The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1869, Page 8

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 Yorke Terarp. Volume XXXIV...-+- . jo. 155 — =—S=S=== AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- pue.—CHILPERIO. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strect.— Mapaiep Lire. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Hiccosy Drccogy Dook. BOOTHS THEATRE, 23d at., between Sth and 6th avs.— Tax Lavy or Lyons. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BURLESQUE OF Iston—Toe Two GaReouies. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—HAMLET—THR FRENCH Sry—A Goop Nigut's Rest—Rosse or Erreick Vaue. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Ta® SPECTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAILOR. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 23 street. —PaTRiE, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street. —THB HERMIT'S BELL. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thictith street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. 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Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers, BROOKLYN CARRIERS AND Newsmen will in future receive their Papers at the Brancu Orrice or THe New York Hexavp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS New York Hagraup teceived as above. THE NEWS. and Svuascriptions and all letters for the will be Europe. The cable telegrams are dated June 3. The London press still criticise the Alabama claims. The Standard contains a long editorial on the subject. Tne bill for tne creation of Life Peers passed in Committee of the House of Lords yester- day, with the amendment limiting the number to be created annually totwo. Mr, Peabody has been nominated trustee of the Hudson Bay Company. A serious riot oecurred in a town named Moid, in Wales, on Wednesday evening. The disturbance ‘Was caused by a party of men attempting to rescue two prisoners from the sheriff and his officers. The mob overpowered the sheriff's force, and the military was called out. The soldiers fired on tne crowd. Many persons were killed and a number wounded. The Genera! O'Donnell who died suddenly in the Spanish Cortes on Wednesday was probably the son of the celebrated Marshal O'Donnell, who died November 5, 1567. The Parliament of the North German Zollverein assembied in Berlin yesterday. A speech from the King was read. Dr. Hengstenberg, the celebrated theologian of Bonn, died on the same day. China. The latest despatches from Hong Kong contain no ews of any importance. Japan. The civil war in Japan is not yet crushed. The Mikado, according to latest advices, had sent a strong fleet to operate against the rebels at Hako- dadi. Itis reported that French officers are assist- dog the rebels at that ppint. Cuba. General Jordan has succeeded in jotning the Cuban forces after several severe fights with the Spaniards, Generai Jordan’s entire loss is not over forty;five, and he saved all his arms and ammunition. A force Ot 475 ex-confederate soldiers, a part of Jordan's command, left a Southern port on the 29th ult., were landed safely and managed to reach the revolution- ary camps without loss. Several civil oMfcers of high rank, accused of connivance with the revolu- tionists, are to be immediately relieved of their om- ces. The volunteers of Matanzas assembled before the government palace of that city and compelled the immediate resignation of the Governor of Matan- zas. General Dulce is expected to depart for Spain in a day or two on board a special steamer which has been detatiea for that duty, Miscellaneous, The Spanish Minister tn Washington has become uneasy about the slow progress of the Peruvian monitors towards home, especially since he has learned—probably through our correspondents, no oflictal intelligence having been received at the State Department—that Peru has recognized the belliger- ents im Cuba and that@ Cuban envoy has arrived in Lima to ask the loan of the monitors. He accord- ingly called Secretary Fish’s attention to these mat. ters recently, and sald he thought the monitors were lying among the West India islands longer than seems necessary. The Peruvian Minister informed Secretary Fish, in answer to these complaints, that the monitors would remain in the West Indies late in the summer, as Winter was the most favorable weather for their passage through the straits of Ma- gellan. This explanation given by Mr. Fish to the Spanish Minister, with the information that Pera had given bonds not to use the monitors to ald the Cubans, appgared to moilify his uneasiness. J, Russell Jones has been appointed Minister Resi- Gent in Belgium, in piace of Mr, Sandford, who re- Signed, Both branches of the City Council of Washington have passed the ordinance