The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. fetters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERawp. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Fea Diavo.o— RoMwo Jarrixe JENKINS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuar Rascat PAt— Ixton—DecuaLENeux. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—T EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE 8. SPROTACULAR Re OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Hicoony Diocony Doox. cweea Sih and 6th ave.— BOOTH'S THEATRE, 24s Tux Lavy oF Lyons. FIFTH AVENUE THE. fourth street.—La Prnio WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broaiway and Ith street.— Motuke Hupeagp. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEAT Broadway.—Afiernoon and eveaing Fitth avenue and Twenty ‘hirtiov street and WAVERLEY THEATRE, TRE JUDGMENT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY" Hourry Dowrry. 0 Broadway.—Panis; OB, Brooklyn.— Tammany Building, Mth ¥, £0. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, atrect,—E10P1AN MINS TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto VOCALIsu, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, THEATRE COMIQI Comic BALLET AND I SM Rroadway.—BURLESQUE, IME. CENTRAL PARK OA (60th sts.—V/OPULAR GanD , detween 58th and EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner Sd ay., 634 and 64th sts. — GRAND Concent, dc. KAPFF'S LION PARK.—Geanp SUMMER NiGuT’s FPRSTIVAL. HOOLE: Ley BURLY OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Tur WavEn- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF 4 SOIENCE AND Ant. LADIES’ Broadway. ‘OMY, 613 Broadway.— M OF ANATOMY, 620 SHEET, TRIPLE New York, Thursday, June 17, 1869. TES NEWS. Europe. The vable telegrams are dated June 16. Mr. Bright has been censurea by the British press On account of a letter written to a meeting tn Bir- mingham. The London Times yesterday had an editorial on the Irish Church bill in the House of Lords. It says the debates exhibit moderation and patriotism. Murphy, the irish agitator, who was arrested in Birmingham on Tuesday, has been released. The house of Mr. Gray, an Irish magistrate, living at Black Rock, in the county of Cork, was attacked by aparty of four men on the night of Tuesday. Resistance was made by the inmates, and one of the fellows was mortally Wounded. The others escaped unharmed.. In the Spanish Cortes yesterday Seflor Ochoa spoke in favor of the speedy appointment of a king. Don Carlos ts his favorite. The King of Prussia arrived in Bremen yesterday. A grand banquet was given in his honor and he made a speech during the progress of the entertatn- ment. The Zoliverein is opposed to the proposed duty on petroleum, The frontier differences between Persia and Tur- key have been adjusted. Negotiations for the adjustment of the commercial disputes Letween France and Beigium have been reopened. Signor Lobbia, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, was nearly killed in the streets of Flo rence yesterday by an assassin. Brazil. By cable despatch from Lisbon we learn that General Webb, the Ame: J Srazil, has accepted lus passports, owing to a troubie about claims against the ship Canada, and that the Bra- zilian government had determined vo treat with the Washington authorities through its own repre- sentative. Cuba. The chief oMfcer of the Treasury at Havana has died of yellow fever. All persons suspected of dis loyalty are being arrested throughout tne island by orders from the authorities in Havana. China, The Chinese government has apologized for the late insult offered to the French Secretary of Lega- Won. The New Dominion. The new banking scheme has been abandoned by the government, and the bank charters expiring next January will be extended to June. Miscellaneous. Senator Sumner contends that Minister Motiey’s instructions do agree with the views expressed in his speech; but Secretary Fish still tmsists that they do not. The Florida Legislature has ratified the fifteenth amendment, The grand Peace Jubilee continues to move along barmoniously. President Grant arrived in Boston yesterday and was formally presented tothe Mas- sachusetts Legislature. He subsequently reviewed General Butier’s militia. The conference of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, called by the anti-Ritualists, bes assembled in Chicago. The Supreme Masonic Council, the highest branch of the order, is in session at Masonic Hall, in Boston. The monument at Gettysburg is to be decorated on the Ist of July. All the soldiers engaged in the battle and numerous civic societies are invited to be present. Senator Morton will deliver an address, Henry Ward Beecher a prayer and Bayard Taylor will read a poem. The printers in Washington, outside of the govern- Ment offices, denounce the recent meeting of govern- ment printers, and say it did not represent their sentiments, but was gotten up by the foreman of the oMce in defence of Mr. Clapp, te Congressional printer. They are opposed to Douglass as a “rat” as ‘well as a negro, and ‘hey are opposed to Mr. Clapp for employing him when he had just discharged twenty-five competent white printers, The referee in the McCooie-Allen prize Oght has decided that McCoole won it through a foul on the part of Allen in gouging McCoole’s eye. Charley Gallagher, who accepts Allen as the winner, has challenged him to fight for $1,000. A prize fight took place between two unprofes- sional boxers on Cayuga Lake on Saturday, and on the ninth round one of them was knocked dead by his opponent. The latter fed, and ts believed to have gone to Canada. The duellists who fought in Canada on Sunday Morning were arrested by the United States authori. ties on their return to Niagara Falis, The trial of Charles Sullivan, a keeper of Sing Sing prison, for killing the convict O'Neill, while he ‘was trying to escape, was concluded yesterday by @ verdict of acquittal. