The New York Herald Newspaper, June 22, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, steamer via New Orleans and the Gulf of ifexico, The Confusion fm Our Political Purtioo= and have guaranteed the Grain Association against Signs ef a Prosidential Scrub Race. Tene cueiaeea pia Tan cid defeated the ath- | The signs of the times foreshadow a Presi- letics, of Philadelphia, at the latter city yesterday, | dential scrub race in 1872. The republican the score standing 27 (0 18. ‘ party is falling to pieces, like the empire of The City. Alexander after bis grand winding up course President Grant and family left the otty very qui- | Of carousals in the debaucheries of Babylon. qigsrerariay mording ie Vemingien. aby The democratic party, seedy and bewildered, Between five seven o'clock evening 0 f Atfare Soorctary of War of the Ouban Janta in Now| | ante ah en ane Saebe. paid York; Colovel Ryan, James Peters, Abraham Acker. | 7°4T#, once, man and two other parties were arrested for al- | the foreground. The old republican party leged breach of the neutrality laws, ia aiding and | which came into power with Jefferson ten at any arta ca ierd flourished say a quarter of a century, when, yw atreet (in 1824) having no longer a regular opposi- ‘The funeral of Henry J, Raymond, late editor of the Times, took place yesterday at the onurch.cor- | lon party to fight, it was broken up in the ner of University place and Tenth street, The church | Presidential scrub race between Adams, Jack- +Ne. 193 encoun. ares ee ne son, Crawford and Clay. So the republican ney eee aa party of the present time, which first dis- vices the was taken back to his Ponts tot neh us coe Ipecioa tema tinetly cropped out in the anti-slavery third Cemetery to-day, party vote which defeated Clay and elected [ Da aRaee Once ee one afataldose | Polk in 1844, we may say has fulfilled its teeyoung msn Girappe, m Bellevue | torm of twenty-five years, and having done its Hospital on Sunday, was arrested yesterday. He denies all knowledge of the affair. ‘The investiga- | *PPointed work is falling into decay and dis- tion will take place to-day. solation. The French man-of.war Jean Bart arrived in port | The parallel will hold good in another rela- ‘maine ia yesterday, and is anchored alongside the Semiramis, | tion, As the administration of Monroe was oDOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Stats GROREYS-FIELD | below tne Battery. a eee gph tp os GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ie, sellee , of tt tion of Grant is ‘“‘peace"—“‘let us have Se ae United States sloop-of-war Saratogs have been Cae removed to the Qaarantane hospital ship in the lower | peace.” He goes for peace at home bay. The crew will probably be transferred tothe | and abroad; he is not ambitious for gunboat Frolic, and continue on thelr way to Poré- | another term, and he has no choice mae - Ne Haack, of the | for the succession. He is content with his Hamburg American line, will leave Hovoken at two | good fortune; he has done the best he could do P. M, to-day for Plymouth (England), Cherbourg and | for his party ; he will execute the laws of Con- ding, Mtb | Hamburg. The mails py her will close at the Post m BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tenbaany Building, pay meen greas ; he will not trouble himself with the haz- ards of any startling enterprises; he will ‘jog astro » B ‘The steamship Minnesota, Captain Price, will sail eS VocaLinn Neano MixstRELe®, Be, --0oMtO | rom pler No. 46 North river at threo P..AL to-mor- | 00—jog on” in a quiet fashion, enjoy his cigar Couzo al eta ho ee town to land passengers, gress, his pacty and the succession to take STRINWAY HALL, Poaramuih vrect—Gnaxp Conaxnt | parva seeceee North drmerioa allt wana nen No, | ore of themselves. If called upon to serve Farrar ieee masta ar none re | ter term belo ec? eae CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58h and | for St. Thomas and Rio Janeiro, stopping at Para, | upon to give way he will gladly do so, He - Wb ae—ForgLa® GasDEs Qoworsr, resem and Bahia. does not care the toss of a copper whether it " 7 stock market was jar. At sohttaneat tr Hin SisPisotshw'sat Foor OrPGE | noon very baayant feeling existed, bat under a re: | 2% B® Grant or Colfax or Sumner, Butler or HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Tar Waven- | ‘UM Of activity tothe money market there wasa ee ee eeipa! s LEY BURLESQUE TROUPE. somewhat sharp decline in afternoon quotations. | And so various radical leaders and aspirants Gold advanced to 1873; and closed at 1375 a 137%. | are beginning to lay their pipe, and mine and Beef cattle were in fair gupply yesterday, and with | countermine for the succession. The do-noth- @ moderate demand, the market was hea\ LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 60 fio: were Schicetaa lower, extra cantina ing and care-nothing policy of the adminiatra- Broadway.