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Heratp will be Europe. ‘The cable despatches are dated June 9 ‘The official returns of the elections in France by ballot show tnat the government has secured 213 candidates out of the 290, Some riots occurred in the provinces, which were, however, suppressed without bloodshed. About cight thousand emigrants left Liverpool for ‘various ports in the United States, during the last week. The Archbishop of Canterbury has advised the prelates in the House of Lords not to oppose the Irisn Church bill. The purchase of the telegraph lines throughout the United Kingdom has been completed by the Post Ofice Department. A person, alleged to be a Fenian, has been ar- rested in Cork for circulating treasouabvie documents mong the British soldiers. The debates on the project of a regency still oc- cupy the Spanish Cortes. Sellor Olozaga stated re- cently in devate that the election of a king was im- poasible at present. Cuba. The volunteer forces throughout the isiagd are again engased in revelutionary measures. Roberts, the M have telegraph: Cubans in Havana are getting ready to | In Trinidad tho volunteers attempted to depose the Governor, who resisted, * in the fg at ensued General Lesca was kilied. Two slavers are expected to arrive of the coast. Information received in Wash that the Cubans are actively sive movement. The report irom Spanish sources that Cespedes and a large number of Cubans had surrendere! med. South America. © letter is dated June 1. ew place in Our Pana elections ha The State a, but had been controliea altogether by t The Mosquera faction grow in power, f he is elected he will probably b ed his inaugu- ration, Secession ¢ under discassion by opponents of Our Valpa belligerent r Tecognized by the Cliican discussion po be (8 reference was » Havana, in and the bel minisirati is dated . The s have been In the te in the recognition, The Agri- nm Of the South American Repub- Our Lima, Peru, } President Balta had issued his ¢ gnizing the Cubans as belligerents and ceding them the usual privileges. The Peruvian and Chilean minisiers in Washington have been specially instructed to ask a withdrawal of the promixe made by Peru to keep the Peruvian monitors out of a confict with the Spaniards during their transit to Peru. Mi Hovey had saiied for the United States, on leave. The New Domiuion. ‘The Attorney General of Nova Scotta, during a speech in the Legislature yesterday, took strong grounds in favor of repeal of the union with the Do- minion of Canada, which he declared bad been forced upon Nova Scotia. He moved that a judicial opmion as tothe legality of the union be obtained in the higher English courts, and stated that, if the free. dom of the province could not be otherwise secured they must resort to extreme measures. Resolutions for the admission of Newfoundland into the Do- minion of Canada passed through the Committee of the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday night. Patrick Buckley, imprisoned in Ottawa ap suspi- cion of being one of the assassins of Thomas D'Arcy Magee, has become insaue and been placed in a lu- Ratio asylum, ter Miscellaneous, John F. Cook, the colored Register elect of Wash- {ington city, states in a card that he, for one, intends to make use of bis recently acquired privilege and sit among the white people at the National theatre, Cook himself is an exclusive darkey, who would not heretofore associate with the “war niggers.” It is flow understood that he will probably ve the next candidate for Mayor. in this connection it is well known in Washington that the most fash. ionable barbers and restaurateurs there are colored men, who will not permit one of their own race to be shaved in their shop or to eat in their restaurant, Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, who wants to be reelected next fall, has had a dificuity with Alexander MoClive and numerous federal omce- Dolders, Who are of tue opinion that tho State wil + Colonel J. F, Barrett, of Albany; Dr. E. Martin, of : NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. go democratic if Geary runs. The Governor, in | The Blections in France=The War Ques= consequence, has called on General Grant to use his infuence for Geary with his ofice-holders, and he has promised that he would look ito the matter, A large delegation of the Sons of Temperance waited upou the President yesterday, and were cor- dially received. Dr. Lee, an Englishman, ventured to express the profound desire of all England for peace with this country, and inflicted a reply to Mr. Sumner’s speech upon the President, which the latter bore without moving a muscle of his face or uttering a word in reply. The civilized Indian tribes propose now to have a congress of their own, to show the savage tribes the blessings of peace and industry. Commissioner Delano has decided that pork packers ate liable to taxation as manufacturers. Secretary Boutwetl has directed that no informa- ton or encouragement be extended to claim agents. Colonel Manuel Freyor, the Peruvian Minister, was formally presented to President Grant yester- day. In the National Typographical Union at Albany yes- terday the expelled delegates were readmitted by courtesy, The women's petition for a charter for their Typographical Union was