The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1869, Page 6

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The Gold Cup was won by Brigantine; the Triennial Stakes by “Kingeraft;’? St, James’ Palace Stakes by Dunbar; the Sixth New Biennial Stakes by Typhon; the Seventh Biennial Stakes by Pandor, and the New Stakes by Temple. ‘The Bank of England reduced its rate of discount Yesterday to one-half of one per cent. The Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at a banquet in Leamington yes- terday, denounced the Irish Church bill and pro- nounced it a concession to Fenianisia aud a direct Msult to the loyalty of men who were devoted to the Crown. A dreadful colllery explosion has oc- curred in Wales. Maay persons have lost their lives by it, Thirteen Orangemen were arrested yesterday for breaking the peace in the North of Ireland. A disturbance broke out in Paris yesterday in the Montmarre district, Some windows were broken. A number of arrests were made. General Fleury 18 to go to Italy as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary. The Duke of Persigny urges on the Emperor further liberal reforms. Cuba. The regular troops in Santiago have been ordered to the tleld. General Jordan’s expedition is reported to have taken the road to Holqain from the bay of Nipe. The commander of the Salvador expedition is reported killed. South America. Our letters from Brazil and the Argen- tine republic dated April 13 and 24, are @ portion of the mails of the wrecked steamer Mississippi. They come by way of Havana, and though somewhat out of date will be found quite interesting. General McMahon has not yet been heard from, and the report that he had arrived in Asuncion proves to be unfounded. The move- ment against Lopez has commenced. He is at As- curra ip @ formidable position. Count D’Eu, son-in- law of the Emperor of Brazil, now commanding the allied forces, is said to have served during our civil war on the staff of General Sherman. The Parana river has been unusually high for five Months without apparent cause. The pilots say the Amazon has changed its course and becomes the Parana. Toe financial crisis continues at Monte- video. Porto Rico. ‘The Havana journals publish a circular issued by Don Laureano Sanz, Civil Governor of the Island of Porto Rico, ordering the elections the Cortes of Spain, for May 30; the electors, invoking their patriotism and love of order in the judicious seiection of their representa- tives, Miscellaneous. The President of the Irish Republican Association of Pennsyivania has issued a call for all Irishmen in that State who favor universal suffrage and the Lib- eration of Ireland to appoint delegates from each Congressional district to the Irish Republican Con- vention, which ig to meet in Chicago on the 4th of July. The address says that Senator Sumper's po- sition is sustained by @ vast majority of the Irish citizens, who will ally themselves to the republican party and carry his views into effect. Mr. W. H. Kobertson, of Washington, and Mr. John Tyler, of Virginia, propose between them that the conservative men of the South select their Sena- tors and Representatives trom patriotic statesmen living in the Northern States, and thus throw over- board “the villainous carpet-pagger and the false, perfidious and treacherous scallawag.” They con- ‘tend that one day's prior residence in the State to be represented will meet all tie requirements of the constitution as to qualification. A committee of the New York Board of Cotton Brokers catled upon Commissioner Delano yesterday and claimed exemption from the brokers’ tax, as they mereiy negotiate for sales on commission and ‘re not brokers. The matter was taken under ad- Visement. Ex-Secretary Sewara and party were in Chicago yesterday, en route tor California via the Pacific Railroad. At San Francisco the party will take a steamer for Sitka, India, China and Japan. Ben, Wade and Senator Conkling, with their families, are iso enjoying a trip over the Pacific Railroad to Salt Lake City and California. At the meeting of the American Institute of Mo: Meopathy, at Boston yesterday, two indies applied for admission to membership, but the censors re- fosed to recommend them. The Massachusetts House of Representatives yes. teorday passed the Prohibitory Liquor vill by a yote Of 154 to 96, ‘Tho trial of B, M. Yergor, for the murder of Co), Crane, Unitea States Army, was commenced at Jack- fon, Miss., yesterday, before a military commission, Crathers and Murphy, were up for trial in Judge Benedict's court in Brooklyn yesterday, for assaults Recorder Hackett the case William Varley, alias Reddy the Blacksmith, was set down for trial, From the unenviable notoriety of the accused and the extent of public at tention that bad been called to the circum. stances surrounding the offence for which he was to be tried the court room was crowded with the rough element of the city anxious to witness the proceedings. When the case was called it was found that Reddy had left for parts unknown. This being proved