The New York Herald Newspaper, June 18, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarv. Rejected communications will not: be re- turned. Volume XXXIV......-seeeeerer eee seeeee! No. 169 = a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuat Rascal Pat— Tx10n—DECHALEMEUX, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tuk SPECTACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAILOR. — THEATRE, Broaaway.—Hioooxr Dicoory OK. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 at., between Sth and 6th ava.— ‘Tuk Lavy or Lyons. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—La PRRICHOLE. WALLACK’S THEATRS, Broadway and 13h street.— MorueR Huusarp. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street—FRa Diavolo— Romeo JAFFine JENKINS. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Bourry Duwrry, BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Btreet. ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. Mth TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO 'SE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Foca.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELST, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BURLESQUE, Conic BALLET AND PANTOMIME. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, ~y Detween 58th and ‘Bith sta. —POPULAR GARDEN iT. EMPIRE CITY RINK, corner 3d ay., 634 and 64th st.— Guanv Conorrt, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street —GRanpe SOIREE Davixku. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Tax WavER- Bry Bugiesqoxr Teoure. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BOIBNOE AND ART. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FRMALEs ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. TRIPLE SHEET. = THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. Brooxtyn Carriers AND Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branca OFFICE wrTHe New York Henacp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. } ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscriprions and all Setters for the New York Henaup will be Beceived as above. THE NSBWS. Europe. The cable despatches are dated June 17. The programme of the Royal Yacht Club states that the racing will commence August 3. The editor, manager and printer of the Paris Rap- pel have been heavily sentenced. At the mining dis- tricts in St. Euenne, sad disorders have occurred between the men ana the military, whereby several lives were lost and many persons wounded. Some strict orders have veen issued im reference to the new constitution in Spain, and Marsbal Ser- Fano takes the oath to-day. ‘The Italian Parliament was prorogued yesterday. AdiMculty has arisen between Egypt and Turkey about the Suez Cana! festivities. Cuba. The members of the Cuban Junta in this city, in- cluding Sefiors Lemus, the Minister of the Cuban republic to this country; Mora, Ryan and others, were arrested at a late hour on Wednesday night, on An indictment charging them with setting on foot military operations against Spain, a country with which the United States is at peace, They appeared in the Cireult Court yester¢ay morning, before Judge Blatchford, aud gave bail in $7,500 to appear for trial and to keep the peace. The whole movement is said to have been instituted by the Spanish Minis- ter, Roberts, as Secretary Fish knew nothing what- ever of it until told by our Washington correspond- ent. Several prominent Cubans in Washington have disappeared, in alarm at these arrests. Several filibustering expeditions are reported to have recently landed on the Cuban coast. One of them is said to have been cut off and annibilated by the Spaniards, but the report is doubted. The rest have joined General Jordan. Arbitrary arrests are ptill being made by the Spanish authorities, The Cuban agents at Washington have learned that the recent victory at Puerto dei Padre opens communication for the insurgents with the coast and they are now enabled to protect the landing of Hilibusters. Some solicitude is felt about Jordan's command, which was represented to be in close proximity toa large Spanish force, but our corres- pondent at Santiago (May 28) states that it has cer- tainly joined the native troops. Mexico. By the Cuba cable we have advices from Mexico City to the 12th inst. Minister Nelson had arrived in Vera Cruz and a parting dinner had been given to Rosecrans. The revolution in Queretaro is spread- ing and others are reported in Zacatecas, Toluca and Ban Luis. Vega had landed ast San Bias and it was @xpected that Le would attack Sinaloa. Miscellaneoas, ‘The steamer Delphine left Boston on Wednesday, With clearance papers for Jamaica. The Hayuen Consul attempted to detain her on the ground tnat whe was intended to aid the Haytien revolutionists, Dut he was too slow, and she sailed before he could bape his complaint. Three Cubans in New Orleans recently published a ard challenging the