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia, ‘which was incorporated by Congress, has rejected the application of two of the leading colored physiciaus of Washington to become members, A terrific rainstorm vistied Western North Caro. lina on Sunday night, which caused destructive freshets throughout Iredell and Davie counties. The damage is estimated at $509,000. lost. The City. In the United States Commissioners’ Court, yestor Gilg WOU CUiricrunreanics sinssicly dv be AMM VHP 0B NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET, brought op on a charge of assaulting Deputy Mar- shal James Laughton. The examination is set down for this morning, In the United States District Court yesterday $38,000 in the matter of the seizure of the steamship Quaker City, and the ve-sel was once more released from the custody of the Marshal. In the habeas corpus case of the little girl Teresa Kehoe in the Superior Court, Judge McCunn said that the selection of her home, as between that of her guardians—which is also the home of her brother and sister—and that of the party who claimed to have adopted her, should be left to the child herself, Teresa chose to go with her guar- dian, and the Court made an order accordingly. ‘The fifteenth annual convention of the New Jeru- salem (Swedenborgtan) Cnurch in the United States opened its session yesterday forenoon at the house of worship on Thirty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, Ata meeting of the Board of Education last even- ing the report of the City Superintendent was received. {[t states that the course of study now embraces fewer branches than at any previous pe- riod, and commends the fact as getting rid of irrele- vant matter valuabie only as an intellectual exer- cise, The prohibition of corporeal punishment 13 operating beneficially. The Atlantic Club, of Brooklyn, and the Ctncin- nati Club played a game of base ball at the Capito- line grounds in Brooklyn yesterday, in the presence of about 10,000 spectators, The game was won by the Cicinnatians, the score standing 32 to 10. The North German Lloyd’s steamship Donau, Cap- tain Ernst, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. The Inman line steamship City of Limerick, Cap- tain Phillips, will sat from pier 45 North river at noon to-day for Antwerp direct. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, wili leave pier No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The stock market yesterday was again irregular, undergoing a sharp decline, but recovering, and closing buoyant. Gold fell to 13734, reacted to 133 4 and closed at 138 a 1383¢. Prominent Arrivals in the City. E: overnor Curtin, of Pennysivania, Minister to Russia, and forty members of the city government of Philadelphia; Captain R. B. Lowery, F. Dillon, of Paris; A. K. McClure, General G. Clark and General T. 0, Owen, of Philadelphia: B, Wilson, of Albany; Colonel C. H. Cartlin and Colonel Warratt, of the United States army, are at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman J. V. L. Pruyn, of Albany; Philip Falk, of San Francisco; W. Langdon, of Hyde Park, and Jos. Ford, of England, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel H. C. Whitley, of Washington; Major Gen- eral S, P. Heintzelman, of Englewood, and Rev. Samuel Hair, of Chicago, are at the St. Charles Hotel. General George W. Buck, of Chemung; ex-Gover- nor John Evans, of Colorado; ex-Governor McCor- mick, of Nevada; Isaac Livermore, of Boston; E. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse, and John Hoyt, of Cleve- land, are at the Astor House, General Tyler, of the United Statea Army, ts at the Hoffman House, S, T. Van Buren, ot Fishkill, and W. B. Phillips, of Long Branch, are at the Coleman House. Senator L. Trambull, of Ilimois; E. P. Ross, of Au- burn; Rev. C, Lindsley, of Southport, and H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Charles A. L. Beale, of Hudson; J. 8. Jar- don, of England; John McDonough, of Philadelphia; W. W. Hegerman, of Poughkeepsie; Rev. C. E. Lard, of Saratoga; D, J. Mitchell, of Syracuse, and Jobn 0. Evans, of Washington, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Prominent Departures. Judge McCormick, for Franklin; Major George S. Leland, for Boston; Captain Dixon and C. Ss. P. Bowles, per steamer Scotia, for England, and D. T. Casement, lor Boston. Mr. Motley’s Instructions—Latest of the Alabama Difiiculty. We have had many reports and conjectures on both sides of the water as to the character and drift of Mr. Motley’s instructions; but they all agree upon one point, to wit, that Mr. Motley has gone over to England to make, not a casus belli, but, if possible, a treaty of peace, Senator Sumner says that Mr. Motley will assume a patriotic and, in the end, de- cisive