The New York Herald Newspaper, June 13, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD eae "AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Voli e XXXIV. RELIGIOUS BERVICES TO-DAY. APOLLO HALL.—MoRnind STAR SoNDAY SoHOOL— Afternoon. COOPER INSTITUTE.--Rev. Waxuen H. CupwoeTH, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—FRes Evening. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rav. Brown. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Large Chapel, Univer- sity.—REV. Dk. DEEMS. Morning and evening. Seevior. ABBOTT CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH.—Rev. Geo. H. Her. woutH. Morning and evening. RVERETT ROOMS.—SPincrcaLisTs Mes. BRIGHAM. Morning and evening. JOHN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.— Rey, W. P. Comstr, Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Bev. Da. W. A. Scott. Morning and evening. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. Easr- BUBN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. FREE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Home Chapel. —Morning— Ruy. De. Prick. Bvening—Rev. Dx. Turtie. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. Winuiam H. Prix. Morning and evening. SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. H. W. Kyarr, Morning and evening. ST. LUKE'S M. E. CHURCH.—Rev. De. B. S. Foster. Morning and evening. ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH.—ENGuisu SerMow by Year Rev. F. Witson. Evening. TRENOR'S LYRIC HALL, 61 ts.—Rav. 0. B. FROTHINGHAM. av., between 4Ist and 42d Morning. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisuor SNOW. Afternoon. er ZION C HURCH.—SrRvices morning and evening- TRIPLE SHEET. NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated June 12. The disturbances in effectually stilled. Paris have not been yet Large numbers of people throng the streets. The military forces are prepared for any emergency. During = his drive through Montmartre on Friday with the Empress the Emperor was unattended by an escort. About 200 arrests were made on Friday night. An official promulgation was put forth yes- terday that the strength of public optnion brought the recent disorders to a close. Ismail Pacha has arrived in Paris. ‘The London 7imes in an editorial yesterday says that the House of Lords must defer to the national voice on the Irish Church question. Large tory de- monstrations were held in Liverpoo! and Manchester yesterday. The Times and .Vews both contain arti- cles relating to the present situation im France. é The Zollverien Congress, at present in session in Berlin, suggest that North and South German States be represented by tbe same consuls. India. A most disastrous cyclone has recently visited Caleutta. Much property in the city was seriously injured, but the damage to the shipping was slight, Cuba. Another severe engagement near Puerto Padre is reported. The losses were heavy on both sides, and among the killed is General Marmol. Secretary Fish still declines to recognize Cuba, and contends that the policy at present pursued is best for the Cubans themselves. Ifthe United States had recognized the Cuban belligerents some time ago no doubt Spain would by this time have secured the aid of the prominent European Powers, and the matter would have been greatly complicated, and the struggle prolonged. As it is, the volunteers them- selves are fast setting the island free. The Cubano agents in Washington have received information that two American expeditions have recently landed and joined the reyolutionists with 600 men and a quantity of war munitions. The Cuban force has been divided mto two corps, of which General Jor- dan commanls one, There are 2,000 Americans in the insurgent army. South America. Our Rio Janeiro letter 1s dated May 8. The eman- cipation of the slaves ts being strongly advocated by number of prominent citizens of Brazil. Comte d’Eu had arrived at Asuncion and had found the army completely disorganized. Lopez remains among the Cordilieras, growing stronger every day, while the allies are unable to move, and are losing strength the longer they remain idle. No word has yet been heard from Minister McMahon. The New Dominion. In the Nova Scotia Assembly on Friday a resolu- tion to rest the legality of confederation in the Eng- ish courts was passed by a vote of 16 to 14, but yes- terday it was rescinded. During the debates annex- ation sentiments were freely uttered. In the Dominion House of Commons on Friday night the resolution looking to an increased subsidy for Nova Scotia was postponed. The correspondence with Lord Granville in regard to the San Juan treaty and the claims for Fenian outrages was submitted. Lord Granville in regard to the latter says if a mixed commission for the settlement of British American claims is agreed upon the claims against the Fe- nians may be presented. A beavy reduction in the land and naval forces bas been ordered to take place in the fail. Miscellaneous, Boston has prepared a grand reception for Presi- dent Grant on Wednesday. He is to be carried to the