The New York Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1869, Page 6

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Apvertisements and Svescriprions and all ketters for the New York Heraup will be teceived ax above. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated June 22. The Viceroy of Egypt arrived in London yesterday. He was met at the railway station by the Prince of Wales and other distinguished persons. During his residence in England he will be the guest of the Queen, and will reside at Buckingham Palace. The London Star yeu terday was loud in its praises of the United States for ita rigid enforcement of the neutrality laws in the Cuban affair. Notice of an amendment to the Irish Church bill has been introduced in the House of Lords by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Five thousand emigrants left England during the week ending Sat- urday, the 19th. The sessions of the North German Zollverein and the Reichstag closed yesterday. The King of Prussia addressed both bodies, and Count Bismarck Spoke at the Zollverein and then aeclared it ad- journed. The republican members of the Spanish Cortes are about to advise their supporters to swear allegiance to the new constitution if they are forced to do so. The clergy as a body may reject the oath. A large republican demonstration was held yesterday in Madrid, which passed off quietly. Count Digny’s ‘nancial scheme in the Italian Parliament will be modified, not abandoned, as for- merly stated. The government has expressed its re- solve to do away with the forced currency. “Miscellaneous. The White House was overrun with visitors yes- ‘erday, all anxious to have an interview with the President, About noon, however, the crowd in Waiting was informed that no more interviews could be held. Ex-Minister Webb held an interview yesterday with Secretary Fish on the Brazilian question. He denounces the authorities there, and says they have no more respect for us than for Hayti. He thinks that we ought to give tuem a good thrashing in con- wequence. Five colored men appeared among the Grand Jurors to Judge Fisher's criminal court in Wash- ington yesterday. Nine more are summoned, and One of the bailiff appointed by the Coart is colored, Attorney General Tuthell, of Nashville, Tenn., at- tempted to shoot Mr. Gresham, editor of a Stokes newspaper, in that city yesterday, for some political flings, and was beaten instead very severely by Gresham. ‘Twelve persons engaged in lumbering on the lakes pear Frederickton, N. B., were fatally poisoned re- cently by drinking tea in which a lizard had been boiled. ‘The democrats of the Mobile (Ala.) district have nominated W. D. Mann for Congress, Rev. Cuarles E. Cheney, of Chicago, has been cited for trial before the Protestant Episcopal bishops of Chicago for mnovations and omissions in the bap- tismal service of the Church and the Book of Com. mon Prayer. The trial will be public. The schooner Mary Femerick arrived at Fortress Monroe on Monday from Matanzas with yellow fever on board. Tne Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that the intermarriage of whites and biacks is unconsti- tutional, and therefore null and void, and that no Jawa can be passed by the Legislature settling the social status of citizens, or giving negroes social accommodations not already granted them by courtesy. The City. In the case of the members of the Cuban Junta, Commissioner Osborn yesterday refused bail from Colonel Ryan, and he was returned to Ludiow street Jai, The rest were released on $5,000 bail. It was claimed by the Assistant District Attorney that ‘Ryan, since giving bonds on the occasion of his for- mer arrest, had been in houriy violation of the neu- trality laws. The Commissioner will decide this afternoon whether bail shall finally be taken in Ryan's case. No further arrests have been made, and it is stated that many of the Cubans bave sought refuge in New Jersey. ‘The Board of Health officials visited Carmel, in Putnam county, on Monday, a8 witnesses in a case against one Gregory, hotel keeper at Lake Mahopac, ‘who is charged with defiling Croton water by manu- facturing gas from kerosene oil on its banks. The banks of the river were found to be saturated with kerosene, and the complainant in the case states that the water is so befouled his cattle cannot drink Mm 46 Wala lo Whe noures of ali the Griakipe waver in! Lead exhibis he tenacity of the Spaaieh mipd § New York city the matte? ia of very general tuterest, ‘The trial Was postponed until Thursday. ‘The coroner's jury investigating the case of young Strappe, who