beyond a doubt Recorder Hackett ts- sued a bench warrant for his rearrest and ordered judgment to be entered against Variey’s bondsman. Commissioner Betts, the charge under examination against Andrew McNair was dismissed and the de- fendant honorably discharged. before Judge Thompson, the jary in the case of Ru- lan vs. Furman rendered a verdict for the plaintit, Ruland, tn the full amount claimed, tain Roskeil, will leave pier No. 46 North river at one P. M. to-morrow, 12th inst., for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. on Saturday. Ville de Paris, Captain Surmont, will sail to-morrow morning at eight o’clock, from pier No. 50 North river, for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at six A, M. on the 12th inst. Thomas, will leave pier No. 47 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 12th inst., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to laud passengers, &c. Anchor line, wilt leave pier No. 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow, Saturday, for Glasgow, touch- ing at Londonderry to land passengers. tain Norton, will sail from pier No. 12 North river at three P, M. on Saturday, 12th inst., for New Orleans direct. sharp decline, which was assisted by the sudden stringency in money. Gold was affected by the for- eign news, first faliing to 13834 and then advancing to 139%. ‘H. Terry, of Boston; Colonel A. Garrett, of Kansas; A. Ramsay, of Montreal; Major G. L. Lafin, of St. Louis; Colonel J, Perry, of Webster, Mass., and Harry Cogshall, of Philadelphia, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. F. Zimmerman, of Philadelphia, and Dr. J. M. War- Ten, of Nashville, are at the St. Charlies Hotel. Vesterday and proceeded immediately to West Point. ‘They will remain there unui Saturday, when tne President will come to New York on some privave business. On Monday the party will go to Boston to Attend the Peace Jubilee. The Owl train from Wash- ington, to which the President's car was attached, Tan off the track on Wednesday night and met with Tue three officers of the James Foster, Jr., Glynn, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday before of the People va. In the United States Commissioner's Court, before In the City Court, Brooklyn, on Wednesday last, The Inman line steamship City of Baltimore, Cap- The General Transatlantic Company's steamship The National line steamship Louistana, Captain ‘The steamship Britannia, Captain Campbell, of the The Merchants’ line steamship United States, Cap- ‘The stook market yostorday nndorwent another Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge H. L. Grey, of New York; Captain Charles Captain H. Davenport, of Providence; Colonel J. George H. Read, of the United States Navy, and M. B. Grady, of Washington, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Captain Renshaw, of the United States Navy; R. F. Hyde, of Massachusetts; E. P. Tenny, of Boston, and E. 8. Tweedy, of Danbury, Conn., are at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Mayor James Lioyd Greene, of Norwich; Sena- tor C. Cole, of California; James McManus, of Read- ing, Pa., and P. T. Coombs, of Washington, are at the Astor House. Captain Watson, of the steamship Palmyra, and A. McInnes, of Canada, are at the Hoffman House. W. Maynard, of Boston; J. L. King, of Springfeid, and W. C. Creamer, of Indiana, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Prominent Departares. . Governor Hoffman left yesterday for Albany; ¢x- Governor English, for Washington; Governor Under- wood, for Vermont; E. D. Worcester, for Albany; W. B. Bullock, Colonel D. C. Chester, Dr. Fitiin, Colonel Richardson and Major Graham, for Philadelphia, and Captain Peck Dukehart, for ‘hington. Tue Ieisn Cavron But—Tur Lorps anp Commons.—Our news for the last two days confirms the opinion which we hazarded when the news first reached us of the stand taken by the conservative peers on the Irish Church question. At the caucus held on Saturday last it will be remembered that it was resolved by the con- servative peers to use all their power to reject Mr. Gladstone's bill. Two young and highly influential Peers counselled their brethren to yield. It was our conviction, as we then stated, that, in spite of the vote, their advice would tell. We were not wrong in our opinion if this news is to be trasted. It is now af- firmed that the Archbishop of Canterbury has counselled the Bishops not to oppose the bilf. It is added that not fewer than twenty-five conservative peers will decline to follow the policy of rejection announced by the majority at their meeting on Saturday, and that the defection of others is probable, The Lords have taken fright. It may now be taken for granted that the opposition will not be for- midable. The presumption, in fact, is that the bill will pass. Jcrymen.