—FEMALEs ONLY IN ATTENDANCE. ing at 15X¢. a 16c.; prime a 150. 0 15440.; fair to tion makes it ‘‘a free fight,” and the weakness — good at 14, a 15c., and inferior to ordinary at | of the Cabinet leaves the balance of power T. R I P L E Ss H E E T e | fic. a 13%c. Mulch cows were slow of sale but | among the party leaders in Congress, SSSS== = bere et Poorest soni ere ane o~ | Bat rad 8 nothing to rally upon, no stir- $85, and inferior to common, $45 & $70. Veal | Ting battle ery, no new issue touching the pub- Calves were only in moderate request and prices | lic pulse, the dominant party is beginning to NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. an Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke HERALD, Rejected communications .will not» be re- turned. Volume XXXIV.... AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 344t,, between Sth and 6th ave.— ENOCH ARDEN. FIFTH AVENUE bia vy gtety avenue end Twenty. fourth street.—DoRa—BLack EYED SusAN. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street MoTuEE HUBBARD. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 120 Broadway.—Oup Currosi- + ty Spor. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—-Tu® SPROTACULAB EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINBAD THE SAILOR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Htocozr Drocory Dock. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afiernoon and evening Performance. row (Wednesday) for Liverpool, calling at Queens- | when he can by the wayside, and leave Con- NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOR AND ART, . New York, Tuesday, June 22, 1869. SS THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. wie Bert at 103sc.@ 11%. for prime and extra, | dissolve, and all sorts of queer things are RE TTY Oe ee @10c. for common to good and 6c. a 8c. for in- | showin, ir hi i Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. ferior. Sheep were but little sought after and the a a icing am beige S med BROOKLYN CarRreRS any NewsMen will in | Market was heavy at 7c. a 7%c. for prime and ex- ee gree canis eee os g le, 4 A tra, 5c. a 63¢c. for common to good and 43;c. a 5c, ur cn pe Papers at the Brancu OFFIOR | so,'interior, Lambs were lower, selling at from 9c. | ing political faction, the temperance people are ortue New Youe Herat, No. 145 Fulton street, | to 12%4c., according to quality. Swine were quiet, | organizing for independent political action, Brooklyn. and with large arrivals—beiug 13,252 head—the | the gnti-Masons and other anti-secret s0- ADVERTISEMENTS and SvsscripTions ‘and all Sic be ne ae ee coreeny mgt ciety reformers are combining as if for Ietters for the New Yor Herarp will be Prominent Arrivals im the City. another effort like that under William Wirt, of teceived as above. General W. H. Bowen, of Chicago; E. B. Judzon, | 1896; and there are mot wanting signs of a of Syracuse; Alexander Ramsey, of St. Paul, Minn.; | Teligious Protestant coalition against the THB NEWS. D. Langdon, of Elmira; Austin Denham, of Hartford, | Catholics, somewhat analogous to the Know and R. R. Bridgers, of North Carolina, are at the St. | Nothing movement of fourteen years ago, Europe. Nicholas Hotel. hi mii in “Live Oak ” The cable despatches are dated June 21. General A. 8. Palmer, of Milwaukee; Colonel Je- | ich, culminating ive George, Several of the London papers have comments on | rome C. Davis, of California; Captain J. B. Love, of | ‘‘went up like the rocket and came down like the life and career of the late Mr. Raymond. Philadelphia; Dr. H. E. Smith, of Binghamton; | the stick.” Then, again, behind Mr. Sumner In the House of Commons it has been suggested to | General A. Grover, of St. Louis; General Lawson, of | there is a republican movement afoot to capture Gugment the military force in Ireiand, to provide for | St Joseph, Mo.; Colonel J. H. Lathrop, of Illinois; | the righ vote on the Alabama claims, while the anniversary of July 12. James M. Moore, of the United States Army, and 3. A report iscurrent that the Cambridge boatmen | R- Ward, of West Point, are at tne Metropolitan in this city there is an active olique at work to ntend withdrawing from the International boat race} | Hotel. capture the German vote on lager beer. But M. Schneider bas been re-elected