St. James by a committee, visited by the Mayor and Governor and saluted by the pupils of two high schools, who aasemble for the purpose in front of the hotel, He is then to visit the Legislature, review General Butler's militia, and finally drop in at the Jubilee. General Sherman is expected to accom- pany him. The hotels in Boston are already closely crowded on account of the Jubilee, and the inhabi- tants are quite jubilant. General Sheridan has been ordered by the Presi. Gent to treat all Indians outside the four great reser- vations as hostile and to proceed vigorously against those in Kansas, in order to protect the settlers. The Swedish colonists apprehend more trouble, but are well armed. The New York colonists have mostly moved in and taken homesteads near Wash- ington, Kansas. In the trial of Yerger in Jackson, Miss., yesterday for the murder of Colonel Crane, commandant of the Fourth Military District, Genegal Granger was Tuled out as a member of the commission on the Piea of defendant's counsel that he had formed an opinion as to the guilt of the prisoner. A plea against the jurisdiction of the court was overruled. Yerger pleaded “not guilty,” and the case was postponed to Monday, when witnesses will be ex- amined. Four bundred clerks in the War Department, not ‘authorized by jaw, have been ordered to be dis- charged on the 16th inst. Great excitement was oc- casioned in the departwent yesterday by this order, and telegrams were sent to Secretary Rawlings, who ts in Connecticut, advising him to stay the execution of the order for the present, It is rumored that he hasdone so, Smong the victims are many old soldiers, some of them crippled, and mauy republt- cans, It is stated among them that the Grand Army of the Republic originally caused the order to be put 4n force. ‘The principals in the recently projected duel near Richmond have disappeared with their seconds, and 1t is supposed they have gone to North Carolina to have their Oght out. Postmaster General Creswell has gt anted the con- NEW YORK HERALD, cist its Sal Lael tract for supplying his department with about 20,000,000 envelopes to Messrs, Dempsey & O’Toole, the stationers whose contracts were somewhat se Verely overhauled by a Congressional committee last Session, and George H. Ray, of New York. Commissioner Delano, it is understood, bas de- cided that brokers are lable to pay tax on sums received by them for negotiating sales. General Emery’s order of assignment to the Sol- diers’ Home at Washington has been revoked. Generai S. S. Carrol! bas been retired with bis full rank of Major General, The City. The steamer Quaker City is again in the custody of the Marehal, Judge Pierrepont having filed a new libel against her, charging that she is intended to aid the insurgents in Hayti. Mr. Yeoman, who purchased the Twenty-third Street Railroad, called upon the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund on Friday to complete his bargain, but it appearing that he wished a certificate for the ‘Twenty-third Street Ratlroad Company instead of for himself individually, the Commissioners voted to reject his bid as collusive and fraudulent, and so notified him in the afternoon. The Commissioners of the Elevated Railway met again yesterday at No. 110 Broadway, and waited for any objections or complaints from citizens opposed to the erection of the road now in progress on Greenwich street, but none appeared. In the case of Moses Depew, whose pardon, issued by President Johnson, was revoked by President Grant, Judgg Blatchford yesterday deciaed against the discharge of the prisoner, on the ground thata pardon is not complete until it has been delivered, and as the Presidential office never dies, President Grant had a perfect right to recall a pardon issued by his predecessor if it had not been completed. The stock market yesterday was buoyant and strong, with a sharp advance tn Pacific Mail. Gold closed at 13934, The markets were generally without activity yes- terday. Coffee was quiet but steady. Sugar and mol asses Were also quiet, but unchanged ip value. Cotton was in good demand, chiefly for spinning, and prices were higher, closing at 31%c. for mid- ding uplands. On 'Change four was only mode- rately dealt in and prices were rather easier. Wheat was dull and heavy, while corn was tolerably active and firmer. Oats quiet and weak. For pork the market was more active and firmer. Beef was quiet but steady, while lard was freely sought after and commanded higher prices. Naval stores were rather more active for rosin, the low grades of which were higher. Petro- leum was quiet and unsettled, closing at 16),c. a lic. for crude in bulk, and 31\c. for refined. Freights were dull and heavy. