The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HE mRoapway AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ” BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New YorK HERALp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ant ith street.— MorTHER HupsaRD. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—O.p CURIOSI- TY Suor—A Kiss IN THE Dark. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—S1aT# SKORETS—FIRLD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD, &c. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and ‘M4 street.—East LYNNE. Broadway.--TH® SPECTACULAR ATLOR. NIBLO'S GARDEN, . EXTRAVAGANZA OF SINDAD TH OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway.—Hiccory Diccort Doox. ROOTH’S THEATRE, 284 Exook ADEN. Aha AVENUE THEATER! arth street.—DoRA—BLAOK between Sth and 6th avs.— ifth avenue and Twenty- ‘ED SUSAN. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon aod evening Performance. BRYANTS' OPERA HO , Tammany Building, Mtb sireot.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, £0. 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ADVERTISEMENTS and Svsscrriptions and all Jetters for the New York Hegratp will be deceived as above. THE NB w 3. feeeet The cable despatches are dated June 23. A deputation of the cotton trade in Lancashire have requested the Duke of Argyle to induce the government to promote the growth of cotton in the colonies and India, as the supply from America is insufficient. The bondholders of the old Atlantic Telegraph Company have appointed a committee to look after their interests. The great Bermuda floating dock sailed yesterday. The Irish Church bill will soon be again brought before the House of Lords, The Northumberland Plate was won by the Spy. Seven ran. ‘The Austrian government is wary of the issue of the Ecumenical Council and will act with reserve. Revolutionary movements are feared in Italy. Se- vere precautions are being taken and several arrests have already been made. General Dulce has arrived in Spain, after being quarantined off Santander. Prince Henri de Bour- bon has married an American lady, Miss Payne. The French Atlantic cable is progressing favorably and the weather is fine, South America. The Arizona arrived from Aspinwall yesterday. Our Panama letter is dated Jane 15. The elections were taking placd in Panama, but were controlled entirely by Correoso’s soldiery wherever any of them were stationed, the conservatives carrying the day everywhere else. The Colombian Senate had re- fused to pass a law allowing Mosquera to return to the country. He was, however, receiving many votes for President, and party spirit ran high. In Ecuador Dr. Rafael Carvajal had been elected President, and Dr. Eitas Lasso Vice President. Our Lima (Peru) letter 1s dated May 28, A decree had been issued offering strong inducements to per- sous emigrating to the Amazon regions. No politt- cal events of interest have occurred. Tne inhabi- tants of the southern districts are still suffering from the effects of the earthquake last year, and are now apprenensive of the yellow fever. Our Valparaiso (Chile) letter is dated May17 The charges against the Supreme Court have been de- clared unfounded, and the impeachment fails. A stiff norther passed over the port on the 13th and 14th of May, but as most of the vessels had time to prepare for it very littie damage was sustained by the shipping. In Venezuela, it 1s stated, Congress in secret ses- sion had advisea that the claims of the United States be resisted at all hazards, One instalment, amount- ing to $128,464, had fallen due in February last, bat no demand had been made for it by the United States. Miscellaneous. ‘The cause of the recent arrests of Cubans in New York, according to a Washington despatch, was Owing to the open boasting of Cubans as to their success in landing expeditions on the island. Our own government, although candidly informing the Spanish Minister that it sympathizes with the Cubans, has placed him in direct communication With district attorneys and marshals, in order that he may give proofs of intended violations of the neutrality laws. Seflor Lemus, the Cuban Envoy, is in Washington, but does not propose to present his credentials yet. He has made an unofficial call upon Secretary Fish, and intends to call upon President Grant, Some time after six o'clock last evening Colonel Ryan, after leaving the court with one of the deputies, went to the Metropotitan Hotel to see some friends, and when taking his departure handed the Marshal's deputy over to some of his (the Colonel's) friends, who held him fast while the Colonel drove off and made his escape, and up to midnight no trace of him had been found. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention was held in Philadelphia yesterday, Governor Geary Was renominated for the position he now holds, and Judge Wiliams was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court. In the Ohio Repubdtican State Convention Governor K. B. Hayes was renom- inated, with J. O, Lee for Lieutenant Governor. ‘The railroad project for @ line from New Haven to New York, paraliei with the present New York and New Haven road, has been defeated in the Connecti- cut Senate by a vote of 11 to 10, ‘The officials of the Treasury are exercised over the ‘leak’? which occurred on Monday and by which some Wall street 0; tors realized heavily on Mr. Boutwell’s reduction of the sales of gold, Boutweil Was io Boston when he issued the order and it was 2ALD| NEW YORK HERALD, THUR communicated by mau or telegraph to Assistant Secretary Richardson The last monthly report of the Bureau of Statis- ties shows that during the first three months of 1869 our imports amounted to $115,481,744, our exports to $105,593,799 and our re-exports to $6,768,174, A number of female clerks were discharged from the Comptroiler’s office in the Treasury yesterday and a negro named Cook was appointed to a clerk- ship in the Internal Revenue Bureau. It is doubtful if the new currency notes can be iasued as soon as July 1. ‘The President has determined to fill his quota of cadets at West Point by appointing eight more. Mr. Foney, who married Annie, the sister of John Surratt on Sunday last, was removed yesterday from his position of chemist in the Army Medical Museum at Washington. ‘Two prisoners, confined tn the Dorcnester (Mass.) Almshouse, were found dead yeaverday morning. Dorchester and Boston have both elected in favor of annexation, anda Dorchester will consequently be annexed to Boston on next New Year's Day. Three hundred spectators, one third of whom were women, were present at a prize fight near Spring- fleld (Mass.) yesterday, which was finally broken up by the police, The City. Mayor Hall has sent a communication to the Board of Fire Commissioners declining to attend the meet- ing of their Board of Estimates, on the plea that his presence is not needed to make up a quorum, and will impliedly lend the assent of the local authori- ties to the raising of money for which they are in 00 way responsible. Genera) Butterfield has been appointed Assistant ‘Treasurer, to take charge of the Sub-Treasury in this» city. The Board of Health received a report yesterday on dogs. It says that hydrophobia is infectious, and vagrant dogs must be killed. Sanitary Inspector Judson furnished an interesting report on the life saving stations and apparatus along the river fronts, The Shelbourne contract for removing the obstruc- tions in Hell Gate has been extended to August, 1869, and work will be commenced again in a few days with improved machinery. John Roach ana James McConnell were found guilty in Recorder Hackett'’s Court of larceny in robbing Mr. McCready in a Broadway stage some time ago of nearly $400. They were remanded till Friday for sentence, A young man named Eugene B. Lunison, @ clerk in the Brooklyn Post OMice, was found by @ special detective yesterday in the water closet of the estap- lishment tearing open a pocket full of letters and dropping the envelopes into the basin. He was ar- rested and’ admitted his guilt. At his boarding house numerous valuables, proved to have been stolen, were found. He was placed in the custody of the Marshal. Colonel John D. MeGreggor, who went out as commandant of the Scott Life Guard, at the com- mencement of the war, and has since been prac- tising law in this city, was yesterday arrested ona charge of assaulting Edward D. McCarthy, also of the legal profession, The assault grew out of al- leged slander of a lady by MY. McCarthy. Judge Dowling, before whom the parties appeared, al- lowed the accused to go on his parole to appear for trial to-day at the Court of Special Sessions. The steamship Hermann (North German Lloyds), Captain Wenke, will sail for Bremen via Southamp- tonfrom pier foot of Third street, Hoboken, this afternoon. Mails close at the Post Office at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was strong and higher. | Gold was quiet between 137 ad 1374,—the extreme figures. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General T. F. Farnsworth, of Illinois; Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, and General W. Phelps, Jr., of New York, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major L. T. Dickson, of Delaware; Captain E. Dudley, of Cambridge, Mass.; W. T. Moore, of the United States Navy, and A Bartlett, of New Orleans, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain W. Defendorf, of Nyack; Colonel A. J. Maffett, of Baltimore, and Alexander R. Barker, of New Bedford, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Major Mulholland, of Annapolis; Dr. H. M. Emer- son, of Louisvilie, Ky., and Colonel Charles H. Hampton, of Wisconsin, are at the St. Julien Hotel. General T. W. Egan, of New York; Thomas J. Neveilie, of Rochester, and Rev. W. H. Moore, of Hempstead, are at the Westmoreland Hotel. M. H. Hodder and R. C. Morgan, of England; John Winter, of San Francisco; E. Rice, of St. Paul; Cap- tain Turner, of New Orleans, and Dr. Scott, of Illt- nois, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. T. D. Dale, of Newport, R. I.; Captain Thos. Kim- ble, ot Salem, and T. Voizin, of San Francisco, are at the Hoffman House. Rear Admiral T. Bailey, of the United States Navy; J. W. Long and W. J. Jenkinson, of Fort Wayne, Ind,; J. T. Whitney, of Detroit, and Rev. J. S. Kel- logg, of Kansas, are at the Astor House. Prominent Departures. General James McQuade, for Utica; Colonel Eddy, + for Charleston, S. C.; ex-Mayor R. M. Bisnop, for Cincinnati; W. T. Hearn and J. Leonard, for New Orleans; Wm. Bernard, D, Wambold, General F. A. Starring, E. D. Burnside and Richard Hoffman sailed yemteetay | in the et Caba for England. A Goop Arromraxis.—We are gratified to record the appointment of General Butterfield as Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York. The office is one of great im- portance and responsibility, and the officer chosen is thoroughly qualified to fill it. He has the reputation of a distinguished soldier and an accomplished and intelligent civilian. He. possesses the Jeffersonian requisites of honesty, capability and fidelity, andwe are sure thatin this practical test of his fitness for the position he will sustain our opinion of his ability and his integrity. Poor Days In Lancasuire.—The Man- chester mill owners have petitioned the British government to assist them with money for the production of cotton in India. During the pro- gress of the American rebellion England re- ceived cotton from fifty-one new fields other than American, and mostly Indian, The working of the material was vastly detrimen- tal to the health of the pedpis éngaged in it, while the manufactured fabrics were of the coarsest and, consequently, cheapest kind. A few daysagoa ship cleared at Savannah for Liverpool with three thousand eight hundred and thirty bales and bags of uplands and Sea Island staple of the real ‘‘old sort,” valued at over halfa million of dollars, This supply will afford hope to the British cotton men, as it will be worth ten times the amount of the flossy, dusty stuff received from India. Man- chester has little reason to thank Liverpool for the Alabama, but our natural resources are immense, Tae Greatest Fryino Trapeze Frat on Recorp—Ex-Secretary Seward’s leap from Auburn to Sitka! Somernine To Be RemMemMBeren,—That when taxpayers urge the construction of splen- did public parks, grand boulevards, costly bridges, and so on, for the improvement of a city, and of course of their own property, they have no right to complain of a reasonable in- crease in taxation. provements are made corrupt jobs of by un- scrupulous men, and thereby causing an ex- orbitant increase of taxation, that these tax- payers have just reason to complain. Those who dance must pay the fiddler. New Name For Taem.—The members of the female, or hen conventions, are now styled by a Western paper “'Q. Cluckers.” It is only when such im-, The Situation ism Germany—Adjow jeut of the Reichstag and the Zollverein. In yesterday's issue we announced the adjournment of the Reichstag and the Zollve- rein, and gave outlines of the speeches de- livered by King William on the occasion. In nothing were the speeches very remarkable. The King had some regrets and many hopes. In his address to the members of the Zollve- rein he regretted that the debates on tariff reform had failed to produce a definite result, It was his belief, however, that the session about to close ‘‘would tend to fortify the bond of common institutions between the German States.” In his address to the members of the Reichstag he complimented them for their zeal and activity, but ‘“‘regretted their failure to complete the financial arrangements to meet the deficiencies of the budget." The progress of the German navy came in for special praise. According to the King, the situation of affairs generally is such as to ‘fortify the confidence of Germany in the maintenance of internal and external peace.” * The present seems to us a fitting opportunity for glancing at the general situation in Ger- many, for noting the progress of the past and indicating the prospects and chances of the future. In such a review we must allow our- selves the liberty to look at the condition of Austria ; for, although Austria forms no longer | an integral part of