attitude on the subject of the Alabama claims; while Secretary Fish, we are told, chuckles over the fact that Mr. Sumner knows nothing about the instructions given to the Minister relative to this question. The friends of Mr. Fish claim that he has completely checkmated the Senator, President Grant sustaining the Secretary in opposition to the views of the Massachusetts legislator as to the verbiage and tone of the Motley papers. We have different accounts from different sources. In a special despatch from Washington on the subject we are informed that Mr. Motley is instructed to explain the circum- stances (including, no doubt, all about Andy Johnson, which is very kind) attending the rejection of the Johnson-Stanley treaty, with- out committing this government to any line of policy; but at the same time Mr, Motley is to hold fast to the anchor of the Senate in the rejection of that treaty. Moreover, our Minis- ter is not authorized to make any proposition for the settlement of the Alabama claims, but he is to say that in view of the irritation, as- tonishment and excitement in England in con- sequence of the rejection of the Johnsonian treaty the present is not an auspicious time for the reopening of negotiations. Behold this glorious example of American magnanimity and evangelical diplomacy! The Vicar of Wakefield's amiable boy Moses made asad mistake atthe fair in exchanging his pony for a gross of green spectacles; and Mr. Reverdy Johnson, through Mr. Seward’s in- structions, with the advice and consent of President Johnson, waa as badly sold in ac- cepting in exchange for his Alabama claims Lord Stanley's gross of green spectacles. Mr. Senator Sumner substantially pronouaced the bargain a swindle, and as a swindle it was indignantly rejected by the Senate. The news gocs to England, and in the midst of the dining and wining of Mr. Reverdy Joboson as the model peace maker he is struck dumb by the warlike clamor around him of his English cousins. He finds them suddenly changing their songs of peace into the Indian war whoop; that they are in the paint, beads, bears’ claws and feathers of @ band of Comanches, all on the warpath; that British honor has been out- rageously insulted, and that, in short, “Britons never, never will be slaves.” In view of this fearful warlike uproar in the “tight little island” our new Minister is instructed to sug- gest that the time is not propitious for re- ening negotiations, and that the patient ther Jonathan cau wait till the Gery John Bull shall have sufficiently cooled down to listen to reason, Is not our Cabinet a model of dignity, decorum and self-possession ? Was there ever anything like it before? It appears, indeed, that the reopening of negotiations is to be left to the pleasure of England, and that for the present she is to be assured with the “glittering generality” of sincere desire to have all matters of dis- Views Judge Blatchford accepted bonds to the amount of bama claims, the delicate duty of reopening negotiations. will not spoil by keeping in pickle. serve a grand purpose if held over till ‘‘Eng- truth, we may say that, looking to future con- tingencies of neutrality and belligerent rights, these Alabama claims an open question. Meantime we see from the London newspapers Liverpool. knives and revolvers. Their apprehensions that Ireland would be at once invaded by would be blockaded by American iron-clads, have somewhat abated. The Pall Mall Gazette, shortly after Mr. Motley’s arrival, even went so far as to boast, in a very snobbish article, that America had backed down before British pluck, and that the advent of a new Minister was therefore of but small importance, adding that the best result to be anticipated from the mission of Mr. Motley would be the leisure which his duties would leave him for the prose- cution of his historical studies. The general tone of the London press is in conformity with the opinion expressed by the Z’imes, that Mr. Motley enters upon his duties without any prospect of controversy, but that the English government should examine any new proposals and see if they promise a just and equitable solution. One of our London correspondents lately alluded to having good authority for saying that not one of the London newspapers has received the slightest hint or indication of Mr. Motley’s instructions, which, he was assured, will in the end be found thoroughly dignified and in a firm Americantone. It may not be amiss to remind the London press that behind Mr. Motley stands our administration, and behind our administration stands the supe- rior power of Congress, and behind Congress the supreme power of the American people. Moreover, all these great powers are in full sympathy with the spirit of Mr. Sumner’s recent speech. England must come up to the mark and settle the questions at issue without the slightest hope that anything like the re- jected Reverdy Johnson treaty will be either proposed or accepted by the new representa- tive of the United States at the Court of St. James. Mrvister MoManon Hearp From.—The English mail from Rio Janeiro, at Lisbon, contains the important intelligence, which we have reported by way of London and through the Atlantic cable, that Mr. McMahon, United States Minister to Paraguay, has been heard from. An English officer passed through the lines of the allies, by permission, to the head- quarters of Lopez, where he delivered official papers, and on his return, it is said, carried despatches from Minister McMahon for the United States government. Should this news prove correct our Envoy is safe, and the South American combatants not so bad as we imagined. Napo.eon Derenpinc wis Posrrion.