The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1869, Page 6

6 4 sn rs NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. casannnnamabenanneat JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. <= Volume XXXIV... cereeeerereee sree Noe 160 —— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ision—To® ARTFUL Doverk, O'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Ta® SPECTACULAR eareavacanza OF SINBAD THE SalLog. H AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth nrcel-BAEBE BLEUE. § MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Browswayatvernoon and eveaing Performance. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hicoosr Diccorr Dock. Matinee at 13g. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d st., between 62 and 6th avs.— Tue MARDLE HEART. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street — MoTuER Houpbarp. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—CLORINDA—ROMEO JAFFiCR JENKINS. ak WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—BUBLESQUE OF Ix10n—Tak Two GuRGouies, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— SCHOOL. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7} EMb sts.—POPULAR GaRDEN Conc: » between 58th and SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Benetyag. Beare Pian ENTECTAUNMENTS—THe UNBLEACHED BRYANTS’ OPERA HOS! street.—ETmiorian MINS TR! TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Yooa1isa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &¢, Matinee at 234. EMPIRE av., 634 and 64th ste.— Grav Co: HOOLEY’S OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn.—Hoover's MiNeT2RLs—THE GREGORY FAMILY, 4c. 7 CITY RINK, corner &c. Ty NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— GCIENOE AND ART. LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FEMALES ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, June 9, 1869. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated June 8. The London Times of yesterday had an article on the Irish Church bill in the House of Lords. A split is feared in the conservative ranks. Lord Harrowly gave notice that he would move to postpone the second reading of the bill for six months. The Ascot races commenced yesterday. The Ascot stake was won by Bete Noir; the Trial stakes by Vagabond; the Bienntal stakes by Thormanby; the gold vase, given by ner Majesty, by Thorwalasen; the Prince of Wales stakes by Martyrdom (late Mar- tyr); the Queen’s stand plate by Gertrude, and the Ofteenth Ascot Triennial stakes by Formosa. Additional election returns have been received from Paris. Seven official and elght opposition can- didates have been elected. A serious disturbance broke out in the Montmare district on Monday night, ‘The police were obliged to use force to suppress it. Many persons were injured in the scutile, and about one Lundred and twenty were arrested, new constitution has been promulgated nout Spain. The despatch from the Acting Captain Gen of Cuba to the effect that he wants no more reinforcements, is regarded with much favor for the Spanish cause in Cuoa. The Duke of Genoa now appears a candidate for the Spanish crown. The Regency bill was read tu the Cortes on Monday tor the first time. The Austrian government refuses to decide in the ma of the neutrality of the Suez Canal with- Out the co-op! on of France. Troubles have recently occurred at Carniola, in Italy. King William of Prussia and Count Bismarck intend to pay a visit to Bremen about the 13th inst. Miscellancous. President Grant will attend the Boston peace Jubuee. He leaves Washington this evening for New York, on his way to West Point. ‘The Attorney General is said to have hesitated a long time before he furnished his recent opinion sus- taining @ Texas court martial in the trial of a citizen for the murder of a freedman, and that his actual ‘View of the law at first suggested an entirely oppo- fite decision, but that General Butler said “he would Offer a resolution on the subject in the next session fhe (Hoar) did not make an example of some of these fellows," and under this pressure the recent Opinion was made. The Attorney General of Indiana has delivered an Opinion that acts passed by the Legislature of that State after the resignation of more than one-third of the members elect were in accordance with the con- Btitution, and are therefore constitutional laws, ‘The fifteenth amendment was passed by the same Legislature under the same circumstances, One of the negroes wounded in the Washington Tiot died yesterday and another is believed to be fatally injnred. There were about twenty others Who received severe wounds, none of whom are now believed to be in any danger. None of the ring- Jeaders have been caught. The St. Louis, Mo., Board of Trade ts discussing ‘the subject of direct wade with Europe, it having been shown that ocean steamers of light draft can ascend the Mississippi to that city during a large Portion of the year. Secretary Boutwell yesterday sold $2,008,000 in gold for $2,774,717 in currency, and has remaining in the