The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Letters rans packages a be properly sealed. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. — Vauue XXXIV. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Fi S3d street. East LYNNE, “Matinee at 2. Broadway.—Taik SPecracuLag AD THE SAILOR. Matinee at 2 OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—H10 Dook. Matinee at Lg. ghth avenue and NIBLO'S GARDEN, EXTRAVAGANZA OF 5 yay Diccory BOOTH’S THEATR st., between Sth and 6th avs,.— ENocu ARDEN. Mali i FIFTH AV! fourth stre © THEATRE, Dora—Biack Evep nd Twenty~ Matinee at 2. vadway and t 2. WALLA Moruer Ho 13th street. —OLv Cunrosi- WAVERLEY THE 1 Matinee at 2. ny Suov- TRE, Br THE DARK. BOWERY THE Dump Boy or M ATE —CASTLE OF OLIVAL— WoOD's MUSEUM AN Broadway.—A(ceraoun and event Tammany Building, Mth ory.—COMIO at 2%. TONY PASTOR’: Vooatism, Nz 4 Broadway RLESQUE, Matinee at 2. THEATRE Comic COMIQ BALLET AND PANTOMIME, , between 58th and atreet.—WON- Brooklya.—Tur Wavre- MALION, Matinee at 2. NEW YORK ¥ BOLENOE AND p SHEET. ‘RIPLE nan “York, Eatunines June 26, 1889. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Daty HER for one d The p quarter. coi 1 be sent to snbserivers DW a month, being five cents a ¥ subscribers by tis arrangement can receive the HERALD at the same price it is furnished in the THE NEWS. oniy ¢ Europe. The cavle telegrams are dated June 25, The Channel match of the Royal Tiames Yacht Club, from Dover to Cherbourg, resulted in a victory for the Guinivere, beating the Egeria, Condor, Cam- bria, and Alarm. On the Irisn Church question Lord Russell favors the proposition for concurrent en- dowment, aud he will introduce a resolution to that etfect when the bill again comes up before the House of Lords. The Paris Journal Oficiel gives what purports to be a true version of the concluding words in the Em- peror’s late speech at Chalous. Marshal Bazaine made a speech to the soldiers the same day as the Emperor, in which he said that tne soldiers under all circumstances would remain true to Napoleon's dynasty. The work of the Great Eastern is going on well. When last heard trom 406 miles of cable were played out, and signals with the shore were per- fect. Count von der Goltz, the Prussian Minister to France, died in in oo Thursday. An assassin made an attempt to kill the Roumanian President of the Ministerial Council, but was pre- vented. He is now in jail. Cuba. The Spanish General Puella, who has arrived at Havana, says it will require 5,000 additional troops t enabie the government to retain possession of the Cinco Villas. The schooner La Have has been re- leased, ana is being towed to Jamaica by her cap- tors, Another flibustering expedition has landed on the south side of the island. Another engage- ment recently toox place at a point between Puerto Padre and Las Lunas, in which General Ferrer, with 800 troops, Was defeated by the Cubans, and com- pelled to retreat to Las Lunas, losing his convoy. The volunteers, in order to convince the home gov- ernment that they have no idea of opposing the new Captain General, Rodas, have given up the duty of garrisoning Morro Castle and Fortress Cubanas, and Will to-day be relieved by a naval force. Hayti. Advices from Hayti, via Port au Prince, state that on the 5th inst. Salnave attacked Aux Cayes by land and succeeded in carrying two forts, but was subse. quently driven out of both with heavy loss. St. Domingo. Ex-President Cabral and General Luperon lave joined forces, and will at once proceed against the capital. The city of St. Domingo will be invested by the troops under Cabral, while the port will be blockaded by Luperon with the steamer Telegrafo. Mexico. On the 12th inst. an eruption of the volcano in Colima occurred, being its first outbreak since tbe year 1800, The Governor of Sonora recently discharged the custom house officials at Guaymas, at the instiga- tion of a foreign shipmaster, who wished to avoid tue payment of the heavy duties upon @ cargo Valued at $70,000, which he had on board his vessel. Venezuela. Information from Caracas to the 8th instant states that the government of Venezuela had closed the port of Maracaibo, but had allowed all vessels in the harbor ten days in which to compiete their loading and leave. The New Dominion. A private letter from an eminent Englishman, who stands high in the estimation of his government, has been received at Montreal, in which the writer siates that Mr. Gladstone and John Bright are strong supporters of Canadian independence. The writer further says that the British colonies will, within ten years, be required to manage their afairs without recourse upon the mother country. Two gentlemen were arrested at St. Henry, Canada, a few days since, at the instance of the parish priest, charged with selling copies of the New ‘Testament, and fined six dollars and costs. Legal measures have been instituted