—‘‘Rogers must hang that jury- men may dine” might etill be true if there were any jurymen, But the difficulty that justice complains of now is, not that the jury- man has such an appetite, but that he cannot be found. Out of one hundfed and fifty sum- moned, says Recorder Hackett, but eighteen answered to their names, and eleven of these were excused for good and sufficient reasons. Only seven were obtained, then, from # panel of one hundred and fifty. Here it seems to us that some points are pretty clear. The num- ber justly excusable shows that the panel was badly made, and that there is a failure in duty on the part of the authorities is shown in the fact that the one hundred and thirty- of which General R, 8 Granger i President. Yer. | two delinquents are not followed up. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, ‘The War Cloud tm the Southea Word iu ‘Time to tho Administration. Cuba, flanked by Peru and Chile, looms up in our southern prospect with dark threaten- ings of a war with Spain, to be carried on within the waters of the Atlantic. The memory of the bombardment of Valparaiso and of the attack on Callao by a Spanish fleet has not faded from the minds of Spanish Americans, and the chances for retaliation which are offered by the revolutionary move- ment in Cuba are too good to be readily aban- doned. Negotiations for peace between the South ublics and Spain have been initiat i the auspices of our government, and the representatives of the belligerents are to meet in a few weeks in Washington to consider the terms. In view of the recent recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cuban republic by Peru and Chile we do not consider that the chances for & peace with Spain are very promising, while it seems evident that both the Spanish American States are ready to admit a different result, This complication of affairs givea an in- creased importance to the efforts of the Cubans to throw off the yoke of Spain, and a new element is now brought into the field by the action of the armed Spanish mob which has taken possession of the government in Havana. We give little importance to the rumor that the volunteers who have driven General Dulce from Cuba intend to establish a separate autonomy in the island, under a triumvirate, or that they contemplate preventing the land- ing of the coming Captain General Rodas, or proclaiming the ex-Queen Isabella or her son, or in any way seek to sever the ties which bind them to the mother country. It seems to us more likely that events in the western portion of Cuba will take a grave domestic aspect, which may weaken still fwrther the precarious hold Spain retains upon her American posses- sions, The avowed motive of the usurpation is the corruption of the officials who have recently come from Spain, the accusation being that they have sold victory to the patriots and robbed the revenues of the gov- ernment, leaving the treasury without means to prosecute the war. In this condition of affairs the temporary government of Havana is seeking to inaugu- rate renewed activity by ordering all the troops to the field and garrisoning the towns with the volunteers, as will be seen by our telegraphic despatches to-day. requires more money than the government now possesses, and the volunteers will soon find that they must split upon the rock of poverty in the treasury, or resort to some new plan to obtain supplies. These cannot be found in the exhausted treasury of Spain, and the only possible resort will be impressment of supplies and forced contributions of money. When we remember the bitterness with which the volunteers reviled General Dulce on every occasion when he sought to observe the pub- lic law of nations, either in the delivery to foreign representatives of parties arrested or the liberation of others who had been pro- nounced innocent by the courts, we cannot look for any very nice discrimination in their seizure of goods or their for Spanish Minister at Washington to-day were asked if his government would respond to ours for the safety of American lives, or the se- curity of American interests in Havana, un- der the present state of affairs, he would be forced to acknowledge that the power of Spain has ceased to be respected in Cuba, and could in no wise be brought to account for what may occur there. Such a course demands and we believe if the money ; ‘Thus we have upon our immediate border the questions of a foreign war and domestic anarchy. in any country in Europe the Cabinets of con- tiguous nations would not only demand guaran- If such a conjunction were to occur tees from the fomenters of disorder, but would prepare to interfere in the interests of human kind. The question is a purely American one, and we are the controlling Power in America. Should England or France intervene we should at once protest and prepare to protect our own interests, With such duties and such im- pulses it becomes us to inquire what steps has the administration taken to be pre- pared for future contingencies. There is but oneanswer, Mr. Fish has made himself active in listening to the complaints of the Spanish Minister about the shipment of a few rusty small arms; Secretary Boutwell has busied himself with stopping steamships engaged in legal traffic, and the