—The Emperor of France concedes his imperialism to the popular will. He has condescended to explain his position in a letter addressed to a member of the legislative body. For the in- formation of the constituents of this gentleman Bonaparte enunciates his principle ot the duty of the Executive ‘‘to suppress disturbances and grant liberties.” He has suppressed the disturbances, but the people cannot see where the ‘ liberties” come in. If not heard of soon it may be bad for the Emperor. Generat James Watson Wess, United States Minister to Brazil, is coming home. The General has been about to come home frequently since he presented his credentials to the Emperor, but on second thought con- sidered it better to remain. By way of Lisbon and London, through the Atlantic cable, we are now assured that he is really on the point of departure from Rio Janeiro, perhaps has already left, ‘mahogany stocks” and all. He has a quarrel on hand with the Brazilians and will visit Washington. We may consequently expect some stirring news from the capital. Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, will make @ note. JupGe Beprord, in suspending sentence in the case of Howard, tried as an accomplice of “Reddy, the Blacksmith,” did a just thing, and, in the circumstances, a bold one. Just now the clamor is that the authorities shield these rogues, and a man might naturally fear to give color to such suspicion. But there is no doubt that the true rogues tried to foist their crime on Howard, who was a harmless sailor, only casually present. Tue New Post Orrice.—The best thing for the government to do is to go on with the new Post Office at the site originally chosen. The Aldermen say the United States got the land too cheaply, which means that they fancy the Treasury can be bled for their benefit. Gov- ernment, therefore, will get no new site from these men till it consents to terms that would cover something ehameful. It is very doubt- ful whether after all the apex of the triangle is not the best place for the structure, and it is certainly better than none. Toe Women's Ricirs WomMeN AND THE Press.—On the question of excluding the re- porters of the newspapers from the women's rights meetings, the other evening, the vote stood for the exclusion one woman, and only a little woman at that; against the exclusion, all the rest of the women. Why? Because they want to make @ noise, and they want to be heard by the men. That's right. The little woman who stood “solitary and alone” upon this question we commend to the special ad- miration of the big Senator from Kentucky, who stood alone in his vote for the Johnson treaty on the Alabama claims. Finally, if the little woman does not wish to be reported in Lveted on torn Nongeable aad satin” ye Meignangsa LL ber hunk ail tory to both nations, It is to be further un- derstood that Lord Russell's proclamation of belligerent rights to Jeff Davis is not to be a separate question of complaint, but only an item in the general bill of damages. Surely this ought to satisfy her Majesty's government and warlike pressgang as to the intentions of General Grant's administration on these Ala- The only point in Mr. Motley’s instructions calculated to perplex Lord Clar- endon is that which leaves to his lordship Here, it must be admitted, our administration is on safe ground; for these Alabama claims They may land’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity.” In the next best thing, in default of the settlement suggested by Mr. Sumner, will be to leave that the terrible scare of the British lion began to subside as soon as Mr. Motley arrived at They no longer seem to expect him to rush to court, bristling with bowie Fenian troops, and that every British port Pera and the Spanish Complication. Our very respectable and very slow Secretary of State, in his anxiety to avoid European complications, had lost sight of an American complication until a few days since, when he found it had grown to such magnitude that he took to his bed sick at heart. . It will be re- membered that not long since Peru and Chile were in a state of active war with Spain, during which the latter Power sent a fleet into the Pacific, bombarded Valparaiso and burnt a portion of the city, and then proceeded to Callao to effect the same purposo there, Driven off in this attack by the superior gunnery of the Peruvians, the fleet finally wended its way back to the Atlantic with small prize money and scanty honors, ‘The war slumbered in a state of inaction, and the recent administration at Washington tendered to the belligerents its good offices asa mediator for the restoration of peace. These were ac- cepted, and commissioners from the parties were to meet in Washington next month to arrange the preliminaries. The only party to the scheme to whom peace is worth more than the value of a button is Spain. She entered upon the war with the the aggressive spirit of a Quixote, without waiting to examine if the point of honor for an imaginary affront in the case of a merchant ship was well