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6 ‘W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarv. =——_— Volume XXXIV No. 182 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—ficcoay Dicoony Doox, BOOTH'S THEATRE, 26d st., boiwoen Sth and 6th avs,— ENOcH ALDEN. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, fourth streot.—Dona—Biack Eyep Susan. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. CORALLINE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dawon AND Prratas— Ieisa ToroR. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot ‘2d street.—East LYNNE. WOOD's MUSEUM AND TH! roadway:—Afteraoon and @ Eighth avenue and TRE, Thirtioth strest and Performance. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atrect,—ExntoriAN MINSTRELSY, 4c, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BORLEsQuz, Comic BALLET AND PANTOMIME. WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—PorvuLar EN- TERTAINNENT. 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ADVERTISEMENTS and Supscrirtions and all Ietters for the New Yours Heratp will be teceived as above. clare. THA NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated June 30, The House of Lords went into committee on the Irish Church bill last evening. The Earl Denbigh opened the debate, which was participated in by Earls Grey, Granvilie, Carnarvon and the Bishop of Oxford and others. The matter in relation to cruelty to imprisoned Fenians was made the subject of discussion in the House of Commons, but notuing defnite was arrived at, Tue Molyneux Cup was the feature at the Liverpool Summer Meeting on Tues- day. It was won by Mysotis. John Bright and William E. Forster have resigned their membership in the Reform Club. Admiral Topete and Seflor Figuerola are expected to resign their portfolios of Ministers of Marine and Finance in the Spanish Cabinet. The Cortes has re- jected the bill proposing increased duties on foreign cereals. The latest accounts from the Great Fastern say that all goes well. One thousand aad thirty-cight miles of cable have been paid out. China, By accounts from Hong Kong it 1s ascertained that @ decisive battle, in which the Monammedans ‘were defeated, had taken place. The imperial army ‘was the opposing force, Fresh insults to foreigners are reported. Paraguay. By Atlantic cable we learn that, according to oficial report, Lopez has consented to leave Para- guay on certain conditions. Japan, The news from Japan is far from being satisfac- tory. The civil war still continued, and heavy fight- ing is anticipated. Miscellaneous. President Grant visited Balttmore yesterday and made a thorough inspection of the machine shops and depots of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany. He then took a trip down the bay in the steamship Baltimore. Great frauds on the revenue, in the importation of sugar, have been discovered by Collector Casey, of New Orieans, and in consequence he has placed the entire stock of imported sugar in the city under surveiliance. He also seized 4,490 boxes, 1,387 hogsheads and seventy-nine tierces, belonging to one importing house. Over forty clerks in the Adjutant General's office of the War Department were discharged yesterday, and it is probable that great delay will ensue in the payment of claims and bounties in consequence. One of the discharged was Charies A. McLaughlin, of Brooklyn, who has been superintendent of the records for along time. He was discharged, it is @aid, by order of the President, at the solicitation of General Logan and the Grand Army. The internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending yesterday amounted to $158, 287,176. General Van Wyck addressed the people at Peters. burg, Va., on Tuesday evening, and at the conclu- sion the few white conservatives who were in the crowd cailed_for their candidate. The negroes in thecrowd th@reupon attacked the whites, who fed and thus prevented the spilling of blood. As if to verify the report that Toney, the chemist in the Army Medical Museum at Washington, was discharged because he married Annie Surratt, it is now stated that he was detatied a few days before the marriage to go to the Northwest with a commis- gion to take observations of the solar eclipse in August. An infernal machine was exploded by a police eaptain in Albany yesterday. it was lying on his desk at the time and he thonght it was a lump of olay. He and another officer were slightly wounded. Earthquakes are becoming ordinary affairs on the Pacific coast, Another was felt at Victoria, Van- couver’s Island, on the 26th ult, Hiram Ketchum, Jr., Collector of Customs at ‘Sitka, has been sued by the Russo-American Com- pany for $200,000 damages, in having, as alleged, Mogally seized their ship Czarewitch, An aerial machine, intended to make the trip be- ‘tween New York and San Francisco in twenty-four Dours, has been invented by a genius in the latter @ity, and according to reports of its first trial trip it ‘works like a charm, being propelica in any direction im the air, The