politicians in the Cabinet and around it are scheming to raise the cry of a war with England, in the hope to catch the Fenian vote and sway the fall elections. Such ignoring of great events at our own door and magnifying distant molehbills into mountains would be ludicrous if it were not contemptible. When the echoes from the guns of the Spanish and Peruvian iron-clads in American waters shall waken our Rip Van Winkles in Washington to a contemplation of the rude facts of the preseut day, when the gathering fleets of France and England in the West Indies shall show them the estimation in which European statesmen hold the present great question of America, then will they come to a knowledge of the opportunity they have lost, and perhaps recognize the fact that the pen of a live statesman might have controlled events of the highest importance to the future of this country. We say again to our very respectable head of the State Department, war is brooding within the echo of our own shores, anarchy is rampant where the lives of many of our citizens and millions of their interests are at stake, and it behooves you to act, andto act with energy and decision. Our home squadron must be augmented, our representa- tives at the scone of events must be instructed and sustained, and the government must be prepared to accept the changed relations of Cuba to ourselves and to the world. Austrian Progress. Austria in her new career is doing well, Beust is a powerful and skilful adminis- trator. No one can deny that he understands the character and position of the Austrian empire, nor can any one deny that under his care Austria is doing well, His opposition to the Church is notorious, He has pushed school reform and other questions affecting the welfare of the people to successful issues, in spite of the threats of bishops and arch- bishops, and in total disregard of the thunders of Rome. One bishop has been locked up and awaits his trial for instigating the people to JUNE Xf, 1860.—TRIPLE Archbishop of Vienna, who has interfered on behalf of his clerical brother and subordinate, has been snubbed and coolly informed that he had better mind his own business. Meanwhile reform goes on in other directions. Russia has offended Poles all over the world by stamping out everywhere all traces of their separate nationality. Galicia is a province of ancient Poland, but Galicia belongs to Austria. Following out consistently the conciliatory policy adopted towards Hungary, the Austrian government has promulgated an order author- izing the use of the Polish language in the ad- ministration of the internal service of Galicia. Thisis a powerful bid for the sympathy and sup- port of the Poles, and it cannot fail to succeed. If Austria will only go on as she has begun history will be compelled to record the fact that Sadowa was her salvation. A Letter on State Sovereignty=Rip Van Winkle Outdone. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, late Vice President of the late Southern confed- eracy, is out with another constitutional letter on State rights.’ He reminds us of the story of the old Bourbon who wrote a history of France, leaving out the great revolution and the empire as extrancous matters. Mr. Stephens contends that the prime cause of the late war was not slavery, but State rights, in- cluding State sovereignty. Granting the ab- straction, these facts are none the less fixed in history:—That the slave holding States con- cerned in seceding from the United States seceded to save their institution of slavery ; that in setting up their separate confederacy they did so for the perpetuation and expansion of slavery; that they had been making their preparations for war before they seceded ; that they were organized for war when they se- ceded, and that before going to war they pro- claimed slavery the corner stone of their new confederation. It is also true that State sovereignty was a mere pretext for secession and the war for a Southern confederacy, be- cause in the Southern States which did not by State authority join the confed- eracy the preachers of State sovereignty, such as Breckinridge, of Kentucky, Price, of Missouri, and hosts of others in Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, abandoned their respective States and fought against them in the armies of Jeff Davis. Old Hickory was right in his opinion that Calhoun’s agita- tions of State sovereignty did not look to the preservation, but to the dissolution of the Union. Jefferson’s grand idea was a dominant party, but Calhoun’s was a Southern con- federacy. Mr. Stephens, going back to 1860 as the true point of departure, says that sovereignty in this country still resides where it did in 1776, 1777 and 1778—“‘that is, with the people of the several States.” The war has not resulted as he desired, and therefore it goes for nothing. From the time of Moses down to this day war has been uniformly accepted as the last appeal and the results as conclusive in settling the questions at stake; and we fear that the United States will not