taken, and, having struck her blow, is now willing to forget and forgive. To add to her wish in this respect it was the Cuban treasury which enabled her to strike the blow, the government at Havana being charged with the duty of paying the bills incurred by the Pacific fleet, and just now it is hardly in a position to repeat the act. But Time, who does not wait for negotiators or nations, has, meanwhile, brought to the South American belligerents the opportunity to strike back, and that, too, at the vital part which enabled Spain to assert her strength as a Power on the American side of this mundane ball. Cuba declares her independence, President Cespedes requests the antagonists of Spain to recognize the belligerent rights of the Cuban republic, and Peru and Chile do so with expressions of friendliness becoming nations at war. Here the Spanish Minister comes upon the scene and claims from Mr. Fish that, as it is the duty of his office to attend to the peace making between Spain and the belligerent members of the American family of nations, he shall also undertake to keep them from hitting back while negotiations are going on. He furthermore assumes that the course of the republics in the Cuban question is discour- teous to the United States, and to illustrate his position cites the case of a private quarrel be- tween two gentlemen which is under arrange- ment by a third party, and which he assumes ends the quarrel from the moment the arrange- ment to enter upon negotiations had been ac- cepted. According to his view the quarrel is now ours, and not Spain's, Setting aside the fallacy which is contained in comparing national to individual powers, our friend, the Spanish Minister, makes an- other very great mistake in assuming that a consent to open negotiations amounts to a treaty of peace or even a truce. If he will take the trouble to read he will find the pages of history to abound in the contrary view, and we will cite one fact in American history for his easy reference: Our last war with Great Britain did not cease while peace negotiations were going on at Ghent, and the greatest battle of the whole war—that of Now Orleans—was fought after the negotiations had been concluded and the treaty of peace had been signed. The little episode of the recognition of the bellige- rent rights of Cuba need not, therefore, inter- rupt the negotiations at Washington, and they can be kept upeven amid the greater coming complications which time will no doubt exbibit between the belligerents. To Mr. Fish we present these assuring facts, in the hope that they will help him to a speedy recovery of his health, But we have a few words to say to him in regard to these Spanish complications. The people of the United States have recognized the belligerent rights of the Cuban republic, and are fast taking an attitude which will vindicate our national rights and national duties amid the great events that aitend us, They see, too, and comprehend the petty party policy which would make bluster about the Alabama claims cover up and hide your delinquency in the higher duties which attend you in the Ameri- can questions now pressing for a solution. If you rouse yourself to the duty of the hour the statesman’s pen can solve these difficulties and further the hopes of civilization and hu- manity. If you do not waken to it the diffi- culties will continue to gather around you until the Spanish complications open the grave of your reputation as a public man and of the hopes of the administration of which you are a part. Toe MipsiipMeN.—‘Inasmuch as many of our vessels in active service have no mid- shipmen, the Board saggest that the graduating class be distributed among those vessels, there to perform the actual and necessary duties of midshipmen for at least a year, or until they are required in a higher grade, to which they should attain only after a rigid examination, With not more than from six to twelve on a veasel in active service it is thought that they would supply a want that is felt, be more useful to the government, and at the same time be acquiring more practical experience than by the other method.” This is a good recom- mendation. ‘The other method” is the one at present in use, of sending all the middies together on one ship for a year’s cruise, which was merely putting the school house afloat, The plan now recommended by the Board is the one formerly in use and by far the more practical, A Prats Hist From Joun Brient.—If the Lords cannot consent to move forward with the progress of reform they must be set aside. The train must go on. Tux Cmer Josie Down Sovrn.