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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. cluded yesterd , the jury rendering 9 verdict of death from causes unknown. The relatives then took possession of the body. A young men named Strappe died at Bellevue Hos- pital yesterday morning under circumstances that throw suspicion so strongly upon one Dr. Amand, of Bleecker street, that a warrant for his arrest has been issued, It appears that Strappe, being tll, ob- tained some medicine from Dr, Amand, which pro- duced a frightful pain in the stomach, and on con- sulting another physician he took an emetic. A por- tion of the matter emitted from bis stomach was analyzed and found to contami Sheel’s green, an active poison. Atenement house brawl took place at No. 1635 Downing street yesterday afternoon, in which one Lynch, agent for the landlord of the premises, at- tempted to shoot an occupant named Stringer, and shot a watchman named Gaigan instead, He was arrested. With but few exceptions the markets were char- acterized by extreme dulness on Saturday, Coffee Was quiet, but steady, while cotton was dull, but un- changed in value, middling upland being quoted at S3ige. On ‘Change four was active, and prices of shipping grades were 10c. higher. Wheat was quiet, and closed lower, Cora was steady, while oats were firmer, though slow of saic. Pork was dull and heavy, Beef was unchanged, while lard was in limited request and rather heavy. Naval stores were generally quiet. Petroleum was dull and heavy for crude, but firmer, though quiet, for refined, the former closing at 16'sc, and the lat- terat 31‘yc. Whiskey was a shade firmer and freights were firm, though less active. Prominent Arriva!s in the City. General James Watson Webb, Minister to Brazil, arrived in this city yesterday. Judge E. Cattell and Judge Balcom, of Bingham- ton; J. A. Seward, of Middletown, and E. B, Morgan, of Aurora, are at the Astor House, General James A. Garfield, of Ohio, and Captain EF. Paulding, of Kingston, are at the Met” “opol itan Hotel. Colonel G. W. Hull, of Albany; Dr. 5. Russell Childs, of Saratoga, and Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army, are at the St, Charles Hotel. Colonel Stewart, of the United States Army; L. M. Blakely, of North Carolina, and Dr. R. Wilson, of Burfulo, are at the St. Julien Hotel. flugo Brandt, of Hamburg; James H. Grover, of New Orleans, and D. 8, Oakley, of Florida, are at the ‘New York Hotel. Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylvania; E. Corning, of Albany; L. W. Colt, of San Francisco; Dr. B. W. Woods, of Baltimore, and L. B. Gooderich, of Chicago, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John G. Hazard, of Providence, R. L., is at the Albemarle Hotel. General C. B. Fisk, of St. Louis, Mo.» E. H. Ross, of Washington; ex-Mayor R. W. Bishop, of Cincin- nati, Ohio, and Dr. V. L. Hurlbert, of Chicago, IL, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVES NG. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—fHicoony Drocory Dook. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 between Sth and 6th avs.— ENocH ARDEN, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.-DORA—BLAcK EYED SUSAN. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th astreet.— Moruer Huppary. fe THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Fra D1ayo.o— ROMEO JAFFIER JENKINS. WAVERLEY THEATRE Broadway.—OLD Cuntost- ay Suor. BOWERY TIEATRE, Bowery.—State SECRETS—FIRLD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD, reet, East LYNNE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broatway.—THR SPECTACULAL EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THF Salon. WOOD'S MUSEUM ad Broadway.—Afternoon a: BRYANTS’ OPERA H? street. —E1m10Piay Mins TONY PASTOR'S OPERA H® SE, 201 Bowery.—Comtc VOCALISM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, THEATRE COMIQUE, Comic BALLET AND P. Broadway.—BURLESQUE, TOMIME. 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The fulness of time has ieceived as above. come to the colonial government of that Sa ee eee. island, and its people are assuming by force of r = B 3] N a ws. their own arms new relations to the Powers of s a Hoe the world. No American can or does doubt guia their right to do this. Our political education The cab! ms are dated June 20. is based belief in th ed right of The rtes has passed a bill investing the a4 Et rea eh ance ES Loar ponte lah acts of the provisional government with the | revolution, and wherever we behold a people force of law. The republican members of the } treading the path which our fathers trod Cortes malsoanian § bill calling for the eX-] before our sympathies go out to them, and = ol the Duke of Montpensier from | 14 small number of our people are willing to ue measure, however, was rejected. follow the