURG, An Exciting Firemen’s Fight. Shortly after two o'clock yesterday morning, & fire broke out in the varnish factory of Brooks and Fitzgerald, North Tenth street, and a large quantity of oll and varnish was destroyed. ‘The factory had been closed for # long time, and the fire is betieved to have been the work of an incendiary, The amount ot Joss is unknown, the peoprictors being non-resident. ‘The same factory hus been burned on several pre~ vious oceasions, At abou! six o'clock in the morning, a haystack having been set on fire in the Sixteenth ward, the firemen were again called out, and they took ooca- sion to Indulge in one of those exciting fights which tn the past made the Bomeen. Tae war tor i ment so infamous and pa tabliahment of the paid department now partiaily organized, ‘The members of Hook and Ladder Vom- pany No. originated this fight by taking @ furtous onslaught upon,the members of Hose Company No. & with wrenches ‘and brickbals, Sever lemberd of both companies were veadiy cot. Ag atiempt on the part of Chief Bngineer Sinith to restrain the angry rioters proved unsuccessful, Indeed, availed with the vilest epithets by t Ladder company named, and the fight conti hati! the combatants became exhausted. By ad of Commissioner Brown the Chief subsequentty locked Ae house of the company, and charges of riot will be preferred against them before the Board of Commissioners. With the exception of the com of the Kastern District and eMficion! duty since Jommissioners. , he wae Au old gentiomaa named Kunkle was lea to tang himself a few days ago, th Darke county, Ohio, hy temporary indanity caused, according to report, by aq attempt to extort money from lim under threat Ol prosecution by a disreputable women for alleged tule omMoMUge. ;