Germany proper, so large a portion of her population is German, and so thoroughly has the whole empire been brought under German influences, that the reconstruction experiments now being made under the direction of Baron Beust cannot fail to tell powerfully on the future of the German races in Europe. Austria and Prussia are now quite as much rivals in peace as recently they were rivals in war. In different spheres the two governments are pur- suing a similar end by a totally opposite policy. During the past year both have made progress, and the tasks to which Beust and Bismarck respectively have given themselves must more and more command the attention of the world. Since the battle of Sadowa and the treaty of Prague, which followed, Prussia, under tlfe direction of Bismarck, has specially given her- self to the work of unifying and consolidating Germany. During these three years what progress has been made in this work? There were many who, on the eve of Sadowa, were not unwilling to believe that before the autumn of 1869 the complete unification of Germany, north and south of the Main, would be an ac- complished fact. It is not so. With slight exceptions the situation to-day is very much what it was immediately after the war. Re- constructed Germany is now what it was made by the treaty of Prague. It consists of the North German Confederation of the three in- dependent States—Bavaria, Wiirtemberg and Baden—and of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, geographically and politically half in and half out of the North German Union, militarily wholly in it. The Southern Confederation provided for by the treaty ty has never taken shape. By means of the “Customs” Parlia- ment or Zollverein these digjuncta membra constitute a legislative unit for certain specific purposes connected with the levying and distribution of customs duties and of certain excise taxes. For offensive and defensive purposes all these States constitute a military unit, under the supreme command of the Prus- sion crown. The working of the North Ger- man constitution and the experience which the Southern deputies have had in the Cus- toms Parliament have not induced the South- ern States to seek a closer alliance with the North; nor has Count Bismarck been béld enough to force such an alliance. In the Reichstag and in the Zollverein Prussian in- | fluence has been, perhaps, too painfully re- vealed, and Bismarck has been so imperious that it is doubtful whether, during the last six months, the cause of union has not been more hindered than advanced. The party of pro- gress, as our Berlin correspondent some days ago very clearly showed, impatient of the monopoly of ministerial responsit-{lity which Bismarck refuses to share with .iny other, have taken their revenge by outvoting their opponents and thus withholding the supplies. In the Zollverein, in which South as well as | North is represented, a similar want of una- nimity has revealed itself, and the government has found it impossible to carry its tariff re- forms. It is not to be denied, however, that in spite of these drawbacks there has been progress. Germany feels herself more a unit than she has ever felt before. In times of peace and in a country where the dividing lines were so numerous it is not wonderful that difference of opinion should be pro- nounced with some degree of emphasis. Were any pressure to be applied from without the work of Count Bismarck would be rendered comparatively easy. A successful campaign against France would crown the edifice of which Bismarck, in all future time, must be regarded as the great master builder. It is impossible to refuse to admit that if the Austrian Prime Minister had been less success- fal in his work of conciliation Bismarck would have had less reason to pursue a cautious policy towards the Southern States. Austria is now contented and prosperous. She is rapidly recuperating and is even now a more danger- ous rival to Prussia than she was before the late war. Sadowa has proved a blessing. It has given the government wisdom, the people liberty and the empire strength. To attempt to coerce the Southern States would rouse Austria from one end of the empire to the other and fling her into the arms of France. Coercion has been wisely refrained from, and we may rest assured it will not now be at- tempted. If Bismarck is spared to North Germany and Beust is spared to Austria time will advance the work on which each has set his heart. Old Germany will become a unit and a mighty power in Europe; and a new Germany, destined, it may be, to eclipse the old, will establish itself on the banks of the Danube. If war supervene it may baffle all plans and defeat all calculations. Tur Iron. Snrovp or’ THR Winn InpIAN.