example of Lafayette, who came to the assistance of our fatherland in its dark days. It cannot, then, be otherwise that in the struggle for liberty in Cuba some, perhaps many, of our own citizens will be found tread- ing the wine press of freedom side by side with the impulsive sons of Cuba. If this were not so we should-belie our own teachings; and, admitting this fact, the question comes up, what position will the government hold to- wards them? The war in which they embark is a fierce and sanguinary one. The foe claims torule ‘‘by the grace of God,” and pro- claims that all who oppose him are robbers, pirates and enemies of the human race. Pri- soners are slaughtered in cold blood ; homes are given everywhere to the devouring flames, and extermination is the policy adopted and acted upon. Further than this, the stipulations of treaties of amity, commerce and navigation with neighboring Powers and their local laws are appealed to to justify this course and de- prive those who aspire to exercise the right of self-government of the aid which private sym- pathy may extend to them. Will the government admit the claim of the Spanish rulers in Cuba, and deny the right of General Pezuela, 2 warm supporter of the ex-Queen, on bis arrival in Madrid was arrested. A conspi- racy for the restoration of Isabella has been dis- covered in Granada. The members of the new min- istry were introduced to the Cortes on Saturday. General Prim made a 8) chon the occasion. The president of a republican club in Cadiz was ar- rested for speaking against Marsha! Serrano, The city of Paris is once more quiet. The Chinese Embassy is preparing to leave for St. Petersburg, Australia. The latest accounts from Melbourne tell us of con- tinued troubles in the Colonial Parliament. Tne members expelled for bribery have been re-elected, and those persons who were sent to jail for bribing the members have been released. An appeal by the Parliament to the Privy Council 1s made. South America, President Sarmiento, of the Argentine Confedera- tion, in his speech recently on opening the Argen- tine Chambers, said the warmest friendship existed between the allies, and they had the most generous feelings towards the Paraguayans,{for the benefit of whom they were about to establish a provisional government at Asuncion. We publish elsewhere copious extracts from the official correspondence of Minister Webb, showing the reasoas which led him to suspend diplomatic re- lations between the United States and Brazil, as aiso the letter of the Brazilian Foreign Minister return- ing an offensive letter that had been sent him by Mr. Webb and forwarding his passports according to re- quest. Mr. Webb ar: d in New York by the steam- ship Merrimac yesterday. a whole people to throw off the yoke of des- Hayth. potism, and of our own citizens to take part La Garre, a subordinate under General Domin- | in the struggle without running other and guez and a candidate for the Presidency, has been | greater risks of the chance of battle? That captured and will probably be shot. Dominguez himself is enraged at the report of his barbarities furnished by Admiral Hort, Salnave considers him- self insuited by President Grant's sending a negro Minister to lus capital. St. Thomns, A shock of earthquake was felt in St. Thomas on the Sist of Mu No great damage was done, but its were so thoroughly frightened that juany of them camped out. the entire people of Cuba reject the rule of Spain has been over and over again pro- claimed by the Spanish press, the Spanish authorities, and the Spanish volunteers who now rule Havana. Itis testified by the faet that not a Cuban is trusted with arms in be- half of Spain; that Spain rules only where her troops stand; that where her troops are an exodus of the Cuban population is wit- nessed. If the government at Washington takes no step to control the sangninary prac- tices of this war for a falling rule, as it should do in justice to our own citizens and in con- sonance with our history and the position we hold as the leading Power of Atherica, then by its silence it justifies the outrage against humanity and is false in its duty to ourselves, No treaty of amity, no laws of neutrality can sanctify before the people of the United States, or of the world, the claim of any Power to the right to govern a nation when the nation rejects such a claim. If this were not 80 Mr. Fish would be involved in an end- less perplexity as to who should be recognized by him as the reigning sovereign in any coun- try in Europe or America, But we may go even further. No treaty of amity can be appealed to by any Power as conferring upon it the right to use practices beyond the pale of humanity in its efforts to preserve itself, and all such claims will be rejected by every rightminded statesman. In truth, the very fact of an appeal to such