against the parties engaged in this extraordinary transaction, and the affair wilt ve thoroughly investigated, Miscellancous. Yesterday Secretary Borie resigned his position in President Grant's Cabinet. The resignation was at ouce accepted and Presiaent Grant appointed George M. Robeson, of New Jersey, Secretary of the Navy in place of Mr. Borie, The affair took the 4 Other Members of the Cabinet by surprise, as none of them had been made acquainted with the pro- posed resignation. It is asserted that for some wocks Mr, Borie had this matter in contemplation, and expressed to the President his wish to retire fiom public service, The President first met Mr. Kepeson at West Point,. aud was so favorably some days Impressed with his abilities that gince he tuvited him to assume Mr. Borie’s piace in the Cabinet when the latter should be pleased to va it. The appointment gives great odence wo Penusyivania politiciaus, Who pre- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. ict most unfavorable effects upon the ensutug elec- tion tn that State, The registration in Virginia gives a majority of 20,000 white voters in that State. Since this fact was made known the conservative party have evinced & radical change of feeling, and are working faithfully to restore their State to its former standing in the Union. Dr, Alexander Snarp, former postmaster in Richmond, is proposed for the United States Senate in the place of candidates before selected, but who were ineligibie under the laws of Congress. The commencement exercises of Washington Col- lege, Lexington, Va., took place on Thursday. The medals and diplomas were distributed by General Lee, Cyrus W. McCormick, of Chicago, a member of the Board of Trustees, who could not attend, sent his check for $5,000 a3 a substitute for nis personal appearance. The appointment of General Butterflcid as Assist- ant Treasurer at New York was made at the request of a number of merchants and business mea, and not upon his persona! solicitation. General Canby has ordered the arrest and trial by a military commission of a planter in Loudon county, Va., who threatened to discharge his uegro laborers uf they voted the radical ticket. Henry Miler was executed inthe yard of the State Prison in ‘or, Vt., yesterday, for the murder of Joshua G. Gowing and his wife, Abigail Gowing, of Ascutneyville, Vt., in July, 1807. Although the proof against him was of the most positive character Mul- ler refused to make any confession, but died profess- ing his innocence to the last. The new grain elevator at Vallego, California, the first elevator on the Pacific coast, was put in suc- cessful operation ou Wednesday. A monument to Washington, presented by the children attached to the public schools of Philadei- phia, will be erected in front of Independence Hail, Philadelphia, on the 5th proximo. The City. In the Supreme Court yesterday the application of Jon Keal, ted of the murder of policeman Smedick, for a new trial! was argued. by his counsel, who made long appeal in behalf of their client, at important evidence 1m his be- tuded at the trial of the case and f the murder he was frenzied Kk The Court reserved <decl- that at througa iear and ston, In the Court of General Sessions, at the instance of District Attorney Hutchings, the against John H. Briggs, Robert L. Briggs and Henry C, Ross, charged with setting flre to Briggs Brothers’ stables in Twenty-third street, in December last, was dismissed, the witness against them having made an affidavit before the Recorder that nis state- ment against the Messrs. Briggs was untrue and made while he was laboring under a fit of insanity, to which he is subject. In the United States District Court, Brooklyn, James Glynn, the carpenter; Willam Cruthers, the Loatswain, and Thomas Murphy, the third mate of the ship James Foster, Jr., were arraigned for sen- tence. Glynn was sentenced to fifteen years, Cruthers to seven and Murphy to five years in the Kings county Penitentiary. The offence of which they haa been convicted was cruelty to the crew. A ratd was made yesterday upon the store of Charles S. Gilbert, No, 37 Nassau street, and a large quantity of obscene pictures, cards, rings, books, &c,, seized. Gilbert was takea before Justice Dodge, who committed him to prisou in default of bail. Frederick Wettergreen, of No. 219 Fifth street, died on Wednesday from the eTects of prussic acid. Mr. Wettergreea wa3 agilder and bronzer by occu- pation, usipg quantities of prussic acids in his busi- ness, aud itis believed that he had inhaled of tus poison suMicient to cause his death. The case will be in vestigated by the Coroner on Monday next. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and active, the Vaaderbilt and Northwestern shares being the features. Gold rose to 137%, but closed finally at 137 " Prominent Arrivals in the City, General John Evans, of Denver: General S. A, Hul- bert, of Chicago; Mayor W. C. Beardstey, of Auburao: T. F. Joy, of Detroit, and E, R. Ross are at tue St. Nicholas Hovel. J. E. Bligh an W. Wadleigh, of San Francisco; General G. L, Cower, of the United States Army; General Chas. Hoyt and Colonet J. 8. Buckles, of New Jersey, and H. D. Reese and W. P Adair, of the Indian Bureau, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. E. Spalding, of Washington. and D. S. Hoyt, of Norwalk, Conn., are at the St. Charles Hotel. B. F. Jonas, of New Orleans; W. E. Keliey, of Mo- bile, ai i. W. Gibos, of Newport, are at the New York Hotel. Presidential Candidates=The Administra- tion~What is the Prospect @ It is rather early in the day to be talking of Presidential candidates for 1872, and yet various little pipe-laying republican cliques are in existence, each in the interest of some leading and aspiring politician for the next Presi- dency. The opinion prevails in the republican comps that General Grant is not to be a candi- date fora second term, and the party mana- gers are evidently resolved to rule him off the course. It was not from choice, but from necessity, that they took him up in 1868. He saved the party, but he has his rewird. The republican State conventions, as they take their places and proclaim their doctrines for the coming fall elections, endorse General Grant's administration, the fifteenth amend- ment, &c., but say nothing of the succession. Nor have we seen, so far, from any republican journal even the most shadowy hint of the probability of the adoption of General Grant as the party standard bearer for another term. In all this there would be nothing extraordi- nary were there no movements afoot looking to some other champion for the succession. But very remarkable becomes this universal silence in reference to General Grant when we find,, for instance, Mr. Colfax trotted out in one place and Mr. Boutwell in another as the coming man, and we cannot avoid a certain line of reasoning when we are informed that Mr. Sumner is riding the Alabama claims question as a Presidential hobby, and that General Butler is engineering the administration on the negro question in order, for 1872, to secure the inside track. In all these movements, rumors and speculations we are strengthened in the conclusion that it is an understanding among the republican managers that General Grant is to retire at the end of his present term. We think, too, the opinion prevails that this understanding is perfectly agreeable to General Grant; that, in fact, he has no further ambition as a public man except a wish to go quietly through his one term and then gracefully to retire, as an inexperienced dancer walks through a quadrille, satisfied if he has created no confusion, torn no lady's train and crushed nobody's toes. But as it is not the first swallow that brings the spring, so it is not the first quarter of the first year of a new administration that iggy its policy or its destiny. Under any circumstances these Presidential movements, upon the question of time, in be- half of Colfax, Sumner, Butler or any other new man would be unwise and a waste of labor; but ir view of the great issues upon which this administration is to stand or fall, it is utterly preposterous on the part of this or that republican clique to be pipe-laying now for 1872. There are three~yea, four—ques- tions, upon all, or upon any three, or any two, or any one of which General Grant may 80 shape his course as to be perfect master of the succession, 48 completely soas was Jackson in 1 1892, or Lingola ip 1804, These four ques- tions are—the money question, the Alabama claims, Cuba and Mexico. Upon the money question Mr, Boutwell is on the right track, with occasional deviations, no doubt, from the true line; but still on the right track in his programme of reducing the debt, the expenses and the taxes of the government, while enlarg- ing his cash resources, and steadily and not spasmodically gaining ground towards the specie standard, Speculators, gold and stock gamblers” and financial kiteflyers generally do not like him; but in their complaints we have the best evidence that he is doing well for the Treasury and the people at large, Thus far he is about the only member of the Cabinet who has done or is doing anything to give any show of life and activity in the administration, and he may by perseverance and faith become the head of the corner. On the Alabama claims we must be content to await the lifting of the curtain; and so with regard to Cuba, upon which question we expect the curtain to be lifted a month or two hence, with the official disclosure of the overtures of our new Minister, General Sickles, to the Span- ish regency of President Serrano. Concerning Mexico, it appears that the arrival there at headquarters of our new Minister, General Nelson, had caused considerable fluttering among the natives, from the apprehension that his