as President of | Dr. Harrison, cf Baltimore; H. Wakin, of Savan- | in numbers the most powerful, the movements the Corps Législautf, nab; J. A. Watson, of the United States Navy, and | of the Trades Unions towards a political com- The Great Eastern arrived safely at Brest, and the | B. W. Warner, of New Orleans, are at the St. Denis labor against work of laying the cable has commenced, and is pro- | Hotel. bination of Seuie! ses "mapas gressing favorably. grand banquet was given on | 3. G. Watson, of the United States Navy; J. H. | Ominous. These Trades Unions have been board at Brest. Hall, of St. Johns, N. F., and BE. Valentine, of | wonderfully multiplied and extended within Disturbances have again occurred in Milan, and | Charlestown, are at the Clarendon Hotel. the last two or three years, and the eight hour severe measures will be adopted should they be re- om a. = tony Lent easy of — a and A. J. | taw of Congress in regard to government work- newed. jason, of Philadelphis, are at estminster China Hotel. men is a recognition of their political strength. Our Hong Kong letter ts dated April 28. Itis re- | Colonel S. S, Williamson, of Chicago; Commander They hold to-day the political balance of ported that twenty-nine articles embodying highly pg of the oo bers reve Ce W. H. Wallace, | power in this country, and, from present ap- important concessions are to be added to the text of ‘0, are at the St. Charles J pearances, they are drifting into hostility to the Burlingame treaty. ‘These are intended to afford | _ Ex-Senator James W. Wall, of New Jersey; W. E. | 116 negro “onesltiy ae of the pope ng greater protection and commercial facilities to yan vt i aia? Poultney, of Baltimore, ‘eat toreigners. are r j South America. 8. Roberts, of London; J. G. Chapman, of Havana, AlJl these movements are operating to the Papers of April 21, direct from Lopez’s headquar- | and E. wae = Haan icaiar ant toons House. ; demoralization of the~republican party, and ters, contain accounts of the movements of Minister Senatot nto! * . Pruyn, of a he McMabon on his first arrival at the camp, and also | bany; Jadge Schaefer, of New York; Captain J. B. nat agra’ aes can tes a the speeches made by his and Lopez on the pre- | Raymond, of Bordentown, N. J.; 8. R. Van Dusen, of | 2¢8% are looking ‘opefully upon these 3 sentation of his credentials. Newburg, and ex-Governor McCormick, of Arizona, | ders in the enemy’s camp. Some of the old Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated May 26. It appears | are at the Astor House. copperhead leaders of the West, moreover, on the ee, rons a bry ag Webb Prowinent Departarcs. made wise from sore experience, are pro- }, recall: im and acced 3 terms - — ee colttennaas ot ta Cada, Cait. Dr J. A. Warren, for Philadelphia; Colonel | posing to cast their dead men and Tegard Knowles, for Buffato; Major A. Dickinson, for Scran- | dead issues overboard, and so to enlarge The Emperor, in bis opening speech to the Cham- | ton, pa; A.A. Fairbanks, for Troy, and Captain A v re bers, said nothing in regard to the emancipation | w ',iison, for Philadelphia. f their articles of faith as to take in half the bill, his Cabinet being thoroughiy pro-siavery. tte republican party. In the South they are out- Minister McMahon, tt ts stated by the British officer ae who brought despatches from him, liad failed to de- |, OC® Forsion ConnesronpEnce.—For some bidding the carpet-baggers for the negro vote, liver them because the allies fired upon his fag of | time past our correspondence from all parts of and in the East they are ready for anything truce. the world has been unusually full, very in- | which promises the overthrow of radical des- teresting and exceedingly instructive. Not | potism. At the same time Chief Justice confined to one section of the globe, our special | Chase, in his tour of the Southern States, is SEEM Ie ae Soeauke go agents, scattered over the whole universe, have | gaining golden opinions from all the anti-radi- charge of the war steamer Fernando Catolica, 90 | enabled us to place before the readers of the | cal Southern elements, and, plank by plank, is that her case may be brought before the English | Hgratp the movements of peoples in lands re- | building up a strong democratic platform for bri mote from our own. India, Japan, China, | 1872. It is possible, however, that his good Australia, as well as all the countries of | work in this direction will result rather in Europe, have each in their turn been touched | breaking up than in consolidating the demo- on, not by writers at points far removed trom | cracy of the