—Chicf Justice Chase, Who has been on a tour of the Carolinas, with his accomplished daughter, Mra, Seaator Sprague, has been received from point to point with marked respect and popular enthusiasm. It means, among other things, that the people are aware of the fact that the Chief Justice still keeps his eye upon the White House, and is likely to be the man for the democracy in 1872, All the signs of the Sunes point that way, The News from Cuba. The advices from Cuba, by mail and tele- @raph, which we publish to-day, with much interesting detail, contain some important points of news. While the revolutionary vol- unteers in Havana have evidently failed in the principal part of their scheme, which was to establish a government of their own, with but slight dependence on the Spanish crown, they have endeavored to exhibit a new energy in government, by ordering the troops throughout the portions of the island they occupy to arrest all suspicious persons. This, by filling the prisons with persons who are only suspected of disaffection, can have but one result—to in- crease the embarrassments of the colonial government. The details from the seat of military operations show no important suc- cess on the part of the Spaniards, while the patriots have succeeded in cutting the railroad between Nuevitas and Puerto Principe, and General Quesada is pressing closely the siege of the latter city. This gen- eral seems to be so well satisfled with the sup- plies he has lately received that he promises to be in Havana by the middle of August. Ope- rations seem to have subsided in the Eastern Department, and Count Valmaseda, who still remains at Bayamo, has spread his troops out in several neighboring cantonments for the purpose of saving them from disease and hold- ing a large extent of country. The usual de- sultory and aimless operations are going on in the other disturbed district of the island. In Havana the yellow fever has appeared and the head of t’ Treasury Department died of that disease on Tuesday. Tue Uniry or GermMany.—King William of Prussia visited Bremen yesterday. He was en- tertained by the citizens and delivered an after-dinner speech, neat in words but some- what indefinite in hope. His Majesty inti- mated that the children and grandchildren of the men of the present generation would wit- ness ‘‘the completion of the edifice the founda- tion of which has been laid.” The people of Bre- men would no doubt like to have a little benefit just at present in return for the Free City privileges surrendered to the Union. They may obtain it. TREE OR Four Great Events ON THE SAME Day—The opening of the Peace Jubilee in Boston; the reception of General Grant by Rear Admiral Fisk on board one of his steam- boats in New York; the grand reunion of the Masonic Knights Templars in Philadelphia, and the awful punishment of Mike McCoole in a bloody prize fight near St. Louis, by the popular vote of the Bloody Sixth the greatest of the great events of the day. SrrataGEms AND Spoits.—There are strata- gems and there are spoils in that Twenty-third Street Railroad complication, but the people just now cannot see on which side one or the other may be, neither can they see that the railroad is likely soon to be built. Who that is standing in the light will reflect a little for the bonefit of the curious and interested public? Nor on Tuer Dienrry.—It is a want of good manners for a speaker in the House of Lords to say of an utterance in the United States Senate that it was “extravagant to a degree of absurdity.” But, alas! it would appear that the Lords in the same age in which they have lost all power as a_politi- cal force have lost also the fine courtesy and good tone of a body of exalted gentlemen, and can utter spleen like common mortals. From the Lords men expect good manners at the least, and they fail even there. Perver Coorrr must by this time have lost faith in everything but glue. Here the old man has believed that his Citizens’ Associa- tion was a litile better than other associa- tions—a little more virtuous, diginterested and devoted to the public good than either branch of the Common Council or any general ¢ committee, and by this time he knows that it was only a machine to engineer men into office. A Prorer Sunsror.—The women’s rights women admitted into their society on Tues- day evening Mrs. McIntyre, a Mormon woman— a very proper subject for a woman’s conven- tion. Those Mormon women in many cases have only the fifth, tenth or twentieth part of a husband, and we are astonished that those women’s wrongs have not been made among these women reformers a leading topic of woman's rights. Mrs. Cady Stanton and Company have evaded this Mormon question long enough, and they ought to meet it like men and settle it. HUNTING For QuaKERs—The Indians on the Plains. They avoid armed white men, but defenceless friends and enemies of the pale faces they are slaughtering and scalping from Kansas to the Rocky Mountains. ‘‘Let us have peace.” The Police and the Dangerous Classcs. An important issue to the public was tried in the Marine Court on Tuesday in the case of Fallon against the captain and a private of the Eighth ward police. Our readers know that the Eighth ward is one that has its full share of bad characters, and it has one peculiar species of disreputable inhabitant not much known elsewhere. There are many men whose lives oscillate between its gambling houses, its brothels and its showy barrooms. They are persons of irreproachable linen. They wear the smoothest, stiffest and whitest collars, cuffs and shirt fronts known in civilized life. They are distinguished for their ‘good clothes” and the readiness with which they accept, and the extreme to which they carry, all fashions that are outré in style, They have no visible means of support—that is, no means of support but such as they are ashamed to acknowledge, although they are comparatively shameless people. In the execution of a police order to arrest all panel thieves and persons “without visible means of support” the man Fallon was taken to tho station house, and subsequently, on a charge of