mission is to “gobble them all up,” from the Rio Grande to Yucacaun; but here, too, we must await the developments of his im- pending negotiations, It is manifest that upon allor any of these great questions the present administration has ‘‘scope and verge enough” for a glorious success, and scheming politicians may be too fast in now pronouncing General Grant, upon the threshold of the Alabama claims, Cuba or Mexico, a failure. At all events, the experience of the last forty years has taught us that the surest way to kill off, Presidential candidates is to trot them out before the time. Thus we think the over zealous friends of Mr. Colfax are in a fair way to put him “down among the dead men,” and that, on the other side, Mr. Chase is repeating his old mistake of being too early in the field. It is folly on either side to talk of Presidential candidates when the policy of the administration in the interval to 1872 may so thoroughly demolish the two existing parties as to bring into the foreground new men and hew measures, with two, three or half a dozen new political parties and factions. The Cabinet=Mr. Borie’s Retirement, Mr. Borie, as Secretary of the Navy, has ceased to be. The causes of his retirement, it appears, are, his inaptitude for public life, his enfeebled condition in bodily health, the claims of his private business, and the overshadow- ing figure of Admiral Porter. Any one of these reasons would be sufficient to justify Mr. Borie’s abdication; but all taken to- gether, it is a wonder that he held his place solong. He is a good man, as this wicked world goes, an amiable Christian gentleman of French descent and of the old school; but he was out of his element in the Cabinet. His example in retiring from the torments of the politicians, the tortures of red tape and the towering epaulettes of Admiral Porter, might, to the administration and the country, be profitably followed by several other members of the Cabinet, as it is, and we live in hope of further changes. Of the Hon. George M. Robeson, the new Secretary of the Navy, we are informed that as Attorney General of New Jersey, he has fulfitled the duties of his office with credit, that he is, moreover, a man of good parts, and not a man who will play second fiddie to Admiral Porter, even by way of an experiment. There are some sharp fel- lows among the Jersey politicians, and Mr. Robeson may be one of them. He has the training, itis said,.of a Philadelphia lawyer, and if half that we have heard of the Borie- Porter muddle of the Navy Department be true, only a Philadelphia lawyer can straighten it out. Lerrinc Broop, as it was done in the row in Richmond on Thursday, is good practice and will prove a benefit to the Commonwealth of Virginia. Passion cools soonest that way. Curtine Loose From Canapa.—Our spe- cial telegram from Montreal, published else- where, gives point to the argument and reasons for the fact that England is bothered by the care of her Canadian Dominion, and that the North American colonies may have their inde- pendence almost at any moment for the asking. Mr. Gladstone and John Bright advocate the severance of the governmental bond for the main reason that Great Britain must in future “ook out” for India and cannot afford to clutch the Canadas under her wing at the same mo- ment. The mother country is about to secede, so that the transatlantic bantling will soon be forced to attempt to stand alone. Let the Canadians seize the opportunity. They are really stout fellows, and will not fall, as they stand at the door of a powerful nation ready either to adopt or force them in ‘‘out of the cold,” as may appear best. Come along. “The more the merrier.” Repvsican triumph in Oregon was ushered in with an earthquake. SensationaL News.—We received yeater- day, in conjunction with several of our con- temporaries, a news paragraph stating that the Spanish General Letona, in Cuba, had attacked a camp of women, children and old men, who had recently left the city of Puerto Principe, and massacred the enormous num- ber of two thousand of them. The news reached us through an irregular channel, and without any of those indications of truthful- ness or probability which a practical news editor so readily distinguishes, and we laid it aside as wanting in credibility. Our contem- poraries have given the item with the usual display heading ; but as they have abstained from the comment which such an enormity would demand we presume they entertained grave doubts as to the truth of the statement, The story requires confirmation, indeed. Jopen Case has addressed the tobacco merchants in Virginia. Who sneezes? Wat Kinp or Crantry?