North, and in giving us two or these countries, but from locations situated in | three Presidential candidates instead of one ': sieecioes the very midst of these nations. As tho | from that side of the house; for in the great ‘The State Department does not sustain Mr. webb mission of a great paper should be to present | Tammany Convention the fatal objection to tn lils unauthorized diplomatic imbrogiio with Brazil, | the news of the world to its readers at the Mr. Chase was that his nomination, even if He 1s believed to have been too hot tempered about | earliest moment possible, giving, as it were, | followed by his election, would be the dissolu- berber It ts said that during bis entire term | 4 map of the daily events of the whole uni- | tion of the party. Manat tae, Seater, the Hina, af the pat wil inthe | We have yet, however, thre. years to run times brought us, very uselessly, on the verge of a | future continue to pursue its policy of giving, | to the next Presidential campaign, and the quarrel with Brazil. together with ite domestic reports and corres | chapter of events in the interval may so In the Census Committee yesterday Mr. Halde- | pondence, the fullest and most reliable news | change the grouping of the kaleidoscope as man, @ democratic member, incidentally bronght UP | from ail parts of the world. to render the success or defeat of the adminis- the question of apportioning the representation, ana tration a moral certainty. From the stated that the large Northern States, such as New | yeorcarroxs IN SPAIN. —Bourbon conspiracy Pi ‘ Secaiedl, a ; York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, will lose one or two or even three representatives if the fifteenth amendment | '8 announced, and Prim says that “the | pasties will be broken up into factions, and 1s not adopted previous to the taking of tne census | government must be hard, inflexible and even in June, 1870. The reduction will be effected, be | cruel in repressing disorder.” re 2 aes Aye = pear Pane yom says, by the working of the fourteenth amendment, es the negroes in those States not being allowed to Tae Frevon TRaNsaTLaNtio Capie.—The amusing and ridiculous scrub race in all the Vote, and therefore not being entitied to repre- | steamship Great Eastern left the port of Brest | in8 and outs and ups and downs of American sentation, ‘The Goutbern Skates wi Provably not UC | yesterday, engaged in the highly important | Politics. ‘A surveying party under Colonel Greenwood was | Work of laying the French Transatlantic Sub- attacked by Indians on Saturday in Western Kansas, | marine Cable. She is bound for St. Pierre, but, being armed, drove off their assailants after in- | Miquelon, a French possession lying off Nova ficting heavy loss, Two of the surveying party ” were wounded, ‘Spotted Tall 1s reported to nave | Sota. Should the “paying out” be success | ory would take another kind of ears, in slices, leit his reservation with two hundred lod fally completed—as no doubt it will, utilizing probably is againon the warpath. the tirakene the experiences of the past—both ends of the nsec cmbin' Ser me--v0~ HA Reis, on the Upper Missouri, are at war with one | wire will be on French territory, and connec- GerMaxs is tar Posto ScHoots.—Our Another, and in @ recent Aght the Sioux lost ten | tions can be made afterwards to suit. The | German citizens are making some agitation in ree promise is hopeful so far, The more cables | regard to the public schools, and it is said their ‘The printers’ squabble still rages among the typos in Washington, and several white compositors in tne | the better. object is to have the instruction their children receive given in the German language. We government printing office have resigned or been Sri ~ a Sete, on hope this is not the case. Germans come here, ree ane, Srmt canse of all the T 4 Georgia editor is paying fifty cents a bushel trouble, remains quietly at work at his case. itis now expected that Secretory Rawlins wilt | for blackberries delivered on -his farm, and in | "® hope, to become American citizens, and moity he Feoeat removal order by making it ta | addition offers to furnish the blecks berries cme a tibeoe See clude about 100 « iret in- , '. poner - free of charge, provided they don’t steal them. only the lan, nothing in the The ven gs dagen oo crag Wet} tg ome Carrer-Bagorr A Hosax | school will be of 80 much value to them to pri pePibes os au Mocrew | Bevo ?”