The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1869, Page 4

r.5 “EUROPE. The Irish Church Bill and the British Peers. THE LAIRDS LETTER CRITICISED, How the French Elections are Regarded. The Cunard steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, from Liverpool May 29, via Queenstown the 30th, ar- rived at this port yesterday morning. She brings Getails of our telegrams up to date of sailing. ‘The French tron-clad corvette Belliqueuse arrived at Brest about ten days ago, after accomplishing a voyage around the world. On arriving in London the two sons of Count von fismarck presented a letter from their father to Mr. Gladstone, who invited them to pass a few days with is family. The Emperor of Austria has addressed a letter to Francis 11, the ex-King of Naples, requesting him to put off his intended journey to Vienna for a few weeks. The Roumanian Chambers presented a loyal ad- dress to Prince Charles on the 27th wt., promising him their support in his policy of progress com- bined with the maintenance of law and order. Wheal Crebor Mine, situated near the town of Tavislock, England, was accidentally flooded on Friday, the 25th uit., in consequence of some men breaking into an old workmg. Fortunately, only four meh were at work in the low levels at the tyne, oue of whom, however, was drowned Lastantly. ‘The Knirgiz rebellion in Russia has spread to the country of the Don Cossacks, who are stated to have United with tue Kalmucks and Khirgiz in weir attempt to cast off the Russian rule. The £lher seid Gazette states that an ophthalmta of @ contagtous character prevails at Berlin, and which Medical men believe to be of the same nature as the terrible Egyptian disease. Measures of precaution have beeu taken in consequence. The assassins who killed the Austrian Consul at Leghorn, meaning to murder General Crenneviile, have been discovered, They are persons who were Subjected to great indignities py General Crenne- Ville’s order during the Austrian occupation of 1849, The Paris Patrie contradicts a report, published, it says, by a foreign journal, that the plague had bro- ken out in Egypt. We hear from Kars that the cattle plague is gra- dually diminishing in that neighborhood, thanks to he extensive and good p: rage the countr, pos- sesses. The same malady, however, is decimating the cattle in the neighborhood of Scutari in Albania. The Queen gave a dance in honour of her birtnday On Monday, the 24th ult., in alarge marquee close to Balmoral Castle, to the servants, tenants, keepers, ud Birkhall, Her majesty was present at the The hostile feeling between the State and the Church in Bavaria 1s becoming more and more deeply accentuated. The language used by the Bishop of Katisbon during an official visitation at Schewandorf furnishes proof that the time nas ar- Tived for the government to put an end to this impe- rium in imperio, The Independance Belge an been seized by the Fr nces that it has now government and its cir- culation proh bited in ce for six days consecu- tively. Its only offence appears to have been a de- nial of statements made in the semi-official Paris Journals that bands of dangerous demagogues were conspiring in Belgium and awaiting an opportunity of invading France. The International, of London, mentions a report that the present British Minister at Washington will be appointed to Vienna, and will be replaced by the present oliciating Minister at St. Petersburg. ‘The Minister odiciating at Vienna will 0 to St. Peters- burg. ENGLAND. The House of Lords aad the Irish Church Bill— Shall Mereditary Legisiation be Abolished ¢ Lonpow, May 29, 1809. The time has arrived for a great reform in Eng- land—a reform of which people have hitherto thought rather than spoken, but the active discussion of which cannot be longer postponed. This reform Is nothing jess than the entire abolition of hereditary legisiation—the sweeping away of the House of Lords as an hereditary body. At first glance such a proposition may appear extravagant, and those who Gre not closely watching the progress of events may well be pardoned for doubting tuat the British peo- ple could ever be brought to sanction such a sacrilege of their glorious constitution. But for many years Past the conviction has been forcing itself, slowly it is true, but not the iess surely, upon the minds of the Engitsh masses that the House of Peers, as at present constituted, is an institution utterly unfitted to the age in which we live, entirely removea from sympathy with the peo- pie and inconsistent with the idea of free govern- ment. Jt is true that the Lords have hitherto evinced a disposition to yield to popular sentiment, @lthough relu and at the eleventh bour, Catholic emancipation, the repeal of the Corn laws, the removal of Jewish disabilities, the extension of the suiirage have ail in their turn received the assent of the Upper House; and there are those who believe that on the Irish Church bili its members will prove ‘ut, despite their admitved hostility But the mere fact that one branch ative body—not responsible to the peo- a by any portion of the electors, and owing ts position to the accident of birth, has the power to thwart the will of the ma 1 insurmountable obstacie to a d the endorsement of the artiing because expediency ho could work the mischief {t 1s felt that the evil is a e3 a radical cure. It has beeu i ihe feerage isnot free from those fod failings to which all fest is heir. A Who ts born @ iord 18 as Mable to be deficient in Anteilect, in virtu , in honor and in honesty as is the man who happens to own e lesa exalted descent; and p ace beginning to ask themselves why they ca sould be ruled by fouls and Knaves simpiy be- € vie ivos and Knaves happen to be the de- sconduais of Lhe heroes, the courtiers or the robbers of a bywone ceatury. His grace the Duke of Stilton miay be as old aud as rich a8 you please; but if his heal happous to be tiled with inaggots, like his favorite chy in piace of brains, why should the accident of birth entitle Bim to put his yeto upon the wil of the p ¢ und to block the wheels of the work aress ? ers of Great Britain are entitled to respect. ein th time done many noble acts, and among thew, even in the present day, men of high honor and of brilhant attainments, But they might be wll tiabectles, ruM@ans or rascals, and Qader tle evil of hereditary legisiation their power woula be just the sae. It us this evil which requires to L oh a man as Jobn Bright can- h e ove hinsel! to ite eradication. i, indeed, be the preparatory atep to all other for it is ausolutely necessary to t the ng block of an trresponsibie legislative 4 House that 18 beyond the reach of the out of the way before any material can be made on the road of reform. there u thau di siumat bouy ople pad way e and tere an inch may be gained through tue pressure of tear or fa the hope of stopping further progress; out whea @ real advance is at tooplel the barrier will be raised which nothin, Sort of revolution willovercome. Better for al 1 he obstruction shoald be removed peacefully ane tludonaly tian that it should be swept awa. by Ue fury of tue storm, ‘tts hot proposed to aboish the Upper House of the britwh Parliawent. Itis not Proposed to inter. Jere even with the character met Let them ail be of nm mari scounta and t an Wwe their seats to the votes of the eleciors of Great Britain, as do the members of the Lower House, and not to the mere accident of birth. [ti conceded on ai) hands that the House of Lords, a8 at present constituted, is too tar removed from tie people; that it must be brougut nearer to them—be made more in sympathy with them, The fledgling reformers of ‘the day have sought to accomplish this resuit by