Prohibitory Liquor fn Massachusetts to-day. ¥ goes into effect again Fitth avenue and Twenty: | ‘The Canadian authorities still scem anxious for a | world, - Ported, will go to Washingten about the 10th tnat., to-commence negotiations in that direction. A carillon of forty-three bells will be consecrated with great pomp and religious ceremony st St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Buffalo to-day. This is the only instrument of the kind tu the United States and there are only two others in the world. A lad of fourteen, named Field, has been arrested near Holbrook, Long Island, for an attempt to throw the Yaphank train from the track by placing one end of a tie across the rails, The City. The Cuban expedition which left this city on Saturday night in the steamers Cool and Chase, was overhauled and captured by tho revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch near Fort Schuyler on Tuesday evening, The prisoners were placed on board the re- ceiving ship Vermont, and the captured vessels were lett under gaard at the Brookiyn Navy Yard, Colonel Ryan, with some 200 of the men, was on shore at the time of the capture and so far has escaped. A box, containing $268,021 29 of the property stolen from the Ocean bank, was found on Elizabeth street, by officer Donohue, about three o'clock yea- terday morning, It was directed to Captain Jourdan, and was carried to the Qentral Office and opened, The property consisted mainly of bonds, shares, checks and mortgages, which would have been dim- calt of negotiation, ‘The case of Edgar B. Ketchum, who has served all but one wearof aterm of four years and six months in the State Prison on an indictment for forgery, was brought -before Judge Barnard yesterday, on a motion to discharge him on the ground that the In- dictment was defective, Ketchum was to court, The matter was argued and the Judge reserved his decision until Friday, In the Board of Health, yesterday, the ordnance on mad dogs was presented by the counsel, It dl- rects that dogs shail not be allowed to run at largo unless accompanied by their masters or some one responsible for the animal, The Commissioners thought unis did not coversthe exigencies of the case, and the matter was referred to the committee again, Judge Biatchford has dented an application for an injunction against the Elevated Railway Company. Judge Benedict, yesterday, sitting in the United States Circuit Court, refused the motion made for a new trial in the case of John D. McHenry, convicted of perjury in connection with the famous Rollins- Harland alleged whiskey fraud case. The North German Lioyd’s steamship Unton, Cap- tain Dreyer, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Bremen, calling at Southampton. The mails will close at the Post Oflice at twelve M.| The steamship Arizona, Captain Maury, will sail from pier 42 North river at tweive M. to-day for As- pinwall, the passengers taking the steamer Colorado at Panama for San Francisco.” The stock market yesterday was strong and ad- vanced. Gold fell to 136%, but recovered and cloged at 13744. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge George Green and R. R. Bridgers, of North Carolina, and Colonel B. B. Keeler, of the United States Army, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Samuel Ross, of the United States Army; Judge J. E. Lowe, of Dayton, Ohio, and John £. Mc- Donough, of Philadelphia; Judge W. Rich, of North Carolina; Judge Wadleigh, of San Francisco, and General G. E. Spencer, of Alabama, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. M. De Lave, of Peru; Colonel H. P. Winters, of St. Louis, and Colonel Russell, of the United States Army, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith aud Judge Noyes, of Vermont; E. Corning, Jr., of Albany, and Captain Hughes, of the United States Navy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Boggs, of the Untted States Navy; H. E. Andrews, of Tennessee, and J. A. McLenegan, of Beloit, Wis., are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Ex-Postmastey General Randall, for Eimira; Judge Hood, for Wisconsin; General Hunter, for Philadel- phia; Colonel J, Johnson, Charles E. Lelatid and Judge Sheehan, for Albany; Colonel J. 0. P. Burn- side, for Saratoga; J. W. Sheldon, for Washington, ana Colonel James T. Fitzpatrick, for Baltimore. Professor Nairne, of Columbia College, in this c'ty, left yesterday for Europe in the steamship Nevada. Frevch Cable=Modern Progress—The Position’ of the United States. The French Atlantic cable makes satisfac- tory progress. Inaday or two the Great Eastern will be off the banks of Newfoundland, and sooner than we expect the connection will be complete between St. Pierre and Brest. A miserable, narrow-minded set of monopolists may fora time prevent the landing of this cable on the territory of the United States; but no monopoly, no power in the United States, no power in the world can perma- nently stand in the way of progress, and pro- gress insists on landing this cable on our shores. It is useless