—Attention is publicly called to the fact that a litle girl uttering ‘a cry of despair” from the third story of a House of Reception for Juvenile Delinquents in West Thirteenth street, at four o'clock in the morning last Mon- day. Was it ‘‘discipline” of the kind made familiar in Oliver Twist that drove the ghild to guoh an agt? threw herself the Position of the Government. From the tenor of the daily news reports of arrests of persons by the United States Mar- shals for violating the neutrality laws, of the departure of steamers from our various ports with men, arms and munitions of war, or pre- pared to take on armament of a war character, and of the landing of expeditions in Cuba to assist the patriots, it is evident to all that movements of a very active kind are on foot among the private war circles, and great anxiety is entertained in many quarters to know what position the government at Wash- ington will take in view of the events which are looming up around us, We are daily in receipt of letters asking for further informa- tion on these subjects, from persons who are not satisfied to know the development of events as it transpires from day to day, and who evidently belong to that class of readers who wish to know what is going to happen. To these we have only to say that, so far as regards the government at Washington, its members are evidently more in the dark and more puzzled than anybody else as to what they are going to do and what position they will find themselves to hold towards any coming event. Without a political chart or the guiding needle of a policy they will con- tinue to drift on in the eddy of events, ac- cepting the results that may accrue. On other points a general review of affairs will present many points of interest. The principal islands of the West Indian Archipelago are to-day in a crisis of great political changes, the incipient point of which lies in the abolition of African slavery by the United States. Cuba is undergoing an armed revolution, with emancipation and an- nexation inscribed upon its banner; the Dominican republic is agitated with the proposition of a peaceful admission to the American Union; Hayti is divided into three hostile camps, in one of which at least the idea of an American protectorate is enter- tained ; and Porto Rico is reported to have caught the fire in a way which greatly alarms the colonial! officers of the Spanish monarchy. The various parties involved in all these movements have their active partisans in this country who are en- gaged in pushing their respective views in every feasible way. The co-operation of the press is assiduously sought; diplomatic and extra diplomatic communications are pressed upon the government and the people; arms and munitions of war are pushed forward through every possible channel; steamers are being built, chartered or purchased and pre- pared for naval armament in behalf of several of the combatants, and parties of the enter- prising and adventurous among our population are being sent off to the various exciting scenes of events. So numerous are these operations, and so conflicting is the information in regard to them which is laid before the administration that the government thus far, with the best disposition to preserve the majesty of the laws, has not been able to convict or even detain any of the many enterprises that have been denounced to it as infringing the neutrality act. The Quaker City steamer was detained and released in this city; another steamer was denounced in Boston and escaped; seve- ral are reported to have departed from South- ern ports without suspicion; others are ru- mored to have left New York recently without the knowledge of the officials, and finally seve- ral members of a Cuban junta known to exist here have been indicted for supposed partici- pation in the sending of an armed expedition which undoubtedly landed in Cuba, In these operations we are able to trace to a greater or less extent the agents of Cespedes and Dulce in Cuba, Baez and Cabral in St. Domingo, and Salnave and Domingue in Hayti. These names respectively represent existing and re- volutionary powers in each of the islands named. The existing governments appeal, of course, to the administration at Washington to enforce the neutrality laws, and the revolutionary agents, with equal pertinacity and perhaps greater skill, claim to avoid their provisions. Among the filibuster elements here there has always been present a large number of astute, keen and audacious men who have ever found it feasible to carry out their projects without coming in conflict with the law, particularly when public opinion has been favorable to their designs, and hence since the passage of the present neutrality act in 1818 we believe no conviction has been obtained under it. In fact, the law assumes too much to be effective, and the popular sym- pathy is most generally opposed to the party that appeals to its exercise in their behalf. We do not hesitate, therefore, to believe that the government will fail in all its attempts to en- force it in the future, as it has done in the past in the well known cases of the Cuban fili- busters