died at Bellevue Hospital recently, re- turned a verdict yesterday of death from an over- dose of carbolic acid prescribed by Dr, Amand, who 1s censured for culpable aegligence, Dr. Amand was then committed to the Tombs. In the evidence it Was shown that the doctor had prescribed one table- Spoonful of his mixtare and the deceased had taken four. The steamship Cuba, Captain Moodie, of the Cu- nard ine, sails for Liverpool, touching at Queens- town, at tweive o'clock to-day. ‘The steamship Magnolia, Captain Crowell, sails from pier Nu, $ North river, at three o'clock this af- ternoon, for Charleston. The stock market yesterday was again irregular, but the course of values was upward, the activity in money at the close of banking hours arresting the genera! tendancy, but only temporarily. Gold ad- vanced to 135%, fell to 136% and closed finally at 1374. “Prominent Arrivals im the City. George S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury; N. G. Ordway, Benjamin Patne and J. H. Adams, of Washington; ex-Mayor Fargo, of Bulfalo; W. W. Smith, of New Orleans, and Anthony Barclay, are at the Astor House, Lord Parker, of England; Colonel Robert Lenox Banks, of Albany; and Captain Ward, of the British Army, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Viscount Adare, of England; Captain D. P. Dob- bins, of Baltimore; J. S. King, of Springfield; Cap- tain George Dresser, of West Point; Judge Fithian, of New York, and H. S, McComb, of Delaware, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. M. de Zea, of Portland; J. R. Partridge, of Baitimore; Captain 0. H. Lester, of Connecticut, and George E. Hoffman, of Philadelphia, are at the Aibe- marle Hotel. H. A. Sieber and L. Scheidecker, of Paris, are at the Brevoort House. Samuel Greene, of Chicago; Fred A. Davis, of Philadelphia; Dr. R. D. Arnold, of Savannah, and W. H. McCartney, of Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel. Geveral James McQuade, of Utica; ex-Congress- man T. M. Pomeroy, of Auburn; Ira Harris, of At- bapy, and John W. Celghorn, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Buck, of Philadelphia; General G. H. Hall and I. C. McKee, of the United States Army; Dr. W. S. Warren and Nat McKay, of Boston: Judge H. D. Graves and Judge S. Beall, of New York; E. M. Nightingale, of Georgia, and Philip Huatley, of Liv- erpool, are at the Metropolitan Hote!. Colonel Charies J. Hubvell, John Swett and John H. B. Cooper, of San Francisco, are at the St- Charles Hotel. General J, H. M. Clinch, of Georgia; N. Y. Leitch, of Charleston, S. C.; Captain Moodie, of the steam- ship Cuba, and F, M. McAllister, of Kingston, N. Y., are at the New York Hotel. A. E. Henderson and Thomas Henderson, of Staten Island; 0. A. Morse, of Cherry Valley; John W. Arm- strong, of New York, and W. Wisewell, of Cincin- nau, are at the St. Denis Hotel. Prominent Departures. Major W. Wilkinson, for Lake George; John W. Cleghorn, Captain J. F. Fergusson, and Judge Buck, jor Philadelphia; J. Langdon, tor Syracuse; Wendell Phillips, for Boston; W. H. Billings, for Cape May; Colonel Reed, for Washington; Captain Denney, for Georgia, and Judge Ross, for Saratoga. Uuited States Senator Ramsey, Right Rev. Louis Maignot, Apostoiical Bishop of Honolulu, and Dr. G. C. E, Weber, left this port yesterday in the steam- ship Cimbria, for Cherbourg and London. The New Spanish Formula for the Ku- ropean Problem—Cuba Its Touchstone. While Europe is oscillating between Bour- bonism and Bonapartism, each claiming to possess the only bridge that can carry the na- tions safely over the gulf of anarchy which is supposed to separate the future from the present—while in America demooracy, run riot with the unrestrained tyranny of a nu- merical majority, is budding through radical- ism into imperialism or an oligarchy, the old Gothic spirit of the age of the Wittenagemot and of the barons of Runnymede is cropping ont in Spain and presenting to the phi- losophers, statesmen, politicians and peoples of modern times a new political formula for the construction of States—a formula which holds a promise to all of Europe, and may at no distant day involve a solution for its politi- cal problems. A throne without a king and a regent without a crown open to every people a broad and safe pathway from the royalism of the past to the constitutionalism of the future, without appealing to a Bourbon, a Bonaparte or a sans-culotte. Spain is one of the most fruitful countries of Europe, and the modern Spaniard, descended from the Celts, Goths, Suevi and Vandals, mixed with the Iberian, Carthagenian, Roman and Moorish