presented and re- ferred to the appropriate committee. The election in Washington Territory has resulted in the choice of Garfleld (republican) as delegate to Congress by 500 majority, ‘The Japanese colonists, who arrived in Caliiornia a short time ago, have purchased a tract of land in El Dorado county, and will at once enter upon the cultivation of tea and silk. R. W. Flournero, a democratic representative in the Georgia Legislature, was murdered in his own field on Tuesday by a negro man in his employ. > The City. The annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club takes place to-day. The course is from a flagboat abreast of the club house on Staten Island to the lightsip and return, There are fifteen vessels entered, Judge Blatchford, yesterday, gave the owner of the Quaker City leave to bond her tm the amount of the appraiser’s valuation. The present jury system was commented upon severely by both Justice Fithian and Recorder Hackett in their respective courts yesterday. Justice Fithian said that after his jury was made up he has known the Commissioner of Jurors to excuse some members of it, and thus stop the whole business of the court, Recorder Hackett sald the Board for the selection of jurors, consisting of the Mayor, the City Judge and himself, intended to pub- lish a list of defaulting jurors in the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Sessions, A woman giving her name as Margarot Barry was yesterday committed by Judge Dowling, at the Tombs, to answer a charge of kidnapping a child eleven months old, belonging to Mrs. Kelve, a Ger- man widow lady, living at No. 129 Washington stiect, Another child was found with the prisoner when arrested, which is believed to huve been also kidnapped. There Were 416 deaths, 279 births and 438 persons married in this city last week. There were 128 deaths in Brooklyn. The Norjh Germen Lloyd’s steamship Weser, Cap- tain G, Wenke, wiil leave her dock at Hoboken at two P.M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. ‘The mails wil close at the Post Office at.twelve M. The steamship Morro Castle, Captain R. Adams, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to- aay precisely for Havana. The stock market yesterday was excited and suf- fered another sharp decline. Four stock houses failed through being involved in the fail in Mariposa taining stock. Gold opened at 1994, and declimed to 138%. Prominent Arrivais in the City. E. D, Webster, of Elmira; Attorney General Brewster, of Pennsylvania; H. B. Plant, of Mis- sour; E. D. Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y.; R. S. Cook, of Albany; H. Kip, of Buffalo; Adjutant General Cunningham, of Massachusetts; Judge Cattell, of Binghamton; General N. B. McLaughlin, Colonet Gunther and Colonel Curtis, of the United States Army; Captain James Lawless, of Bristol; H. P. Bowne, of San Francisco; William Hyer, of Peru; ex-Governor James E. English, of Connecticut; George K. Watkyns and H. C. McIvann, of the United States Navy, are at the Astor House. Count d’Aulan, of the French Legation, Wash- ington; Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Massachu- setts; ex-Congressman John V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, and Horace M. Peabody, of Galveston, Texas, are at the Brevoort House. J. R, Osgood and E£. P. Dutton, of Boston, and W. H. Davis, of Philadelphia, are at the Westminster Hotel. Paymaster J. A. Cunningham, of the United States Navy, and T. H. Campbell, of Vermont, are at the rifth Avenue Hotel. J. W. Hazeltine, of Philadelphia, and F, Living- ston, of Califoruia, are at the Hoffman House, Colonel Charles S, Lester, of Saratoga Springs; San Francisco; General John Mulford, of Richmond, Va.; Colonel 8. D. Lawrence, of New London; L. F. Gaylord, of Cleveiand, and Judge Ladin, of Sauger- ties, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge R. S. McCormick, of Penosyivania; W. McKee, of Los Angeles, Cal., and J. S. Wulson, of Macedon, are at the St. Charies Hote! Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army, and Jobn Forbes, of Halifax, N.S., are at the St. Julien Hotel. Major General A. P. Hovey, United States Minister to Peru; General John Hough, of Panama; Zealock en; E. P. Ross, of Auburn; E. B. cago; W. H. Bristol, of Owego, and Bliss, of Maine, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prominent Departures. General R. C. Schenck, Rev. A. G. Campbell, and Miss Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, sailed in the steamsbip Java yesterday for Liverpool. GeseraL Grant Goin To THE JuBILER.— General Grant, with his family, the Secretary of War and others, left Washington last even- ing, en route for West Point, to attend the ap- proaching examination at the Military Acad- emy. Thence he will probably proceed direct to the Boston Peace Jubilee, which will be opened on Tuesday next, the 15th, and con- tinue from day to day till Saturday evening. In the programme the hymn welcoming General Grant is arranged for Saturday ; s0 it may be considered that by appointment he will then appear. After the Jubilee we expect that the General will make a tour, or at least a short excursion or (wo, to some of our summer watering places. Meantime the attention of the universe is supposed to be centred in “the Hub.” TELEORAPHS CoxTroL IN ENGLAND.