adding to the present body 4 batch of lite Peers, Dut this is SIMPY AO Adinission that the evil exists, Tt is no panacea, hot even @ partial remedy. Vie Bubstitution of an elective House of Lords for an heredit i Lords wil alone meet (ue exi- and ty this point the efforts of to be direcced. ‘Th jast century, Wio has lived (or the past linrty years nursme his praiu- v NEW YUKK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET, dices and his and deploring the degeneration of the world, ho! om to his seat a Westuiinster at the Tisk of his life, to vote against the ragamumins who would disturb the old order of things. Would it not be far petter to substitute in his place as a legislator his seventh or eighth son, who has knocked about the world for fifteen or twenty years, living as a auper upon his rich relatiol but who hows that in that time electric telegraph Wires have boen constructed, that cables have bound continents and peoples together, that serfdom has disappeared here, slavery there; that intelligence has spread among the masses, and that the human race is everywhere rising into the position the Creator designed for those made after His own image? Let the House of Lords still be composed of men who are in possession of that desirable qualtfi- cation—‘a stake in the nation; let its members be confined to the nobility, to dukes, marquises, earis and their descendants; but let the opie elect the Peers as they elect the Commons, and give them the whole range of the nobility, young and old, to choose from. by such @ radical reform only can the country be freed from an evil which thousands are DeREDIAS te deplore, and which if not peaceably remove awalis only the first practical mauifestation to be swept away by revolution, itis with such a conviction minds tuat people are pow asking, What will the House of Lords do with the Irish Church bili? The friends of tue Church—or, more properly spear the friends of its special privileges, Wealth ani slothfuluess—are using all their efforts to induce the rejection of the measure on its second reading, but WM.any persons who ought to be well informed pre- dict that the Peers will prefer the less direct method of slaugitering it by amendmeats to which the Ininisterial and liberal party in the House wilt be un- able to agree. All concur In the statement that the Lords are bitterly opposed to disestablishment and disendowment, and that if their assent should be eventually wou it would only be under compulsion, as it Were, and from the apprehension that it wouid not be altogetaer safe to attempt to stem the cur- rent of popular opinion. A few may be tound who believe the Lords will actually pass the bill without material amendment, and these trust to Lord Salisbury’s wisdowa and moderation to guide the Peers trom the dangerous rock of oppo- sition to the will of the people. + Last year Lord Sailsbury declared that in his view an hereditary body was from its very nature debarred from éé- teating a measure upon which the navion had already Set the mark Of approval, aud it 1s aaper by some that this liberal and just sentiment will control the actton of the Upper House on the Irish Church bill. it does not seem probable, however, that taese hopes will be fulfilled. It may be that prudence or tear may prevent toe Lords from rejecting on its second reading @ measure wnich has carried so recently a large majority into the House of Commons, and Wauich has met such a decided support from the popular branch of Pariiament in all its stages; but tue chances are that the bill will be materially modi- ded, and taat before 1 is finally dtsposei of it will be the subject of couference between the two houses, pressing upon their ing The Didicalty with America Relative to the Alabama Cinims. The London Tires of the 28th ult. has an editortal reviewing the letter of the Messrs. Laird regarding the building of the Alabama, from waich we make the following extracts:— The truth of the matter is—and by this time the Americans must be well aware of ti—iuat our oieuce, Ul aby Was committed by us, consisied in te det of a law which allowed so much to be done as is here confessed to have been done by Messrs, Laird, It will not escape the notjce of the public thas though tne builders of the Alabama confined toemselves prudentiy to tue terms ol their contract, although they sold and delivered simply an empty ship, and kept themselves aloof from all the pro- ceedings Which ultinately turned her into a man- of war, they did nevertheiess know they were build- ing a ship for the Confederate navy, and that they had delivered her mto the hands of those who woud complete her for its service, it is likewise admitted that, though Mr. Laird, te member for Birkenhead, Was not actually at tuav ume a partner in the firm, le also knew of the building of the Alabama and of the purposes for which she was built. The ques- tion, theretore, and the oniy question, 19 whether the omission in our jurisprudence which per- mitted these proceedings renders us Lable for any of the consequences whica followed them. We may almost veuture to say—though we should not object to have the pomt dcbated—that there was no hegligence on the part of our govern- meat under th stood. We doubt very much if the Alan been seized, gave at the peril of tie government, and it ts m my provabie that (he authorities, if they had ventured on detaiming her, would have been compelled, tterwarus im the case of the Alexandra, wo the costs of an arbitrary and unlawiul act. this being the state of the case, it may f bly be argued that we owe compensation for the defects of our law, if not tor the carelessness of those who adiminisvered it. We cunnot but see, Ms ing a kind of case against ourselves, that, notwithstanding all Messrs. Laird’s disclaimers, nobody doubted the real destination of the vessel they Were building. That she was designed for a veasel with thmorous tions repeat to the four winds which blow on Boulevards, in order that all might hear, that the candidate for whou Paris has manifested the most sympathy is the defender of order, the maker of peace, te protector of the labor: ing classes—M. Juies Simon. Ana what if Ganebetta 43 rather a stormy orator? they ask; he 18 4 mert- dional and lus blood ts hot; that is all in specch, however; besides, when he does rave and storm abou im the tribune ike a wounded panther, is it not ail for the liberty of the press and sake of tie journalist dragged off to prison? And Bancel? Well, after all, bancel, he has has been elected agaiust that mnultt-coiored Ernile Ollivier, in Paris; but hasn't Bancel been an exile, and has not he got sometuing to say to the Chamber about constitutions in other pee of the world to @ get of conservatives Whose ongest journeys are from their libraries at home to tke Palais Bourbon? Now it comes to Picard. Well, but we could not do without him. Picard forever} that’s bis mame. Can't he bite? And wuo is bitterer than he against the Prefect? He is the only man who has stopped M. Haussmann, and without him who knows but what, when the Baron had dissected and quartered our capital, and then arawa out Its very insides, we should not have been put under ground for manure, so heartily does Baron Hauss- mann hate all Parisians? This is a smali pictorial sketch of what the people talk about in answer to abuse trom abroad, ‘The London Times has changed quarters, by the way. Ido not repeat this ag a bit of news, or myself think itis a novelty. 