Treasury $82,000,000 in gold and $25,000,000 in cion certificates, The United States bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 stolen sometime ago from the PhiladelphiaBeuefictal Saving Society, have been recovered. Mr. Kennedy was before the Census Committee again yesterday and strongly advocated the reten- tion of the old system in taking the new census. He kept the committeemen in a roar by his onslaughts upon the theorists, The loss to the government by the robbery of the Santa Fc vepository is only about $100,000, In Lodi, N. J., yesterday, five men employed in the print works, who had been in the habit of drinking & beverage composed partly of oll of vitriol and alcohol, were potsoned by taking arsenic im their mixture through mistake for vitriol. Four Of the men diea within afew hours and the Ofth is apparently dying. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph G. Crane, commanding the Fourth Military District, was Killed at Jackson, Mliss., yesterday by E. M. Yerger, on whose property he had ordered @ levy in default of corporation taxes. The afatr, it ts said, had no reference to Politics, ‘The conservative republicans of Mississippi, who Claim to be the true exponents of President Grant’s policy, have called a convention for the 28d inst. In the Typographical Convention at Albany yester- Gay the question of proxy delegations was warmly debated, and the credentials of a number of such Gelegates, among whom was the President of the Rational Union, were rejected. In the evening ses sion an election for officers took place, and Isaac D, George was chosen President. ‘The annexation resolution was moved in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly on Monday night, but dis- cussion Was avoided by a mancuvre of the govern- Ment members and the resoltuion was defeated by a Vote of seven to twenty-six, Several citizens of Warren county, Ga., were ar- rested yesterday at the instance of the sheriff, who ‘was backed by two companies of infantry, The cttt- wens were committed to prison and guarded by a strong force of militia. Tho arrests grew out of political difficulties. At the trial of @ breach of promise case at ‘Wheaton, DL, yesterday, Miss Amanda Craig, of Cincinnati, obtained @ verdict of $100,000 damages against FE, P. Sprague, of Chicago. A new trial granted to the notorious Dan Nobie ‘was commenced in the Elmira courts yesteridy. te ts charged with the robbery of the Royal Insurance Company. Boston is Milling up for the jublica and her citt- tions that policy has been the pole star of na- Sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpoo! mails vy her will close at the Post Office at twelve M. Forbes, of Boston; Joseph Belhomme, of Smyrna; S. Bifley, of London, and Alexander Kosh, of Alexandria, are at the Hotf- man House. Lapeyre, of New Orleans; B. C, Rumsey, of Buffalo, and A. Gilmore, of Baltimore, are at the New York Hotel. stock, Vt.; J. H. Denly and C. W. Robarts, of Lon- don, are at the Brevoort House. necticut, and Henry G. Colby, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Denis Hotel. phia; George Wilkes, of New York; P. A. Butler and James L. Goodridge, of Boston, and L. T. Dickson, of Delaware, are at the Westminster Hotel. ton, is at the Westmoreland Hotel. of Philadelphia, are at the Maltby House. 8. Chapin, of Bath, Me., and 8. S. Whitehouse, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Toronto, and Professor Williams, of Massachusetts, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Davis, of Richmond, Va.; Judge T. Davis, of West Valley, Md.; Colonel Davis, of Natchez; R. H. Alex- ander, of the United States Army; Samuel Gardiner, of Washington; Captain Charles E. Leland, of Al- bany; J. Kuslear, of Malaga, Spain; Colonei J. H. Eaton, of Detroit, and Dr. Fitlin, of Phiiadelpmia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. vania; S, S. Marshall, of Illinois; Genera! W. Sutton and W. Abbott, of Salem; General Albert Pike, of Washington; F. W. Partridge, of Illinois, and Miss Vinnie Ream, of Washington, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. [se Domingo—An Important Movement. { The steamship Tybee, which left our port yesterday as the pioneer of a line of steam- ers to St. Domingo, carried among her passen- gers a special commissioner from the govern- ment, with orders to proceed to the Dominican republic and report upon its condition at an early day. cret instructions we are not informed. This movement is an important one in many re- spects, andif the administration contemplates aright the new movements and combinations which are going on in the Antilles it may be productive in the highest degree of good to our political and material interests. ) There is now an unusual activity in questions affecting all of the larger islands of the American Medi- terranean, and combinations both favorable Y NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. zens are displaying a lavish hospitality towards the sire yiessacdaemaer The City. One of the heaviest hailstorms that has visited this