The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. Halifax, N. 0. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Son to interfere. They both met death bravely. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERavp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. labor in the State Prison for ten years, The City. Volume XXXIV. Monday next. shown to be so, There will be music tn the Park to-day if the after- noon is fine. The waiters’ strike still continues, the proprietors being apparently determined to resist. A com- mittee of the Union was refused a conference with the keeper of the St. Nicholas yesterday, when they came, it was supposed, to offer a compromise. Most of the proprietors declare they will not receive society men back in their employ. The stock market yesterday was again excited over the features of the present desperate struggle between the cliques, Gold was stronger, rising to 13834 and closing finally at 138. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Sir W. Hill, of London, England; Chief Justice Doyle and Hamilton Easton, of Baltimore; E. D. Webster, Ex-Postmaster Kandall and A. Pollock, of Washington; Henry Kip, of Butfalo; J. M. Jaycox, of Syracuse; C. ©. Potter, of Providence, and B. P. Hunt, of Philadelphia, are at tue Astor House. Rev. H. Storrs, of Hudson; Colonel F. Taylor, of the United States Army; E. A. Hurlbut, of Connecti- cut, and George D. Horton, of Saratoga Springs, are at the St, Charles Hotel. H. D. Laflin, of New York; D. S. Mc®ue, A. H. Barclay and E. ©. Catherwood, of San Francisco; G. O. Dickinson, of Pennsylvania, and J. R. McBride, of Idaho, are at the Metropoiitan Hotel. J. F. Joy, of Detroit; Henry R. Selden, of Roches- ter, and James Campoell, ex-Postmaster General, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. © THEATRE, Broadway.—H1coony Driccony noe at 1g, BOOTIVS THEATRE, 23 Tuk Lavy oy Lyons, "Matti . between 6th and 6th ava.— eat 2 roadway.—BURLESQUE OF Matinee at 2. ery. JACK SURPPARD ON EW YORK FIREMAN. WAVERLEY THEATRE Ixion—Tur Two Gre BOWE Y THE, HowsEack—T way.—THR SPROTACULAR ‘A OF SINDAD THE SAILOR, Matinee at 2. NIBLO'S EX1TRAVAGA ote ar ot Eighth avenue and FIF fourth HEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- = BLEUE. Matinee at 2—PERICHOLE. wor JM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth atreet and rooon and evening Performance. TRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- urteenth street.—ROMZO JAFFIEE PARK THEATRE, Brookiyn.— MIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comic SKRTONRS ATUES—Pi.ui0, Matinee at2 » Tth av., between 68h and CREE. NIs¢ STRELS, 585 Broadway.—Eraro- ALYMENTS—Tue UNBLEACHED BLONDES, )PERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth VIAN MINS TRELSY, £0, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO Vocaltin, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. 201 Bowery.—Comro Matinee at 25y. The Alabama Claims—Peace the Policy of General Grant, but What of Congress? We have the news from England that the war panic created on that side of the water by Senator Sumner’s trenchant American speech on the Alabama claims has subsided, and that Mr. Motley’s pacific assurances at Liver- pool have been followed by a great reaction. He was expected as the messenger of war ; he is recognized as the herald of peace. The transition, like that from night to morning under the Equator, has been so sudden and so complete that the oracles of the British press ean hardly realize the change; but they are still constrained to confess it. We presume that the last lingering doubt among them will be removed with the positive assurance that peace is the policy of General Grant on the question at issue, and that in its settlement he has no intention or apprehension of the tre- mendous alternative of war. We can say that our Washington despatch of yesterday on this subject is from good au- | HOOLEYS OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoouey's MINSTRELS —THE GREGORY FaMiLy, £0. ’ NEW YORK M FEMALES ONLY LN TRIP New York, M OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway. TTENDANCE, Saturday, June 5, 1869. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Natice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Broox future yN CARRIERS anD Newsmen will in ve their papers at the Brancn Orrice ortTne New Yors Herap, No. 145 Fulton street, Brook Abv) MENTS and Svprscrrprrons and all Heratp will be letters f New Yors Jeceived as above. Ep Wows. thority—that General Grant has no Europe. idea of making Mr. Sumner’s estimated The cable despatches are dated June 4. damages the elements of his ultima- The London press has again taken up the Alabama | tom, On the contrary, General Grant, I tly Secretary of | . . 