—Asks tho Richmond Wig. Set | learn as the Bnglish language. Let them Prominent merchanta in St. Louts are favoring the | him upon am auctioncer’s block and soe how | learn that first, for all other learning is of lone teanaportation of grain direct to New York by ocean | much he will bring. Consequence to them. Cuba. In the case of the schooner La Have the Spanish Mexico. The arrival of Minister Nelson has caused con- siderable excitement, and the old Mexican jealousy of the United States is again finding vent. Vega’s movements on the west coast are causing some Sovrnery IMprovement.—A Texan editor says he has just been luxuriating upon roast- ing ears ot corn. In old times some Southern- ‘Whe Cuban Juanta—Fresh Arrests. Half a dozen of the principal members of the Cuban Junta operating in this city for the liberation of the ‘‘once faithful isle” from Spanish rule were arrested yesterday even- ing under a United States warrant and com- mitted to Ludlow Street Jail. They are charged with a breach of the neutrality laws in attempting to organize, “provide and pre- pare” a military expedition, having this object in view, at a moment when our government is at peace with that of Spain. The present accusation refers to the preparing of a new expedition. It would be useless just now to enter into any lengthened examination of the neutrality laws of nations, their intent and scope, the most enlightened legal minds differing widely as to the interpretation. The American government has ever respected its treaty and international obligations, without reference to technicalities; yet we know that abroad—in England, for example—the judicial authorities are not yet in complete agreement on the question whether the Alabama was a privateer or a regularly commissioned war The cases of these Cuban sympa- thizers may eliminate a point on which to base a clear decision so far as the United States Executive is concerned. A general good would thus be accomplished. Our advices from Havana state that the American schooner Lahave had been cap- tared in the sea passage between St. Domingo and the east end of Cuba. Boston and laden with arms and ammunition, destined for Hayti or for the Haytien agents in Jamaica. She has been captured on the high seas and taken to Havana. It is not asserted that she had any expeditionary force on board, or that the arms were intended for landing in Cuba. Now, we wish to call the attention of the government at Washington, and particularly Mr. Fish, of the State Depart- ment, to these facts. Officially our citizens know of no war existing in those seas, for none has been proclaimed. In times when no war exists arms and munitions of war are legal objects of commerce, and American ships have the right to transport them. Will Secretary Fish endeavor to take an American view of American rights, and have this search and seizure on the high seas at once looked into? We know that his friends, the Spanish would-be rulers of: Cuba, are in a good deal of trouble about their domestic affairs in that island, but we do not see that this should entitle them to plunder American citizens and refusp reparation. We trust Mr. Fish will find a little time to devote to defending our Street.—The elements street were in a state of comparative calm at the beginning of business yesterday—the “pulls” and ‘‘beacs” watching each other, but seemingly disposed to take a rest after the wearying struggles of last week. The com- bative feeling was too strong, however, to allow a long truce, 80 they went at it again by noon, when the “bulls” were in the ascend- Then the “‘bears” resorted to their old trick of tightening money, and the ‘‘bulls” The manceuvres extended to gold a6 well as stocks ; so that the battle field was not only an interesting but a diverse one. A Mopet for tar New York Poticr.— The excellent order that prevailed in Boston during the late tremendous Peace Jubilee. Brrpery fs not looked upon as a great offence in the South Seas. Some men expelled the Australian Parliament for bribery have been elected again and the bribers are set free by the judges. Apparently the South Sea men are the pioneers of progress in this— their conclusions, to be sure, are the same as ours, but they go to them more boldly—and this is something in their favor. Has the New Zealander Who is to fish from London bridge bought his ticket yet, or will he travel ao 8 tween the Goyerument of Brazil and| Statue of the War—A Question fer the | We some time since gave our reasons for General Webb. _- nips : We hasten to inform our readers in the very beginning of this article that things are all rightnow. Webb and Brazil have embraced each other figuratively—indulged the kiss of peace in most voluminous despatches, and ere this, no doubt, have danced a