neighborhood for a number of years visited it yes- terday. The weather afterwards turned very chilly for the time of year. The dead body of an unknown man was found hanging from the limb of a tree in the Park yes- terday morning. It is supposed that he committed suicide. In the United States Commissioners’ Court yester- day, before Commissioner Betts, Moses E. Crasto, under examination on a charge of having failed to make a full and correct statement of his debts in his schedule of bankruptcy, was honorably discharged. The waiters’ strike has ended, the Union having resolved to let any one go to work for whom he pleases and at any wages he can get, but the pro- prietors refuse to take the strikers back unless they forswear their trade's union. The Cunard steamship Java, Captain Cook, will l, The The Anchor line steamshtp Iowa, Captain Hedder- wick, will leave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to day for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry, Ireland. The sidewheel steamship Magnolia, Captain af. B. Crowell, will leave pier No, 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. The stock market yesterday was feverish and irregular. The feature was a “break” in Mariposa. Gold advanced to 139, closing finally at 1387. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor John T. Hoffman, of New York, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island; ex-Governor Smith, of Vermont; R. D. Rice, of Augusta, Me.; W. H. Harrison, J. H. Arnold and Mortimer McMichael, of Philadelphia; W. Bristol, of New Haven, and Jacob Sharp, of Rome, N. Y., are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia; R. B. F. W. Miller, of Manchester; Colonel E. H. Buehler, R. McCurdy and Captain E. G. Fahnestock, of Gettysburg, Pa.; General Schriver, of the United States Army, and Consul General Hitz, of Washington,gare at the Astor House. Captain Judkins, of the steamship Scotia; J. M. Mr. Hooper, of Boston; Fred. Billings, of Wood- J. H. Hunting, of Paris; J. E. Bulkley, of Con- T. D. Pearce and Josepn Hopkinson, of Philadel- Judge Thos, Russell, Collector of the Port of Bos- Thos. Peters, Jr., of Selma, Ala., and W. P. Shell, Professor Lyman E. Whipple, of Hudson; Dr. John Captain sWulson, of Key West; G. R. Macalm, of volonel R. A. Fisk, of Montana; Colonel J. B. General Winchester and Judge Lane, of Pennsyl- V. Whether Mr. Hunt has higher se- and adverse to the United States are bei widely discussed. ‘i - Cuba is convulsed with the questions of revolution, independence and annexation. In St. Domingo a policy of seeking admission to our Union has been discussed by President Baez, which has awakened efforts against him by Cabral, his former antagonist. In Hayti General Domingue, who is making a powerful resistance to Salnave, months ago wrote to Secretary Seward, seeking a protectorate for the territory he ruled. In Porto Rico a violent explosion against the Spanish rule is only kept down by a force of bayonets much larger than is warranted by the pecuniary resources of the island. In Jamaica the British government is exhibiting a sudden energy in restoring the harbor of Kingston, while the Governor, Sir John Peter Grant, is making extraordinary efforts to stimulate the material labors of the people. Coincident with these internal agitations we witness on the one hand a marked increase of the British, French and Spanish fleets in American waters, and, on the other, a prompt denial of a disposition on the part of Mexico to sell territory, accompanied with a notable acknowledgment of the great increase in that dilapidated republic of the desire for an American protectorate over it, These outcroppings from the undercurrent of public opinion which is beginning to run so strongly in the countries south of us all point to the necessity for the adoption of a marked and final policy in the premises by our govern- ment. Mr. Seward felt this pressure from the march of events in his times and endeavored to meet its requirements; but his great mistake lay in adopting the trader's and not the states- man’s view. He believed that all that was required was that an agent should present himself with a bag of gold in one hand and the American flag in the other, and that he had only to hoist the one as soon as the other had been accepted. In the pursuit of this petty and mischievous policy he received a signal rebuke from the Dominican republic in the Samana question, and from the Senate of the United States in that of St. Thomas. Both were merited, for the principles on which his course was founded were of the meanest and most contemptible kind. Questions of national importance merit a higher and a nobler style of treatment. Fifty years ago a policy was announced by President Monroe which acquired an extended influence in American politics and European Cabinets, because it expressed the sentiment of the American people. During two genera- preserved. tional development on this Continent, and the intimations 4nd even threats of serious com- Plications that were to result from it have Proved