under Lopez and Walker and the Fenian filibuster operations against Canada. From these premises it will readily be seen that the movements now going on in the West India islands will continue to receive assistance from this country, in proportion as their pur- poses merit the sympathy of the people; and that the government is powerless to prevent it further than causing personal annoyance to some few individuals or a short period of delay to some departing ship. The changes which are transpiring in the islands south of us result from causes in which the American government has no part and operate through channels which are beyond its control. An enlarged and wise policy on its part might exercise great influence in shaping coming events, but no policy it can devise could prevent their deve- lopment. Whatever exists there of an old and effete character, such as colonial governments, African slavery, imitations of European forms, a trammelled press and ignorant and degraded peoples, will disappear with the march of American ideas and the increase of American intercourse with them. The events which we are witnessing to-day in our midst are merely portions of an inevitable development whose final realization is simply a question of the duration of the physical and pecuniary re- sources of the Powers opposed to the new ideas. “Dost Goxe’—The Massachusetts General Court for 1469. Its principal business was to pass @ probibitory liquor law which radicals repudiated on the stump. There will be lively times ia old Bay State politica next year | auspices | The Filivusters, the Neutrality Laws and |The Emperor Napoleon at Chalous—His Speech to tho Soldiers. On Thursday the Emperor Napoleon visited the camp at Chalons and addressed the sol- diers, The day was the anniversary of Solfe- rino, that great day, ten years ago, when Napoleon humbled Austria, gave Italy to the Italians, and proved to the world that the nephew had inherited some of the genius of his uncle. The address was such as might have been expected in thecircumstances. Like all his speeches, it was a little hifalutin:— “Preserve the remembrance of the battles fought by your fathers and yourselves; for our victories are the history of the progress of civilization ; you will thus maintain the mili- tary spirit, which is the triumph of noble over vulgar passions; it is fidelity to the flag, devo- tion to country. Continue in the same course and you will always be worthy of so great a nation.” Such were the grand words of the Emperor on the occasion. It is easier to say than to prove that the victories of France are the “triumph of noble over vulgar passions.” It is the first opportunity that the Emperor has had since the elections to give us a bit of his mind, and it is a fact not unsuggestive that he has spoken to the soldiers. So long as Napoleon has the army on his side it is well. But this speech to the army seems to imply something more than a desire to be on good terms with the army. It seems to point to possible requirements for the army beyond the frontier. To our mind this last address of the Emperor shows that he is fully alive to the situation. Independent Journalism in Havana. All of the daily journals published in Havana are very much excited over the fact that the Heratp of the 5th inst. contained an entire page devoted to the news of the volun- teer revolution in Havana, with full accounts from the field of operations in the interior, extracts from the Spanish journals in the principal towns, and from the patriot journal published at the seat of the republican goy- ernment, telegraphic despatches and mail cor- respondence from the important points, with translations of important documents and ¢ edi- torial comments on and explanations of “the principal points of the news, All of this our Spanish contemporaries believe we did with the secret intention of affecting the course of events in that island, and because we intend to overturn the Spanish colonial government in Cuba, and to place the Havana volunteers in a false position before the people of Europe. To counteract our Machiavelism the volunteers have issued an address to the Spanish nation, a full and exact translation of which they will also find in our issue of yesterday. It has long been apparent to us that the Havana publishers have no knowledge of inde- pendent journalism and a very limited know- ledge of journalistic craft in partisan publica- tions. If they had possessed the slightest inkling of the former they would not have gone out of their way to find reasons for the publication of full news reports in the Heracp. The excitement which the paper is producing among them only proves the variety of its sources of information and the value of its news reports. We have long since known that newspapers which look at the world only from a partisan and one-sided point of view always find full and impartial reports