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Lieutenant Colonel Reed, of the United States Army; Colonel T. A. Parker, of St. Louis; Colonel W. E. Spalding, of Washington; Colonel J. B. Bar- rett, of Rome, N. Y., and Colonel J. M. French, of Michigan, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel J. Cassiday Mundy, of Wilmington, N. C.; H. K. Bruce, of Cleveland, and John Blanchard, of Lima, Peru, are at the St. Caarles Hotel. W. E. Hughes, of Louisvilie, Ky., and I. J. Blalr, of Rhode Island, are at the Maltby House, Captain R. T. Donaldson, of Toronto; Dr. W. Law- son, of Baltimore, and John McDonald, of Hainilton, c, W., are at the St, Julien Hotel. . E. Washburn, of Charleston; Charles Neilson, of Maryland, and ex-Senator James W. Wail, of New Jersey, are at the New York Hotel. Wendell Phillips, of Boston; H.C. Stevens, of Mon- treal; C. A. Hawley, of Connecticut; Dr. Brink, United States Consul to Mexico, and J. B. Wheeier, of Washington, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Charles E. Hutchinson, of Baltimore; Alex. Flem- ing, of Glasgow, and N. A. Fisher, of Portland, Me., are at the Westminster Hotel. Professor J. S. Black, of Indiana; Captain J. T. Philtipa, of the English army; Judge John E. Sun- dowston, of England; D. C. Littlejohn, of Bufalo, and H.S. McCoomb, of Delaware, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Nalinsky and Captain Bonneakesky, of the Russian army; Major J. Starr, of Philadelphia, and General H. A, Barnum, of Syracuse, are at the Hoff- man House. E. L. Livermore, of Boston; E. D, Webster, of El- mira; Genera: B. F. Brewster, of Philadelphia, and H. Walbridge, of Washington, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Governor Burnside, for Rhode Island; General J. H. Martindale, for Rochester; General Starling, for Washington; John King, Jr., and William Prescott Smith, for Baltimore; J. P, Carson, for Toledo; Oscar Townsend, for Cleveland; R. D. Hubbard, for Con- necticut; Colonel D, McPherson, for Erie, Pa.; John McDonough, General A. L. Rennoyer and J. W. Clay- born, for Philadeiphia; Major McDonald, for Boston; H. Kellogg, for Mobile, Ala.; F. H. Cone, for Syracuse; Colonel F. N. Wicker, for Lockport, and E. P, Ross, for Auburn. General J. C. Fremont, General A. L. Lee, M. de « Lima, Secretary to the Ambassador of Brazil; C. J. Clinch, Consul t9 Bordeaux; ©. D'Anian, attaché of the French Legation; Bishop Machebeuf, of Colorado; “Dr. 8S. Fleet Speir, M. M. Price, Consul to Marseilles; Mile. ‘Tostée, Mme. Beckers, Mme. Adrienne, Mile. Clementine, Mile. Rachelle, Mile Bertheloit, Mme. Gueretti, Mon- sieurs Carrier, Beckers, Muasay, Reviz, Deligne, Emile, Brabant, Riverez, and numerous others of the opéra bouffe troupe late of Fisk's Opera House, left this port yesterday in the steam ship Ville de Paris for Havre via Brest. News From CuBa Via Wasninaton.—Every few days the Washington correspondents of the newspapers send off a batch of wonderful news from Cuba, which has reached that little inland town the Lord knows how and the Lord knows from where. If in the preparation of their inventions these Washington newsmong- ers would pay a little more attention to the established earmarks of reliable news, such as dates, mode of transit and geographical con- gruity in its statements, the public might be led to place some reliance in them. The latest of these states that an engagement is daily ex- pected between the forces of General Lesca and General Jordan, when, according to our last advices from Cuba, about four hundred miles of very difficult territory intervene be- tween them. Tak New Dominion iN TRouRLE AND ON rae ‘Bivrr.”—The Dominion of Canada is in trouble, but evidently inclined to put the best face possible on the actual state of affairs, In the Parliament at Ottawa an official report enumerates the militia force by hundreds of thousands, coming nearly by millions. We know, however, how quickly the living units disappear inthe face of danger, since the time of the foolish Fenian raid. It is easy to figure outa soldier on paper, but the grand part is to have him fight when required. Gunboats are to remain on the lakes, Sena- tor Sumner's expected report on the San Juan island affair is looked tor with anxiety, The Nova Scotia Legislature rescinded the vote on Mr. Wilkin’s resolution relative to consultation with law authorities in England on the subject of the anion with Canada, There will be no mission to London, therefore. Can the Do- minion maintain its integrity ? Cusa arose in revolt against the Spanish rulers, Our government, being neutral, stood still, not favoring the new movement, as not knowing to which side the people really in- clined, since the opposition had a party and the government had a party. But now the very government party has seconded the revo- lution by another revolt against the Spanish rulers, and has driven them out, Is it any longer doubtful what our government should do? SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ae ‘The Outburst of Popular Sentiment in France Danger to the Empire. What does it mean? What is to come of it? ‘These are the two questions which naturally arise to the mind of every thinking man when he reads the daily telegraphic news and the mail intelligence of the last ten days regard- ing the situation in France. These two ques- tions may fairly be regarded as exhaustive. They imply that the situation is bad and some- what difficult to