1 only state tuat the Times has rejoiced the Rapp, and the Gaulots, and the Figira, the femnps and the Stévle, by its opinion on French elecions. It says something which | do not verbally uote, because scanned over in a ourry at the iotel fe Ville, but to the effect that it is doubtful whether if universal suffrage nad prevatled under the govern- ment of July the policy of Louis Puilippe would ever have been condemned by the inhabitants of his capi- tal as the principle of the emptre has thus been con- demned, Further on 1t says that the traak sdop. tion of ministerial responsibility, the concession to the Chamber of the right of iuitiating legislauon—in a word, the restoration of parliamentary govern- ment may concillate the feeling which now exists, and that itis by such means ouly the Emperor can expect to mitigate the opposition which bas now become dynastic. No doubdé that this 13 all perfectly true, only the time is not far distant when the English treated the French (through the ines) to @ dierent appre- ciation of their capacities. ‘They were told that if not governed by @ hand of iron, if not held back like & high mettled steed the guillotine would again be in the enjoyinent of public functions. It is incontestable that before the advent of Na- poleon ill. France did not know what it could do, and if the following sentences which I cite and have come across in one of the present Emperor's own works were acted on France would not care to Know more. Tue ttle page is “Progress’!:— When aman puts himself at the bead of Progress {t fol- lows him; when s man likes Progress it comes along and walks by his side; but when a man turus and goes right aguinst it be is aure to be overturned. It ts a comfort aiter these words to add that the be- Net 18 Napoieon II]. means them. At present a coup wetat is not looked forward to, but a certain change isgreatly hoped for. The Prince Napoleon has daily interviews wita his coasiu, and troin what 1 have ‘athered I can vouch for the following from his Ma- jesty:—"*Yes,’? he said, lookiug over some liberal measures proposed by Prince Napoleon, “these are very fine and desirable, but no one will believe they are being carried out under Rouher.’”” The disappointment feit in truth at the Ministére d’ Etat when successive telegrams there conveyed the result of the elections was extreme, ‘he Eumperor, on the contrary, Was calm and appeared very satis- fied to know the trutu, He remained up the larger portion of the night, and, with tae exception of the defeat of EF, Viilvier, expressed no asionishment. He refused to take rest until be ad in all the despatches from the Provinces, and stnce then has shown some delight at the elevation of B. Olivier 1n the Department of Var, itis not doubted in oMiciai circles here that &, Ollivier will be nominated a minister in some ser- vice or other. Anecdotes avound ou this candidate, who is cordially detested in Paris. The papers say that when the telegram was brought him to an- nounce his election at Var le trembled and read 1t While the bearer was waiting to have his receipt book signed; then, 1a ecstasies, put a Napoleon and a franc in the man’s Land, instead of two one franc es, The bearer objected to so much generosity. “Pray Keep it,” said smile the Secoud (Emile de Girardin 18 the First), “it1s not too much for the good news ;” tere were 16,000 votes, so that makes just one fr aud six sous lor each thousund. Emile got them cheap. Before closing I wish to draw the attention of your readers to @ merked change im the Emperor's opinions since the year 1865, It may be remembered What @ quarrel aud rapture took piace betweea Napoleon lif. and his cousin, m consequence of the speech made by the latter m May at Ajaccio. The objectionable parts are in the programme advo- cated by Emile Ollivier to-day. ‘They were quoted by the Prince from Napoleon L, when too lute, alter the disasters of 1815, and he saw what he suould have done, Whether he felt and believed wha: he wrote and sald is of no importance now; it sufiices of war Was never so much as disguised; that she was intended for the service of the Confederates Was auiversally understood. Oficial inspectors and private spies were watching her, and were enabled to Watch her day after day. it does little good to prove the publicity of ali these proceedings, for, in fact, there Was no heed of secrecy. So long as the tes- sei Was nerther armed nor equipped she did not come under the cognizance of the law, but everybody did suspect her, and the suspicions were certainly well founded, * * * Itneeds, however, no proot at all, because, as we have before observed, itis nowhere really believed that between the escape of the Ala- bama, a8 now detailed by Messrs. Laird, and the proclamation of neutrality, as denounced by Mr. Sumuer, there Was absulutely no connection what- ever, it is very doubtful if there was any negil- gence at all, and most assuredly there was was no Wiilul or malicious negligence on tae part of our authorities in permitting the Alabama to get to sea. All we can admit 18, that if it nad really been illegal to bulld such a vessel, or not illegal to seize her when built, it might have been better, not only for the federals, but for ourselves aiso, “he precedent might be @ very mischievous one for usin time of war If the shipbuilders of other countries were to take much contracts as Messrs. Laird took at Birkenhead. The fact is, the more our cor- respondents imsist on the fregularity and openness of the transaction, the more completely they expose the weakuess of the law. They did, to all intents and purposes, build a ship- of-war for the American insurgents with a fui knowledge of wiat they were doing. They made no attempt at concealment, because concealment up Wo @ certalu point was unnnecesasary. They could not be prevented from pbuilding whe halt of a man-ol-war to order, and they took care to do no more. ‘They “were never informed by the pur- chaser of the Alabama of the arrangements he nad made for manning, arming, equipping and commis- sioning that vessel at aforeiga port.” Of course not. Both parties Were wise euouga to keep clear of such contidences; but Messrs. Laird do not show us by their elaborate expianations how much was to be done with compiete impunity tn such matters aa these. We accept in thelr itteral truth aii they tell us about the terms of the contract, We do not sup- pose they exacted any exorbitaut conditions from the purchaser, for there Waa no reason why they should, Guarding themsel as they took care do, they ran no extraordinary risk. They neither manned the Alabama nor equipped her; nor did they inquire how she was to be manned, or where she Was to be equipped. They only prepared her com- pletely for receiving her equipment and crew, and tnen they took the money apd washed thetr hands of tne job. In ali tuis there was nothing iLegal, and it Is precisely because there was nothing ilegai that our government denied its respons.biuty for tue con- sequencies. But although it may be very doubtful how far one State is accountable to another for the Incompicteness of its laws, It is clear that in the case before us the iaw did leave a great deal unpro- vided for. FRANCE. The Result of the ElectionsExcitement Over the Baliot-The Tenor of the London Times—Napoleon on Progress=Tho Election Excitemeut in the TuileriesBonaparte’s Opinions. Panis, May 23, 1809. Since my last correspondence Peris has taken ® long breath of exaltation over the unexpected success of the elections. The papers of the opposi- tion have recommenced their exhortations and ad- vice to the electors of those circumscriptiona in which a final and second trial will give the exact keynote of the diapason of public opinion ail over France, There are, Including Paris and the depart. ments, no less than twenty circumscriptions in Which this second trial, or ballot, is necessary. Wherever @ candidate did not attain @ majority @f haif tue