anonymous author of some Statement in Za Cronica, A Sefor Martinez, a Spaniard, in reply, states that he is not the author of the statement, but accepts the responsibility of it, and will give two of the Cubans any satisfaction they may require if they will call any day daring certain hours at # certain coffee house in that city. The social position of the third Cuban, he says, gakes his challenge unacceptable, The Sing Sing convicts who killed Crofts, a keeper, While trying to escape in March last, were tried in fhe White Plains court yesterday. Two of them, Burns and Lowden, were sentenced each to ten wears’ imprisonment after their present terme ex- pire. The other two were acquitted. » John Moriarty, President of tne Irish Republican Association of Pennsylvania, in an address just Assued, says the Irish Convention at Chicago will brge war with England, Annie Surratt, the sister of John Surratt, who was 0 devoted to him during his triai, was married esterday to a Mr. Toney, of the Surgeon Generai’s Me in Washington, Secretary Rawlins has returned to his duties in the War Office, butno action has yet been takeo in the matter of the 400 discharged clerks, The City, President Grant left Boston yesterday and arrived fn this city last evening. He and nis family are Staying with his brother-in-law. Vice President Colfax is also in the city. & The second day’s proceedings of the Fiftietn An- fhual Convention of the New Jerusaiem (Sweden. ‘borgian) church, now in session in this city, was ex cvedingly interesting, the question of organization by “parishes” and “dioceses being up for debate, 2d Prof. Theophilus Parsons, of Cambridge, de NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ¢lared that the idea of a priesthood was behind it nd other speakers even hinted at an Episcopacy. ‘The Hangom cabs will probably be running by the first of July. Stock to the amount of $70,000 bas already been taken. A little girl named Catharine Kerrigan, ten yeers of age, fell through the hatchway of a tobacco fac- tory, No. 75 Bowery, yesterday, amd was instantly killed. She was in the habit of looking’out of a win- dow near which the hatch was located, and on turn- ing to go to work again she walked into the hatch- Way before she saw tt. The steamship City of London, Captain Leitch, of the Inman line, will leave pier No. 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. on the 19th inst. The National line steamship Erin, Captain Web- ster, will sail from pier 47 North river, at wwelve M. to-morrow, 19th inst., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land freight and passengers. The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- naghan, will leave pier 20 North river, at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Glasgow, touching at Lon- donderry to land passengers, &c. - The steamship City of Mexico, Captain Deaken, ‘will leave pier 17 East river, at twelve M. to-day, for Havana, Sisal and Vera Cruz. The Merchants’ line steamship Sherman, Captain Henry, will sail from pier 12 North river, at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orleans direct. Stécks yesterday were steady until after banking hours, when there was a decline, the market closing heavy. Gold fell to 137%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor John T. Hoffman, of New York, and A. Provest, of Washington, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge G. F. Comstock, of Syracuse; Comptroller W. F. Allen, of Albany, and Captain Jobn F. Fergu- son, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Governor Burnside, of Rhode Isiand; General Wickham and Dr. G. G. Cabell, of Richmond, Va., and Colonel Carlton, of the United States Army, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Brayman, of Illinois; General Myer, of the United States Army; Judge Hibbard, of Indianapo- lis, Horace Rublee, Minister to switzerland, and Messrs. Bergland, Hun, Tilman and Price and twen- ty-seven members of the graduating class of ‘69,”” from West Point, are at the Hoffman House. Senator Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, is at the Brevoort House. Colonel G. W. Graham, Captain George F. Olm- stead and W. M. Waterbury, of the United States Army; Mayer D. P. Kingsbury and Colonel G. L. Dickson, of Scranton, Pa., are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel J. N. Reynolits, of Mobile, and Captain J. F. Munds, of Wilmington, N. C., are at the St. Charles Hotel. Ex-Governor Charles E. Jackson, of Rhode Island. is at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. Ex-Senator Doolittle, for Wisconsin; Major Gran- ger and Judge Sandford, for Canandatgua. Arrest of the Cuban Minister—The Effect on the War and the Administration. The Spanish agents, despairing of success in their military efforts in the Island of Cuba, and no doubt encouraged by the lukewarm spirit of the administration in the Cuban ques- tion, have transferred the