fandango of. mutual delight at an imperial ball. How much better this than squinting at one another of a misty morning glong the level top of mahogany stocked pistols with saw handles, A sore business that would have been for Brazil, For, of course, there would have been war, but that there is peace, You cannot live on middle terms with a man of Webb's mettle. If you will not embrace him you must blow his brains out. Ho will accept of nothing leas, He likes the excitemént of it, He has had his brains blown out now, to our positive knowledge, not less than thirty-seven and a half times. That, no doubt, accounts for the present difficulty; for he had so little brains left that he could not carry on the eimplest negotiation without getting his dignity mixed up with it, and when Webb's dignity gets mixed up with anything there is an end to all pro- gress. We are now so overpowered by our agreeable emotions in reflecting that there is not to be war between Webb and Brazil that we can only call attention to thése eloquent words of our high mettled Minister: ‘‘Has no other nation but that of the imperial govern- ment ‘just susceptibilities’ to be offended? May not a republic boasting of its nearly forty millions of enlightened and intelligent freemen be a8 susceptible to contemptuous treatment as the ‘imperial government’ of Brazil, based upon the institution of human slavery? And is it not within the scope of possible conception by the present ultra monarchical and reaction- ary administration of Brazilian affairs that the undersigned, the duly accredited Envoy Extra- ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the republic of the United States, may have susceptibilities to be wounded quite as much entitled to consideration and respect as are ‘the just susceptibilities’ of the Minister of the ‘imperial government’ in Washington?” Every- body will perceive that Webb, in this passage, carried away by the fire of his fancy, forgot that he was a Minister and thought he was writing a slashing leader for the Courier and Enquirer. Would not Brazil have felt terribly when that number of the Courier and Inquirer Administrations ( Within the next three days the newly-ap- pointed Captain General of Cuba will probably arrive at Havana. The personal character and impulses of s commander-in-chief always impress themselves on his forces and generally give a tone to the contest in which he is en- gaged. This, we doubt not, will be the case with the present new comer to America, and as the question in which he is to be engaged is an American one it becomes us to examine the new elements he brings to the field. The field itself presents a double question—that of the freedom of Cuba proclaimed by the patriots, and the less direct. issue brought forward by the Havana volunteers in deposing the au- thorities sent. from the mother country and demanding the installation of a new order of things in the remnant of Spanish rule. General Caballero de Rodas is not an un- known soldier. His course in 1854, during some temporary disturbances in the peninsula, and more recently in. the democratic disturb- ances at Malaga and Cadiz, gained for him the Vole, and it ts tld bo lker the sidcome voice, and it is said he likes the D He is in the prime of life and physical energy, well skilled in his profession, and bears the reputation of being remorseless, cruel and vin- dictive, In civil life he has had no experience, and comes for the first time to administer a government around which gather many of the highest questions of international law and do- mestic policy. With these qualities we believe he will exactly suit the volunteers of Havana, and therefore anticipate that he will have no trouble from them on his arrival in Cuba. What effect on the military situation his advent will produce will probably depend as much on the question of resources as on that of personal qualities. On the character of the war now going on in that island we think his coming will produce a marked effect, and one that is worthy of every man’s consideration. The war in Cuba is being carried on by the Spaniards in a most relentless spirit. The wounded are slaughtered as they lie on the field, and all prisoners are reported to have been shot while attempting to escape. Spanish authorities claim that the patriots pursue the same practices, but recent advices from the field prove this not to be so. The crime of General Dulce in the eyes of the volunteers was that he was too merciful to traitors, and in their view every man is a traitor who is born in Cuba. We may therefore believe that the coming of General Rodas