prohibiting lcensed places of amusement from refusing entrance to negroes. It will probably be signed by the Mayor. ‘The proprietors of the National theatre intend to Contest the measure in the courts, General Canby refuses to accede to ghe petition of the Colored Men's Convention fo tien him to issue an order giving colored people equal rights in cars and steamboats. He says the courts only have authority to redress such grievances, The great bili of $40,000 for cable despatches, charged to the State Department at Washington, has been paid. General Sherman {s to award the diplomas at West Point on graduation day and possibly may de- liver the address to the graduates. Henry Ward Beecher will deliver the valediotory sermon. The wheat in the vicinity of Richmond, Va, has been struck With rust, and it is feared that in conge- qQueuce the crop will be reduced one-balt. fellow named Warren, who invaded her house and ingulted her on night, She fired a load of buckshot into him, wounding him severely. She was arrested and committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. A young married woman in Trenton, N. J., yester- day presented a revolver at the head of a young man, who, she said, had slandered her. By this pro- cess she compelled him te apologize and deny ever having made any derogatory remarks about her, Dr, Mary Walker persists in her demands for office on the Washington officials, but she now acts good naturedly about it, She calied upon Tullock yester- day and graciously accepted a refusal. She had called upon him once before. General Emory’s friends claim that he declined the command of the Soldiers’ Home in Washington, and was not “ousted,” as reported, General Lee, while going a few yards from his stopping place in Fredericksburg recently to break- fast with a friend, found his way stopped by fifty little girls who, strewed flowers in his path. Schoeppe, the Carlisle(Pa.) murderer, wag found guilty yesterday, A new trial was moved for. Titus, who is charged in the same court with a mur- der at Shippensburg in January, pleaded guilty. Governor Stearns was inaugurated in New Hamp- shire yesterday, The City. The steamship E! Heroe left this city yesterday for Venezuela, being intended for business on the Orl- noco river, She will be the first steamer that ever navigated that river, and numerous others are be- ing built here to follow her. Commodore Hancox, of this city, deserves the larger snare of the honor of having opened one of the richest valleys in the world to American ana foreign commerce. A Brooklyn shoolgirl, thirteen years of age, pleaded guilty, before Judge Walsh yesterday, of Stealing $100 from the money drawer of a corner sa- loon, and was held to await the action of the Grand Jury. A man hung himself in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross, in Brooklyn, yesterday, by a handkerchief tied in a rail of the fence. He was cut down before life was extinct, but his recovery is doubtful. In the case of Mrs. Ellen Fitzpatrick, who died from having her leg crushed between a Greenpoint ferryboat and the bridge on Thursday of last week, the jury rendered @ verdict yesterday censuring the company for not preventing passengers from letting down the guard chatn, which is intended to prevent their running off the boat before it has landed. The Inman line steamship City of Paris, Captain Kennedy, will sail from pier 45 North river for Liverpool, stopping at Queenstown, at one o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon. Mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The National line steamship Virginia, Captain Forbes, leaves pier 47 North river at twelve o'clock noon to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpool. The steamship Dacian, Captain Laird, of the Anchor line, leaves pier 20 North river at twelve M. on Saturday for Glasgow, via Londonderry. The steamship Crescent City, Captain Hildreth, leaves pier 12 North river at three o’clock to-mor- row afternoon for New Orleans direct. The steamship Tybee, Captain Delanoy, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon for St. Domingo and St. Thomas. The stock market was weak and lower yesterday in all the speculative shares. Gold was steady be- tween 138 and 135g, and closed at 133%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Senator D. S. Norton, of Minnesota; General C. C. Andrews, United States Minister to Copenhagen; Genera! Donaldson, of the United States Army; Gen- eral A. S, Robinson, of Binghamton, and General George S, Batchelder, of Saratoga Springs, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Wickham, of Richmond; H. T. Vant, of Washington; C. S. Bushnell, of Connecticut, and J. S. King, of Springfield, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Lord Parker, of England, and Captain