practices should lead at once to a condemnation of the government using them, It is argued that the government is a friendly Power, with whom we have treaties by which we are bound, But by appealing to practices beyond the recognized laws of war the Power so doing becomes itself, in a gertain sense, hostis humanis, and thereby Teleases the binding effect of all treaties with it. We have brought forward these views be- cause of the great events now before us, Cuba is in process of successful revolution, Miscellancoas, The Typographical Union in Washington on Satur- day night eceived the report of the Committee on ons for Membership, Lewis H. Douglass, the rinter, being one of the applicants, The majority report in his case favored bia admission on the ground that he was a good printer and had met ali the requirements. It was adopted by @ vote of ) to 164; but before he was formally voted for as a ember the mecting adjourned amid great confu- cy Senators Cameron and Scott, of Pennsylvania, have been trying to upset the appointments in that State, made at the instance of Representatives at a time when the Senators were too busy in executive session to attend to their interests. So far they have failed, and prophec} an inglorious defeat for the radicals in Pennsylvania tn consequence, es- peciaily if General Hancock 18 nominated for Gov- ernor by the Democrats. ‘The Sunday concert in the Boston Coliseum was a success ast evening. It is probable that promenade concerts will be given all through the week, one of which will be for the benefit of Mr. Gilmore. ‘the Coliseum itself wil probably not be demolished un- ‘Ul the approach of winter. We publish elsewhere this morning the letter of a Canadian gentleman, residing im this city, to Mr. Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain, urging that England grant independence to the Canadian colonies, Among the candidate s for Congress in Virginia is Joseph Segar, formerly a member of the United States Senate, He, among the rest, is bidding largely for the negro vote as the deciding element of the campaign. ‘The Congressional Committee on Ways and Means have arrived at North Platte on their tour of inves- tigation across the continent, The City. The investigation in the case of Hugh Keily, who Gied in Newark from the effect of injuries receivea at the hands of some rowdies in this city, and for Whose barial Dr. Harris refused a permit, was con- American citizens have taken and will take part therein, animated by the holiest feelings of human nature and justified by their natu- ral rights. The government which is strug- gling to perpetuate its despotism proclaims its foes to be pirates and robbers, and not entitled to the usages of war. Our own government has failed in its duty to place itself on record in such a way as shall lend its moral influence to the cause of humanity and human progress. It has gone even further than this, and has recently displayed a secret partisanship for the Power which has been rejected, and the members of the Cabinet exhibit a self-accusing spirit by laying the onus of the act upon the inferior member of the Council, Every think- ing person in the country rejects with a laugh of scdrn the statement that Mr. Hoar alone is responsible for the acts wliich have com- mitted the government to an obnoxious policy, and none, however poor in intellect, will be- lieve that the Attorney General took the lib- erty of committing the government in these great questions without advice and without direction from the whole body. The whole govemment, from President Grant down to Mr. Hoar, is responsible for the acts which mark its policy and prove its | treasury. partisanship, If Mr. Fish has consented to this course willingly he has exhibited a want of sympathy with American feeling and with the march of American ideas which disquali- fies him for the high place he holds. If he en- tertains sympathies for the Cubans in their efforts to establish their own freedom, to sweep slavery from their land and to partici- pate in the political happiness which we en- | | able compact between gentlemen and a direct joy, he should show it in some other way than by whisperings through the pen of a news- paper correspondent. Such breathings are not sufficient to counteract acts in which the hand of the government is plainly visible. It will not be an act of war to perform our duty to human nature by recog- nizing the belligerent rights of the republicans of Cuba, and to*intimate to our fond ally Spain that we expect her to carry on war as a civilized government and not as an enemy to the human race, especially as we are supplying her with guns, powder and ships wherewith to make the war. As for a national policy, it is plain that the weak and cold administration of Grant and Fish are not equal to the task of devising one. We look to