otherwise, and the com- mon sense of the people of the United States will not allow this great enterprise, with which their own future prosperity and greatness are so much identified, to end in failure. We can- not have too many cables. The more the merrier, and the better too, Ten years hence it will not be wonderful if more than a dozen cables bind Europe and America together. Portugal and Spain and Germany will become rivals of England and France in this matter, and as we cannot lose, but gain, by such en- terprise, itis our duty to give every encour- agement to those who by steam or electricity multiply our connections with the Old World. This fresh attempt to annihilate distance and time is richly suggestive. It is another of the many indications which every day is far- nishing that ours is the central Continent, and that the centre of our Continent is the United States. Two cables connect us with Great Britain. In a few years these will be found insufficient for the manifold require- ments of public and private business. Great Britain has, besides, her almost countless ‘ines of steamships, which keep up almost daily communication between the two conti- nents. France, under the inspiring genius of Napoleon, has become envious of British supe- riority in this direction. France has, in con- sequence, established her line of steamboats, which have been largely successful; and France has now so far put in execution her purpose to have a telegraphic as wéll as a steamboat connection with the centre of the New World. Germany has her numerous steamboats on the same pathway. These are sure to increase in number, anda German cable is as certain as that Germany at no dis- tant day is destined to be the first Power in Europe. On different pathways Spain and Portugal have been successful in establishing steam communication with the New World. A cable connection between Lisbon and Rio Janeiro may be regarded as a probability in the early future, Spain, if she were out of her trouble, would be found as eager as any of her neighbors to be in electric communica- tion with her many children on the American Continent, North and South, Simultaneously with this European eagerness to benefit by the New World, and chiefly with the United States, we find the tide of civilization turned, and Asia, which in all past time has sent her hordes westward, is now, in spite of the mighty waters, sending them eastward. By our late war we commanded the attention of the Our success in that struggle eli- The / 7 ‘ ; NBW Wavy wanien ——-—-—~— -— Our growing prosperity since the close of the war has exercised a talismanic power on all the seaboard populations of Western Europe and Eastern Asia. In popular estimation the great republic of the New World, stretching aa it does from sea to sea, and comprising terri- tory which, in mineral and agricultural wealth, defies all comparison, has come to be regarded as tho home of the blessed. By the populations of Europe and by the populations of Asia the ocean has been looked upon as a barrier keep- ing them from happiness and prosperity. The Europeans, with grander appliances, have had leas difficulty in overleaping the barrier and transporting themselves to the much desired El Dorado of the West. The Asiatics, with fewer and leas perfect means of transit, have triumphed in a more signal manner and given fresh proof to the world that ‘‘where there is a will there is a way.” In spite of the barriers of ocean they come from the East and they come from the West; they come in large and ever increasing numbers. Their coming begets no jealousy, and it should not, for there is room enough and to spare, and no amount of increase to our population can exhaust our ap- parently inexhaustible fulness, Our lakes and our rivers, our virgin fields and our unopened mines of silver and gold and precious stones still cry ‘‘Come.” Nature to us has been prodigal of her favors; and the thrift and industry which we import from other lands only help us to know what we are and to look forward with wonder and amazement to what we may become. ‘ There are those who look with alarm to our future. They cannot see how permanent unity can be found compatible with a population so mixed as ours is destined to bocome. All man- ner of divisions flit before their eyes, Such persons forget that the unity of the republic can never again be a question. The late war settled this question of unity once and forever. If anything was left undone by the late war that has been done by the Pacific Railroad, Such lines of communication wilf be multiplied in all directions, North, South, East and West. Union on a large scale is a growing character- istic of the times. Union, in fact, is the natural product of steam, electricity and the newspaper. Those grand modern agents make the interests of the one and the interests of the many identical. The influx of the races of Europe and the influx of the races of Asia will but develop our wealth. They can never disturb the unity of the republic or change the character of our