—The British Post Office has completed arrange-- ments for the purchase of the lines of tele- graph in the United Kingdom, under pro- visions of the late act of Parliament. The measure promises to work satisfactorily. It will insure regularity of transmission and do away with personal interests and favoritism. Toz Two Spracves—The Rhode Island Sprague, who promises to bring about “the good time coming” by making money plenti- ful for everybody; and the Chicago Sprague, who has been muleted in one hundred thousand dollars on a breach of pro- mise, The Rhode Island Sprague is a mil- lionnaire who goes for the diffusion of money with knowledge; the Chicago Sprague is a millionnaire who preferred his money to matri- mony, and who prays after this fashion :—‘‘o Lord hoo art in heaven bless our 2 harts and soles,” It is possible that the Rhode Island Sprague has never heard of the Chicago Sprague, but one ot his letters would be some- thing to have in the list of the Washington Gove, tion. Although we are not yet in full possession of the details of the elections just completed in France, our information is sufficient to enable us to forecast the actual result and to warrant some little speculation on the probable effect of that result on the future policy of the French government, It is calculated that at least seven anda half millions of the French people have voted—a fair representation of the thirty-eight millions which constitute the population of the empire, Of these seven and a half millions four mil- lions have voted for and three and a half mil- lions have voted against the empire, or, which is the same thing, against Bonapartism. The opposition in Paris has worked with a will, and in spite of the presence in the midst of them of the terrible and unceasingly and universally active machinery of the govern- ment the opposition in the chief city of the empire has won a complete success, In each of the nine circumscriptions an anti-govern- ment candidate has carried the day. This, however, is not ali, Among the opposi- tion candidates the extreme men have in almost every instance beep the popular favor- ites. Not one imperialist has been returned. M. Thiers is the only man, not a republican, who will represent Paris in the new Chamber ; but of all the moderates M. Thiers is the most opposed to personal government. M, Ollivier is, perhaps, the only statesman in France whose cry is liberty under the empire ; ‘but he was defeated two to one, and compelled to seek a constituency elsewhere. Napoleonic spirit which now controls the Paris electors could scarcely have been more con- The anti- spicuously revealed than it has been in the success of such men as Gam- betta and Bancel, and in the large number of votes cast in favor of Henri Rochefort, on the French people than that which rests on his famous speech for the accused in the Baudin conspiracy trial—a speech which, if he was then sincere, marks him out as a dangerous foe to the government. is a violent ‘‘red” of 1849, without any modern claims. M. Rochefort, as all the world knows, owes his popularity to the Lanterne, which he has carried over Europe, reflecting in carica- ture the worst aspects of Napoleonism. lution, not reform, seems to be the wish of Paris, and all this in spite of the countless and costly favors which Paris has received from the bounteous hand of the Emperor. It is a most unkind cut, but it has been given, and Napoleon has no choice but to endure it as best he can, M. Gambetta has no higher claim M. Bancel Revo- As itis with Paris so it seems to be with all the great cities. Lyons, Marseilles, Nantes and, other cities have responded to the call made upon them with an enthusiasm which Paris has scarcely excelled. The opposition, in fact, on the part of the large centres of intelligence has been pronounced with an emphasis which has in it no dubiety and which ought not to be mistaken. towns, of course, we know comparatively little, but it is the general opinion that the elections even in these have swelled the ranks Of the smaller of the oppositionists. The departments are less under the influence of the strong popular impulse of the moment ; but it is now notorious that in almost every department a heavy vote has been cast against the present system of government, statisticians, the government has lost nearly one-fourth of the departments and well nigh one-half of the total electorate. in every three has probably gone against the government. According to several well skilled One elector Is it rash to conclude, with these facts before us, that the empire is a failure even in the hands of such a man a# Napoleon? not, we think, rash to say, with the London Spectator, a journal which though keen is usually judicious, that “the brain of France, which, in spite of temporary fever, is still stronger than the body, has condemned the empire, condemned it furiously, condemned it with needless words of shrill insult.” language is too strong it is surely safe to put it in this form, that, when after years of personal and rather benevolent and successful govern- ment, too, Napoleon gives the French people a chance of expressing their sentiments, they have not said ‘‘we are satisfied,” but have said something totally different—“‘we want a change.” To pulit in another form