number of electors and one vote over this half, he falied and the batlotensues, At the ballot he must attain the relative majority, however large bo the number of electors. Under these conditions differences and grievances have to We put aside for tho sake of union In one sole aim—i. ¢., the defeat of the oMcial candidate; theretore is this pertod a most exciting one in Paris, Lyons and Marsollies, where the opposition has up to this been triumph. ant. In the circumseriptions where three or four candidates have come forth and neither of them been elected, the one or twe who have the least numbers of votes give what they had over to tne one of their political opinioh who had the moat, Thus in the Seventh circumserption Jules Pavre had 12,000, Rochefort 10,000 and Cantagrel 7,437; the two who are to ballot are Jules re and Rochefort, and Cantagrel gives his 7,407 votes to Rochefort. Many politicians think there is every probability that Rochefort will be elected. This and M. ihiers’ circumscription are now the two which offer most interest, The French have been taxed by the foreign press with ingratitude for being @o forgetful of the services of Juies Favre and ‘Thiers a8 to have carried their votes away from them to give them to their rivals, Littie doubt, however, exists but Wat Tolera will be re-elected; as to Jules | Favre, he has alieuated many partisans for his at | tachment to the cause of Kome and the a. \ Thiers, belay an advocate for tie military occupation | of Kome by the Frenen, met with il-favor ior the | Same cause, very probavly, Friends of ordet in France share the opinion expressed by the foreign ‘Diese on tis DOLL. but those Woo are not ailicted that oe wrote aud said what I reproduce and what Prince Napoleon repeated:— . On my return to my country (now glorious, enlm and strong) 1 ehouid have poten ber Uimi:s to be immovable, all new incroase of territory anti-national; 1 should have \aken my son as an associate in governing the empire, my. dictatorship would have been over and imy consututional reiga have commenced. Paris would uave become iba capt tal of the world and the French the most eavied of ail nations. Napoleon I. said once tp Las Vases:— England, France and the United Stutos—these are the sources from which wili dart the light of the world, because of constitutional liverty, Again he said at Cannes:— Tbave proceeded from the ranke of t optilar Hore beats for me ree debates, free electors, reapon a free press, {i 1s absurd to ettile i. And once, in an open sitting of State councillors, he exciaimed:— It is for your own interests, ap; Want to restrict the liberty of tle pres: be quite a stranger to all this in the future. 1b exhausted iteclfon me while I was away; 1 defy it to do worse or pick up a new accusation against me. ‘The last words dictated by Napoleon I. to his son were: Tell my #on he is French, before any cther consideration, and that when he comes to reign ho musi let Fraace bave liberty. ‘These were the citations, and when Prince Napo leon Anished his speech he addea:— Ob, Corsicans, let ua act all in unity for the triumph of these inseparabie principles, nationalities, the grandeur of the uation and liberty, My task ts done if you, like myself, are convinced that the mission of Napoleon 1. ‘was, through his dictatorship, to prepare the nation for emancipalion. We shall see after this fresh electtoneering perioa is over—we shall geen on the Sth and 6tn of June, when the balloting has taken place and the pre- scribed five days have passed between the last meet- ing and decisive day—whetver the uation persists in returning democrata to the Chamb nh spite of the Warnings lavished on it. Ig it to be independent hostiltty, or will Cesar ionk forward tu the coaunua. tion Of @ tranquil dynasty t The Parisian Press on the French Elections. The (aris journals, having now t results of the elections all over France, are able to expresa their impressions on the signification of returns, They all agree in considering the nation to have rejected in the most decided man- ner every opinion of @ juste-milieu character and to have divided the country into two clearly-defined camps—revolution and supporters of the present government. The sem-official journais deciare that they rejoice at the verdict thus given, as the present dynasty will henceforth have no a ulty in know- ing who are its en sand who its friends. The organs of the (lers-z i do not attempt to extenuate the total discomfture of their candidates; whereas the portion of the press which represents extreme opinion while rejoicing at the success obtained seems almost scared at the possible consequences and counsel moderation to their frie: Having thus briefly signified the general tendencies of cach great party we proceed to give some ¢ ta, com- mencing with the subjotned from the D The candi » represent moderate liberal opinions have n cen fortunate at Paris. In see wg M. Emile Ollivier and M. Gnéroult fall com- pletely, and MM. 1 8, Jules Favre and Garnier. Pages obliged to submit 40 @ second triai, all those Who dread extrene parties will necessarily be uflected by & painful feeling. But we ought not to be elther too much afflicted or too much alarmed at these mishaps. M. Thiers maintains hia candida. ture, and there is almost a certainty that he will ba nominated at the second ballot. The electors of the Var have already repaired, in respect to M, Ollivier, the injustice of those of the Seine. Out of the fi deputies chosen in Paris at the first trial there three who were supported by the itberal consery: tives a4 well as by tie radicals; wo shall soon see what part the two others will play in the Legisia- tive Chamber. In tue meantime iM. Gambet the elected of the first circumscription, wil Go well, unless he desires to astonish the world by his Ingratitade, to go and pay visits of acknowledg- ment to those inemvers of the government who concelved the idea of prosecuting the originators of the Waudin subscription; for, without the speech Which that affair yave him an opportunity of pro- nouncing, cerainty would not have gained an entrance into the Chamber. Nor should the radical party forget that the adroitness with which the third circumwcription Was remodelied in 1867, at a moment when the government aimed at giving 'a check to Me Ollivier, singularly contributed to the success of M. Bancel. The compicte transformation of the second circumscription has also had the effect of eniisting against M. Thiers numerous battalions of radicals, Wo, in voting tor Count a’ Alton-Snve, had o large share in preventing t iustrious orator from trie umphing at the first ballot. We can only congratu- | lave the government in having procured for itself Such zealous and tiveliigenut uilies, The Gonstwutionnet expresses tverma:— Two groat facts issue from the general 186¥—the dissolution of the Wveral union gun of the conservative party. itself in these elections of d the cre For the first tne ince 1789 We Kee ail ioderate opinions coalescing Against the revolution; the Debate, the LD rte, Constuutionnel, the Upiwon Nationale, and te Presse, anite with the Putrie and the People to com bat the “irreconciiau es.’ At Paris our efforte have been powerless. ‘ihe conservative union was conatl tuted at the eleven t tour We had not time enough W vrevare far the contest. and therefore we have been On December 11, What, however, do we see at lay? M. Taiers about to have a sec- ond ballot between a government candidate and a socialist; M. Carnot failing miserably in with a revolutionist; M. Garnier- held in check by M, Ruspall; M. Olitvier de- M, Bancel; M. Guéroult reduced to a pal try minority; M. Jaies Favre himself obliged to ispute the ground with two socialist pampbletcers. We see the whole liberal opposition of 1363, with the exception of MM, Jules Simon and Pelletan, reviled, insulted and repudiated as reactionists by that radi- cal party, to the formation of which we invited the attention of the incredulous Débats, And now we say once more to those journals who have remained faithful to liberal traditions—liberty 1s menaced at one ana the same time by the revolutionists and the partisans of reaction. Are you willing that we should combine together to form's powerful centre to con- front the Dix-Dévembre on the one side and the Rap- pei on the other? Do you consent to take in hand the conservative cause, 80 often compromised by two zealous functionaries? Will you joi us in an attempt to substitute our influence for the action of governinent? The Pave sums up in the following terms the re- sult of the contest:— We flad here a striking check along the whole line of Orleanis: candidates, and algo of most of the in- termediate shades of opinion; om the other hand, we note a partial triumph of the ultra-radicals. In fact, as much as the vrleauists have suffered an trrepara- bie defeat, so much bave tue oitictal candidates been successiul, The result of the contest is this—sup- pression by universal suffrage itself of all intermedi- ate shades, of all middle opiniohs. We find our- selves, therefore, without having either wished or sought for such a result, placed in a situation just a3 clear and wel! detined as that which existed at the outset of the empire; namely, on one side an irre- concuable revolutionary minority; on the other the ovenamans supported by the immense majority of ‘he nation, ST. DOMINGO. L% The Situation—Political Parties and Lenders Respective Policies of Baez and Cabral— European Intrigues—A Confederation of the Antilles-New Cabinet Woods—Speculation Around Samana. Sr. Dominao, May 20, 1869, Affairs here are in @ delightful maze of entangle- ment, and | shall praise myself to myseif as a re- markable genius if I succeed in reducing the account nto comprehensible, common-sense English. Everybody has changed his plans and principles since January, 1863, and that gives a racy flavor of variety to the curiously involved change of conse- quences. In 1867 President Cabral and Samana were Played agamst St. Thomas and Denmark by Mr. Seward, who has a tenderness for kings, icebergs and earthquakes, and while this game was on Cabral became confidingly American. When he was ousted by Baez and had compared notes in his lodgings, at St. Thomas, with the Danish officials he was disgusted to learn that he had only been used to bait the hook thrown out to catch St. Thomas, Cabral was educated in Eng- land, ari his soul ts stupid in a profound respect for ner glory and greatness, The blandishments of Seward lured him temporarily from his first love; but he returned to his allegiance when he awoke to flad himself duped and cast aside by the smovth and versatile Seward. While Cabral was American his great rival (Bacz) was, on the contrary, quite philo-European. Hts party denounced the sale of Samana as a “treason- able dismemberment of the Dominican re- public;” but behind all this was the friendly hint that a United States mail and naval station might be made a great mutual benefit, but that every form of negotia- tion on the question of Samana must be opened by the Washington Cabinet and take the shape of a dis- tnct and forma! proposition from the United States, Mr. Seward spent upwards of a year in vain efforts to bring Baez to some fatal committal, but he found his match in the eyrand of the Antilles.” Meanwhile ex-President Cabral made a visit to Ja- maica, and spent some pleasant days with his old friend Geftrard, of Hay it that retired chief's pic- turesque residence in the plmento groves of St. An- drews. Geilrard is more bngush than Victoria, and they both agree that Uncle Sam was notto be trusted in St. Domingo, and that it was necessary to keep that island Out of the claws of the spread eagle. ‘The British officials tu Jamaica were unanimously of the same opinion, but the native born citizens of that charioimg island did not see it so lyr Sa Whey Cabral sought to raise arms and money to attack Baez he found his proposed loan did not take well, Still he ra'sed some means, and went over to Jacmel to form an aliiance with the Cacos—first, for the overthrow of tucir own government, and then to march With tuose victorious troops into the Domini- can territory and upset Baez. It so happened, how- ever, that alter beihg shut up several months in the besieged town of Jacmel, Cabral was takea down by fever, and was forced to retura to St. Thomas. So sure were his partisahs that he would returh a conqueror that they sent on minute detaltls of batties, as if already fought and won, to the Northern press, and even the Jatiaica papers were duped into pub- lishing those well gol up accounts. But what was mere fiction th lses may prove measurably true in 1869. Cabral has Lette Ae foot withia the Do- minican limits, and at this moment in possession of the devastated belt which has tui now beea, perhaps unwisely, held by the Dominican troops under Don Valentin Baez. The Caco freebooters have always infested this region, and the attempt to clear tt of these negro Ishmaelites las been a coustant dratn on the ill-supplied treasury of Baez, but until lately the Cabinet has, to a man, op- posed lis policy of retiring his forces to the nether side Of this ‘belt of desolation” to take position where the nature of the country aud ihe supply of water and provisions give fim tie advantage of a strong de- jensive attitude, The spice of the matter is that the men who liave opposed this system 80 ‘ong were the very ones who forced Kaez to adopt it at Jast, when he thought it too late and not advisable alter Cabral had in reality placed himself at the head of the invading jorce. Wit a declared policy ot pillage, and armed for the attempt by his Brit- ish frieads, and avowing distinctly that he came to put dowu ‘the American policy of annexation.” Baez says he ought to have been met at the toresuold. It would have been weil enough to let the han pe Aire > Cacos waste them- selves in a depopulated, provisionless district; but not so Cabral, with @ regular force. His regular foree 1s about 400 men, arined with good Freach and Buglish muskets, aud a rabbie of 200, more or less, of cattle thieves and the like, Neatly ali ius force 13 from Haytt, ‘This government will have a rather better force; butit bas not sent many men, though it nas despatched arms and supplies to tue oulcers holding Azua line of defence. The great Want on both sides is money. One nan- dred thousand doliars would turn the scale either way by bringing the border population to tue ranks under pay. If the Anglo-French Company closes with Cabral for the reat of Saman. as a free port and pays down the silver before the end of Septer ber the game 14 in its hands, unless Congress agrees to aunex or the New York steam kings deal with Baez for Samana while the others are hesitat- ing and holding back the sinews of war. Baez and Cabral are not alone in taving changed their old preferences for Huropean or American bases of policy. Many of the most eager partisans for an- nexatiou are hearlog from St. Thomas, which has recanted aii its Vows of allegiance to the Union, that the United states taruf and the United States debi would devour the lifeblood of cither or all the West India isianda. Free trade, under European protec- tion, has its warm disciples, and the warmest among those who were tne rss to broach the ides of @ leading member of the Senate, said, advocate anbexation through all this year oF i009, or #0 