civilization, Our Christian civilization will take new and higher forms, but it will never go backward. The Olina- man, the Japanese, the Hindoo must yield to our all-controlling influence. Asia cannot conquer Europe on American soil. In the great future many great and difficult problems await our solution; but every problem will be solved in harmony with our best interests and the best interests of mankind. It is our pri- vilege to think of growing prosperity, of in- creasing glory; but it is not permitted us to think of failure or defeat. The Caban Liberators Captured. The expeditionary force of Cuban sympa- thizers which sailed from this port last Satur- day night for the purpose of aiding the natives of the once ‘‘faithful” island in their endeavor to throw off the authority of the Spaniards has been arrested at sea by action of the United States government, and handed over to our naval authorities to be dealt with as the law may direct. This important intelligence is reported in detail in our columns to-day. The Cuban Junta had, it appears, made avery successful movement in the way of recruit- ments, organization, the supply of provisions, artillery, small arms, and munitions of war generally. Fifteen hundred trained soldiers, selected from over four thousand veterans of the Union armies, who quickly responded to the little ‘‘hint” of the Junta, were enrolled, and designated as the ‘First New York Cavalry Cuban Liberators;” money was had, steamers employed, the men and war material embarked, and ‘‘off” they went on an ‘‘excursion.” They stood along the coast as described, being ‘‘off and on” as suited. The authorities in Washington, however, re- garded the excursion idea in the light of a proposed incursion on the territory of a neigh- boring Power, and hence ordered the action of the revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch. The results are given. The actual expedition has thus been brought toa premature end. Its promoters and rank and file are prisoners. Will this state of affairs be permanent? We can hardly imagine that it will, The cause of the Cubans finds a sympathetic response in the hearts of our people. They have asserted their nationality. They can maintain it. They are, therefore, according to the modern rule, fit for freedom. Does Secretary Fish or President Grant wish to terminate a difficulty ? If 80, let the President recognize the Cubans as belligerents. . Repvotion or tHe Nationat Dest.—It is estimated that for the month of June there will be a reduction of the national debt to the extent of about nine millions of dollars, This is at the rate of one hundred and eight millions a year, which if maintained will sweep off the whole debt inside of twenty-five years. But we can do better than this, and reduce the taxes at the same time, with a little more attention to retrenchment and reform. In short, the living generation will not be satis- fied with the continuance of the debt for twenty years, or anything like it, nor with the continuance of our present bills of taxation. Upon these matters the signs of the times de- mand the earnest attention of the administra- tion, of Congress and all concerned. Sometainc Goop Out or New Jenrsey.— Having little or nothing else to do the late Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Borie, took it into his wise head one day to abolish the Indian names of our vessels of war and to rechristen them with the classic names of Greece and the belligerent names of the British navy. The new Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey, it is reported, intends to abolish these new names and restore the old, genuine American names, and we hope he will. If no other substitute can be found for the English “Bulldog,” for instance, let it be named after the great Indian, ‘Billy Bowlegs,” or “Tall Bull,” or ‘Jumping Bear,” or something of that sort, Let us have, at all events, an American navy, Mr. Robeson, according to law. ~_ -* ( NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. Feciprocity treaty. Hon. John Rose, it ts/now re- | cited | wulvérsal adimirdtion and! Feepect. Tie Ocean Bask Robbory and Ite Lesson. | the practical applications of mathematics. In | Tke Theatree—Tenayeen, Dickens, Wo have deferred commenting upon the rob- | Our country, where the number of useful in- ventions is already extraordinary, and where The managers must have reckoned on the bery perpetrated on the Ocean Bank from a conviction that disclosures would soon change the aspect of the case, and perhaps throw some light upon the systematic villany by which so many public institutions are robbed of their valuables, and particularly their public seouri- ties. The singularly insecure building in which, in the present case, such large amounts were deposited; the renting out of rooms in the basement, which was separated from the bank- ing room by a thin plank and plaster floor; a combination lock which an expert opened in few minutes before the officers, and without using force; the practice of leaving the key of the