still, no impartial reader cau go over the words on which we base our opinions and say that in the event of the death of Napoleon his son would be sure of the succession, fact, more apparent than ever that Napoleon rules France because he wields the mighty machinery of the army, and not because he is the favorite of the French people. news which has reached us, although it shows a large government majority, does not alter this view of the situation. ninety oppositionists. admit seventy-seven. It ia If this It is now, in The latest We have claimed The last official returns The vital question now is, What will Napoleon do? He cannot allow this opposition feeling to go on increasing year by year in such tremendous proportions. Something must be done. What will it be? There are at least three things which the Emperor might do. There are three possible policies, He may regard this vote of the French people as a declaration of War, withdraw the liberties he has granted and rule as an unrestrained and irresponsible despot. He may grant fur- ther liberties, concede what some of his best friends have advised him to concede, minis- terial responsibility, and sink into the position of a constitutional king. Orhe may give an outward direction to French discontent and seek a foreign war. We have no idea that he will adopt the first course, To proclaim him- self before the world the chief of France by the mere terror of the bayonet and the ballet is not quite to bis taste. It is his desire to seem at least to be the elect of France, The second course is simply impossible. It wonld offend every Bonapartist throughout the empire, As Bonapartisis now monopolize all the offices, civil, religious and military, from the highest to the lowest, and as ministerial responsibility would in one session make an end of Bonapartism we have no choice, but say that the individual interests of the Emperor as well as the welfare of his dynasty point to the third course as offering the best means of escape out of the difficulty. We shall, there- fore, be disappointed if war rumors do not begin to fill the public egr more alarmingly than they have done during the whole course of the Emperor's reign, A war with Prussia would rally France around him and stifle all opposition, If by war he could restore the boundaries of 1814, and secure for France the flowery banks of the Rhine, his dynasty would be safe, From this point of view the result of these elections is alarming. It makes a Euro- pean war almost a necessity. Important from Cuba. The intelligence from Cuba, which we pub- lish in our columns to-day, both by telegraph and mail, is of the highest importance. It will be seen that a revolution has been con- summated in Havana. General Dulce, on signing his forced resignation, declared it to be “the last of Spanish rule in Cuba,” and it has filled the Spanish Minister at Washington with alarm. Still the Spanish volunteers hold on in their mad course, killing even their late idol, General Lesca, in Trinidad, and displac- ing other governors who are obnoxious to them. The natural sequence of all revolu- tionary proceedings is forcing itself upon their consideration in the important question, What next? Some desire to proclaim a separate nationality, with a friendly connection with Spain ; others think Cuba should be divided, as St. Domingo is divided between Dominicans and Haytiens, leaving the central and eastern portion of the island asa free republic and holding the western for Spain; another party wish to proclaim Isabella, or at least the Prince of Asturias, and a fourth, comprising the conservative Spaniards, look hopefully to the coming of General Rodas. This officer is now on his way from Spain, and will probably arrive before the close of the present month. The condition of things he will find in Cuba assimilates in some respect to what the Viceroy Venegas found in Mexico when the Spaniards there made a similar revolution against the Viceroy Itur- rigaray, in 1808, and sent him back 9 Spain in something like the same manner that Dulcé has been sent back from Cuba. The move- ment in Mexico secured the revolution there, as this in Cuba seems destined to do for the revolution in that island. But one immediate result can follow, and that is a great increase of the weakness of Spanish power in Cuba. Iis resources will be dried up by the disorders of the mad volunteers on the one hand and the exodus of wealthy Cubans on the other. Our tele- graphic accounts state that a second emigra- tion had commenced in Havana, while our correspondence informs us that the volunteers affirm they hold the names of two thousand Cubans who are tobe brought to account. We fear that a terrible massacre is impending in Havana, in which Americans and Cabans will be slaughtered without distinction. Should General Rodas on his arrival attempt to control this fierce and ignorant volunteer ele- ment he may make matters worse instead of better. We have constantly endeavored to awaken the government to a sense of the true condi- tion of the Cuban question and of the perils it invofves to the individual interests of our citi- zens and our national interests at large. It would seem as though a darkness like that which cursed Egypt is spread before the eyes of the administration, and that they are