will not add humanity to the struggle, and herein there is @ point which nearly affects our own govern- ment, The events of every day are proving that our citizens are taking part in the war, in which the great principles involved address themselves to the American heart; and the great question forces itself upon the adminis- tration, In what light shall they be held, and what attitude will be assumed towards them by us? r Claiming as we do that the war isa just war, we hold that every American citizen has the right individually to expatriate himself and take a partin it. In so doing he accepts the wage of battle and the laws of war, and must abide by the result. Victory or death are free alike to come to him upon the battle field. His former government cannot inter- fere after he has left our shores to protect or shield him from them, But there isa duty which our government, should perform, a step which it should take, and that is, it should see that the ‘laws of war are respected and that the practices of the victor do not go beyond those justified by humanity. If Spain insists upon murdering the wounded, shooting prison- ers and executing those who voluntarily sur- render themselves, she places herself beyond the pale of civilized nations and merits the execration of the world. Let the government at Washington look to this, for the issue is coming upon them. Tuere is yellow fever on the schoolship Saratoga, now at Quarantine. Is it not a stupidity of administration that keeps a school- ship in fever ports in the fever season? Or is it part of our broad system of naval instruc- tion to teach sailors how to die with yellow fever ? Tug Sovran is Crover.—Among other crops reported to be unusually luxuriant in the South this season is the important one of clover. With the certainty ofa fine corn crop and the prospect of an unusual cotton crop the Southerners can generally join in the old plantation refrain— 0 " . Seeger arn SA worse, way! away! away! &c., &¢ Conservative Skizs BricuTenive.—The registration in Virginia shows a largely in- creased white vote over the black. Tuere was a brakeman on top of one of the freight cars in the Erie smash who ran to the rear, leaping from one car to another as each went down the chasm, until he was saved on the rear car, Here is a fellow after Fisk's own heart, possessing Fisk's own talent. Fisk has been doing lately the same feat. He was on a train that began to smash a while ago. He leaped from the Bateman bouffe car and Pike’s Opera House to the Fifth Avenue theatre, then to ‘‘Patrie,” then to ‘‘Lurline,” then to two or three other bouffe companies, then to the Pacific Railroad, and now he may be saved on the Newport boat “‘with a band of music” from the grand jam, smash and universal wreck of the Jubilee. Brooxtrn.—People from this city have gone to Brooklyn by the ten thousand, making their homes there, to escape the excessive rents and high prices due to our terrible taxa- tion. Now Brooklyn property is taxed more heavily than city property, and is to be taxed more heavily still; whence we infer that the very rapid growth of Brooklyn must have some checks and stops, and that next year our superfluous thirty thousand will go to New Jersey or to Westchester county. A Svcarstion vor Virots1a.—A Rich- mond paper suggests that on the day of elec- tion in Virginia men be posted at the polls to take down the name of every man who de- posite a ticket. Lists of those names would be worth preserving. If the original were given what hosts of Catos, Pompeys, Cwsars and other olassical patronymign would be found! Our Minister iu Paraguay. believing that when Minister McMahon's de- spatches should come through it would be found that the only cause for the delay would prove to be the refusal of the allied command- ' ers to. permit communication. Such now turns out to be the case. They not only re- fused to permit despatches to pass, but fired on the flag of truce when it.approached the allied lines, The reason given for this course is that they did not consider President Lopes as an enemy entitled to belligerent rights. On the arrival of the Count d’Eu, the new General-in-Chief of the allies, a more sensible policy was inaugurated, and as a result the de- spatches from our Minister at once make their appearance. As there has been so much con- tradiction in the papers here and throughout the country as to whether Mr. McMahon has been heard from or not, the public may be dis- trustful in the present instance. We will, therefore, say that we have received » pack- age of Paraguayan journals direct from the Minister, who is residing