as idle as the summer breeze. That Policy was adapted to its era and has consum- mated its work. It is no longer a question of founding new colonies or extending European inflaence over old ones, The colonies have become nations, and national development has brought new needs and new demands. The wonderful prosperity of the American people under our system of union has for a long time given impulse to a spirit of imitation in the countries south of us, and failure to attain the same results is now developing a desire to participate in our scheme of government and the material advantages which it brings. This development is giving rise to a coun- teracting spirit among the partisans of Euro- pean rule and European influence. Wherever we find the one we encounter the other, and at this moment both are working with remark- able activity in the islands of the American Mediterranean. There the European idea takes the shape of a ‘free trade Antilles, con- federated under European protection and which shall mediate for the independence of Cuba.” It is claimed by the partisans of this movement that the enormous debt of the United States will inflict an unbearable taxa- tion, while our high and_ protective tariff will destroy their trade and agriculture. The fallacy is an evident one; but yet in the hands of skilful politicians and diplomatists, and without counteraction and argument, it will produce effects which, fora long series of years to come, will be felt to our prejudice. It is likely to be the more successful from the indefinite form and aim of the pro- American feeling. No one can tell what is the best shape for it to take. On one side we find a protectorate to be the controlling form, while elsewhere it takes the equivocal name of annexation. The action of our government should be addressed to the removal of these doubts and of this misapplication of terms. It is not pur- chase; it is not acquisition; it is not annexa- tion. The true question for the nationalities south of us is the pure and simple question of admission to our Union. In this shape private feelings and public rights are respected and Equality before the law is its pedestal, and the preservation of the right of local legislation for local needs is the column of the argument, Herein lies the great impor- tance of the St. Domingo question as presented to us to-day. It will be the formula for the great national growth which is the sequence of the Monroe doctrine. It will consign filibus- terism and territorial purchase alike to the dead past. For these reasons it should be consigned to the ablest hands in the govern- ment, and when presented to Congress it should be accompanied by an expression of our national policy as consonant with the teeling of the American people to-day as the expression of President Monroe was conso- nant with our national feeling fifty years ago. Toe Prixters’ ConvENTION oN CoLor.— The Printers’ National Convention at Albany, by a vote of 56 to 28, laid on the table a reso- lution for abolishing all distincjjons of race and color in thé craft. ‘This moans that the distinction of color is to be enforced as an objection to the black man, and as it is with the printers so it will be with all the other Trades Unions. They will all be arrayed against negro equality in their workshops, and the adminigtration before long will hear from them at the polls. Brooxtrn Grows.—The measure of her growth as a city may be seen in some points of detail in her expenditures. This year it costs her seven hundred and forty-two thou- sand dollars for her parks—to improve them, keep them in order and pay the interest on the debt incurred in their purchase. “This amount,” says the Mayor, “is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than was raised by tax only ten years ago, to pay for gas, maintain the police, re- pairing and cleaning streets, salaries of public officers, and all other city expenses whatever.” Grant modestly refrains from forcing any view or will of his own in regard to important points of administration. He conceded all that was demanded by the nigger-loving poli- ticians of the North in appointing a nigger postmaster for Macon; and now he concedes all that is demanded by the carpet-bag radi- cals, who want the place, in promising to re- move the same poor nigger. Wao ts Wita tae Mavor?—Mayor Hall in his message discourses with happy facility on light, clean streets, law, finance, sewerage, pavement, markets, and the whole range of topics interesting to city people; and the document has spice and style. He urges especially many excellent city improvements, and lays down a schedule of street openings that will finally have to be made, and can be better made now than by and by, Who is with him ? PoutticaL Procress.