scene of their offorts from the once “Ever Faithful Island” to our own city of Manhattan, and through the courts here have begun a war upon Cuba which is destined to rage with all the fury of the law. In accordance, as at first asserted, with private instructions from Washington the Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York has found true bills of indict- ment against Don José Morales Lemus, Minis- ter Plenipotentiary from the Cuban republic to the United States; Don Jos¢ M. Basora, Do-, minican Consul in New York and Secre- tary of the Republican Junta of Cuba and Porto Rico; Don José M. Mora, a wealthy merchant of this city and mem- ber of the said Junta; Don Francisco Fesser, another prominent member, and several other persons, whose positions are unknown, for having begun a certain military expedition against a portion of the dominion of Spain. Two of the parties, Mora and Basora, were songht late in the evening at their residences and incontinently locked up in the Ludlow street jail. The Minister was sought and found at his residence, where he declined to permit the officers to arrest him, but gave his parole to appear in the morning before the court. Accordingly all the parties appeared yesterday before Judge Blatchford and were required to give bail each in the sum of five thousand dollars to stand trial, and in the further sum of two thousand five hundred dol- lars to keep the peace towards Spain. The news of this high-handed measure of attempted executive repression produced quite a sensation in Washington yesterday. Secre- tary Fish was questioned as to his official action in the premises, a course which, as we are informed, made him appear ‘‘a little bewil- dered.” Recovering somewhat, he stated that he “knew nothing of the proceeding,” and that ‘‘no orders had gone from the State Department for the arrest of the parties.” The Spanish Minister had, however, an inkling, or more, of the state of affairs in this city. So that, if Mr. Fish did not issue the order of arrest, some other officer of high standing under the government, perhaps the Attorney General, did. As a war movement in favor of the remnant of Spanish despotism in Cuba these proceed- ings amount to nothing more than the merest farce. If the case is ever brought to trial it will prove to be as great a mockery as were the recent trials of the Fenians for the at- tempt to invade Canada and conspiracy to liberate Ireland from British rule. Asa political mancuvre to increase the public feel- ing in favor of Cuba, and against those who oppose the liberation of that island, it may be turned to good account, and we shall not be surprised to see it prove a powerful coadjutor with the Cuban liberators, and productive of intense antagonism to the course of President Grant and bis Cabinet. In view of the large majority in Congress by which the resolution in favor of Cuban independence was passed, the timid neglect of the administration to take action in the premises and give a formal ex- pression to the policy of the country has pro- duced a general feeling of disgust in the pub- lic mind, Any political party which should to-day take up the cry of America for Ameri- cans, and come out in opposition to the policy which animates Secretary Fish in the Cuban question, would eweep the masses from the ranks of both of the old and wornout political parties, The indignity which has been heaped by a public arreet upon the Minister of a young American republic, duly accredited to our government to ask for that recognition which the march of events and the flash of its own patriotic arms has entitled it to, and which our own antecedents and national policy both urge us to grant, places in a strong and offen- sive light the vacillation of the government and the hesitation and timidity of the Secre- A Suarl in Wall Strect-Who is to Blame? tary of State. Mr. Morales Lemus may not, under the strict interpretation of the law, be ¢ntitled to the privileges of an ambassador, in- asmuch as the United States has not officially recognized the existence of the Cuban repub- lic; but his credentials are well known at the State Department in Washington, the great events by which they are supported are of public notoriety, and it has been the hesitancy and delay of the Secretary himself, who, under the pressure of his timid appreciation of European complications, has prevented the extending to him of the official recognition to which he is entitled, and which the great heart of the country has long since conferred. But the events which the last few days have developed make the case even worse for the administration, and particularly for the Secre- tary of State. It is now reported that it was under secret instructions from the Department of State to the District Attorney of New York, that proceedings were instituted before the Grand Jury and the bill of indictment found. If this be true, it: must be said that