of events to be Machiavelian. Weadvise our Havana contem- poraries to keep cool and read the Hzrauv. They will then know what is really going on — themselves, and perhaps come to understand the true drift of the important events which are transpiring in their midst. Gone at Last. The old National Intelligencer, after a pain- ful and. lingering illness, in the sixty-ninth year of itsage. It was founded with the city of Washington in the year 1800, under the of the Jeffersonian republican party and Jefferson’s administration, by Gales and Seaton, and published by them jointly for over forty years, and by Seaton, the surviving partner, for some ten or fifteen years longer. At his death a former clerk of the establishment, Mr. Coyle, with several associates, financial and editorial, took the paper in hand; but it had long before fallen into a decline, from which all efforts to resus- citate it were useless. In August, 1814, with the occupation of Washington by the British army, after the battle of Bladensburg, the Intelligencer office was honored witha sacking by a detachment of the British troops. That was the making of the paper. From that day it began a new and prosperous career. It went on, sailing smoothly with the wind, through the administrations of Madison and Monroe; but with the break-up of the old re- publican party in 1824 it took a new departure in adhering to the fortunes of Henry Clay. From this diversion it became the central na- tional organ and oracle of the old whig party, a trenchant party leader on the bank question, the tariff, internal improvements, &c., fight- ing Jackson and his henchmen and his demo- cratic successors with marked ability down to the dissolution of the whig party in 1852. Then, thrown adrift upon the waves, it began to fail. Nay, it began to fail with the estab- lishment of the independent newspaper press; but its mission ended with the whig party. Through all this period, exceeding a half a century, the Jntelligencer was the re- cipient of millions of public money, under the old system of a party dispensation of the government printing from both houses of Congress and the Executive Departments. The paper had a large subscription list throdghout the United States; but under the old credit system it had, as we have been told, upon its books at one time nearly half a mil- lion of unpaid subscriptions for papers served, and probably not one-fifth of this outstanding sum was ever collected. The profits of the establishment were from the government sops and subsidies so liberally lavished upon it as a party organ. From these subsidies Gales and Seaton received a mint of money; but in their free and generous style of living and thought- less wastefulness they contrived to spend it all as fast as it came in, and to be in debt besides all the time, This was the inheritance of Mr. Coyle and Company, but under the benign admjnistration of Andy Johnson, with its sops and subsidies, they still kept the paper afloat after the old fashion, From the withdrawal of these aops and subsidies, under the new administration, the paper has died. It was in its day, under 1 Gales and Seaton, 4 model of newspaper dig- fat tio a’ nity and decorum, even in the most exciting and embittered party contests; but the moral which it teaches is that of a highly respectable, generous and reckless spendthrift who dics only after having exhausted the patience and the pockets of his friends, Suburban Homes. There is a growing demand on the part of our citizens of every class tor suburban homes. It may become almost a mania so soon as pro- jected underground and elevated railroads shall be completed, bridges connecting New York and Brooklyn shall be constructed and present means of a€cess to the country shall be multiplied in every direction. The supply to meet this growing demand is also increasing. Although no really heavy transactions in city real estate have been recorded within the past few days the ease now exhibited in the money market will tend to make speculation more animated than it usually is at this sea- son, and the Heratp publishes every day a goodly number of advertisements of real es- tate for sale in town. But it has lately pub- lished twice as many advertisements of real estate for sale in the vicinity of New York city, We hear of no fancy prices, but, on the contrary, many desirable places have been offered on moderate terms by real estate holders of residences. Real estate agents are bestowing more intelligent attention than ever before upon those mines of future wealth to be opened ere long at innumerable points in the country within one hour's or two hours’ dis- tance of the City Hall. It is a noteworthy fact that some of the most far-sighted, expe- rienced and successful real estate operators in the Western cities, which have grown with such marvellous rapidity, are now devoting themselves to purchasing, laying out and