elements, is one of the most vigorous of modern races. It retains the old Gothic pride, austerity and perseverance in a large degree. The cave of Covadonga is as religiously remembered as the cradle of Span- ish liberty; as is Faneuil Hall as that of American freedom; and the old Arragonese coronation oath, which is remembered by every Spaniard even to the present day—‘‘We, who are each as good as thou, and together are greater than thou, take thee for our King if you respect our rights, and if not, no”—contains more political freedom than any constitution of ancient or modern times. Representative in- stitutions are as old with the Spaniard as his most ancient traditions, and the Cortes is now the oldest representative body in Europe, if not in the world. In the ancient times it con- tained four houses—the lords, the gentlemen, the towns and the ecclesiastics—the consent of all of which was required to enact any law ; and all petitions and grievances had to be disposed of before the Cortes voted the supplies for the service of the State. The decay of Spanish freedom came with the close of the Moorish conquest and the rise of the American colonies. The wily and false Ferdinand and Isabella laid the axe at its root, with the introduction of the Inquisition and of the policy which afterw: jided the house of Hapsburg, and the enormous wealth which Mexico and Pern poured into the royal treasury enabled their successor, Charles I. of Spain and V. of Germany to suppress the attempts of the Spanish Commons to defend their rights and to augment the powers of the Crown, Byt the old Gothic form of municipal organization has always been retained and the memory of the ancient privileges preserved in the hearts of the people. To what a small ex- tent modern ideas of individual freedom have mixed with the elements of liberty in Spain is evinced in the small number of republicans— fifty-five out of a total of over three hundred— elected to the present Cortes. The death of Charles II., the last of the Hapsburgs, in 1700, marked the lowest ebb of Spanish population and of Spanish freedom. With the coming of the Bourbons a better era began to dawn, which has shone through fitful intervals in the last and present centuries. The Inquisition was restricted and the Jesuits were expelled in 1767 with intense popular satis- faction, and the transitory constitu- tional governments of 1812, 1820 and a j cessful. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNK in clinging to its old Gothic form of represen- tative government. The revolution of 1868 has swept away the Bourboas, and with it the faithless crown that has proved so inimical to popular rights and popular progress in Spain. Will the new Spanish formula present a successful solution to the European problem? The question is a momentous one, and the reply liea in the success or failure the formula meets with in Spain itself. If it respects the popular rights and permits the development of the popular energies in production, commerce and science, then it will presont an example which the other countries of Europe will hasten to imitate. These are already tired of the follies and fripperies of royalty, and of the costliness of large standing armies, with their attendant yearly increase of the public debt and the public burdens ; but they find no safety for human society in the sans-culottism of 1789, or in the red republicanism of 1848. In the present state of the European mind, therefore, the Spanish formula of a throne without a king and a regent without a crown presents to the peoples the most interesting and to the dynasties the most formidable problem in the whole circle of political philosophy. . Will it succeed in Spain? That depends upon the wisdom and the prudence of the Spanish people. If they are alive to the causes which in the past have made the peo- ple weak and the crown strong; if they per- ceive how foreign conquest and colonial development have drained the kingdom of its youth and enterprise, only to strengthen the royal treasury and make it independent of the popular will; if they reject the false code of honor which the Hapsburgs and the Bour- bons cultivated only for their own aggrandize- ment, then the new experiment will succeed. If they fail to do these things then will Spain relapse from its revival of Gothic freedom and fall back to become a puppet of a monarchy, with a Bourbon or a Bonaparte behind it to pull the royal wires. In a word, the Cuban question is to-day the touchstone of Spanish freedom and of the Spanish formula for the disenthralment of Europe. The liberties which the