Colin McKenzie, of the Seventy-eighth Highlanders (British army), are at the Clarendon Hotel. General S. M. Zulick and Judge R. E. Randall, of Philadelphia; E. L. Davenport, of New Yor«, ana Captain J. D’Oliver, of Boston, are at the Westmore- land Hotel. General Kirkland, of Savannah; Geo. B. Bigelow, E. J. Biddle, J. P. Putnam, A. 0. Allen and A. H. Hardy, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel. Ed. vozzens, of West Point; C. C. Brower, of Charleston, 8, C., and J. Dilion, of Alexandria, Va., are at the Hoffman House. General J. B. Stonehouse, of Albany; Judge Kat- tell, of Binghamton, and General C. A. Palmer, of Hartford, are at the Astor House. Judge Cochrane, of White Plains; General A. S Chattertain, of Galena; Captain J. Valentine, of San Francisco; J. Robertson, of Salt Lake City; Colonel E. E. Paulding and Captain G. W. Graham, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. volonel W. E. Kidder, of Philadelphia; Major C. E. Benedict, of Saratoga Springs, and Major I. Leeman, of Nashville, Tenn., are at the St. Charles Hotel, W. Hunter, of Savannah, Ga., and W. W. Mertens, of Liverpool, are at the New York Hotel. Captain Alexander, of the Rife brigade, Canada, and Dr. R. T. Thomas, of Kingston, are at the St. Julian Hotel. Sir John Barrington, ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin, is at the Brevoort House. Prominent Departures. Judge W. H. Malthrop, for Norwich; Senator Sprague, for Rhode Island; L. Prange, for Boston; General Franklin and General Humphries, for West Point; Governor Curtin and Mr. McClure, for Phila- delphia, and General Craig, for Missourt. Crry Rarroans, it will be seen by the price paid for the Twenty-third street fran- chise, ought tobe an immense property for the city. Suppose that all the other roads paid for their grants at an equivalent rate! As George Law, who owns this road, is also in the ferry business, we would now recom- mend him to buy the ferry at the eastern end of this new line, put on it half a dozen first class boats and buy property on the other side. Here is a chance for many a million in build- ing up a splendid suburb? TETRA TRE? oe Canapa is declared in the British Parlia- ment to be ‘‘the future highway to the Indians and the East.” That is what they call a long look ahead. When are they to have the Can- ada Pacific Railroad done? Leaky Hemanity.—The story of the burn- ing of Briggs’ livery stable, in which so many horses were burned to death, illustrates an odd phase of human nature, During the time when the person who set fire to it was arrang- ing the price he was to get for the job—while meditating a crime in regard to which one would suppose he would have observed the greatest secrecy—he coolly talked the matter over to his creditors, promising to pay his debts out of the proceeds, and the creditors in turn talked it over with others, and finally did not get their money. —_—_— Mrs. Grant favors a pension to Mrs. Lin- coln, Grant it! FO ENS TS » Hetrina Provivence.—The National Co- lored Executive Committee is of opinion that “if it is part of the providence of God to pro- duce a new era in civilization, having its radi- ating point in our country,” then more niggers are necessary in office and other high places or the thing cannot be done, Sreanor, 1 True.—It is stated that another defective rail has been discovered on the Long Island Railroad. As this does not agree with the account recently given of that road by its president and others we receive the statement cautiously and incline to doubt it. Law Triumphant. Nothing could exhibit in a plainer light the Progress which the patriot arma are making in Cuba than the revolutionary movement which the mob of Spanish volunteers in Havana has just made in deposing General Dulce from command and installing his now powerless successor in the government of the portion of the island still held by the Spanish troops. This mob is composed of from eight to ten thousand ignorant Spaniards, who have migrated to Cuba in pursuit of fortune. They come generally from the lowest class of the population in Spain, and fill the corner groceries of the city and country to the exclu- sion of every other class from the occupations of the retail trade. Living entirely in their shops and exercising the closest thrift, they seldom have married in the country and are never admitted to any of the circles gf Cuban society. Their sole ambition has been to gather a few thousand dollars with which to return to Spain, where it requires but a small fortune to constitute a great man. The advent of the revolution menaced the very existence of their hopes and gave rise to the bitterest hatred against the Cubans. This feeling has been fostered by the uif- wisely bombast course of the government and press, and the result is that