vagrancy, taken before Justice Dodge. The Justice decided that he was not a vagrant in tie meaning of the statute, and dismissed the complaint. Fallon then sued the parties arresting and holding him for false imprisonment, laying his damages at five hundred dollars, The Court charged the jury very strongly in his favor, and even made what seems to us an unjustifiable appeal to popular prejudice against police authority; but the for six cents damages. If, therefore, the Eighth ward police cannot drive out ‘the sports” by general and occasional arrest, they cannot be punished for the attempt. : A TIP AROUND STATE ISLAND. Excursion of the Real Estate Owners’ Assos ciation of the Island—A Drive Over lt—ttw Beauties and Natural Advantages—A Now Eutrepot—Projected Railroads and Proposed Havens for Transatlantic Steamships, A steamboat excursion around and drive over aportion of Staten Island took place yesterday, under the direction of the above named association, and was in every respect a most enjoyable afair, not only for the opportunity it afforded for viewing the picturesque beauties of the island and of view- ing its natural advantages, but also on account of the admirable provision which had been made for the entertainment and comiort of the guests, among whom’ were @ number of influential and wealthy gentlemen and representatives of the New York and Staten Island press. The steamboat Josephine, which conveyed the ex- cursionists, sailed around the island, touching at Quarantine, New Brighton, Rossville and Totten- ville, at which latter place the party landed and walked up the main street of the village, which ia . quite a picturesque and flourishing little place, and contains a shipyard. The stanch little steamboat Maid of Perth, which runs to Perth Amboy, was lying at the wharf. The fronts of some of the houses were adorned with flags in honor of the visit, and the whole population turned out to gaze at the ex- cursionists, The disgust and indignation of one of the villagers was excited against a fellow townsman who shocked his ideas of propriety by trotting out a seedy looking mule while the party were on shore, and he grumblingly remonstrated, “Couldn’t you have kept your durned old mule outer sight till the gentlemen got away?” Several salutes were fired from the shore as the boat steamed along; flags were hoisted, and ladies on Jawns and verandas waved their handkerchiefs. ‘The boat made the entire circuit of the island and finally stopped at Clifton, whence carriages conveyed the excursionists through the most picturesque por- tion of the island, along the shore road, the Rich- mond road, up the Hill road to Castieton Heights, from which a view is commanded of seven- veen counties 1n New York and New Jersey, over tho Richmond turnpike, through the lovely Cluve road. The grandest views and most lovely scenery thas oan be found anywhere in the State of New York (perhaps im the United States) are to be found o1 ‘taten Island. ‘The miagnificeat expanse o! the broad ocean, dotte: with white broad = stretches = of ture lan lovely parks -and lawns, the vivid emerald of the herbage, softened by the deeper color of the foliage; the bright glimpses of the bay and lowlands through the openings in the luxurtant growth of trees and shrubbery; the glorious views oi the bay, the dis- tant shores of New sorte and the spires of Man- hattan glistening in the distance, with every agree- able diversity of gently undulating hill and dale, or abrupt declivity, at tie foot of which lie thriving villages and towns, away as far as the eye can reach stretches uw scene of unparalieied beauty. On every side are charming villas and country residences, the property of opulent merchants and ‘landholders, the neatly trimmed lawns, parterres and hedges of arbor vite, box or dwarf trees, the carefully gravelled or weeded walks, evince that careful attention which taste begets and wealth enables its possessor to be- stow. ‘The natural advantages of Staten Island are very great, and although the sanguine expectations ex- pressed by some of the association may not be fully, or at least as speedily realized as they could wish, there is no doubi that it might become, as propeity holders where suggest, a great entrepot for foreign trade when the shores of Manhattan shall have be- come overcrowded by the increased demands of commerce. On the shores of Staten Isiand there are excelent sites for warehouses and havens for trans- atlantic steamers. From the vicinity of Fort Rich- mond to Tompkinsville the water-is suiicienuy deep to float vezseis of the heaviest bur- den. The coast survey of the harbor shows @ varying depth in this vicinity of from four to seven fathoms. By running out docks from the shore about 1,300 fees @ suili- cient depth of water could be obtained for all required commercial purposes and a most valua- ble property would doubtiess be created not only in vhe dock thus established, but aiso by the increase im the value of property for business purposes in ia vicinity. Staten Isiand’s mining resources are also much more valuabie than 13 generally known, Within ber area oi 45,000 acres there are many rich veins of useful metal. Her agricultural re- sources ure comparatively undeveloped, but are tar from insigniflcaut, Every variety of soil is to be found there adapted to the raising of aimost every species