revolution of 1868 has restored to the Spanish peopie cannot be denied to the people of Cuba without sapping the founda- tions of liberty in Spain. A successful war to reduce the Cubans again to the old Spanish despotism can only strengthen the monarchical principle in the Iberian peninsula. Jt were better, much better, for the Spanish regency to assent to a separation on terms honorable to both, or even to fling Cuba entirely off without consideration of any kind, than to wage a war with her, whether it be successful or unsuc- In either event the new Spanish system would be weakened before Europe and before the world. Tae Kino or Prussia closed the session of the German Zollverein Parliament and Reichs- tag yesterday. The main features of the royal speech were German unity, money and peace; excellent acquirements, unity, money and peace being good for any country, and much wanted in many. Tas anp Toat.—A clever art contem- porary terms the late grand musical splurge in Boston a Titanic affair. Some of its best features were decidedly Teutonic. Bos Tyrer’s Atremrt To Heap Orr THe Carpet-Baaerrs.—Bob Tyler, of Alabama, formerly of Virginia, and son of the late vene- rable ex-President, attempts to head off the carpet-baggers by getting up a sort of rotten borough arrangement by which prominent per- sons in the North friendly to the South can be sent to Congress as representatives from South- ern districts. Although we have had in this city instances of the successful operation of this rotten borough system in the election of non-residents to Congress, we hardly think it advisable for the South to attempt it at this time. Even if the plan should succeed, and Northern men with Southern sentiments be sent to Washington as representatives of the South, what assurance is there that the radical ma- jority would permit their admission to either house? On the whole we believe it to be un- wise for the South to try the experiment—at any rate at this juncture. Ina year or two she may be in a condition to demand instead of craving admittance to the halle of national legislation. Let the South abide her time. It is sure to come, and no heading-off process like that proposed by honest Bob of Alabama will precipitate the event. Five Tnovsaxp Emigrants left Liverpool last week for American ports. The numbers embarking at other points are not given. Good for the emigrants and good for us. Plenty of room. Iuportant Discovery.—That of the late rebel general General Breckinridge in an excursion party the other day out in Minne- sota. Asthe flag of the Union was unfurled, he exclaimed, ‘‘That is the old flag, after all. Thank God for it.” Pity he didn’t make this discovery about the year 1861. It would have saved him a world of trouble. But “better late than never,” And while the lamp holds ont to burn The vilest sinner may return. Liosiztxa Arnioa.—Ismail Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, reached London yesterday on a visit to Queen Victoria. He is lodged in Bucking- ham Palace, the royal mansion, as the cable tells ne oe up for his residence.” His ithe ‘was Fecelved by the Prince of Wales and escorted by a military and citizen procession. The Pacha was cheered lustily. We learn also that the gon of the late King Theodorus, of Abyssinia, who has been at school in England since the death of his father, is to be despatched to India, the cli- mate of Great Britain being unfavorable to his health, This is business-like. It is look- ing to Africa, Buckingham Palace is scarcely good enough for the Viceroy of Egypt and the scion of African royalty will recuperate in India, We must recollect, however, that the Nile is a huge river, running from Nubia to Egypt and to the Mediterranean, and that the highway to India must be kept open. African “lions” will, therefore, be the “lions” of the day in London for a season. “Aprrer THE JuBILER, WHat?” asks a Mas- sachusetts paper. Auswer—The Probibitive Liquor law. One was a source of weal, the other will be a source of woe—to the bum- mers. [t goes into operation on the Ist of July—just clearing, Yankee like, the Jubilee week, English —Politics—Karl Amendment to the trish Church Bill. In the House of Lords on Monday evening Earl Grey gave notice that he should move to omit in the Irish Church bill that portion of the preamble which provides that the property or proceeds of said Church shall not be held or applied for the maintenance of any church or clergy or other ministry or for the teaching of religion, Earl Grey ranks as an independent member of the House of Lords. His affilia- tions are neither with tory