long as tt 18 agi- tated in Washington, bul trom the firat stroke of 1870 I shall forget @nnexation and think only of the confederation of the Antuies om free trade prin- ctples,”" oy the newly launched boat of a free trade Antil- lea, confederated under European protection which shall alsoanediate for the independence of Cuba ag partof the programme, Cabral and ms party are tying to chimb and steer themselves into power with and by it. This complication of parties and ideas is confusing enourh, but it 1s far from all of i There are conflicts of Bui and American pretenders to bank, railroad and their chances, prospects and privileges have been delMerately pitted against each other by Baez io [one secure @ government loan for bis adtimini and leave nothing for his enemies. I have written vefure on this feature of Dominican policy, but every weck or two, there is a new point Rided oF an old One dropped out of the list of enter- prises. The spring rains are due, bat they have not come, afd tho whole south coast from Agua to the isiand of Saona is sufering from the drought. It has been an advantage to tie road projectors, however, and most convenient for your t, Who has therevy had @ chance to get positive information as to the state of each of the seven divisions of the Dominican republic. Pour of the five provinces aad both of the maritime districts of Samans and Puerto Pata are, | can assure you, in @ state of listiess quictude. The ex mis in the western section of the province Asia, which borders on the “depopulated belt.” That border Ishold more or jess steadily by the Caco forces wu the orders of Cabral, Ogando and Luperon. ‘The latter 18 #ald by some to be gull on the northeast of Hayti, but no one here seems to know or care muoh where he has his camping ‘There is & proposition befure this government for the construction of a good military road entirely across the wiand from St. Domingo city w Puerto Plata, The proposer is Mr. Moss, an English gentle- man, Who lias liad some roadmaking experience in California. Hie is examining the route now, but is expected to ree his pian soon, when, it is tagogt, tt will ve aevepted by this government. og Bagiish ey fone ae Saman: ew ‘8 since, Wit re} on coal formations. ‘its opinion of the ‘Daman coal ia not very favorable, bus he ia Ko convinced of the int as & commercial centre that he on the His proa- jue of that ine invested #2),000 in lands bar. 0 i we pro- rol eg fn ed ry coutemporary replied in terms ence in the market, closely following Mr. O'Suilt- Mr. Hartmont has ‘not sueceetea ii, arranging a loan, a8 another party had offered more sattsfac- 4 terms in connection with a bank charter, but he bas received a charter for a railroad trom Monte Cristi, on the borders of Hayti, to and through the vega Real to the head waters of the Yuna, with the right to navigate that mver down to its mouth on the Bay of Samana. Four parties are now in the field, with as many distinct road charters, besides the new mining survey and colonization enterprise— all born of the annexation idea. In looking over a collection of dye and cabinet Woods, bound to France, I noticed a new article for the furniture line, It 18 called here caneion; is of the hard, close texture of ebony, and of a pecullarly brigut color. It 1s almost scariet, with light shad- ings @ud variegations. Is this ‘fine, hard wood known to the cabinetmakers of the United States? It is altogether novel to me, and would be strikingly handsome im a drawing room suit. There are other woods, smalier in slze than the bright-hued canelon, but still large enough for many ornamental purposes, which seem to be strangely overlooked by the cabinetmakers. During the Spanis Ceca DONOR of St. Domingo the members of the Bethel church (colored) nad collected a hand- some variety of native woods on the promise of a captain of a New York vessel to take It all on to a large mahogany dealer who was kindly disposed to remit {ts value in materials for repatriug their church, but the Spanish ofiicials took the building from the socievy, and the collection was scattered, Except some remarkably pretty canes nade of paim, Which are now golng to France, nothing remained. The cockpits aud bull-baiting arenas were ones by license every Sunday, but public worslup Pro- testant meeting houses was strictiy prohibited by Spanish law. Meetings of five or six persons to pray, and, wickedest of ail things, sing hymns in Hoglish, were roughly broken up by the police and the parucipants spulahed, as they would be in Ha- vana to-day. Is it for the merits of Sunaay cock- fighting, bull-baiting, or persecution of the poor lethodists here and Protestants everywhere, tiiat a Gy. York paper 1s 60 amazingly tender of Spauish teresa ? AQUATICS. The International Rowing Raccs—The Har- vard Method of Training—The Sun Bath— The Timo of Practice—Sleep—Uathing— Harvard’s “Style.” Boston, June 7, 1809, Tn such a contest as the coming international affair between Harvard and the two great English univer- sities it will undoublediy be interesting to those curious in regard to the mysieries of “training” to find some enlightenment in the statement of the actual process now being undergone by the Harvard crew. Of all ideas of training, of all the pet theortes and fancies of trainers, Harvard training 1s the freest and includes the most general and varying diet. You see gaunt-faced fellows, on whose bodies you can count the ribs and remark the deeply-lined muscles. But you sce nothing hag- gard in their faces; no dogged-looking men, with their mouths down at the coraers; no blue lines round the eyes, Instead, cheerful, eager faces, belonging to men who live with satisfac- tion and whose work agrees with them. They do not chew sinooth pebbles or bullets to keep the saliva circulating. They do not stint themselves to one pint of water a day, and the consequence is that beueath @ dark coating of tan there glows the ruddy tinge of health, and the natural springs of life flourish and grow strong under the wholesome stimulus of exercise and appetite. What of these ideas are purely American and what coincide with the code of living of their English rivals may be well worth understanding, so that when the test really comes Americans will know what have been the rules of the American training Which influence the result on the race day. Promi- Ment, then, in the American course is the exposure of the body to the sun. What pe- cullar efiiciency there may be in this tt is not easy to deiine. We only know that the ancient Romans set apart on each day a certain time for sunning themseives—a race whose physique lives in their modeis of wonderful development and natural grace, Cicero and Pliny wrote of their itttle basks in the sun, Many physicians advise their pale and sallow patients to keep the sunny side of the street. Every one Knows the value of having the sun tay in the apartment in which he spends his time. It is natoral, it 1s strengthening, this living in the sun, this bronzing the si! That the frame may be inured to fatigue men must bear the burden and heat of the day. While in this country we parched by the sun’s rays for weeks together, Eng- Nshinen are carrying their umbrellas for fear of shower half a dozen times a day. Now it is in ti heat of the day, while the laborer taki his nooning, that the Harvard crew push their boat from toe raft for ® sweat, since one can hardly call the great beads of ‘water which shine on their backs and ooze trom every pore by the more polite term ot perspiration. The sun beating down upon their uncovered bodies fits them out with an even Coat of tan that at once tells the regiment to waich they belong. ‘This, then, is one of the peculiarities of