— The Pacific Railroads. Prxe County will have a worse reputation in the world than Barnegat if it can be proven that men up there endeavor to throw the Erie trains off in order to rob the dead and dying. The crime of the Barnegat pirates of decoying ships to the beach by showing false lights seems infinitely leas horrible than this charged against Pike county. Our Now Spanish Expedition. Our telegraphic report from Europe yester- day brought consoling advices to Mr. Secre- tary Fish in the shape of an encouraging pat on the back from John Bright's Quaker organ, the London Star, ‘for taking measures to prevent the departure of filibustering parties for Cuba.” The only drawback to the pleasure of our worthy Secretary of State, if it is a drawback, is the fact that his measures do not seem to have prevented the departure of a single filibuster. We admit the doubt because private assurances from persons very near to Mr. Secretary Fish insist that he sym- pathizea with the republican cause in Cuba, that he desires to see it triumph at an early day, and that he is only coquetting with Spain for the purpose of keeping a dreadful European complication off of the backs of the belligerent Cubans, The said private assur- ances furthermore intimate, with a tone of in- tense wisdom, that something particularly private in relation to Cuba is going on be- tween our government and that at Madrid— that General Prim has been seen, Serrano looked after, and that the best results may be hoped for if we will uot commit the govern- ment, Our experience in both public and private affairs is that straightforward truth and man- liness is the best, and, as Sir Boyle Roach said, that the only way to get round a difficulty is to meet it plump. Now, as the administration is about to send a filibustering expedition into the very heart of the Iberian peninsula, under the command of one of our most keen and audacious generals, and as the Cabinet is pre- paring his instructions, both public and private, we desire to say a few words on the state of affairs in these Spanish-American questions. The first point of interest is that we mean to keep fuith—not such faith as Spain kept with usin our late war, but loyal, good faith—with the friendly Powers of Europe and America, and we wish it to be distinctly under- stood that this determination does not commit us to the policy of assisting Spain to break faith with her own people, or to the waging of a style of warfare in defence of her. resisted claims, which shall be an outrage to humanity and Christian civilization. The second point of interest in these great questions is this. In common with the whole world we hold that a _ prisoner’ is not to be punished for availing himself of an opportunity to escape, nor an oppressed people for improving an occasion to throw off the hateful chains of a colonial despotism ; and we desire that this feeling on our part shall not be hidden from Spain, but rather do we desire that it shall be clearly made known to her. The third point with which the commander of this new Spanish expedition should be im- pressed is this:—Should any of our enthusias- tic and liberty-loving citizens, believing that the cause of republican Cuba is the cause of freedom, which alltrue men love, choose to emulate the example of Lafayette, and, run- ning the risks of hostile cruisers at sea and well armed (seeing that we sold them their breech-loaders) foes on shore, proceed to take part in honorable warfare in Cuba, we will not under any circumstances hold that they are pirates, enemies of the human race, or in any way entitled to harsher treatment than what is imposed by the laws and chances of war. The fourth and last point which we desire to be made known to Spain in the outset of any little private discussion is this :—It is the admitted belief of every pub- lic man and private citizen in this country that “Cuba gravitates towards the American Union,” and we are by no means ignorant of the weakening which re- cent events have brought to the ties that bind her to Spain. We therefore cannot admit that the latter Power, because she finds it impossi- ble to retain Cuba herself, has the right to do anything which shall have merely the effect to reduce the value of Cuba per se, and make it less useful to us when the ripeness of time shall have brought it into the fold of free and independent States. With these injunctions and a reminder to ; the commander that he had a finger, if not an entire hand, in the Ostend convention, we think Mr. Fish may venture to send his new expedition into the heart of Spain. We ad- vise both the Secretary and the commander not to expect too much from their enterprise, nor to let the grass grow beneath their feet in the pursuit of it. Events on the American shore of the ocean are hastening to new and greater complications, and if they delay too long their hoped for adjustment of present questions others of more urgent import will push them from the field of diplomatic con- sideration. Ayxiovs—The bondholders of the old At- lantic Telegraph Company. With respect to the profits of the n new line. Usgasy—The J Austrian government as to the issue of the Ecumenical Council. Its course cannot be ‘foreseen,” it is said, Most likely notin Vienna, as the Emperor is not in the “‘odor of sanctity” just now. AN Omisstox.