wrapt in a sleep as deep as that of death. On their heads will rest the responsibility of coming events, which are already casting their bloody shadows before. The cold blood of our Secretary of State cannot appreciate the fires which are kindling in our own domain, and it is time for the President to awaken to the danger and see that our national and private interests are en- compassed with safety. Our fleet must be largely increased, and that immediately, in Cuban waters, The true position and relations of the republican government must be recog- nized and their belligerent rights acknow- ledged. Admiral Hoff should be at once instructed to make known to the Spanish revolutionary leaders in Havana that the lives and proper- ties of American citizens must be re- spected; and if we would establish our due influence in the new republic we must take some steps that will show our sense of the obligations of civilization and humanity to- warda the struggling Cubans, A blind belief in the fallacies and polite words of the Spanish Minister will not save Secretary Fish nor the administration of General Grant when the public mind shall be awakened by the progress of events of which they have been forewarned and against which they should be forearmed, Repeat is tHe Dominton.—Nova Scotia is still discontented with the Canadian Consoli- dation Union. Attorney General Wilkins in his place in the Legislative Assembly, in Hali- fax, denies the power of England to tax the province, and, consequently, her right to hold its people to Canada. He proposes to test the question in legal form before one of the high courte of Great Britain, as the province must be “liberated” by mild measures if possible, or “extreme steps” if necessary. This is ominous of dissolution, Attorney General Wilkins wants repeal, gelf-government and home taxa- tion, as he has already demonstrated in his correspondence with Major General Doyle, the General expunging tho forcible arguments from the official publication. Mr. Wilkins rests. on the very principle which freed the United States. It cannot fail, and never dies. Ix."—The Arch- Anistooracy “Cavine bishop of Canterbury advises the Honse of Lords to pass the Irish Church bill, and twenty-five conservative peers refuse to pursue the policy of rejection of the measure. They are wise in their generation. The cry of “Down with the House of Lords” would be dangerous to the order, A Question for Secretaries Fish and Bont- well, The Spanish Consul in New York writes a very impertinent letter to Collector Grinnell, and states that “having received information which I consider reliable” that the steamer Tybee was to carry a cargo of arms and am- munition out of this port, he had communi- cated the same to the Spanish Minister at Washington, and, “pending the instructions which will no doubt be speedily received from Washington,” he requests the Collector to “refuse her clearance unless proof is adduced that her destination is a lawful one.” Inas- tauch a9 aris ond munitiogs of war aro Iqwful objects of commerce in times of peace, and as we have no official information that Spain is at war with any Power excepting Peru and Chile, it strikes us that the interference of the Spanish agents here with our lawful trade is & most unjustifiable piece of impertinence. The letter contains a remarkable reflection upon either Secretary Fish or Secretary Bout- well in assuming that orders will come im- mediately from Washington to stop the de- parture of the ship, Has the Secretary of State’ given any assurances to the Spanish Minister that Spain will receive favors from’ the administration prejudicial to our lawful trade and unjust to the republican Powers now at war with Spain? Or is Secretary Boutwell disposed to throw the weight of his official position in favor of the monarchical side in the great contest now being inaugurated in America ? Negro Suffrage in Washington. There are two or three facts connected with the municipal elections of Washington on Mon- day last which challenge some attention. First, the total vote cast, about eleven thou- sand, was several thousands less than the vote registered. Secondly, the registered negroes were by several thousands less in number than at the last previous registration, Thirdly, at the last preceding election the vote between the republicans and conservatives was very close. Fourthly, at this election of Monday last the republicans carried the city by about five thousand majority, and much to their own astonishment. From these facts it follows that the conservative vote, to the extent of several thousands, was not brought out in this election; and here we meet the question, why not? The answer has been furnished in the negro riots and ruffianism which prevailed on election day. It does not appear that the wrath of the radical blacks extended to any white voter directly; but by their savage pur- suit of an obnoxious democratic nigger, of some prominence among his people, consider- able numbers of conservatiye whites were doubtless frightened away from the polls. Many others, no doubt, remained at home in disgust at the growing beauties of negro suf- frage in Washington. - The result is that the municipal government of the national capital is in the hands of the negro population of the city—say