the Amert- can code which snglishmea have not adopted. Very likely tals arises from the fact that they do not pos- se38 streams which are Lhasa pe unirequented to allow of tuls degree of nudity, or else tt is in keeping with their ideas of training which demand some pro- tection or something to take up moisture from the body. Many abie physic; vocate Wearing flan- nels the year round on account of the equality of temperature which they insure to the body. Ail this may do for the weak and debilitated, but without exposure men would never become toughened. It is a8 toughening to endure beat as coid, and thus become inured to changes of climate and tem, ire; ali this is inctuded in the regimen of the Harvard crew. I heard an English- man, on the boathouse ralt, say the other day that if the rowing men of his country should expose themselves as those of Harvard do—lying around half stripped, with an easterly wind blowing and a hot sun overhead—it would kill them. But the Har- vard crew suul lives; ralu or shine, cold or aot, row they must aud row they do, over @ certain stretch of water. DIET, As for this important branch of training it covers the entire ground to say that, with a few favorite dishes, the jood is on y just What working mea or. dinarily crave, wholesome, hearty edibles, good theais and fresh vegetables. All fancy cooking, spices aud must acids are dobarred, SLEE?—BATHING. Early hours of retiring, and as much sleep 03 each ian feels that he needs, complete the nightiy programme, while they flad that a plunge into the river right after their evening row, toilowed by the usual rubbing dowa process, completes a fair expo- sition of their preparation for the tierce work to come at the oar, THE “STYLE” of Harvard's rowing, a matter which must infin. ence waightily for or against success, I will refer vo last. ‘That it shouid differ essentially from that ot the English University oarsmen is not to be ex- eet of @ Harvard crew, who have for the last ‘hree yeurs alined at nearly the same ideal as the English codes set forth. Stili, their style will pe American, The crew have not yet, of course, be- come fully settled in their practice In this respect; but what they are aiming at is perfectly defined, and, by the skilful observer, may be even now dis. tinguished, ‘The new men tmprove, faults are veiling fast a and the crew are gradually ‘“gecting together." As the day of the race draws nearer eyes watch more closely, while criticism improves their siyle, and then, with ali the perfection which muscle and brains can bring to the contest, the crew will draw up to the Line tor that twenty odd minutes. THE NATIONAL GAME, Motaal ve Gotham. ‘The veteran Gothams, who have so iong been quiet, appeared yesterday, for the first time this season, in @ contest with the Mutuals, The Gothams presented 4 fair nine, with Mr, Vincent as pitcher. The Mutuals found fittle trouble tn batting against him, and in three innings scored thirty-two runa, Goodspeed thea went in to pitch and’ by a little Martinizing he succeeded in preventing the Mutuals from making more than one ran in two innings. The game was not remarkable for any very brilliant displays on either side, and at the end of the ho toning called, the score standing—Mutua!, 33; Gotham, {5, Up to the fifth 74 ie score looked bad for the Gothama, as they had secured but five runs; in the last innit howev they batted in very lively style, and, alded by some rather loose play on the ah champions, managed to add ten runs to re. Baso Ball Notes. Reports from Troy in regard to the “Red Stock- ing’’-"Haymakera’"’ game come taden with the usual compiaints of the partiality of the umpire. Brainard pitched for the Cincinnati folks in the ma- jority of the tunings, and it 19 said not less than thirteen times was the firkt base given on called bats. Asa must have pitched much worse than usual if 60 Maca “calling” was deserved. On Thursday the Empires play their first game of the season with the Socials, at Hoboken. The Em- ire nine will inciude ag | Wilson, T. Miller, J. Hier, L. Miller, Gedney, Higham, ‘Murphy a Voege, with Post, M. Nestler and GriMa as subst tutes.) With #o many Millers in their nine—and such hy Millers a8 they have proved to be in the past— he oy ape should be able to grind their opponents very fine, On Thursday the Eckfords play with the Athletics of Brooklyn at the Union grounds, On Friday the Mutuals will play the Orientals of New York on the Union grounds, and on Saturday they will play the return game in the now bet maton with oe bokfords, ot New York, 0 Thursday last the Clarend 7 visited staven Isiand, and ‘geven innings with the Emeralds, of tho Gov there 9 Peed ot Kane Was in errupted by the rain, tue seventh inniog, when the rain came down so heavily as to cause the closing of he game, the score Hoody emerald, 17; Siareuden, S00 ie, Case sk the pitching for the Giarendous, ind he proved to be too hard @ case for the Emeralds to manage. The Mutuals play the Yale College boys at New Haven to-day. The Yale nine are not to be trifed with, and the Mutuals intend to put their best {008 forward to sustain thelr reputation and reirieve their late mishaps, ' OUR WATERING PLACES. Opening of the Seasen at Saratogn—Appeare ance of the Village~The Sulphur Springs Hotels Filling Up—Guests Already Arrived= A Fashionable Wedding. SanatToGa SpRinas, June 7, 1869, If Saratoga opens its buds, its blossoms and its beauties eariler than usual this season I cannot help it, but so itis, The omntbuses will bring visitors to the hotels and the young trees will cast their ame brosial shade, the grass and the wild flowers will shed their perfume around, and the robins wili spread their golden plumage to the sun, and all as though we had advanced @ month later into the summer than the first week of ‘leafy June. Can any one but the landlord of @ country hotel connect an om- nibus with poetry? Hardly. And yet to the land. lords of the Union, the Clarendon, the Colum- bian, the American and Congress Hall the rumble of the stage, laden with its one guest or its dozen, as the case may be, is more Welcome than the music of the softest lute, and the Jolly Lelands who run this village—albett neither Corydons in figure nor Virgils in poesy—each can sing with the rustic Roman poet, as the stages come triumphantly from the raiiroad depot, Not the soft whispers of the southern wind, ‘That play through trembling trees delight alo more, Nor murmuring billows on the sounding suore, Nor winding stroams that through the val vey glide, And the scarce covered pebbles gently chide. Let mo add, in prose, that Saratoga is filling up very rapidly with visitors, and that the village and its surroundings never looked more beautiful than how. Congress Spring, tt is true, has been slightly demoralized for a few days past by a gas pipe which—not having the fear of hypochondriacs be- tore its eyes—had the imprudence to leak a little om the road just above the spring, and add a new and not pleasant ingredient to the flavor of the water. Thia, however, has been promptly corrected by the proprietors, and the far-famed Con- gress is now itself again. A discovery worthy of note has been made here which will give to Saratoga all that it wanted to render its properties as a de pository of mineral waters complete. I allude to the fine white suiphur spring which has been opened. on the road to the lake, about two miles from the viliage. lt has been developed vy the Eureka Sut- phur Spring Company, who have erected a comme dious bathing establishment there, containing fifty bathrooms, with ali the necessary appliances for hot sulphur baths. Saratoga was long in need of such an addition to its other attracuons. People