2 ol Fears are |i appears, concurs in the universal aree, hat the st ed Kingdom, that April 17, has met with some disas- not been heard of. eting of Orangemen has taken place in the purpose of protesting against the dis- establishment of the Irish Church. The envoy sent by France to Mexico has instruc- tions not to hold intercourse with the Mexican gov- eroment. English opinion that Mr. Sumner's speech logically means only war; that it is good rhetoric, but bad logic; that if we declare we do not wish to appeal to the last resort of kings we must adopt diplomacy, and that in adopting diplomacy we must conduct it with dignity and decorum, and not with threats and blustering. It further appears that General Grant is of the opinion that Mr. Sumner does not believe in his own plan for the settlement of this Alabama difficulty; but that, being op- posed to any further territorial expansions, the object of his speech was to create a check in England against the movement on this side looking to the anndkation of the New Dominion; and that it is feared by the admin- istration that the proposed negotiations to this end have been nipped in the bud by this flank movement of the Senator from Massachusetts. Such, however, being the position of General Grant upon this delicate and difficult question of the Alabama claims, we think the promise may be safely volunteered to the British government that our policy will be pacific ter, as she lt A large t Dubin f St. Domingo. We have dates from St. Domingo to the 8th. Cabral was still on the frontier, but there is no ma- terial change in the sitnation. President Baez has mission to Burope to see if he can nego- n there. Much disappointment was expe- Tience he adjournment of Congress at Washing- ton without inviting the Dominican republic to come into the Union. Hayti. In late advices from Port an Prince it is rumored that Salnave, the President of Hayti, is making ex- tensive preparations for the abdication of the gov- erninent, and has a house ready for his reception at Turks Islend, where he will be received and wel- comed by Mme. Dupee, a widow laay of some wealth, to whom he 1s said to be engaged. The po- @ition of affairs in Hayti seems to justify the betief that Sainave is preparing dor the worst. His money is failing him and the Picos are joinmg General Do- mingue in great numbers. Zealand, New of Congress in December next. What may Our Well ted March?28. Te Kooti, | then come to pass time and the drift of events the leader is not dead, as reported, | oan only determine, That there are powerful butts ¢ r again for a popular elements in this country who believe that a war with England would be the best thing that could happen for the United States is true. Wherefore? Because it is believed that such a war would give us the river and the Gulf of St. Lawrence asa free outlet for renewal 0 e war on the ere, On the west coast a party of Maoris had ma d all the mem- tile settlement at White Clif, Among thos dered was Mr. John Wnitely, an old mis- tionary, who had fora long time exercised a con- trolling influence over the tribes. It was 80 gen- erally be!! in some man- . . ner in communi s that they had | our Western agricultural products, and all beca ordered away from the mines at Ohinemurt. British North America for a new field of enter- Miscellancous. arrived at Baltimore on the rday. nt and family, with a number of rtabil 1 Annapolis yesterday ast day’s examination of the naval prise, and would give, moreover, such an im- pulse to American manufactures as to make this country wholly independent of English goods and able to outsell her in other markets, There are, also, many men of this warlike school who believe that it is now with the United States and England as it was with Rome and Carthage, and that this new conflict for the supremacy must some day come to the same conclusion as the old one. All these elements of hostility to England, including three or four hundred thousand able- bodied Irish born and warlike American citizens, are for pushing the ultimatum suggested but not proposed by Senator But on the other hand, through cadets. The Washington Pricklayers’ Union have ordered Bstrike of the bricklayers at the Navy Yard unless two colored workmen there employed be dismissed. In the Nova Scotia Assembly on ‘Thursday night, Monday was proposed as the day for discussing Mr. Murray's annexation resolution, ‘The Attorney General dosired to have it postponed until next ses sion, as he said he intended to propose further con- tlona! measures to get ont of the Union, and anwhile it would be wrong to take any re- t The original resolution will, moved on Monday, In Ottawa yester- ounced that the Newfoundiand deje- Sumner. yo het ; nosed for joing | the ramifications of American