inner door of the vault within the passage to it; the fact that the gold and securities of the bank were not stolen, but ieft in admira- ble disorder, ‘lying about loose ;” the absence of any systematic watching of the premises, and the probability that the enterprise did not occupy more than an hour or two in its per- formance, all seemed to us to present such a singular combination of the want of foresight on the part of the bank officers, with skill on the part of the burglars, that we did not know whether most to condemn the carelessness of the first or praise the skill of the latter. It seemed to us more difflcult to distinguish where the carelessness ended and the skill commenced; ead we may here remark that the recovery of so large an amount as three hundred thousand dollars of the se- curities taken, as occurred yesterday, makes this discrimination all the more perplexing to us, We have long since come to the conclusion that this business of burglary is reduced to a science among us, with several grades of skilled attainment in its pursuit, The man whose brain devises the operation, like the architect who plans a building, is not the expert work- man with the auger, the cold chisel and the hammer, nor the rough and tumble breaker open of safes, nor the skulking bearer off ot the spoil, It is plain to us that the master minds in this business have sufficient capacity and attainments to be familiar in Wall street, to operate largely with the bulls, bears and bro- kers, and to hold seats at the bank boards and in the social clubs of our upper tendom, with no doubt a comfortable pew in some of our fashionable churches, Skilled workmen in the various departments required for a great bur- glary are ready to their hand at any time, and our very peculiar system of police and private detectives affords them ample facilities for realizing the swag and securing immunity from punishment. The lax morality of Wall street considers the Ocean Bank robbery a small affair, and perhaps when compared with the daily prac- tices of other bank operations, by which the funds of depositors are turned from their regu- lar employment among merchants and made to bring in from one-eighth to one-half per cent a day, equal to frem forty-five to one hundred and eighty per cent a year, on short loans, it may not be such avery heinous crime; but to people who hold tothe old-fashioned notions of right and wrong both practices seem equally reprehensible; and the facilities for compound- ing a felony which our detective system offers are looked upon as equally criminal. To-day the losers by the Ocean Bank robbery are in the hands of police and private detectives sim- ply as customers, out of whom a good thing is to be made in the shape of a reward for acting as a go-between and shielding a criminal. If this occurrence tends to awaken public atten- tion to the facilities we offer for burglary, and impress upon it the necessity for a radical change in our police system, we, too, may come to consider it a good thing. In the meantime we would advise bank depositors and share- holders to begin their lookout at home after men who find no criminality in taking a hun- dred and eighty per cent a year. The morality that sanctions such a practice will not find it difficult to break into a bank vault, College Commencements. The daily journals are now presenting full reports of the exercises at college commence- ments, by which misnomer it has become cus- tomary to designate the end, instead of the commencement, of a collegiate course of study. The one hundred and sixteenth commencement of Columbia College was celebrated yesterday. On Tuesday the commencements of Harvard University, of the Mount Washington Collegiate Institute and of the Consolidated Business College at Washington took place. On Monday the centennial anniversary of the American Whig Society, at Princeton College, and the Wooden Spoon Promenade Concert, at Yale College, were the opening events of this testi- val week at each of those ancient seats of learning. Similar academical gala days are in order throughout the country. It is opportune to remark that ‘the published reports of these college commencements indi- cate tendencies towards needed reform, if not revolution, in our colleges. We are glad to see that while ‘‘the humanities” are in no danger of being neglected there is a very de- cided disposition to introduce a larger scien- tific element into collegiate instruction, and to save for living languages some of the time which used to be devoted exclusively to dead languages. English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as Hebrew, Greek and Latin, are now taught in our colleges. No future minister of the United States to the court of the Tuileries need be exposed to the inconvenience and mortification endured by the late Hon. John Y. Mason, who, notwithstand- ing all the Greek and Latin which he had learned at the University of North Carolina, tound himself one evening at the palace of the Tuileries in a sad plight on account of bis