in pursuing this course Mr. Fish has piaved himself in the position of a public advocate and defender of the crumbling despotisms of the Old World, and exhibited a spirit which is offensive to every American citizen. Had he possessed a single spark of the true genius of statesmanship he would long since have placed the administration of General Grant above the possibility of such a suspicion. The resolution of Congress pointed out the way, and he had but to act in accordance with the expressed will of the country. As for the neutrality laws under which this action has been taken, they are a remnant of the legislation of the past century, and ex- press the fears of our government in the child- hood of the nation, even before its bone had hardened into shape. They go much farther in their provisions than do similar laws of the European governments at whose instigation they were enacted, and would have long since been swept from the statute book if the im- possibility of procuring under them a con- viction from any American jury were not an admitted fact. They were a concession to the Holy Alliance made at Vienna, and against which the prescient stateamanship of Canning in England and the patriotic utterance of a national policy by President Moaroe were a protest anda power among nations. President Adams followed Monroe with his warm sanction of the Greek rebellion in 1826, and since that time we have been wanting in states- men in office who comprehended the national impulse and were capable of inaugurating a national policy. Seward approached it when, with his pen, he drove the French from Mexico, but his successor is the faintest imitation of a national statesman that the world ever saw. While his timidity and vacillation cannot af- fect the great results which still continue to spring from the Declaration of 1776, they may and will bring ignominy upon the nation and contempt upon the administration. Tue Firreenta AMENDMENT.—The Florida ratification makes, we believe, the twenty- fifth State that has ratified the Fifteenth amendment of the constitution, providing for impartial suffrage to male citizens above the age of twenty-one years, throughout the United States, without distinction of race or color. The whole number of States at present is thirty-seven. The approval by the legisla- tures of three-fourths of these thirty-seven is necessary to fix this amendment as part of “the supreme law of the land.” Twenty-eight States, therefore, being necessary, three more will yet be needed to meet the requisition. Un- der the last reconstruction law (signed by Presi- dent Grant) Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, as a condition precedent to restoration to Con- gress, are required to ratify this amendment. Rhode Island and Vermont will ratify it. In ! short, with the reassembling of Congress in December, we may expect impartial suffrage to be proclaimed as fixed in the supreme law, with the power to Congress to enforce it; and so, after this year, the negro vote in all the States, North as well as South, will have to be taken into the estimates of the politicians. “Orper” IN France.—The coal miners of St. Etienne have been in conflict with French troops of the line. The miners attempted to rescue some of their fellow workmen who had been made prisoners by the military. Fire- arms were used freely on both sides, the miners having seven of their men killed and a large number wounded, five of the soldiers being injured severely. It was a battle on a small scale. ‘Order was restored.” Just so, That's the way in France. At THE Ferrigs people get smashed very badly now and then, if they “‘iet down the chains before the boat is fastened to the bridge.” But they let them down, neverthe- less, and the companies force them to do so. On some of the boats the heavy chain of the carriage way is hooked on over the smaller chain of the foot passenger's way, so that the latter cannot be moved till the former has been, and the deck hands seem to take an especial pleasure in putting off till the last possible moment the letting down the smaller chain, They not only make all the fastenings at both sides, but they adjust the plank for the horses, change their quid of tobacco, and no doubt, if little darkies were handy, would have their boots blacked, and then let the public out. Tue Spasish Reoexcy.