society ccepted the terms propo near depelipen pt : ted to the | there are the holders of the government bonds, the Union, and the matter will be submitted ne peopie at the general election next fall. and bondholders and banks and merchants The steamer Morro Castle reports that on her last trip to Havana she was fired at bya Spanish war steamer off Cardenas. She continued on her course, being overdue, and was chased for an hour by the Spaniard. ‘A volcano tn active eruption has been observed on one of the islands recently discovered in the Pacific ocean, and known as Smith's peers , aes paerere Ireland; but they also believe that such ‘bf the internal fires is said to be fearful, ana a ¢ i ‘ mass of smoke and steam is continually ascending |® War meantime would involve this country in repudiation and financial and and shippers and property holders generally have @ paramount interest in the preservation of peace with England. They generally be- lieve that a war with the United States would eventually be the destruction of the British empire, beginning with a revolution in from the island, om Within a few Gays about 00,000 fur seal skins, val- political chaos. This peace party contends, fed at half a miilion dollars, have been received at likewise, that while peace with England is in- cy Aer , | dispensable to the payment of our national ‘A party of gentlemen, among whom was II. ©. —— pay’ Fiske, Superintendent of the Erte Railway, were debt, financial order and the development of robbed of their money and valuables while bathing | our vast internal resources and our rapidly at the Buifalo Water Cure Establishment yesterday. | expanding foreign trade, it will also best serve One of the victins was felieved of a certificate Of |... manifest desiiny” ideas of the progressive Gepenss for 990,000. nnexation of neighboring territories, North Mary Newman and Jobn Hender- | S209 ig) o pty ment i as well as South. Y rn gon were arrested in Buffalo yesterday, charged wit oot , obbing the American Express Company in Phila The administration of General Grant is with tlris peace party, and hence we may confi- Aeiphia. From letters found upon them it was dis- dently repeat it that at least till the reassem- overed that the same parties had been plying their i Ind, ovation, recently, at Fort Wayne, Baker and Thomas, two negroes, wore executed at , yesterday, for the murder of one Wade Ditcher a year ago. They were to have been hanged on Friday af !ast week, but were respited at the very last moment, the ropes being around their necks and the caps op. The Governor finally desig- | beware of any Johnsonian treaty ; for any such Rated yesterday as the day, and saw no further rea- | treaty will meet in the Senate the fate of Mr. William Allencomb was found guilty, in the Hud- son Clty, N. J.,° Court of Sessions ‘yeaterday, of an | Peace. There is in the dominant republican outrage on a young girl, and was sentenced to hard | Party, including both houses of Congress, & Moses FE. Crasts, & well known politician, was brought before Commissioner Betts, charged with | They can be secured on the direct issue of a war having fraudulently omitced to give a full statement of his debts in the schedules appended to his pe- tition in bankruptey, and with having committea | ™¢2 among the masses of the people with wilful aud corrupt perjury in swearing that the schedules were correct. He was discharged on his | with England has ceased to be a drawback in own recognizance to appear for an examination on It is claimed by Crasts that the charges are utterly groundiess and can easily be } effected at points on the coast east of Nuevitas, + were greatly needed, and, when once secured, and conciliatory, at least until the reassembling Cubans and their advance in the practices ot bling of Congress peace, and the fairest pros- | to be lively, The Old North Dutch Church. In the Heraxp of yesterday a correspondent very properly called our attention to the fact that the old Dutch church in Fulton and Ann streets, one of our ancient and most respected landmarks, is doomed to destruction, In a few weeks or days the work of demolition shall have been begun, and a Christian temple which has won a high place in the hearts of our citizens, and which in consequence of the success of the prayer meetings with which it is identified has commanded the atten- tion of the world, will be levelled with the dust, Why? Not because a modern Titus has invaded our city and become the willing and wicked instrument in executing the will of Providence. Nothing of the sort. The old church is doomed to destruction because it no longer pays. In this case Mammon gives proof that he is stronger than Christ, even among Christ's own professed followers. It was an ancient Jewish