utter ignorance of French. He had a bad cold and happened to ‘have no pocket handkerchief ; but he neither knew how to ask for one nor for his way out. Like Sterne’s starling in the Bastile, he wanted to get out; but after vain pantémimic appeals to wondering ushers, he was relieved only by the boarding school French of a Baltimore young lady who kindly came to his aid, lent him her lace handkerchief and showed him the way to the door. Mr. Mason was not the only Ameri- can representative abroad who might woll have studied Ollendorff or Fasquelle instead of Anthon and Bullion. A atill more important indication of the com- mendable tendency of collegiate instruction to adapt itself to the exigencies of modern cul- ture is the growing predominance of scientific studies, sad particularly of those relating to the urgent demands of our active, rushing life are daily multiplying them, it would surely be @ deep reproach to our colleges not to take the lead in this direction. We may here add that the old fashion of entrusting most of the pro- fessorships in American colleges to clergymen seems to be fadingaway. The clergymen have lately in many cases retired to their more ap- propriate sphere of action, while their places have been supplied by scientific laymen more alive than their predeceasors to the practical necessities of the day. It isto be hoped that another old college fashion will soon become obsolete. We refer to the brutal “hazing of freshmen,” of which the newspapers had to record several flagrant examples no longer ago than last year. One reason for hoping that the manners and morals | of our young collegians will improve may be found in the healthful interest which so many of them are beginning to take in ball playing, boating, yachting and other manly outdoor sports, England Keepitg a Sharp. Lookout. We perceive from some comments of the English press on the reported departure from this port of a Cuban filibustering expedition or two that John Bull is keeping a sharp eye on American neutrality, The London Star, for instance, says of this country that “her neutrality laws must be thoroughly and effect- ively enforced or she will lose the hold she has gained on public opinion, which insures the fair consideration of the Alabama claims.” Ts it there ye are? But, rgain: “The de- parture OF eight hundred men from New York harbor,” we are told, ‘‘appears to be an infrac- tion of neutrality just as flagrant as the escape of the Alabama, and which could have been more easily prevented.” This is, indeed, beg- ging«the question. But it will not do. The activity of the government in enforcing neutrality in reference to Cuba is and has been that of extraordinary geal in behalf of Spain. Mr. Fish is quite as earnest and vigi- lant in this business as was Mr, Seward in srresting and breaking up the Fenian move- ments for the invasion of Canada, and ‘evi- dently for the same object of avoiding a charge of British neutrality. The simple truth is that if our government still withholds the recognition of belligerent rights from the Cubans it is because it does not wish to spoil those Alabama claims by following England's tempting eximple. Mr. Fish no doubt expects to get Cuba in some other way; for otherwise he would not be so careful in avoiding the opening of any loop- hole of escape to England on those Alabama claims, The British go¥ernment may depend upon it that if the administration at Washing- ton contemplates the purchase of Cuba it also calculates upon making England, on those Alabama depredations, foot the bill. Other- wise there would be neither sense nor purpose in the present rigid neutrality policy of General Grant. Tuk TemPeRANoE MovementT—A New Party IN THE Fretp.—Thé temperance people of Maine have come out as an independent party and have put forward N. G. Hickborn as their candidate for Governor, with an evident deter- mination to “fight it out on this line.” This may prove to be the beginning of an important diversion from the republican party. Made up originally of the scattered fragments of the old whig and democratic parties, all the isms of the North were fused into it on the great issue of the abolition of slavery, Now, slavery being abolished and negro equality boing substantially established, the isms are going back to their old notions, such as labor reform, women’s rights, temperance, &c. And so the temperance radicals of Maine are out as an in- dependent party, and their brethren in several other States are moving in the same direction. They are all to meet in a National Temperance Convention on the 1st of September at Chicago, when there will perhaps be a national organi- zation proclaimed for the abolition of whiskey drinking. This is a tougher job than the abolition of slavery; but we suspect that it will contribute to abolish the present dominant party. Taz Necro Dirricurty AmMone THE Wasn- INGTON PRINTERS.