—By the operation of such principles as the nigger voters in Wash- ington are bringing into use we may simplify political calculations very much. Every man differing with the mass would be knocked on the head, and opinion be thereby kept all one way in any given community. If a man felt an inclination to differ and cared about his head he would leave, and settle in some com- munity of the other view. Thus wo should be- come organized, and there would be political harmony everywhere. If communities came in collision there might be some little civil wars, but that would only be what they have had in Africa these thousands of years, and the sun shines on Africa still, as hot as ever, Who Dip It,—When two small boys are caught in a peccadillo there is generally a smart discussion as to which one is the real delin- quent. Johnny says that ‘Billy did it,” and Billy says that “Johnny did it.” This is the present position of a grand international topic. Jonathan has made a great row about a certain Alabama, and each of two delinquents is laying it on the other. Johnny Bull and Billy Laird have it between them. ‘Laird did it,” says Bull, and “Bull did it,” says Laird. If Jonathan's grievance is, as it has been called, 4 sentimental one, he must have ample satis- faction in seeing what contemptible little sneaks these two fellows make of themselves with the attempts of each to lay the blame on the other. The Alabama Claims as a Party Question The Anti-British Party Always Victort- ous. . The active managers of the republican party, it is said, have resolved upon the agitation of the Alabama claims on the ultimatum sug- gested in Senator Sumner’s speech as the leading issue in the approaching fall elections, All the old issues of the last eight years having been settled or used up, it is contended that unless the republicans can bring forward some new proposition appealing powerfully to the popular sentiment of the country the party will fall to pieces. Hence this project of bringing the Alabama claims into the fore- ground, The idea is not a bad one as a party movement. Since the American war of inde- pendence every political agitation of hostility to England has been a winning card with the American people. Jefferson and the old re- publican party came into power in 1800 as the anti-English party against the federalists as the anti-French party. The republican party, thus coming into the possession of the govern- ment, was so greatly strengthened by the war of 1812 against England that the federal or British party became at once a powerless mi- nority, and from that time getting weaker and weaker till 1820 it wholly disappeared in the second election of Monroe. In 1824, the federalists being merged with the republicans, a new organization of parties was initiated in the Presidential scrub race of that year between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay. This election was thrown into the House, where it resulted in the choice of Adams, as was charged, by “‘a bargain and sale” between Adams and Clay. Upon this ery Jackson was brought out again in 1828, and upon his victory of New Orleans over the British, against Adams as the so-called British party candidate, Old Hickory was triumphantly elected. It was the strong popular feeling of the country of hostility to England, intensified by the capture of Wash- ington and the burning of the national Capitol in 1814, that gave to Jackson his great popu- larity; and thus the Jacksonian democratic party came into power. Nor could this party be ousted until, in 1840, the whigs took up General Harrison as their candidate, a man who had also gained his victory over the British in the war of 1812. Thus the great gun of the democracy as the anti-British party was spiked, and they suffered a smashing defeat. But in 1844, on the cry of “Texas and Oregon—fifty-four forty or fight” (a war with England)—the democratic party came in again; and in 1848 they were again beaten, this time by General Taylor, not only as the hero of Buena Vista, tat as a hero of the war of 1812 against England. From Taylor down to the election of Lincoln the slavery question swallowed up all other questions in our politi- cal contests; but even upon the slavery ques- tion the democrats used to some purpose the ery that the abolitionists were but the tools of England, bought by British gold, to assist in her grand design of breaking up the Union on the slavery agitation. This, because it was substantially true, was always a strong card for the democrats. From the outbreak of our Southern rebellion down to this day it has been the good fortune of the republicans to stand as the Union war party against the South, against the Northern democratic party and against England. The republicans thus hold the inside track on these Alabama claims, and in agitating the settle- ment involved in Senator Sumner’s exposition they have nothing to lose, but everything to gain. As Jackson upon his glorious slaughter of the British redcoats at New Orleans secured the Irish vote of this country to the demo- cratic party, so, now, a republican party move- ment promising a difficulty to England, which will be Ireland’s opportunity, may win the Irish vote and leave the forlorn democracy hard aground. Mayor Hatt gives a pretty sharp summary of Croton Board activity when he says its whole object was to “deprive the local autho- rities of the pleasure of giving the Croton Board a sober, intelligent and executive head.” Mostc.