prophecy that when the fulness of the times arrived the Gos- pel, the good news and glad tidings, wotld be preached to the poor. It was the early boast of Christianity ; it is the boast of the preachers even now, that this prophecy was fulfilled— “to the poor the Gospel is preached.” This has ever been the proud distinction of the Christian as compared with other and especially with more ancient religions. How the authorities of the Reformed Dutch Church can harmonize their duty to the poor with the destruction of this venerable edifice we know not. They cannot say that they are poor and need the money. All the world knows that the Reformed Dutch Church in New York city is enormously rich. It is the love of filthy lucre, and nothing else, which prompts this un- hallowed work. There are funds enough in the hands'of the authorities of this Church to build chapels for the destitute poor of the whole lower part of the city. It seems, however, that the spirit of Luther, so far as New York is concerned, goes.in rather for luxurious ease than for vigorous, aggressive, missionary effort. We only express the sentiments of hundreds and thousands in this city when we say that the removal of the old church in Fulton street will redound: to the lasting dis- honor of Dutch Reformers. : It is unfair, however, to produce the im- pression that the Dutch Reformers are the only sinners in this matter. The Presbyteri- ans, the Independents, the Baptists and other Protestants are equally to blame, The Methodists, as our correspondent truthfully remarks, are entitled to honorable exception. So also are the Episbopalians. The Method- ists, with religious care, preserve the old chapel in John street, and the Episcopalians can point to Trinity and St. Paul's, This floating upwards with the rich and consequent neglect of the poor is a weakness with Pro- testantism every where all over the world, and a very special weakness of Protestant volun- taryism. The Catholic Church understands all this, and presents an example in its care of the poor which all good men must admire. Pects of continued peace, between England and the Great Republic, will prevail. Mean- time let Mr. Motley and the administration Seward's over-zealous efforts for a treaty of strong desire to give the deathblow to the democratic party by winning over what is called ‘‘the Irish vote”—say half a million of voters. with England, Next, there is a large body of whom repudiation as a consequence of a war view of the extinction of our burden of taxes. In short, if the fixed wealth of the Union is with Grant, the movable vote of the Union is with Sumner by an overwhelming majority. Accordingly, while exchanging congratulations of peace with England on the position of Gen- eral Grant’s administration, it will be well for Mr. Motley to remember that Congress is the war-making power; that one branch of it is in reality the treaty-making power, and that the managing republicans in both branches are moving for “‘the Irish vote.” The News from Cuba. We give to-day a full and interesting detail of the news from Cuba, received by mail from Havana and Nassau, and comprising accounts of recent events from both Cuban and Spanish sources, Our letters show that for some time previous to the revolution in Havana, of which we have received advices by telegraph, there had been a growing spirit of discontent among the Spanish volunteers in consequence of the failure of commanders in the field to fulfil the hopes entertained of an early suppression of the rebellion. This, it is now known, has cul- minated in the deposition of the Captain Gen- eral of the island and of the Governor of Ma- tanzas. From the tenor of the accounts re- ceived to-day we shall not be surprised to learn that similar outbreaks have taken place in other cities still held by the Spaniards, From the Spanish accounts it is evident that the Cubans are carrying on an active guerilla warfare, which is proving very exhausting to the government. It is stated that the demands upon the treasury at Havana amount to a quarter of a million of dollars a day, or over seven millions a month, while the gross reve- nue, which in the most prosperous and peace- ful times averaged only about thirty millions a year, has sunk to a very insignificant figure. The military operations for some time past have been confined to the reopening of the Nuevitas and Principe Railroad, which had been successfully accomplished, and great efforts were being devoted to supplying Puerto Principe with provisions and munitions. It was when this work had been accomplished that the landing of the supplies for the Cubans by the steamers Perrit and Salvador was and large bodies of troops were at once despatched to the points of landing with orders to pursue and