explain, and they more than suggest that the future is doubtful. It is not to be denied that the situation is grave. Our worst fears have been realized. The elections have justified the most anti- Napoleonic predictions, The opposition feel- ing, not in Paris only or in the other large centres of population and intelligence, but all over France, has been expressed as it has not been expressed since the first Napo- leon fell. Twenty years have elapsed since Louis Napoleon was elected President of the French republic. Seventeen years have elapsed since he was proclaimed Emperor by popular choice. One purpose, during all these years, has guided the chief of the State ; but now, in 1869, after infinite and costly coaxing, the French people have, as nearly as possible, said, ‘‘We are sick of this man Na-. poleon, or at least of this man’s policy. He is neither the Solomon nor the Cesar we took him to be, and a change might be a blessing.” How otherwise can we interpret the facts? For the first time during his public career Na- poleon has given France a chance to say what she thinks, His earnest desire has been to call forth a fair expression of public sentiment, in the belief, of course, that public sentiment would be in his favor; but everywhere, all over France, where intelligent men have voted in any numbers, Napoleon and Napoleon's policy have been emphatically condemned. We do not close our eyes to the fact that in the new Chamber the government will still have alarge majority. This must be honestly ad- mitted. But it is as little to be denied that the minority will be backed up by the thinking and daring few, while the majority will have no better gupport than the timid, fearful and unreasoning many. The result of the elections justifies the conclusion that if the rural population were more enlightened, or rather if the screw were less vigorously ap- plied, France with one voice would speak out and condemn the one-man government. The Nantes and Paris riots make this plain to the humblest comprehension, What does it mean? It means that France is not satisfied with im- perialism. It means that France is no longer in her babyhood and that she is impatient of being treated as if she were. It means that Napoleon has been believed in and trusted for the last twenty years, and that after all this experience France is not unwilling to go after another god. What is to come of it? This is a question which it is less easy to answer. It is possible that all may be got over without serious trouble. The wounding of afew men in the streets of Paris and the imprisonment of a few editors are events not so uncommon in France as to warrant the conclusion that Napoleon cannot get over the difficulty with which they are identified. Belittle the manifestations as we may, however, we cannot do away with the fact that the situation is dangerous and that all the skill and tact and power of which the Emperor is known to be possessed will be needed to make matters smooth and easy. There is one thing which the friends of the Emperor, and even the Em- peror himself, do not seem fully to take into their calculations. Time was when Paris was France. It was so in 1789, in 1830, in 1848, It has been a fundamental idea with Napoleon from the first that Paris is France. To hold France in subjection it has been his belief that the first requisite was to hold Paris secure. Hence the many improvements of the capital city which have been a feature of his reign. It is now, by the arrangements the Emperor has made, with the assistance of Baron Hauss- mann, an unquestionable fact that he who commands the garrison of Paris has Paris at his mercy. The long, wide boulevards strik- ing out from a common centre, commanded one and all by artillery, make the old barricade system, by means of which the citizens of Paris were wont to terrify monarchs, if not impossible at least practically worthless, Paris is, therefore, less at the service of revolution- ists than she once was. The diMficulty of re- volutionizing Paris is, it must be admitted, a preliminary obstruction in the way of those who would overturn the government. But modern improvements are not all on the side of the despot. Progress al- ways brings with it compensation for seeming tyranny, seeming injustice. The spirit and the science which have modernized Paris have modernized France. What the boulevards and the new streets have done in Paris for the government the railroads and telegraph lines have done throughout France forthe people. A revolution in Paris is now more difficult of accomplishment; but an up- rising in Paris can be converted in almost a second ot time, by the instrumentality of the telegraph, into an uprising in every city and every town and every considerable village all over the empire. The improvements which have been made under Napoleon, not in Paris only but throughout France, when looked at from this point of view are quite as much in the interest of the people as in the interest of the government, It would not bea miracle if some of these fine mornings we should learn that a simultaneous rising had taken place all over France, and that the empire was no more, In considering the question—what is to come of it?