at Piribebul and had been to visit Marshal Lopez at his head- quarters in Plkysyry. The question may, therefore, be considered settled. The news from Paraguay Indicates the utmost unanimity among the Paraguayans in defence of their country. Tho official address of our Minister and the reply of President Lopez on the. pre- sentation of the credentials from Washington are given in another column to-day. The Argentine Confederation. We have received the address of . President Sarmiento on the opening of the agssion of the Argentine Congress at Buenos Ayres. It is marked in the main with good taste and evinces a most praiseworthy spirit of public reform and improvement, though we cannot sympa- thize with the calling of President Lopez “‘the Paraguayan tyrant,” nor do we so readily admit that the allies were ‘‘forced to fight” in a war which looks very much’like an attempt at a division of spoliated territory. But in his domestic policy President Sarmiento has our sympathy and our approval. His zeal in con- structing railroads, telegraphs and other pub- lic improvements has inspired his country with a new life, which is already producing wonder- fal results. As a consequence thirty thousand emigrants arrived in Buenos Ayres during last year, and one hundred thousand are expected to arrive in the present. President Sarmiento has introduced many things from this country, where he resided for some time as Minister, among which he cites the new weapons ‘‘of deadly precision,” with which he hopes to roll back the tide of Indian war which has so long devastated the Argentine plains. The follow- ing quotation contains a reminiscence of Washington and a deduction which we regret to see:—“‘In that proud Capitol which, on a hill at Washington, raises its cupola to heaven as if in eternal record that the Congress of the nation is the supreme power, the people, when they mount its broad, marble staircase, pasa between lines of armed guards who are there stationed to preserve that order due to the place and the majesty of the highest of powers. In the presence of Congress and ‘the other con- stituted powers there is no people.” The sen- tinels were an incident of our civil war which we hope has passed away forever, and in this country we claim that Congress is but the representative and servant of the people. Is Boston they complain that there were no pretty women at the Jubilee. Do they care for beauty, too? Are they not content with ‘‘in- tellect?” And are they not aware that feminine beauty does not coincide with mascu- line qualities? One or Ove Reaversin Philadelphia alludes with surprise to the habit the Philadelphia papers have of copying Heratp matter by the column without credit. He will be less scandalized by the usage if he reflects that but for this there would probably be no Phila- delphia papers. Papers are printed in Phila- delphia principally to reproduce, at a cheap rate, the Heratp news—none the worse in that market for being a day older. Syupnep—Carpet-baggers, by thelr colored friends in Virginia. One attempted to obtain lodgings at @ respectable hotel kept by a colored man, when he was refused admittance, the black Boniface declaring that he only re- ceived gentlemen as guests. Tas Sovrm Knockisa at Last.—A Georgia editor who has been up in Northern Georgia reports the wheat crops to be fino and the villages pretty much deserted, as the farmers are ‘‘knuckling” to the harvest. That's the right sort of knuckling for the South. Conoress at Lanog From Vireria.—It is proposed that a Congressman at large be nominated by the conservatives of Virginia. That is a good idea, considering there have been for so long a time so many Congressmen at home in the Old Dominion. Hort.—A Western paper calls the radical protectionist charge that David A. Wells is bribed to give official reports force against pro- tection as only a continuation of the old tactics of the other side, When the slaveholder could not answer arguments against slavery he used a bludgeon, and when the radical cannot answer the facts for free trade he takes the broad and easy resort of defamation. This charge hits and hurts, and the radical declines to continue the controversy. ‘THE ALLEGED POISONING CASE. Arrest of Dr. Amand—Investigation Before Coroner Keenan. In the case of James Strappe, the young man who died in Bellevue Hospital, as is alleged, from the ef- fects of a dose of poison proscribed by Dr. Desire Amand, of No. 142 Bleecker street, nothing was done tively dented all knowledge of Strappe or the cause of his sickness or death. 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