—The radical City Councils of Washington have entered into the contro- versy concerning the employment of Lewis H. Douglass (free colored American) in the government printing office. A resolution is before the Board of Aldermen (black and white) providing that a committee of one from each branch of the Councils shall be appointed to wait upon the proprietors of the several newspaper offices of the city and request “‘that the men who are notoriously open-mouthed and noisy adberents of the late rebellion, and especially active and vindictive” in reference to this case of young Douglass, be dismissed, and loyal men put in their places. The negro ele- ment controls the local government of Wash- ington, and from this beginning we may look for some queer doings there by and by in the development of negro equality. It will be, we fear, the old story of the beggar on horseback. A Goon Onver—That just issued by Gene- ral Canby, Commander of the Military Depart- ment of Virginia, extending for one year the benefits to certain debtors of the Stay law against selzures of property to satisfy their creditors, It appears that three hundred and eighty-tive thousand executions were out in Virginia, largely issued by Northern mer- chants—executions which if carried through would inevitably create much distress and gene- ral embarrassment in the business operations of the State, just hopefully emerging from its terrible losses and trials of the war. Hence, we say, this order of General Canby is a good one, and doubtless the whole people concerned will so consider it. Nor Lire A Quaker.—John Bright has thrown up his membership in the Reform Club, London, for the reason that a gentleman whom he endorsed was not elected one of the body. Is the Right Honorable the Cabinet Minister becoming less Quakerish or ‘‘more nice?” Tne Crry Pxst Horgs.—Let the Board of Health look to them, or the heavy rains and hot sunshine of this extraordinary season will breed from these sloughs and sinks of poisoned water and ‘estering garbage a fearful mortality. They have the yellow fever and the cholera in the West Indies, and New York city must be on its guard. Nights and Mother Goose. natural reaction of the public taste from the - sparkling nonsense of French opéra bouffe and from Shakspearian tragedics, inasmuch as they now largely depend upon Tennyson and Dick- ens, the ‘‘Arabian Nights” and ‘‘Mother Goose” in order to fill the theatres during this summer weather. The successof “Enoch Arden” at Booth’s, “Dora” and ‘‘Black-eyed Susan” at the Fifth Avenue theatre, the ‘Old Curiosity Shop” at the Waverley, ‘Sinbad the Sailor” at Niblo's, “‘Coralline” and ‘Mother Hubbard” at Wallack’s, “East Lynne” at the Grand Opera. House, ‘The Wandering Jew” at Wood's Museum and “Hiccory Diccory Dock” at the Olympic shows conclusively that if ballet, burlesque, pantomime and the sensa- tional drama still retain a hold upon the inte- rest of playgoers, they are also expected to in- dulge in the pathetic and the sentimental to a degree unusual in dogdays. The sweet, sad idyls of Tennyson have met with unexpected welcome in their dfamatized’ form, while “Mother Goose,” having lost none of her ancient attractiveness, delights alike children and “children of a larger growth.” <A five year old critic deliberately pronounced his opinion the other evening that ‘‘Hiccory Diccory Dock” beats ‘“‘Humpty Dumpty,” the ‘Forty Thieves” atid even the Fourteenth Street Circus. Not~- withstanding the exodus of New Yorkers to the various places of summer resort, there is always a sufficient number of stay-at-homes and of transient visitors to crowd our theatres during the present season. It is not surprising, however, that all: ‘the coolest theatres in the city,” notwithstanding their various attractions and alihough rein- forced by Tennyson, Dickens, the ‘‘Arabian Nights” and ‘‘Mother Goose,” are partly de- serted almost every evening by their usual trequenters, who flock to the deservedly popular concerts of Mr. Theodore Thomas at the Cen- tral Park Garden. There they can sip ice cream and indulge in Havanas and refreshing beverages and enjoy the gay crowd which they help to swell, while they listen to the unri- - valled playing of Mr. Levy on the cornet-r piston and to choice selections from the best composers, whose masic is admirably executed by one of the finest orchestras in the world. Unquestionably these superb garden concerts aro accomplishing more to develop and train the musical taste of our community than could be accomplished by a dozen monster jubilees. Tne Great Deowiner.