the Americay people to take care of that, intimating to the administration that they will do well not to place themselves, in their timorous apprecia- tion of European complications, in an attitude of hostility to the national policy the people shall lay down. The Asiatic Exodus to the United States. Still they come. Already on the Pacific slope there are some one hundred thousand Chinamen. On Thursday last twelve thousand Chinamen arrived at San Francisco in sailing vessels, Silver is being found in large quan- tities in the White Pine district. Chinese labor will, in consequence, be more in demand than ever. Chinese on the Pacific slope. They are a hardy, industrious, thrifty people, and, spite of their religious and social customs, they will help largely to develop the resources of those immense regions which lie west of the Rocky Mountains. The vast immigration of Chinese into this country is pregnant with important results, It cannot fail to tell in the long run mightily for good or evil on our destiny. The tide of immigration has changed its course. From Asia, the cradle of the race, it has in all the past moved westward. Now, for the first time in history, it is taking an eastern direc- tion. The thousands from China will soon be- come millions. Japan will imitate the exam- ple of her neighbor. It will not be otherwise with India. Unless we greatly mistake, this exodus from Asia brings with it the settlement of the negro question. If it settles some ques- tions it will doubtless also give birth to others, GENERAL GRANT'S Mover. On his re- turn to this city from the Boston Peace Hubbub, General Grant, on Saturday last, took the ran of the Park, did some shopping with Madame, and in the evening dropped in at Niblo’s to learn something of the adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. Yesterday he went to church and dined with his First Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. A. T: Stewart, and this morning he is off again to Washington. After a few days of ac- tive work, in regulating the business of Southern reconstruction, including a Cabinet Counsel or two on Cuba, we expect next to hear that His Excellency is off again on a short summer excursion, and some say that on account of the fine drives down there, he will next turn up at Long Branch, Mr. Sumner’s Posttioy. —It is | given out in certain quarters at Washington that Mr. Sum- ner is perfectly satisfied with Mr. Motley’s instructions, and that the Senate Chairman on Foreign Relations will be satisfied with less than two thousand millions as the bill of damages on those Alabama claims. It is farther said that there is a perfectly harmoni- ous understanding on this subject between Mr, Sumner and the administration ; and as we are inclined to believe this geport we lean more strongly to the conclusion than hereto- fore that on this question of the Alabama claims Mr. Motley will do nothing till after the reassembling of Congress in December, From rag Far East.—By the steamship Great Republic, at San Francisco, we have late news from China and Japan, as well as very solid and substantial evidence of the daily advance of our national and commercial interests in the East. The Great Republic landed a valuable cargo, made up for the most part of tea and silk, besides a huge amount of industrial wealth in the active little bodies of twelve hundred and fifty Chinamen. The news is commonjiace—outrages on foreigners in Japan, diplomatic complaints, movements of the Mikado's fleet, with Sir Henry Parkes and the ram Stonewall again. China was trading, rather quiet and apparently relapsing slightly towards the national doze, Both countries would be benefited by a little foreign civiliza- tion, if not too much after the Bagish plan. Not Very Sorry To Hea Tr. —That de- spite the efforts to detain the ship of Mr. George Raester, late Chargé d’Affaires to the United States from Hayti, the steamer Delphine, late the Florida, and bound for 4 rebel port in Hayti, made good her escape from Boston, “Let us have peace.” ‘ | fight somebody. Tetsuee t bt that i | post himself concerning Brazil. is not too much to say that in ten years we shall have several millions of | Our Relations With Brazil—Geueral James Watson Webb’s Mission. * General James Watson Webb, Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the Court of Brazil during the past eight years, in terminating his mission— if he has really closed it—created a grand fuss not merely in Rio Janiero, but in the imperial palace, the office of the Minister and Secre- tary of State for Marine, and generally ‘“‘all round,” previous to his departure for New York. With pen im hand; paper, and ink before him, and flanked by the ‘‘mahogany stocks” of that ‘‘almost fatal fray,” the General was warlike, and came out on the Brazilians in an official correspondence