—Sumner, Butler, Wendell Phillips and all the other Down Easters who have been lost in the glories of the Jubilee must buckle on their harness and come out again. There is no equality in Georgia. There is one very important right that the niggers down there do not possess, and it must be given. They have not the right to marry white wives; and a judge in Georgia says a marriage between black and white is @ nullity, Bring out the ark and the pitcher and the lamp, and the other utensils, and annihilate this judge at once. Gexerat Dutog is in quarantine off San- tandar, Spain. The Cubans say that he needed purification before he left Havana. A Litter 100 Fast.—A California paper boasts that while its contemporaries only gave the simple announcement of the death of the Pope it gave a lengthy obituary of the Pontiff. Unfortunately for the enterprising journal his Holiness ‘‘atill lives.” ANOTHER “War 10 SoLve ‘THE Tangas Quesrion.—If ‘music hath charms to soothe the savage breast” why don’t the government engage Gilmore to take his mastodon chorus and orchestra among the turbulent Indians? If one blast should not have the effect of sooth- ing their savage breasts a second would scare them to death, which would be a happy method . of getting eid of them. SPAY, JUNE 24, 1869. —TRIPLE SHERT. The Cuban Sympathizers. The case of the Cubans and Cuban sympa- thizers, charged with a breach of the neutrality laws in fitting out in New York an expedition against the Spanish authority in the Antilles, has entered a new phase of legal process in being removed from the jurisdiction of the United States Commlssioner for trial on in- dictments before the United States Circuit Court. The United States Circuit Court served a bench warrant on the Commissioner, in obe- dience to which he terminated the investigation before him, leaving the parties to take chance under the new issue—that is, as many of them as are amenable. Colonel C. P. Ryan, is not, it appears, in this position. This gallant gentle- man when in charge of an officer ‘‘went in” for refreshment and—as we have had to re- cord frequently heretofore in cases of ‘‘re- freshing” prisoners—disappeared or evapo- rated, whichever may be the proper term to apply to Irish gentlemen who are given to levanting from the officers. The Colonel was so fully imbued with that ‘‘spirit of liberty” of which the poet Moore speaks, that he deter- mined to not let it ‘‘rest till it breathes like a beam o'er the face of the west,” and conse- quently ‘cleared out” to give, we presume, the ‘light of his look” to some other “‘sorrowing spot.” ‘The Assistant Aldermen and the Supreme Court. It is an admitted principle of our republican system that legislative bodies are themselves the ultimate judges of all questions relating to their constitution—that they alone shall finally determine whether a given man shall hold a seat. Nor can we concede that it ought to be otherwise; for it cannot be admitted that any power outside a legislature, except the people, shall have the right to say who may be a member and entitled to a vote. To give to any court the power to make legislators in any emergency is to give it the power to make laws, and this would be the defeat of the re- publican system. Applied fully in the United States Congress and in the State Legislatures there is no good reason why the same princi- ple should not equally prevail in our muni- cipal legislature, and therefore we hope the Board of Assistant Aldermen, acting on the hint of Mayor Hall, will insist upon its position in the case of McVeany. This gentleman con- tested in the Board the seat of a sitting mem- ber and failed to get it, From the Board he carried his case to the Supreme Court, which declared him entitled to a seat and ordered the Board to admit him. Without at all touching the merits of the case we think that out of regard to its own privileges the Board must deny the authority of the court and still refuse to socept the member. Summer Steamboat Racing. We understand that the steamboat Jesse Hoyt, of the Long Branch line by way of Port Monmouth, and the steamboat Magenta, of the Long Branch line by way of Sandy Hook and the Seashore Railroad, have commenced the summer amusement of racing. The two boats leave the