every expected victory which proves to be an empty success, or perhaps a defeat, goads them to frenzy against the officers who have failed to accom- plish incredible promises or fulfil impossible hopes. To-day they find their traffic de- stroyed, their notes given for their stocks in trade falling due, and themselves on the verge of bankruptcy aud ruin. Victory is their only safety, and it must come soon or it will be worthless to them. The march of events has gradually shown to them that this is fleeing from their grasp, and the repeated landing of arms and assistance for the patriots during the last ten days produced a feeling of depression among them which cul- minated in the outbreak of Tuesday and drove General Dulce from power. , The immediate occasion of the outbreak was the return of General Pelaez to Havana. This officer has been recently in command of the Villa Clara district, comprising that city and those of Sagua, Remedios, Trinidad and Cienfuegos. It may be called the quadrilate- ral of Cuba, and it was on the announced sup- pression of the insurrection within its borders that the Spanish government a few weeks since based its statement that the revolution was almost extinguished. So far from this being the case it has become evident that the Spanish force holding the position is melting away, and should the patriots now operating there be able to-take Villa Clara and organize their forces a revolutionary movement in the Western Department of the island will beoome inevitable. General Pelaez’s injudicious an- nouncement of victory has subjected him to the serious accusation of selling his cause, now that defeat begins to be apparent. On his return to Havana he would no doubt have been murdered by the Spanish mob had he been taken, and his escape resulted in the de- position of the Captain General. Thigis a grave event, and we trust it will open the eyes of the administration at Wash- ington to the task that is before it. The accu- sation against their leaders shows the exact mental calibre of the mob now controlling the government in Havana, and the deposition of General Dulce removes the only barrier to the reign of the wildest passion. Thousands of American lives and millions of American pro- perty are at stake in Cuba, and our govern- ment cannot too soon make a demonstration which shall afford them some protection. A powerful fleet should collect in Havana at once, and a public exhibition of our determi- nation to have our citizéns respected should be made. Such a course will fill our immediate duty and probably prevent the shedding of much innocent blood. jut is the government prepared to meet the great questions which the inexorable march of events is forcing upon it? This march is being accomplished with all the speed natural toan age in possession of the steam engine and electric telegraph. While the Cabinet is agitated with minor questions between the Spanish and Peruvian Ministers at Washing- ton Cuba is growing apace and preparing to place her flag upon the sea as well as on the land. Let no man doubt that the sister repub- lics will open their ports to her cruisers and their prizes, and that a vast combination will soon be seen to banish the Spanish flag from its last hold in the New World. Mexico, Central America, New Granada and Venezuela have nothing to fear from Spain; and it was the possession of Cuba that enabled the Spaniard to bombard Valparaiso and attack Callao at a very recent date. Peace with Peru is not yet made, and will not be made, as every one who runs may read. If wo had an American statesman at the helm to-day in Washington we should at once prepare to take possession of Havana and St. John’s, Porto Rico, It is coming to this, and the sooner we define our policy and exert our power in the interests of civilization and hu- manity the better will it be for us, for Spain, for Cuba and for the world at large. We doubt the wisdom and the energy of Mr, Fish. He is an elegant gentleman of the old school, admirably adapted to manage the nothingness of diplomatic intercourse in the piping times of peace; but when the blasts of revolution and war blow in our ears we look for men of other mettle. We need to-day the clearsight- edness of a Canning, the astuteness of a Cavour or the audacity of a Bismarck to com- mand the pregnant field of American policy. The revolution of Tuesday in Havana is but ‘a step in the march ofevents. The end is not yet, and General Grant will do well to waken to the emergency. Equatity,—The Washington respectable darkies want to go into the Washington thea- tres on a perfect equality with the white people, and not be compelled to go into the part occupied by the riffraff of common nig- gert. With cheap niggers they will not asso. ciate. This is their idea of equality and dis- tinction