im- proving farms near this city, adjacent to each other and covering together large tracts of land, where the New Yorker, smitten with a passion for rural life, may, according to his purse, make choice of building lots for villas, farmhouses or cottages. It is wise to secure such lots before speculation shall have ab- sorbed them all, ruuning up prices to an exor- bitant figure. At present there seems to be no lack of places for healthy, comfortable and delightful suburban homes, conveniently near New York. You are invited to choose river-bank villas along the Hudson, or picturesque sites on Staten Island, or equally eligible sites for splendid villas and for cheap country homes, with fine views of the Sound and sweet rural scenery in Rye, the Eden of Westchester county, The four noble estates, Rye Park, Kingsland Place (on the Eastern Boulevard), Glen Dale and West Rye, which are to be sold at auction to-day, are types of the many -ac- cessible and admirable places for building suburban homes in Westchester county—a county correctly described as the natural and easy outlet to the crowded and increasing population of New York city. If you care less tor the picturesque than fur the practical and the profitable you can buy the level garden grounds on Long Island or the unctuous flats on the near lands of New Jersey, that paradise of fruiterers and vegetable growers for the market. Our citizens will be blessed with better health and will live more as they ought to tive when a much larger number of rich and poor alike shall be able to enjoy every day the pure air of the country. Be Cargrvt.—The Richmond Hagyirer exclaims, “ihe gallant Mosby is for Walker.” The less Mosby the more Walker. Election duly 6. Tue Firz Commissioners lament that the Mayor will not meet them in the Board of E3- timate and share the responsibility of saddiing the city with the expense of building a new fire alarm telegraph. This just touches the very point the Mayor makes. He might not like the telegraph they mean to build—he might not consider a new one necessary. He could give no effect to his opposition, but he could take a share of the responsibility and does not want to. So he stays away. Cannot they mandainus him? No Fovrtn or Jury excursion, perhaps, could be of more interest than that to the Gettysburg battle field, but we advise all who go to take a portable house and cooked rations sufficient to last through the whole trip. Tue Lorrery or INsvrance.—In the days of the lottery’s glory companies used to pub- lish lists showing the high probability of a man’s winning a prize. Nowadays the in- surance companies publish something not un- like those lists in stating the number of policies that have become payable within a year of their issue ; only these insurance tables also show the probability that a man will die in the same year in which he insures his life. Tae Citizens’ Association having proved a great success here—all the working agents have secured good offices—it is now proposed to introduce it in all the cities of the State. The association claims that it ‘inaugurated” the Board of Health and the paid Fire De- partment. What does that mean? NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASsHINOTON, June 25, 1969. ‘The following naval officers have been detachod:— Commander Wiiliam F, Spicer, from the command of the Dacotah ana piaced on waiting orders; Lieutenant Commander Charies E. Clark, from the receiving ship Vermont; Lieutenant Dewitt 0. Kells, from duty at New Orleans; Ensign E. M. Henricks, from the re- ceiving ship New Hampshire; Surgeon Joun & Kitchen, from the receiving ship Ohio, and Assistant Surgeon E. C. Dunning, from the navy yard at Wash- ington and ordered to the Dictator on the 6th of July next; First Assistant Engineer J, B. Carpenter, from the navy yard at Boston and “ordered to the Dictator; Master William F. Buck, from daty at League Island, Pa., and ordered to the command of the Fortune; Surgeon D. Kindleberger, from the na- rine rendezvous at Washington and ordered to the re- ceiving ship Independence; First Assistant Engincor D. ©. McCartney, from the navy yard at Norfolk and placed on waiting orders, Ordered—Lieutenante ‘Thomas Perry and H. W. Gwinner Ensigns Ll. 5. McGunnegal and William Little, Paymaster T. If. Hinman and Second Assistant Engineer W. A. Wind- sor to the Dictator on the 6th of July next; Surgeon J. S. Knight to the receiving ship Onto; First Asatst- ant Engineer J, L. Vanclin to the navy yard at Nor- foik; First Assistant Engineer Edward Farmer to the navy yard at Boston; Second Assistant Engineer A, B. Baleg to the Dictator. Daowsxeo Wane Batuing.—Arthar Walsh, @ young mau seventeen years of age, residing at No. 163 West Thirty-firat atreet, a guest of the Thirtictt btreot Methodiat Fpeorpel Sunday school A Sxotrsion, ‘while bathing at Cold Spring, opposite West Point Testerdey afternoon, Was drowned.