city at the same hour in the after- noon ; both boats are fast, and captain, crew and passengers generally on each are ambi- tious to beat the other; and so this summer amusement of steamboat racing has been re- vived with the reopening of the season. Within the last two or three years there have been some narrow escapes from serious acci- dents, as we learn, by these and other summer boats running the lower bay, and with the con- tinuation of this dangerous sport, from the growing recklessness and negligence of the parties directly concerned, we may expect some fine or stormy aflernoon to hear of a horrible explosion, collision, or conflagration, that will shock the whole community. As the pitcher, after many trips to the fountain, is |, generally broken at last, so a steamboat, after many races, may at last, in the midst of her sport, be enveloped in a sheet of fire or blown to pieces. While this racing which we have indicated is continued we would suggest to passengers, and especially to heads of fami- lies with women and children in charge, to avoid this trifling with human lives, and that, without incurring the risks of such perilous folly, they can reach ‘“‘the Branch” or any in- termediate nati Croton axp Kerosenge—How to Grr at Hiv.—The man ‘who befouls with gas refuse one of the sources of the Croton water is a public enemy, and especially the enemy of the people of this city, and the people have a remedy within easy reach—one more imme- diate and effective than even the legal remedy. The man makes the gas to supply his hotel, and his hotel is sustained by the people of this city. Well, let the people go to some other hotel. Surely every New Yorker must feel a sufficient interest in the purity of the Croton to do this for it. If the man’s hotel is left severely alone he will not need any gas, and, therefore, will not make and will not poison the water. Boston has not been known to be so dull for forty centuries as now. It is the reaction after the awful jollity of the Jubilee. She, like Jacques, can suck melancholy from songs as a weazel sucks eggs, and only imagine the amount that must have been drawn from songs on such a gigantic scale. She got a great quantity from the “Anvil Chorus,” that song of the Sigh-clops. Groreta will certainly have to go out of the Union again, since a nigger cannot marry a white woman there and a law cannot be made to give him that privilege. Some of these Southern States will soon be like the. little joker under the thimble, dodging in and out 80 often that we cannot tell where it is, Prince aNp Tork chawing each other up for three hours in the presence of six hun- dred fanciers of that sport, all shut together in a small room so that the noise might not pass out nor fresh air pass in. This is a scene we commend to the contemplation of the philoso- phers who have the best opinions of the civili- zation of the age. He Hap Berrax Not Go Aaain.—Webb is in a dreadful state with his disgust at the Bra- ailians, and the whole result of all his great diplomatic efforts will be, we fear, a perma- nently sour temper—an incurable irascibility, Ministerial duties are bad for him, and we recommend that he be permitted to stay at home four years and recover the serene equanimity of his earlier days. General Webb and Brazil. It seems that we were a little too fast yeater- day tn our conclusion that General Webb had made it all right with Brazil. It is not all right. It is all wrong. A Washington despatch informs us that General Webb has reported in person to Secretary Fish, and that his report is anything but flattering to Brazil or the Brazilians. Professor Agassiz found the Emperor a statesman, gentleman and scholar, and the Brazilians an amiable people, notwith- standing the fact that down there they have fish thatclimb trees. But the savant does not see things in the same light as the diplomat. General Webb has been the Envoy Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Rio Janeiro for eight years. His opportunities, therefore, have been excel- lent for learning the character of the Brazilian government and people. But, evidently pre- judiced unfavorably from the first, he has kept them in hot water all the time. He was glad to leave them, and they were glad of his de- parture. It appears that he regards the Brazilian officials as a set of barbarians; that they know nothing of the punctilious courtesies and gen- tilities of refined diplomacy ; that they offended continually the delicate sensibilities of our ambassador with their barbarous ignorance and disregard of the personal courtesies due to him as the embodiment of the United States ; that those tropical ignoramuses have no more respect for the United States than they have for Hayti, and that the only way to make them respect