depart from this long line of precedents for the accommo- dation of Mr. Stephens. On both horns of the dilemma, slavery and State sovereignty, he is transfixed. The man is merely mumbling in his sleep who talks at this day of the constitu- tional Union of our fathers, It went down in the deluge with African slavery. Yet Mr. Stephens, a regular Southern sleep walker, tells us that we must go back to the good old Jeffersonian doctrines of State rights “before there can be a return to the days of peace, harmony, prosperity and happiness which formerly marked our course.” This is sheer nonsense, What were the days of peace to which he refers? During the long and fear- ful agitation of the slavery question they were the days of a reign of terror throughout the South. In those halcyon days the Northern man going South without his vouchers of soundness on slavery did so at the peril of his life. Admitting that this terrorism was the law of necessity, who would have the dreadful necessity restored ? We are, however, solemnly warned by Mr. Stephens that unless we have those old State rights dogmas re-established we shall inevita- bly drift into imperialism. It may be so; but we cannot roll back the world to the period before the deluge. We cannot restore the Bourbons. We must go on. Railways, steam- ships and telegraphs have taken the place of Southern abstractions and the old stage coach of five miles an hour and the old clipper ship passage of six weeks across the Atlantic. Rip Van Winkle, after his twenty years’ sleep, was nearer the time of day than Mr. Stephens, Dmect Traps to Evrors rrom Sr. Lovis.—The Board of Trade at St. Louis is discussing the subject of direct trade with Enarope, it having been shown that ocean of Chicago are beginning to be erected, whence it may be conveniently shipped to New York or to Europe, at less expense than overland by railway, The extortions of railway monopolies must eventually be checked in some way by means of the Mis- i Were Reppy tae Bracksurra ?—This celebrated personage was to have been brought to trial yesterday. Instead of appearing in court he *‘skedaddied” and cannot be found. The Judge estreated his bail, the bonds cover- ing $2,000. It will be bard work to find Reddy, and Reddy will be « “hard case” when found. Asotugn Cow Cass.—On the Long Island Railroad on Wednesday » cow was run over off the track. No lives if ! ; 1 Georoer.—It is reported to the that there are three distinct Thompson street. Whiting attention to filth, even to sold his contract, and the the Board mast call on the Railroad, Who ought to FRE HT j Wt itt i § i SHEET. - t. resist the clvil government. Tho Gardinal 1 Alareing Accideut—President Grant His Family in Danger. ‘We record to-day another railway accident, serious in its consequences and of a very alarming character, President Grant with the members of his family and a select party hav- ing had their lives jeopardized by the occur- rence. It took place on the line of the Balti- more and Ohio Railway, near Annapolis Junction, yesterday, during the run of a through express train bound from Washington for New York. The details appear in our columns. From the most reliable sources we learn that the train left Washington at a very early hour in the morning with nine or ten cars attached, every seat, with all the sleeping berths, being engaged. A high rate of speed was maintained. Midway between Washington and Baltimore the engine collided with a cow which was lying on the track, when a fearful crash ensued. Cars in the centre of the train were sprung in the midst, toppling over and smashing one against the other in wild disorder. The car occupied by President Grant, his wife and children, his brother-in- law, Secretary Boutwell and others, which was in the rear, crushed against the crumbling débris in front, but was not injured, The dis- tinguished party escaped unhurt, but vastly alarmed. Sad results ensued to others, how- ever, some twenty or thirty persons being severely wounded. It is difficult to reconcile the statements yet awhile, the railroad com- pany, as is usual with most railroad companies, not affording much information under the cir- cumstances. President Grant was forwarded to New York. When sought amjd the ruin he was found standing on the platform of a car smoking. It is said General Grant was not aware at the moment of the extent of the ac- cident. Is it destiny, or his natural tempera- ment? Toe Exorrep AND Mrxep StaTE OF AFFAIRS mx Watt Srreet.—The “bears” had another jubilee in Wall street yesterday, and things in that locality looked decidedly “mixed.” The most singular feature ofthe day was the sud- den and sharpdemand for money, for which borrowers had to pay as high as one-quarter per cent per day interest, in order to get funds with which to make their accounts good at bank. Gold fell to 138} upon the announce- ment that the Bank of England had reduced its rate of discount, but shot up again to 1393 when the news of an emeute in Paris was reported. The feeling in London, where consols were said, by private telegram, to have fallen to 92 and five-twenties to 793, induced a belief that soniething really serious had transpired in the French capital. A Neero Orator Inorrina To OvTRAGE.