nor liberal. The action, therefore, which he proposes to take shows that by at least a section of the Lords a strong effort will be made to amend the Irish Church bill in committee. We have little doubt that other notices of a similar character will be given. Earl Grey's amend- ment is of such a.character that it may be taken for granted that while it will command the support of the conservative peers it will catch some wavering liberals. Mr. Gladstone's bill, however, is a thing so complete in itself, and the parts are so nicely adjusted as well as so dependent on each other, that we cannot think that the Cabinet will consent to any such modification. That the bill will with some difficulty be carried through committee on the third reading is evident; that it may be considerably modified is possible; but we are left no room to doubt that the will of the Commons will finally prevail. The public sentiment of the three kingdoms is so united that the Lords must yield. Itisthe opinion of some—and we be- lieve the opinion is well founded—that neither Lord Cairns, the leader of the conservative party in the Upper House, nor Mr. Disraeli, the conservative leader in the Lower House, are very sincere in their opposition to the bill. Lord Cairns must at least seem to be on the side of his Orange friends in Ireland. Be- yond this we do not believe he has much in- terest in opposing the government measure. Mr. Disraeli, it has been said on good authority, is “the best friend the disestab- lishment” has, and for the very best of rea- sons. In his opinion the Irish Church griev- ance has all afong been a source of strength to the liberal party. It has allowed them to boast of being the true friends of the Catho- lies in Irelapd, and has secured for them on all great questions the entire Catholic vote. So-soon, however, as the Irish Protestant Church establishment is gone the Catholics of Ireland, he thinks, will begin to be conserva- tive, as, indeed, they are all over Europe. This goes far to explain Mr. Disraeli’s luke- warmness. We shall not be surprived if his calculations turn out to be correct. Trouble in Mexico. There is still some trouble in Mexico. ‘‘In Quer¢taro,” says the news, ‘the troubles are increasing.” We had no idea that this was possible. We thought that in all the Mexican States, without exception, troubles were per- manently crammed and jammed to the full capacity of the State, and that the only thing any Mexican community might reasonably believe itself sure against was more trouble than it already had. What new evil can it be that has now come down upon Querétaro? True, they are reported as ‘executing prison- ers for treason” there; but that is nothing new, and so far from its being an increase to their troubles it is rather a recreation, a pleasure, a sport, and the happy people turn out to see the shooting, just as people here turn out to see a fine bout at the ‘“‘national game.” We cannot conceive what it is that has increased the troubles of Mexico. ‘‘Minister Nelson would arrive the following day.” Could it be that? Not atall. The great Mexican nation which drove out Louis Napoleon's army has no such opinion of the United States as to heed the coming or going of its Ministers. “Foreigners think that the Mexican will be annexed to the United States." Neither could it be this, for in Mexico they are not disturbed by what foreigners think. What is it that could add to the troubles of Mexico? The base are out of fortune’s power; He that ts down can be no lower. Tur Ear or Suarrespury is to move in the House of Lords that the surplus property of the Irish Church shall forma cash fund from which to “grant loans to the Irish peasantry.” Wonders will never cease. The Earl is sure of the ‘Irish vote” should he ever seek office in New York. Browntow's Optvion.—Parson Brownlow's paper of Knoxville says there is no more pro- bability of Andrew Johnson being elected Governor of Tennessee than there is of his flight by railroad to the north star; and that there is just as little probability of a coalition between Johnson and Brownlow. This is Brownlow’s opinion ; but still, with the Ten- nessee radicals divided upon two candidates for Governor, we think there is a fine chance for the democracy to run in Andy Johnson. And why not try him on that proposition of his last annual message to Congress, to ap- propriate the interest on the national debt to the payment of the principal? Has not Brick Pomeroy declared this sound democratic doc- trine, and is it 30 jarded by the Tenn democracy? Yes. Now is their time, then, aad Andy {abgyap ft shels man Nor Exaotty tm Poryt.