—The Spanish Cortes has at last arrived at a most important conclusion. By an overwhelming vote the Regency has been established under Serrano, Notwithstanding the prominence which was given in the course of the debate to Don Carlos, it is reasonable to conclude that the Duke de Montpeneier has now a fair chance of becoming the future king of Spain. In his attachment to Montpensier Serrano has never wavered, and Serrano is now master of the situation, Unless trouble breaks out between him and Prim, whose republican leanings are no longer doubtful, Montpensier is likely to win the crown. Persons whose opinions of the killing of the Sing Sing prisoner O'Neiil by the keeper were formed on the statement made by Captain Storms will wonder at the man's acquittal; but quite contrary statements of the facts were made on the trial, and this naturally put the jury in doubt; and, as the prisoner necessarily had the benefit of that doubt, the verdict not quilty was the inevitable result, There is an extraordinary and unprece- dented state of things in Wall street. At this time of the year, according to former experi- ence and the natural course of monetary affairs, money ought to be easy, if not abun- dant, and ought not to be worth over three to four per cent. Usually it accumulates at this centre in the month of June. But instead of that there is great stringency in the market, and money was worth on Wednesday a quarter per cent a day, or at the rate of ninety per cent a year, and on yesterday, though there was some relief, it was worth one-eighth per cent a day, which is at the rate of forty-five per centa year. At this time of the year it ought not to be worth more than at the rate of three to four per cent per annum on govern- ment securities, The question arises natu- rally, What is the cause of such an unprece- dented and artificial state of things? And this is a very important one to our merchants, who are the chief sufferers. There are two causes—one, the combination, tacitly or other- wise, of stock speculators, who extend their operations and use every other means ® lock up and make money scarce. This is, how- ever, a temporary cause only and the fesult of Wall street gambling. The other is the large sales of gold by the Treasury Department for currency and the consequent accumulation of the circulating medium in the vaults of the Treasury. Instead of the government having only eight millions or so of currency on hand it has twenty-eight millions, This amount is virtually locked up and enables the specula- tors, under the scarcity, to get complete con- trol of the money market. Mr. Boutwell may have no intention of playing thus into the hands of speculators.and oppressing the mer- cantile interests, but that is the effect of his operations. We have on several occasions commended the policy of the Secretary in disposing of his surplus gold, but it was because we supposed he would with the proceeds buy up and cancel the interest-bearing debt. We did not imagine he intended merely to change the gold into currency, and thereby to accumulate and con- tract that, to the manifest injury of trade and to the advantage of the stock and money gam- blers of Wall street. It is intimated that he wishes to accumulate a large amount of cur- rency in the Treasury for the purpose of taking up with it the three per cent certificates. These certificates operate as currency, inas- much as they take the place of greenbacks in the bank reserves and sét free a corresponding amount of currency for general use. The hoarding of currency for the purpose of taking up the three per cent certificates or the with- drawal of these certificates is contraction, and can have only the same disastrous result as Mr. McCulloch’s monthly withdrawal of green- backs, The country is not in a situation to admit of contraction in any shape or form. It would paralyze business, lead to speculation and gambling and cause bankruptcy. If Mr. Boutwell is one of the on-to-specie-payment theorists, and wishes to force resumption in any such insidious manner, we give him warn- ing that, like his predecessor, he will fail and have to take the back track. The only safe course to pursue is to sell his surplus gold, and with every dollar of the proceeds to buy up and cancel the interest-bearing debt. Yes, let him use even the surplus currency on hand for this object, and then we shall have an easy money market, gold would decline under the continual stream poured out of the Treasury, and the annual burden of the debt would be forever lessened. This, and this alone, is the true and safe policy for Mr. Boutwell to pursue. Greek and Latin in the Free College. Certain of the trustees of the College of the city of New York urge the substitution of what they deem more practical studies for the course of classical instruction in that institu- tion, and others oppose the movement. If we may accept the manner in which the points have been pressed from either side as an indication of the proficiency given respectively by the different systems of instraction, certainly the palm rests with the intellectual discipline given by the ancient languages; for that side touches the main point and presents clear reasons lucidly and calmly, while from the other side comes the haphazard half sense of a smatterer, mingled with much bald and absolute ignorance. The main point is that the Board that discusses the making of this change has not the power to make it. Scientific education would have appeared to better