of color. “Bapty Beaten” was hardly the descrip- tion of what happened to the Cambria in the recent race of the Royal London Yacht Club, She was nowhere, in fact; and, according to the report, ‘never stood the slightest chance from start to finish.” Miss Sarah Hunt, residing in Canaan, N. Y., shot@ | The Revolution im Havana—Spauish Mob | The Last Monthly Statement of the Public Dobt. Mr. Boutwell has promptly furnished to the country the statement of the public debt for the last month, ending May 30, which shows that he keeps the machinery of the Treasury De- partment in good working order and under control. Nearly all the debt bears coin in- terest, and that amounts now to $2, 107,882, 100, The debt bearing coin interest has been in- creased during the last year $87,054,259. The debt bearing currency interest has been reduced down to $67,075,000, The debt bear- ing interest, then, without reckoning the Pacific Railroad bonds, is $2,174,957,100. The bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad amount to $56,852,320; which, added to the interest-bearing debt, makes a total of $2, 231,809,420, on which the government has to pay annually, with but an insignificant ex- ception, six per cent interest in gold, or be- tween eight and nine per cent in currency. From these stupendous figures and this extra- ordinary high rate of interest the people may form an idea of the burden they have to bear, and the perpetual incubus it will be upon them unless means be taken to reduce the interest and to liquidate the principal. The debt bearing no interest—that is, the greenback and fractional currency and the gold certificates, amounts ta #422,552,287. This, of course, is no burden at all. But the sapient financiers of the McCulloch school, and the crazy on-to-specie-payment theorists are in a hurry to convert this non-interest bearing debt into that bearing interest, and thus in- crease the burdens of the people thirty millions a year or 60. The whole tendency of Mr. McCulloch’s policy while he was Secretary of the Treasury was to that end, and it is not too much to say that the increased weight of the interest on the debt amounts to thirty or forty millions a year more than it need have been or would have been under a different policy. The whole debt, interest bearing and non-in- terest bearing, including the Pacific Railroad bonds, is $2,650,083,571. As a set-off to this there is in the Treasury $128,258,039. The debt, therefore, less cash in the Treasury, is $2,521,825,532. On the lst of June, 1868, it was $2,510,245,886. This shows an increase of the national debt for the last year of $11,579,646, The annual exhibit, therefore, is nota flatteringone. With the enormous revenue of the government in time of peace, and long after all war expenses have ceased, there ought to have been no increase of the debt. Indeed, there ought to have been a large de- crease. But we are not without hope, since the Treasury Department is in other hands, and as the last month’s statement, as well as the previous month’s statement of Mr. Secre- tary Boutwell, shows a better state of things and a considerable reduction of the debt. Still we must wait for the returns of a longer period before we can judge of the general result. In the meantime we urge Mr. Boutwell to pursue his policy of using the surplus gold in the Treasury to buy up the interest-bearing debt and cancelit. That is the way to decrease the debt and relieve the people of their burdens. Aw Enouisn Cure ror Rior.—An English sheriff arrested two men near the manufac- turing town of Mold, in the northern part of Wales, on Wednesday. As there still remains @ wrangle on the subject of the authority of constables, civil or police, on the border of the two countries an attempt was made to over- power the sheriff’s posse and rescue the men. A severe fight ensued, during which the mili- tary were called out, fired on the crowd, killed four persons instantly, besides wounding a number of others. Yesterday evening the town was reported ‘‘quiet.” Very likely it was so. The rioters were wrong; but people sometimes have too much military, and ad- ministered in a hurry at that. This is equally wrong. Bross anv Brass.—We givea letter from ex-Governor Bross, of Ohio, in regard to cer- tain editorial discrepancies. Why don’t Bross have mord brass ? A “Dounpreary” Saake-Hanps.—The Lon- don Standard, which speaks for the aristo- cracy of England, deprecates the idea of war between the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Motley’s assurances are so ‘‘well-timed” that as soon asa little ‘‘irritation” is soothed “men on both sides the Atlantic will be eager to hold out their hands to each other.” If the nobility of England wish to shake hands the men of America will not object, particularly if the British hands hold the money for the dis- charge of the Alabama claims. The American people can use their hands either way—fight or friendship.’ A Miss as Goop as A Mite.—The Legis- lature intended that the rights of the minority should be respected in the Board of Educa- tion when it made that body to consist of. seven democrats and five republicans. Buta member having discovered that of nine com- mittees the minority has not a chairmanship in any one, and having put it to the vote that this is wrong, he has discovered that a majority of two is as effective as a majority of twelve could be. So the minority gets no chair- manship. ‘ News From GexMany.—The King of Prus- sia assures the citizens of Hamburg that the commercial facilities of their town will be greatly improved by the extension of the Ger- man Zollverein. The Hamburgers deserve any benefits which may accrue to them from the more close union of the couhtry, Pustrtc Orrsion evidently has some effect on members of the Legislature in the rural districts, One country member declares he dfd not know the tax levies for this end of the State were so very bad when he voted for them. Bap ror Jaran.—The civil war continues, The Mikado has despatched another ‘‘power- ful” fleet against the rebels at Hakodadi, Where does the Mikado get his ships? He is a good customer to the builders, French offi- cers aro aiding the rebels, The Mikado does not, perhaps, send his naval orders to France, Brer.—Beer is a pretty big thing, even in this ‘‘blarsted country,” according to the figures presented at the Brewers’ Congress. Nearly six million barrels of it were sold in 1868, The capital used to produce this quantity is valued at one hundred and five million dollars, and the number of persons employed is stated at forty-one thousand, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. eee Construction for Friendly Powers. It will be seen by our Washington despatch to-day that our government is likely to come into very serious discussions with Spain and Peru on the question of the monitors sold to the latter Power. The question originates in an error on the part of the late administration, which encumbered the sale of those ships with conditions that no Power can enforce by peace- ful means and which the inexorable march of events may render it impossible to comply with. It is authoritatively stated that in the contract there is a stipulation that the vessels shall not be used against the Spanish Power in Cuba. We suppose the object in making the condition was to further the interests of peace. It could not have been to cover our duties as a friendly and neutral nation, for these go no further, in the case of two belligerents with both of whom we are at peace, than acting with equal justice to both. Thus, if we sell ships to one party we are bound to do the same to the other if demanded. Anything more than this forms an exceptional case, and such we suppose the case of the two Peruvian monitors to be. Negotiations for peace be- tween these two belligerents are now going on under the auspices of our government, and it no doubt was desirable that we should lend onzectves to no act that would mar these labors, But it occurs to us to inquire what may be the position of the administration at Washing- ton m a possible and, in view of recent events, a probable event. The Spanish government is now building in our private dockyards thirty steam gunboats for war purposes. Does the government purpose to impose any con- dition on the departure of these from our ports? Suppose the Peruvian Minister wero to ask Mr. Fish to require from Spain the same guarantee that has been demanded of Peru in relation to the monitors, could Mr. Fish require it, and, if required, could it be made effectual? If the gunboats are sent to Cuba they will re- lieve from active employment a dozen Spanish ships of war. The peace negotiations may fall through and hostilities be renewed between Peru and Spain. Could the dozen Spanish ships relieved from duty in Cuban waters by the arrival of the thirty American built gun- boats be prevented by us from capturing the Peruvian monitors? We cite these peculiari- ties in the reported position of our govern- ment because they may very easily lead to great complications. We already have on hand one awkward case in the steamer Quaker City, seized at the request of the Spanish Min- ister ‘nd claimed by the Minister of Great Britain as property of a British subject. These suggestions show the. danger which a timorous diplomacy may lead usinto. There is a possibility in trying to stand erect of lean- ing a little backward, and we trust that Mr. Fish is in no danger of being led into this error. The only safe ground for our govern- ment to stand upon is the admitted rule of in- ternational law that commerce in