after enjoying the different class of waters here used to visit Sharon or some otaer place for sulphur, but now they have it on the spot in abundance. Tne discovery of this spring was the result of a carious coincidence worth relating. On the 3d of June last aman who Was planting out wood on his farm, while digging up a young elm tree in the swamp, where the bathing establishment now stands, struck this spring, which he found strongly impregnated with sulphur. This was the origin ofethe Eureka Spring—a most appropriate name; for now that Sa- ratoga has it she has all that is required for a perfect watering piace. ‘This season will be the earliest and the fullest for many years. ‘To give an idea of the class of people who will avail themseives of this salubrious region I may mention the names of tue parties now here and those who are to come. In the Union Hotel, where Warren Leland presides tiiis year, and whose interior Arcadian goves are as fresh and lovely as ever, with their happy shade of elm and maple, there have already arrived some twenty guests. ‘The hotel opened last Tuesday. Among tuose who have appiled for ac- commodation and will be here during the season are the following:—General Burnside, Senator Sprague, Rhode Isiand; Mr. Wm. M. Tweed, Mayor Halli, Governor Hofman, ex-Senator Morgan, Sena- tor Fenton, New York; Senator Conkling. Uoratio Seymour, Utica; General James A. Gariield, Ohio; Alr, Rodman MM. Price, A. Belmont, Leonard W. Jerome, A. T. Stewart, George Clatin, New York; Senator Feasenden, Maine; Governor Page, Governor Thomas, Mr. H. H. Henry, Vermont; Hon. Charies Samucr; Mr. Charies Chapman, Ex-Governor English, Ex-Governor Buckingham, Connecticut; Mr. General Merritt, Wiliam ae New York; Judge Barnard, Judge Ingraham, zuage Curtis, General H. H. Baxter, Geueral Hillyer, jew York; Dr. Spring, New York; Mr. Southack, New York; Mr. W. W. Wright, Geneva; Judge Cochrane, West chester county; Henry Keep, Mr. Vermilye, General Rufus Ingalls, Gene: Daniel Butterfield, General Pleasonton, New York; Mr. 0. J. Folger, Geneva; Senator Crowley, Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, ‘the Union has been a good deal metamorphosed since last year. The Opera House has been con- verted into ® magnificent baiiroom, with suits of card rooms on either side, where the piazzas for- merly siood. The old ballroom building is now divided up into elegant suits of parlors and bed- rooms, thirty-two in number, giving to the house no jess than 751 rooms, which, tegether with the four new cot ‘Will accommodate nearly 1,400 gueste, Congress Hall, @ massive bpiok structure on the of the St. James Hotei in Boston, cap accommodate over 1,000 rece Its principal features are a parior of magnificent distances aud a sieam elevaior, It 1s kept by Mr. Hathorne, who was the proprietor ae Looe Seheans sapiatuee - Hat ose al stop! at Congress BTC Rey. Dr. Dix, ‘Mrs. Geueral Dix and Mrs. B. Hale brook, of New York; Mrs. Blake and family, Mr. G. A. Grow and Mr. Wm. Wail and dauguter, Penn- sylvania; M. ©, Shoemaker, Cincinnati; Senator Cooley aid D. A. Appleton, New York; U.'N. Jordan and wile and James S. Myers and wife, Third Na- tional Bank; Judge Noyes, Vermont. Kooms for the season have been ordered by W. H. Vanderbilt and family, ©. N. Durant and family, Frank Work and faaily, Wm. Moller and family, Ezra White, J. Harker and wife and ©, K. Garrison and famuy, of New Y ; H. bitchcock and family, St. Louis; E. F, Outger and family, Boston. ‘The aristocratic C.arendon, waich also opened on the 1st, is kept, as heretofore, by Charies &. Leland, who returns from Albany wocorruntes, although he did lobby the Albany Bridge bill through the Legis- Jature tu masterly style. The Ciareudon is il!ling im Very fast, Among those arrived and to arrive are:— Sidney Mason, Kobert L. Stewart, John 3. Martin, Mr. Norrie, Simon de Visser, John T. Farrish, Joba A. Riston, General Gordon Granger, Ralph W. News ton, George Peabody, Joan Carter Browne, John Re Blackision, Colonel Kipp, Charies O'Oonor and ©. We. Matthows, of New York. Adjoining the Clarendon is the house of another Leiand—the Coiumbian—which was formerly tae re- sort of clerical guests, but tuis season is expected to entertain, under the management of Jerome Leland, lave of the San Francisco Uccidental, about hall che invabitants of California who come North. | give @ Jew of its guests for the season:—Coionel W. W. White, of San Fraacisco; General samuel Adams aud wife, San Francisco; Major Asa Huil, sau Francisco; F. B. Fisher, by Held, i; Captain D. H. Brain. ecd, Cuicago; Dr. Thomas anderson, Albany; 8. B. Stuart, Chicago; A. G. Simmk, Kome, N. ¥.; 0. H. Rose and wile, Sali Lake City; Judge W. Guibert, Albany; Colonel J. Holmes, Boston; Kev. P. Ul. Pitkin, South Americ Rev. Mr. thayes, Weymouta; Mes Glass, Portland, Oregon; General Cobb, Colonel Sinton, Kev. Dr. Jaiway, Monterey; P. F. Forbes, San José; Dr. Kittredge and wife, Saata Cruz; Gene eral Pe Akron, Ohio, I may add here that the Inhabitants of the village have not yet decided to petition tue next Legisiature to change the bistoric name of this piace from Sura- toga Springs to Leland City, but I suppose it will have to come to that sooner or later. ‘The American has a goodly share of visitors so far. The following comprise a few of them:—. L. Bene- dict, New York; H. A. bian New York; David Boyd, Jr., Paiiadelphia; A. B. Britvon, New York; Mr. George ©. Burdett, Troy; Gates H. Barnard, Troy; Judge Cole, New York; yi cutting, New York; Johu Outier, Albany W. Corot Aibany; Thomas B. Carroll, Troy; W. EB. Evere New York: 8. K. Ingham, New York; 'D. A. Kao’ ton, Brooklyn: Ht. W. Livingston, Livingston; Jot ston Livingston, Tivoit; J. N, Moifat, New York; Captain Murphy, Brooklyn. Mr. McCaifrey runs thi establishment and keeps tt in excellent style, ‘These comprise the principal boteis, bus there are half a dozen others = — New York, the Marvin House and ater Cure establisnment being the chief. Aithough notin the heigit of the sea- ee has al had af event which gavea iv on air to the whole village, it was the mi last of Miss Fanny Marvin, daughter of James M. Marvin, ex-member of Uongresa, to Mm Murray C, Shoemaker, of Cincini at the Kptsco- yh church in Washington atreet, e bride, un to biushiog end all tuat sort of thing, was rect) of bridal presents to the amount of $6,000, which were eagerly gazed at during te which the ceremony at tier father’s ie Js auspicious that the season should be opened with & grand wedding, and may inapire many gallant who come here single to go home double. AN OLD TIME DUEL IN NEW ORLEAN: The Sword in Conflict With the Baton, [From the New Orleans Repunioan. June 3.) say, Waa charmi bloom! follow Since the ra season ere has been some trouble, fnanctaliy, between (Ne Management and members of the com) #0 serious tat facts and figures have been before the courts. Messrs, Caiabrest and nalgn pabiished @ statement cou cerning the Meftelt the past season. ‘The Lpoque, of which Freuch sheet Mr. Piacide Canonge is cditor, made some comments on the management’s exhivit, wiich remarks resulted in Mr. Canonge receiving @ chall from Mr. Alhaiza, Swords were the chosen pons, time ‘Tuesday evening, resuit Mr Canonge receiving a Wound in one of his arms, ‘The “exercise” lasted five minutes. It has been stated that Mr. Alhaiza was also slightly wounded, The combat was and both gentlemen being masters of the sword Of course Lhe contest was ® close one, and No recouctilation could possibly be obtained until blood was made to flow. Colonel Dumontei and Dr. Tuatre, seconds to Mr. aay Messrs. A. Fabre and J. Foftier to Mr, Gi ong Afier the Musical season comes the sword, wi \ bloody accompaniment.