which covers many pages of a large sized newspaper—equalling any of the Seward-Alabama letters in length, and far superior to any particular one of that famous series in vim and personality of ex- pression. The subject matter was our claim relative to the loss of the whaler Canada on the Garcag Reef, more than a dozen of years since, and thy alleged unauthorized appropria- tion by the Brazilians of the proceeds of the sale of her cargo and outfit to the national Having a whaler in tow, the Gen- eral handles an epistolary harpoon of the sharpest sort with great vigor. He charac- terizes the diplomacy of his Excellency the Minister as ‘“‘undiplomatic,” “‘irregular” and “grossly improper,” and speaking of an at- tempt to remove the consideration of the whaleman’s case from his hands to Washing- ton, asserts that it was ‘‘a gross and unpardon- able breach of faith, a violation of an honor- personal offence to the representative of the United States, which would render it impossible for him to transact business with the Minister in future.” General Webb next comes to attribute motives, hauling the Cabinet in Washington into his quarrel very adroitly thus :—‘‘Your Excellency, in the name of the Imperial government, has persisted in a course absolutely uncalled for by any consid- erations of justice or expediency, well know- ing that such would be deemed exceedingly offensive both by the undersigned and his government. The undersigned would have spent nearly eight years at this Court with very little knowledge of what is passing around him if he had not become cognizant of the fact that dislike of all foreigners is a na- tional trait; that such dislike is more intense towards his countrymen than any, other na- tionality, because they have got rid of the in- stitution of slavery.” And again :—‘‘The un- dersigned, in closing his ‘mission, has the sat- isfaction to reflect that he has on all occasions, and at no considerable personal sacrifice, proved himself a very sincere friend of Brazil and of the Brazilian people.” General Webb is fully primed with abolitionism and gun- powder. He is here in town on his way to Washington, where he is almost certain to Secretary Fish had better He may be forced into war or challenged on the spot. Tne Ways and Means CommitteeWest- ward, Ho! Congressmen Hooper, Kelley, Brooks, May- nard, McCarthy, Marshall, Allison and Blair, the whole Committee of Ways and Means (ex- cepting Mr. Schenck, chairman, off to Europe), were at Omaha, Nebraska, onthe 15th instant, bound ‘Westward, ho!” as, likewise, were Miss Anna Dickinson and a large number of other distinguished individuals. On the pre- ceding day William H. Seward and party left the same place for San Francisco, by rail, and on the 17th the Congressional company were on the trail, scouring over the plains at the rate of thirty miles an hour. The Congressional Committee, under the authority of the House, have been ona tour of inspection of our custom houses, begin- ning with New York, and it is probable that ; their investigations may extend to the c@stom house (such as it is) at Sitka, in Alaska. At all events the committee ought to extend to Mr. Seward the compliment of accompanying him on his visit to that new found land of the Northwest, in order to see something of his splendid bargain in that prodigious purchase of four hundred and eighty-one thousand square miles of continental snow fields and two strings of Arctic sea islands, one running along the coast and the other nearly across the Pacific, numbering in all two, three, four or five thousand, for exactly how many nobody knows. The House Committee, on this Western excursion, we expect, will submit a very in- teresting report to their Chamber with the re- assembling of Congress in Deeember. It is understood they will drop in upon Brigham Young and the Latter Day Saints at Great Salt Lake, to see how they are getting on, and to inquire into the most practicable and ex- pedient ways and means for the removal of that “‘twin relic of barbarism” —Mormon poly- gamy. If the committee satisfactorily solve this difficult problem they will do well, and we have ‘great expectations” of their euccess from the opportune presence and ¢o- operation of Miss Anna Dickinson. Tne Latest FROM Panris.—That the elec- tion riots were really serious is not admitted by the government. In Paris alone, according to the official journal, ten hundred prisoners were arrested. Of these eight hundred have been set at liberty, leaving two hundred still in prison. Many of these are members of the press. Will they be brought formally to trial? If they are brought to trial and punished the result will be the same as in the Baudin con- spiracy trial—it will tell against the govern- ernment. The unfortunate victims who per- ished during the disturbances have been buried, crowds attending ; but we are officially informed that there was no disorder. It is the old story—‘‘Peace reigns in Warsaw.” Meanwhile we learn that the government of Napoleon, resolved to be strigtly neutral with Spain, has ordered the arrest of all Carlists and Isabellos fe found on the froftier. IMPORTANT t Custom Hover Discrosures.