capture them. The re- sult is yet to be seen. The Cuban acoounts give us some insight into the apparent neglect of the patriots to prevent the reopening of the Nuevitas Rail- road. On the 10th of May General Quesada reviewed the camps in the vicinity of Guai- maro—the present seat of government—and the next day left with an organized force of two thousand men, with the ostensible object of attacking General Valmaseda at Bayamo, From the reporta of the severe fighting and the defeat of the Spaniards, after the landing of General Jordan's expedition at Nipe, we in- cline to believe that the true object of with- drawing of the revolutionary forces from the neighborhood of the Nuevitas Railroad and their concentration at a point in the east was the protection of the coming supplies. These Bad Taste—General Lee’s Chroniclers. Every day or so telegraph items or para- graphs are spread over the country through the press about General R. E, Lee—what he is doing, where he goes, what he says, what people say to him, and so forth. Now, what does all this amount to? What purpose does it serve? Admitting that this gentleman is a representative man of the South, and a very sensible and prudent one, he occupies no public position, and his movements can have no public interest. It is, in fact, a sort of notoriety and hero worship that must be as distasteful to General Lee himself as it is foolish and out of place. He is respected in the North as weil as ia the South for his high character and his efforts to reunite the two sections of the country in harmony; but the war is not sofar back in history as to admit of making a hero of a prominent leader of the rebellion. Let the memory of that terrible war be obliterated'as_ much as possible, so far as sectional feeling is concerned, and let the brave men on both sides forget their past hos- tility; but let us avoid anything that may revive unpleasant or illiberal reflections. General Lee is too. intelligent and modest to desire the parade of bis name and movements constantly before the public. It is in bad taste, and likely to. do more harm than good in the present state of the public mind. Will his indefatigable chroniclers take the hint ? General Quesada would be much stronger to break up the railroad again than he could be without them to prevent its reconstruction. In no other portion of the island do the Spanish troops appear to be making active hostilities, The whole tenor of the news goes to show the steady decay of the power of Spain in Cuba and the increasing enthusiasm of the war. As the rainy season is now close at hand, when the roads in the deep virgin soil of the tropics become almost impassable to man or beast, we may expect a lull in military movements. Looking upon the present time as the close of the first campaign we cannot but recognize the fact that Spain, in the period of hor greatest resources, has not been able to suppress a revolution commenced by a people utterly ignorant of military or- ganization and manaavre, without arms or munitions of war and inspired only by a feel- ing of hatred to their oppressors; and after seven months of apprenticeship in war the Cubans remain masters of the field in one- half of the island. The rainy season will probably be spent by both parties in organ- izing for the next campaign and in the accu- mulation of supplies. Meanwhile the Cuban agents are spreading in every direction, and new complications in diplomacy and inter- national relations are springing up every- where, Let the administration at Washington be not too confident that it is well advised. Lorrery Swinpixs.—Persons who receive “valuable” prizes in neat packages from the va- rious lottery swindles, gift enterprises, co-oper- ative union drawings, &c., that are now spread- ing their nets all over the country, should al- ways open the packages and examine their contents before they pay any money on them. By so doing they will avoid being most grossly swindled. YAXATION IN GERMANY.—Complaints deep, if not loud, are heard in many parts of Ger- many owing to the increase and proposed in- crease in the taxes. It costs something to sup- port a powerful military organization, and, however flattering it may be to the vanity of a people to know that in atime of peace they are prepared for war, it is most aggravating to be compelled to hand over the necessary funds for the support of an unnecessary and expen- sive adornment. Taxes, nothing but taxes, is now the rule in Germany, Taxes on petro- leum, taxes on beer, taxes on income, taxes on everything on which a tax can be imposed, and all these taxes to support an immense army to do nothing. DrtTKoTion or Crime.