—A London news- paper praises the action of the United States government in seizing the Cuban Junta expe- ditionary organization in New York. ‘Sym- pathy for a nation struggling for freedom is natural,” it says, ‘‘to Americans as well as Englishmen,” but a “neutral country has du- ties incompatible with the sending out of pri- vateers.” The points of the argument here are slightly ‘‘mixed.” What nation struggling for freedom has England aided? She claims the case of Greece, but it was poetry more than nationality which inspired her then. The “duties” of a neutral country were just as well known to her at the commencement of our re- bellion as they are now, yet we had the Ala- bama and blockade runners in the severest British style Avxotugr Summer Seit.—A second mam- moth cave has been discovered in Kentucky. It is situated near the old one, which is large enough to accommodate all creation. Summer retreat landlords in Kentucky should hang out the sign, ‘No more caves wanted.” HANGING has come wonderfully into fashion since the negro secured his civil rights. We scarcely bear of ‘‘moral insanity.” In the last case the Sheriff and bis subject were both of the dusky race. 23, 1869.—TRIPLE SHKET. Satis ————$—$—$$_—- tirey’s Proposed | Sales of Government Gold—Mr. Boutwells Policy. It is announced that until further notice the Seeretary of the Treasury will sell after the close of the present fiscal year, ending June 30, only one million of gold a fortnight. Ins‘ead of the weekly sale of gold and purchase of bonds, a million will be applied in this way on alternate weeks, commenc- ing Thursday, July 1. We do not know what the motive of Mr. Boutwell may be for changing his course in selling less gold, but unless the government expects to be in need of a large sum for some purpose known at present only to itself—for the purchase of Cuba or something else—there is no reason why the sales should not be as large and fre- quent as heretotore. The surplus in the Treasury yields no interest; it has been there for several years ; and, in the ordinary course of events, will continue and probably increase unless disposed of by sale. A steady and sufficient sale of gold must have the effect in the end of bringing down the premium. There is no fear of the Treasury being deficient in gold, for the stream flowing into it is continual and large. Let the surplus be used, then, to buy up the interest-bearing debt, and thus re- duce the annual’burden upon the people. We are glad to see that the Secretary is going to use the proceeds of his sales for this purpose. The only thing we have to complain of is that he proposes to sell such small amounts. He should sell more, and cancel more of the inte- rest-bearing debt with the proceeds. Bad Penmanship. To write a gd hand may sometimes be a sign that a man has risen in the world, inas- much as some great men have written more and more illegibly the higher they rose to dis- tinction. Napoleon I. wrote well enough when he was a pupil at the military school of Brienne, but his signature after he became Emperor of the French was as scratchy as “William the Conqueror, his mark.” Rufus Choate, when a schoolboy, was never flogged by his writing teacher, for which very reason, perbaps, his manuscript, after he became an eminent lawyer and a United States Senator, looked as if he had dipped a spider in the ink- stand and then let it crawl over the page. But, if sometimes a sign of greatness, bad penmanship often leads to queer results. Thus an angry letter of dismissal from one of our great railway kings to an employé served the latter as a free pass for himself and family fora year. The freshest case in point, how- ever, turned out less luckily for the party chiefly interested in it. This party, who had been tried and found guilty of a gross misde- meanor at the last session of Judge Kelly’s court, was brought up for sentence on Satur- day last. The Judge said that numerous letters had been received by him testifying to the previous good character of the accused, to his military service and to his wounds. But one letter had been received from Horace Greeley which he could not make out, on ac- count of its cramped illegibility. It might be @ request either to inflict the severest punish- ment on the accused or to grant his discharge. Accordingly, without giving him the benefit of the doubt, the Judge acted on his own judgment and sent the prisoner to the City Prison for thirty days. Sampo én the South gives unmistakable in- dication of a disposition to cut the carpet- baggers. Tue Pensacota.