— A telegram from Cincinnati announced yes- terday that the government, having found that the quantity of sugar and coffee smuggled into the country throngh the port of New Or- leans is larger than was at first supposed, ond that it has been sent all over the West and Northwest, the revenue officers are now there looking after the goods, making seizures and NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. been paid, in order to retain the goods discov- ered in their possession, We are glad to hear of | this movement in the way of reform, re- trégehment and the recovery of revenues due to the government. The line of the Missis- sippi has beeif, especially since the war, & favorite line of operation for the smugglers. After the echoes of the Boston Jubilee shall have ceased and the administration shall have found out what to do about the Cuban ques- tion, the Alabama question may be left over for a while until still further steps shall be made in the way of retrenchment and reform. The question of the enormous frauds in petro- leum, tobacco and whiskey might well be re- vived. It is now of the highest importance that all revenues legitimately due to the gov- ernment should be collected and that all leaks should be stopped. Church Services and Sermons. The services and sermons which were ob- served and delivered in the different churches in New York and some of the more adjacent States, yesterday, are reported at considerable length in our columns, affording a consoling and encouraging ex- hibit of the useful influence of pastoral dis- cipline and puipit oratory when spoken and received with the soothing adjuncts of fashion- able dresses, convenient and well cushioned pews and congregations at full liberty to criti- cise, approve or reject, ‘‘call again,” or stay away, just as each member pleases, or his convictions or whim may dictate. There is little doubt but a considerable amount of good in the work of the ‘‘cure of_souls” was accomplished, while it is equally Certain that the crude efforts made by some of the preach- er3 with a view to originality in interpretation and argument of and on Bible truths sent many of their hearers home in a confused state of mind as to the infallibility of the assurance that the “yoke is easy and the burden light.” In this city Methodism lost one of its ministers, who renounced his clerical fealty to John Wesley and his successors and proclaimed his belicf in the faith of Swedenborg. Rev. Charles B. mythe, on the subject of ‘“Pro- testantism and Popery,” was considerably “hard” on the Papacy, slightly unchristian in expression towards our Catholic brethren as eich, and rather pointedly in opposition to the constitutional guarantee of freedom of con- science to all secured by the charter of Ameri- can independence. The Catholic churches of New York were crowded, and the other de- nominationg healthfully represented. Brooklyn was pious and exceedingly well clad. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, minis- tering amongst persons of wealth and fashion, considered it discreet to reaffirm the apostolic adjuration of Paul in the words, ‘‘Let love be without dissimulation.” The ladies were evidently in triumph for a moment. ‘Breaches of promise,” with the insincere writings which lead thereto, were, to their minds eye, about to be emphatically condemned, and would soon disappear both from the calendar of the courts and the pages of the newspaper press. Their elat?on was short lived, however, for the reverend gentleman applied the holy words universally, but with pointed reference to fe- male ‘‘dissimulations” in love. This style of reasoning induced a very evident disposition to vote Saint Paul anything but an “A No. one” pastor, and a man who did not really un- derstand the state of “sne’s feclings.” Rev. Mr. Bolles, who has just been called to @ Universalist charge in Brook- lyn, gave his first sermon in explanation of the mystical and visible union and organization of the Church. The temples in the river towns had 4 rather slim attendance, a good many persons who “watch” as well as pray noting the first symp- toms of the heavy storm which prevailed dur- ing the evening; and taking election to remain at home in consequence. The Future of Canada—Independence or Annexation, The correspondence between a Canadian gentleman and Mr. Gladstone, Premier of England, on the subject of the present gov- ernmental system and status of the Dominion of Canada and the probable future position of the colony, as independent territory