two-fifths of the estimated total population of one hundred and fifty thousand. In other words, sixty thousand blacks in Washington, with a small detachment of radical white voters, under the management of a corporal’s guard of radical white politicians, give the law to the ninety thousand whites of the city. The political excitement consequent upon the riots is be- coming intensified, the radical negroes de- manding a perfect equality with the whites in matters of municipal office and outdoor every- day society. In politics they will move to elect a colored mayor, and have already named. Register Cook as their candidate. The Regis- ter is described as an ‘‘advanced darky” in our Washington telegram to-day, and a man possessing both tact and fortune. He de- spises the Virginia ‘‘contrabands,” rating them as unfit for decent negro society. Major Richards, Superintendent of Police, is spoken of as the white candidate; but it is thought he will have little chance of election, in conse- | quence of his action for the suppression of the riot. Equality or a war of races will most likely ensue. The negro will not give way. He demands full acknowledgment in the theatres, restaurants and barber shops; yet, strange to say, the fashionable barbers of the city will not operate ona ‘darky” or poor “coiored person.” Any negro is, it appears, good enough to associate with white men; but ‘one negro is not as good as another” evén yet. What is the char- acter of this black element of Wash- ington? From all accounts it is made up of the worst materials of the Southern emanci- padoes. Just before the war (1860), in a total population of sixty-one thousand, the blacks of Washington numbered eleven thou- sand to fifty thousand whites, or in round numbers, they were one-sixth of the popula- tion. Thus, itappears that since 1860 they have increased at the rate of nearly six hun- dred per cent in nine years, while the whites show an increase of less than one hundred per cent. The war will account for the difference. With the beginning of the war the negro slaves from Maryland and Virginia began to drift into Washington. As the war progressed a wider area of territory was drained by these fugitives drifting into Washington. With Joe Johnston's evacuation of Manassas and re- treat to Richmond in 1862, the towns, farms and plantations of Eastern Virginia down to the Richmond peninsula were nearly stripped of their negro slaves. Some were carried off by their masters southward for safety; some songht their freedom within the lines of the Union army; but from the small encouragement given these fugitives by General McClellan the main body of them drifted into Washington. The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia still further increased these accessions of blacks in the District, and the necessities for labor in the Washington depots of army snp- plies and in tho fortifications around the city, and all the manifold little jobs and chances to pick up something incident to the headquarters ofa vast active army system, in the movements of men and supplies, by laud and water, far- nished these negroes resources of subsistence, When the war ended and these bountiful resources were cut off, starvation began to appear among the Washington blacks. The supply of them was greater than the demand. The government had to furnish the destitute temporarily with provisions ond clothing. Next, as slavery had been everywhere abol- ished in the Union, the runaways from Vir- ginia, Maryland and elsewhere began to return to their old places, and so the law of necessity has since been operating to reduce the negroes of Washington. But they are a gregarious race, and they like the shows and excitements and license and chances of idleness of towns and cities, even to the verge of famine, Hence the heavy black popula- tion still remaining in Washington. Being, too, an omnium gatherum chiefly of ex-slaves from the corn and tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland, and mostly unable yet to appreciate emancipation, except as a pass- port for idleness and vagabondizing, nd mostly regarding the right of suffrage as the, not difficult to reach an explanation uf the late developments of negro suffrage in Washington. The moral suggested is that a few more such manifestations of negro suffrage will be apt to inaugurate that conflict of races which, when fairly begun in this country, will only cease with the disappearance of the African. Nor will the reckless political carpet-baggers lead- ing him in this direction escape the conae- quences of their folly, With Andy Johnson in the White House these riotous proceedings of tho Washington blacks would perhaps have re- sulted in terrible scenes of bloodshed. Tho strong hand of General Grant within call maintained comparative order; but still a few more such examples of negro electioneering may bring negro suffrage to a pass beyond the reach even of General Grant. Pottoz Justiogs have come into more than usual prominence recently through the preva- lence of the various minor offences against good order of which they have cognizance, and the public verdict has been that, with the single exception of Justice Dowling, their places might be much better filled. No part of the city government is so much a reproach to us as this