of grain, vegetavies and fruits, There is no lack of fine, arable land, and the herbage of her pas- tures is particularly rich end pourisiing, It 1s the earnest desire of property have some law enacted system of general drainage and energetically carried forwar. of iow land that is now mere 5° drained, be utilized and mare ex! A continuation of the Staten horse ratroad has been commenced, It 18 tend trom Fort Richmond to Mariner's Pmt, on the ners west ern extremity of the islund. A ratiroad has also been talked of to run on abridge to Pills Island, and thence out to a shoal of rocks, where a dock is to be built for ferryboats running to and from New York, The excurstonists after ¢ drive returned to the Josephine, lymg at (yr ec, and were conveyed back to New York. ¢ trip round the island eeches were sars. Erastus Brooks, , Mr. Dwight Townsend, one, Captain Jacob Vau- sails; hoiders there wo under which @ be begua LY POUL Ce Cc derbilt and Mr. Ss ‘The general purport of the ypeeches was that the ad been greatly maligned, and an unjust prejudice was entertained against it because of tts mosquitoes and alleged chilis and fever, when the truti was that ihere were no more chills and fever there than elsewhere in the vicinily of New York. ‘There were plenty of mosquitoes ‘. future of Staten [sland as a commercial depot was Toretold and its natural advantages descanted upon, A substantial repast was provided on board, aad an excellent band played popular airs from opera bouge during the wip. “The following were the com- mittee of arrangemevis:—Sarpuel Barton, i. ‘Tracy Arnold, Colonel Drake De Kay, George M. Root, A. D. Munson, chairman, ARMY INTELLIG: WASHINGTON, June 16, 1869. ‘The m‘litary co mmision that convened at Austin, Texas, on the 19th of September, 1863, under orders of the War Department, to try James Weaver, a civilian, for the murder of another civilian, named Anthony Knowles, having completed their labors by fluding the accused guilty of murder in the first de- and sentencing him to be hanged, the fi have been submitted to the President and by tum approved, He directs that the sentence be carried into effect by the General commanding the Fifth Military District on the 24th of September next. The iindings of the court martial which convened at Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 1868, wherein private Henry Moyatt, of Company B, Sixteenth United Staves in- fantry, Was tried for the murder of a colored man named Henry Gillespie and found gots, have been submitted to the President and by him proved, and the prisoner ordered to be disc! from cus- tudy and from the service of the United States. Private Francis J. Haffey, of Kit gens Bat Third United States artillery, who was for guilty of be- ing drunk and disorderly conduct, insult and striking his superior Officer and sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the Penitentiary, nas had the xentence mitigated to three years’ confinement and sent to the Dry Tortugas, The President bas approved the proceedings of the court martial convened at Brownsvilie, Texas, July Lt which tried Richard Smith, of Company L, United States cavalry, ei * oars c vate John Gray, of Company D, Twenty-sixth Infantry and found bim guilty, He is ordered to be hanged on the 24th of September. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The practice squadron from the Naval Academy, consisting of the frigates Savannah and Macedo- nian and the sloop-of-war Dale, are expected to arrive in Hampton Roads to-day, and will probably remain There” three or four days ‘before proceeding on their cruise, Lieutenant M. B. Buford and Master Hagh W. MeKee ate ordered to the Michigan; Lieutenant Commander Frederick Rodgers and C. J. Barclay are detached from the Michigan and will be ordered to the Pacific station; Second Assistant Engineer Jona Pemberton 1s ordered to the Naval Academy for duty as assistant in the Department of Natural and Ex- periuental Philosoy hy. THE FEMALE TYPOGRAPICAL UNION, A mecting of the “femaie typos” was held last evening at their headquarters, No, 22 Duane street, the President, Miss Lewis, in the chair, The Femala ‘Typographical Union is the only organization of bond kind in the country. It consists of female compost. tors of all-ages, from the blushing maiden of sweet seventee! ladies of doubtful pan at present numbers avout forty members. other unions, the female typos have their special aversions, their antipathy to reporters or ropresentatives of the press being noied, In order to protect themselves from these unwelcome visitors they have secured the services of severat of their gentieman friends, who sit in the ante-room or entrance hail to the room in which the meeting 1s held, and Immediately bang the door on the approach of any person who is.con- nected with any of the papers, the paper devoted to women’s righta being of course the exception. Wa are, however, able to report that at the meeting las! night Miss Lewis stated that the delegates appointe: to attend the annual Convention of the Nation: Ty hical Union held at Albany last week ti Di upon that body to recognize them, and that @ charter had been granted to thei. The ladies were very jubilant on their victory, and a unant- mons vote of (hanks was passed to the delegates wha doy Virtually sustained the olige by @ verdict "bad visited Aluany,