or an in- tegral portion of the United States, which we publish to-day, is worthy the attention of our readers, The Canadian, dating in New York, is explicit in declaration and convincing by facts and argument, that the British North American Province cannot preserve its present relations to the mother country and at the same time develop its resources and strength in a healthy and profitable ratio; so that, con- sequently, its inhabitants must ‘Cither be permitted, in a quiet and friendly spirit, the fullest and most complete citizen privi- legos, with the right of managing their own affairs, or their country will inevitably be ab- sorbed by the United States, through the healthy action of social progress and a com- mercial faterlacing and consolidation, or be seized end enddenly annexed by the same power as an act of war against Great Britain. This subject has within the past few years en- gaged the attention of some of the most com- prehensive minds in the English Parliament— among others that of the late Richard Cob- den—and the general conclusion, notwith- standing the exhibition of a pure John Bull “never say die” tone in many of the high places, has been to the effect that Canada can- not be defended against the people of the Union, and that the transatlantic Bri must eventually be left to ‘‘choose their own form of government,” the polite and diplomatic words in which the thrones of the present day acknowledge their inability to further subjugate a people to their rule. The writer expresses the opinion that if England would declare the Dominion an independent nationality the United States would never initiate a movemont for its annex- ation. This is correct. The American gov- ernment has never in its history acquired ter. ritory by the exercise of force or against the will of the population. The Canadians of to- day are educated and intollig®&t. If they think it better to remain in the position of quasi emancipated colonists of England it is good. Should they decide for incorporation to the United States it is good also, and they know very well how and where to apply. Under our flag they will enjoy the fullest se- curity. Peace and quiet will follow, except onelection days and the Fourth of July, when compelling holders to prove that duties have they must vote—carly and often—and thaw out fully under the influence of firecrackers, brandy smashes and cocktails. Let them read the correspondence and decide. General Thomas—A Good M mt and What We Think a Good Suggestion. It is given out that General George H. Thomas, the new commander of the Military Division of the Pacific, including all the Pacific States and Territories, has resolved upon a scientific exploration of the southeast- ern section of the State of Nevada, an exten- sive district in the heart of Fremont’s Great Basin still unexplored and unknown. We have no doubt that General Thomas came to this resolution from what he learned on his late journey to San Francisco via the Pacific Railroad of the wonderful White Pine silver mines and of their accidental discovery on the border of this unknown region, and that the idea readily occurred to him of the thorough exploration suggested, We say readily oc- curred, because we are informed by a distin- guished Union officer in the late war that Gen- eral Thomas is not only a model soldier, but one of the finest scholars in the government service, possessing, among other things, a rare knowledge of geology. Our informant says that “in making once, with General Thomas, the ascent of Lookout Mountain, I forgot the man of war in the man of science.” To such aman, ‘“‘in these piping times of peace,” the command of the Military Division of the Pacific affords a fine field for scientific explora- tions; and we dare say that his projected re- connoissance of Southeastern Nevada and the contiguous Territories will be in its discoveries of great value to the government and all con- cerned. We hope that General Thomas, however, as itis not yet too late, will provide for some scientific explorations during the present sum- mer of that enormous and mysterious white elephant of ours called Alaska. He ought to send up a special steamer, with a company of savans, along with Mr. Seward, and the steamer, without loss of time, should push forward to the mouth ot that great Arctic river the Yukon. From the report of the British ex- plorer Captain Whymper we think it proba- ble that a steamer entering the mouth of that stream as late even as the middle or the last of July might ascend it a thousand or fifteen hundred miles, or more, if there be no falls or rapids in the way, and get back again be- fore the locking up of the river. From Whym- per’s description and illustrations it would ap- pear that the Yukon carries down to the sea alarger volume of water than the St. Law- rence or the Mississippi, and all that we know of it is from this British traveller. We think that a steamboat trip, then, up the Yukon is due to Mr. Seward, because the river and the unknown land it waters are hie purchase; and as he may never again have thé opportunity to inspect this large farm and its grand water course General Thomas ought to send him up with a corps of savans, and aa far up as they can go in order to return before the first Alaskan frost. We respectfully sub- mit this suggestion to the consideration of General Thomas and the administration, and we hope it will be adopted. We Hore Not.