arms, ships and munitions of war, even to belligerents, may rightfully be held if we allow the same privileges to both belligerents. We de now selling ships, arms and munitions abundantly to Spain, and in view of this fact the condi- tion imposed on the sale of the monitors to Peru is an unjust one and should be with- drawn. We advise Secretary Fish, in order to save himself from future complications, to ad- vise both Spain and Peru that our government withdraws this condition.. If he does not do so it becomes then the duty of the Peruvian Minister to call for a detention of the Spanish gunboats. Let justice be done. Tue Lonvon T'imes tells us that the Ala- bama treaty the Senate rejected was based on our own propositions, but we cannot see it in that way. Lord Stanley's draft was re- jected by Seward, and then Clarendon made another, which was rejected by the Senate because it was no better, if so good, as the former. The second treaty was made in ac- cordance with one of our own propositions, the proposition, namely, to try again ; but does that make us responsible for what it contains? AN Enouisnh GenTLEMAN on a tour through this country thought Americans were fellows of the other place, because he saw one of them picking his teeth with a lucifer match. Frvatty there is a probability that we may have a public ambulance and hospital service for the succor and assistance of persons in- jured in the streets or who fall prostrated by the climate or any cause. We have been la- mentably behindhand in this respect, and it is certain that many a life has been sacrificed to this want of provision, Many a man has died in our station houses whom timely attention would have saved. The Commissioners of Public Charities now propoge to furnish ambu- lances and stretchers, and “the police are in- structed to have the care of them. This is a good beginning, but we hope the authorities will keep in view that it is only a beginning. Or the Same Orryion Stitt.—An “opin- ion” of the counsel to the Board of Health “has failed to convince the Mayor that the results of hydrophobia are not deleterions to life or health.” Timery-two Fires 1s Brodkiyy.—Of the thirty-two fires which are reported to have occurred in Brooklyn during the past month four resulted from incendiarism, three from spontaneous combustion, and five from the explosion of kerosene lamps. The total loss, including that by the Hunter's Point fire— which alone amounted to five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and is said to have been of incendiary origin—was six hundred and sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty- five dollars, These facts and figures should teach the Brooklynites the necessity ,of in- creased household precautions, of redoubled vigilance.on the part of the police and of de- sirable reforms in their Fire Department. Down IN Massacnusetts,—Female frage. suf- Sixautar Comncipenok.—Our death column recently presented the following names in the order given :—‘‘Sherry, ‘‘ Virtue,” ‘ Wine,” “Whitehouse.” Sherry was a little ahead. A rather singular quartet to be found in the same category. A Sunpay's Car is allowed to be run in Newark. The graves of Union soldiers recently decorated with flowers and bedewed with the tears of devotion and love betoken many Sunday scars. The Chief Justice and the Democracy—A Movement for 1872. It is generally understood that if Horatio Seymour had said the word in the Tammany Convention of 1868 Chief Justice Chase would have been the democratic candidate against General Grant. It is generally believed from the late extraordinary speeches of Senator Sprague on the political situation, and from some recent decisions of the Chief Justice on gold contracts and the fourteenth amendment, that a movement ig on foot to keep this distingulshed Presidefftial aspirant in the foreground ag the man of all men for the democracy in 1872. We find in our exchanges a published letter on another subject, dated Charleston, May 29, 1869, from the Chief Justice, which may be construed as looking in the same direction. The letter is in response to an invitation to be present atthe decoration of the graves of the Union dead in Magnolia Cemetery geawCharles- ton; and in his reply, after stating his regrets that it is too late to make the necessary arrangements for an attendance, and after commending the ceremony, Mr. Chase says :— “And may we not indulge the hope that ere long we who adhered to the national cause will be prompt bar to join in commemorating the heroism of ouN countrymen who fell on the other side, and that those who now specially mourn their loss, consenting to.the arbitra- ment of arms, and resuming all their old love for their country and our cowntry, one and indivisible, will join with usin like commemo- ration of the fallen