and so much neglected by the people, and there is no point at which tho rowdyism and violence that are such evils get 80 much the encouragement of impunity. We hope that citizens will watch closely the action of party men in the nominations for these places. Recoguition of Cuba by Chile. It will be seen by our correspondence published elsewhere to-day that Chile has followed Peru in recognizing the Cuban repub- lic as a belligerent Power, and the two republics have united in instructing their Ministers at Washington to ask our govern- ment to withdraw the conditions stipulated in the sale contract for the two Peruvian monitors now in the West Indies. -This request places the government at Washington in a very peculiar position, It must either withdraw these conditions or it must detain the thirty Spanish gunboats now building here for the Spanish government. Thore is reason to sup- pose that the war between Spain and the Peru- vian and Chilean republics will soon blaze out afresh, with a Cuba complication in the waters of the Atlantic, and serious complications may follow. We can pursue but one safe and honorable course in these questions, and that is to extend to Cuba our recognition of her rights as a belligerent Power and put both parties on an equal footing “in our ports. In that way Peru will obtain her monitors, Spaia her gunboats, Cuba the arms she clamors for, and all parties can proceed to settle their little unpleasantness after their own fashion. But for Mr, Fish to insist on imposing conditions upon the republican efforts while monarchical Spain is allowed to buy war material and ship it by every weekly steamer to Havana, and finally to construct thirty gunboats in our ship- yards unmolested, won't do at all. Republica have rights as well as monarchies, and we ex- pect our very respectable. Secretary of State to admit that fact at once. An Extraordinary Breach of Promise Case— Damages Onc Hundred Thousand Dollars. Chicago has at last had a real sensation, a magnificent sensation, a hundred thousand dollar sensation, a marble block sensation, a sensation hinging upon incidents which might be woven into a comedy that would throw “London Assurance” and the splendid roué- ism of Sir Harcourt Courtley completely in the shade. Here is the plot:—Miss Amanda J. Craig is the heroine and plaintiff; E. C. Sprague is the wicked man and defendant. Amanda is a poor but respectable school marm, a native of Cincinnati, of the ripe age of thirty-five, well developed and comely to look upon. Sprague is a Chicago millionnaire, and owner of what is commercially known ag “Sprague’s block”—a marble institution of the city of divorce and breach of promisa eases,’ The curtain rises upon a law court in asuburb of Chicago. Present—judges, law- yers, sheriffs, witnesses, constables and a promiscuous multitude of curious people. “Craig versus Sprague.” Damages, one hun- dred thousand dollars, Miss Amanda puts in her testimony. She was wooed and won by the defendant, who, after capturing the citadel of her affections, cruelly proceeded to dis- mantle and demolish its ramparts, She, required a hundred thousand dollar monitor to avenge her wrongs, and fortified her posi- tion by introducing testimony showing that she was in every way a maiden whose char- acter was as pure asthe driven snow, and, like Cwsar's wife, above suspicion, Tho. defendant takes the stand. And it should here be observed that in this piece he appears in two distinet characters, to wit:—In the character of suitor he is a gay and festive youth, of forty-five or so, you know, attired in the height of fashion; hair and whiskers carefully tricopherosed, teeth of matchless whiteness, eyes of piercing blackness, and in form a perfect, but alas! perhaps, a: padded Adonis. - In this bewitching make-up he very naturally wins his way into the artless heart of the innocent Amanda. But, shame on inhuman inconstancy! he finally casts her off for another—which incident will do very well for the underplot—and poor and injured Amanda raveth and teareth her lovély locks, and biteth her sweet lips until the blood oozes like nectar pressed from well ripened grapes, Defeated and scandalized in the Court of Cupid, she appeals for justice in @ law court in an Illinois village. And now comes in the defendant in his second make-up, Not liking the idea of disgorging one-tenth of his fortune for his freak of super-juvenile fancy in making a pretty girl love him, he consults his lawyer, who advises him to grub out his front hair, plug out his eyes, banish his false teeth (the idea of a lawyer ever re- commending the gum game!) to attire himsolf in Chatham street old clo’, sow pimples and raise pups on his nose, and give himself up generally to a course of malignant erysipelas, or, in his own facetious orthography, “aris+ place.” He also manufactured a fow ‘side iseues” whielrwill do very well for by-play for supes when the piece is produced on the stage. In this trangmogriflied form he hoped to im- pressthe jury that poor Amanda was a tempt res#, ® fnan-catcher, millionnaire guita< perches, a Potiphar's wife without the pot of fold, But—ha! ha !—~a likeness of his formor self, when he was a rich and ardent suer and right road to subsistence without labor, Y% Is | his swoctheart only an hopest sewer, whon he