—these things must be taken into account. If France is really dissatisfied, as she seems to be, France is not without the power of ex- pressing that dissatisfaction. A general and simultaneous outburst is possible, and a gen- eral and simultaneous outburst would paralyize the government. All this is well known to the Emperor bim- self. Noone is more familiar with this gen- eral truth than himself, He knows that revolution is now more easy than ever it was, In the example of Spain he has seen how a whole people can rise and accomplish a revo- lution which by its suddenness surprises both themselves and the world. He cannot now deny that France is dissatisfied. Reform is de- manded, but reform is not enough. What will he do? He must do something. He is not the tan to be beat without aa effort, We are gos unprepared to hear that he is about to grant further liberal reforms ; but we shall be as little surprised to be told that the empire po longer means peace. A necessity is laid upon him, and the necessity points to foreign war. Our Plain Duty to Cuba—Surprising Hesl- tancy and Weakness of the Aduinistra- tion. We suppose that if England, France and every other nation outside of the American Continent were to recognize the belligerent rights or independence of the Cubans our ex- cessively conservative, careful and timid ad- ministration might then take into considera- tion the propriety of doing the same thing. But neither the action of the independent nations and sister republics of America in recognizing the Cubans as belligerents, nor the fact that Spanish rule has ceased in the island and that the only respectable organized government there now is that of the Cubans, seems to have any influence upon the adminis- tration. True, we published a despatch from our correspondent at Washington yesterday stating that in an interview one of the Cuban representatives had with the Secretary of -State that dignified and wonderfully cautious official did admit that the state of affairs existing now in Cuba is anomalous and gives a different aspect to the question. It is surprising that Mr. Fish saw so far or admitted as muoh as this. The wonder is that he did not seek an explanation or advice from the Spanish Minister before he ventured to express himself in that way. It is said the Cubans are inspired with hope of some action on the part of our government from the language of the Secretary of State. We dislike to say anything discouraging to the Cuban patriots, but we fear they bave little to expect from our weak and timid administra- tion, Conduct so un-American, so impolitic and imbecile, so opposed to the popular sentiment of the country, and showing such a want of comprehension of great national interests as has been exhibited by our government in this Cuban matter, is enough to make every American blush with shame and indignation. If ever we speak of the Mon- roe doctrine again or talk of an American policy for the American Continent the world will laugh with ridicule at us. This mighty repub- lic has abdicated its former higher position in American affairs and policy and has become less than a second rate Power. Chile and Peru have recognized the Cuban patriots, and the other American republics no doubt will soon follow their example. The United States, which ought to have been first, hesitates, and is not likely, out of fear or deference to Europe, todo anything. How are the mighty fallen! There is no Spanish government in Cuba. Captain General Dulce was deposed, and those left nominally in authority are absolutely under the control of the revolutionary mob, called volunteers, The only respectable or- ganized government, as was said before, is that of the Cubans under the presidency of Cespe- des. These are facts known to all the world except to the conservative old fogy at the head of the State Department and to General Grant. Great questions of national policy and national interests seem to be beyond their grasp. The honor, glory, welfare and future of the country are being sacrificed through their imbecility, In fact, there is far better ground or cause for impeachment in the miser- able policy of the administration with regard to Cuba than there ever was for impeaching Andy Johnson. Thereis no question as to the public sentiment of the country being in favor or Cuban recognition, yet we see this remark- able anomaly that the actual govermment dares, and has the power for the time ,to oppose the will of the people. We are ashamed of the administration, and all we can say to the struggling Cubans is, put no trust in the State Department or the President, but rely upon your own brave hearts and stout arms. Trinity Hauled Over the Coals. David Groesbeck, ‘‘a successor of some of the original inhabitants” of this town, finds fault with Trinity church, and prays in the courts for a remedy against her abuses. One of his grievances is that she ‘‘has allowed vice and immorality to increase in