—The statement of the sufferer who lost his bonds and could not get them, and could not even get an inquiry in regard to a man found with one of the bonds in vhis possession, is a good indication of the way in whioh our detectives are practically made confederates of the thieves. Why should they detect crime for nothing when, if they wait tid the sufferer gets desperate, he will offer a reward that they may pocket ? Woman's Ricnts.—All those people who got up the woman's rights agitation on the notion that woman was a poor oppressed creature were sadly mistaken. What sort of fan oppressed creature waa that woman who, the other day, held her pistol to a man’s head and compelled him to retract offensive words ; or the one who shot her rival, the milliner ; or the one who put a load of buckshot into the fellow who stayed tm her house longer than she wanted him? Must we have now laws that thoy mav qot theis richta 2 Hiram Keronum, Jr.—In the Alaska 7imes we notice a handsome and very complimentary letter addressed to Mr. Ketchum upon his de- parture from Sitka, and signed by every resi- dent there who speaks the English language. Although badly used by the administration in his removal this gentleman has at least the satisfaction to know that his trip to Alaska has not been without the good result of making him many friends. Movine Up Towx.—Passonger depots, it is finally discovered by the railroad men, must follow the people, and the Cortlandt street depot will go to Desbrosses street. Perhaps the steamboat men will make a similar dis- covery some time, and then the Kastern beats, which now carry passengers down the Bast river and around the Battery to the North river for the passengers to go to their homes in Thirtieth or Fortieth street, will perhaps land them at Fortieth street, on the East river. Loss BY Fimes.—Over seventeen million dollars’ worth of proporty has been destroyed by fire in the United States since the beginning of the present year. Insurance business ought Life Peerages in Great Britain. A cable despatch informs us that Earl Rus- sell’s Life Poerages bill has been passed in a committee of the Lords. The bill has been modified but slightly in passing through the House, If it pass into law it will give power to the Crown to create, on the recommenda- tion of the Prime Minister for the time being, peers for life from the ranks of literature, law, art, science and commerce, at a rafe not ex- ceeding two annually. As the bill has now received the recommendation’ of the Lords we have no doubt that when it comes down to the Commons it will be heartily endorsed. On this side the water such a bill excites no general interest. To those, however, who are watching the progress of events and the growth of reform all over the world sucha change as that which the bill implies in the old constitution of England is at once inte- resting and instructive. It reveals the growing power of the people, the changes which have been brought about in modern times and among all civilized peoples mainly by means of the press, but largely also through the agency of steam and electricity. The old privileged orders are breaking down all over Europe. Inaristocratic England they feel themselves pushed into a corner to main- tain the dignity of their order, to prevent the House of Lords, in fact, from sinking into con- tempt. The Chamber of Peers has resolved to strengthen itself by adopting from time to time as many sons as shall be necessary from the ranks of the democracy. So far as the Lords themselves are concerned it is a wise and well-considered policy. So far as the out- side world is concerned it is an unmistakable proof of the growing power of the people. We cannot say that the world is yet sick of mon- archy or that titled and privileged classes are universally out of favor; but it may now be said that the wearers of crowns and coronets must everywhere consult the feelings and humor the wishes of the once despised de- mocracy. As the world marches on towards the great future it becomes daily more mani- fest that the governing power has its source not at the summit but at the basis of the social pyramid. CommERoraL RELATIONS wit CANADA— Tux CoampEr or Commeroz.—That respect- able fossil institution, the Chamber of Com- merce, has been again ventilating its ideas about reciprocity in our commercial relations with Canada. Now, this idea of reciprocity is all very well, but heretofore the reciprocity with Canada under expired treaties was pretty much on one side. Hence the refusal on the part of the United States to renew these treaties. The Kanucks had the best of it. Whet we want is the St. Lawrence river through its whole length, connections and mouth, with the land on both sides. It is' one of the moat necessary outlets of the trade of our vast and populous interior and ought not to be in the possession of foreigners. That is the only reciprocity which will satisfy the American people. If we could settle the Alabama claims on such a basis of concession we might accept it and grant besides a liberal reciprocity treaty for the territory beyond. Ifthe Chamber of Commerce would lift itself up tothe magnitude of the question in this point of view it would show more sense and an appreciation of the interests and future of our great and rapidly progressive country. Toe Vote or Mempnis, TgnN.