—The despatch stating that a difficulty had occurred between the authori- ties at Acapulco and the United States ship Pensacola, and that the authorities had ordered the ship not to leave port, gives no hint as to the nature of the difficulty. But we believe our ships of war receive orders in regard to their movements from another source than the authorities at Acapulco—at the same time that the officers of our navy recognize and admit all proper requirements of law, wherever they may be. He Wants Mort Money.—In the case of Fallon against Mills the jury awarded the former six cents damages for illegal arrest by the police, recognizing thus the right of the citizen to his liberty, but putting a very low value on the right in that particular case; ex- pressing its opinion, in fact, that there was no great harm done and no danger threatened to the community when persons of questionable character were incarcerated, with or without cause. This verdict, altogether in favor of good order, was distasteful to the Judge, and, though he now denies a motion for a new trial, he “regrets” the verdict, fearing that it will encourage the police to arbitrary arrests. The more arrests they make of the kind that brought on this case the safer men will be in the possession of all rights. Horry It Up.—The commission appointed on the part of the government to examine into the matter of building a bridge over the East river has reported in favor of the bridge, and the report is approved. No other serious obstacle is in the way. if Tde Fett Gaby hice Lato.—The French Transatlantic Cable Company hae com- mendéd to lay its cable. By the last news the Great Eastefh it out in beautiful style, and there wa every Promise of success, The company has shown its good sense in not being deterred by the monopoliste and specu- lators from carrying out the great work. The American people will hail with pleasure the landing of this cable on their shores, and no monopolists or scheming lawyers will be al- lowed to obstruct its operations. Aeck Sterneys’ “Prime Cavse” Ler- tTer.—The Augusta Chronicle states that a serious error occurred in the text of the letter of Mr. Alex. H. Stephens on the ‘‘Pxme Cause of the Rebellion,” recently published. It seems that instead of Mr. Stephens saying that “the war was not inaugurated by the au- thorities at Washington,” he wrote in fact that “‘it wae not inaugurated by the seceded States at all—it was inaugurated and waged by those then controlling the federal govern- ment to prevent secession.” The idea that a typographical error of that character ever oc- curred is all bosh. It is not unlikely that one edition of the document was published for Northern and another for Southern circula- tion—a stale trick among old party stagers. Afterall, the whole thing seems to be an in- genious method of advertising in a cheap way Mr. Stephens’ new work on constitutional gov- aeroment, . Our Foreign Relations—Our New Miniaters Abroad—Mexico. Our foreign relations are pacific aod promise peace with all the nations of the world and the rest of mankind. Thanks to General Webb. He has made it all right with Brazil. Mr. Motley haa declared to the de- lighted Britishers that his programme is peace—same language, ties of blood, institu- tions, trade, Anglo-Saxon civilization and all that. Mr. Washburne has exchanged with Napoleon the warmest assurances of a ‘happy accord” between France and the United States, no allusion being made to Mexico or Jeff Davis on either side, those questions being settled. As for Russia, Mr. Curtin at St. Petersburg will meet with a hearty wel- come, and he will lay before the Czar the kindest and most friendly acknowledgments from our government and people touching the unbroken relations of good will that have always existed between the great republic and the great empire. As for Spain, Mr. Hale is awaiting at Madrid the arrival of his appointed successor, General Sickles, and the General, now in Wash- ington, is doubtless awaiting his instructions concerning the island of Cuba and the Ameri- can eagle—that is, the golden eagle. Mean- time, although the Cubans and filibusters are doing very well in reducing for Spain the cash value of the island, Mr. Fish, it will be seen, can have nothing to do with them, except to catch such outgoing filibusters as may happen to fall in his way. Nor does he like the idea of declaring belligerent rights for the Cubans, while England’s belligerent rights to Jeff Davis are mixed up with those Alabama claims. General Nelson, our new Minister to Mexico, we are glad to learn, has arrived at the “‘halls of the