the city.” We know that they have increased, and if Trinity is the power that is responsible for this evil and ought to have prevented it we heartily join in his prayer. Why did she not stop it? She has money enough. She could pay as many preachers as there are Peter Funks, dog-fighters, ropers-in and rowdies in all the wards of Trinity parish. Why did she not fee these missionaries and neutralize the vice? She is to blame. On this charge we condemn her, Another charge is that she is wasting the money of the Trinity estate. Of this charge we find that she is not guilty. We never knew her to waste a cent. Allthe money changers in the temple were fools to her in handling cash. Another charge is that she has treated the Legislature with contempt. Herein we sympathize with her. It is the only absolutely just thing we ever heard of her. She shall not be punished for it. She is charged with laying up treasures on earth in bonds and mortgages—in seeking to acquire political weight in neglecting the poor and pampering to the worldly-minded ; and of all these heinous offences we are sorely afraid she is guilty. For this we are willing to consent tht her wealth shall go to the poor, for whom it was gathered, throngh the hands of a receiver—that is, if any can get through, But it is a great difficulty that wealth is so apt to adhere to the hands of these receivers. On this subject it is best to consult the Pacific Railroad men—Fisk, Jr., and Peter B. Swee- ny—who understand the whole game of ap- pointing receivers, Snaut the doubtful compliment of being called the friend of Spain deter us from doing our duty to our neighbors in Ouba? COUNTERFEITING paper money in the United States will be more difficult hereafter than it has been hitherto if the government adheres to the policy of carrying security against it so far back as the paper mill. So lgng as the engraving is made the dependence for safety successful counterfeiting is certain, for any engraving can be copied with complete secrecy; but paper cannot well be made with equal secrecy, and paper making is an art in which processes known only to a few can be relied upon to produce effects not to be imitated by Aber processes, The Labor Congress and the Postal Tele~ @raph, The typos hold decidedly the lead in the in- tellectual movements agitating the laboring classes and Labor Unions of the present day. If any proof were needed of this fact, we could easily find it by reference to and analysis of the discussions in the National Typographical Union, recently In session at Albany. Believing, however, that this is admitted by every one who has read the interesting proceedings of this body of representative men, fresh from our laboring classea, we would now direct public attention, and particularly that of workingmen, to the sagacious and far-reaching policy which, on two remarkable subjects, the printers have introduced in the discussions now agitating the Labor Unions of the country. We allude to the questions of apprenticeship and the postal telegraph. Modern civilization rests upon the brain and hands of the skilled mechanic. If this axiom needs practical demonstration it will be found of the most ample kind in an examination of the Spanish-American countries lying south of us. There intellectual development of a high, if not of the highest, character is to be found. All the questions of theology and of politica, the arta of logic and of diplomacy, the truths of science and the aspirations of art are studied, comprehended and used theoretically ina high degree. But the skilled labor which can put in form and shape the multitudinous requirements of the mind are entirely wanting. From the steam engine to the smallest article of use or ornament, all must be made abroad. The result is that in all those countries civilization is decaying and society is drop- ping to pieces. It is in connection with this fact that we consider the action of the National Typographical Union on the question of apprentices of such paramount importance to American civilization, With the decay of the apprentice system in this country has come a fearful decay of American skilled labor. An examination of our workshops to-day will reveal the astounding fact that their best workers in iron are all Englishmen or Scotch- men, and their best workers in wood are Ger- mans. The complete craftman’s skill is sel- dom possessed by an American, and the reason of it is because we do not apprentice our boys to learn any trade thoroughly. But there is another point in the action of |: the printers at Albany which is worthy of all praise and of the earnest consideration of the whole country. This is their action in- structing their delegates to the National Labor Congress, which is to meet in Pittsburg in September, to use all their influence in favor of the establishment of the postal system of telegraph. The telegraph is one of the great- est factors of the age, and it is yet in its child- hood. Unfortunately it has lapsed into the hands of a private monopoly, which, binding it with the bonds of private greed, prevents its due development. It is to the honor of the printers that as aclass, and ina general conven- tion, they have been the first to advocate the great reform. We hope that every organiza- tion which elects delegates to the Labor Con- gress will follow in the footsteps of the printers, and instruct their delegates in the same way—‘‘to use all their influence” in be- halt of the establishment of a postal telegraph by Congress. ANoTHER Press DirriouLty.