—The Mayor of Brooklyn complains of twelve thousand dollars in the public school expenses of that city as improperly spent in music, and utters some particularly stupid commonplace on the impropriety of teaching music in the public schools, and in favor of what he calls ‘a little infusion of old-feshioned republican simplicity.” Does the Mayor sup- pose that the children of the public schools are taught music for twelve thousand dollars a year? The pianos that are bought with this money and the teachers that are paid are among the most efficient part of the school machinery in developing the better part of the intellect. The children are taught only so much of music as gives a cadenced step in marching together in and out of school, and enables them to sing together some fine little patriotic songs, and these things lighten study and are better in the end than even much arithmetic and @ stupendous smattering of geography. The New Indian Commission. President Grant has given no surer sign of his desire and intention to carry out his famous motto—‘‘Let us have peace”’—than his recent order regulating the management of Indian affairs, The nine regulations of this order aro all in conformity with the spirit of the eighth of them, by which the officers of the govern- ment connected with the Indian service are enjoined to co-operate with the Commissioner in the most earnest manner to the extent of their proper powers in the general work of civilizing the Indians, protecting them in their legal rights and inducing them to become industrious citizens in permanent homes, instead of following a roving and savage life. Almost all plans—including the horrible and infamous plan of extermination—have been tried, and ineffectually tried, with the Indians, But the reservation plan, which has proved signally successful with the Cherokees, Creeks and Seminoles, justifies the hope that it will not fail if honestly and systematically applied to other Indian tribes. It will do some- thing towards wiping out the national dis- grace incurred by the treatment, equally bungling and cruel, to which, for the most part, the Indians have been hitherto subjected, if the principles and practice of William Penn shall be successfully revived. At all events it is worth while to make the experiment of the Quaker plan of controlling the red men. It was “a happy thought” to place an Indian at the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Commissioner Parker, in his instructions to the army officers assigned to duty as Indian agents and superintendents, says :—‘“‘It being the wish of the government of the United States to collect the Indians and locate them in per- manent abodes upon reservations, and reason- able appropriations having been made to assist them in sustaining themselves—after such per- manent location—by the pursuits of civilized life, you are efrnestly requested to use your best endeavors in co-operating to advance this humane and wise policy.” It is devoutly to be hoped that this new Indian policy will prove to be no less successful than it is humane and wise, The Result of the French Elections. Our latest news from Paris confirms what we have said before in regard to the elections. Out of Paris, and in the departments generally, the government candidates have been success- ful. Paris as a whole has gone against the government. It was not otherwise with Paris on the occasion of the general elections in 1863. Then as now the government was beaten in every circumscription. The only difference is that in the present instance the opposition elements are stronger. It is the general opinion that the opposition will be numerically stronger than it has been since Napoleon mounted the French throne. It is not long since the oppo- sition numbered but five members. Last year the number was twenty-five. Now it is calcu- lated that there will be not fewer than ninety or ninety-four sturdy oppositionists whom M. Rouher will have to face. It is certain that when the next session of the Chambers is opened Napoleon will be compelled to make up his mind either to go forward and grant further Parliamentary privileges, or to go backward, arresting the progress of the popular power by a fresh coup d'état. This formidable opposition must in some way be quieted. How will Napoleon do it? Will he silence them by force or will he humor them by grant- ing further reform? Attorney General Hoar’s French Cable. Mr. Attorney General Hoar has gone beyond his official duty to aid a telegraph monopoly and to throw cold water on transoceanic tele- graph enterprises. We do not say that he did this designedly or from an improper motive, for there is no evidence of that; but neverthe- less the fact is apparent that he has exceeded his duty, and that the effect will be to delay or prevent the French cable and other trans- oceanic cables being laid, to the manifest ad- vantage of existing monopolies. He has delivered