— We publish an abstract of a speech recently delivered by a negro orator in Mississippi under the anspices of the white radical Ex- ecutive Committee. The fellow had the effrontery to acknowledge that he was an “emissary” and an “‘incendiary;” that he was paid for coming, advised the negroes to stop working for white rebels, and otherwise in- cited the black population to riot and outrage. If the federal commanders in the unrecon- structed States cannot choke off these nigger incendiaries, the sooner the whites take them in hand and choke them off in a more effectual way the better. An Iypran Conarzss.—The representatives of the civilized Indians of the Indian Terri- tory now in Washington propose to have a Congress, to which Mr. Commissioner Parker thinks of inviting representatives from some of the savage tribes to go with him in order to be convinced that it is better to cultivate the arts of peace than to tear up railroads, scalp white men, murder them and eat their boiled hearts; capture white women and knock out white babies’ brains, or in any other horrible way take vengeance on rough frontiersmen for killing a squaw. The savages who should accompany Colonel Parker to the Indian Congress could not fail to be impressed by the spectacle of comfort and prosperity presented by the partially civilized tribes, which, with their schools, churches, farms and villages, occupy the Indian Territory lying west of the Missis- sippi and the State of Arkansas and north of Texas. Communttizs deliberating whether or not they will accept nigger suffrage for themselves or give their voice to force it upon others should take notice of recent events in Washing- ton as illustrating its immediate consequences only. Bi. Wenpett Puiturs’ new nigger is the “noble red man;” and Wendell, who glories in all the mischances of white men, gloats with special delight over the fact that the Indians have got the Pacific Railroad within their reach, and can tear up the rails and shoot conductors. His reasons for this admi- ration of the red nigger are, first, that the Indian acts upon something that seems to Wendell like woman's rights; and next, that when they emancipated their slaves they gave them a share of their possessions. He re- gards them as splendid examples. Oty Four deaths occurred from smallpox in the city in the past week, as reported by the Sanitary Superintendent. This must finally crush out all idea of that “epidemic.” A Hist 1o Terecrarn Orrgators.—One of our greatest annoyances comes from the telegraph operators. Late at night, when time is valuable, despatches have to be re- written in order to supply words which have been dropped by the operators and to fill up abbreviations and contractions. The follow- ing is a specimen:— The Prost. Sec Tres. Adm! Parragut and V. Admi Porter with some distinguished indvidis from Gt Brit. will visit Boston. We wish the operators to understand that we have to pay for all these words in full, and if they will keep that fact in mind, with honest intentions, they will save us a great deal of labor. Tne First Cororey Derecats,—A colored preacher has been sont to a radical county convention in Iowa as a delogate—the first that has ever appeared in a similar capacity in the State, Upon this an Illinois paper says :—‘‘As Galileo once remarked, the world does move, and in Iowa at least the colored as well as the white man is moving along with it,” That may be all very well for Iowa, but would not a majority of the people in the State prefor to heve the negro move a little further off—to | Liberia or Hayti, for example? The New Republica JivYement—The Alas bama Claims, It appears that a powerful, body of party leaders is at work to make the platform of Senator Sumner’s speech on the Alabama claims the important plank in the republican platform in the approaching fall elections. It further appears that a movement has been proclaimed from the headquarters of the Irish republicans of Philadelphia, looking to the fusion of the “Irish vote” of the Union with the republican party on this Alabama quostion, in bebalf of the liberation of Ireland. This is a shrewd conception, and if put into practice will inevitably make a tremendous pull upon the democratic balance of power, even in this city. It is probable, too, that unless the republicans bring these Alabama claims into the fore- ground the party will be thrown into the background in these approaching State elec- tions, There are, however, certain old slow-coach radicals, ‘‘bloated bondholders” and such, who are frightened at the thought of a war with England. Such a war, they say, will bring upon us repudiation, with all its evils. This is moonshine. There will be no war from a demand upon England to settle up these claims. The upshot will be that of Gen- eral Jackson's threat of reprisals in default of the payment of those old claims upon France for her spoliations upon our commerce. That bill was promptly settled, on a firm demand, and this bill will be. At all events, if the republicans fail to come up to the popular sen- timent on these Alabama claims their party will be flanked by the democracy on this issue. Our Negp or a Prison.