—Somewhere in Virginia just now two editors are under- stood by the code of honor to be hunting for one another with uncomfortable skewers of steel in their hands, each anxious to give the other such a prod as a butter merchant gives to a tub of his yellow commodity to show the quality. That is the way they propose to show their quality, too. Here was a terrible war on hand a little while ago. Why did not these fellows get themselves handsomely killed in that, with a cause behind them? Why econo- mize such tremendous valor for the tuppenny disputes of Virginia politics? English = Di atic Roast Beef and Plum Padding at Washington. Dining and diplomacy have always gone to- gether from the beginning. We read in the Holy Scriptures that the two angela, or envoys extraordinary, whom God sent on a mission to Lot, in Sodom, although with diplomatic formality declining his hospitality at first, ended by accepting it as a precedent for all future ambassadors, ‘‘He made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat.” The failure of one of the earliest em- bassies on record—that of the messengers whom Israel sent unto Sihon, King of the Amorites—may possibly be accounted for by their having neglected to carry a cook along with them. Dr. John C. Draper, a philosophi- cal historian, goes so far as to endorse the claim of a cook, who thus poetically traces the origin of civilization and society itself to the art of cookery :— The art of cookery drew us gently forth From that ferocious life, when, void of faith, The anthropophaginian ate his brother ! To cookery we owe weil ordered states, Assembling men In dear society. Wild was the earth, man feasting upon man, When one of nobler sense and milder heart First sacrificed an animal; the desh ‘Was sweet, and man then ceased to feed on man, This poetical cook proceeds to show how the first meal was served, and how To enjoy the meal nd cities dourisned, | Poms towns and nations sprang up, and amicable interna- tional relations were maintained by the com- bined influences of diplomacy and dining. Philosophers, historians and cooks will agree that diplomacy, both ancient and modern, has 80 largely depended upon its dinners that any history which should omit the latter would be fatally incomplete. More than one Prime Minister or Secretary of State might well have parodied the famous aphorism of Fletcher of Saltoun—‘“‘Let me make the ballads of the nation and I care not who makes its laws”— and exclaimed, ‘‘I care not what ambassador is sent, but let me choose his cook.” It would be easy to adduce many striking examples of the important réle which the cook has played in modern diplomacy, from the days of the dinners of Talleyrand and Metternich to those of the recent dinners in Great Britain, which Reverdy Johnson has miraculously survived. Suffice it to say that John Bull, nowise daunted by the failure of his experiment with Reverdy Johnson, according to the traditional European dining and diplomatic policy, is about to try it over again with our government officials of high and low degree, including our Senators and Congressmen, at Washington. Great Britain, recalling its present representative at our national capital, proposes to send there one of more exalted rank and of ampler facilities for giving such a series of dinners, so rich and heavy with English roast beef and plum pud- ding as to make all lobbyists like Sam Ward and the almost forgotten George Sanders for- ever hide their diminished heads. But will alt this settle, to the satisfaction of John Bull, the Alabama claims? ‘That is the questioa.* Progress of Cheap Ocyan Teleurnphy—& Word on Mr. Hoar’s Lotter Aguiust tho French Cable. We have received from the Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company a tabular report of the statistics of traffic over the two cables between Valentia and Heart's Content. No stronger argument for cheap telegraphy could possibly be presented than the one that is offered by this little table of results. The company began by demanding £20, then reduced the toll to £10, then to £5 53., and on the first of September last to £3 7s. Gd. We give against each rate the daily average number of mes- sages sent and the gross amount of receipts per day. Here are the figures:— At £20, 29 messages daily produced. At £10, 64 messages aay produced. At £5 5s., 131 measages daily produced At £3 7s, 6d., 218 messages daily product 658 And the company has shown its wisdom im making a still further reduction, the rate of toll from the first of the present month being reduced to £2 for ten words to any telegraph station in Great Britain and