an opinion to Mr. Peter Cooper to the effect that foreign telegraph companies cannot land cables on the shores of the United States without the express permission of Con- gress, and that no State of the Union has the power over its own shores to grant such a concession. No State, he holds, can concede any franchise of this sort to foreigners, for the sovereignty of the United States over terri- tory, by the law of nations, extends to at least the distance of one marine league from its shores. Then he maintains that the laying and working of telegraph cables comes within the power of Congress’ to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Notwithstanding Mr. Hoar’s dictum, it is a question whether the transmission of in- telligence by telegraph cables—the conversa- tion, so to speak, between people of different countries—comes under the head of commerce. Suppose the people of Canada and the State of New York chose to hold speaking intercourse across the Niagara river, if their voices could reach or they were to use speaking trumpets, could the federal government stop them till a special act of Congress for that purpose were obtained? Will any one admit such an ab- surdity? Yet what isthe difference between communicating in this way and the transmis- sion of thought by telegraph cables? It does not seem to us that this is commerce in the sense of the constitution or that Congress has the power alone to regulate it. Hair-splitting lawyers like Mr. Hoar are too apt to lose sight of great and general principles and to decide wrong. But there was no necessity for such an opinion at all. The Attorney General is not required to answer the questions of letter writers or private individuals. His duty is simply to give an opinion when called upon by the administration as one of the branches of the government, and to defend, when brought before him officially, the constitution and laws of the United States. By thus exceeding his duty he has suffered himself to be the tool of monopolists and may deprive the people of this country of the advantages of more ocean telegraphs and a healthy rivalry. His dictum, however, is not law, and we hope the French cable company or any other will go on with the work and test the question in a practical manner. Opinion—The Potrepty Urerp.—‘‘Long ago,” says Mayor Hall, ‘‘we should hgve become able to say that New York Island was thirty minutes instead of twelve miles long.” Quauirmey Surrrace.—Nigger suffrage in Washington is free of the odious qualifications that prevail in certain of the Northern States, but has one not down inthe law. The privi- lege of voting is qualified by the high pro- bability that a man will have his throat cat if he opposes the majority. This consolidates the vote and makes a unanimity of sentiment very advantageous in politics. “MORALLY Convictep.”"—The Mayor's refe- rence to a commissioner morally convicted of taking a bribe ought to call out Fire Commis- sioner Wilson. The Commissioner was sued by @ man for the recovery of a sum of money given, as alleged, to secure the man a position, Upon the termination of that suit the man was prosecuted for perjury in having sworn that, he gave the money as above but was declared “‘not guilty” of the perjury by a jury. That verdict justifies the Mayor's words, Tue Great Prontem for the city authori- ties to solve, according to the Mayor, is “how, towards nightfall, to afford two hundred thou- sand people an easy and rapid access to their homes from their places of toil and business.” The solution is declared to lie in three rall- roads the whole length of the island; 0 enterprise to be preferred for any other reason than its feasibility, This is the popular judg- ment also. Decline of American Commercial and Shipe ping Interests. We published the other day a synopsis of the latest monthly report, No. 24, of the Deputy Special Commissioner of the Revenue, in charge of the Bureau of Statistica, showing the statistics of our commerce and navigation for the months of October, November and December, 1868, and for the year ending December 31, 1868, The salient point of this report is its irre- futable testimony to the rapid and lamentable decline of American commercial and shipping interests. Itappears from the statistics for the last three months of 1868 that over fifty- seven per cent of our imports, forty-one and one-half per cent of our domestic exports and ninety per cent of our re-exports for the period mentioned have been transported in foreign vessels, In 1855 Mr. Bright could say in the British Parliament:—‘‘In ship building industry the United States not only compete with but in some respects excel this country.” And the official records of Great Britain show that in 1860-61 the tonnage of American sea-going vessels exceeded that of Great Britain by 695,181 tons in 1860, and by 732,987 tons in 1861. ‘‘To-day this supremacy has passed to Great Britain, and our rival is rapidly secur- ing a monopoly of the world’s commerce.” The Secretary of the Treasury, in his report for 1868, adverted to the fact that ‘‘while Ame- rican tonnage in our foreign trade has fallen .off foreign tonnage has greatly increased ;” adding that “the condition of our steam ma- rine is in a lower condition even than that of our sailing vessels.” These facts he illustrated by the most alarming statistics. Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, in a recent paper prepared for the National Board of Trade, shows that the absolute decline in our foreign tonnage from 1861 to 1867 was fifty-four per cent, or nearly 1,500,000 tons, leaving it less than one-third of what in 1857 we should have been justified by past experience in estimating what it would be in 1867. Mr. Franklin W. Smith, Treasurer of the Atlantic Works in Boston, commenting on this statement, says in his pamphlet entitled “Wooden Ships Superseded by Iron,” that the gross foreign steam tonnage of the United States presents a still more unfavorable con- trast. The estimate of Great Britain in 1867 was 775,000, that of the United States 175,520 tons, making a difference of 599,480 tons. This difference of nearly 600,000 tons is more than the combined commercial steam tonnage of the United States and Great Britain five years ago. The question naturally arises,’ Why this rapid supersedure of American by British tonnage ? Mr. Smith affirms that the statis- tics given of the abandonment of wooden ships on the Clyde for iron, in the construction of which America can compete with Britain at far less advantage than in wood, reveal a con- clusive answer. He cites a signal example of the vexatious and mortifying disadvantage of American artisans in their rivalry with British. An American house in Canton had lately sent to Boston the specifications of an iron steamer for purposes of estimate, as an order of the Shanghae Navigation Company, but was finally compelled to contract for it in England. “With natural preferences for the work of their countrymen they were compelled to expend the capital in development of British skill and the increase of British wealth, endowing thus more abundantly industrial schools for future Alabamas.” While the ship yards and ma- chine shops of America are idle, for five miles along the Clyde are heard the din and clangor of iron, under the strokes of British workmen, who are now building more ships than all the world beside. None who pass along our New York piers can fail to notice the prevalence of the British flag above our national ensign. “The British now maintain,” says Mr. Smith, “one hundred and sixty-four lines of steamers to foreign countries, employing an immense fleet of ships, many of large size. Sixty-eight steamers of English nationality ply between the ports of the United States and Europe, while an American seeks in vain to return homeward by steam from a British port under the American flag.” On the other hand, the instability of our revenue laws and their discriminating and partial character have combined to hasten the decline of Ame- rican commerce and shipping. While, as Mr. Smith demonstrates in his interesting pam- phlet, existing disabilities press heavily upon American commerce and industry, foreign nations afford all possible encouragement and protection to their marine. France and Eng- land remit the duties and taxes on materials and articles used in building and outfitting ships. Prussia, since she has represented consolidated Germany—a first class Power— is eagerly fostering her commerce and specially protecting ship building of iron. Surely, in view of the discreditable contrast presented by the depression of commerce and ship building in the United States, it will be the duty of Congress to seek and apply some remedy for so great a national evil. Sorosts.—What is the matter with Sorosis, that it is getting up a hospital for itself at thie early stage of its existence? A bad sign, this. Healthy youth, buoyant with exuberance of life, never dreams of the necessities of age or believes in the possibility of decay. One Port Lerr Ovt.—All that was want- ing to the scene in Washington around the nigger fights and bonfires was that the tri- umphant niggers should have eaten the man that was killed. No doubt some undertaker carried him away prematurely, Toe First Divorog Case in Sovrr Carotina.—Southern papers are discussing a novelty in the shape of the first divorce case in South Carolina, The first divorce case in that State was brought up in 1861, when South Carolina attempted to dissolve her bonds of union with the United States. But Judge Uncle Samuel refused to a a decree of separation, and the State remains pretty much as she ponte de nova, slightly damaged by the wear and tear and expense of the trial. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, June 8, 1869, Captain 7. B. Creighton has been detached from the command of the Oneida and placed on waiting orders; Chief Engineer F. ©. Dode, from duty aa a member of the Examt pom and ordered to the Yard; rire it Engineer W. White, the Resaea, and ordered to M I Navy Yard; Lieutenant imander N. A. ar tas book ordered 10 Bonton Nave