—A London correspondent says he has information from a prominent Bng- lish yachtman that an unfriendly undercurrent is running over there in the yachting world against American yachts, and that he is afraid that our yachts will be shut out from the prin- cipal races and courses by unacceptable rulea and regulations, We hope not, for this would be carrying the “late unpleasantness” on the Alabama question a little too far. THE LATE HENRY J. RAYMOND. The funeral of the distinguished and lamented editor of the New York Times will take place this af- ternoon, at five o'clock, in the Presbyterian church (Rev. A. H. Kellogg, pastor), corner of Tenth street and University place. ‘The remains of deceased will be borne and accom- panied from his late residence, No. 12 West Ninta street, below Fifth avenue, at half-past four P. My (after a prayer for the family by Rev. Prolessoe Shedd), in the following order:— 1, The Reverend Clergy—Kev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, of St. George’s church, who will conduct the services for the dead; Kev. Mr. Kellogg, of the ‘Tenth street church, who will be invi to make the concluding rayer, and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, who will be invitea to make the address, 2. The casket containing the remains of deceased and the pall, borne by the following gentiemen:— ‘The Mayor of the city. Admiral t., Maj. Gen. John A, Vix. = Maj. Gen. My McDowell. Judge C. P. Daly. Hon. EF, D. Morgan. Mr, ‘Thurlow Weed, Mr. Horace Greeley. Mr. A. T. Stewart. Mr. Geo, W. Curtis, 3 The chief mcurnent-—Sir Tiensy only son @f deceased; Mr. Samuei B, Raymond, Rochester, and Mr. 3 PF Raymond, of Detroit, brothers of deceased; his brothers-in-law, Mr. bene- dict and Mr. Weay a "Mr. George Jones, his partiver and co-p@lisher; sad) are C. medion of Brooklya, and Mr. Gilbert b. Jones. : 4. The physicians of the deceased, Drs. Dewesse, Richart, Hubbard and Dougiass. 6, The representatives of the Associated Press:— uae D. M, Stone, of Journal of Commerce, chait+ met. Erastus Brooks, of New York Express. na James Gordon Bennett, Jr, New Yore RRALD. Mr. Charles A, Dana, of the New York Sun, Mr. Samuel Sinclair, of the New York Tribune, Mr. Manton Marbie, of the New York World. 6, The editorial associates of deceased in New York Times—Mesars. Conant, Swinton, Shepherd, Hennes- sey, Coleman and Pond, and the reporters, clerks aud foreman of the establishment. Other newspaper and political organizations te cluding the Acting Agent and his deputies tn the omice of the Associated Press), who have resolved to attend the funeral in a body, iy join the above i Ninth street, at half- ., or meet at the eS in — ‘street penotuaily at fiveP. M., ag may elect public ceremonies will terminate at the church; the final interment wili be subsequently and pri- vately made in Greenwood Cemetery by the family. The Governor of the State of New York, to whom an Fe Was conve) yd by the aoe of Mr. be gratified pM woul to have 1-4 participate in these ceremonies, telegraphs as {¢ T regret much that ents tomorrow with persone ALBAFY, Juve ron 1969, comin rem = distance, with whom I eannot now communt- will detain me bere, I am very bess WOUN 7, HOFFMAN. Mr. W. ©. Bryant. ir. B. F. Tracy. w. Raymon Ia Memoriam Action by Various Soctetics. A special meeting of the Church committees of the Eastern branch, Young Men’s Christian Association, was held on Saturday evening, at the rooms io Grand street, to take action in reference to the death of Mr. Raymond. A pre amble and resolutions recognizing the emt nent qualities of the deceased and the generous aid he had always extended to the sca ais anseame and the committee, and expressing and ondotance with his Pree aS sonred te oo were 10] 1 Resolutions of similar tenor and pu aiso adopted at the annual teeeting 0 of the Gatitate of Rewafd lor the “Orpoans ‘of Patriots on Friday evening. EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIVE BOILER. MAHANOY PLANR, } SCHUYLEILL Co., Pa, Jnue 19, 1969, A terribie explosion occurred here about haif-past seven o'clock this evening. The boiler of a locomo- tive engine, belonging he Readii tend ex. jed, kilit the engi Bent, We hreman if badly hu fare but were there tsa prospect or his recovers.