brave of the army of the Union.” In other words the Chief Justice hopes to see the dawn of the millennium, that “good time coming”— Which kings and prophets have waited for, But died without the sight. But this letter also admits of the democratic interpretation suggested, with the various other little signs we have referred to, and in this view all the other holdover candidates from the Tammany Convention will do well to watch the development of the great promised financial and general political reform pro- gramme of Senator Sprague. He has not yet given us any very distinct ideas of what he is driving at or what he proposes to do; but it is probable that, like John the Baptist, he is the forerunner of the greater teacher who is to follow him. From present appearances, too, our political parties before the year 1872, especially the dominant party, will be in an excellent position of demoralization and con- fusion, to be manipulated and moulded‘with the democracy into a powerful Chase move- ment in opposition to the administration. FRANCE AND MExico—Wuat's Up?—A gen- tleman named Burdet arrived in Mexico city lately from St. Thomas. We are informed by a cable telegram from Paris that he goes undey ‘‘authorization” of the French govern- ment to look after French ‘‘interests” in Mexico. What particular ‘‘interest” has Napoleon in Mexico? The remains of the unfortunate Maximilian rest in the tomb of the Hapsburgs. French soldiers were despatched to Mexico during the civil war in the United States to look after French “interests.” How they got out of it is well known. Mr. Burdet goes from St. Thomas, Perhaps the allied French and British war ves- sels lately spoken of in our Bahamas cor- respondence will rendezvous at St. Thomas, and not at Nassau. This new movement is ominous. President Grant should keep his eye on a good map of the banks of the Rio Grande. Tue Srrvation iN Spain.—The Spanish people seem to be very much of a unit in regard to the government which they wish for the future. Two hundred and four- teen against fifty-five have gone in for the new constitution, The republicans after this vote confessed their weakness like true men and declared themselves willing to go in for the monarchy. This is true patriotism and augurs well for the future of Spain. The one difficult thing in connection with our recent news is the announcement that Queen Isabella’s birthday is to be celebrated in Madrid on the 10th of October as usual. If Spain, after all she has gone through, and gone through so well, finds it possible to celebrate the birthday of Isabella on the 10th of Octo- ber next, it will deserve to be spoken of as one of the wonders of modern times. It is just possible that the negative particle may be omitted in the telegraphic despatch. It is also possible that the word officially relates to @ party not to the national government. Important State Conventions. Yn addition to the various church and women’s rights and labor reform conven- tions, and what not, recently held here and elsewhere, East and West, there have been some others not specially noticed which are entitled to some attention. Among these, in our own State, are the “State Temperance Convention,” which met at Syracuse on the Ist instant, the ‘‘Sportsmen’s Convention,” which commenced its sports at the same place on the same day, and the “Convention of Colored Men,” which assembled the same day at Bing- hamton, From the proceedings of the Temperance Convention it will be seen that the’ tem- perance people are to take their position as apolitical party in our approaching State elec- tion, and from the general revival of the tem- perance movement we may look for a perplexing time among the old party politicians, especially if the Father Mathew societies join in this poli- tical temperance league, The Sportsmen's State Convention is a popular thing. The hunters and fishagmen and lovers of these sports concerned fr lt have done some service to this State in their movements for the pre- servation of game and fish, and their labora might result in the saving millions upon millions of money in grain, roots and fruits if devoted to a aystem of laws in this State and all the States and Territories, for the protec tion of the birds, whose choicest food is the worms and grubs and grasshoppers, that are 20 destructive to the crops of the planter, the farmer and the gardener, The English spar- rows introduced into our little city parks, in the miracle wrought therein, tell the whole story; and from the much abused crow—a great cater of grubs and worms—to that sweet singer, the native robin, and down to the little wren, our American birds, as far as they aro permitted, do the samo work as these English sparrows. Next in the preservation and propa- gation of game and fish. the intelligent men