—Our repressive and criminal machinery has not kept pace with the growth otherwise of the city. Moro than thirty years ago the Tombs prison was built to meet the wants of the city at that time—and then Madison square was in the open country. Our population has quad- rupled and the Tombs is still our only city prison, We must build another. Tue Same Orp Story.—Sambo promises to do quite as well as Pat in his political ad- ventures. Once upona time the politicians here made a great fuss with the Irish vote, and at last the Irish voter, finding his strength, determined to be an Irish office-holder, too. Since then we have been content perforce to fill all the best offices of the city with the sons of the Emerald Isle. Washington is likely to have a similar experience with her nig- gers, They have been made voters that the politicians might use their votes, and they get on so well that already one of them deman to be Mayor of the city. Few Lovers or Jvusticg AND Haters oF Gross Caicangry will regret that Mr. Bout- well has taken steps likely to destroy the business of the horde of sharpers who call themselves claim agents. Men prosecuting this business honestly can get the permits from the Secretary that are now made necessary, and it is for the interest of all having claims that others should be ruled out, Curtne Smattpoxs—Whenever any disease is much talked about in the papers some wiseacres send to the nearest journal pre- scriptions that will infallibly cure it, Their confidence in their remedies reminds one of Radcliffe’s saying, that when he began the practice of medicine he knew twenty cures for every disease, though years later he could count more than twenty diseases for which he knew no cure. Just now the remedies run on smallpox. One wise man prescribes a tea, the application of which is to prevent all ‘‘pitting.” As the pitting is a necessary consequence of the eruption, and as no man can positively say that « case is smallpox without the eruption, it remains to be shown that the people ‘‘cured” by this tea ever had the smallpox. Sparx is apparently decided just now to have an Executive without a crown rather than an Executive with a crown. An Exe- cutive without a crown is the American plan. Henors oF THE CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSER.— A Tennessee paper perpetrates the following hit descriptive of a scene in DeKalb county— Stokes and Cate being the speakers and the subject the late radical row :— Sroxes—‘Thrice the brindied cat hath mewed.”" CaTR—“Thrice, and once the hedge: pig, whined."? STokks—‘Grisham cries—'tis time, tis time.” Both—“Double, double, toils and troubles, jhe biles and now she bubbles.”’ this @ dag-ger that I see vefore me??? CatEe—“No, sir! It’s a nigger!" More Religious Conventions. The excitement occasioned by the recent great gathering in New York of Presbyterians of the Old School and of the New, with a view to union, has hardly subsided when other re- ligious conventions meet at different points throughout the country. On Wednesday last the Episcopal Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut commenced in New Haven its an- nual session. Bishop Williams presided, and in his annual address particularly alluded to the very important subject of securing a chango in the divorce laws of the State, and expressed a hope that some action might be taken to maintain the holiness of the married relation. Statistics show that during the last year the “land of steady habits” has rivalled even Indiana in the frequency and disgraceful facility of divorces. On Wednesday also, in the meeting at Philadelphia of the General Synod of the Reformed Church of Pennsyiva- nia, the committee to which certain documents denouncing Freemasonry as ‘‘deistical, idola- trous, anti-Christian and hostile to the Church,” reported that they had neither the time nor the books of reference at hand to verify or refute the assertions and arguments contained in these documents, ‘Many of them they be- lieve to be exaggerated, if not entirely un- founded.” They conclude their report by say- ing :—‘‘ Without attempting a defence or his- tory of Masonry, your committee would re= mind their brethren that, in our own country, at least, the Order has numbered among ite mombers some of the purest and noblest men, statesmen, Christians, and not a few ministers of the Gospel.” On Wednesday the Episcopal , Convention in Pittsburg, Pa., refused, by @ vote of forty-eight to nino, to admit to,the union “ All Saints’ Church,” on account Of its ritualistic proclivities, Everywhere to vari« ous societies of the Methodist Episcoryal Church are voting on the question of lay representa- tion—a question which haq tated that Churgh for twonty years, ‘fhus far the returagq