Montezumas” and has raised quite a ferment among the Mexican politicians from the prevailing report which ushered him in, that his mission is to gobble up the republic without ceremony and without salt. At the same time, while General Nelson was coming in from the Atlantic side General Rosecrans, the retiring Minister, was going out on the Pacific side, en routeto San Francisco. It has been rumored that General Rosecrans had been casting about for a treaty involving the cession to the United States of another strip of Northern Mexico, in- cluding Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Lower California and the Gulf of California, and that the scheme had some connection with a certain American land purchase in Lower California from Juarez, and with General Fremont’s Southern Pacific Rail- road; but we suppose that as such negotia- tions, even if entered upon by Rosecrans, were dropped with his retirement, General Nelson will begin with a new set of books. Here, at all events, is a splendid opportunity for General Grant to settle the Mexican ques- tion to the satisfaction of the civilized world. In 1847 certain Mexican officials and othors, holding in their hands at the time the power to act in the premises, in the city of Mexico, pro- posed to General Scott to make him Governor Géneral of the whole country in the name and in behalf of the United States, on a salary of a million of dollars a year pro tem.; but this liberal proposition General Scott declined, because of the difficulty of fusing the white, Indian and negro equality of Mexico with the negro slavery and negro inferiority which at that day were the corner stones of the consti- tution of the United States. Now no such diffi- culty exists. On the contrary, with the annexation of Mexico, in the acquisition of five or six millions of Mexican citizens of the Indian race, we shall have something like a balance of power against our four millions of negroes, which will not only establish a sort of equilibritm between our Indians and negroes, but open the door at once to the fusion with our voting population of all the Indian tribes of the United States, with the simple impo- sition of a penny tax. In this broad political view of the subject it is to be hoped General Grant will open his Mex- ican policy ; and in every view, looking to the establishment of law, order, trade and Ameri- can enterprise in Mexico, he is called to meet the demands of ‘‘manifest destiny.” Cuear Beer ts New Orteans.—The New Orleans papers are boasting of the low price of beef in that city, it being sold for ten eenta pound. In summer time, during the war, it frequently happened that one scent was enough. Sranpive From Unpgr.—The Albany Argus states that it is given out on “reliable authority that Mr. Seward, before he started out on his recent tour, stated very explicitly that within a year there would be a break-up of President Grant's administration, which he pronounced the weakest administration the country has ever had, and he assigned as one reason for going away tab be wished to be as far off as possible when the break-up takes place.” But is it not rather queer that in order to get out of the sphere of party quakes he should go to he fan af aaTbaaabes Glve Seward a ) 4 shaking up in a San Francisco earthquake and there would be little left of him. But the ex- Secretary always was a man of negatives, and his prophecy in regard to Grant's administra- tion may turn out tobe the reverse of what is printed. A Woman's Surrrace Convention is to be held in Saratoga on the 13th and Ith of July. Saratoga waters are acknowledged to be good tor the blues. Buvanreine 1x Caxapa.—A Toronto (Ca- nada) paper has ‘a sorrowful wail” from» correspondent, who is in favor of protection, which alone, he says, can preserve the Con- federation, ‘The lower province people,” he continues, “prefer dealing in Boston and New York to buying here, beonase they can get their purchases home in so much shorter time ; and they actually refuse to buy here unless they can do so at a lower price.” That makes it very bad for the lower province people; but no doubt they will feel better when the Con- federation smashes up altogether arel annexa- tion is the order of the day. There is no use in the Dominion papers blubbering on this sub- ject nor uttering ‘‘sorrowful wails” in regard to it, The fate of the Confederation is sealed. NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS. ALBANY, June 22, 1860, ‘The folllowing ts the Court of Appeals day caien- dar for June 23:—38, 173, 116, 175, 170, W177, 178, 199, 181, 4, 61, 163, 46, 60, 179,