Ireland. At the toot of the tabular report are three lines of ex- planation to account for the great increase of tolls in particular months, each of which is a volume of itself. These are as follows:— “During this month the New York Hrratp transmitted an average of over £100 per day.” “During this month the United States gov- ernment messages averaged over £100 per day.” “During these months there was extraor- dinary excitement in cotton.” There we have the three great powers which, when need be, use the Atlantic cable. As one of those powers, we cannot but ex- press the deep regret we feel at the uncalled for and impertinent letter which the Attorney General of the United States has recently ad- dressed to.a private citizen, with the sole ob- ject of interfering with the laying of the French cable and favoring an existing mo- nopoly. This letter is an impudent interfe- rence with a great public enterprise. Mr. Hoar is the appointed law officer of the government, whose duty it is to give to the other depart- ments a legal opinioa when asked to do so; but his opinion has no judicial effect in any way, and when he travels beyond the scope of his duty to favor a, private company and do a wrong to another great public work he prostitutes his bigh office and makes him- self ridiculous, Should his action tend to em- barrass or delay the laying of the French At- lantic cable General Grant should at once remove him from his Cabinet and put in his place some one who is less susceptible of pri- vate influence. This cable letter is not the only instance we have of Mr. Hoar's suscepti- bility in this regard. As for the question of riparian jurisdiction, this has been brought up in a variety of shapes by the telegraph mo- nopolists during the recent session of Con- gress, and in every instance that body refused to take action in the matter. The speech of Senator Stockton on the subject was exhaus- tive and conclusive in favor of the right of the States to grant the right of landing cables, and the general policy of the country favors in every way the largest liberty of private enter- prise. Asfor Mr. Hoar’s uncalled for interfe- rence, it is a subject for Congress to look into when it meets. £508 79 The Fashions. Formerly the fashions in New York were months behind those in Paris; but now every steamer that reaches this port, after a run of a few days across the Atlantic, brings the latest novelties ready for immediate reproduction, and nothing hinders our enterprising modistes from even more speedily importing, by means of the Atlantic telegraphic cable, such full and minute descriptions of a new style, on the very day of its first appearance in Paris, as shall enable them to supply their customers with it on the following day. So marvellous are the effects wrought by steam and electricity in the realm of fashion as well as in every other sphere of modern life. It is, therefore, not surprising that dresses patterned upen some of those worn at the recent Chantilly races were yesterday admired at the races in Jerome Park. On both occa- sions there was a similar display of silver gray poplins, bee brown velvets, foulards, crépes de chine and wavy muslins of a great variety of colors—white, rose leaf, soft green, blushing violet, iris blue, citron and shell rose; black velvets, with turquoise horseshoes in front ; very narrow skirts and petticoats, edged cam- bric drawers, atrociously high heeled kid boots, gilt buttons and other gilt ornaments, paniers cut like bees’ wings and wide sleeves of the favorite Chinese style, Louis XVI. hats and hats of brown straw, long gauze veils, clusters of roses and drooping feathers, and innumerable other caprices of Dame Fashion. The vivid description by our Paris fashions correspondent of the toilets of Madame de Metternich, of the lady “who climbed up behind her and almost tipped the ambassadress over,” of Madame de Pourtalés, of Madame de Gallifet and of Comtesse Fernandina, at the Chantilly races, might in part answer for the toilets of several ladies at yesterday's races im Jerome Park. That in personal beauty, if not otherwise, many of the latter excel their Parisian rivals, cela va sans dire. Tire Frexcu Capte.—They have had ao English banquet on board the Great Eastern, on the successful coiling in that ship of the French Atlantic cable, The ship goes to Port- land for her supply of coal, and thence to Brest, from which point she will begin to lay the cable, How little dreamed the builder of the big ship of the great part she was destined to play in the linking of the Old World with the New! But so it was with Columbus. He struck out at a venture, and though he failed in his precise object of getting to the East Indies by sailing West, his venture was the greatest success since the building of Noah's Ark. But what a tub was the Ark compared with the Great Eastern! Noah, Columbus and Brunel! What a theme for a lecture on ship- building! A quantity of ancient Roman urns, utensils, plate, Pieces of iron and a collection of bones have bow recently discovered ta Meriomont, iu Beigiuu, pin SUE in