—By the re- cent registration of the voting population of. Memphis it appears that the democrats will stand but a slim chance of carrying the city at the next election. Taking the registry as a. basis for estimating the result, the vote will stand about as follows :— Copperheads ........ Republican majority. Tux Viorroy AND THE Sugrz Canat.—If the Suez canal shall prove a success, as it now promises to do, Egypt will become a great pathway of commerce, Egypt of course will be immensely enriched thereby. The Viceroy of that country likes riches quite as much ashelikes power. If he can obtain the consent of the European Powers to proclaim the canal “‘neutral for all nations and for all time,” his position is made more secure, he thinks, than it could be made by any fir- man of the Sultan, The Viceroy ought to know that all such schemes are vain, The European Powers are no longer bound by Holy Alliance treaties. When the great dis- ruption of the Turkish empire shall take place, Egypt will become the portion of that Power which shall be strong enough to take and hold it. The presumption now is that that Power will be England. His neusrality scheme is but a cunning device to perpetuate the power of his family. It can have no good result. Puswine THR Niaorr.—In Washington they have passed an ordinance compelling the keepers of theatres to admit colored. people to any part of the house, Perhaps there are not enough of these in Washington who can pay for good places to quite crowd all the white people out; but if there should be a jam at any time the darkics must apparently have the preference, as we suppose there is no statute directly compelling the admission of white men. All the legislation in favor of the negro in Washington is likely to make that an exceptionally agreeable city tor gentlemen and ladies of color. We should not be astonished if this finally led to the set- tlement there of all the wealthy darkies in the country and of such an influx of others as to crowd out white shopkeepers, restaurateurs, tallors, servants and laborers. Indeed, there is no need for anybody there but darkies, legislators and reporters, and if these had the place to themselves it might be better for the country. Tue Tenure ov Orvior.—How the politi- cians look upon the administration of the gov- ernment is seen in the report of proceedings in one of the general committees. Somebody wanted the President to remove General Bar- low, Marshal of this district, because he had not chosen his subordinates as this fellow would have chosen them had he been maxshal. Barlow was appointed because he aid the State some service in some great battles; but that ia nothing. Hoe was only serving the country then. *If ho will not serve the politi cians now he must co. sevseacrsmaenacata ta LEE teeecasaaesaecnacariatias A War Cloud in the East. The Emperor Napoleon ILI. of France is im difficulty with the Emperor T’Oung Chi of China. It’ is not merely a difficulty, but a serious matter, which may bring about a war between the representative of the youngest of the royal dynasties of Europe and the youthful imperialist who wears the most ancient crown in Asia. A short time since the Count de Rochechouart, French Ambassador in Pekin, was insulted by personal castigation, being slapped in the face by a Chinese Mandarin of high rank in the palace, and, we believe, in the very presence of the Chinese monarch. The Frenchman struck his flag immediately and reported the case to Paris, From Hong Kong we are informed, under date of the 11th of May, that the French and other ‘‘envoys” serving there had notified the Chinese ‘government that the Emperor would be allowed only three days from that date to make an apology to France. We are not told, however, what the consequences will be should he refuse. Pro- bably war. Europe is jealous of the rapid ad- vance of American interests in China, un- easy as to the issue of our diplomacy in Pekin, as well as a heavy loser by the revolution which has taken place in the current of trade from the East to our shores, and which wilt flow to us in high tide when the Pacific Rail- road is completed. Europe will, if opportu- nity be given, fight again for the maintenance of her interests in China; and in the present instance it may be regarded as ominous of