—From his repeated refusals of the Presidency, the democratic nomination for which he at last accepted, Horatio Seymour has been called the Great Decliner. But this title will avail him no longer. Miss Anna Dickinson is said to be the heroine of two hundred declinations of matri- mony, and ‘‘the cry is still they come,” and still they are declined. Miss Dickinson, then, is the Great Decliner; but, as there is no accounting for the ways of politicians or women, she may, like Horatio, accept at last. OBITUARY. George Briggs. ‘This gentleman died at his summer residence in Saratoga al one o’clock yesterday, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, Mr. Briggs was born in Fulton county, of this State, during the year 1805, While he was aboy of eight years of age his parents moved to Vermont, taking him with them. Tnere he was educated and engaged in agricultural and mercan- tile pursuits for several years.gin 1837 he was elected a member of the lower House of the Vermont Legis« lature, serving one term, at the end of which he removed from the State and returned 1 New York, taking up his residence in this city. Engaging in the hardware business he soon amassed a large fortune and became prominent in political circles, In 1843 be was a candidate ow the whig ticket for Congress, from the Fifth district, embracing the Eighth, Ninth and Fourtecnth wards of this city, and was elected by a plurality vote in consequence of the great split that year vetween the Van Buren and other factions of the democracy, the vote standing 6,627 for Mr. Brigg and 5,833 divided between his opponents, Spencer, Walsh and Has- brouck, It was this year (1845) that of the thirty, four bk antl districts in the State the whiga carried thirty-two, At the expiration of his term he was re-clected by a majority of about 200, In 1852 the year famous for the final overthrow of the whiga, Mr. Briggs declined a renomination, nor did he re- turn to public life agaln until 135%, when ho was again elected to Congress as an independent candi- date, and served his term as Chairman of the Com- mittee on Revolutionary Claims. He does not appear to have allied himself to any political or- ae after the disruption of the whig part ut in 1866 was a delegate to the Philadelphia National Union Convention, showing that he wag very conservative in his political principles, As a citizen of New York Mr. Briggs held a aah ea high position, He was much esteemed by all Who knew him for those traits of character which make & man Worthy of estimation. His many friends will hear of his death with profound regret, Lieutenant Commander W. A. Van Viecky U.S. Ne We regret to state that this oMcer died of yellow fever Tuesday evening on board the hosvital steamer Illinois, in the lower bay. He was a native and rest- dent of this State, and entered the naval service on the 23d of November, 1959. During the rebellion hi served with credit on board the Ossippee. He wi romoted several times, and on the 12th of March ot last year Was commissioned a lieutenant command. er, Which position he held at the time of his deaths He was one of the most promising young officers in the navy, and his loss will be deeply felt, Lieuten: ant Commander Van Vieck was seco nd in command of the practice ship Saratoga, the crew of which caught the yellow fever while on the usual summer cruise in the West Indies, REVOLT AT SING SING, Seizure of a Sloop by Seven Convicts and Attempted Escape=Tho Convicts Fired Upon by the Prison Guards, the Sloop Boarded and the Convicts Rearrested=One of the Latter Severely Wounded. POUGHKEEPSIE, June 30, 1869, There was a rush of convicts to escape at Sing Sing Prison shortly after nine o’clock this morning. ‘They numbered seven in all. It appears that they were engaged in unloading the sloop Martha and Elizabeth of wood. Watching a good opportunity the whole seven advanced in a body on the vessel and drove off the deck hands, cut the lines, shoved the vessel from the dock and commenced raising sali, At this time the wind was blowing lightly and the sloop was headed for the west shore, and had reached a respectable distance from the dock when the alarm was given and a panic ensued among the oMicers and guards, who all advanced to the end of the pier and commenced firing with t rapidity upon the escaping convicts. Seeing the force sent for their capture, and being afratd to risk their bodies on deck, five of the revolters retreatea to the cabin of the vessel while the other two remained on deck and continued their Sanne to holst the sail. The bullets from carbines whistled about them, and finally one was seen to fail. Here @ small boat drew up alongside the dock into which several prison officials sprang and were soon rowing to- wards the vessel, the sails of which had fallen assoon as the convict was wounded, leaving but one of the prisoners on deck. Drawing nearer the officers ordered him to join his comrades below deck, at th same time pointing their carbines at him, He du not need a second order, but retreated below at once. Then the officers boarded the vessel and found the convict who had fallen lying prostrate with @ dangerous rouse in: his breast. ie bullet! pad ga ata the right breast and passed out of he Je! 4 ‘The convicts nelow were called up ono by one, bound hand and foot, and the vessel was put about, arriving back at the prison dook in @ few moment when Drake (the name of the wounded convict) wt taken to the hospital and the other convicts were put in close confinement. None of the reat were wounded, though the vessel's sails and wood w were perforated with bullew, The affair ca Much excitement, but to-night everything is quiet,