advantage if it had taught its advocates to attempt only what was quite within their power. It is a notable fact that all the men of intellectual torce and brilliancy who are relied upon as authorities in favor of the substitution are themselves brilliant examples of the success of the sys- tem they are arrayed against. We should have more faith in the genius of educational committees if they sometimes considered human nature rather more, and what is called the practical rather less. What is called the practical in the working-day world is called by quite another name in the schoolhouse ; and men who pretend to have studied educa- tion ought to know that the aliment which the human mind least readily accepts at the schoolgoing age is the material of which science is made—its abstruse facts and ab- stract laws. School inetruction is false and mistaken if it has any other for its primary ob- ject than euch a training of the mind as will enable the future man to master any science he may choose, and the mind must grow on the food it most readily accepte, which is not physical science, save in exceptional cases. Hantom Cabs. A bili was passed at the last session of the New York Legislature incorporating com- pany for the introduction into this city, on a grander scale than has heretofore been at- tempted, of the Hansom cabs, which have become deservedly popular in London, It was at first proposed to begin the new experiment with no less than four thousand of these cabs, At all events provision was to be made to place a sufficient number at every central point in town, and at the various steamboat landings, ferries and railway stations, and at the principal hotels and theatres, With these light and convenient vehicles it will be easy to traverse New York in every direction, swiftly and at a moderate price, The longitudinal lines of cars and omnibuses are inadequate even for the daily increasing travel up and down town, while for crossing from river to river there is scarcely any convenience. The Hansom cabs will be infinitely preferable to dirty hacks with extortionate fares, to crowded cars and to lumbering omnibuses, We are glad to learn that seventy thousand dollars of the stock of the Hansom Cab Company have been already subscribed for, and that it is con- fidently expected that within ten days subscrip- tions for the required balance of thirty thou- sand dollars will be entered on the company’s books. It is now proposed to begin opera- tions as soon as subscriptions shall have been made for two thousand shares, equivalent to one hundred thousand dollars of stock at par. The company intends to start fifty cabs by the first of July, and to have two thousand run- ning by the end of the year. The fares, which are given in another column, will be reduced as soon as practicable, so as to put the cabs within the reach of all. Brooklyn, as well as New York, is to share in the advantages of the new system. The War in Paraguay—The Position of the United States. The greatest efforts have been made by Brazil and her allies to excite the United States" government against Paraguay. Even some of our own citizens, and those among them who have held official positions in South America, have been the abtive agents of the Brazilians in misrepresenting the state of things existing in Paraguay and in endeavoring to foment difficulties between this country and Paraguay. We were told that our Minister, Mr. McMa- hon, was virtually a prisoner in the hands of Lopez. Intimations were thrown out that even something worse than that might have hap- pened to him, and the allies pointed to the fact that nothing officially had been heard from him since last December. We all along sus- pected the treachery and misrepresentations of the Brazilian and allied agents and press, and now it appears, from the news published yester- day from Paraguay, that Mr. McMahon is safe, that nothing has happened to him, and that, in fact, he is near Lopez, the President of Paraguay; and we have no doubt he is on the best terms with and is kindly treated by Lopez. It is clear that Brazil and her allies were the sole cause of our Minister's isolation, and in all probability they stopped the official despatches between the Minister and his government for the purpose of withholding the truth and deceiving the United States as to the actual state of the war. From news received by the way of Washington, and published in The Emperor on the Situat! Our cable despatches inform us that the Emperor Napoleon, in reply to a letter which had been addressed to him by one of the newly elected representatives, has ventured to explain the situation. The Emperor says the government is equally able to suppress dis- turbances and grant liberties. A government, however, which would preserve self-respect must not yield to external pressure. The Emperor concludes his letter by assuring the representative that the views of the