coming war that the cable despatch says the “French and other envoys” notified the Chi- nese. Are we to see a coalition, France and England leading, for the sustentation of European monopoly in China? If so we must prevent its fruition. Woman and Her Rights. There seenis to be a general stir among the weuker sex, and all sorts of propositions are brought forward by the leading agitators among the ‘women kind for bringing them to the front in the ‘‘world’s broad\field of battle.” One agitates the vote-the-women-a-garden question, another claims the ballot, a few lead in voting on Church questions and ruling the vestry, some want to assimilate with the stronger sex .in dross, others exclaim against having anything to do with the ‘unwhispor- ables,” Sorosis aims for a woman's parlia- ment, and the Rev. Mrs. Van Cott aspires to show the way to salvation. We suspect the truth of the matter is that these women. have tried so long to hammer into their husbands’ heads the idea that they have the superior judgment in household matters that they have come really to believe that they are superior in all matters of opinion and business to the sterner sex. So long as these unsexed agitators confine their labors to the columns of some weakly newspaper or the vaporings of an unsexed club, they do their little harm to no one but themselves; and even the assemblage of a parcel of scolds in a woman’s par- liament will have no other result than to exhibit their want of practical knowledge and their unfitness for the harsher labors of men. In her social duties, it is the natural mission of woman to unfold to the dawning mind of childhood the loving truths of our Christian belief; but when she assumes to thunder from the pulpit she only makes a lamentable imitation of the Boanerges of the Church and weakens instead of enforces the truths she would present. Tho true mission of woman lies in the family, where her very | weakness becomes a strength, her beauty an attraction to good, her soft and winning ways an enticement to nobleness of purpose and effort, and her loving sympathies a solace for the mischances of the strife in the outer world, It is when a woman abandons these her strong- holds and unsexes herself to battle as a man that she inflicts a loss upon society and de- prives man of his most powerful stimulus, We can conceive no worse form of social: or- ganization than one where unsexed woman would descend from the high level upon which Christianity and modern civilization have placed her and degrade her finer sympathies by placing them upon a level with the coarser nature which fits man for the battle of the world. Tur Norrn Dvurew Caveron is to go for the same reason that was fatal to the City Hospital and Columbia College and all the other monuments. The land is so valuable that it is a good speculation to sell it and build another church further up town, Will it be pulled down, or share the fate of its ancient associate, now the Post Office, in being adapted to business; and what new mixture shall we have with it? We tiave a church edifice in Broadway used as a theatre; one in Hester street as a gas office; one in Rose street isa lager bier gymnasium ; one in Chrystie street 19 a distillery, and a full dozen are in use as stables or carriage repositories. Tue Price or Pratse.—-That was very cheap praise that the Rev. Sidney A. Corey's congregation got when they only paid a basso two hundred dollars a year, Only fancy a man lending his bass voice to do the praise by proxy fora whole congregation of sinners at one dollar and seventy-five a service. Cheap, cheap. And they did not pay him because he was a.poor singer. Do they sometimes get a good singer for that money? The statistics of church music would be an interesting thing, Perhaps not less than two million dollars ia expended on it per annum in this city, Naporgon’s Misston to Mrxico,—We learn from Paris that Napoleon’s commissioner to Mexico, M. Burdet, is charged to look after French interests in that country, but to hold no communication with the government, How will he look after the French interests? Tur Tyeanny of Lanor.—Sixty masons struck in Newark because their emptoyer, who already had two apprentices, employed another, He would have had but qne appren- tice to every twenty men; yet such an outrage on their rights the masons could not endure, Atlantic Boat Club of Hoboken, At the annual meeting of the Atlantic Boat Clap of Hoboken, held on Thursday evening, the following gentlemen were re-elected officers for the ensuing year:—Matthias B. Arnold, President; Joseph Rus. sell, Vice President; L. Dinwiddie Smith, Recording Seoretary; Joseph Henson, Cor Kling Secretary; Casimir 'T Treasurer; Wim. A. Butler, Ohi Spielmans, y Kruest L. Smith, Investieating Gomes