our government is to give them a good, sound thrashing; that it will oome to a thrashing at last; that the representatives of other govern- ments gre treated just as he was, but that they had not spirit enough to make a fuss about it and stir them up; that the Brazilians are Ignorant and brutalized from the demoralizing effects of negro slavery, and this may be so blended, as negro slavery is, in Brazil with free negro equality, political and social. Altogether our returned ambassador, we are led to believe, is so thoroughly disgusted with Brazil and the Brazilians that the special won- der is how and why he remained down there so long. Both sides considered, we are glad of the final retirement of General Webb from the equator. Itis a relief to him, a relief to Brazil and a great relief to us. General Blow, his successor at Rio, of less bellicose proclivities, will, we expect, be more tractable. He will not keep the civilized world in a constant fer- ment over some new casus belli from day to day. He will not insist upon having the Romans follow his rules, but when in Rome he willdo as the Romans do. Possibly, in the course of time, he may have to give the Bra- zilians a sound thrashing; but General Blow, we apprehend, will not quarrel with them because their code of politeness is not his code, nor because their morals and manners and institutions are not ours. We presume that he will be content to maintain the interests of his government and the rights of American citizens in Brazil as the citizens of a friendly Power, and that he will not bother the State Department with his complaints, even if his letters from an American vessel of war are dropped for him at the corner grocery of Por- tuguese Joe. In conclusion, while we con- gratulate General Webb on his final release from his long and painful exile in Brazil, and wish him well, we congratulate the adminis- tration on the fair prospect of the restoration of peace at Rio Janeiro under the diplomacy of General Blow. Joun Bott says that Brother Jonathan is « very good boy for not letting naughty fellows pepper poor old Spain, and this is just what Jonathan did it for. Tue Best Remevy.—Five thousand more emigrants left Liverpool last week for the United States. All the Parliaments of the Old World, with their best wisdom, are puzzling for remedies for the evils that afflict the people, and the people in their simplicity adopt a remedy better than altogether of those the Parliaments Nashville went to shoot a resident editor who had been sharp on him in the morning edition, and got well pummelled instead. In aping the manners of the chivalry.these carpet-baggers are clumsy. They do the bellicose badly. The Femo-Masculine Element in Massachne setts Still Lives, In the early part of March last we published an account of a regular prize fight between two women in a suburb of Boston. The de- tails of the affair were shocking to human nature and disgusting in the extreme. It was to be hoped that the notoriety given to the abominable spectacle would have so shocked the femo-masculine element in the moral region in which it occurred as to have deterred it from encouraging another exhibition of the kind, But it seems that this hope was not to be realized. By a despatch from Springfield, Mass., received yesterday we learn that a prize fight occurred near that city, which was wit- nessed by three hundred spectators, ‘‘one- third of whom were women.” Without stopping to inquire into the charac- ter of the latter portion of this delectable audi- ence, we feel justified, in view of the number of women’s rights, female suffrage and other strong-minded women’s conventions recently held at the ‘‘Hub,” to put a certain interpreta- tion upon the whole disgraceful affair. It affords another evidence of the downward tendency of female morality in a section of the country that has plumed itself upon its right- eousness; that has presumed to set itself up as the exemplar for all that it is chaste, modest, pure and noble in the feminine character; that has sent missionaries among the benighted heathen for the purpose of proffering the cup of grace to their lips and instilling the senti- ments of saintly love and virtue into their hearts; that has filled the sehoolhouses of the South with New England schoolmarms, to teach the little niggers thelr A, B, C's, and to learn them for the first time who their Maker was, as wellas to impress upon their delicate understandings the now well estab- lished axiom that ‘‘a white man is as good aa a nigger, if he only behaves himself.” Alast that it should be 0, Alas! that the senti- ments of the noble-hearted matrons of the Revolution—of the days of the Adamses, the Hancocks, the Otises—should be obliged to give way before the Attilan carcer of a batol