govern- the Huzarp on Tussday, 16 will: be nienk ane: entattatial’ Wedhe calisieein' the Noon that the allies would not allow y be majority ine | any communication with Mr. McMahon. constituencies and by the majority in the Chamber. The Emperor puts the best face possible on the situation, but he cannot alter facts, and the facts are against him. In another place in this day's Heratp we reprint an article from the London Heonomist, a jour- nal which has no equal in its mastery of figures. We commend this article to the atten- tion of all our readers, It confirms the strongest things we have said regarding the elections which have just taken place in France. The public mind of this country has to be instructed somewhat to fully or clearly understand the mysteries of Napoleonism. It has been notorious all along that the centres of intelligence have been against the empire, while the rural districts have been satisfied or indifferent. It is not difficult to understand why this should beso. Reforms have seldom in any country been initiated, much less seldom pushed, by the simple and unreasoning people of the rural districts. They generally owe their origin and their success to the en- lightened vote of the great centres of thought. True of most countries, this is especially true of France. The Heonomist shows with what skill the government of Napoleon has used the conservative, apathetic and timid vote of the country to swamp the aggressive and intelli- gent vote of the town and city. Considering the manner in which the government has mani- pulated the vote from the commencement of the empire, the wonder no longer is that uni- versal suffrage has been found compatible with the empire. The wonder rather is that, in spite of the system which prevails, in spite of the universally present power and unceasing activity of the government, Napoleon ‘‘cannot command unanimity in the Chamber instead of condescending to put up with a majority of five to two.” The truth is that the more facts are brought to light and the more the machinery of the government is understood the more ap- parent does it become that the opposition has won a great success and that France is not with Napoleon. In spite of the assertion of the Emperor that the govern- ment must preserve its self-respect and not yield to external pressure, it is our opinion that extensive reforms will be immediately inaugurated. It will be well for the Emperor if reform alone is found sufficient and if other and more dangerous courses are not deemed necessary. Tue Season oF Prize Ficuts bas returned with the summer. The savage fraternity of professional face smashers are at it East and West, and this revolting and debasing sport of the P. R., while dying out in England, appears to have become a fixed institution in the United States. It is progressing, too, at such a rate that, unless the several States and Territories put it under the ban of more rigid pains and penalties than now exist, it will soon become a scandal to the cotntry and a re- proach to our popular institutions. Under any pretence the toleration of this so-called “manly art” isa disgrace to our public authori- ties and a terror to peaceable citizens. Mr. Worthington, our Minister fo Uruguay, writes that he had demanded of the Argen- tine government either an escort through the allied lines or for permission for a United States escort to pass through them to enable communication to be made with Mr. McMahon, and that both the Buenos Ayres and Brazilian governments had refused. Of course the pre- text of this refusal was that the movements of the allies would be affected by granting such communication. Commander Kirkland, of the Wasp, had a sharp correspondence with Brazil and Buenos Ayres on the subject. Thus, then, it is evident the allies are afraid of the truth being known as to the actual state of the war. It is equally evident that the official representatives of the United States, and, therefore, the government itself, are treated in the most high-handed and outrageous manner by Brazil and her allies. This only shows what a miserable and imbecile government we have. Every little State, especially if it be a monarchy—for our State Department has a particular tenderness for monarchies and monarchial institutions—may insult this country with impunity. Our weak govern- ment will bear any amount of kicking from nations, small or great, which have active rep- resentatives in Washington, but it will not raise its finger in favor of republicanism in America, of the struggling Cuban patriots, or of anything else that is liberal and grandly national in policy. The great republic has sunk low in the character of its actual govern- ment, and there seems to be no hope of raising it up during the term of the present adminis- tration. Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Sweden- borgians. On Wednesday, the first day of the fiftieth annual convention of the Swedenborgians, nothing of very special public interest occurred, except the reference to the Ecclesiastical Com- mittee of a communication from the presiding minister of the Massachusetts association an- nouncing that he had withdrawn the authority to officiate from another minister of the New Church on account of the adherence by the latter to the doctrines of T. L. Harris, a well known Spiritualist, which doctrines are held to be heresy. This matter seems likely to occasion animated debate. It certainly strikes outsiders as strange that Spiritualism should be. considered heresy by the New Church—a church organized about a hundred years ago by the followers of Swedenborg, the illustrious Swedish philosopher and veligious writer, who disavowed any desire to be the head of a sect or to connect his name with the new church which he said was about to be estab- lished, and who must be acknowledged as pre- eminently the father of modern Spiritualism. Swedenborg not only revived the allegorical mode of interpreting the Holy Scriptures em- ployed by some of the early Christians and even the Jews themselves before the Christian era, but he professed to have personal imme- diate intercourse with the inhabitants of the invisible world. The first volume of his theological works appeared in 1749 under the title of Arcana Celestia, or ‘‘Heavenly Arcana, which are contained in the Sacred Scripture, or Word of the Lord, laid open, be- ginning with Genesis, together with relations of wonderful things seen in the World of Spirits and the Heaven of Angelse” This extraordinary volume is the fountainhead of all similar works, including ‘‘The Principles of Nature, her Divine Revelations and a Voice to Man- kind,” by Andrew Jackson Davis, the Pough- keepsie Seer. Indeed, Swedenborg predicted in 1772 that in about eighty years from that date events would occur that would greatly tend to bring his teachings into general notice. It is at least a singular coincidence that from 1843 to 1852, when the eighty years expired, the spiritual phenomena attested by the Shaker Societies at New Lebanon and at Watervliet, and the spirit rappings of the ‘Fox girls” at Rochester, should have inaugurated a variety of psychological experiences, apparently cor- roborating what Swedenborg taught con- cerning spirits and the spiritual world, exciting universal attention, and resulting in a sort of nebulous, comet-tail like sect, which, accord- ing to Judge Edmonds, is now composed of five or six million believers in this country alone, It is therefore somewhat surprising to hear the followers of Swedenborg, the great Spiritualist, denounce Spiritualism as heresy, A remarkable change must have passed over the epirit of their dreams. But a still more surprising change is indicat- ed by the interesting proceedings of yesterday, the second day of the annual convention. We refer our readers to the full report of these proceedings in another column, and particu- larly to the masterly speech of Profes- sor Theophilue Parsons, of the Cambridge Law School, one of the most learned lawyers and philosophical thinkers of the day. His earnest and nowerful protest aqningt the man- Boston has the conceit that mere multi- plication of sound goes for something in art ; that the mere aggregation of instruments and players may make an occasion great, as if because there is more noise there must be more music. Boston taste and Boston vulgarity. Querxs County Att Ricnt.—Not long since there was an accident on the Long Island Railroad by which several lives were Jost, and the Coroner's jury found the railroad company to blame, and the papers were no doubt “‘sent forward” for the action of the District Attorney and the Grand Jury. But the public may remember that just before the accident some Long Island farmers commended this road to the world and to settlers as about the most perfect thing yet known. No doubt several of those farmers were on the recent Grand Jury, for it founded no bill on that verdict. They did not like to contradict them- selves, Car Acctpents.—Over a hundred persons a year are killed to save the street car com- panies the expense of building turn-tables at each end of their respective routes. Very nearly all the car accidents happen at the front platform. Why not abolish the front platform, then, building only a niche in the front of the car for the driver's stand? Because then every car would have to be turned around at the end of the trip, and this would be trouble- some and expensive. It is found cheaper to let the careless people kill and maim them- selves, An Exection Cask, involving a contest for a place in the Board of Assistant Aldermen, illustrates our political purity and the views of our functionaries. One of the poll clerks swore to secing tickets not cast by any voter “stuffed” in the ballot box, and when asked if he did not interfere he eaid, “Why should 1?” His dog was not in that fight,